[X] My Assistant

[Jen]

Hello, everyone!

This month's theme for the Coin Event is based on a celestial theme suggested by Sealeo, Linoone, TwiliTerror, and Rookie Roo!
The event will run from the 23rd of October until the 8th of November at reset. (October 22nd 11:55pm ET -> November 8th 11:55pm ET)

If you had any leftover Coins from the previous event, your total will be reset to 0 when the event begins.

The Event Shop will remain open throughout the month of November.

When the event begins at the designated time, the following celestial themed Pokémon will hatch with a Coin:
Absol
Amaura
Blipbug
Carbink
Cleffa
Elgyem
Gothita
Igglybuff
Ledyba
Lunatone
Minior
Munna
Nidoran F
Nidoran M
Porygon
Roggenrola
Sableye
Skitty
Solrock
Staryu
Swablu
Teddiursa

If you've saved enough Coins, you'll be able to exchange them for some lovely prizes in the Event Shop!
Prizes range from 1 Coin to a top prize of 600 Coins.

Note: There will be a bonus prize for 5,000 Coins. It didn't feel right to not include it with this theme. Good luck!
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We hope you'll have lots of fun with this event!

[ThunderMoss]

@Prof Euc

I agree that the boost in click maturity makes everything less than 5k eggs pretty fast hatching. On the 3.2 days even 30k eggs sometimes mature in less than an hour... which seems decidedly excessive but full PC is a happy PC is a go outside and play opportunity.

My other thought on the coin events in general is that they have lost some of their initial charm. Old old events were of the whoever gets the most gets the spiffy prize. But after I and others realized the top 5-10 all got the same prize there was less of a push for the overall lead and to just be in the top group. This was healthier.

Then came the coin shop which ended that competition and allowed players to select the items they wished to gather coins for. And there was a steep drop in perceived value after the various Sh. Vouchers.

But there were fossils... of passing interest and unlimited.

And then summoning items... of more interest but alas also unlimited.

There were some restrictions on the number of these items in your party but the coin gathering maniacs (including myself) were also able to schedule and just summon summon summon.

Or for one, who I noted! but will not refer to, they summoned and left them for others to enjoy. Thank You. It was very strange to see three Ho-oh eggs on a single lab screen.

So my preference would be that the fossils, summoning items etc. be of limited stock in the Event Shop. Perhaps 5-10 but anything not unlimited. Flame Orbs are limited... but Red Orbs etc. are not. Conversely, it would be nice if the rare evolution items such as Corruption Orbs did not have this limit. But the Sh. Legendary vouchers may just need to be used with the few Corruption Orbs.

I can always select how to play but it helps if there are some limits which help with defining what is enough. Maybe I just need to collect another box or two of something to help the PC limit apply just a bit sooner...

It is nice to see the site has more users most days now and it seems like they are plenty active so that is all great. And the Events with many eggs and the Event Shop with many, and varied items also offer some choices for players.

Regards,
-TM

[The Kraken]

My other thought on the coin events in general is that they have lost some of their initial charm. Old old events were of the whoever gets the most gets the spiffy prize. But after I and others realized the top 5-10 all got the same prize there was less of a push for the overall lead and to just be in the top group. This was healthier.

I disagree entirely. At least the current event system gives everyone a fair shot at getting the prizes they want, and isn't dependent on others who might have unlimited free time and resources to hog the first spots.

I'd even argue that it would be cool if the shop didn't reset between events. Since I only really want the shiny voucher prizes, it feels like any remaining amount of my coins becomes worthless, and then the event ends early/abruptly. If there was the choice to save up coins between events, it would give casual players an option to save up for the shiny prizes, as well as just let the rest of us not waste our remaining coins on prizes we dont actually want. Or for example, it would actually give more players a chance at eventually getting the 5k prize, whatever that will be. Currently it doesn't even feel achievable to me, as it would require me to earn 3x as much coins as I usually do.
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I do like the idea of different egg-step groups giving different amounts of coins. For example, anything <5k giving one coin and anything over 5k giving 2 (or being random chance between 1-2 coins). Would help us in the days when everyone is going for the low step eggs and they run out quickly, and more options to shiny hunt the pokemon we actually need.