These are screenshots of popular grind spots in NYC the first is Bryant Park and the second is a very popular route in Central Park typically used during GoFests and raid days(such as today?) for raid trains. To have only 6 Groudons spawn within these popular spots COMBINED is just insane. Unfortunately driving is not an option since NYC traffic is just horrible. I wonder how other places fared compared to this, usually I struggle to do raids fast enough to get to the next one before it despawns in these places, but this time I find myself waiting around hoping some will spawn soon(hence why I have time to post this little rant) or I’ll just end up going home and doing some remotes.
by I_kaliman_I
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100% agreed. If you are gonna do a shadow raid weekend atleast make raids spawn more frequently.
Having to walk around my whole town for raids is also very fun. Honestly I don’t think anyone would mind if it was only groudon for the weekend.
We grabbed a bike each and drove trough the city from raid to raid. 70 raids were done in 13 hours that way.
Edit: i also like it more when almost all gyms are occupied by the eventraid.
I hate these days – the raids are so spread out across the city that the only way to play is to car raid. It’s so time consuming as well and you waste eggs and stardust with so much downtime between raids. I would way prefer a shorter event with raids on all gyms or at least half.
For a raid “weekend” there are very few Groudon raids.
Someone in our group was frustrated because he’d bought the ticket but couldn’t make use of it.
We had batches spawn in at once – the hour before the scheduled meetup there were 4, but at the meetup time there was one. Which would be fine, except we can’t know which hour will be which to plan accordingly.
Our local meetup spot is pretty close to NYC density – we’ve got 15 gyms within easy reach of the raid hour route. There were all of two groudon when we met there, to get to the next closest spot(s) we ended up caravaning. There are easily 50 gyms within a ten minute drive but there was only one spot that had a cluster worth driving to.
Our second meetup spot is the local mall. There’s 8 gyms. It wasn’t playable for Groudon because there weren’t enough raids to be worth the time – I’m looking at it right now and there’s 0 bosses, 4 eggs – 1 groudon, 1 mega, 2 lat. We had the same issue with Kyogre, which is why our CA didn’t host an official event this time around.
We’ve got the community, including many hardcore dolphins, and a very dedicated CA. But the in game experience makes it mostly just frustrating.
Rather have a raid day than weekend!
You’re in Manhattan. There’s not much to complain about. If it’s bad there, it’s even worse in suburban & rural areas.
Stayed home and remote. Wasn’t walking all over manhattan
They get rid of the raid distance trick and then try to punish players with underwhelming events
I was doing some remote but ran into one issue. Tried to contact support and they refused to compensate saying there was a “thorough investigation” and either I’ve already been compensated or I got the rewards. False. So I’m just not going to remote much anymore until they fix these issues.
Got lucky and caught two raids in tribeca yesterday. But very few raids otherwise.
I really wish they upped the remote limit to 20. I drove around with four friends around the city playing for three hours we were able to get 10 done before people had to start going to work and going about their days. I got home and remoted 10. All said and done I did 40 raids
between the two days and 0 shinies and a ton of gas wasted. I don’t live in a walkable city and didn’t have the time to play the entire day so wanted to get as many done in as few hours as possible. I shouldn’t complain too much I did get a 98 on my second raid and like 6 purifiable hundos.
We tried to do it in Manhattan by driving and it was such a disaster. There seems to be more parades and closed off intersections which made it impossible for us. Yesterday I did 6 raids in 2 hours in Manhattan and that’s me scanning with campfire
Unfortunately shadow raid weekends are always like this, need some luck with the spawns
My town had Campfire events from 2-5 each day this weekend, but only two raids were walkable on Saturday and none today when I showed up 45 min late. I bought the ticket and feel completely ripped off.
If they were operating in good faith, the event needs to be much longer than 2 days, or spawn rates need to be significantly increased.
They’re purely trying to sell remote raid passes.
Omg I thought I was going crazy! I swear only 3 raids spawned in my area all day yesterday!
Learned it on the first mewtwo raid day. It’s not a good walking day. You need to do the raids in a car and have some one on campfire looking where to go. They spread them out so far it’s not worth it to walk if you want to grind it out for a shiny or a hundo.
3 different meetups had ZERO or one Shadow raid at their start times without any eggs even up
Pathetic
I didnt even have any shadow groudon raids at my house gym today. I had 2 yesterday and none today
Finding raids took a lot of effort especially when eggs took nearly an hour to hatch as well would really like some improvements before mega ray is added as raids were far to spread out an took to long to be able to raid.
I lucked out. Both days we have 4-5 spawns in walking distance from where we normally do raid hour, and then 2-3 at a nearby park. It still took 3 hours yesterday to coordinate everyone, and 2 hours today (we had our CA today.)
But what you experienced is what happened to me on Kyogre weekend. We only had two spawn in the city and I didn’t want to drive out of the city or wait an hour for more.
The combination of having to drive even with a community meetup combined with no increase in remote raid passes did make this underwhelming. I did get 2 shinies so at least I can view it as successful. Someone in my group got a shadow shiny hundo so that was cool
Car ride around town, i did 89 total groudon raids but i showed up in the afternoon after lunch. the rest of the group started around 7am.
out of the 89, only 3 were shiny. spawns seemed to happen in waves in specific areas at a time. Sometimes we cleaned one area, went to another one then back to the same one.
shiny odds seem sketchy as hell too, others in the group got more or less the same numbers as me
People need to immediately start complaining on social medias if you want anything done about this
Same as shadow Kyogre weekend. Kind of pointless to cal it a special event when even a large park can go hours with no groudon and when they do spawn it’s a 30-45min egg
If the spawns are so underwhelming, why is it typically crickets when I host a remote raid group for it? (Although one attempt got a full room)
Poor NYC pokemoners. I really feel for you and how hard it is to play the game.
Yup, this is the last time I purchase a ticket. Couldn’t even use the extra free passes.
Same as always; the real world integration part of this game is a dumpster fire and needs to be reworked badly. But don’t worry, you have 5 free passes and you can pay for up to 10, good luck finding 10 raids within 10 miles in any direction though. 😂
I drove around town a lot yesterday and didn’t see very many. I’m mad that I bought the stupid ticket for my kid and I and we didn’t do a single in person raid. The big Pokemon group that met up for the Eternatus raids never got together and the smaller groups only had a few people meeting up. I stopped by a nearby university with a ton of gyms today and didn’t see any Groudon raids.
It’s terrible. If I had known it would be this bad I wouldn’t have bought those stupid passes and would’ve just gotten more remote raid passes.
Agreed. I have 4 gyms near my house and didn’t manage to use all my raid passes despite being awake and on the app the entire time Groudon was in raids. Ridiculous
I have my doubts we will get a make-up day but… we do need a one imo.
It’s been two days and we’re just going about our days and we’re going to a nerd convention and we haven’t found one raid and it’s almost over
I got one at the only gym I have access to. Instead, I got another 4 Latias/Latios -_- and not one Gardevoir the whole week.
Too much in the raid egg pool. Wish they had a dedicated raid hour during the weekend.
Also, today from my buddy around that area I got ten and later my wife got a couple remote invites after she took care of the horses.
I dont know what times the original poster was playing but there was more than just 6 in area the whole day. My buddy there said he felt Saturday there were more raids happening than Sunday.
Do you guys think they’ll redeem themselves with a make up day like the past Palkia raid days?