Happy New Year to all Pokemon trainers!

Just decided to write a quick little blog on the future of the game and my opinions regarding what to do while we wait on Gen 2 and the Legendaries.

By this point the game is just over 6 months old and we have seen a few events, some great such as double xp and some average such as the increased chances of babies from eggs for a week.

I am beginning to notice more and more people are “completing” the Eurodex every day and are just waiting about on the babies to appear. Unfortunately, the only way to increase your chances of getting them is to spend more and more on the game (Niantic gotta drive revenue up somehow I guess).

Personally I am waiting on Igglybuff, Pichu and Smoochum although as I have mentioned before, I am not too bothered about getting them although it will be nice for dex completion purposes. I am happy to wait it out and not spend extra money on the game for more incubators as the way the babies were originally introduced was a blatant cash grab in my opinion and Niantic only rescued that situation by increasing the chances of receiving them for a week. All in all though that event wasn’t the greatest we will see.

Onto the next stages of the game and things to do whilst waiting for Gen 2 to appear (excluding collecting the candy for the new evolutions as you should already be doing that).

I have now started working my way through the medals, I have 9 Gold medals left to complete, 3 of which are the Rattata, Pikachu and Magikarp medals which in my opinion will be nearly impossible to get gold for.

I am hopeful Niantic will alter the medal achievement levels as I can see it taking years for people to complete the three mentioned above, unless going out deliberately hunting for those Pokemon. However attaining these medals will give no advantage in the game other than pride so a hunt for them is not using your time efficiently.

This brings me on to my next point which is regarding the most important medals to obtain a gold on for the future of the game. As we will at some point have the chance to obtain the legendary Pokemon Mew, Mewtwo, Zapdos, Articuno and Moltres. I believe the most important medals to get are the Psychic, Electric, Ice, Fire and Flying as you will want to have the best chance at catching them.

I’m almost ready for the legendaries to appear and gain the best catch bonus for them. These medals are important to have in the game as they actually impact on the gameplay through catch rate rather than just be for collection purposes like the aforementioned Pikachu, Magikarp and Rattata medals.

Further to the point above regarding changing the difficulty levels of some medals I would like to see the addition of two new medal tiers for catching 500 and 1000 Pokemon of that type respectively.

Currently I have most types in gold medal but some have been ridiculously easy to achieve such as the Normal and Flying ones (cheers Pidgey). However, for most of them I have between 200-700 Pokemon of each type caught so some new levels would give a bit more to aim for and encourage trainers to keep collecting more Pokemon. This also offers better bonuses for trainers therefore having less rares running from people (looking at you Venusaur, far too many of them running during that event).

Anyway, I hope this will give people a little bit of purpose in the game while waiting on the Legendaries or Gen 2 to appear. I will now enjoy this freezing cold weather looking for some Ice type Pokemon to get that gold medal. In saying that, Articuno and Zapdos must be behind this thundersnow we are due to receive so keep your eyes peeled for any sightings of them soon ;).