2024 Update Phase 2: The Shelter
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As a late-game player this update sounds great!
That is correct, and is how it should be.
But this raises a question for me: What do you actually envision as the use for the shelter for newer players? Is it a feature that’s just not meant to be used at all until people start shiny hunting?
QUOTE originally posted by Niet
QUOTE originally posted by PhoenixBirch
So.. to make it clear, you have zero intention of implementing anything to help new players with the shelter?
I'm so curious about the people reacting negatively to this. Even if you're grabbing new things, it only counts them as that "expensive" cost once and then it's the way it is now. People who hunt the shelter for specific species/exclusives/etc have even more adopts to do so, and those who are shiny hunting have even more factoring all things in as well.
Yeah it means that you can't get all your species from the shelter, but the lab is way, way better and the site is getting better at pointing you towards where to get things so you don't have to "waste" your shelter adopts on new stuff anyways.
I'm still working on expanding out my lab slots but I've been having fun doing so. If I weren't chaining it would be super easy to just get to my 1k adopts and have variety there. I think if the lab had been like this before (and had pointed me towards hey some things are only fishing, etc) I wouldn't have even wanted to use the shelter for everything. Maybe that's just me
Edit - the Shelter Budget Voucher, will it be tradable? Or is it ephemeral and goes away after a day. Like can you buy them, hold them until you need them, and then use them? Or could they be sold on the market/traded in general?
I could see veteran players with hoards of IP gifting them to players with the bulb to help them out if this is allowed, which would be a cool way of getting the new players talking to others?
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This is an interesting update but I've noticed a bit of a problem with the new update getting an egg from the shelter costs ip as does charging your albino radar and so does buying lab reloaders so my question is how are people able to find a balance between the three? People who are actively hunting something tend to have their albino radars charged to 6-7 daily there goes most interaction points right there, buying each new lab reloader costs 10k-60k ip (not counting the 10 free ones) so there goes even more ip right there so there would be very little ip leftover to use for the shelter (not from looking at the standard players who have 300k+ ip daily)
QUOTE originally posted by Mxrtina
rip new players hope they can find the will to carry on playing after adopting 1 egg and 1 new pokemon from the shelter
QUOTE originally posted by KitsuneofDreams
Edit - the Shelter Budget Voucher, will it be tradable? Or is it ephemeral and goes away after a day. Like can you buy them, hold them until you need them, and then use them? Or could they be sold on the market/traded in general?
I could see veteran players with hoards of IP gifting them to players with the bulb to help them out if this is allowed, which would be a cool way of getting the new players talking to others?
QUOTE originally posted by Mxrtina
rip new players hope they can find the will to carry on playing after adopting 1 egg and 1 new pokemon from the shelter
QUOTE originally posted by cursed-spaghetti
As a late-game player this update sounds great!
That is correct, and is how it should be.
But this raises a question for me: What do you actually envision as the use for the shelter for newer players? Is it a feature that’s just not meant to be used at all until people start shiny hunting?
QUOTE originally posted by Niet
QUOTE originally posted by PhoenixBirch
So.. to make it clear, you have zero intention of implementing anything to help new players with the shelter?
I really like this update. New players will be able to utilize the lab, fishing, and daycare before resorting to the shelter so their adoption points shouldn't all be going towards new eggs/pokemon there anyway. This feels much more balanced!
QUOTE originally posted by Niet
QUOTE originally posted by KitsuneofDreams
Edit - the Shelter Budget Voucher, will it be tradable? Or is it ephemeral and goes away after a day. Like can you buy them, hold them until you need them, and then use them? Or could they be sold on the market/traded in general?
I could see veteran players with hoards of IP gifting them to players with the bulb to help them out if this is allowed, which would be a cool way of getting the new players talking to others?
QUOTE originally posted by Rainquail
QUOTE originally posted by Mxrtina
rip new players hope they can find the will to carry on playing after adopting 1 egg and 1 new pokemon from the shelter
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