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From now on, there's a chance you won't get a Sinnoh stone from research breakthrough. It just happened to me and I don't know what to think...

Asked by VrillonX6 years 8 months ago
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by Oscarv 6 years 8 months ago

Same here. No more Sinnoh stone after my first one. I opened the Breakthrough 1-2 days before the Sinnoh Stone was announced, so I had at least 5 days delay. I missed out to complete a research quest once. If it was really a guarantee in the last 2 weeks (without any word of Niantic) then it sucks for everyone who opened a day before the quest or missed a day, as they made it random after only 13 days.

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That would be me - breakthrough one day before and one day after the Age Of The Certain Sinnoh, thus left with only one up to now. :-(

I understood from the announcement that Sinnoh Stones are for now acquired in the same way as other evolution objects. That would be on the seven-day-pokestop collection. It might also mean that the chance to get one is only 1/6 - unless Niantic is merciful.

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If Sinnoh Stone is added to the pool of evolution items, of which one is guaranteed after a seven day pokestop streak, I would find that acceptable. Given the fact that I'm throwing away evo items regularly... It makes gen 4 evolutions hard to get, still doable, requiring planning and thinking before you give a sinnoh stone to a pokemon.

But of course, that puts us in RNG territory sadly :D

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14 days would have allowed people to get 3, wouldn't it? 13 days should have been sufficient for everyone to get 2 unless you claimed a breakthrough on the morning of the change.

With 14 though, if you claimed after 4pm on day of, then morning of the third one, you'd get three.

Guess that sucks if you claimed on morning when they were released. However people would probably similarly complain about a group of people getting 3 when everyone else only got 2. Having the day not reset at the same time that rewards update is the problem...

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My kids opened their box at 345 after school. Sinnoh dropped at 4. Boy, were they salty!

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Has anyone actually got one by another means yet? Changing it & not telling us how to get one is the real bummer here, feel for those who only got the one stone from breakthrough, it sucks.

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See my post below you before posting, maybe?

But seriously this is loatheful. It is deterioration, destruction and despair in its finest and cleanest definition.

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It's not a scam. We went nearly a year without anything significant in research rewards. Plus if you get them from spinning stops there's a chance to get one any day of the week. 7 day spins only guarantee an item but they are not exclusive to them

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There haven't been documented reports of anyone getting the stone from 7 day spins. AFAIK the research breakthrough is the ONLY way to get it. Front-loading the rewards and taking them away later is just bad game design and for some reason Niantic does it all the time.

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