Sunday June 12th’s Ultra Unlock: Research Day was a great event, based solely on my experience. Overall, I would like to see more things like this in the future, but with some small changes.
The special research aspect was fun. I have access to a park that has a great number of Pokestops, so I was able to get a larger number of researches and chances at getting the shinies. Had I have to play this at home, I would have not have anywhere near the opportunity to play. So for rural areas, this would get a much lower grade. I would have to agree with those players who do not get the opportunity that I did.
The number of shinies I got was fair for what I did. I believe I did about 50 researches and I got 1 shiny Shieldon and 2 shiny Cranidos. I also did get a perfect Cranidos from the research, which for the purposes of this is equivalent to a shiny, since they were only available from the research. I do feel for those who got shut out though, which is a pain. There should be better odds on a large scale event like this.
The “Evolve 2 Rock Type” and “Power Up Pokemon 3 Times” can just be eliminated. I saw about 5 of each, which were a pain. To me, forced evolution and power ups are just a waste of candy and stardust, both of which are limited resources. There again, I know this will never happen, so I try to stack them as much as possible so I don’t have to do them multiple times.
Overall, this was a better event than I expected, but I would say that for more rural trainers this was another event where chances were limited. I would like to see this event with an adjustment so that rural trainers can get multiple chances from a stop if they do not have the opportunity to spin to get them as much.
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