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[Cloudman]

Ganoncrotch said:

Cloudman said:

I figured it used the egg list as well.

It is pretty crazy that it can take a long time to work with a single pokemon, but I can see why they designed it that way. It's not meant to be the main means to get candy, but as a support. While you're trying to get candy for certain pokemon, chances are you'll encounter that pokemon in the wild or in an egg, so those few candy can make all the difference. That's what I plan to do, since I have many pokemon that lack just 2 or 3 candy, and are quite rare for me.

If getting candy through the buddy system was made too easy, that would take some of the challenge and main purpose  of the game out of it. At least, that's how I see it.

But you're looking at it from the point of view of someone who plays the game a lot still, I mean the buddy system could have been used to entice those who installed it but got annoyed with the chore element of the game to come back if it was made very rewarding, hearing reports that over 80% of the players have quit the game should be fairly alarming for Niantic but stuff like a system to evolve starters by walking almost 400km is not going to get your average casual player to pick up the app again. it just wont.

 

As for the eggs = KM, Mr Mime can't come from an Egg, only be caught in EU lands, the same way that tauros, khangaskan and farfetch't are the pokemon for US, AU and Asia respectfully, so the fact that Mr Mime is a 5k walk but the others are 3 is just weird, like I said... maybe Eu people are known for enjoying a long walk more than US and co haha.

Yeah, that is true. It's not something that's going to bring the masses back, especially with how much work is needed for a small pay off.

Though I think it is possible for the exclusive pokemon to hatch from eggs. They're listed as possible pokemon in the hatching list, and I've had a friend tell they got a Mr. Mime from a egg.