Kanto Region...again?

[havocthecat]

I do kind of feel like a Kanto revisit is a low-effort Niantic activity, but at least they're bringing Keldeo back. I kind of like Keldo. And the quest is easy.

Though I won't be making 50 by October. And I've heard from the SilphRoad folks that the XP timed research track only gives 7mil XP so that won't make much of a dent in anything at this level.

I almost hope I have a reason to stop playing sometimes, except it does get me motivated to get out and walking.

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[sporky_rat]

I am kind of excited to see if I can get more of them that I don't have, though.

[havocthecat]

Understandable! I did manage to fill out my Kanto dex a while back.

Kanto and Johto, but I'm doomed on the rest.

[soc_puppet]

To be fair, there's still three they just plain haven't released in Sinnoh. I even have a joke about it!

*ahem*

Knock knock.

Who's there?

Manaphy.

Manaphy who?

Man, I feel like there's still some Pokémon missing from the 'dex in Go!

[havocthecat]

There probably are! And I have more Unova than I do Sinnoh - and I'm still missing a decent amount of Unova.

I missed the Hoenn event and I feel like I'll never get Relicanth. ARGH. It's my one Hoenn that I'm missing.

[soc_puppet]

I'm definitely not hitting 50 by the deadline. I'm currently at 48, and unless I find some very convenient people to do a lot of trading with in a very short time, I'm not getting past that "50 new Lucky Pokémon" requirement. And that's not even getting into the XP. (I'm only about 1.5 million away from 49 based solely on XP, but the other requirements...!)

Alas, PoGo is one of the few ways I socialize in brick space these days, since I dropped the convention I volunteered at over Covid concerns. (And also con higher-ups making decisions about it without informing the con staff as a whole, but I'm not still bitter about that at all! /lying) At least I managed to drop Pikmin Bloom in a hurry.

[havocthecat]

Well, damn, that's going to be a big hurdle, for sure. Er, good luck, maybe you'll find a group!

[brightknightie]

I didn't get Keldeo (D'Artagnan) the first time -- I think he was paywalled, and I was grumpy about paywalls at the time? -- so I am a little excited to pick him up soon-ish. The Swords of Justice legendaries being the musketeers amuses me greatly.

And, yes, me too: the more I play this game, the more I walk, by leaps and bounds. I'm walking less and less since I switched most of my gaming time to a console this summer, and that can't be good... yet it's the game itself that tells me this is happening, when there isn't an egg-from-walking in my weekly bonus haul.

[havocthecat]

You're more into the lore than I am. I had no idea about the D'Artagnan comparison. Was he paywalled? Sometimes I pay and sometimes I don't.

A console is a pretty terrible option for me, I'd walk even less! And I have a hard time walking in bad weather - and the game doesn't pick up steps on a treadmill easily at all.

[brightknightie]

Lore is me. ;-) You can tell how far into an IP/fandom I've gotten by how well I would do at minute trivia games about it. But for Pokemon in general, I mainly know about the pokemon, regions, and gimmicks lore, not remotely as much about most of the human characters.

Yep, the first time Keldeo came around GO, in '22, it was a paid ticket exclusive research only. I didn't realize it would be 3 years before the free opportunity, because previously mythicals had been released free only a handful of months after such paywalled events.

(FWIW, during lockdown, I learned that putting my Android phone in a loose bag and safety-pinning that bag to my pants calf, such that it hit my calf each time, caused it to register a fair number of "steps" while I rode my stationary bike. I don't know whether that translates to a treadmill, but I thought I'd share it, just in case it does.)

[silveradept]

I will probably be 49 by the time the curve rolls over, because there's no way I'm making 50 million XP in the remaining amount of time.

Kanto is one of those "it's been long enough, and we have enough new signups, we should let them get the classic mons" kind of events. It'll be nice to go along with it, but it's very much a "hi, new people" event.

[ratcreature]

Since I only started playing in late 2022 I got my first Kanto Farfetch'd and it turned out a hundo, so I'm happy about that.

The XP research is a ridiculous amount of effort for that amount of XP. I've only gotten to page 13 so far myself, but looked at leekduck, and by page 34 it's tasks like over 20km walking and 80 excellents etc. Having gotten to 50 over a year ago I don't need XP for that, but I like completing research only there's no realistic way I'll average a page per day with tasks like that, as I'm not doing marathons.

[ephemera]

I'm low key annoyed by the trainer level rejig, because the thing I liked most about turning level 40, and then level 50, was not having to think about XP ever again and now.... eh.

I'm still sufficiently engaged in the core game loop (go for a walk, collect cute animals) that I don't think I'm going anywhere, though