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Here's a few simple suggestions, some may be undesirable, but you got to think of the bigger picture and what could be more healthy for this community.

1. Let people join any round at any time during the day. Basically just let people see how much they click in the span of 10 minutes at any time during the day at their own leisure. This would immensely solve the lag issues as it would really spread out the load, since a ton of people would be doing their SCEs & clicking whenever. You aren't going to effectively solve the lag otherwise, even if you add back the limits we had before.

1a. If number 1 happens and goals are met, then make 3x happen the following day after at the hours that would correspond to where the rounds are now.

2. Just do away with the 100% shiny eggs, let people get the shinies with full odds luck. Yes, it would de-incentivize people a bit especially for us more hardcore players really wanting them (even including myself), but if the 4 Pokemon are here to stay for a long time there, then people will eventually still get some shinies, and on top of that they'll still remain valuable, and there won't be a ton of drama and fighting over who's really getting them (we have enough of that as it is). The prices of the normal eggs seem fine too, and most people could still get a few at least every month, so I think it would be fine. It would really give the event a more casual feel which would be great.

3. For everyone's sake REMOVE the captchas while people are doing their SCEs and they are active. When the site lags and they pop up they are just horrendous and slow you down a ton especially when images are failing to load, and not everyone gets hit with them, so it just creates an unfair advantage simply due to RNG. They're literally just a pain during this time.

That's all I got on my mind, and wanted to share for now. Also, please no hate.

Thanks for reading.

i personally think only 3 is a real issue ... not only during sce but in general

1 sounds bad to me as i think the token system works
2 the lag i am on mobile and can cope the lag it mostly is about the personal connection snd ph serverstability , yet if we crushed the server ph would be down for an unexpected time

i had more issue with ghosting pokemon (non clickable as their hitbox just wasn't there) than anything else + having the option to decide what you want to get is awsome to me, i can easily get my regulars without worrying and IF i want to get a shiny isn't a problem either sure their value is extremly cut this way but hey value is for the greedy imo

so yes to 3 in general no to the rest on my end

Just going to say that I 100% agree with ARtai0S on this one, I love the idea of being able to choose if I want the shiny or not. As a non-premium user (because I can't buy the nuggets) I that the legend shiny hunts are long and very tedious especially without the premium boost so being able to get my first shiny legend in a way that I can afford and will feel good about achieving.

I can cope with the lag also, it's not the end of the world. Yes it is annoying but determination is being rewarded with the points. The lag never bothered me, I have only had issues with those "ghosting pokemon".

I feel like part of 1 " Basically just let people see how much they click in the span of 10 minutes at any time during the day at their own leisure." Is ruining the point of a SCE.

1. Any round? So it's 2pm, and I want to join the 10am round. And then immediately after that, I want to do the 4pm round. The rounds are spread across the day to give everyone a chance to join.

1a. Totally disagree with this. I like the immediate reward of 3x, not having to wait for the next day for it to appear randomly.

2. I like being able to save up my hard earned tokens to go for the shiny, rather than having to do (yet another) shiny hunt. Also avoids the serious bad luck chains. You save up for 100 eggs with SCE tokens, dont get a shiny. And the next SCE is a month away. You would be forced to wait, not able to hatch most things until you did SCE again to get more eggs. Just to keep from breaking that precious chain you built up.

3. THIS I AGREE WITH. Okay, SCE is when people are likely to use cheating methods... But it really hurts legitimate players.

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I agree that the 'Who's that Pokemon' thing needs to be removed.

Yeah, it's still pretty bad with those captchas... Something really needs to be done about them, since you can still easily lose a few minutes because of images not loading, and clicking a wrong image that hasn't rendered yet isn't worth the risk of getting flagged down. It has to be by far my biggest complaint at this point in time.

I'm happy that SCEs are more doable now than from last time though, it is indeed less laggy and I'm seeing less complaints from users which is a good thing.

If the images on the captcha aren't loading then just click on any of the three. I can promise you, the server is smart enough to figure out that you are not a bot even when you clicked the wrong one during an SCS :)

Quote from Riako

If the images on the captcha aren't loading then just click on any of the three. I can promise you, the server is smart enough to figure out that you are not a bot even when you clicked the wrong one during an SCS

Whew this is relieving to hear, and is insightful. Thank you for the response, Riako! ❤️

I really love the idea to click for your 10 minute intervals at any point in the day, with my time zone, I lose about 5 SCS rounds, and that's not counting if I go to work that next day, too! It would help lag a lot also, I think, and can still run on server time while also giving other time zones a chance to participate in all the events.