Yeah, tired is not the right word, but I found no other better, resigned would be one.
The “Catch them all” is still all to describe why I go on. And the faults of the app will not stop this.
Therefor I have stopped to complain, I just ask if it is a known bug, or if I have to look what happens with my phone.
Beaten down into submission most likely.
Im too over the stuff I don’t like in the game to whinge about much now.
More and more I’m prioritising other stuff to do over being forced to play they way they want.
Something’s going wrong…
There are people who fight to get one Gym near to their house, and then you see something like this near to Badalona, Spain. It’s one street!!!
Can’t tell whether to laugh or cry at that, so I’ll do both.
You’ve got to be kidding. I’d love to hear the story behind that. Did somebody lose an outrageous bet? Or try to prove his affections for some PoGO playing love interest?
Really can’t answer profoundly.
All the Gyms have as pictures Graffities, as if the street is full of them. But aren’t there rules about how many Gyms can be in a cell? How it’s posible that every ten meters there has been accepted a Stop, and later convert them to Gyms?
These Niantic guys just proceeded to just NOT announce Kartana and Celesteela and let them be regional too just after a Raid Day I spent all my Pokecoins on. As I’m not going to pay I can now just not get Celesteela because of their fault. This is just a *** move from their part. And they said they’d do better on communication. This is just sad.
Kartana’s annoying as hell to catch. Oh well, at least it’s not Joltik.
Complaining about the size misses my main gripe, though: When in tarnation are we going to see Black Kyurem? Is it being held back until the EX Raids return or something?
Remote raid servers have worked pretty well with the East-West regionals, even with the 3-way divisions for the Lake Trio. Most users of those services wind up getting each of the different mons. The current T5 regionals caused that to fail completely, probably since the distribution of PoGO players and raids is so profoundly imbalanced between North and South. The Celesteela queue was simply shut down on Poke Genie today. (And since that queue consistently had over 100,000 players waiting, it may be a LONG time before I get a Celesteela, if that EVER happens…)
Makes me hopeful (though not confident) that Niantic will decide to shitcan the North-South divisions, at least for the Legendaries.
Never mind all that, though. I temporarily forgot about the way game-feature trends seem to indicate an impending end to the remote raids, anyway.
I sent you some invites yesterday. I have no idea what time it would have been where you are. It’s was in our Wednesday Raid Hour.
Celery joined me for some.
I sure did! Thanks again for those invites @NotanotherKangaskhan 
I got a 93%er and an 87%er
It was about 9:30 in the morning in the UK - which, I think, makes it 1:30am in San Francisco… 
It’s just curiosity, maybe somebody can explain why I’m so way down in this list…
Just a guess – do you ever get rid of a shiny? Some of us are total packrats for shinies. Others set quantity or quality limits for themselves. I have a hard time transferring a shiny, and the stardust cost of trading them tends to be prohibitive for me.
(As a result, I’ve kept most shinies that I’ve encountered, many of which probably aren’t really worth keeping.)
Alternative plausible hypothesis: As the one who manages that list, maybe you chose to lowball your own statistics? (Maybe you actually have over 3 thousand of 'em and are just being modest?)
I have never thrown away or traded a shiny, so these 385 are the number really caught. Apart that I allways use in shinys overpowered balls and berries, because I like them a lot and don’t want to loose them. And my space is in this moments 2690 of 2700.
I wish I had any insight to offer you. The vast majority of my shinies were caught either from Community Day or from raids, and I tend to raid as many T5 as time and cost permit. (Not unusual to raid 10 times a day, especially if the boss is one I want.)
My storage is currently 5065 out of 5400; but I strongly doubt that storage capacity or free space have any effect on relative shiny rates.
How handy it would be if trades could sometimes turn Shiny, the way they sometimes turn Lucky, though. It would be wonderful to have more ways for a Shiny to land in our laps, figuratively speaking…
As a programmer I allways think how I would have realized this function of shinies.
All random-functions use a starting value from which it calculates the outcoming value.
If this start value would be the same for all of us, the outcome would be within certain margins as well the same percentage of shinies on captures.
Obviously this is not the case, so the start value has to be different for every player, maybe a square-sum of the letters in our player names, or an internal number of our account.
In any case the result is not fair with all of us.
Hundos are generally more meta-relevant than shinies, though, and you seem to be pretty good at getting hundo families…
I’ve noticed other major disparities between my main and my alt – including rare candy from raids, and balls and berries from opening gifts and spinning stops. Being that way for over 3 years makes me suspect there are outside factors affecting the RNG results, something like having a trainer’s name or start date be part of the RNG’s “seed”.
Would love to look at the source code for PoGO’s RNG, or even to have a peek at the statistics from tests of their RNG, to see if the variances consistently fall within the acceptable margin of error.
I’m absolutely convinced there’s other influences behind the scenes other than pure RNG. Having multiple accounts in the family there’s often a vast difference in what the other accts get v mine. Constant higher numbers of Shiny every CD with less catches is the glaring obvious one. Shiny’s on an account that didn’t pay for a ticket while mine got 0 also stands out.
The other one that stands out is 100% IV from Trades especially Legendary. Every account I trade with has gotten one or more 100% Legendary from my trades yet I’ve got 0 still.
I’ve done 39K trades while the other accts are around half that number.
Something else is at play making my acct unlucky I’m sure of it.
The whinge I really came on here for fits with ^.
1200 Deimo traded and I’ve not got a single 100%. Only 300-350 to go.
Have you noticed any ways that your acct seems to fare better than theirs, even a little? Or are you only seeing yours be disadvantaged? (Some folks always seem to be the victim…)
Maybe there’s some cognition built into the app that takes offense at your name swipe? Try changing your name to HoorayanotherKangaskhan to see if its RNG luck turns around? (Said only half in jest…)
If the start date for our trainer factors into our RNG results, there could be some potential value to PoGO horoscopes. Which planetary alignments or conjunctions give the best game luck? 
