So, this is purely speculative, but this event is the longest event since the start of the game.
We've got only Sableye as a shiny and it may just be because he's a single stage pokemon, but then why would Niantic include the other ghosts shiny forms?
Imo we can hope for Niantic to release the other shiny ghosts in the next few days to keep players for the whole duration of the event :D
what do you think?
Posted Oct 22, 2017, 3:35 PM UTC
I think you're getting your hopes up and will end up dissapointed.
Niantic has so far only released 1 shiny pokemon family at the time and i don't think they have a plan to change it.
Don't forget that all the legendary pokemon that got added all have their shiny sprite in the game but none where ever seen, just because niantic adds assets or some code doesn't mean they plan to use it in the near future.
Niantic has so far only released 1 shiny pokemon family at the time and i don't think they have a plan to change it.
I would hope so. Even if they only released one shiny family a week it would take years to release all the shiny Pokemon. They are eventually going to have to release more than one family but I think they are holding them back as an emergency release of “new” content. ‘Quick! Sales are down! Release the shinies!’
I know about the legendaries (i'm sure they are/were planning to give away shiny forms at events), and i know Niantic is not logic in their releases but it doesnt really make sense to add the other 4 shiny forms in this case.
Then again, they may just have thrown in the other shinies for the future bulk release of shiny forms...
As of shiny Magikarp, Niantic has been adding shiny and non-shiny models whenever it introduces a new model, even if they won't be used any time soon.
Not only legendary, but most, if not all the Pokemon have shiny forms in the game files.
that is false, in order for a shiny to be released it has to have static images of it's shiny form (like what you see in your pokemon screen, not the moving model) in the game. so far only Magikarp fam, hatless pikachu fam, lagendaries, and now all the gen 3 ghosts have these, meaning only those species are capable of being released, as releasing a shiny of a mon without those will make the shiny indistinguishable from any other mon in the menu.
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I’m still surprised they didn’t give a shiny Lugia to the go fest attendees. With the 100% catch rate they were basically free anyways.
I think that was the plan, then they changed it to avoid further screw ups :|
Yeah Sableyes are so rare that even with over a week left getting a shiny seems very very unlikely. It would be more fun to grind if Shuppet and Duskull had a chance to be shiny too.
Plenty of sableyes out after dark.
They are more common after dark but still way more Duskull and Shuppet
hopefully its shuppet and duskull next, or the previous gen ghosts. dont want the evolved forms of gen3 cuz ive yet to see one in the wild.
Niantic is keeping me for the entire duration of the event because:1)Shiny sableye isn’t easy to find and guess what I don’t have one,2)I want a perfect duskull at least
It would be an exciting!!! :D
Honestly It could have been they added all the sprites so we didnt know what we would receive so it was a suprise to us when the event started instead of knowing days before I mean i hope they add them Just a random thought of why its only sableye
Same with shiny legendaries.
I think the issue is the sprites and 3D models all needing to be redone to allow shinies, so understand why it may need to be staggered with gen 1 and gen 2. Maybe when we have a fire event, a few fire shinies could be added etc etc.
But the gen 3 shinies are in the game ready to go, just not enabled.
You know that at least the sprites have shinys, right?
What do you mean?
The sprites in the game all have a regular version and a shiny version. Even the legendaries. But halloween pikachu has no shiny sprite, yet they've added a shiny sprite for all the other hat pikachus.
See here for event pokemon sprites https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/77a6cx/halloween_event_sprites_of_gen3_pika_family/
Tbh I thought Shuppet and Duskull were hatchable shinies but we don't have enough data to say anything other than "not yet"
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Don't be stupid, ofcourse they care about keeping players interested. They're a business; no players = no profit.
I do question their ability to keep us interested though. They've made some poor choices, the EX Raid system being the prime example. Although, I still think the EX Raid system could be really cool(there's potential there imo), but the way they're rolling it out is downright terrible.
All shiny sprites are not in the game
I don't see someone getting all shinies straight away so no need to stagger them. I still haven't even seen a shiny Magikarp...
Yeah, I don't see the point in staggering them either. No one is going to think "oh boy! Rattata shiney was just released!" Holding them back only stops us from getting them. I could see a lot of players potentially getting bored of and stop playing the game before shineys are even added, but add them sooner and that gives people a reqson to keep playing.
Is Niantic though. They're often confused over what players would find fun.
So dumb. There is no reason not to have added all shinies to the game. They're so rare it's not like the average person is going to be tripping over them, it's just another reward for grinding, especially now people are all about that empty raid XP.