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Pokemon Go getting Friends list, Gifting and Trading:
Nearly two years after launch, trading is officially coming to Pokemon Go.
Niantic announced this morning that trading will arrive alongside a new Friends system, which will offer various social features online or nearby.
Each player will have their own Trainer Code that they can share with friends to exchange friend requests. Once someone has accepted your friend request, that player will appear on your Friends List, where you can interact in various ways.
In a Q&A for members of the press at E3, Niantic software engineer Kirsten Koa clarified some of the new features surrounding Friends, including trading, special new eggs, a new Gifts feature, and more.
Friendship Levels
Once youâve added a friend, youâll be able to achieve one of four Friendship Levels: Good Friend, Great Friend, Ultra Friend, and Best Friend.
Raising your friendship level will offer various bonuses, including reduced Stardust costs for trades, extra damage during gym battles alongside a friend, and additional Premiere Balls during raids alongside a friend.
These are the bonuses for each friendship level:
Good friend: Trade all Pokemon except Mythical
Great friend: Stardust discount for trading, attack bonus during gym battles with that friend, one additional Premiere Ball for raids alongside that friend
Ultra friend: Additional stardust discount for trading, larger attack bonus during gym battles with that friend, two additional Premiere Balls for raids alongside that friend
Best friend: Major stardust discount for trading, largest attack bonus during gym battles with that friend, four additional Premiere Balls for raids alongside that friend
Koa noted that these bonuses will not stack â for example, if youâre raiding with a Best Friend (which gives you 4 extra balls during raids) and an Ultra Friend (2 extra balls during raids), youâll only receive the bonus from the single highest friend in your raid group, so youâd only get 4 extra balls for the raid, not 6.
Pokemon Go: Friendship Levels
You can increase your friendship level with a particular friend by sending gifts (see below), trading, or participating in gym battles or raid battles together. Your friendship level can only increase once per day per friend, and Koa explained the following ranges for achieving a friendship level:
Good friend: 1 day
Great friend: 7 days
Ultra friend: 30 days
Best friend: 90 days
The current cap for each playerâs friends list is 200 friends, but Koa said that number could grow in the future, and Niantic will never require players to pay for additional friend space like with Bag or Pokemon storage.
Trading, Stardust, and Pokemon IVs
Trades will only be possible with players on your friends list, and only if youâre within 100 meters of one another. Players will need a minimum trainer level of 10 in order to participate in trades.
Youâll also be able to participate in a Special Trade, which is for Legendary Pokemon, Shiny Pokemon, or Pokemon not currently in your Pokedex. You can only make a single Special Trade per day (not one per day per friend â only one per day total). Koa clarified that this âonce a dayâ limit does not refer to a 24-hour period, and confirmed that it will reset at midnight like with Catch and Spin streaks.
Pokemon Go: Trading
All trades will require Stardust, with massively reduced costs depending on your friendship level. An example in screenshots released by Niantic shows a 1,000,000 Stardust fee for a Special Trade, reduced to just 40,000 Stardust if the players are Best Friends. Koa confirmed that both players will pay the same Stardust fee for each trade.
Players will also receive candy bonuses depending on the original catch location of the Pokemon being traded. If the Pokemon were caught far apart, youâll receive extra candy. The current upper limit on these bonuses is a 100KM distance between the Pokemonâs original locations.
Finally, the HP and CP of Pokemon traded to friends will be reset, resulting in random new IVs for the Pokemon you receive. The range of possible HP and CP outcomes can be extremely wide or extremely narrow depending on your friendship levels, with Best Friends much more likely to receive stronger Pokemon.
Gifts and New Alolan EggsPokeStops will now occasionally drop Gifts, which you can send to friends on your list. Gifts will include a âpostcardâ from the PokeStop where you picked up the gift, as well as a rare item. Koa clarified that these items include rarer items within the normal PokeStop pool (hyper potions, revives, etc.) and not raid and research-exclusive items like Rare Candy or TMs.
When a player receives a gift, theyâll also have a chance to receive a new 7KM egg, which will eventually hatch to reveal an Alolan Pokemon.
Pokemon Go: Gifts
The particular Pokemon in these 7KM eggs will be exclusive to hatching, though this will not be the only way to receive Alolan Pokemon moving forward â other Alola forms like the previously-released Exeggutor and the recently-announced Diglett and Geodude will still spawn in the wild.
More Upcoming New FeaturesNiantic also teased more new additions coming to Pokemon Go, including new music and additional social features.
Niantic said the new Friend features outlined above, including trading, are coming âsoonâ and are expected to be released before this yearâs Pokemon Go Fest, which will take place on July 14 and 15 in Chicago.
Niantic product marketing manager Kento Suga said the goal is to make Pokemon Go the âmost sociable game in the world,â and to keep an eye out for new features. One example of a new social feature on Pokemon Goâs roadmap is the ability to add friends via Facebook, but Niantic couldnât confirm when to expect that or any other in-game social features in the future.
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Do people still play this?
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I expect it might pick up again when Pokemon Lets Go for the Switch releases
I had this on my phone a year ago, just was pointless here as I had nobody to challenge or play with
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Havenât heard that theyâve re allowed rooted phones to work with it. so they stopping me from playing.
I gave up on it cos I didnt have time to farm all I need
Yeah we still play it. Still enjoying it, for now.
Lol
Father And Grown Son Arrested After Pokémon Go Fight
A 71-year-old man and his adult son were arrested for allegedly assaulting another player they claimed had stolen their Gym and threw a Gatorade bottle at their car.
The father, Robert Matteuzzi, tracked down the man and then allegedly chucked back the Gatorade bottle, hitting him in the face. All three men reportedly got in a fight.
According to St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the incident was captured on video by a bystander. The paper described what unfolded:
A bystander took video of the encounter and caught Robert Matteuzzi holding the victim down while his son hit the victimâs head and face several times, [Kirkwood Police Officer Matthew] Waggoner wrote. The victim suffered cuts to his face, a âtraumaticâ eye injury and a broken finger tip.
The elder Matteuzzi and his 31-year-old son Angelo Matteuzzi are now facing third-degree assault charges.
its got electrolytes!
Friends lists and trading is now active. Yee haa
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