Me: only has "evolve x lab 'mons" task
Also me: hatches lab eggs and mindlessly releases them instantly every time

I was so focused on hatching Ground-type eggs that I didn't even notice I hatched a Phanpy and thus cleared the big task, lol.
Well hello Great Tusk

A'ight, closed the test server again for now. Thanks for all the error reports, I will work on fixing everything that's known by now :)

Please help me test out the new server (login credentials are in the comments)

Note: The server is running on a 2 weeks old version of our database (so welcome back to the past :P). Anything you do on the test server will be reset and will not count for the "main game". But pay attention and don't confuse it with the main server! The test server has a big red banner at the bottom of every page.

Let me know in the comments in case you find anything that doesn't look right. This is a first test run and I will most likely leave the server open only for a couple of hours.

We've hit 10,000,000,000 global interactions!! 🎉

Melting 🥵
In other news, where are the Ground-type eggs, Prof. Rowan?

Lab go brrrr

Anyone aiming for shiny Mew this year? 💪

FYI: Just like with the most recent events/updates, tomorrow's anniversary post won't drop immediately at midnight. I want to be online/awake when things go live.

The Mew Plushie event starts at midnight, however, so you can or course already get some of these. But there's no rush

I wonder what Greg the Gem Collector would look like as a plushie... 🤔
Show us in our Plushie Drawing Contest!

Is PH really turning 11 in two weeks? 🫨
It's starting to become older than some of its members

New event dropping today

Or should I say old event :hmm:

What's everyone working towards right now?
I'm too lazy to shiny hunt 🤧

I'll try to start the next event distribution sometime tomorrow :)

When do you want the next event?
And should it be dingdong, boomboom or chhhhiiiaaaah-kkhhrrrr?

100M interactions left before we reach our milestone of 10B total interactions!

What's your prediction - when are we going to achieve this goal?

Was my prediction off?
If every active member does around 22k interactions today, tomorrow and on the 21st, we will reach the goal 🤡

In our recent spriting contest, participants were tasked to create Emera/regional variant 'mons for future events. The staff has voted on these submissions and thus we now have a finalised ranking.

However: Some of these entries (of high quality) are slightly more Event'ish than Emeran/regional variant types. They are certainly good, but it feels weird labelling them "Emeran".

So we've got two options and you can decide via the poll on my profile:
Option A: We release the best four entries and some of them are labelled regular events instead of Emerans.
Option B: Sprites that are deemed not "Emeran/regional" enough are disqualified. This strongly reduces the pool of good-quality submissions and thus we have less 'mons to release/less winners.

Let me know when you're ready for the next new Event Pokemon 😎
(And let me know what you think it'll be)

Data-oriented analysis of the event (more thoughts in the comments):

- We've had 1,639 active members* during the event period

- 782 members collected at least 1 Gimmicoin, that's 48%
- 353 members collected at least 99 Gimmicoins, that's 22%
- 89 members collected at least 999 Gimmicoions, that's 5%
- 1,063 members found at least one Gimmighoul, that's 65%
In total, 323k coins have been found, that's 31-times enough to fully evolve shiny Gholdengo

To some this might sound like low numbers, but is actually quite high in comparison:
- 688 members obtained a Kubfu egg in its event distribution
- Approx. 500 members found Kyurem this year
- 542 members sent out a Valentine's card this year

In conclusion, I'd say the event didn't result in super activity spikes, nor was the activity lower than usual. In my opinion, this was a good start (see comments for future ideas)

* at least 30 minutes of cumulative game time during event period