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Hello! So, 2021 halloween event was, well, i would say is kinda controversial thanks to the new event. I think that the main issue is that you can only get sweets from trick or treading (which is limited) and from clicking, so yeah, we have not much option for getting enough sweets before the end of the events, also clicklists thend to get slow when a lot of people use them so umm :/ (More info about the problem here)
Okay so, i thinked, what if we got more ways of getting sweets, but whitout afecting the fact that the event is a Shiny Mega Event?
And this is my proposal: Why not invite emera town residents to the next halloween events? On this year we got dream world, so i dont think there is no reason that we cant get sweets from other places like game center or berry garden
These are my ideas how could they work, ill include their halloween item incase is needed for nerfing

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Okay so, i was thinking that the way you could get candies, could be that only once a day, the ditto could be replaced by rowan whit a disguize and if you click on it you will get some sweets, i think it could be between 50-80 sweets.
Daycare
You will receive a random amount of sweets per 5 eggs you adopt. i think the amount should be fair between 30-70.
Route 53
Item: Vampire Teeth
Honey tree: This include spoilers, so ima put it on spoilers, if you dont want to get spoiled, pleace skip to honeycombs

Honeycombs: You will receive one sweet per honey you get and 10 sweets per super honey
Moomoo ranch: You will get random amount of sweets by feeding your miltanks.
Tall grass
Item= Sweet Radar
everytime your egg radar finds a patch of grass whit an egg, one piece of grass will have a bag of candies hiden. The amount of candies depends on their time and number of patchs.
Easy: 10
Medium: 20
Hard: 30
Alola, galar, rare: 40
Unown: 50
Starter: 70
Legend: 100
Safari Zone
Some pokemon will be carying sweets, if you catch them you will get the sweets
[b]Emera beach
Los Seashelos: You will get between 3-5 sweets for every meal you eat. You will get extra candies if you tip
Leah: Everyday she will ofer you some candies for certain pokemon, after you trade you cant do that trade until the next day.
Berry Garden
Item= Carved Pumkin berry
On bulletin board you will get offers giving you a lot of sweets as a reward. The candies could go between 50 to even 300 depending on the task.
Game Center
Item= Meowth Mask
Coin flip: There is a 25% chance of getting a candy when winning, the chance will get lowered acording to the amount of candies obtained on coinflips
Higher of lower: You will get a candy every correct guess after the first 5 correct guess
Treasure hunt: You will get 500 candies after opening the CORRECT chest
Lotery and Golden Slot: You will get 10% of the gamechips won in sweets
Hangman: You can get a sweet per word, but the chance depends on lives left
6 lives: 100%
5 lives: 80%
4 lives: 60%
3 lives: 40%
2 lives: 20%
1 live: 0%
Concentration: You will get a sweet per correct guess-wrong guess, in case wrong guesses is higher it will turn into 0
Gem Collector
Item= Spooky Jewelry
You will get one sweet per 10 gems traded. Also everyday greg will ask you for some gems combination in exchange of sweets, like whit leah only one time per day
Royal Tunnel
Item: Jack o Litwick
Like whit gems, you can find sweets wile exploring the tunnel


Now, these are just ideas and the amount of sweets obtained is just a posible amount. Pleace make sure to leave your opinions and feedback :)

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Full support! I think this is really helpful for users who don't have the time to click for hours

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While I do support adding more ways to help complete events than just interacting and getting users to participate in more features on the site, Riako would probably have to re-balance the sweet prices depending on how many new ways to earn sweets would be implemented. I don't know how much a hassle that would be.

I like a number of your suggestions, but I also see some issues with some of them:

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Daycare
You will receive a random amount of sweets per 5 eggs you adopt. i think the amount should be fair between 30-70.

I'd prefer if this wasn't a thing due to potential unfairness towards some shiny hunters. Some pokemon, especially legends, breed way slower so users hunting slowly breeding pokemon would be getting way less sweets from the daycare for the crime of hunting the wrong pokemon at the wrong time, which is not great.

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Route 53
Item: Vampire Teeth
Honey tree: This include spoilers, so ima put it on spoilers, if you dont want to get spoiled, pleace skip to honeycombs

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Somethimes you will see the harvest sprites on the trees whit some jack o lanterns, you can click on them and they will give you some sweets. The amount is between 50 and 100 sweets
Note that is necesary to add honey to the tree so they appear. In case you dont have nappy, he can also appear as usual

This is less of an issue, but how luck-based would this be? Since a lot of users haven't been happy about having to rely on the RNG gods, I'm not sure if this particular sweet receiving feature would go over great. Though since it would be just one way of getting sweets, it wouldn't be a huge issue. Just something to consider perhaps.

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Tall grass
Item= Sweet Radar
everytime your egg radar finds a patch of grass whit an egg, one piece of grass will have a bag of candies hiden. The amount of candies depends on their time and number of patchs.
Easy: 10
Medium: 20
Hard: 30
Alola, galar, rare: 40
Unown: 50
Starter: 70
Legend: 100

This has the same issue as the daycare: shiny hunters. If your chosen pokemon to hunt doesn't have any eggs in the Tall Grass, you're not getting sweets from the grass.

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Safari Zone
Some pokemon will be carying sweets, if you catch them you will get the sweets

Since the Safari Zone is not accessible to mobile users, it might not be a good idea to implement sweets there.

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Game Center
Item= Meowth Mask
Coin flip: There is a 25% chance of getting a candy when winning

I don't know what the chance of getting a sweet is on single interaction, but this should probably be adjusted based on that. Since playing coinflip is kind of just clicking like interacting is. One probably shouldn't be significantly superior to the other.
(As for the HOL and Treasure Hunt suggestions, they're kinda luck-based games so unlucky people might find trying to get sweet from them rather frustrating.)

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Gem Collector
Item= Spooky Jewelry
You will get one sweet per 10 gems traded. Also everyday greg will ask you for some gems combination in exchange of sweets, like whit leah only one time per day

This is another thing that would be kinda unfair to shiny hunters, they would have no choice over what gems they'd like to trade. Sucks to be you if you're hunting a dragon type pokemon or a pokemon you can't buy from the Gem Collector.
Trades similar to Leah should be fine though.


Another thing to keep in mind when considering this would be how newbie friendly these different sweet gathering methods are. For example, a lot of new users might not have higher rarity Egg Radar Chips (or legend items) for Tall Grass and wouldn't be able to get as many sweets as older users.

However, at the end of the day, I do support the suggestion. It just needs some refining and further thought.

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Oh, another thing I realized: Some of these ideas are already kind of a thing through DP tasks. (You can play different Game Center games or fish for DP that you can spend to get sweets, for example.) I'm not sure if and how that should be taken into consideration.

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Since halloween is here, bump

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Support! This is a great idea but same as Finhawk this should be rebalanced.

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I agree that there needs to be a better way to get candies for most people who don't just whale there way into the new event Pokemon, I do have to disagree that there's just 3 ways of getting candies because there IS 4 and has been since before this suggestion was made. Nitpicking aside, I'm all for new ways for users to get candies! I recall there's at least one user this year alone who has to completely give up on the Halloween event for medical reasons because they just can't do enough interacting to make a difference. And the Halloween event is my FAVORITE distribution time!

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October is here so bump!

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I feel like 10% of gc from lottery is a bit op tho. It isn't hard to get over 100k gc per lottery. just 3.5k gc needs to be spent, and getting 10k sweets the next day is a lot. If I'm not wrong, a missing no. (aerodactyl) was 25k sweets last year, so 3 days is all it takes if the lottery was that op. Other than that, I think its fairly balanced :)

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A lot of those suggestions would be tricky, for all the reasons Finhawk pointed out, but one thing I do agree with would be Leah being able to trade for some. I think that in particular would be a great idea. If we incorporate her into events that are like this (Halloween sweets and Valentines Sweet Hearts both come to mind) then it would also potentially be a way to use some of those fish that never come up in Leah's trades, as well...

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