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⌈ Secret Post #4283 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I have one local friend that I do trades with (found on the local facebook group) and just skip the group raids. Everything in them comes up as a monthly research quest eventually anyway. There's no "doing it wrong" and I wish those hardcore players would just stick with each other rather than trying to discourage everyone else. Where do they think new players are going to come from? Ugh, no, it's like that kind of gatekeeping comics fan, they'd rather their fandom died than someone did it WRONG.

[(Anonymous)]

OP
Does every pokemon come up again? Because I thought ones like Ho-oh could only be obtained via their raids, and then they were cycled out and I couldn't get them. As those are the ones (the four and five star raid ones that aren't part of a huge community raid day, but are individual raids) that I mostly don't have and don't think I'll ever be able to get.

As far as the gatekeeping goes, the post that made me inspired to write this was a comment about attackers and defenders at gyms. And there were a group of people who said any "newb" who was using pokemon like Agron and Slaking was an idiot. And there were only certain acceptable pokemon to use. And this was pretty much right after I'd managed to get a Slaking and was pleased with myself. (I only have a couple of dozen of "good" (what I thought was good) pokemon, so I'm excited when I get more around 3000 CP pokemon.) People in that thread were trying to say what they used, and they kept getting shut down by the hardcore players who were saying people were doing things wrong. And that doesn't make me want to improve and get better pokemon. That just makes me not want to do raids with people who will think I'm and idiot because of my pokemon and choices and makes me wonder why I bother playing at all.

[(Anonymous)]

You have a crappy group of local players, OP.

But I live in a place where groups of players meeting up is just not a thing that's going to happen anywhere that I can get to (and going by the fact that I haven't seen any gyms around here where raids that need more than two players are being beaten, it's not just me.) I've basically given up on any social aspects that can't be taken care of by pokestop.

I wouldn't worry too much about pokemon you can't get, though - even if they don't cycle through research or whatever, they will probably show up somewhere eventually. There's a bunch of pokemon that you were only supposed to be able to get by doing one special thing that are now showing up as raids or research or eggs, and I'm sure that will keep happening, they need to keep players who can't do all the aspects from getting frustrated and quitting (like a lot of people did before they rebalanced the gym combat.)

[(Anonymous)]

OP
Some of them seem fine, but I assume that if I attempt to do a raid, I'm much more likely to come across the more hardcore players, and that makes me very anxious. (Another incident was at a raid for Moltres. It was the only raid I was able to do that day because of work. I whined that it was the third great curveball that the pokemon had jumped out of. Someone else said "let me do that for you" took my phone and proceeded to miss on the next ball and do a straight ball that was only great for the last one. Like, what? I was doing great curveballs and you think that what you do is enough better that you need to do it for me? I just awkwardly took my phone back and left. Without a new pokemon.)

I'm sorry you aren't able to raid with people either.

I've not seen that community before. I'll have to check it out.

Yeah, I've hatched a Mr. Mime, a Farfetch'd and a Kangaskhan from eggs during this event which was exciting. (Of course I also hatched a million meowth, tauros, geodude, vulpix, etc as well to get those!) I do hope they come up with some other way to get the pokemon I'm missing. As I do enjoy most of the game.

Thanks for the encouragement.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, what idiots! I've been playing since the start, but I'm a rural player, so I don't even have a Slaking yet! I think you've run into a group of hardcore dickheads and I'm sorry you did.
I haven't seen Ho-Oh outside gyms yet, but Zapdos and Articuno were originally the first 5-star raids and they've shown up in research since, so I think it's just a matter of time.

[(Anonymous)]

OP
I imagine it must be really difficult as a rural player. I'm fortunate enough to live in a city where there are like 20 pokestops/gyms within a mile radius of my apartment. Hopefully you can find/evolve everything at some point!

I wish it were just confined to that group, but it feels like three quarters of the local people I can interact with are really intense. And I feel judged a lot of the time. (Even if not directly judged, I hear things that apply to me.) I didn't grow up with Pokemon, so I feel like I'm missing knowledge or something and am such an idiot newb. So interacting with anyone is really awkward and uncomfortable for me. I just wish there were a group of casual players and a group of more intense players or something. IDK.

Oh, nice. I did get Zapdos from research, so that is something. I will hope for the others at some point.

Thanks for your encouragement.