Is Ditto still in the game?!?
Since I advanced the Special Research Quest to catch Ditto I have spent the past six straight days catching everything Ditto-possible; Rattatta, Pidgey, Whismur (I HATE these, lol!), Taillow, etc. Well over SIX HUNDRED so far to date and over 30 hours of playing; using lures, incense(worthless I know). Of course I have yet to catch Ditto, which I knew would be the hardest part of this whole thing since it is 100% based on random luck. I wouldn't be so frustrated/despondent if for the fact that at least six of my friends so far said they all caught theirs within a few hours on the first day after receiving the quest. In the past it would take me about two months to catch one but then I wasn't trying to catch everything Ditto-possible; so maybe I got one every 50-100 from Ditto-fodder. Has anyone else had such horrible luck or did all of you catch your Ditto in a few hours too? Just curious how much longer before I should give up hope, lol.
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I am experiencing the same thing. It is truly frustrating. I would assume that with all these changes happening, they need ways to keep people spending time/money. Lowering the appearance rate of ditto would serve this nicely (was not high to begin with), forcing everyone to waste their items on the common pokemon. I had a pretty good stash built up, but it is emptying quickly. I do not think I have done quite as much as you have, but I'm sure that I am in the hundreds by now as well. I actually spent all morning working on it as well, I guess we will just need to stick with it! If your friends (and some of mine) have gotten ditto then he must still be out there.
What upsets me even more than ditto is evolving a gyardos. I literally evolved my second a couple days before research came out. Now I am starting on those 400 candies from scratch :((((
ah I wish I lived close to water! But yes I have been walking a lot and managed to catch a couple. Already got to 50 candies or so, so hopefully will not take more than a 7 or 8 days to get there. The whole scenario is just so unfortunate, I actually caught a ditto (i have not gotten many, perhaps this was my 8th since he was released into the game) maybe a week before evolving that second gyarados...if only we could shift everything back a week it would have been perfect!
Even before they upped the spawn rate of ditto for these research tasks I was catching at least 2 a day. Now, it’s annoying that I have to waste ultra balls on 191CP “pidgeys” every other hour. 600 commons is what I catch by hand in two days, keep going you’ll get it.
And if some piece of crap mon pops out of an excellent/great curve 2 times in a row you better switch to better balls cuz it’s a ditto.