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![]() Zerkadelic ![]() Group: Root Administrators Posts: 3 688 Joined: 11-June 07 From: Texas Member No.: 2 My Favorites ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
It's December! This post is pretty much the same as 2016's "December Events" thread, just without the nostalgia hook.
The Hanukkah event
So this year, you'll receive 1 coin for every Generation 3 Pokémon egg you hatch. You'll also earn 20 coins for completing a daily Scavenger Hunt task. These coins are completely separate from all other currencies on the site and are used to determine the prizes you win in the end (as well as for Spinning the Dreidel). Additional information on the Hanukkah event (click to show ) Scavenger Hunt This month's Scavenger Hunt will start tonight, running through the rest of the month, but you'll only earn 20 coins for completing a task until the Hanukkah event ends (so tonight to the 23rd). Explorations The two Christmas explorations, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and "Secret of Christmas", have been activated and will run through the end of the month. Secret Santa Exchange Yes, this is happening again! Deposits will be open sometime on Saturday the 23rd and will last thru Monday the 25th, with the exchange itself happening after reset. I will post additional information around that time, but it'll work about the same as last year's. New Year's Raffle This will work the same as it did last year: you'll have a day to be as active as possible, and for every 2018 points of Activity Score earned, you'll get one entry. We'll then distribute a certain number of vouchers for a new Pokémon, and you'll have a chance to get one based on the number of entries you earned. I'll post more information about this later, as always. -------------------- Want a rotating avatar like mine? Check out my website: randimg!
Thanks to all of the people in this thread and this thread for the various avatars! |
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Axew and Volcarona enthusiast ![]() Group: +Donors Posts: 4 056 Joined: 3-September 09 From: England Member No.: 61 211 Invisible Kyurem ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
My mother always told me not to gamble.
I probably won't be thaaaat active due to work and revision but I'll give things a go. I'm also not about New Years so rip me paha. Hope you all enjoy the wonderful events! -------------------- ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() [align=center]--- ![]() Community Thread Shiny List! ---[/align] ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() [align=right]Breeding Incentives: Mission Cards ![]() ![]() |
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![]() Gym Leader ![]() Group: Global Moderators Posts: 531 Joined: 18-August 12 Member No.: 170 583 Squad ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Ayy, lots of fun activities. Going to be as active as I can be and will be clicking a great bit, so be sure to start your Hoenn hunts! Good luck to everyone in these events, I hope you all get some good luck. Thanks for making things possible. Happy holidays!
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![]() The older I get, the less I seem to care for things.... ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2 154 Joined: 13-June 09 From: Alola Member No.: 33 779 The Chosen Ones ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Sounds like a lot of fun!
Thank you so much for giving us events this year as well! I'll be doing my best -------------------- |
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![]() The Blue Comet ![]() Group: Global Moderators Posts: 1 949 Joined: 17-April 10 From: Ireland Member No.: 93 314 snappers ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Hurray, more coins... I guess we all know how this goes by now? Even though I'm finished college until well into January I still don't see myself being active enough to get anything good haha! But I'm glad to see that events are back regardless.
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![]() She Who Can Be Voracious ![]() Group: +Donors Posts: 2 808 Joined: 9-January 10 From: Flatland Member No.: 79 103 My Purple Ones ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
I am glad I don't start my semester until January 29!
I want to try for some sweet, sweet Prize Points. :] -------------------- Avatar by Cycloneblaze at Cycloneshop II Banner by http://gpx.plus/user/eevee64 Banner by http://gpx.plus/user/Baymax |
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![]() Go-with-the-flow Private ![]() Group: +Donors Posts: 177 Joined: 12-February 10 From: Hotel California Member No.: 84 198 Private Army ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Wow, oh wow there are a lot of events happening in the latter part of this month. I'll have to get on a lot to really see how everything has worked (since I just got back into GPX+ around August, say).
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![]() A learning vessel of several lessons to make me more clever. ![]() Group: +Donors Posts: 1 503 Joined: 15-May 09 From: Seattle area Member No.: 23 405 My Loves ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Enjoy the events, everyone.
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![]() Account Upgraded | Title Enabled ![]() Group: +Donors Posts: 561 Joined: 19-September 10 Member No.: 114 649 Active Squad ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Time to be active again (:
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![]() Pokémon Trainer ![]() Group: +Donors Posts: 21 Joined: 26-July 12 Member No.: 168 754 Active Squad ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Secret Santa Exchange hyyyyyype!
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![]() It's been awhile since I changed this. ![]() Group: +Donors Posts: 857 Joined: 9-April 09 Member No.: 9 506 Active Squad ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
I have a few extra shinies sitting around so I'll toss one of them in~ Merry Christmas everyone.
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![]() Your Friend Who Likes To Play ![]() Group: +Donors Posts: 180 Joined: 27-April 09 Member No.: 16 515 bulbasaur army ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Yahoo! I'm super excited for the Secret Santa Exchange!
![]() Now I need to refresh my own memory of which Pokemon are in Gen 3. (I've only played Red/Blue and a tiny bit of Yellow, so my knowledge of Pokemon beyond that comes from this site and VDex Project (RIP), hahaha. So the later generations tend to blend together for me.) -------------------- |
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![]() Zerkadelic ![]() Group: Root Administrators Posts: 3 688 Joined: 11-June 07 From: Texas Member No.: 2 My Favorites ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
I haven't participated last time so I would like to know what day we need to be active for the raffle. It will most likely be Sunday, December 31st. New Year's Eve itself. -------------------- Want a rotating avatar like mine? Check out my website: randimg!
Thanks to all of the people in this thread and this thread for the various avatars! |
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![]() The Blue Comet ![]() Group: Global Moderators Posts: 1 949 Joined: 17-April 10 From: Ireland Member No.: 93 314 snappers ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Yahoo! I'm super excited for the Secret Santa Exchange! ![]() Now I need to refresh my own memory of which Pokemon are in Gen 3. (I've only played Red/Blue and a tiny bit of Yellow, so my knowledge of Pokemon beyond that comes from this site and VDex Project (RIP), hahaha. So the later generations tend to blend together for me.) There's a neat list of 3rd gen Pokémon that have less that 5120 egg steps on veekun here. Myself, I'm taking this opportunity to continue my Ralts-hunting goal ![]() -------------------- |
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![]() Gym Leader ![]() Group: +Donors Posts: 587 Joined: 18-July 09 Member No.: 47 812 Totally...useless ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
I guess I can preface this by saying that I will be a bit pedantic about this, but I want to address the specified bold text.
We've made this event 12 days because last year it was 10 days with an added twist of earning more coins depending on the sprite your Pokémon hatched with (which we're not doing this year), so this gives you a better chance of earning around the same amount of coins (or beating your record). Talking strictly about the stats we actually do keep, which is the daily record and not the total number of accumulated coins, it seems strange that you would consider it fair to extend the event to compensate for the removal of earning coins by hatching pokemon with the specific sprites. Me being me, I don't really care about how many coins I accumulate during this event compared to last year, especially because that stat was reset. In that regard I think it's fortunate that we don't let old stats haunt us when it is unclear whether it is fair to expect numbers of the same size as we had last year, or before that. Meanwhile, we do keep the daily record, which I think is going to be very hard to beat when the numbers aren't going to be amplified by the same mechanic as last year. To some degree we have the same kind of problems on other stats as well, because it is harder to achieve high numbers in them since the site activity has decreased over the years. From a fairness perspective, I don't like that. Also, considering the ...noise... we have had over the prizes from this kind of event previously, I have a gut feeling that it might not have been the wisest idea to encourage us to compare our coin totals for this year to the coin totals we have had previously. As someone who has received the top prize for this kind of event twice, I want to stress that the prize brackets are determined late, because they are based on our totals. If you want a certain type of prize, you need to look at everyone's coin totals in this event and not the brackets from last year. If anyone wants to get a sense for what the brackets might be, I'm going to advise you to look at the ranks, but also look at potential gaps in how many coins users have earned. Like if everyone in the top 10 have coin totals that are very close to each other, but then the 11th one has a substantial amount less, then the staff might decide to put the cutoff between two prize brackets right between 10th and 11th place. I think that's what you should have in mind about the prizes. A note about the Dreidel. It's random, but the odds are skewed to be a little bit in your favour, but not by a lot. I kept track on all my spins last year, and the end result were not as pretty as you might expect from someone at the top. I can very confidentially say that I earned less coins from the Dreidel in total than I earned by hatching pokemon with gen 1 sprites. There is a question I have asked about how the exchanges work, which is the secret santa event. I haven't got a decisive answer about whether it does this, but I'm still going to ask here. We know the exchange tries to give you a pokemon that you haven't obtained before. However, when you put in a shiny, it is unclear whether the exchange will try to give you a shiny that you haven't had before. So for example, my pokedex is complete at the moment, so there's nothing I could be given that I haven't had before. But if I put in my shiny Cresselia, it would be nice if the system tried to give me something like a shiny Heatran rather than a shiny Ho-oh, because I have obtained a shiny Ho-oh, but I do not have the entry for shiny Heatran in my pokedex. Happy holidays. -------------------- ![]() ![]() ![]() All my stuff is viewable by everyone on my public page. Make trinket offers faster ![]() The Discord chat is a nice way to hang out with other users. |
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![]() Zerkadelic ![]() Group: Root Administrators Posts: 3 688 Joined: 11-June 07 From: Texas Member No.: 2 My Favorites ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
I guess I can preface this by saying that I will be a bit pedantic about this, but I want to address the specified bold text. (or beating your record). Talking strictly about the stats we actually do keep, which is the daily record and not the total number of accumulated coins, it seems strange that you would consider it fair to extend the event to compensate I admittedly rushed to post this thread last night. I decided earlier that afternoon that I was going to run all the same events as last year, copied last year's post, and modified it as needed. I looked at the dates for Hanukkah this year and thought it would be nice to throw in an extra Friday/Saturday and I actually forgot how the stats worked, so that bold text was me trying to find a fun way to reason with extending it. I don't think it would have worked as well as last year's Gen 1 event if I kept the 5 coin bonus for "hatching with a 3rd Gen sprite." We could've considered hatching with a certain nature, and if that's something users and the staff would really like me to do, I could certainly do it. There is a question I have asked about how the exchanges work, which is the secret santa event. I haven't got a decisive answer about whether it does this, but I'm still going to ask here. We know the exchange tries to give you a pokemon that you haven't obtained before. However, when you put in a shiny, it is unclear whether the exchange will try to give you a shiny that you haven't had before. So for example, my pokedex is complete at the moment, so there's nothing I could be given that I haven't had before. But if I put in my shiny Cresselia, it would be nice if the system tried to give me something like a shiny Heatran rather than a shiny Ho-oh, because I have obtained a shiny Ho-oh, but I do not have the entry for shiny Heatran in my pokedex. When you deposit a non-shiny Pokémon, it attempts to give you an egg that's not in your egg dex. When you deposit a shiny Pokémon, it attempts to give you a shiny egg that's not in your shiny dex. If, for either circumstance, it cannot find a "new" egg to give you, it will give you one you've already had (with no other added weight/preference on the choice). If it still can't find one for you (if there's no more in the queue to give out), it's considered a fail, and we manually look into if there's a better way to redistribute them, but this has actually never happened in any of the past exchanges so far. -------------------- Want a rotating avatar like mine? Check out my website: randimg!
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![]() Gym Leader ![]() Group: Global Moderators Posts: 531 Joined: 18-August 12 Member No.: 170 583 Squad ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Hey Zerxer, Tyranisaur mentioned on the Discord chat about how the Spin the Dreidel used to be in a circle with an Amulet Coin inside it, next to the Poke Hunt and stuff so if possible could we have that back? So it's easier to know when we can use it and stuff.
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![]() Zerkadelic ![]() Group: Root Administrators Posts: 3 688 Joined: 11-June 07 From: Texas Member No.: 2 My Favorites ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Hey Zerxer, Tyranisaur mentioned on the Discord chat about how the Spin the Dreidel used to be in a circle with an Amulet Coin inside it, next to the Poke Hunt and stuff so if possible could we have that back? So it's easier to know when we can use it and stuff. Oh yeah, I forgot about this, and then was reminded of it by Jen last night, and then forgot again... I'm on it now. -------------------- Want a rotating avatar like mine? Check out my website: randimg!
Thanks to all of the people in this thread and this thread for the various avatars! |
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![]() Gym Leader ![]() Group: Global Moderators Posts: 531 Joined: 18-August 12 Member No.: 170 583 Squad ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Hey Zerxer, Tyranisaur mentioned on the Discord chat about how the Spin the Dreidel used to be in a circle with an Amulet Coin inside it, next to the Poke Hunt and stuff so if possible could we have that back? So it's easier to know when we can use it and stuff. Oh yeah, I forgot about this, and then was reminded of it by Jen last night, and then forgot again... I'm on it now. Thanks man, much appreciated! ![]() -------------------- |
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Pokémon Trainer ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 5-May 09 From: China Member No.: 19 792 Active Squad ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Oh,i have just come back this October.
And never join it before. So,i am excited about it! |
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