Too Many Raids!!!!
What was once a simplistic yet challenging game is now a simplistic and easy game.
Niantic screwed up big time with this change ... once the novelty of the new change wears off you will see that.
But the one good thing about the updated gyms was the addition of Raids .
Except Niantic screwed up even more by having soooooo many
What should have been is a Raid happens every so often within a general area and most likely be lv1 or 2 .... but every week or so be a level 3 or 4
Not the raids 2 per gym per day as it seems right now .
And if you beat that Lapras or Snorlax or Tyranitar .... you get 1 ... yes 1 ball to throw to try and catch it. And it should be mostly likely you aren't getting it .
But it's too late really since in only a few days people have amassed an army with raid wins that rivals my year worth of playing.
And TM were a good idea too but also should have been ultra rare to get ....
It's very sad when I see some of the people I know were dedicated players around my neighborhood walk right past pokestops and gyms now cause they don't care anymore
Already!
I will add that I'm NOT a city player ... I see one gym from my house and it's 1 km walking distance to get to .
There's probably about 15 gyms in my city that are spanned out pretty wide. I don't or didn't have it easy to compete with city folk or cheaters but that was the challenge of it all.
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This. I've been looking for raids since they came out and have only ever seen 1 level 4 raid with a Snorlax. Noone was there to help though so I didn't bother.
I get where OP is coming from if he's in a gym-packed area, but he also needs to recognize that in sub-200,000 population towns like mine it's a different story.
Exactly. I've only done one so far (Gengar), and it ran. Haven't seen any more since there are no gyms on my radar where I live. OP needs to realize they are very, very lucky to be able to even see raids. Players here may be complaining of how they get multiple rares, but that's not everyone's experience at all.
I disagree. I actually want MORE raids. Because they're giving me something exciting to do besides walk hundreds of KMs to finally get enough candies to evolve yet another disappointment. I've been playing since release week and had gotten to the point to where I was making myself catch one mon/spin one stop only to not break my streaks. I was bored and frustrated. Now I get excited whenever I see a raid that I can get to. I'm excited about the chance to get TMs so I can fix all of those mon that I ruined by evolving in the first place. I don't care that everyone can now have a Tyranitar. I'm only worried about MY Tyranitar and the one Charge TM I still need to totally fix it.
As someone already said, you are a lucky player that lives in a big city with probably tenths of gyms around, if you had like 7-8 gyms in 10km around and everytime a level 3 or 4 raids pops up you go there to see there is one player or no one else around then you would not say anything like that.
One ball to capture? Are you crazy? So I waste a pass in order to try to get to the raid and if by a miracle we are enough to defeat the boss I get a one only chance to get it with a pokeball? An extremely red circle mon that keeps jumping and attacking like 90% of the time? I hope they are not listening to you to make changes to the raids...
I accidentally entered a raid earlier today, I was going in for a spin and feeding my Tyranitar when I realized it wasn't an egg counting down, it was active!
So basically, it was a three-headed (or was it four) raid against a cp821 Quilava, which I singlehandedly beat with my cp2524 sw/hb Dragonite. Earning me 10 balls to try and catch said Quilava (which I failed to do), as well as 2 golden razz, 2 rare candies and some stardust/xp. I thought it was worth my pass.
And I forget, I'm a rural player, level 31. This gym's virtually crowded, two stops and a gym almost next to each other.
It's common, but I think incubator sales have probably dropped a ton so raid passes are the new incubator from a business perspective I feel...
If you see a lot of the hardcore posters here, a lot have sorta stopped spending money for things in the shop (not needed) so raids are getting people to open their wallets I think.
If you are rural as well, raids are probably pretty hard and not that common, but I don't mind they occur that much.
