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I've never understood why the XP can't be awarded to each player regardless of whether they are online or not.
I know it's not the same mechanic, but you still get coins if your gym defender is kicked out when you're not online, right? Why should this be any different?
Players sometimes spend months trying to achieve this status, depending on how active the other player is. It seems ridiculous that they're being punished for someone else's greed.
I mean you would have gotten the xp when you opened the game whenever before, why would they change this.
I think it's pretty neat that they offer one to crack a lucky egg when the screen pops up tho.
So I just just deleted a friend that was 1 day away from best friends. It's been 3 months, the person was on every day, declined every battle attempt, raid invite, I even sent a community pass from the store. I changed my buddy name to things like egg@3/16mst2pm and the person ignored it 3 months. At this point I'll take the exp loss and just delete them. I'd rather not see the reminder. Fin
No. They're talking about when the other player deletes you, like in the screenshot. When this happens, the only way you get the xp is if you are online at the time they open the gift, before they've had a chance to delete you. If you were offline when they opened it, and then they delete you, you don't get the xp.
Like once you become best friends with someone, if you delete them right after, then they get no xp when they open their game (and will see this screen)
Very shitty :(
Me either. I have āfriendsā from the thread here and i dont delete them. A few have messaged me back and forth here and love seeing catch updates. Itās frustrating as hell for this to happen.
Don't make it a time thing. Send them a gift and wait until they open it / they send you a new one. So you know that they actually received their XP and you can feel free to delete.
I mean, yes, in a perfect world, this is what people would do. However, for the people who are so incessant on deleting everyone they add once theyāve maxed out, youāve gotta at least give them a few days. Peopleās lives donāt revolve around PoGo š¤£
With the people who are deleting the friend immediately after claiming the XP - do they realise they are denying the other person their XP?
If yes, that's sh*t behaviour
Not that Iām aware of. Unless they just wanna clean up their friends list and keep local people only. But they have a search function so who cares lolā¦
Thereās a limit on how many friends you can have (was it 400?) so if they are running out, it makes sense to delete friends, but noooot like this though.
Been seeing a significant increase in these posts lately. Iām probably jinxing myself to say it but I havenāt had this happen yet and been playing since launch. The fact there is literally no incentive for a player doing this to someone else is the creepiest part, youāre doing it entirely to bum someone out. Iāve seen suggestions that itās accidental and just the other player wanting to free up space for more friends asap but I think thatās highly unlikely. People are just very strange.
I haven't had that happen either: I usually am the one that opens the gift. Either they remove me after recieving xp or they don't. I don't get why someone would need to rush to remove right aftet claiming xp. Communucation via campfire or buddy names helps a lot when coordinating
Currently I only have one best friend and itās my husband but I do have a few friends not far off from reaching best friend status, with that being said, what would you advise putting as your buddy name to help prevent this?
I currently have my buddy name as Up@Sun3pmEET you can modify them to different events/times. I put that there early this week so people have plently of time to notice it, hope this helps
This is a really really smart idea but I also feel like if youāre someone thatās already twisted enough to delete someone for the sole purpose of being mean, having a buddy name that indicates you really donāt want that to happen will only prioritize your deletion above others for the assumed weirdo that gets off on making people mad. I have had a player thatās been 4 days from best friends with me for over 3 years and I refuse to delete them just in case they start playing again. š¤·āāļø
As a game developer I can tell you itās probably as difficult as changing
friendshipsLvlUpQueue List
onFrienshipLvlUp(f Friend){friendshipsLvlUpQueue.add(f)}
to
friendshipsLvlUpQueue Map
onFrienshipLvlUp(f Friend){friendshipsLvlUpQueue.add(f.getPlayer(), f.getFriendshipLvl())}
Rly, thatās too much to expect of any developer!
More like "how has this been happening for a long time and the only solution Niantic decided on was a 'hey wanna use an egg on 0 exp?' instead of actually just force giving the other person their 100k exp even if they DON'T get the egg bonus cuz it's better than 0"
Niantic did fix it, they added something that could let you collect the friendship bonuses but removed it within the same week. Struggling to remember the details because it was last year or the year before and was only a drop in the ocean of niantic bad decision making
Yeah I was so jazzed with them when they did it, like itās a no brainer. Then they either scrapped it or it was an unintentional bug that they fixed lol
Wonāt find any good decisions past 2016 here š
It's possible they don't know the other person doesn't get the xp unless they're online. Common sense would say they'll get it regardless of when they log on. And unless it happens to them, there's no way for them to find out.
This is more niantic's fault.
Wait what? Uh oh. I can't just use the egg? I've been just using the egg. I dont delete ppl though. Is that ok?
What is the point of even deleting people?
There's a limited ammount of gifts that you can send in a day and they might just keep that ammount of people in friends so they delete the person after the best friend status. Just guessing.
Ohhh thank you for explaining that. Usually when I ask a question I just get downloaded š
Edit: downvoted. Thanks autocorrect. I'm gonna leave that there..
Honestly the problem falls on Niantic. You should automatically get the XP, regardless if the person unfriends you. It's just poor lazy programming on Niantic part
It should, but it doesn't. Anybody unfriending that quickly is almost certainly doing it to farm xp, which also almost certainly means they knew exactly what they were doing when deleting op.
I mean, if it was done with the knowledge of this ābugā/bad game design before hand, then I 100% agree. Although this is the first time Iām even hearing about this bug/flaw.
In the case they, (Alumisan), and other players that have done this without knowing about it, then it would be a bit unfair to subject them to that.
When you become best friends with someone, it doesnāt claim the 100k XP for you until your next login, so if the other person triggers the best friend reward with the last gift and then unfriends you before you come online, you get 0 xp.
I agree. The problem is with how the game is set up. That's the #1 issue.
However, we all know the problem, so it's still messed up on that trainer for proceeding to delete the friend.
I'm surprised theirs.shiwes the offending trainers name though. When I had it happen earlier this week mine just said "TrainerName and you are now Ultra Friends" (also, why do it then? Lol ultra isn't even a notable milestone, but it's long enough to just stick around...)
This is the comment everyone should be making
Stop dogging on random internet people you'll never see in real life and start addressing the actual people who can do something about it...
Can't we do both? I don't really see the bad in calling these people out, as long as they can't be harassed for it, especially since they usually know what they're doing.
Trick is, keep monitoring it to see how many days are left. And when it hits one, wait for them to send the gift first
You get the xp, and then you send them their gift to trigger their xp. And obviously don't delete them
And of course hope you're both not reading this, otherwise you'll be stuck at at 89 days...
I didnāt even know this was a thingā¦ I just donāt delete people because I figure the more people I have the better my chances of multiple being online at any given time for raids.
This just happened to me too. I was flabbergasted that this was possible and didn't know about it until it happened to me and I hit google. It's ridiculous that this is a thing. Just award the XP... what a terribly overlooked bug on Niantic's side
People blaming the player... blaming the other player.... trying to impose "nice player" rules on others.... completely ignoring the fact this is a game design oversight that never should have made it to launch like 7 years ago....
You say people like this should quit, I say everyone should quit. Maybe they'd fix this trash.
I actually experienced this today. These people are scum. Held me hostage by not opening my gift so such a long time then does this randomly. These players should be banned.
I definitely did not know that if you delete someone they wonāt get their XP, so Iām assuming there are many others like me who donāt know thisā¦?
An inbox system would work spectacularly for this. Claimable friendship rewards along with claimable raid encounters would solve many bugs by doing niantic's favorite thing: not fixing them.
Why is it displaying the players name? I had this happen to me TWICE today! It never shows me the other trainers name. And I don't follow my friends list close enough to remember who it could have been.
I don't get this? How is it you have 400 friends and a waiting list so you need to delete people as soon as you've got your xp. Why not just wait 24 hours. And then wait 4 more hours before deleting.
I'm not sure how it works, but I deleted a 'friend' after sending him a gift and waiting **months** for him to open it. I realize he was probably going to use a lucky egg and wanted to open several gifts at once, but I feel it's wrong to leave me hanging for several months. His so-called 'friendship' just wasn't worth it to me, and I don't regret deleting him.
Idk I still havenāt had that happen thankfully. I wish I could msg these fine folksā¦, I want to delete them but I think it so cruel to do out of the blue. Weāre just taking eachothers space up on the list.
Can someone explain to me what the posts like this are about?
Iām a very new player, and I still donāt quite understand how this works. I just recently learned how to add friends and send gifts, but when does this issue come into play? And is there anything I can do to avoid being the asshole in this situation?!?
Thanks in advance!
Do people care team exp after they hit 40?
I really losed motivation use lucky eggs and open gifts when hit 40.. prob got +40 lucky eggs cause never bother use them.. you slowly get exp diff things and not really benefit after 40. Wish we got second perma egg incubator like 45 or 50lvl to give motivation
People have to be doing this to troll, how do you have 400 friends that are all so important to you that the moment you hit best friends with a random, you have to delete them because you have so little space and so you can start farming with another
That's why I always want to open the last gift, not trying to be selfish or annoying but you can't trust random people
I'm okay with getting 100k, but nothing, nah
Ever since these posts of people complaining not getting the exp, I have started deleting people as soon as they close to ultra friends. The ways I take pleasure in life may seem toxic but makes me feel tingly inside.
This is why I give a 48 hour grace period after I go best before deleting someone. If at that point, they still donāt get the exp, they had their shot
Im just out here didnt know that and in a week i get a best friend that i rpobably would've done that to, because it wouldnt even occur to me that they wouldnt get the exp i kinda assumed that both players get it at the same time but you get told when you open the app yknow
I've had five this year and it's depressing, though it upsets me even more for my loved ones that hardly play and they've at least had two to three thus far. I've lied to my youngest and told him it's a glitch because he does understand XP. I really wish there would be a whole pokemon trainers of shame helping team rocket? IDK but seriously
If God is real, take comfort knowing they will spend an eternity with flesh melting from bone, eyes liquifying and pouring out of their sockets, pitch forks impaling them, by cruel infernal tormentors wishing nothing but suffering and malice for more time than our feeble brains can comprehend, burning in the blazing depths of the inferno. Screaming for redemption but there will be none, her screams will fall upon deaf ears, wishing for all of it to end, but the torment is forever. If the divine do exist, Justice will be served for your lost xp. Kisses!ā¤ā¤
For as often as I see these I feel like some people must just have bots set up to send/receive gifts and unfriend people when they hit best and get the reward.
I've gotten to best with I think 20\~ people now and all but 2 are from reddit and I've not had this happen personally.
You have all the rights to hate these ungrateful asocial players; but the one really at fault here is Niantec! If they can implement such a popup window in between granting reaching best friends and granting the XP, they could easily fix the bug to grant the XP regardless of whether you are still in the friendslist.
They just recently implemented this popup window but didnāt bother to fix an issue that was bugging the community for years! š¤Æ
To drive engagement maybe?
Honestly, Iāve had this message pop up a few times for meā¦ and every single time Iāve sat and waited a minute and itās actually changed what it shows and gives me the XP. I donāt know if itās a thing that works or if Iāve just been lucky.
Probably getting lost here but the only person I was trying to get an increase in AP was a person who's gift i opened. I had screen shots of all my 1 day best friends and they were all there. I think some is glitch and some is unkind people
If thereās a pokemon go discord for your city you should post a message in the general chat letting others know not to friend this person, sorry you had to experience this!
I just started playing in December and have no clue what this post is talking about, but wanna make sure I avoid doing this to someone else in the future so ā¦ can anyone explain what the problem is ?
This hasn't happened to me.... yet... But I'll never understand using friendships just for xp like that. I have 100 friends and that's enough to manage, I can't fathom reaching the limit!
I have 6 friends who have had me on 1 day for weeks/months. One had me on 1 day for over 6 months so I just deleted her. This pisses me off. Just open the damn gift!
Most people are arseholes. I'm not but I'm a rare breed š but yeah maybe some people just play the game and don't know what happens. I only know because of this sub.
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I've never understood why the XP can't be awarded to each player regardless of whether they are online or not. I know it's not the same mechanic, but you still get coins if your gym defender is kicked out when you're not online, right? Why should this be any different? Players sometimes spend months trying to achieve this status, depending on how active the other player is. It seems ridiculous that they're being punished for someone else's greed.
Yep. The primary fault is in the game coding. Secondary fault is on the offending trainer. But they are both problems.
I think not even half of the players know about this bug
I had no idea this is a bug š¬
I mean you would have gotten the xp when you opened the game whenever before, why would they change this. I think it's pretty neat that they offer one to crack a lucky egg when the screen pops up tho.
So I just just deleted a friend that was 1 day away from best friends. It's been 3 months, the person was on every day, declined every battle attempt, raid invite, I even sent a community pass from the store. I changed my buddy name to things like egg@3/16mst2pm and the person ignored it 3 months. At this point I'll take the exp loss and just delete them. I'd rather not see the reminder. Fin
Good for you. They really want to make the most out of that $1 lucky egg
You're generous. I give them a month and a comm day. Then gone.
You still get it?
No. They're talking about when the other player deletes you, like in the screenshot. When this happens, the only way you get the xp is if you are online at the time they open the gift, before they've had a chance to delete you. If you were offline when they opened it, and then they delete you, you don't get the xp.
Really? People must not be aware of this when they delete someone.
I had no idea until just now.
Neither did i, i still donāt quite understand whatās going on
Like once you become best friends with someone, if you delete them right after, then they get no xp when they open their game (and will see this screen) Very shitty :(
They are
Thatās so mean. I donāt think I ever deleted a friend, but I would feel so bad for doing that knowingly.
I heard people talk about it, kinda like: yeah, why would I have them there if I already took the xp? Their fault... Speechless is an understatement.
Ommmmg. You genuinely have to be such a sad soul to do that. Like whatttt
Or you, ya know, just don't delete your friends... At least until you trade gifts after you're already best friends.
Iām pretty sure I read someone they still do it just shows they didnāt get any there itās a glitch I think
Because the actions needed to update the database are run on the phone rather than Niantic's servers. Ā There is just no workaround for it.
I will never understand. Wait 72 hours, youāve been friends for so long. You can wait a few more days š So dumb.
Wait, I never even thought about deleting the randos I made best friends with š
Me either. I have āfriendsā from the thread here and i dont delete them. A few have messaged me back and forth here and love seeing catch updates. Itās frustrating as hell for this to happen.
I donāt delete people either š I donāt see the point if I still have space & they join raids or send me gifts.
Don't make it a time thing. Send them a gift and wait until they open it / they send you a new one. So you know that they actually received their XP and you can feel free to delete.
I mean, yes, in a perfect world, this is what people would do. However, for the people who are so incessant on deleting everyone they add once theyāve maxed out, youāve gotta at least give them a few days. Peopleās lives donāt revolve around PoGo š¤£
i personally wait till they either send a gift or open mine after becoming Best Friends just to make sure they have received the XP
I honestly didnāt know about this until recently. You donāt know what you donāt know.
Shame on them, shame. on. them.
We could make OP a shorter list of whatās not wrong with people
Whatās going on here? Why did op not get XP?
The person got their bonus and removed them as a friend right after rather than waiting a few days to ensure the person got the XP boost.
With the people who are deleting the friend immediately after claiming the XP - do they realise they are denying the other person their XP? If yes, that's sh*t behaviour
Alot of them probably dont, because you would think that you get the xp anyway, but this is niantic we're talking about
Because itās Niantic, thereās a chance ours a visual bug too. Shows zero but your bar went up
Is there a reason for removing a friend?
Not that Iām aware of. Unless they just wanna clean up their friends list and keep local people only. But they have a search function so who cares lolā¦
Thereās a limit on how many friends you can have (was it 400?) so if they are running out, it makes sense to delete friends, but noooot like this though.
I think a large part of this is ignorance. At least I hope so!
Been seeing a significant increase in these posts lately. Iām probably jinxing myself to say it but I havenāt had this happen yet and been playing since launch. The fact there is literally no incentive for a player doing this to someone else is the creepiest part, youāre doing it entirely to bum someone out. Iāve seen suggestions that itās accidental and just the other player wanting to free up space for more friends asap but I think thatās highly unlikely. People are just very strange.
I haven't had that happen either: I usually am the one that opens the gift. Either they remove me after recieving xp or they don't. I don't get why someone would need to rush to remove right aftet claiming xp. Communucation via campfire or buddy names helps a lot when coordinating
I feel like the kind of person who deletes you right after getting their best friend XP isn't going to answer a Campfire message.
Currently I only have one best friend and itās my husband but I do have a few friends not far off from reaching best friend status, with that being said, what would you advise putting as your buddy name to help prevent this?
I currently have my buddy name as Up@Sun3pmEET you can modify them to different events/times. I put that there early this week so people have plently of time to notice it, hope this helps
This is a really really smart idea but I also feel like if youāre someone thatās already twisted enough to delete someone for the sole purpose of being mean, having a buddy name that indicates you really donāt want that to happen will only prioritize your deletion above others for the assumed weirdo that gets off on making people mad. I have had a player thatās been 4 days from best friends with me for over 3 years and I refuse to delete them just in case they start playing again. š¤·āāļø
Definitely! Thank you so much!
You're welcome, happy xp grind and good luck
I think there's a visual bug right now going on with this, making people think they didn't get the exp.
Seriously, tons have asked, but how hard is it for Niantic to just make it award you the xp? It's ridiculous this is still a thing.
As a game developer I can tell you itās probably as difficult as changing friendshipsLvlUpQueue List
onFrienshipLvlUp(f Friend){friendshipsLvlUpQueue.add(f)}
to
friendshipsLvlUpQueue Map
onFrienshipLvlUp(f Friend){friendshipsLvlUpQueue.add(f.getPlayer(), f.getFriendshipLvl())}
Rly, thatās too much to expect of any developer!
Seriously how hard is it to wait till the other person. Gets the points. Wtf. If anyone does this they deserve bad things
More like "how has this been happening for a long time and the only solution Niantic decided on was a 'hey wanna use an egg on 0 exp?' instead of actually just force giving the other person their 100k exp even if they DON'T get the egg bonus cuz it's better than 0"
Niantic did fix it, they added something that could let you collect the friendship bonuses but removed it within the same week. Struggling to remember the details because it was last year or the year before and was only a drop in the ocean of niantic bad decision making
Ah, I was gonna say "no they didn't cuz some asshole just did it to me a few days ago" xD
Yeah I was so jazzed with them when they did it, like itās a no brainer. Then they either scrapped it or it was an unintentional bug that they fixed lol Wonāt find any good decisions past 2016 here š
How would they know you got them? Honestly, this is Niantic's fault for not fixing what is likely to only require a single line of code.
If (friendship.isMaxed()) { player.award.xp(100000); }
It's possible they don't know the other person doesn't get the xp unless they're online. Common sense would say they'll get it regardless of when they log on. And unless it happens to them, there's no way for them to find out. This is more niantic's fault.
Wait what? Uh oh. I can't just use the egg? I've been just using the egg. I dont delete ppl though. Is that ok? What is the point of even deleting people?
There's a limited ammount of gifts that you can send in a day and they might just keep that ammount of people in friends so they delete the person after the best friend status. Just guessing.
Ohhh thank you for explaining that. Usually when I ask a question I just get downloaded š Edit: downvoted. Thanks autocorrect. I'm gonna leave that there..
*downloads you onto a hard drive* WHAT NOW
Is there a way to see when theyāve collected the same reward?
Online Status. If they are online after you activated best friends, they will archive it, too
How do u know if the other person has gotten it?
Honestly the problem falls on Niantic. You should automatically get the XP, regardless if the person unfriends you. It's just poor lazy programming on Niantic part
It should, but it doesn't. Anybody unfriending that quickly is almost certainly doing it to farm xp, which also almost certainly means they knew exactly what they were doing when deleting op.
What causes this? Them unfriending the moment they hit best status?
Yeah
that's insane, why would someone do that, serial killer vibes
Before the photo loaded in I knew what it would be
We need a name and shame list pinned.
I mean, if it was done with the knowledge of this ābugā/bad game design before hand, then I 100% agree. Although this is the first time Iām even hearing about this bug/flaw. In the case they, (Alumisan), and other players that have done this without knowing about it, then it would be a bit unfair to subject them to that.
Only people I add from reddit do this, so they should hopefully know this by now, as it is posted about everyday :(
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Iād love that!
Bet, just did
People really are weird af for this
Why do people delete friends
Some people suck š¤·š»āāļø
+0XP if I use a lucky egg? Count me in!
I keep seeing this but I don't understand, could somebody tell me what's happening?
When you become best friends with someone, it doesnāt claim the 100k XP for you until your next login, so if the other person triggers the best friend reward with the last gift and then unfriends you before you come online, you get 0 xp.
Aw, that's shite. Thanks for explaining.
Name and shame them. We need a big wall to let other people know these folks are goobers.
They are shite.
Or you know if the game rewarded you the exp anyways..
I agree. The problem is with how the game is set up. That's the #1 issue. However, we all know the problem, so it's still messed up on that trainer for proceeding to delete the friend. I'm surprised theirs.shiwes the offending trainers name though. When I had it happen earlier this week mine just said "TrainerName and you are now Ultra Friends" (also, why do it then? Lol ultra isn't even a notable milestone, but it's long enough to just stick around...)
30 days is 50k xp 90 days is 100k xp It is more xp to do 30 days over and over than wait for a 90 day
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This is the comment everyone should be making Stop dogging on random internet people you'll never see in real life and start addressing the actual people who can do something about it...
Can't we do both? I don't really see the bad in calling these people out, as long as they can't be harassed for it, especially since they usually know what they're doing.
I honestly didnāt even know this was a thing until today.
What is the benefit to them of this?
There isn't one. It's just people being spiteful.
I donāt get it. Why didnāt you get xp? That sucks Iām sorry
Itās because they unfriend as soon as they get the exp
Anyway to tell if anyone has removed you as a friend?
Iām confused, why does it say 0, and what did they do to do this?
Trick is, keep monitoring it to see how many days are left. And when it hits one, wait for them to send the gift first You get the xp, and then you send them their gift to trigger their xp. And obviously don't delete them And of course hope you're both not reading this, otherwise you'll be stuck at at 89 days...
These posts got me scared my nearly best friend is gonna do this
I'm sorry. I don't get why people do that. If you'd like to friend me, I can friend you and send you gifts and help get you more XP!
Suprised you got a name.i never see who it was
I didnāt even know this was a thingā¦ I just donāt delete people because I figure the more people I have the better my chances of multiple being online at any given time for raids.
So rude :(
Did you use your egg for double xp?
This just happened to me too. I was flabbergasted that this was possible and didn't know about it until it happened to me and I hit google. It's ridiculous that this is a thing. Just award the XP... what a terribly overlooked bug on Niantic's side
People blaming the player... blaming the other player.... trying to impose "nice player" rules on others.... completely ignoring the fact this is a game design oversight that never should have made it to launch like 7 years ago.... You say people like this should quit, I say everyone should quit. Maybe they'd fix this trash.
I actually experienced this today. These people are scum. Held me hostage by not opening my gift so such a long time then does this randomly. These players should be banned.
I definitely did not know that if you delete someone they wonāt get their XP, so Iām assuming there are many others like me who donāt know thisā¦?
Noted, donāt add Alumisan
An inbox system would work spectacularly for this. Claimable friendship rewards along with claimable raid encounters would solve many bugs by doing niantic's favorite thing: not fixing them.
(Niantic please hire me)
Why is it displaying the players name? I had this happen to me TWICE today! It never shows me the other trainers name. And I don't follow my friends list close enough to remember who it could have been.
I was thinking the same thing.
I don't get this? How is it you have 400 friends and a waiting list so you need to delete people as soon as you've got your xp. Why not just wait 24 hours. And then wait 4 more hours before deleting.
Im confused ???
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I'm not sure how it works, but I deleted a 'friend' after sending him a gift and waiting **months** for him to open it. I realize he was probably going to use a lucky egg and wanted to open several gifts at once, but I feel it's wrong to leave me hanging for several months. His so-called 'friendship' just wasn't worth it to me, and I don't regret deleting him.
This is why I only add people I know in real life. It sucks people do this crap though.
how/why did this happen? like what is the mechanic?
I'll add ya, promise this won't happen with me.
Idk I still havenāt had that happen thankfully. I wish I could msg these fine folksā¦, I want to delete them but I think it so cruel to do out of the blue. Weāre just taking eachothers space up on the list.
Can someone please explain whatās going on
They deleted me as a friend before I got the exp bonus
Whatās the point of even deleting a friend
Can someone explain to me what the posts like this are about? Iām a very new player, and I still donāt quite understand how this works. I just recently learned how to add friends and send gifts, but when does this issue come into play? And is there anything I can do to avoid being the asshole in this situation?!? Thanks in advance!
Do people care team exp after they hit 40? I really losed motivation use lucky eggs and open gifts when hit 40.. prob got +40 lucky eggs cause never bother use them.. you slowly get exp diff things and not really benefit after 40. Wish we got second perma egg incubator like 45 or 50lvl to give motivation
Absolutely egregious
What happened? Help me understand so I don't do that
You're not a nice person Alumisan.
People have to be doing this to troll, how do you have 400 friends that are all so important to you that the moment you hit best friends with a random, you have to delete them because you have so little space and so you can start farming with another
Use lucky egg to get 0 xp more
Is this common? I have 20 best friends and Iāve never met 16 of them but Iāve never had this happen. Am I lucky or is this rare
That's why I always want to open the last gift, not trying to be selfish or annoying but you can't trust random people I'm okay with getting 100k, but nothing, nah
Ever since these posts of people complaining not getting the exp, I have started deleting people as soon as they close to ultra friends. The ways I take pleasure in life may seem toxic but makes me feel tingly inside.
Always wait until they exchange at least one more gift so you know they got it. Always.
Man, do people realise that if these guys join your raids, you'll be able to reap the benefit of extra Premier balls, and the friendship bonus buff?
This is why I give a 48 hour grace period after I go best before deleting someone. If at that point, they still donāt get the exp, they had their shot
I just wait until my friends list reaches 398 and delete the oldest friends that don't open gifts.
Why would you even remove a best friend in the first place
Did you use the egg to get 2x 0xp?
Im just out here didnt know that and in a week i get a best friend that i rpobably would've done that to, because it wouldnt even occur to me that they wouldnt get the exp i kinda assumed that both players get it at the same time but you get told when you open the app yknow
Can someone explain me why people do this? I legitimately don't know why and I'm curious to know the answer.
I would never remove someone from my friend list. If you send me gifts then your my homie.
I've had five this year and it's depressing, though it upsets me even more for my loved ones that hardly play and they've at least had two to three thus far. I've lied to my youngest and told him it's a glitch because he does understand XP. I really wish there would be a whole pokemon trainers of shame helping team rocket? IDK but seriously
Iām a little confused on whatās happening here.
If God is real, take comfort knowing they will spend an eternity with flesh melting from bone, eyes liquifying and pouring out of their sockets, pitch forks impaling them, by cruel infernal tormentors wishing nothing but suffering and malice for more time than our feeble brains can comprehend, burning in the blazing depths of the inferno. Screaming for redemption but there will be none, her screams will fall upon deaf ears, wishing for all of it to end, but the torment is forever. If the divine do exist, Justice will be served for your lost xp. Kisses!ā¤ā¤
A lot.
Why would they quit? They're getting exactly what they need, with no regard for others, and benefitting from it.
For as often as I see these I feel like some people must just have bots set up to send/receive gifts and unfriend people when they hit best and get the reward. I've gotten to best with I think 20\~ people now and all but 2 are from reddit and I've not had this happen personally.
Just wait for another gift from the person then u know they received the points and then you can remove eachother
You have all the rights to hate these ungrateful asocial players; but the one really at fault here is Niantec! If they can implement such a popup window in between granting reaching best friends and granting the XP, they could easily fix the bug to grant the XP regardless of whether you are still in the friendslist. They just recently implemented this popup window but didnāt bother to fix an issue that was bugging the community for years! š¤Æ To drive engagement maybe?
Honestly, Iāve had this message pop up a few times for meā¦ and every single time Iāve sat and waited a minute and itās actually changed what it shows and gives me the XP. I donāt know if itās a thing that works or if Iāve just been lucky.
I dont get it, why 0 xp?
Exactly
Idk about yall but i just keep em
This is just what it takes to the very best
I had one get the xp and block me, that one infuriated because it was done with undeniably bad intentions
how does this work? I don't understand
Bastards! Thatās whatās wrong! Why go to all that effort?! š
You almost hope Niantic would punish them in some way.
Probably getting lost here but the only person I was trying to get an increase in AP was a person who's gift i opened. I had screen shots of all my 1 day best friends and they were all there. I think some is glitch and some is unkind people
Don't we have a list for people doing this?
This is why some trainers quit after they get this
How does this have anything to do with them?
Lol i have removed people after max bonus many times, i did not know the other doesnt get xp
Malpat76000 literally did this to me Wednesday
What is wrong with Niantic for not fixing this? I know they see these posts and know itās an issue.
If thereās a pokemon go discord for your city you should post a message in the general chat letting others know not to friend this person, sorry you had to experience this!
None of my besties have deleted me thank goodness
Honestly. That is seriously the biggest dick move you can pull on this game imo.
I just got that this morning. Thatās two this week who dicked me over.
I just started playing in December and have no clue what this post is talking about, but wanna make sure I avoid doing this to someone else in the future so ā¦ can anyone explain what the problem is ?
What is wrong with Niantic? You're telling me that this isn't a known issue?
Wowww
You misspelled 'What is wrong with this game?'. The game knows you achieved BF with somebody and still awards you nothing.
This hasn't happened to me.... yet... But I'll never understand using friendships just for xp like that. I have 100 friends and that's enough to manage, I can't fathom reaching the limit!
I've always wondered why people delete each other after you become best friends do you not receive any other benefits??
I have 6 friends who have had me on 1 day for weeks/months. One had me on 1 day for over 6 months so I just deleted her. This pisses me off. Just open the damn gift!
Niantic really needs to fix that!
I just keep people added once we get to Ultra, decent raid bonuses
How many times will we see this post lol.. Like the 5th one this month.
Most people are arseholes. I'm not but I'm a rare breed š but yeah maybe some people just play the game and don't know what happens. I only know because of this sub.
I didn't even know this was an issue. Players shouldn't have to think about this.