August Community Day Roundup
SamuelHaight
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There was activity at the farthest Fortress in the park I went to. By the time I got there, they were gone. I did see anyone else pop up the entire 3 hours.
That being said, I gained almost 30k xp all by my lonesome. LOL I'm well into level 28 now.
I ran through levels 1-9 a few times and then tried 10. I learned a valuable lesson with that one! LOL
I got a ton of Fragments that I didn't have. And I leveled up several Registry pages, and unlocked three 2km Portmanteau.
Overall I enjoyed it, but it really would have been better if other people had come out.
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Awww I wish we could play with people from different parts of the world.
We had a small group of 4 people at first, then two more showed up. BUT! the best part was that we kept getting a random player joining us in the fortress from time to time.. but we couldn’t see him/her! I think she/he was playing from one of the buildings near by, and that maybe it was close enough for them to sometimes slip into our groups haha.
We had a fab time! Gained about 30K xp, challenge ranked a few times (mmm red books), and didn’t use a single potion besides Baruffio’s thanks to having two magizoos in our group. Would have been nice to have an auror amongst us, but we did just fine without. We also noticed they buffed the inns, so for example, the two puddifoots next door to the fortress were liberal with the butterbeers. I stayed near my max SE cap for most of the duration. We were able to run up to Tower IV, which stretched us to the timer, so kept below that level after that. Hopefully next time around, hubby will be higher magizoo, and then maybe we can climb a little higher. Tons of fun!
@JulieJubz someone mentioned the theory that we could get PvP. I would rather see remote Fortress battles access. Both players would have to be at a Fortress, but could pick the friend from their list.
That's awesome!! Glad to hear you had so many players!
@SamuelHaight that would be a dream! Being able to invite a friend from around the world like that ❤️
@Dogoutlaw I noticed that too! The Inns at my park usually only give you Pumpkin Juice. Today they were throwing Turkey dinners at me every time. That was definitely appreciated. LOL
I had a fantastic time at Community Day today. We had a group of 8 which could split either 5/3 or 4/4. So there wasn’t too many time where people felt like they got left out of a fortress run. We also noticed the buffed inns. I did well for this community day in energy. I went stacked full (105 energy) and grabbed the free spell energy from the store when I hit about 50. Out fortress was in range of one inn and I never needed to get up to restock.
My only complaint is around the ingredients for the healing potions. I had read they would be plentiful in the map, so I made a lot of healing potions prior to the event and was just going to gather ingredients to brew while the event lasted. However, I’m not sure if it was because we were in a nest or if it was because we didn’t need to get up and walk too much...I couldn’t find the ingredients for the healing potion. So I really couldn’t put potions in and cook a ton like I originally thought I was going to be able to.
I love this community aspect of this game and really enjoy doing these team battles. I finally got to see what the Forest Levels look like as we made it up to Forest 1 and I finally finished that “do 3 wizarding challenges with 3 teammates”. So I had a blast!
@SamuelHaight definitely. I thought for sure we’d have to take SE runs occassionally, but nope. Did it once when some players ran low, but that was it. I really appreciate the HPWU team giving that to us.
@Overflow4487 did a great job of describing my experience. I had a larger group, we had chairs and three popups and tables and ordered pizzas.
We didn’t order pizza, but I brought a cooler filled with water and I had oatmeal raisin cookies, white chocolate macadamia nut cookies, watermelon, and strawberries with blueberries. Ours is from 2:00 -5:00 here so I wasn’t sure if a meal was needed. But we had blankets laid out in the park in the shade. It was nice! 😁
I had set a meet up through discord a week prior to the event. No one showed up. After an hour I moved to another park and found two other players. I ended up earning 14,000 exp.
I wasn't entirely sure if Community Day was working or not.
@Osprey1 see, that's what I would love to do here! The weekend the game launched I set up a FB group for my city and everything. LOL The park I go to is hugely popular with PoGo players. That just hasn't translated yet with WU.
Next time I'm going to reserve the Ramada where the 2nd of the 3 Fortresses are located in this park. Then make up a sign or something, to advertise while I'm there.
I'm also thinking about having a car magnet made (not huge one) that has my player code and FB group info on it. LOL
@SamuelHaight - My room mate makes some cool things with knots. She used to make all these wild varieties of friendship bracelets but now makes keychains and coasters and the whatnots. She's in the process of making a Hogwarts wall hanging with all the houses represented... so I'm gonna try to get her to make me a "pin" with Ravenclaw with the Magizoologist symbol and my user name on it so that when I'm out playing, I have an identifier. hehe
@SamuelHaight u have described my experience except i only ranked up 10,000 xp cos i stupidly kept trying to push for higher levels snd had 3 fails, only clocked on in last min that level 6 was giving me 500xp easily in minutes without potions needed- doh!, so did bout 5 of those before end.
I was chuffed to finally see what the forest fortress looked like & proud i cracked it solo.
That idea though about remote access through fortresses with friends! @JulieJubz & @Dogoutlaw I'd be your auror!!! 😀😀
And defo getting some signs & stickers made, I need to crack on with those player cards.
@Osprey1 's post on how to get new players in is brilliant. Im gonna start a local campaign to get my fellow HP nerds to come out & play 😀
I was also chuffed with the inns throwing out chicken dinners, and defo was more high levels about, i completed a good few pages & opened a few chests. Getting Tom Riddle twice & finally plaving Tonks & Mad eye moody & a few others was fun at home afterwards. Plus portkey rewards whilst my Baruffio was still ticking was great too. All it needed to be better was friends 😔 lol. Little old lonesome!
My sister and I had a lovely Community Day. We got together in the biggest town near to both of us and had a lovely stroll around between fortresses in the public park. Found a cafe with plenty of inns and a fortress so enjoyed coffee and cake before wandering around again. Not the worst way to spend a Saturday!!
I went to a fortress in the centre of Daventry hoping to see other players.
I could only stay for a bit over 30 minutes but I didn't see anyone playing 😣😢.
I gained a bit from the specials but would have liked to have been able to use some of me team spells.
live in a large town Bristol, UK. have a decent park opposite me with a good many Inn's / Greenhouses and about 3 Fortresses within a ten minute walk, belong to two... HP-WU Bristol & HP-WU Bristol / Bath Facebook Groups which tots upto 516 members though some are in both groups so more likely around 400ish in total.... Both Community days didn't result in more than 4 meetiing up in total ! compare this with a PokeGo 5* Raid event last week where 24 people met up and that was just for little Staple Hill where I live not the whole of Bristol !! Interest is beyond poor for a game like this and the WU Developers should be concerned !
It was a pretty poor start and numbers dropping rather than increasing since launch ..... understandably PokemonGo is a tough act to match and Harry Potter notably more difficult to make into a mobile game..... but to be frank putting a certain fickleness of the public aside, its the Niantic/Warner Bro Dev team who have the most to blame for this games failure so far..... They've done a poor job dispite the varied interesting content like Portmanteus / Fortresses, great music / graphics etc but the Social part of the game urgently needs a redesign including Inn's & especially Greenhouse's being much more useful from the Social Aspect... too much to go into here which having gone into detail on my last post ! ... was hopping the previous two updates would have gone some way rectifying this, sadly those updates largely ignore those core game issues which would make all the difference and encourage a growing "Social Community" ..... At present it appears the WU Devs aren't interested in gaining popularity with this game, they seem somewhat arrogant that its quite fine as it is.... how deluded !!
[[Rocklin,California]] My husband and I did community day, went to local mall and walked around for energy and hoping to pick up a few new foundables (only one new one) disappointed in that area. Also , he had 15 confoundables run away!! That was frustrating! We play Pokémon go also, so have attended many “community days” personally, Niantic could have done better. Sure we were in the fortress and received XP but seeing new foundables is where the fun is for us!