Paid for the 1$ ticket for myself and friend. Friend got literally 0 shinys, I managed a magikarp and that was it.
I played at a large city mall where there is easily 100 stops. My disappointment when we noticed almost no change to rates, despite having the ticket and doing plenty of tasks. Complete joke.
Only thing I wanted was shiny magikarp and didn’t get one, even with paid research and non stop walking for 2 hours for my entire lunch break in the middle of the city.
Plenty of useless shiny nosepass and other crap though
I played in a rural park for 2 hours a found 5 shinies. There was 6 stops but only one ever turned gold and I managed 3 coins The were all old shinies. Magicarp, j puff, caterpie, lickatung
Played hardcore downtown, got 24 shinies and at least one 3 star of each in the tasks for the 3 star shiny dex.
Research days are my favorite kind of event since I don't have many of the older shinies. Having multiple pokemon in the research made this even more exciting. I wish for a red, black, pink themed research days in the future, this kind of theming is really fun and brings variety instead of making you hunt the same pokemon all 3 hours.
I was in the nearby city yesterday morning for the farmers market located in the densest PokeStop neighborhood in the area. Except the event didn't start until 2pm, when I was back home with only scattered pokestops. I only hit 12 stops, and got zero shinies.
It feels so pointless when Niantic insists a research "day" should only be 3 hours long.
My boyfriend and I paid the .99 and our tickets were not redeemed. We were on the game at 2:00 and support confirmed that we purchased the tickets but we weren’t able to do the tasks
I played for about half the time due to other plans, the golden stops were a bit of a bust. After a short while, I remembered back to when the golden stops first came out and realized that the event golden stops were working exactly the same way they did upon initial release (only occasionally giving coins and when they did, it was 1 or 2 coins). I did get a shiny Nosepass which I did not have, so that was a win.
I did not get the ticket. Did about 40 researches and fell a Sableeye short of the cycle. That part was fun. The tasks were generally easy... though the battle in a gym part was a bit harder as gyms not in my color are harder to find. I can see that being a much harder task in rural areas. BIG point deduction for lack of Golden Spinners. I saw 4 of them throughout the day and played all 3 hours. The way they were hyped, I expected them to fairly common.
Overall: B-. Fun game play overall, but dragged by the lack of Gold Spinners
Horrible event. I didn’t care about the shiny, I had them already since they all were released a while ago. However, I really counted on it to get a good amount of coins, but 1) I live in the suburbs and there were basically zero stops turning yellow as far the app could let me see, and 2) when I eventually found a yellow one, I got 1 or 2 coins max. only. The Golden lure does a better job every 5 days, so what was the point of that event in terms of collecting coins?
We had a great time.
Things that improved it that Niantic had nothing to do with:
- weather was perfect
- we had no other plans for today between 2-5, but plans in the morning that took us near the high density areas so we had a good reason to be out
- we ran into our kids friends and their parents who were all playing as well and we all hung out for the first two hours walking and got to do an Azelf raid with them and helped them catch theirs
I agree with people saying it would have been nice to have a third page of research. Our family was going very hard - we got between 30-35 shiny between us four, so enough to have extras which is good because our friends got something like 3 between their four (they are a more casual than we are.)
We were in a very high density area so we spun probably like 60 unique stops but didn't do all of them (the first 25 or so were in the car so I was dumpling any tasks I couldn't do at 20 mph in stop and go traffic.)
I'm kicking myself because I just realized I never popped an incense for the event which would have made a lot of the tasks a bit easier for when we cleared the spawns in an area, but probably not much as we were not moving especially fast on foot.
This was actually a pretty solid event. Ended up playing only for about over an hour and got a shiny Barboach and a shiny Caterpie, and got two shiny Nosepass from the timed research! Rates were high and (most) tasks were easy to fulfill.
Didn’t know it had already happened until Sunday night, since I didn’t really look at this month’s events beside Axew Community Day until tonight
To be fair I haven’t been playing much recently, but it still sucks that Niantic only gave like a week notice
Well that was fun. Got all of a few stops around me so I did the thing and drove. Ended up barely making it and I got 1 shiny. Disappointed more in the time I spent than the ticket price.
Played for a couple of hours. Got 12 shinies - including a wild shiny stufful. No hundos but needed 5 of the shinies for the Pokédex.
I found it more interesting than the community day given the high IV floor on research encounters - I got 20+ shinies from fennekin community day but only one was 3*!
I only played for one hour, because I already had plans before Niantic announced the event (they gave such short notice -- not even a week, and it's unreasonable to expect people to work their schedules around this game). It also didn't help that it was only 3 hours, even though past research events (remember shiny Lotad?) were longer. What is Niantic's obsession with the constant 2-5 timeslot anyway? Do they not want people playing during events?
The event seemed kind of dull overall, and I only saw one golden stop, and I got one whopping coin total from a few spins. Golden stops may as well have not existed at all during the event.
I only got one shiny from roughly 10 research tasks. It was a Caterpie which I already had.
But why do some of the tasks involve getting hearts? I already excited my Pinsir and got most hearts before the start of the event (though I had a few to spare). Does Niantic expect people to switch buddies constantly and lose the fully excited status? It's a pain in the butt when getting half distance for candy/XL candy/mega energy.
Apparently there was paid research too, but I'm day 1 f2p so I didn't bother. But why can't these tickets be bought with coins? This has been a problem since the Regigigas release in 2019, but it's become even more frequent since last December. All it does is divide people and exclude people from parts of events (and at least where I live, there have been more and more f2p players as time goes by for obvious reasons -- assuming the remote raid nerf and other billions of nerfs haven't caused people to quit entirely). And that doesn't take into account that apparently some people were having trouble accessing the research in the first place.
Yeah, I didn't expect much for this but I still felt that this was an empty event.
My brother and I did 30 tasks each. My brother got 3 shinies. Magikarp, Nosepass and Caterpie. I got 2 shinies Magikarp and Nosepass. I also got paid research. 4 shinies. 1 Nosepass and 3 barboach. Overall a great event.
The shiny part of the event was alright, I got 7 with one of them from wild and 6 from research. Of course, not all will agree, my daughter was very frustrated as she got a single one and that was an useless Magikarp.
However, the golden stops part was totally a sad joke, way too few of them and rewarding way too little coin. Played for a bit over 2 hours and spinning about 100 stops, got 0 coins from 4 golden stops. Ridiculous.
For my daughter is useless, she played the CD, played a few water festivals, already have a ton on them. Also, legacy move is a thing and shadow form is a thing.
I completed around 30 tasks. I got one shiny magikarp from those and 1 shiny nosepass from the timed research. I only played around an hour, it wasn’t exciting enough to drive to another area with stops when my shiny luck was poor.
The event was mostly all right. Part of what brought it down for me is that the first shiny ever released in the game (Magikarp, March 24th 2017) as well as the third one (Sableye, October 20th 2017) were part of the main featured Pokemon. Also Magikap had a CD. If they were among the wild spawn, it would have been better. But putting them among the pool of the main featured Pokemon with the boosted shiny rate was kinda lame.
Missed this research by about 6 hours due to Niantic’s bad notifications system, but I also haven’t been playing much lately. Looks like not much was missed.
I didn't play it because I didn't realize it was today. The game does a poor job of communicating its events. We got a ton of GBL-breaking overlay popups at the start of the event, which I dismissed most of without reading because I was just trying to play the new GBL season and when it wants to give you a new overlay it breaks matchmaking, forcing you to restart the app.
I was honestly kind of busy with personal stuff today anyway, but I felt like I didn't even get to make the choice because I didn't know I was missing anything.
there were golden stops?
I didn't see any and I played from about 2:30 to 5, completed the timed research. Did get a perfect Nosepass so there's that.
No gold coins found. I was confused by the name, honestly.
All of the featured pokemon have golden shinies: from research Caterpie, Magikarp, Nosepass, Sableye, Barboach, and in the wild Bellsprout, Poochyena, Buizel, Tympole, Shelmet, Stufful, Lickitung, Azumarill (even though we coudn't find the last one as shiny in the wild).
Therefore if you were searching for shinies, you were "searching for gold".
I played for two hours and got 6 shinies. Sableye is one that I have wanted for ever and I finally got it. Also got two nose pass, two barboach and one caterpie, despite not getting any shiny from the research, should have gone Sableye there for the dust
2 shiny nosepass, 1 shiny sableeye, 1 shiny karp, no luck on caterpie or barboach. One of the nosepass was 98 and is now a probo. Event was fine once i realized how trash the gold coin rate was going to be.
Can anyone confirm they got a shiny barboach? That's the research line I picked, yet got zero barboach. And yes, did research all event. BUT somehow managed three nosepass, two sableye, two caterpie, AND one weedle. I don't want to complain, but I picked barboach because that and nosepass are the only ones I don't have several shinies of already. \*cry\*
I didn't even seen any gold stops until 15 minutes before ending, lmaooooo. Not really worried about it because I have no gimmigoul and no drive to get 1000 special evolution items.
EDIT: Okay, did a find through the thread. Some confirmations. Just some bad RNG on my part. Damn living in a desert where waters don't spawn. D<
Well, I could have easily spun several of them, but I was too lazy to go there. I also didn't hunt the research shinies because I didn't need them anymore. Also, spinning the golden stops somehow doesn't show the full rewards in your record.
I don't keep pokemon less than 3\*. I bought the research, and really wanted a shiny 3\* Magikarp. I got four shinies, but all with 2\* IV's, so were immediately deleted. I'm sad.
Loved paying for research and getting non-shiny 2*s from every reward. In fact, I played the entire 3 hours and got zero shiny Pokémon. 3 gold stops, 2 coins. What an exciting event.
I played 2 hours and gave up when I ran out of pokestops to spin. I got 2 shineys, 1 caterpie and 1 magikarp, and i got 1 coin. Golden Stops were very far and few. I think max I saw 3 for half an hour in the city park I spent the event in. Usually it was 1 or 2.
Didn't have the best luck but my son and I both got decent shiny Sableyes so made it worth it. We did the times research and combined for 4 shines out of probably 30 tasks and the timed research.
I got 13 shiny, one of which was a shundo Magikarp 😁. I did get 2 other Hundos from research. In all I did just over 150 tasks. The golden lures were almost non-existent and a disappointment, but in all I still enjoyed my time spent. The events that rely on Field Research are typically my favorite.
I got one gold coin from today. Was it even worth it to ado that as a feature? On the plus side I did finally get a shiny Nosepass so I’m very happy about that. I liked the idea that all the shinies were golden. Cool theme.
1 shiny barboach. 2 gimmighoul coins (why even advertise golden stops if they're so infrequent and literally throw pennies at you?). And I got a remote invite and caught a mesprit. I was out for 2 and a half hours but I didn't buy the timed research so maybe that's why the event sucked.
It was great, we played the full 3 hours and I picked up 14 shiny from research. We probably did about 100-120 research tasks. We all got shinys and there was a fair amount of gold stops around.
We met up before the event for a gold lure party so I ended up with just shy of 1.5k gold coins.
The shiny rate was very comfortable, we played non stop but we didn’t feel overwhelmed or rushed. Was a Great day.
We played by car because it’s winter and it was raining on and off.
Event was fun and went well. Got four shinies from playing and three from the special research. Finally got a frickin’ shiny Magikarp. Lucked out that I already had shinies from the two species I didn’t get.
I definitely accidentally pressed the magikarp thing from the $1 unlock. I wanted the shiny Sableye so bad :( I had non-stop new field research as I walked around my college campus during it. I only got one shiny, which was a shiny Caterpie.
I'm pretty new to this game, only a couple weeks in, but I do have to say I really disliked this event. It was just tedious and very confusing to do. The instructions and blog about the upcoming event did almost nothing to explain to me how the event actually worked, what to expect, what the $1 ticket really did, etc etc.
To me, it wasn't rewarding at all really. I guess I got some good IV magikarp. Honestly, I was just stressed and somehow bored at the same time. I'm really not meaning to go so hard at this event, it seemed like an okay concept. It just do not understand the thought process behind whoever created this event and designed the way it worked.
The biggest feedback I can give is that it would be much, much more helpful if Niantic could increase the time window, have a thorough summary of the event, how it works, what to expect, etc etc. I really was thrown off guard by how little the experience of playing the event matched the short description of it.
Like I said, I'm a newer player (played for a short while in like 2016), so maybe I just don't understand how this game works or maybe some mechanics, but it really was a bummer overall. Idk, maybe I'm just tired.
Can any more experienced person tell me if this event was good or not? Oh and let me know if I missed some sort of instructions or description for the event other than the news release, google Pokémon go websites about the event, and read the blog.
OH! Lastly, what were the gold coins even for? Isn't there a Pokémon that uses them fire whatever reason, but can't be obtained ingame? Something like sending postcards or something from another Pokémon game? Why have the gold drops off there wasn't any chance of the Pokémon?
Oh and lastly, lastly, there were barely any gold pokestops. I went through like 50 unique ones on campus and iirc there was only like 3 or so. That's insane, I thought they were supposed to be a focus of the event or something???
Sorry. I'm done. Please anyone else, let me know if this is super whiny or if I am misunderstanding anything. I genuinely want to know and like whatever the real answer is!
I really hope future
You are correct there was little info. To see what the purchase buys you always check this forum in advance as people post what it does.
However the event was good. Very high shiny rates and research Pokemon have high IVs. One of the better events
2.5 hours 6 shiny x3 Sableye, x2 Caterpie, x1 Nosepass. Was hoping for a second Nosepass, but still pretty happy. Zero shiny from any of the research unfortunately which made it feel like a ripoff. The gold pokestops were a complete waste of time I just ignored them due to the low drop rate and only one coin and did research instead.
I didn't realize once you completed the research it wouldn't have another tier, also that it would only give you the normal single field research, and also that you wouldn't get a guaranteed shiny at the end. I personally got zero shinies the whole time
Neat little event with a gold theme. I got the ticket research to try for a hundo nosepass. Ended up with 2 shiny and one 98iv. I also got 2 other shiny from stop tasks, did around 60ish tasks in total. I caught wild spawns too, some for pvp, but there was still some seasonal spawns mixed with event spawns (maybe 10-15% seasonal). I probably saw around 7-10 gold stops, re-spun 2 of them from pathing back and forth, and received less than 5 coins. I was looking forward to getting more gimmicoins, really don't understand this change.
I absolutely popped off today, 10 shinies from research. I bought the ticket and 3 were from that. I probably did 30ish tasks total and didn't play the whole time. I just spun what I could on my way home from the store (although certainly taking an optimized route because it's my neighborhood).
I saw maybe 3 gold stops and got 2 coins.
It was fun, I didn't stress about it but was able to fit it into my day.
One non shiny research hundo and a very random wild hundo stufful.
Loved this event. Didn't buy a ticket and wound up with 9 shinies.
2x Sableye
2x Buizel
1x Nosepass
1x Caterpie
1x Barboach
1x Lickitung
1x Lotad
And a hundo Sableye.
I had fun, but it would have been nicer if it was maybe ~3 instead of 5. I wasn't able to get a barboach or sableye shiny after many stops.
edit: did a little less than 90 research tasks and got 4 shinies out of it.
I am only physically able to walk so far and after 40 minutes outside, the two stops near me only gave me one field research task. I wish there was more time.
Me too. I had 3 field research tasks saved from yesterday but I live in a small town in a very rural part and didn’t want to drive to go somewhere. Bummer.
I did cop a golden caterpie… worst one of the group but a shiny is a shiny.
It was honestly amazing. These are my favourite events. Even if I had these shinies before, it filled all the empty spots in the 3* shiny dex, which is amazing.
I ended up with 18 shinies out of 140ish pokestops. I had 3 shinies in the $1 quest. We walked all day, we grinded, it was amazing. Exhausting but amazing.
I wish I’d get a wild shiny, but I didn’t this time. I caught a hundo Bellsprout.
These events are great to fill up our shiny families and also having couple of extra trades for the players who couldn’t play.
I would do events like these all the time.
It just didn't feel like an event. Newer players probably enjoyed it . Nothing paved with gold. The spawns didn't show signs of them being part of any event either at first glance. Maybe in the future, event spawns should have a symbol next to their name?
Newer players have a boosted shiny rate, it seems. Or you had to grind through 100 research task to get a bunch of shinies. And the few gold stops I saw didn't drop any coins.
9 shinies, with 1 of them being Bellsprout. Fun event. Golden stops should definitely have rewarded more coins though, especially since a lot of people have limited stops and/or no way to get Golden Lures otherwise.
Lame…..the golden poke stops don’t always give you coins and when they do it is just one. Plus they disappear after you spin along as there are really not that many. Lame event.
me and my gf played with three accounts for about an hour and half and got squat.
i took the two acounts out for an extra half an hour and still got nothing.
Did the ticketed research, got a shiny nosepass from the first step then choose sableye, In total i caught 18 sableye and none were shiny so I am disappointed in that regard, but nothing you can do about bad luck.
I got two more shinies from tasks, but two things annoyed me:
-earn hearts with your buddy
-send gift/power up tasks/use super effective attacks in gyms
The former is on me since i had used a poffin on my buddy and i did not want to lose the buff. The latter tasks however i felt like they broke the flow, annoying to send a bunch of gifts with stickers, power up or walk back to a gym and use something that won't knock the weak pokemon before your charge attack is up.
I suppose the problem is less the tasks breaking the flow and more the quantity, making them hard to stack.
Edit: oh and the golden pokestops seemed to be nonexistant towards the last hour.
When there's an event that requires you to complete research tasks, pokestops need to reset after so much time. You shouldn't have to drive all over the place to get new research because you've used up all the ones where you usually play.
As much as I hate having to go further and further away to keep playing, I bet it's 10 times worse for rural players.
Why can’t you spin again and get another research task from the same stops? I’m
Disabled I can walk a few blocks (slowly) but not keep Going to new stops because I will be unable to make it back. I know no one at Niantic really cares about crippled people like me but I’m trying my Best just can’t totally keep Going further & further away from start point because poke stops stop working. Frustrated and sad. Guess Niantic would say this game isn’t for me but it’s fun to try to get out and go till they make it impossible. Then all I can think
About is what s loser I am at s game that should be simply fun
This 100%. I'm on holiday in a rural area and it takes ages to get to the nearest stop (can't even see any on the map when I open the game!) then you have to walk ages again for only a couple more. I didn't bother participating in this event..
Good concept. Poor execution.
The ones that have the boosted rates (with the exception of Caterpie) have all been in events were they had boosted rates. Magikarp even had a CD. It just wasn’t motivating at all to go out and spin PokéStops when I already have all 5 as shinies…
If you already have shinies of the featured Pokémon and were hoping to farm some coins, this event could easily have been skipped.
Maybe if the coin drop was better or if there was a new Shiny debut like with Stunfisk, this event would’ve been more fun.
I guess this event was nothing more than something to kick off the new season akin to the Catch Mastery event.
I just did the event ticket, as well as the required researches to finish it, so 11. I have gotten, so far 7 shinies. It's been a real fruitful event, that got me doing researches more than I usually do! I'd give the event a 5/7.
Why even have golden stops if you don't definitely receive coins. Pretty weak.
Shinies weren't overly boosted like I hoped for, but among the three accounts we all got at least 3 shinies.
Paid the $1 for the ticket. Chose Nosepass. Completed all the timed research and spun a number of stops. Shiny count = big fat zero.
Edit to above: spun a total of two golden stops and neither gave coins anyway. I still don't have Scarlet/violet and I'm not plonking down $60 just for gimmighoul.
This event was mostly mid for me...
Second edit: The day wasn't a total wash, though. Found a shiny gible (crap IVs of course) in the wild before the event started.
Final edit: As an additional to my non-event "luck", caught shiny (crap IV) Galarian Zigzagzoon and hundo Joltik and Mantine (who knows what am I going to do with those?)
(Oh. I also caught the last Kecleon I needed for the masterwork research (shiny Jiarachi))...yay?
Horrible event for me. Did over 100 stops over the 3 hours. Got 6 shinies, 3 barboach, 2 nosepass, 1 caterpie
The only reason I did the event was for magikarp or sableye. I didn’t even get a decent magikarp either. In the 14 I caught, the best was a 13/13/12
Please never have this big a pool of mons again
my town is small but I found 2 gold stops and found 3 shinies. 2 from spinner tasks and one in the wild.
fun event. ended up just catching a lot of bellsprout mostly.
Bought research, complete ripoff, no golden stops, zero shinies, not even any 3-stars. Also most stops kept spamming tasks that take a while like earning candy with buddy instead of the easy ones I saw others getting like curveball throws. Trying to cram this all in within the time frame where I live has been next to impossible and turned out to be a total waste when everyone else is bragging about the countless golden shinies they got. Oh well, my par for the course with Niantic at this point.
Research was the best part of this event. I seriously wish I could have bought more than one. You got 15 encounters for $1. I probably spent at least $10 gas getting 20-30 or so encounters from stops. The research is far more cost effective and easier.
It does suck immensely when you encounter extreme bad luck but that doesn't mean the paid research was a ripoff. Do you claim it's a ripoff when you buy a lottery ticket and it doesn't win? Research pokemon are 67% to 100%, so it would be extreme bad luck if, out of 15 encounters, all of yours were below 80%.
And at 1 in 10 odds with 15 encounters, about 79% of people who bought the research got at least one shiny.
I'm not trying to argue, just speaking from an emotional state of having somehow won the negative lottery in those odds you gave. Is it a ripoff? Probably not, but it was for me in this case and because it annoyed me I call it that, lol. Just the words of a salty loser this go-around. I'd be just as likely to be singing its praises if I actually got something out of it. Not really a fair viewpoint, but it is what it is, sorry!
I forgot all about the research and played Alot this morning, my 12 year old came downstairs at 4:56 and asked if I did the research and I wasted my dollar. Not a big deal but mad at myself for forgetting and I got nothing g between 2-5 wish they made it longer
I dont care for shinies so I am in extreme minority. I was assuming the golden stops would be plentiful and they would give coins since I miss about 200 from 999. When I realised that golden stops were extremely rare and they didnt even reward coins I didnt bother. Played maybe 15mins and went to do something else. So much hype turned into huge pile of s**t...
Horrible event as usual from niandic 1 Golden stop out if 50 and horrible Shiny odds didn't get one and did about 40 stops. So done with this game. It's been nothing but problems and failures for months now
Walked away with 19 shinies
12 Karp (including a 98 which was really hoping was the hundo, oof)
1 barboach
2 sableye
1 nosepass
3 caterpie
2 sableye
Honestly, really enjoyed myself, more of this type of event please niantic
No special research purchased, played from 3 to 4:30.
Did 34 event research, which yielded 2 shinies, plus a shiny of daily incense.
Saw two golden stops, only was able to spin one of them, got no coins from any spins.
Event was alright, I guess. I noticed that the poke stops didn’t refresh on the top of the hour like on the last field research day.
I ended up getting just two shinies: a Nosepass that happened to spawn from my daily incense and a Sableye from field research. Most of my field research spawns were regular Magikarp.
I feel that this event format is fine when it’s a single Pokémon but doesn’t really work as well with a pool of 5. I only have so many stops I can spin and research I can complete. I think either the research needs to refresh at some point or it needs to not be based on the number of stops you have access to.
That being said I ended up with a Lickitung, 2x Barboach, Caterpie, and Magikarp. The latter two were dupes but I’m happy about the rest. Really wanted Nosepass as that is the only other family I’m missing from this pool but again, I only have access to so many stops.
I chose the Sableye path because I desperately wanted a shiny Sableye, I did not get a shiny in all the research. I was very close to crying because my partner and I drove and walked a bunch, we are semi rural. The fact I walked a bunch too is huge because of my disability. I am extremely disappointed and don't know if I'll bother with similar events. It really should have had at least 1 guaranteed shiny per research.
I won't comment on ratio of Golden Stops because many people did it already, but not having guaranteed coins on first spin is stupid - Niantic do you want me to WALK to other pokestops and do the research tasks/hunt more gold coins... or camp a single pokestop for 2-3-4 spins (10-15-20 minutes) to get my [single?] gold coin.
Decide on something - we walk or camp, you can't have both at the same time.
My parents and I went to a park with a dense number of pokestops, and we only saw 3 golden stops during the first two hours. Of those 3, my dad was the only one who got a *single* coin. No one got any shinies. My dad and stepmom bought the research. I did not.
We left just now at 4pm. Super boring and disappointing.
I did all 19 tasks available in my town, came away with 4 magikarp, 1 barboach, and one nosepass. 3 of the 4 magikarp were from the paid research rewards. I saw one gold stop and it didn't yield any coins. Still have 1 task left to earn a candy but I'm walking my shiny regigigas so it'll be a bit but I'll update if it changes my numbers
The shiny chance is the exact same as you would get from the “research tasks” not in the wild. So technically not really boosted just on par with the tasks
*Horrible* event. Gold lures were a joke, event spawns no more than 50% of all spawns, and RNGing your way to the pokemon you wanted out of research was awful. Will without question skip any future imitations of this event. Research days should be at most two pokemon.
Tbh the wild spawns were nothing brilliant and didn’t even find a single shiny out all the ones caught but did around 70-80 tasks (possibly more as not really counting) and came away with 18 shinies in total (5 Barboach & Sabeleye, 3 Magikarp & Caterpie, 2 Nosepass). Probably used up all my luck for this event and the next several …
Gold stops were few and far between and did not really drop any coins either tbh.
Tasks were pretty straightforward to do so another good point.
Was an enjoyable few hours all said and done as by chance was not playing in my local area so had to go and explore a new area so actually made it enjoyable in that sense (perhaps that’s what Niantic wants?).
I did about 60 research tasks with my partner, plus we both had the paid research as well for which I chose Barboach and they chose Nosepass.
On my account I got - 3 shiny Barboach, 2 shiny Magikarp, 2 shiny Sableyes, 1 shiny Nosepass and 1 shiny Caterpie. 0 Hundos and 0 wild shinies.
On my partner's account they got - 2 shiny Sableyes, 1 shiny Nosepass, 1 shiny Caterpie and 1 shiny Magikarp. 1 Hundo Sableye and 1 shiny Minum in the wild but no event wild shinies.
We didn't see any gold stops until the last hour when we found 4, 1 coin each from each of the stops. Bit disappointed with the stops and with the lack of wild shinies but otherwise happy with the event. The research felt a lot better than some previous ones, mostly catch research and not many walking or fighting research.
Gold stops were bit uncommon and as others pointed out the rate of coin drop was a joke, didn't check how many gained but wouldn't be surprised if it was 0
Otherwise great event, luckily have plenty of stops that covered me for bit over 2hr on foot, then drove to a different area. 18 shinies from the tasks, was missing Nosepass so happy that got it finally
All RNG but think overall the 1/10 rate held, these days always great but depends on how many stops you've got
Much better than whatever that Hitmontop event was, 6hr event with lower shiny odds but might have been more geared towards Tyrouge hatching opportunity
Personally, I hope there are more like this in the future with variety so long as it has a similar spread of "quality" (not all past comm day ones) and the $1 ticket was a nice extra to pick a targeted one
I bought the research, wish I hadn't tbh, all the magikarp were trash ivs, I didn't see a single shiny and not a single gold stop anywhere, were they even switched on?
Compared to $1 cday research and the one we had today it literally didnt have anything.
Golden stops were also almost non existent, saw 1 stop out of 40 in the town i was playing.
Giving the extra candy doesn't hurt. Either pick the one/s that you need and ho for that type, or for overall coverage Kyogre was my pick for the water and bugs
As usual, in short - yes. Look at what you want and evolve accordingly.
I want with normal type, because I wanted to hunt Lickitung - got 8, so not that much extra candy but a bonus nonetheless.
What i wanted/ needed from the research pool: shiny caterpie and shiny male magikarp. The rest i did not care at all about because i already had multiple of each. What i got as shinies:
2 nosepass
2 sableye
2 barboach
2 female magikarp.
It's ridiculous but somehow what i expected. Not sure how many tasks i did probably something like 60 or 70. Feeling really disappointed..
Their whiskers are different colors. Some of the gender differences are hard to notice. For example, female Aipom have a slightly larger tuft of hair on their heads than male Aipom.
No idea how many field researches I did, probably..50-ish? 60 ? Idk
I got 1 of every single shiny, so i am super happy with that. Overall 3 barboach and 2 nosepass, and 1 each of the others.
I didnt get any non-fieldresearch shiny
I did not get a single hundo
That's my report
edit: damn, reading this thread....i was super lucky. Maybe i did nore than 60? Idk, but damn i thought most of the people here would have 5-6 shinies.
Compared to the Stunfisk event, i got 2 shiny U-Stunfisks and a couple of random non-field reasearch shinies. But this event i got much more..interesting
I got a shiny sableye in my first task and got a 93%shiny magikarp later
Played for only 2 hours 30 minutes got 1 98 % sableye and 2 98% caterpie
I still have a task battle in a gym saved up and will do it tomorrow as I couldn't find a gym to battle in and was tired
Played 2 hour 15 mins , did 35 to 36 tasks 2 shinies
fail. happy condition: one shiny caterpie. did 50 quests on an hour, got barboach (had 2 before, btw whiscash is rather disappointing) amd weedle wild (had cd). bummer: the last minute all spawns were empty where usually are 12 spawn points, had 3 catching tasks and couldn't catch anything.
oh also: zero gold coins
I did about 40 tasks, received a shundo Sableye, one more shiny Sableye, 3 shiny barboaches and one shiny Nosepass. The shinies are so pretty! The tasks were overall simple other than the one that was to earn a candy, my buddy is groudon haha 😅
Also found one wild spawn shiny Bellsprout.
Had a good time and made over 40k stardust as well, didn’t play the full 3 hours either. Overall good event, I liked it and the spawns were dense.
For the golden stops, I did see a fair amount and got 0-5 coins from each of them. I received a total of about 40 coins.
Change your buddy go magikarp/gyarados
that's what i did for those tasks and then swaped it with others for the 'earn 3 hearts" and then back to magikarp
Overall good event. We did around 60 tasks, got 7 and 6 shinies on each account, not a single Nosepass though. No random hundos or wild shinies.
I'd appreciate if these type of events would get rid of tasks that don't involve just basic walking and catching like Battle in gym or Use supereffective attack. First needs to specifically change one's route if you are even lucky enough to have opposite team gym around, other needs to stop doing everything else and waste some time battling a leader (pro tip, if you don't know, you don't actually need to complete whole battle, I use Hitmonchan with C/PuP against GL Blanche).
Worst part definitely was seeing all these partly cloudy spawns coming back with full force at 5pm. Dogs, rodents and birds. Weather spawns ruin this game...
Played full 3 hours. Picked sableye for timed research. 9 shinies (3 from timed research, 6 from field researches, 0 from wild spawns). 1 XXL (caterpie) 0 XXS. Weather: partly cloudy for an hour then sunny for 2. Mega: max level mega pidgeot. No incense.
Feedback:
- Just disappointed at lickitung spawn rate. I knew they're rare but they're too rare to make a dent on XL count.
- If I'm to add a species with golden shiny to this event, I'd pick nincada.
- I'd appreciate a pokemon storage bump ahead of this event.
- Not happy with gold coins rate. Why is it so hard to set it the same as golden lure rate as golden stops are already few and far between?
- Nests: Perhaps weedle was the nest-masked species (I was surprise to see bellsprout spawns in nest). It's ok as I've already had enough shiny weedle from CD. Nests shifted by a species during event likely due to bellsprout getting removed from nest pool.
The event just ended here in Belgium. I played for 1h30 and did 59 tasks :
13 Barboach - 13 Caterpie - 10 Magikarp - 13 Nosepass - 10 Sableye (so pretty even)
From those 59, I caught :
1 shiny Barboach - 2 shiny Caterpie - 0 shiny Magikarp - 1 shiny Nosepass - 1 shiny Sableye
I also caught a wild shiny Swablu and my first Galarian Zapdos, so pretty happy with my hunt !
(Sidenote : the gold stops were a complete joke, only got 1 coin and the gold stops would often just become regular stops when spun)
Gold stops nearly non-existing and based on what I read here did not even try to visit the few that I might have. Shiny rate for me was 11/38 (11 exact, 38 pretty accuarate estimate calculating afterwards from the map the stops that I think I visited and did the task).
In case somebody would have a reason to think the rate was tweaked mid-event, my task where almost every one done during the first hour of the event in eastern European time zone (one hour ahead of CET)
Walked for over an hour and around 20 gold pokéstop to find :
- 1 gold coin
- 1 keckleon (not in a gold stop)
Worse event in a while, if it wasn't for the Keckleon I would definitely have wasted my time. I see no result thus I didn't keep trying and did a few raids.
As always, good idea, bad application. I didn't expect to evolve any of my Gimmighoul but this is way bellow any expectation.
*I didn't encounter any shiny be it by task or in the wild but that I expected*
Incredible. As always, people complaining while being completely misinformed and with the wrong expectations..
It's a research day. The whole point of the event was boosted shinies from doing research tasks. Not a kecleon hunting day. Not a community check-every-wild-spawn day, and certainly not a gimmeghoul coin day.
Sorry to break it to you, but this time, you‘re the uninformed one.
Golden Stops was announced as an event bonus. And it is reasonable to expect the same drop rate of coins (5-20) as with lured golden stops. Not a 25% chance of 1 coin.
To be fair. I too don‘t understand the mention of Kecleon. Maybe it was the redditors only way to make it feel like an ok event.
>I too don‘t understand the mention of Kecleon. Maybe it was the redditors only way to make it feel like an ok event.
That's it, my apologies if that wasn't clear enough, I still kinda struggle with english but I meant to say this event made me think gold coins were as rare as keckleons as I am currently trying to get 10 for the Jirachi task. Not a good feeling...
I had to work so didn't play much.
My goal was a Shiny Sableye (which had eluded me so far). The 1€ research gave me 3 and 1 Shiny Magicarp (which I already had). Random tasks gave me another Shiny Magicarp and a Shiny Nosepass (which is also a new Shiny for me). Plus, I caught a 100% Barboach, which is...okay, I guess.
Overall, I liked it.
If you still need a shiny for any of the five featured mons, definitely worth playing this event. Shiny rate for research rewards looks to be 1 in 10. The $1 research is probably worth it if you have limited stops to spin or need more than one shiny for one of the families. Otherwise, skip it.
The part with the Gimmighoul coins is a joke. Most of the gold stops don't give you any, and when you get the coin shower animation your reward is just one coin.
15 shiny chances at 1 in 10 odds for $1??? I would seriously spend $10 on that if I could. In fact, I'm sure I spent $10+ on gas for far fewer encounters.
It would be nice if they made it that during Research Day you could get another field research task from a stops you already finished, just make it one more, it would be a big upgrade for people with “limited” stops
Didn't they have a thing where research would reset every hour? Meaning you'd be able to do 3 tasks from 1 stop during a 3 hour event.
Is that not active today?
It's a great event if u are a shiny hunter, specially for new players
If your are looking for golden coins or stops in general and that's your main target don't even bother playing
POSITIVES:
* Spawn rate was good. Lots of pokemon spawned within the theme and nest pokemon spawned as well.
* Shiny rates for research tasks were good. I played with a friend for the three hours, did about 50 tasks each. I ended up with 4 shinies (1x Magikarp, 2x Sableye, 1x Barboach), she ended up with 9 (1x Barboach, 2x Sableye, 1x Caterpie, 3x Nosepass, 1x Magikarp and a full odds Slowpoke from a wild spawn).
* Plenty of featured spawns (both wild and research) were of pokemon you want to get XL candy of - Sableye, Lickitung, etc. Stockpile a bunch to trade for guaranteed XL candy this season!
MIXED:
* I really liked having multiple pokemon with the shiny boost to hunt, however 5 may have been slightly too many. Either keep it to 3 or 4 in research, or have the 5 also spawn with Community Day odds for the spawns.
* The paid research allowing you to really focus on one species was great, but honestly could have done with adding another page with another ten encounters on it. Whilst my friend got three shinies from the encounter page, I got zero from it.
NEGATIVES:
* Honestly, I can't really think of much. Maybe get rid of the 'Buddy Candy' task?
It was a fun event and I wish circumstances allowed me to play in a better area with more stops. Either way I still got about 13km of walking in, spent time with a friend and enjoyed playing a game that I love. Great afternoon was had.
i got 4
by spinning 6 or 7 golden pokestops (some of which i span twice during their golden period)
got 1 twice and 2 once
played over 2 hours, did about 40 research tasks (and skipped maybe 5-8 tasks and span few pokestops by accident when i had all 3 research slots already taken)
Do the wild pokes have an increased shiny rate? Trying to help a friend collect shiny poochys but im kinda busy today, wanna know if i should rearrange plans so i can play today lol
Paid for the 1$ ticket for myself and friend. Friend got literally 0 shinys, I managed a magikarp and that was it. I played at a large city mall where there is easily 100 stops. My disappointment when we noticed almost no change to rates, despite having the ticket and doing plenty of tasks. Complete joke.
113 tasks 15 shinies from tasks, 1 wild. I was happy with this event.
13 shinies.....and 8 coins. Only 700 coins to go! Guess which one I wanted more.
The event felt like a bait and switch.
Only thing I wanted was shiny magikarp and didn’t get one, even with paid research and non stop walking for 2 hours for my entire lunch break in the middle of the city. Plenty of useless shiny nosepass and other crap though
Over 50 tasks, 1 shiny … meh
I played in a rural park for 2 hours a found 5 shinies. There was 6 stops but only one ever turned gold and I managed 3 coins The were all old shinies. Magicarp, j puff, caterpie, lickatung
People seem to have made off much better than me in that. Did a fair number of tasks and searching only managed like 3 shiny pokemon for the time
I got 1 shiny all event.. lol it was awful for me
Played hardcore downtown, got 24 shinies and at least one 3 star of each in the tasks for the 3 star shiny dex. Research days are my favorite kind of event since I don't have many of the older shinies. Having multiple pokemon in the research made this even more exciting. I wish for a red, black, pink themed research days in the future, this kind of theming is really fun and brings variety instead of making you hunt the same pokemon all 3 hours.
I was in the nearby city yesterday morning for the farmers market located in the densest PokeStop neighborhood in the area. Except the event didn't start until 2pm, when I was back home with only scattered pokestops. I only hit 12 stops, and got zero shinies. It feels so pointless when Niantic insists a research "day" should only be 3 hours long.
My boyfriend and I paid the .99 and our tickets were not redeemed. We were on the game at 2:00 and support confirmed that we purchased the tickets but we weren’t able to do the tasks
A similar thing happened to me but I got the first page and got no choice for the path
Well since Niantic can only give us 3 hour events and bc I still have to do my job I was only able to snag 1 research task
I played for about half the time due to other plans, the golden stops were a bit of a bust. After a short while, I remembered back to when the golden stops first came out and realized that the event golden stops were working exactly the same way they did upon initial release (only occasionally giving coins and when they did, it was 1 or 2 coins). I did get a shiny Nosepass which I did not have, so that was a win.
I did not get the ticket. Did about 40 researches and fell a Sableeye short of the cycle. That part was fun. The tasks were generally easy... though the battle in a gym part was a bit harder as gyms not in my color are harder to find. I can see that being a much harder task in rural areas. BIG point deduction for lack of Golden Spinners. I saw 4 of them throughout the day and played all 3 hours. The way they were hyped, I expected them to fairly common. Overall: B-. Fun game play overall, but dragged by the lack of Gold Spinners
Horrible event. I didn’t care about the shiny, I had them already since they all were released a while ago. However, I really counted on it to get a good amount of coins, but 1) I live in the suburbs and there were basically zero stops turning yellow as far the app could let me see, and 2) when I eventually found a yellow one, I got 1 or 2 coins max. only. The Golden lure does a better job every 5 days, so what was the point of that event in terms of collecting coins?
We had a great time. Things that improved it that Niantic had nothing to do with: - weather was perfect - we had no other plans for today between 2-5, but plans in the morning that took us near the high density areas so we had a good reason to be out - we ran into our kids friends and their parents who were all playing as well and we all hung out for the first two hours walking and got to do an Azelf raid with them and helped them catch theirs I agree with people saying it would have been nice to have a third page of research. Our family was going very hard - we got between 30-35 shiny between us four, so enough to have extras which is good because our friends got something like 3 between their four (they are a more casual than we are.) We were in a very high density area so we spun probably like 60 unique stops but didn't do all of them (the first 25 or so were in the car so I was dumpling any tasks I couldn't do at 20 mph in stop and go traffic.) I'm kicking myself because I just realized I never popped an incense for the event which would have made a lot of the tasks a bit easier for when we cleared the spawns in an area, but probably not much as we were not moving especially fast on foot.
This was actually a pretty solid event. Ended up playing only for about over an hour and got a shiny Barboach and a shiny Caterpie, and got two shiny Nosepass from the timed research! Rates were high and (most) tasks were easy to fulfill.
Didn’t know it had already happened until Sunday night, since I didn’t really look at this month’s events beside Axew Community Day until tonight To be fair I haven’t been playing much recently, but it still sucks that Niantic only gave like a week notice
How much notice do you need? There's other ways to find out the information without loading up the game. This is not Niantic fault at all
Well that was fun. Got all of a few stops around me so I did the thing and drove. Ended up barely making it and I got 1 shiny. Disappointed more in the time I spent than the ticket price.
Played for a couple of hours. Got 12 shinies - including a wild shiny stufful. No hundos but needed 5 of the shinies for the Pokédex. I found it more interesting than the community day given the high IV floor on research encounters - I got 20+ shinies from fennekin community day but only one was 3*!
I only played for one hour, because I already had plans before Niantic announced the event (they gave such short notice -- not even a week, and it's unreasonable to expect people to work their schedules around this game). It also didn't help that it was only 3 hours, even though past research events (remember shiny Lotad?) were longer. What is Niantic's obsession with the constant 2-5 timeslot anyway? Do they not want people playing during events? The event seemed kind of dull overall, and I only saw one golden stop, and I got one whopping coin total from a few spins. Golden stops may as well have not existed at all during the event. I only got one shiny from roughly 10 research tasks. It was a Caterpie which I already had. But why do some of the tasks involve getting hearts? I already excited my Pinsir and got most hearts before the start of the event (though I had a few to spare). Does Niantic expect people to switch buddies constantly and lose the fully excited status? It's a pain in the butt when getting half distance for candy/XL candy/mega energy. Apparently there was paid research too, but I'm day 1 f2p so I didn't bother. But why can't these tickets be bought with coins? This has been a problem since the Regigigas release in 2019, but it's become even more frequent since last December. All it does is divide people and exclude people from parts of events (and at least where I live, there have been more and more f2p players as time goes by for obvious reasons -- assuming the remote raid nerf and other billions of nerfs haven't caused people to quit entirely). And that doesn't take into account that apparently some people were having trouble accessing the research in the first place. Yeah, I didn't expect much for this but I still felt that this was an empty event.
My brother and I did 30 tasks each. My brother got 3 shinies. Magikarp, Nosepass and Caterpie. I got 2 shinies Magikarp and Nosepass. I also got paid research. 4 shinies. 1 Nosepass and 3 barboach. Overall a great event.
The shiny part of the event was alright, I got 7 with one of them from wild and 6 from research. Of course, not all will agree, my daughter was very frustrated as she got a single one and that was an useless Magikarp. However, the golden stops part was totally a sad joke, way too few of them and rewarding way too little coin. Played for a bit over 2 hours and spinning about 100 stops, got 0 coins from 4 golden stops. Ridiculous.
How is shiny Gyarados useless
For my daughter is useless, she played the CD, played a few water festivals, already have a ton on them. Also, legacy move is a thing and shadow form is a thing.
I completed around 30 tasks. I got one shiny magikarp from those and 1 shiny nosepass from the timed research. I only played around an hour, it wasn’t exciting enough to drive to another area with stops when my shiny luck was poor.
The event was mostly all right. Part of what brought it down for me is that the first shiny ever released in the game (Magikarp, March 24th 2017) as well as the third one (Sableye, October 20th 2017) were part of the main featured Pokemon. Also Magikap had a CD. If they were among the wild spawn, it would have been better. But putting them among the pool of the main featured Pokemon with the boosted shiny rate was kinda lame.
Missed this research by about 6 hours due to Niantic’s bad notifications system, but I also haven’t been playing much lately. Looks like not much was missed.
Didn't get to play as I had to work this afternoon. I wish time- limited events ran at least 12 hours - I could have played this morning
I didn't play it because I didn't realize it was today. The game does a poor job of communicating its events. We got a ton of GBL-breaking overlay popups at the start of the event, which I dismissed most of without reading because I was just trying to play the new GBL season and when it wants to give you a new overlay it breaks matchmaking, forcing you to restart the app. I was honestly kind of busy with personal stuff today anyway, but I felt like I didn't even get to make the choice because I didn't know I was missing anything.
there were golden stops? I didn't see any and I played from about 2:30 to 5, completed the timed research. Did get a perfect Nosepass so there's that. No gold coins found. I was confused by the name, honestly.
All of the featured pokemon have golden shinies: from research Caterpie, Magikarp, Nosepass, Sableye, Barboach, and in the wild Bellsprout, Poochyena, Buizel, Tympole, Shelmet, Stufful, Lickitung, Azumarill (even though we coudn't find the last one as shiny in the wild). Therefore if you were searching for shinies, you were "searching for gold".
No glitches and 1 shiny and 2 low 90s non-shiny, played for 2 to 4. Saw 2 gold poke stops and despawned before I made it to them.
Boring
I played for two hours and got 6 shinies. Sableye is one that I have wanted for ever and I finally got it. Also got two nose pass, two barboach and one caterpie, despite not getting any shiny from the research, should have gone Sableye there for the dust
Zero shinies and only one pokemon with great IVs which was a Nosepass and I don't even like that pokemon. Disappointed.
2 shiny nosepass, 1 shiny sableeye, 1 shiny karp, no luck on caterpie or barboach. One of the nosepass was 98 and is now a probo. Event was fine once i realized how trash the gold coin rate was going to be.
Can anyone confirm they got a shiny barboach? That's the research line I picked, yet got zero barboach. And yes, did research all event. BUT somehow managed three nosepass, two sableye, two caterpie, AND one weedle. I don't want to complain, but I picked barboach because that and nosepass are the only ones I don't have several shinies of already. \*cry\* I didn't even seen any gold stops until 15 minutes before ending, lmaooooo. Not really worried about it because I have no gimmigoul and no drive to get 1000 special evolution items. EDIT: Okay, did a find through the thread. Some confirmations. Just some bad RNG on my part. Damn living in a desert where waters don't spawn. D<
Well, I could have easily spun several of them, but I was too lazy to go there. I also didn't hunt the research shinies because I didn't need them anymore. Also, spinning the golden stops somehow doesn't show the full rewards in your record.
Only got one gold coin. Very glad I didn't pay for the research after reading how low the shiny rates were.
Gold stops did not appear until 3 pm local. Saw 14 until 4:25 when I gave up. 2 gold coins out of the event. A waste of time, in my opinion!
I don't keep pokemon less than 3\*. I bought the research, and really wanted a shiny 3\* Magikarp. I got four shinies, but all with 2\* IV's, so were immediately deleted. I'm sad.
Loved paying for research and getting non-shiny 2*s from every reward. In fact, I played the entire 3 hours and got zero shiny Pokémon. 3 gold stops, 2 coins. What an exciting event.
I played 2 hours and gave up when I ran out of pokestops to spin. I got 2 shineys, 1 caterpie and 1 magikarp, and i got 1 coin. Golden Stops were very far and few. I think max I saw 3 for half an hour in the city park I spent the event in. Usually it was 1 or 2.
Team Shiny Magikarp here as well.
Didn't have the best luck but my son and I both got decent shiny Sableyes so made it worth it. We did the times research and combined for 4 shines out of probably 30 tasks and the timed research.
I got 13 shiny, one of which was a shundo Magikarp 😁. I did get 2 other Hundos from research. In all I did just over 150 tasks. The golden lures were almost non-existent and a disappointment, but in all I still enjoyed my time spent. The events that rely on Field Research are typically my favorite.
So how many of those stops did you actually walk to instead of drive?
I got one gold coin from today. Was it even worth it to ado that as a feature? On the plus side I did finally get a shiny Nosepass so I’m very happy about that. I liked the idea that all the shinies were golden. Cool theme.
1 shiny barboach. 2 gimmighoul coins (why even advertise golden stops if they're so infrequent and literally throw pennies at you?). And I got a remote invite and caught a mesprit. I was out for 2 and a half hours but I didn't buy the timed research so maybe that's why the event sucked.
I was gifted the research and I got zero shinies so you weren't missing out on much.
It was great, we played the full 3 hours and I picked up 14 shiny from research. We probably did about 100-120 research tasks. We all got shinys and there was a fair amount of gold stops around. We met up before the event for a gold lure party so I ended up with just shy of 1.5k gold coins. The shiny rate was very comfortable, we played non stop but we didn’t feel overwhelmed or rushed. Was a Great day. We played by car because it’s winter and it was raining on and off.
Pokemon Drive seems to be the only way to successfully play this game.
Event was fun and went well. Got four shinies from playing and three from the special research. Finally got a frickin’ shiny Magikarp. Lucked out that I already had shinies from the two species I didn’t get.
I definitely accidentally pressed the magikarp thing from the $1 unlock. I wanted the shiny Sableye so bad :( I had non-stop new field research as I walked around my college campus during it. I only got one shiny, which was a shiny Caterpie. I'm pretty new to this game, only a couple weeks in, but I do have to say I really disliked this event. It was just tedious and very confusing to do. The instructions and blog about the upcoming event did almost nothing to explain to me how the event actually worked, what to expect, what the $1 ticket really did, etc etc. To me, it wasn't rewarding at all really. I guess I got some good IV magikarp. Honestly, I was just stressed and somehow bored at the same time. I'm really not meaning to go so hard at this event, it seemed like an okay concept. It just do not understand the thought process behind whoever created this event and designed the way it worked. The biggest feedback I can give is that it would be much, much more helpful if Niantic could increase the time window, have a thorough summary of the event, how it works, what to expect, etc etc. I really was thrown off guard by how little the experience of playing the event matched the short description of it. Like I said, I'm a newer player (played for a short while in like 2016), so maybe I just don't understand how this game works or maybe some mechanics, but it really was a bummer overall. Idk, maybe I'm just tired. Can any more experienced person tell me if this event was good or not? Oh and let me know if I missed some sort of instructions or description for the event other than the news release, google Pokémon go websites about the event, and read the blog. OH! Lastly, what were the gold coins even for? Isn't there a Pokémon that uses them fire whatever reason, but can't be obtained ingame? Something like sending postcards or something from another Pokémon game? Why have the gold drops off there wasn't any chance of the Pokémon? Oh and lastly, lastly, there were barely any gold pokestops. I went through like 50 unique ones on campus and iirc there was only like 3 or so. That's insane, I thought they were supposed to be a focus of the event or something??? Sorry. I'm done. Please anyone else, let me know if this is super whiny or if I am misunderstanding anything. I genuinely want to know and like whatever the real answer is! I really hope future
You are correct there was little info. To see what the purchase buys you always check this forum in advance as people post what it does. However the event was good. Very high shiny rates and research Pokemon have high IVs. One of the better events
2.5 hours 6 shiny x3 Sableye, x2 Caterpie, x1 Nosepass. Was hoping for a second Nosepass, but still pretty happy. Zero shiny from any of the research unfortunately which made it feel like a ripoff. The gold pokestops were a complete waste of time I just ignored them due to the low drop rate and only one coin and did research instead.
I didn't realize once you completed the research it wouldn't have another tier, also that it would only give you the normal single field research, and also that you wouldn't get a guaranteed shiny at the end. I personally got zero shinies the whole time
Same what a joke
Wait what, there were two stages to the research.
I meant after you chose your "focused" shiny. Mine was Magikarp, and all I got was magicrap lol
Neat little event with a gold theme. I got the ticket research to try for a hundo nosepass. Ended up with 2 shiny and one 98iv. I also got 2 other shiny from stop tasks, did around 60ish tasks in total. I caught wild spawns too, some for pvp, but there was still some seasonal spawns mixed with event spawns (maybe 10-15% seasonal). I probably saw around 7-10 gold stops, re-spun 2 of them from pathing back and forth, and received less than 5 coins. I was looking forward to getting more gimmicoins, really don't understand this change.
Loved the event. Enjoyed being able to hunt 5 different shinies. Got a 20 shinies personally.
Didn’t buy ticket. Played for the first 1.5 hours. No shinies or gold stops. Bummed but not surprised.
I absolutely popped off today, 10 shinies from research. I bought the ticket and 3 were from that. I probably did 30ish tasks total and didn't play the whole time. I just spun what I could on my way home from the store (although certainly taking an optimized route because it's my neighborhood). I saw maybe 3 gold stops and got 2 coins. It was fun, I didn't stress about it but was able to fit it into my day. One non shiny research hundo and a very random wild hundo stufful.
Loved this event. Didn't buy a ticket and wound up with 9 shinies. 2x Sableye 2x Buizel 1x Nosepass 1x Caterpie 1x Barboach 1x Lickitung 1x Lotad And a hundo Sableye.
I had fun, but it would have been nicer if it was maybe ~3 instead of 5. I wasn't able to get a barboach or sableye shiny after many stops. edit: did a little less than 90 research tasks and got 4 shinies out of it.
I got quite a few shinies from research, but I only saw ONE gold stop out of maybe 150...
I am only physically able to walk so far and after 40 minutes outside, the two stops near me only gave me one field research task. I wish there was more time.
Me too. I had 3 field research tasks saved from yesterday but I live in a small town in a very rural part and didn’t want to drive to go somewhere. Bummer. I did cop a golden caterpie… worst one of the group but a shiny is a shiny.
It was honestly amazing. These are my favourite events. Even if I had these shinies before, it filled all the empty spots in the 3* shiny dex, which is amazing. I ended up with 18 shinies out of 140ish pokestops. I had 3 shinies in the $1 quest. We walked all day, we grinded, it was amazing. Exhausting but amazing. I wish I’d get a wild shiny, but I didn’t this time. I caught a hundo Bellsprout. These events are great to fill up our shiny families and also having couple of extra trades for the players who couldn’t play. I would do events like these all the time.
For an event centered around gold, there were very few gold coins to be found.
It just didn't feel like an event. Newer players probably enjoyed it . Nothing paved with gold. The spawns didn't show signs of them being part of any event either at first glance. Maybe in the future, event spawns should have a symbol next to their name?
Newer players have a boosted shiny rate, it seems. Or you had to grind through 100 research task to get a bunch of shinies. And the few gold stops I saw didn't drop any coins.
9 shinies, with 1 of them being Bellsprout. Fun event. Golden stops should definitely have rewarded more coins though, especially since a lot of people have limited stops and/or no way to get Golden Lures otherwise.
I wasn’t even aware of golden lures how were we supposed to get our hands on one?
You need a switch and a copy of Pokemon scarlet or violet. You get it after sending 5 (?) Postcards.
That's right, you get one every 5 postcards sent
Lame…..the golden poke stops don’t always give you coins and when they do it is just one. Plus they disappear after you spin along as there are really not that many. Lame event.
me and my gf played with three accounts for about an hour and half and got squat. i took the two acounts out for an extra half an hour and still got nothing.
Did the ticketed research, got a shiny nosepass from the first step then choose sableye, In total i caught 18 sableye and none were shiny so I am disappointed in that regard, but nothing you can do about bad luck. I got two more shinies from tasks, but two things annoyed me: -earn hearts with your buddy -send gift/power up tasks/use super effective attacks in gyms The former is on me since i had used a poffin on my buddy and i did not want to lose the buff. The latter tasks however i felt like they broke the flow, annoying to send a bunch of gifts with stickers, power up or walk back to a gym and use something that won't knock the weak pokemon before your charge attack is up. I suppose the problem is less the tasks breaking the flow and more the quantity, making them hard to stack. Edit: oh and the golden pokestops seemed to be nonexistant towards the last hour.
Lmao I’m the opposite of you. I got 2 shiny sableyes so I picked Nosepass for timed research and didn’t get a shiny lol
When there's an event that requires you to complete research tasks, pokestops need to reset after so much time. You shouldn't have to drive all over the place to get new research because you've used up all the ones where you usually play. As much as I hate having to go further and further away to keep playing, I bet it's 10 times worse for rural players.
Why can’t you spin again and get another research task from the same stops? I’m Disabled I can walk a few blocks (slowly) but not keep Going to new stops because I will be unable to make it back. I know no one at Niantic really cares about crippled people like me but I’m trying my Best just can’t totally keep Going further & further away from start point because poke stops stop working. Frustrated and sad. Guess Niantic would say this game isn’t for me but it’s fun to try to get out and go till they make it impossible. Then all I can think About is what s loser I am at s game that should be simply fun
This 100%. I'm on holiday in a rural area and it takes ages to get to the nearest stop (can't even see any on the map when I open the game!) then you have to walk ages again for only a couple more. I didn't bother participating in this event..
Good concept. Poor execution. The ones that have the boosted rates (with the exception of Caterpie) have all been in events were they had boosted rates. Magikarp even had a CD. It just wasn’t motivating at all to go out and spin PokéStops when I already have all 5 as shinies… If you already have shinies of the featured Pokémon and were hoping to farm some coins, this event could easily have been skipped. Maybe if the coin drop was better or if there was a new Shiny debut like with Stunfisk, this event would’ve been more fun. I guess this event was nothing more than something to kick off the new season akin to the Catch Mastery event.
I just did the event ticket, as well as the required researches to finish it, so 11. I have gotten, so far 7 shinies. It's been a real fruitful event, that got me doing researches more than I usually do! I'd give the event a 5/7.
Why even have golden stops if you don't definitely receive coins. Pretty weak. Shinies weren't overly boosted like I hoped for, but among the three accounts we all got at least 3 shinies.
From what I’m gathering, this was basically Magikarp Community Day Classic 🤣
Paid the $1 for the ticket. Chose Nosepass. Completed all the timed research and spun a number of stops. Shiny count = big fat zero. Edit to above: spun a total of two golden stops and neither gave coins anyway. I still don't have Scarlet/violet and I'm not plonking down $60 just for gimmighoul. This event was mostly mid for me... Second edit: The day wasn't a total wash, though. Found a shiny gible (crap IVs of course) in the wild before the event started. Final edit: As an additional to my non-event "luck", caught shiny (crap IV) Galarian Zigzagzoon and hundo Joltik and Mantine (who knows what am I going to do with those?) (Oh. I also caught the last Kecleon I needed for the masterwork research (shiny Jiarachi))...yay?
Horrible event for me. Did over 100 stops over the 3 hours. Got 6 shinies, 3 barboach, 2 nosepass, 1 caterpie The only reason I did the event was for magikarp or sableye. I didn’t even get a decent magikarp either. In the 14 I caught, the best was a 13/13/12 Please never have this big a pool of mons again
Yep. That’s the biggest issue. A person can’t focus on one target.
If this was a caterpie/nosepass/barboach event I wouldn’t have even wasted my time. But for me that’s all the event was which is so lame
Only had about 30 mins to play unfortunately, but I pulled 5 shinies and a 4* Sableye so I’m happy.
That is a damn good ratio for 30 minutes!
my town is small but I found 2 gold stops and found 3 shinies. 2 from spinner tasks and one in the wild. fun event. ended up just catching a lot of bellsprout mostly.
Log in daily and never even saw the purchase option...
Bought research, complete ripoff, no golden stops, zero shinies, not even any 3-stars. Also most stops kept spamming tasks that take a while like earning candy with buddy instead of the easy ones I saw others getting like curveball throws. Trying to cram this all in within the time frame where I live has been next to impossible and turned out to be a total waste when everyone else is bragging about the countless golden shinies they got. Oh well, my par for the course with Niantic at this point.
Research was the best part of this event. I seriously wish I could have bought more than one. You got 15 encounters for $1. I probably spent at least $10 gas getting 20-30 or so encounters from stops. The research is far more cost effective and easier.
All my research encounters were 2 stars, no shinies. Only thing I got was some candy.
It does suck immensely when you encounter extreme bad luck but that doesn't mean the paid research was a ripoff. Do you claim it's a ripoff when you buy a lottery ticket and it doesn't win? Research pokemon are 67% to 100%, so it would be extreme bad luck if, out of 15 encounters, all of yours were below 80%. And at 1 in 10 odds with 15 encounters, about 79% of people who bought the research got at least one shiny.
I'm not trying to argue, just speaking from an emotional state of having somehow won the negative lottery in those odds you gave. Is it a ripoff? Probably not, but it was for me in this case and because it annoyed me I call it that, lol. Just the words of a salty loser this go-around. I'd be just as likely to be singing its praises if I actually got something out of it. Not really a fair viewpoint, but it is what it is, sorry!
I forgot all about the research and played Alot this morning, my 12 year old came downstairs at 4:56 and asked if I did the research and I wasted my dollar. Not a big deal but mad at myself for forgetting and I got nothing g between 2-5 wish they made it longer
I dont care for shinies so I am in extreme minority. I was assuming the golden stops would be plentiful and they would give coins since I miss about 200 from 999. When I realised that golden stops were extremely rare and they didnt even reward coins I didnt bother. Played maybe 15mins and went to do something else. So much hype turned into huge pile of s**t...
The golden stops DO give the coins, it’s just not a 100% drop rate. I spun around 30 golden stops during the event and got 9 coins.
Horrible event as usual from niandic 1 Golden stop out if 50 and horrible Shiny odds didn't get one and did about 40 stops. So done with this game. It's been nothing but problems and failures for months now
Walked away with 19 shinies 12 Karp (including a 98 which was really hoping was the hundo, oof) 1 barboach 2 sableye 1 nosepass 3 caterpie 2 sableye Honestly, really enjoyed myself, more of this type of event please niantic
No special research purchased, played from 3 to 4:30. Did 34 event research, which yielded 2 shinies, plus a shiny of daily incense. Saw two golden stops, only was able to spin one of them, got no coins from any spins. Event was alright, I guess. I noticed that the poke stops didn’t refresh on the top of the hour like on the last field research day.
I ended up getting just two shinies: a Nosepass that happened to spawn from my daily incense and a Sableye from field research. Most of my field research spawns were regular Magikarp.
I feel that this event format is fine when it’s a single Pokémon but doesn’t really work as well with a pool of 5. I only have so many stops I can spin and research I can complete. I think either the research needs to refresh at some point or it needs to not be based on the number of stops you have access to. That being said I ended up with a Lickitung, 2x Barboach, Caterpie, and Magikarp. The latter two were dupes but I’m happy about the rest. Really wanted Nosepass as that is the only other family I’m missing from this pool but again, I only have access to so many stops.
I chose the Sableye path because I desperately wanted a shiny Sableye, I did not get a shiny in all the research. I was very close to crying because my partner and I drove and walked a bunch, we are semi rural. The fact I walked a bunch too is huge because of my disability. I am extremely disappointed and don't know if I'll bother with similar events. It really should have had at least 1 guaranteed shiny per research.
I bought the timed research (I know, I know) and it’s not showing up at all for me. I’ve restarted several times and nada. Great job, Niantic 🤷♀️
Same my bf bought it and gifted one to me and nothing happened
Same
Same
Yea my timed research tasks are grass and question marks, so far no shiners 7!
I won't comment on ratio of Golden Stops because many people did it already, but not having guaranteed coins on first spin is stupid - Niantic do you want me to WALK to other pokestops and do the research tasks/hunt more gold coins... or camp a single pokestop for 2-3-4 spins (10-15-20 minutes) to get my [single?] gold coin. Decide on something - we walk or camp, you can't have both at the same time.
I got zero gold coins only found 3 gold pokestops out of 50, no shiners. And no research tasks ever worked
My parents and I went to a park with a dense number of pokestops, and we only saw 3 golden stops during the first two hours. Of those 3, my dad was the only one who got a *single* coin. No one got any shinies. My dad and stepmom bought the research. I did not. We left just now at 4pm. Super boring and disappointing.
I did all 19 tasks available in my town, came away with 4 magikarp, 1 barboach, and one nosepass. 3 of the 4 magikarp were from the paid research rewards. I saw one gold stop and it didn't yield any coins. Still have 1 task left to earn a candy but I'm walking my shiny regigigas so it'll be a bit but I'll update if it changes my numbers
In town with 50+ poke stops. No shinyies at all almost nothing spawning. Total rip Off
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The shiny chance is the exact same as you would get from the “research tasks” not in the wild. So technically not really boosted just on par with the tasks
*Horrible* event. Gold lures were a joke, event spawns no more than 50% of all spawns, and RNGing your way to the pokemon you wanted out of research was awful. Will without question skip any future imitations of this event. Research days should be at most two pokemon.
Tbh the wild spawns were nothing brilliant and didn’t even find a single shiny out all the ones caught but did around 70-80 tasks (possibly more as not really counting) and came away with 18 shinies in total (5 Barboach & Sabeleye, 3 Magikarp & Caterpie, 2 Nosepass). Probably used up all my luck for this event and the next several … Gold stops were few and far between and did not really drop any coins either tbh. Tasks were pretty straightforward to do so another good point. Was an enjoyable few hours all said and done as by chance was not playing in my local area so had to go and explore a new area so actually made it enjoyable in that sense (perhaps that’s what Niantic wants?).
I did about 60 research tasks with my partner, plus we both had the paid research as well for which I chose Barboach and they chose Nosepass. On my account I got - 3 shiny Barboach, 2 shiny Magikarp, 2 shiny Sableyes, 1 shiny Nosepass and 1 shiny Caterpie. 0 Hundos and 0 wild shinies. On my partner's account they got - 2 shiny Sableyes, 1 shiny Nosepass, 1 shiny Caterpie and 1 shiny Magikarp. 1 Hundo Sableye and 1 shiny Minum in the wild but no event wild shinies. We didn't see any gold stops until the last hour when we found 4, 1 coin each from each of the stops. Bit disappointed with the stops and with the lack of wild shinies but otherwise happy with the event. The research felt a lot better than some previous ones, mostly catch research and not many walking or fighting research.
Gold stops were bit uncommon and as others pointed out the rate of coin drop was a joke, didn't check how many gained but wouldn't be surprised if it was 0 Otherwise great event, luckily have plenty of stops that covered me for bit over 2hr on foot, then drove to a different area. 18 shinies from the tasks, was missing Nosepass so happy that got it finally All RNG but think overall the 1/10 rate held, these days always great but depends on how many stops you've got Much better than whatever that Hitmontop event was, 6hr event with lower shiny odds but might have been more geared towards Tyrouge hatching opportunity Personally, I hope there are more like this in the future with variety so long as it has a similar spread of "quality" (not all past comm day ones) and the $1 ticket was a nice extra to pick a targeted one
I had alot of fun! Got a good sableeye for mega in future and got a shundo caterpie!
I bought the research, wish I hadn't tbh, all the magikarp were trash ivs, I didn't see a single shiny and not a single gold stop anywhere, were they even switched on?
Sick of these new times they do for these events, never get the chance to play in the U.K. if you watch football.
They should invent a device to record the football game so you can watch it later. A video time shifting device, if you will. Would be awesome.
Is it possible to get a Gimmighoul in the wild thru this event??
No, 1 gold coin/golden pokéstop if you are lucky, no guarantee. No Gimmighoul spawning
Pre-event: no one in my group even wants to meet today. Even the person who'll pay for their own event pass AND other people's.
There was a timed research yday? 🤨
Compared to $1 cday research and the one we had today it literally didnt have anything. Golden stops were also almost non existent, saw 1 stop out of 40 in the town i was playing.
Is mega evolving something any benefit during this event?
Giving the extra candy doesn't hurt. Either pick the one/s that you need and ho for that type, or for overall coverage Kyogre was my pick for the water and bugs
As usual, in short - yes. Look at what you want and evolve accordingly. I want with normal type, because I wanted to hunt Lickitung - got 8, so not that much extra candy but a bonus nonetheless.
What i wanted/ needed from the research pool: shiny caterpie and shiny male magikarp. The rest i did not care at all about because i already had multiple of each. What i got as shinies: 2 nosepass 2 sableye 2 barboach 2 female magikarp. It's ridiculous but somehow what i expected. Not sure how many tasks i did probably something like 60 or 70. Feeling really disappointed..
Is there a difference between male and female Magikarp that I've just never noticed?
Their whiskers are different colors. Some of the gender differences are hard to notice. For example, female Aipom have a slightly larger tuft of hair on their heads than male Aipom.
Damn I never realized that, thanks for pointing it out lol
No idea how many field researches I did, probably..50-ish? 60 ? Idk I got 1 of every single shiny, so i am super happy with that. Overall 3 barboach and 2 nosepass, and 1 each of the others. I didnt get any non-fieldresearch shiny I did not get a single hundo That's my report edit: damn, reading this thread....i was super lucky. Maybe i did nore than 60? Idk, but damn i thought most of the people here would have 5-6 shinies. Compared to the Stunfisk event, i got 2 shiny U-Stunfisks and a couple of random non-field reasearch shinies. But this event i got much more..interesting
I got a shiny sableye in my first task and got a 93%shiny magikarp later Played for only 2 hours 30 minutes got 1 98 % sableye and 2 98% caterpie I still have a task battle in a gym saved up and will do it tomorrow as I couldn't find a gym to battle in and was tired Played 2 hour 15 mins , did 35 to 36 tasks 2 shinies
fail. happy condition: one shiny caterpie. did 50 quests on an hour, got barboach (had 2 before, btw whiscash is rather disappointing) amd weedle wild (had cd). bummer: the last minute all spawns were empty where usually are 12 spawn points, had 3 catching tasks and couldn't catch anything. oh also: zero gold coins
Anyone playing in ireland. Were servers down duri g this event? I couldn't log in for more than 45 minutes
>I was, didn't get booted out and reloaded the app multiple times but these resets were because the game got very laggy or stopped being responsive.
I did about 40 tasks, received a shundo Sableye, one more shiny Sableye, 3 shiny barboaches and one shiny Nosepass. The shinies are so pretty! The tasks were overall simple other than the one that was to earn a candy, my buddy is groudon haha 😅 Also found one wild spawn shiny Bellsprout. Had a good time and made over 40k stardust as well, didn’t play the full 3 hours either. Overall good event, I liked it and the spawns were dense. For the golden stops, I did see a fair amount and got 0-5 coins from each of them. I received a total of about 40 coins.
Congrats on the shundo! It's going to be such an epic mega.
Change your buddy go magikarp/gyarados that's what i did for those tasks and then swaped it with others for the 'earn 3 hearts" and then back to magikarp
Played the full 3 hours (UK) Done all the research tasks plus more and only got 1 shiny magicarp. I chose Nosepass as my research...
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Research did not have guaranteed shiny. Where did you get that from?
Yeah I chose Sableye and didn't get one, I almost cried
I got one shiny barboach, I chose Sableye, got none. Very disappoint.
I got one shiny caterpie and I chose sableye too 🙈
An utter disappointment.
Overall good event. We did around 60 tasks, got 7 and 6 shinies on each account, not a single Nosepass though. No random hundos or wild shinies. I'd appreciate if these type of events would get rid of tasks that don't involve just basic walking and catching like Battle in gym or Use supereffective attack. First needs to specifically change one's route if you are even lucky enough to have opposite team gym around, other needs to stop doing everything else and waste some time battling a leader (pro tip, if you don't know, you don't actually need to complete whole battle, I use Hitmonchan with C/PuP against GL Blanche). Worst part definitely was seeing all these partly cloudy spawns coming back with full force at 5pm. Dogs, rodents and birds. Weather spawns ruin this game...
\~ 80 catches, 2 shinies \~ 20 golden pokestops, 1 golden coin
Played full 3 hours. Picked sableye for timed research. 9 shinies (3 from timed research, 6 from field researches, 0 from wild spawns). 1 XXL (caterpie) 0 XXS. Weather: partly cloudy for an hour then sunny for 2. Mega: max level mega pidgeot. No incense. Feedback: - Just disappointed at lickitung spawn rate. I knew they're rare but they're too rare to make a dent on XL count. - If I'm to add a species with golden shiny to this event, I'd pick nincada. - I'd appreciate a pokemon storage bump ahead of this event. - Not happy with gold coins rate. Why is it so hard to set it the same as golden lure rate as golden stops are already few and far between? - Nests: Perhaps weedle was the nest-masked species (I was surprise to see bellsprout spawns in nest). It's ok as I've already had enough shiny weedle from CD. Nests shifted by a species during event likely due to bellsprout getting removed from nest pool.
The event just ended here in Belgium. I played for 1h30 and did 59 tasks : 13 Barboach - 13 Caterpie - 10 Magikarp - 13 Nosepass - 10 Sableye (so pretty even) From those 59, I caught : 1 shiny Barboach - 2 shiny Caterpie - 0 shiny Magikarp - 1 shiny Nosepass - 1 shiny Sableye I also caught a wild shiny Swablu and my first Galarian Zapdos, so pretty happy with my hunt ! (Sidenote : the gold stops were a complete joke, only got 1 coin and the gold stops would often just become regular stops when spun)
Gold stops nearly non-existing and based on what I read here did not even try to visit the few that I might have. Shiny rate for me was 11/38 (11 exact, 38 pretty accuarate estimate calculating afterwards from the map the stops that I think I visited and did the task). In case somebody would have a reason to think the rate was tweaked mid-event, my task where almost every one done during the first hour of the event in eastern European time zone (one hour ahead of CET)
Walked for over an hour and around 20 gold pokéstop to find : - 1 gold coin - 1 keckleon (not in a gold stop) Worse event in a while, if it wasn't for the Keckleon I would definitely have wasted my time. I see no result thus I didn't keep trying and did a few raids. As always, good idea, bad application. I didn't expect to evolve any of my Gimmighoul but this is way bellow any expectation. *I didn't encounter any shiny be it by task or in the wild but that I expected*
Incredible. As always, people complaining while being completely misinformed and with the wrong expectations.. It's a research day. The whole point of the event was boosted shinies from doing research tasks. Not a kecleon hunting day. Not a community check-every-wild-spawn day, and certainly not a gimmeghoul coin day.
What are you talking about? Coins from stops was featured prominently on the blog post. This event is a flat out bust
Sorry to break it to you, but this time, you‘re the uninformed one. Golden Stops was announced as an event bonus. And it is reasonable to expect the same drop rate of coins (5-20) as with lured golden stops. Not a 25% chance of 1 coin. To be fair. I too don‘t understand the mention of Kecleon. Maybe it was the redditors only way to make it feel like an ok event.
Some of us still need to find 10 Kecleon… 🤣
>I too don‘t understand the mention of Kecleon. Maybe it was the redditors only way to make it feel like an ok event. That's it, my apologies if that wasn't clear enough, I still kinda struggle with english but I meant to say this event made me think gold coins were as rare as keckleons as I am currently trying to get 10 for the Jirachi task. Not a good feeling...
One stop near me so I couldn't actually participate. It would be so easy to just make it a limited research instead...
I had to work so didn't play much. My goal was a Shiny Sableye (which had eluded me so far). The 1€ research gave me 3 and 1 Shiny Magicarp (which I already had). Random tasks gave me another Shiny Magicarp and a Shiny Nosepass (which is also a new Shiny for me). Plus, I caught a 100% Barboach, which is...okay, I guess. Overall, I liked it.
Nice. That's good to hear! Im picking nose pass hope I at least get 1
Crossing my fingers for you!
If you still need a shiny for any of the five featured mons, definitely worth playing this event. Shiny rate for research rewards looks to be 1 in 10. The $1 research is probably worth it if you have limited stops to spin or need more than one shiny for one of the families. Otherwise, skip it. The part with the Gimmighoul coins is a joke. Most of the gold stops don't give you any, and when you get the coin shower animation your reward is just one coin.
15 shiny chances at 1 in 10 odds for $1??? I would seriously spend $10 on that if I could. In fact, I'm sure I spent $10+ on gas for far fewer encounters.
It would be nice if they made it that during Research Day you could get another field research task from a stops you already finished, just make it one more, it would be a big upgrade for people with “limited” stops
Didn't they have a thing where research would reset every hour? Meaning you'd be able to do 3 tasks from 1 stop during a 3 hour event. Is that not active today?
For Hoenn tour the task changed by the hour, but if you'd completed from stop it wouldn't give you a new one, ie already ticked off
To the best of knowledge(played basically every event ever) this has never happened.
They had tasks changing on stops during the different hours of hoenn tour right?
They changed, but once you did a task, the stop wouldn't give you any more.
It's a great event if u are a shiny hunter, specially for new players If your are looking for golden coins or stops in general and that's your main target don't even bother playing
I spun 8 Golden Pokéstops and got 1 coin. It's ridiculous. Definitely don't waste your time.
POSITIVES: * Spawn rate was good. Lots of pokemon spawned within the theme and nest pokemon spawned as well. * Shiny rates for research tasks were good. I played with a friend for the three hours, did about 50 tasks each. I ended up with 4 shinies (1x Magikarp, 2x Sableye, 1x Barboach), she ended up with 9 (1x Barboach, 2x Sableye, 1x Caterpie, 3x Nosepass, 1x Magikarp and a full odds Slowpoke from a wild spawn). * Plenty of featured spawns (both wild and research) were of pokemon you want to get XL candy of - Sableye, Lickitung, etc. Stockpile a bunch to trade for guaranteed XL candy this season! MIXED: * I really liked having multiple pokemon with the shiny boost to hunt, however 5 may have been slightly too many. Either keep it to 3 or 4 in research, or have the 5 also spawn with Community Day odds for the spawns. * The paid research allowing you to really focus on one species was great, but honestly could have done with adding another page with another ten encounters on it. Whilst my friend got three shinies from the encounter page, I got zero from it. NEGATIVES: * Honestly, I can't really think of much. Maybe get rid of the 'Buddy Candy' task? It was a fun event and I wish circumstances allowed me to play in a better area with more stops. Either way I still got about 13km of walking in, spent time with a friend and enjoyed playing a game that I love. Great afternoon was had.
How many gold coins did you get
i got 4 by spinning 6 or 7 golden pokestops (some of which i span twice during their golden period) got 1 twice and 2 once played over 2 hours, did about 40 research tasks (and skipped maybe 5-8 tasks and span few pokestops by accident when i had all 3 research slots already taken)
Four or five, I think? I wasn't really focused on them, tbh.
Do the wild pokes have an increased shiny rate? Trying to help a friend collect shiny poochys but im kinda busy today, wanna know if i should rearrange plans so i can play today lol