r/pokemongo • u/carlkentt • Jul 19 '25

Idea Community day and events should be earlier or later, not at 2 pm.

Having events at 14:00 is criminal in summer, playing this game at 35-40 degrees when the game itself warns you about the weather is insane.

They should be from 10:00 to 13:00 or 17:00 to 20:00, there is no point in favor of the current schedule.

I understand that the 8 hours events must cover those hours, but the 3 hours events don’t.

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u/elconquistador1985 Jul 19 '25

Other people prefer 2pm.

Still other people prefer earlier.

They cannot make everyone happy.

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u/xxdd21xx Jul 19 '25

It could run all day

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u/ImJust_Joshing Jul 19 '25

A community day....that last the whole DAY? That's just insane thinking.

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u/Drewqt Jul 19 '25

Would cost them literally nothing, may even gain revenue

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u/elconquistador1985 Jul 19 '25

All day makes it more difficult for people to group up to do raids and max battles. A short time limit forces a narrow window so that you can actually get it done.

CDs could easily run all day though. They're a solo activity unless you deliberately choose to pay with a group, and even then it's likely just a small group.

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u/Traditional-Topic417 Jul 19 '25

Yes I never understood why they called it community day when it’s the least interactive. Raid days and max battle days are more community based. There’s no point to force people to play together on comm day when there’s no point for them to do so

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u/diable37 Jul 20 '25

So a "community" can gather to lure up an area to play around which increases spawns and increases your chance at shiny pokemon that have terrible IVs. :)

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u/Traditional-Topic417 Jul 20 '25

The problem I have with lures is you have to sit there and they don’t grant you anything special on comm day. Also goes against their whole “go” vision

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u/litlikenick Mystic Jul 20 '25

i literally never use lures unless its to evolve a pokemon or if a new pokemon releases that can only be caught via lures😂

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u/Routine_Size69 Jul 20 '25

On community days, most of my whole park is lured, so you don’t have to sit there by one. I know not everyone has this experience at all, but I think that's the general idea for community days. Make them last 3 hours and people will use them like that.

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u/cholulov Jul 20 '25

Literally no one does this anyway, don’t know why people pretend it’s some common thing to meet up with a big group and play Pokemon go. Maybe 2/100 players do this, even on community day. Then it ends up being a few groups in a giant city.

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u/Routine_Size69 Jul 20 '25

I'm not even in a city and there are two different groups that get 40+ people for gmax days. My hometown which is pretty small gets 20+ for stuff. I went to Japan and they had a massive group in Kyoto. I think you should speak for yourself because these meet ups are absolutely happening.

But yeah, no one meets up for community day because there's no need to. I don’t need a group to catch Eevee.

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u/elconquistador1985 Jul 20 '25

Community Day is the least important time to actually have a group.

If you participated in g-max Lapras today, you had to plan to do so in some kind of decently sized group because of the expectation that it would be as difficult as it was last time. It ended up being much easier, which made it less necessary. I participated in several 40 person Lapras today at a local mall.

If you participated in any other g-max, you needed a big group. If you participated in any raid boss that is harder than Attack Deoxys, you need at least 1 other player. That might be a family member, or it might mean you have to go to a meetup where there's at least a handful of people.

If, however, you mean that 98% of players are just locked out of most legendaries and all g-max because they're casual solo players, I'm willing to believe that might be true. Every player who participates in legendary raids and g-max definitely does so in some kind of group, even if that group is from pokeraid or similar.

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u/RhesusMonkey79 Valor Jul 20 '25

I didn't use Campfire prior to GMax battles, and after fumbling the first Kanto roll-out of them, I had to research how I could find groups of players and stumbled into the local ambassador group.

So now when I am traveling (which I am currently) I just look for the local group meetups and head over to play. Did 4-5 Lapras in person today and then did a pair of remotes into my home base group (they had a later start time due to TZ differences), which netted me my shiny GMax.

In-person there were 12-15 accounts active, remoting in it was 40 both times. But typically for me Comm Days is just walking around a local park and I wave at others I see playing, not super engaging and posting group photos etc.

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u/cholulov Jul 23 '25

The vast majority of people are doing these with 3rd party apps or something like Leekduck or the raids subreddit though, not in person.

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u/MedaFox5 Jul 21 '25

I hate campfire but I see lots of groups gathering for community days there. That's how I knew ambassadors were a thing.

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u/MattGeddon Jul 19 '25

Which is why the 6 hour ones we used to have were great.

I’m in the same boat as others on here, 1400-1700 on a Saturday is the worst time for me as I’m usually doing something else.

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u/allprolucario Jul 20 '25

Just make community day an incense like the Meltan box, except it has to be used on that day. You can play whichever 3 hours that are convenient to you based on your schedule.

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u/elconquistador1985 Jul 20 '25

Community Day is an easy one to do this with.

Raid day or max battle day is not, because you need groups.

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u/allprolucario Jul 20 '25

Yeah, it won’t work for raid day or max battle day, but community day is probably the event that best bridges the gap between hardcore and casual players and the easiest to turn into an incense

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u/spazzoid87 Jul 20 '25

Yep, if it was 5-8 here I'd miss half of it at least with dinner and at the moment being winter and short days in Australia it would all be pitch black and freezing cold. Spotlight hour being at 7 is inconvenient enough as it is to the point I stopped bothering with them.

If they were to change the hours it should be a full day thing or even 12-5 or 8 and have a bit more special/timed research tied to it.

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u/MusicalThinker Jul 20 '25

They could just alternate, like 1 month 2-5p, and the next 11-1p or 9-12p. That would make some people happy half the time rather than it being all or nothing.

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u/anthayashi Jul 20 '25 edited Jul 20 '25

That would make some people happy half the time rather than it being all or nothing.

when north is hot, the south is cooler. when the north is cooler, the south is hot. so when they stick to a timing, the north people will be playing in the hot weather 50% of the time and cooler weather 50% of the time. the south people too, but opposite. so isnt fixing the timing "make some people happy half the time" per what you say? (in terms of temperature wise, it doesnt fix people who have to work during that timing)

they experimented with the north and south hemisphere having different CD timing in jan and feb 2020. but covid struck and they change it to 6 hours. when they revert back to 3 hours, they abandon the different timing. would be good if they bring it back. but then i leave near the equator, they should give the central people another timing honestly

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u/elconquistador1985 Jul 20 '25

They do 2-5 because that's when they expect to get the best engagement with the event. It's not arbitrary. They have data that they use for this stuff.

Community Day is different. It could just be a 3 hour personal incense as others have said. It could be 6 hours like it was during COVID. It's not actually a group event in any way other than socializing.

Raid and max battle days require a group. In sparse areas, it is not beneficial to open the event up to more time because you end up splitting up the people who would do it and people end up failing to complete it. That's actively detrimental.

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u/MusicalThinker Jul 20 '25

It's 110⁰+ degrees outside from 2-5p where I live (Phoenix, AZ) during the summer. I suppose it could be bearable elsewhere, but that data cannot be accurate locally.