A vacation 1000 miles away is nearly 7000 mons. Say you cut that in half because spouse is doing half the work. That’s still several hundred per day.

There are sports fans kinda like that. But it’s like a home game every couple weeks for 4 months. This person is doing it 24/7 for closing in on a decade.

I can use it’s candy for my Shadow. It just seems kinda slow rolling out more shadow raids and recycling content.

It just needs an overhaul. I think they need to redefine ex raid gyms into clusters of gyms. Similar to how a gym is basically a cluster of stops. So you pick a set of 2-3 gyms for that ex raid cluster that are all X meters away from each other. Then people can go to the cluster and knock them all out and then move on to another cluster.

Current system is just spread them all out everywhere and poorly implemented tools to coordinate.

I think I need about 10 more catches to max mine out. A raid day like the others would pretty much ensure that. So elite raids would probably stop my ability to even spend passes on it.

Assuming you had unlimited raids stacked on near each other you might be able to knock out 6-7 in an hour with a super efficient group. But realistically it would be like 4-5 between traveling and constantly waiting for stragglers. But they are kinda spread out for how enamours was so it’s maybe 3-5.

That would be fine if there also wasn’t a 1 hour time window. Like if they were rare but happened throughout the week. Basically forcing players to drive to hit as many as possible.

Looks like garbage. Two 1 hour events spaced apart. It’s like they are running some min wage business that they are exploited their workers (players) with a split schedule.

If you travel then yeah you don’t need the XL trade bonus at all. 100 km is just far enough away I’m not really going to ever be that far from my house besides a few times a year.

There is the poor man’s 10km trade which is easy to obtain.

Double raid passes is huge for motivation. Go into every weekend and raid hour holding 3. Trains last longer and playerbase tends to stay for 1 more raid.

It was a little much to use them all but overall it was a really awesome bonus. This new season may as well have no bonuses.

I think that would have a negative effect on revenue. Less of a reason to trade. And trading keeps two people motivated which in turn gets others also motivated.

Special trades is decent for a small side bonus but compared to raiding it’s not as great for T5 XL candy. So it’s not very motivating bonus either.

It was like every other season for a long time. Special trades are kinda worthless without extra raid passes or XL candy.

So I’m going to have a load of special trades I never use. A tiny amount of daily XP is all but worthless. And who knows what the buddy XL candy bonus is being bumped to. The season bonuses are basically non existent.

Only realistic way to get the distance medal. And gives your partner an XL candy. But once I hit the medal the incentive is all but gone.

I would do the charge back. Probably get banned from their platform. But I wouldn’t care as picking up food is not a big deal.

Problem is when you try to charge back some service you “own” digital content.

TFA is a low effort reboot. But at least it set up some new plot lines. Then TLJ comes and destroys all that set up. Then TRS tries to undo the undo.

Yeah but I can’t exactly product more Rayquaza XL candy right now, unless I walk. But pseudos or anything else you can always just catch more.

Trading has put a huge strain on storage for needing to trade everything meta relevant for XL candy and refilling IVs. Plus it’s the most efficient way to finish a ton of medals including types and things like XXS or ratata.

Several other PLA ones all seemed to just get raid days and no evolution method.

XL candy wise Legendary is the only logical use for walking as it’s the only source outside of short raiding windows.

They could have announced June stuff like last week.

There were some Rayquaza raids a few months before the mega so there was more time to try to farm a good one. But it’s so good can’t get enough

Probably getting a couple new releases between Legends ZA and a MSG which would change that schedule.

That one is actually really easy with someone else in your house to mass trade. The rate is like 5% so it’s just trade 1000 mons which can be knocked out in 10 days.

If you don’t have someone else at your house you are looking at trying to get lucky friends with your local community which will take years to get that many.

I actually make slight detours to hit rocket stops since their mons are the best PVE ones available since they can hit level 50 while comparable top tier Legendaries are stuck in the low 40s from XL candy.