What is The Silph Road?

Click on your current max particle amount (the numbers in pink at the top left).

If you have hit the daily limit, it will say 'You can only earn 800 MP per day", but if you haven't hit it yet it will show you the remaining allowance.

Super useful if, like me, you struggle to remember how many points you've visited already but want to maximise your daily gain.

Reminder that the best tactic is generally to get close to the 800 mark (ideally over 700) then collect a 300 bundle for exploring to take you over 1000 each day.

I have two Pokémon at gyms (image of one for reference) and for both of these ‘mons, whenever I press the Go To Gym button, I get this error message.

I initially thought it might have been a situation where a gym had been turned into a pokéstop, but my second ‘mon is at a gym at a train station, so it’s a gym of high popularity and foot traffic of players, and yet I can’t go to gym to see it.

In both of these cases, I can see the other Pokémon in the gym normally (when I’m in the vicinity of the gym)

Any clues as to why I’m unable to go there remotely?

I have been trying for two days to buy this ticket and keep getting this error. It's only this ticket that errors out as I can still purchase coins and the other ticket. Apple says it's not on their end and Niantic said to download all assets and to refresh game data but still nothing. Other family members have the same problem and we can not gift it to each other either. Thoughts?

So, i discovered today that Niantic rised prices for 100coins from 2,99zl to 4,99 (almost equivalent of 1 euro). Apparently, they followed the Steam busines strategy, thinking somehow Poland is one of the richest countries in whole EU. Is the prices change the same in your countries?

With the recent inflation the prices of daily grocery articles rised from 50% to even 200% in about 2yrs. We here aren't even earning the same money western EU ppl do. I can't imagine what reason brought Niantic to that conclusion. As I occasionally bought a thing or two, now I know I won't buy anything from now on. Just another reason to stop playing that buggy game made to drain your pocket in every way possible in quite obvious ways 🤷‍♀️ Now ~40% more!

One thing I want to mention positively in that change is it finally is calculated more or less reasonable than it was 😂 550coins is <5x the cost of 100 coins. Up to this change it was rather 10x+ more 😂

I've just seen that CELIO have sponsorised spots. The new spot just poped at 8 P.m in France.

This is the first time since raids released where I can’t do a legendary raid. Quite frustrating and I don’t know why….

I've still got the fall/autum catch screen backgrounds instead of the winter ones (my app is updated). Anyone else noticing this?

Raids are all out of wack today, woke up at 6am to no raids at all, not even an egg. The first eggs didn't appear till 7am and they were all t1s, looking at campfire I now see a total of 6 t5s across the 48 square miles that make up my city meanwhile I see 14 t1s just within my line of sight. This is playing out across the area with dozens of t1s a couple dozen t3 and megas and a small handful of t5.

Is anyone else experiencing a sudden drought of raids that aren't t1s?

I have caught two phony sinistea. My friend who also doesn't have antique form got an invite to a sinistea raid and presumed it must be an antique form because the silhouette would suggest so. But he encountered a phony form instead. AFAIK, you can get antique or phony sinistea from the same encounter.

The silhouette is a misleading bug that will make some people believe they're raiding a different form of sinistea.

Hey, some thoughts about the current Kanto spawning system here. Felt like it should be discussed as a separate topic. Been bothering me for a while and the current season seems to continue this trend which is in my eyes a very bad thing.
This year the concept of habitats was remodeled for the Kanto region as a test. Kanto Pokémon should spawn based on habitat now. Magnemite in the city, Magikarp near water, etc.
Sounded good on paper, but it resulted in two things in the last three to four seasons:

- An overabundance of Kanto spawns
- A very, very limited Kanto spawn pool

In my case, I've seen so many Machop, Mankey, Tangela, Meowth and Slowpoke that I'm pretty sick and tired of catching them. Where's Paras? Where's Venonat? Where are the Nidoran families? Even Pidgey hasn't been around for ages here.
This spawn pool differs slightly across the world, but the pool IS always very limited.

The idea of seasons should be that every season has its own spawn pool. This gives the game some much needed diversity and makes the season switch, at least to me, a very interesting time to play. What's new in the wild? Let's find out and discover! You know, the thing that made the game originally so appealing.
What's the point of a seasonal spawn rotation though if you already know what you're gonna get? It really ruins the fun of discovery.
Yes, I know that this only affects gen one at this point. But what's the ultimate idea, will other generations follow the same trend in the future? We don't know that yet. I feel we need to steer this development while we still can.

I like the thought of Pokémon having their own habitats, it would make sense. Not like this, though. Instead of habitats, the game just gave us more friggin' regionals.

Thoughts?

Such a fun and unique shiny, heh.

Have seen players talk about Rocket Grunts/Leaders freezing if you shield and your previous fast attack would faint the opposing Pokemon.

Now for several occasions I have had the game freeze when I have not even shielded. The game briefly shows a possibility to switch a pokemon, but nothing happens...

It's about 6:47 am Helsinki, Finland. Usually you have plenty of eggs before 6 am, with the first raids starting at 6:00. Now I see zero raids, and that includes the campfire as far as I cared to browse it in Helsinki region and couple of the other larger cities in the country. There also only very few eggs, with first ones apparently hatching at 7am.

And this after they introduced two daily free passes as a seasonal bonus. I had planned to do at least one low level one before office hours (Sinistea if possible, something else if not).

Our group was wrapping up our spotlight hour in Olde Town Arvada (Colorado) and all the gyms popped with 8pm raid eggs? Is this accidentally?

Overall I think the changes make sense, people in places lots of people play wanna do legendaries, and places where people don't play as much can't beat legendaries so why spawn them. But this is a bit much imo. They should at least make half of these mega evolutions lol. Sprinkle in some 1 and 3 star raids for good measure too.

Since we can only obtain Sinistea via Raids and from the Timed Research (2), it is going to be really hard to collect the 50 candies needed to make the evolution!

As of 2 days ago (Sunday), routes are back to being bugged like they were a few months ago. Routes that are there are now invisible, even if you're literally right on top of a start/end point AND even if you've done that route before. I go for a walk in the same place every day at the park, and about half the routes that are in fact there do not show up. I accessed them by going to the "past routes" tab (because these were routes I've completed before) and found them there. But with regards to roots that might be new to me, I have no way to access them on the map if Niantic has unintentionally made them invisible. It's basically the exact same problem that was apparent a few months ago but was then fixed. I'm based in LA (California).