Is anyone else enjoying the 3 day weekend special events we keep getting? From the three day December community day event to this 3 day weekend raid event... Would you prefer this format for events and community days moving forward? (Instead of the regular one day 3 hour events)
Posted Dec 14, 2018, 5:37 PM UTC
For raid related events, three hours is better. For community days obviously three days is better
I agree with this. For the three-hour raid days (assuming you're available that window, which is still an issue) it can be relatively simple to find a place with a lot of gyms and just attach yourself to a group big enough to defeat the bosses. It doesn't matter so much if you don't have a lot of friends who play, because you can be fairly certain that getting yourself to a populated area will result in you finding people. You also know for certain there will be lots of raids available to "train" from one to the next. This weekend, my boyfriend and I really want to get some Lugia and Ho-Oh, but we aren't strong enough to duo and it's difficult to coordinate a group when you have no idea where or when raids might be happening. We live in a college town and a majority of the population just left for the holidays, so despite the gym density on campus actually getting to several do-able raids is going to be extremely difficult.
I like both. The local park is absolutely crowded with pokemon go players during the 3 hour events, creating that community feeling. Also a great time for doing raids since there is never a shortage of people to join you.
Not so much during the weekend events, although these are much better if you just want to go easy and take your time catching the events' flavor 'mon.
I like community days more, since i'm just starting the game again.
Dont go hoping every community day will be like our last one tho, because, brother...
Indeed but i just made space in my inventory and everything that helps me get better IV mons, Exp and Stardust, Helps alot.
I'm actually saving most of my 7km eggs, are those the ones that have more chance of a snorlax right?
I'm not sure. I think baby snorlax will/could be in 7k eggs starting on the 18th. But idk, you'd best look it up.
The only thing they did wrong with december community day was that it wasn't 3x24 hours. The way it was set up, some parts of the world got three nights and two days worth of event instead of three days and two nights.
Either set it up locally (like the 3-hour windows has been) so that everyone gets 3 days, 2 nights, or make it 3x24h with the same start and finish globally. That is such an obvious thing to do that there is really no excuse for what they did with the community weekend.
I would prefer this method over a 3 hour window . While the 3 hour method does work for gatherings people it also works towards alienate others because of work , commitments , life ext . 3 days (or even 2) will still boost the general traffic of players playing as they will be hunting for the shiny legendaries . It also allows niantic to be able to throw one of these events at such short notice (unlike community day or 3 hour raid which short notice would cause a giant backlash ) as a big portion of players at least have 1 weekend day off (fact this one is on a weekday too I heard would also improves the odds the person will have the day off ) ironically I had more trouble finding someone to do the 3 hour raids vs the last weekend for ho oh and Lugia they did
Actually, I never catch 3 Hour events because of work/School this is a cool event since I'll be able of participating on it.
I work every Saturday so when they do the 3 hour events on a Saturday I always miss them. The 3 day events at least give me Friday and Sunday (both of which are my regular days off) so I’m able to take part.
Three day raiding is pretty good. I don’t feel pressure for missing out the specific time slot. Casual players can coordinate with their local discord and join at their own time. Veterans can play as many times as they want.
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i wish these weekend events were 4 day events instead of 3 days.
either thursday-friday-saturday-sunday, or friday-saturday-sunday-monday
that way there's a 50/50 split of weekdays and weekend-days involved.
Yeah I fully agree with this. I mostly play during the week because my job has a ton of gyms and stops nearby and a very active raid group, so I miss out on a lot of these weekend events. But I also get that I'm probably the opposite of most players in that regard so I wouldn't expect Niantic to fully cater to that schedule, so just one more weekday in these events would be a perfect balance I think.