Raptorpat

Well I got my 50 coins, a few hours shy of a full week. On the bright side, the timing was pretty good because there was coincidentally a snorlax at the next stop over. Not the best but now I've finally caught one.

I was OG circle jerk of hatred

IB circa 2004-2008 Babbling circa 2008-endtimes But really by the gruesome end I barely lurked the at max

I secretly suspect the whole purpose of the forum and its many folders was really just to have a place to showcase the banner collection. And we're all just lab mice or robot chicken or whatever.

Nope, still topped off. Someone is probably farming for Scyther candy. I guess we're shooting for a record!

It is definitely being fed. There is no way it is just natural decay. I'm not sure I want it back just for coins, at this point it's gotta be gunning for a record of some sort.

Perfect scizor is still in the gym, nearly full heart and only down roughly 200 CP. Over four days now. Maybe it will stay in so tong that by the time it dies they will have changed the coin prize ceiling.

I put my perfect scizor in a gym two days and four hours ago, and I can see the gym from here and it is at nearly full motivation and CP while everything else in the gym is half or worse. I know I'm still only getting the 50 coins whenever it leaves but I am kind of impressed that people are propping it up for this long.

Whomever comes back with coins first uses up the cap, once the cap is hit it is nothing for anything else regardless of how long.

I killed a tier one raid Magikarp with a Jolteon, and then I transferred him because I have better

I meant other than the Pokemon you're fighting, like if anyone else is there and the other info exclusive to the lobby

Evidently there are (or should be) all sorts of kinks Niantic should want to work out. Premium passes are only one-use and you can't stockpile the free ones, which means this much hyped feature - the type of thing harkening back to the social experiences from a year ago - is effectively paywalled. In addition, you have to use the pass before you enter the lobby so you can't see who is there or whether it is worth a try until after you've committed and can't back out. The new gyms, while increasing turnover, the value of teamwork, and accessibility for people who play casually and aren't godawful tryhards, throw that value away because they cap coins-per-day at 50 (and you can only collect when the pokemon returns). This means under the current formula, a pokemon's value caps out at around 8 hours, and even though gameplay incentivizes feeding/helping teammates' pokemon, there is no added value to additional hours accrued for that player after the first 8. Plus, if more than one pokemon die per day you still only top out at 50 coins. 50 coins is more than I've ever earned in a day, but I also don't make the effort to get a guy in a bunch of gyms or to try and control/expand "turf." I think it is evident a lot of this is also to disincentivize spoofers, because now they aren't gaining anything more than what real players can get at the expense of real, but it kind of creates long-term problems in function for actual players. I would definitely let the dust settle and see what or if they tweak anything before dropping money on the new stuff, but then again I don't spend money on the game in the first place.

I opened the game up briefly before bed and there were no raids, compared to during the day when it was all raids, all the time

How many times can you use it?

Perfect scizor finally died. 50 coins richer. I think that is a net improvement over previous income rate given how rarely I'd slap a guy in a gym before.

I did a raid and interacted with other people playing the game socially. It was a level three raid and there were only three of us but we managed to knock out the Gengar when one more hit would kill my last Pokemon. Got a whole bunch of items - revives, max potions, rare candies, and golden razz berries, and it shot me into level 29 and I got the items for that too. Caught the Gengar after missing with half the premier balls I earn because wtf, but I already have a better one I think. Whelp, there's another one for the books. Meanwhile, perfect scizor has been in a gym since like yesterday morning. I wonder if it will still be there come Monday and I go back to the office...

According to the internet you get the once-per-day freebie from the spinners at the gym

I don't know how to share mobile photos but there are countdowns to four raids within walking distance. I don't know how to get a raid pass though...

Auto-collect - this changes EVERYTHING

Did they eliminate the check-in required for collecting coins?

I am just on the cusp of level 29 so, yeah it might be a couple months

Hillary Clinton

My only interaction with a gym today was feeding a Mon a razz Berry to top it off

No, I meant them release the update. By the time I left work after 5:30 all the gyms by the office were full up, and then so we're all the ones in Troy. Also, they need to rebalance team proportions. I can see 8 gyms on this side of the Hudson within viewing range and one is red - the rest are blue. Being blue, this doesn't help me at all.

Why not wait until after work?