Adjust the pace of play to match the way the game is designed and you will find much greater enjoyment and not feel like you should abandon it.
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Again, you seem to think that all players should think like you, that your way of playing is the correct/best way to play to enjoy. Well, it is not the same for all players. We all have different styles and ways to enjoy. My only point is events should benefit every player in some way to get them engaged. A lot of players lost interest, including most of my friends (only one remaining in my group).
I don't think everyone should play the game like me. I offered a personal perspective based on my experience and observations. Frankly I'm tired of all the complaining about the game being boring. I was offering a suggestion on how to make it less boring. Doesn't work for you, fine. Just don't blame me for trying.
Tasks have come up for the event. Used one TTD and a trace charm on an emergency... nada. No new traces and no portkeys to be found. I'm not in a rural area.
@Picklebutt this event does NOT have spawns or ttds, the only way to get the new family's foundables is to find the special event portk (teal in colour) pick it/them up, put key(s) in them, walk them (1km per portk) and unlock them, after unlocking it/them you'll get the portk rewards AND one encounter/foundable PER portk. That is the only way to acquire the new ww1920s family 'stuff'. TTds, DDs, wild spawns wont get you anything.
So, if you get kicked or dropped out of the encounter due to a connection glitch, you lose all the work of opening the Portkey. Do I understand this correctly?
Many of us are boycotting 1920's event. With AS broken they have alienated half their base. Many of us are refusing to even open the app during this event. Hoping many of you will join us. Show Niantic they can't keep doing this to us. They can't keep pushing these updates causing massive bugs then releasing events that we cannot even play. We need them to learn they cannot treat their base like this. Many players have been without as since last October. Then iOS users have had multiple issues lasting months and months. It is time to stand up to them and show them there are better ways to handle things.
@enTrained just has happened to me twice. 2 out of 3 encounters are lost because the app just crashed at their start after picking up the initial port rewards. The ports are counted as open but those lost encounter fragments got registered as "seen". :( The encounters though... I've got lucky with one because the app crashed mere moments after I caught the foundable. I won't use any of my silver keys for the time being. Looks like it's just buggy. What a shame! *gone to play WildCraft*
@AurorsFocusPls ugh that stinks! What kinds of rewards did the portkey give otherwise - was it anything special as promised or just like normal portkeys?
@EPHedwig there were regular things like potion ingredients and energy and also the new family's xp thingy just like you open a regular port. After that the warning pop up appears and you can choose to start your encounter or leave.
@PkmnTrainerJ I live in the future (Australia) 😂. I walk 2km each way to and from work and I've opened quite a few portkeys already. They are pretty cool 😊
I did not realize that this event was ONLY portkeys. Why start something at midnight local time that people have to walk around to play.? I thought the emphasis on portkeys was a feature, but not the only part of the event.
@hpwulola my game was working fine earlier, I just went for a walk to unlock more portkeys, got the notification that they were unlocked... and now I can't play the game at all. Not the traces, the portkeys, even the wizarding challenges - I get a black screen with the SOS logo but it's just frozen. I have to restart the game and apparently the wizarding challenge kept counting down, but I can't actually battle the foes! Please fix these bugs!!
I have resisted criticism, because I can imagine how much flak this team gets while working hard... But for almost a year, I've had no adventure sync while patiently monitoring (in vain) any news progress.
Now, I'm commenting on the board for the first time.... Because, frankly, it hurts that - without fixing adventure sync and, worse, amidst a resurgence of covid - this game is irresponsibly featuring an event like this, which promises a Registry expansion then exclusively restricts participation to unlocking portkeys.
@HPWUTeam I opened my first 1920s portkey portmanteau tonight. Are all portkeys supposed to have a foundable fragment with the rewards (before the encounter)? I got in the Circus Arcanus, and got the rewards from the wrackspurts but not the "Maledictus Poster" foundable fragment. After the encounter, I got the Zouwu foundable fragment.
These 1920s portkeys are interesting. I intend to continue walking these portkey portmanteaus in pairs but hesitate to use more portkeys until I find out if we get a foundable fragment with the rewards from wrackspurts, aside from the one from the encounter.
There needs to be a way to get silver keys from Inns and Greenhouses. Coming right after an event with a Portmanteau requirement plus needing to unlock five 1920s Portmanteaus means we need more of the keys. Is this just an attempt to get players to spend Money to buy gold to buy keys?
@Djea : Not sure how many portkeys I have opened (9 or 10). I have at least 2 fragments from each family. I have one poster (plus 4 other fragments from the circus) but neither the book nor Bunty. Frankly, not sure where I got the poster from, probably from the rewards, but I didn't pay attention. Either way, seems like you get those randomly and not from every portkey. Yay, more RNG stuff.
@Atonement sadly we aren’t but it would be so great too! I mean why is there no rewards for Brilliant Trunks aside from the standard ones? Maybe there would be too many families to get them from?
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This game is not designed to be "won".
It keeps the game fun and engaging for me.
Adjust the pace of play to match the way the game is designed and you will find much greater enjoyment and not feel like you should abandon it.
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Again, you seem to think that all players should think like you, that your way of playing is the correct/best way to play to enjoy. Well, it is not the same for all players. We all have different styles and ways to enjoy. My only point is events should benefit every player in some way to get them engaged. A lot of players lost interest, including most of my friends (only one remaining in my group).
The rewards are below minimum wage
I don't think everyone should play the game like me. I offered a personal perspective based on my experience and observations. Frankly I'm tired of all the complaining about the game being boring. I was offering a suggestion on how to make it less boring. Doesn't work for you, fine. Just don't blame me for trying.
Anyone who lives in the future, where it is already Wednesday, how are the amount of Portkeys?
Tasks have come up for the event. Used one TTD and a trace charm on an emergency... nada. No new traces and no portkeys to be found. I'm not in a rural area.
DO NOT WASTE YOUR TTD's.
@Picklebutt this event does NOT have spawns or ttds, the only way to get the new family's foundables is to find the special event portk (teal in colour) pick it/them up, put key(s) in them, walk them (1km per portk) and unlock them, after unlocking it/them you'll get the portk rewards AND one encounter/foundable PER portk. That is the only way to acquire the new ww1920s family 'stuff'. TTds, DDs, wild spawns wont get you anything.
I only see normal portkeys. No new ones to be found.
So, if you get kicked or dropped out of the encounter due to a connection glitch, you lose all the work of opening the Portkey. Do I understand this correctly?
Its been 1.5 hours here in Australia since the event commenced and I’ve finally found my first (and only) 1920’s portmanteau
Many of us are boycotting 1920's event. With AS broken they have alienated half their base. Many of us are refusing to even open the app during this event. Hoping many of you will join us. Show Niantic they can't keep doing this to us. They can't keep pushing these updates causing massive bugs then releasing events that we cannot even play. We need them to learn they cannot treat their base like this. Many players have been without as since last October. Then iOS users have had multiple issues lasting months and months. It is time to stand up to them and show them there are better ways to handle things.
@enTrained just has happened to me twice. 2 out of 3 encounters are lost because the app just crashed at their start after picking up the initial port rewards. The ports are counted as open but those lost encounter fragments got registered as "seen". :( The encounters though... I've got lucky with one because the app crashed mere moments after I caught the foundable. I won't use any of my silver keys for the time being. Looks like it's just buggy. What a shame! *gone to play WildCraft*
Is the reward foundable a chance (RNG)? I didnt get it when opening the portkey.
And the portmanteau is quite rare here
Everyones adventure sync is still broken. How about allowing us to delete portkeys and pay gold to expand portkey capacity?
@AurorsFocusPls ugh that stinks! What kinds of rewards did the portkey give otherwise - was it anything special as promised or just like normal portkeys?
@EPHedwig the portkey have "two" stages?
one is like regular portkey, taping warckspruts
in reward page there is a button to encounter the foundable
@EPHedwig there were regular things like potion ingredients and energy and also the new family's xp thingy just like you open a regular port. After that the warning pop up appears and you can choose to start your encounter or leave.
@AurorsFocusPls thanks - I was hoping the "valuable rewards" the teaser post mentioned would include things like silver keys. Oh well...
@EPHedwig you're welcome. Glad I never realised that they offered something *valuable*. This would"ve been even more dissappointing otherwise.
Pardon for any typos, it's 5 am here lol. I've been up till stupid o'clock 😂😂😂
I got too much energy spell in portkey 1920's, also portkey 1920's harder to finding foundables reward portkey too.
@PkmnTrainerJ I live in the future (Australia) 😂. I walk 2km each way to and from work and I've opened quite a few portkeys already. They are pretty cool 😊
Event portkeys spawn is inconsistent. I haven't seen a single pk yet. @hpwulola can you investigate? Thanks
I did not realize that this event was ONLY portkeys. Why start something at midnight local time that people have to walk around to play.? I thought the emphasis on portkeys was a feature, but not the only part of the event.
@hpwulola my game was working fine earlier, I just went for a walk to unlock more portkeys, got the notification that they were unlocked... and now I can't play the game at all. Not the traces, the portkeys, even the wizarding challenges - I get a black screen with the SOS logo but it's just frozen. I have to restart the game and apparently the wizarding challenge kept counting down, but I can't actually battle the foes! Please fix these bugs!!
I have resisted criticism, because I can imagine how much flak this team gets while working hard... But for almost a year, I've had no adventure sync while patiently monitoring (in vain) any news progress.
Now, I'm commenting on the board for the first time.... Because, frankly, it hurts that - without fixing adventure sync and, worse, amidst a resurgence of covid - this game is irresponsibly featuring an event like this, which promises a Registry expansion then exclusively restricts participation to unlocking portkeys.
It's a betrayal to any sense of decency.
@HPWUTeam I opened my first 1920s portkey portmanteau tonight. Are all portkeys supposed to have a foundable fragment with the rewards (before the encounter)? I got in the Circus Arcanus, and got the rewards from the wrackspurts but not the "Maledictus Poster" foundable fragment. After the encounter, I got the Zouwu foundable fragment.
These 1920s portkeys are interesting. I intend to continue walking these portkey portmanteaus in pairs but hesitate to use more portkeys until I find out if we get a foundable fragment with the rewards from wrackspurts, aside from the one from the encounter.
There needs to be a way to get silver keys from Inns and Greenhouses. Coming right after an event with a Portmanteau requirement plus needing to unlock five 1920s Portmanteaus means we need more of the keys. Is this just an attempt to get players to spend Money to buy gold to buy keys?
@Djea : Not sure how many portkeys I have opened (9 or 10). I have at least 2 fragments from each family. I have one poster (plus 4 other fragments from the circus) but neither the book nor Bunty. Frankly, not sure where I got the poster from, probably from the rewards, but I didn't pay attention. Either way, seems like you get those randomly and not from every portkey. Yay, more RNG stuff.
@ProfMENA : Yes, quite obviously.
Have not seen a single event port, getting very disappointed this morn. Someone needs to have a look at the spawn rate!
Askign here as well, as maybe to get an official answer: Are we not meant to receive SOS rewards (gold gifts, charm recharges) from these trunks?
@Atonement sadly we aren’t but it would be so great too! I mean why is there no rewards for Brilliant Trunks aside from the standard ones? Maybe there would be too many families to get them from?