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Organising legendary events?

We know niantic want to release legenedaries but the planning and organisation behind does take a significant amount of time. Whilst we wait, how do you think legendaries should be done. I think that legendaries should spawn at major city centres around the world obviously but you want to make it available for everyone without having to go ridiculous lengths. Say Moltres will appear at specific countries over the space of a week. Moltres will next time spawn at different countries in the next wave and a different legendary can spawn in the same country as Moltres initially was but not at the same city. I think to keep legendaries special then these events should be one time only so say if you do miss your only chance of getting a legendary you want in your country you'll have to travel abroad for it.

Asked by Lonesinner8 years 2 months ago
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by aSp 8 years 2 months ago

So anyone in Australia has to fly from state to state to get to a major city in order to get a different legendary.
That is going to get expensive in flights, as no other method of travel will make it possible to get them all.

No thanks.

...and that is just Australia.

For somewhere like Singapore, (or many countries around the world) how do you move the next legendary to a different city next week?

The plan for one country/city/region will need to be different to that of any other.
This is part of the difficulty - one design idea will NOT fit every country in the world.

For some regions, travelling abroad is an hour drive - for others it involves hours of flying.

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by Sebhes 8 years 2 months ago

Someone mentioned a nice way to introduce Entai. Catching all unknowns will grand you with this mystical beast. As they are very rare I think this would be a good way to introduce him.

Regarding Raiko and Suiqoune, I wouldn't complain if there is only 1 world wide at certain places. Making it almost impossible to find, but imo legendaries shouldn't be easy like that.

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I think Niantic gonna take the movies as reference to put this mons in the map.

Mew and Mewtwo, like the first movie.
Legendary birds with Lugia, like Pokémon 2000 movie.
Ho-oh and the dogs like the main gold and silver.

Then, the other legendaries will come like the main games series.

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at least i hope gen 1 legendaries will come first. but i imagine balancing the birds is easier than mew/mewtu.
maybe they could give (or let them do something to get it) players 1 masterball and choose (or find somehow)? and for candy you have to walk with them... ok no thats stupid. but something with masterballs will happen.

E: or you could get the birds through special limited eggs. maybe introduced with breeding?

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If they decide to have them spawn all over the world I think it could only work if they spawn for only like 5 minutes. So you basically have to be lucky in the right place at the right time. Otherwise cheaters will win. F that.

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If they do that there will be multiaccount spoofers with with gyms stacked with legendaries. I really doubt Niantic will release legendaries in a manner that favors spoofers over legit players. I mean they already have all the advantages as is.

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Ingress, the game PoGo was modeled after, also has events. See link below. They require signing up for and going to a place where the event is held. Like PoGO, Ingress has spoofers as well and these events are designed to reward players who come to the event. I think Niantic would like to do something similar. The issue is 100K+ people might show up so its not so easy to set up.
https://www.ingress.com/events

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It seems like the Ingress events listed here are more like just a time to get together, than for an opportunity to gain something specific.

I hope that they don't decide to do something like this for the legendaries. For many people, going to any of these events would require a lot of travel, and they are only for a single day. For example, none of the events I saw listed were anywhere near where I live. I would have to spend hundreds of dollars on a plane ticket to fly to one, and then stay at a hotel there. I think that this is too much to think many players will be willing to do. Those who didn't would then have no way of getting the legendaries.

I think it would be better if the legendaries could be earned by accomplishing a series of tasks, like "hatch X water type Pokemon from incubators," "catch X water type Pokemon," etc. Only one could be earned per account, and they couldn't be traded.

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