PoGo Nation: The Official Pokemon GO Thread! Raidz are a thing, Legendaries are coming soon! Raven caught his 10,000th Pidgey!

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pastro243 said:
The good thing is that this upgrade will let me have a Blastpise eventually

Considering that Squirtle is one of the Pokemon who require 3km walked to get a candy bonus if you have your starter Pokemon without finding any extra guys in eggs or out walking you'll need 125 candy to go from Squirtle > Blastoise (Blastpiss would be an amazing pokemon btw) But yeah 125 candies could take you 375KM of walking to get for the starter Pokemon to evolve fully (125x3km) it is just an insane ask from Niantic again turning the game into a chore.

Can't see the buddy system getting very many back into the game in its current form, I've said before the things which would get people back

1 - a refresh button for gps to kick back in, without having to restart the app

2 - a low spec mode using 2d sprites instead of the 3d models which some lower end phones have issues with

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3 - a chance at getting something special from Pokestops, can literally be 1 in 1000 chance but just of getting something like an incubator, some pokecoins, a lucky egg, just something to change things up some tiny bit, the game currently is just walk back and forth finding Pokemon and once a day go and collect a few gyms for coins, there is no change to what happens, a stop either has potions or balls, the tiny chance of something cool from a stop could make people fire up the app again while out walking.

4 - updates.... the appraiser came in just about a month ago, the buddy system took far too long to be created, I mean if there was a feature like trading or trainer battling to be added to the game how long can we be expected to wait? Months... years? especially with winter coming to the Northern hemisphere soon, Niantic are going to be shedding numbers from the game faster than they can find new regions to launch the game in. Needs updates to come out faster and be more in line with things the game legit needs rather than just junk like the appraiser.