Yup. I'm at the point where I'm almost reluctant to open gifts from people who live overseas as it feels like a waste of the lucky chance. Hopefully one day they'll see sense with the global lucky trades... they've finally implemented an option to use a lucky egg before you get your exp from levelling up with friends, so you never know!
Does your area have a local park or such with a few gyms? Besides the stop/gym Density to spin and hopefully restock those, it's a good place to hang for event days like this Research Electric thing today, since the player density usually attracts a lot of stragglers who can help carry you on Raids to save items. Having two accounts that can Duo helps here because you're a lot more likely to attract random solo players or lower-level-but-still-helpful members, with Shadow raids especially benefitting from more bodies thanks to the Purified Gem mechanic.
I sympathize. Between Eggs, the Gift limit, the 3 Research slots, and the Gym Coin system, this game is full of mechanics/QoL that are woefully out of date.
My area has loads of gyms but not a lot of players - there's very rarely a spontaneous group nearby. The best chance of a spontaneous group appearing is right after a raid egg pops - not never, but very rare. Luckily today I met up with a friend for an hour and we did, in fact, do a couple of Raikou raids: with my two accounts and her one it was much easier. Even then, since both raids were about 20 minutes in when we started, no-one joined us (and this was in central London!)
Ironically I got 2 Joltik and 3 Blitzle, none of the other 3 I was hunting (since I had a Joltik from Go Fest wilds). Note to self, trade if I ever see this Internet stranger in person.
I haven't done this yet but here's a fun update to this:
I believe the very first few days Poipole couldn't be transferred at all so it's fun we have multiple avenues for who messed up what and when.
To be fair it seems really hard to even use the Mythics. You get so little candy out of the ordeal & you only get 1 candy per 20 km & the majority of mythics dont go into raids from what I can tell.
There are routinely reports of people using level 50 legendaries in PvP barely hours after they're first released which is nuts but I guess if you're a hardcore spender who does ~20 raids a day or whatever you'll have buckets of Rare Candy and Rare XL Candy which you can just plow into the mythics/legendaries.
Can't speak for XL, but regular Rare Candy does pile up very fast if you're just regularly doing stuff with the game (Walking Routes, playing PvP, rare Sponsored tasks, and of course Raids), which can get even Mythicals up to raid-usage very quickly. I'd say if you do your Daily Raid on a 3* or better plus play all 5 of your PvP sets, you're probably looking at 5-10 Rare candy depending on how good your win and drops are, which adds up since regular candy is in greater quantity already and thus Rare Candy is mostly reserved for stuff like Mythicals which you can't hunt to catch more.
Yeaaaahhhh, looking at the bonuses here... I'm not impressed. I passed on the ticket last year and I think I will again this year because nothing here is making me desperate to buy. As much as I want to go to NYC again, it's too short notice to arrange that. I assume Solgaleo/Lunala will be in raids (possibly shiny) but that's presumably something you can get without a ticket.
I wonder if they'd pull the same Legacy Move nonsense they did with Palkia/Dialga for these two and what Adventure Effect they'd have to reach for to justify not letting it be TM'd.
I can't imagine they leave it to just those two so...Go does have time of day based spawns right? Like the few times I pull out go at night I do see stuff like Lunatone or Duskull more often.
Will bear in mind. Charcadet should still be in post-event 10KM eggs but yeah event was obviously the time to hatch them. The thing I notice is they never do Hatch-distance reduction for actual Egg focused events, probably to drain/sell Incubators. I went through about 20 eggs of various rarities and only have hatched 1 so far (with 3 Event eggs and then 2 regular 10ks left to get to). I also hate that eggs can't be thrown away because I am so sick of having to clear out 5k's knowing they'll just be Lickitung or Pawmi again.
That's the ideal, though hard to say what the follow-through will be. Frigibax is still pretty rare (i was very lucky to get mine off the GTS) and Larvesta's shtick remains being the 5* egg (I wound up hatching my own lol; i've never seen one on the GTS)
Yes the fact you can't turn down eggs and can't throw eggs away is...very frustrating.
