Trainer Lodge

[urban zinc]

You can put them in different teams tho, which is kinda weird

[jovial moon]

Yeah bit it's nice to have 2 lussa/lillies in my expedition 😁

[jovial moon]

Coz they have such good stats

[void lintel]

The Masked Royal's true first name must be Professor. Yes, he is Professor The Masked Royal. It's why he cannot share a team with Professor Kukui.
(Oak's first name is Samuel. Sycamore's first name is Augustine.)

[urban zinc]

wait sycamore has a name ?

[clear beacon]

Now this is a much better team A
It has 4 fire type Pokemon in it

[urban zinc]

Sycamore has a name only in english and the brazilian anime

[urban zinc]

Maybe you'd prefer something like that lol, same chest but +5 in red

[clear beacon]

Kukui and Burnet are married
But are still referred to by their last names, because they’re Professor Kukui and Professor Burnet

[smoky wave]

man i wish there were more units with +3 chest than mr or limited villains that i dont have

[urban zinc]

you don't need them to do good 10 chest teams tho

[clear beacon]

Cool

[smoky wave]

but itll make easier to lvl10 the other color

[swift basin]

I have +3 chest units but I never used them to get to +10 chests in both teams

[smoky wave]

i want lvl10 red and chest

[swift basin]

the extra +1 is not needed and the drawback on crystals is heavy

[urban zinc]

eeeeeeeeeh

[smoky wave]

i managed one team but the other is at +7 red

[clear beacon]

Red: 5
Blue: 5
Yellow: 5
Chest: 7 and 9 (with boost on 7 to make it 9)
Thus shout buff is still useful

Just the way I like it 🙂

[fringe sky]

What is the optimal way to do interactions? Which items should I be buying for them, and do locations matter?

[orchid glade]

I answered it on my guide

[fringe sky]

Ah, I couldn't find and guides when I looked but it was a few days ago

[orchid glade]

I don't think locations do much besides giving a chance to see the hot topic

[orchid glade]

I only just made it tonight

[fringe sky]

Nice! Thank you!

[orchid glade]

that's the guide 👍

personally wouldn't buy items for interactions until you got slot one and two open

[stiff ruin]

Thank you, this makes sense now

[fringe sky]

I do have all 3 expedition slots if that is what you mean

[sharp solar]

All 6, you mean?

[orchid glade]

yes then guide will work fine for you

if you bought them

not the free ones

[jovial moon]

Is there one in normal text or a website

I can't open it on my phone

[fringe sky]

Yes, I meant that I bought all 3 extras

Thank you for the guide! It says to get all expedition items, right?

[orchid glade]

Well it has images in it, lost is going to make it into one later

[jovial moon]

Ah okay

[fringe sky]

And how about the point doubling items?

[orchid glade]

I am surprised your phone can't open it as mine can 🤔

[fringe sky]

Well not quite doubling. Point multiplying items is what I mean

[jovial moon]

I don't have Microsoft apps in my phone

Or I didn register for it

[fringe sky]

.docx formats are tricky

[orchid glade]

I don't also

I use built in app

called docs

[fringe sky]

I usually export .docx files as a PDF

[orchid glade]

I open it with this

[jovial moon]

Oh okay

Mine looks so weird

[full osprey]

Was it a bad idea to full-invest in just rare caches or should I rework my setup?

[orchid glade]

I could probably convert to PDF if it will help

[nimble olive]

Is it better to use all interactions at once or one at a time?

[orchid glade]

ye the app doesn't open it right

[jovial moon]

I'm wondering tagt

[fringe sky]

Converting to PDF with also avoid whatever is going on with Middy hahaha

[orchid glade]

Going to do it now

[jovial moon]

Like maybe once I am familiar with the reaction choices I'd go all 6 at once

[orchid glade]

before I sleep

[nimble olive]

All interactions at once seems like a high risk very high reward method

[jovial moon]

Ty eevee

But no rush

[orchid glade]

no problem 👍

[jovial moon]

I copied the link to open it later on on my pc

[violet lintel]

No 🔵🟡 combo for Alola?

I am currently 10/0/8+2 and needs this for 10/1/8+2

[formal forge]

So from your guide, it sounds like you recommend insight specs + feel ring for sure. How would you rank the remaining items (Boost Juice + Dig Shovel). Also, which level of gifts do you recommend between Bronze and Silver? (Gold is too expensive, I assume)

[orchid glade]

Boost and Shovel are nice to use but also uses materials for items to gift your interactions for 20% extra attention

hope this is better

[fringe sky]

Is this true? I was gonna go for gold because I was excited to give my boi Blue an awesome present :'[]

Thank you for your help Gaming Eevee ❤

[orchid glade]

No problem

thanks for the suggestion will remember it for future

[formal forge]

Do you normally by silver gifts? 6 silver gifts a day seems quite expensive…

[north solstice]

Do the extracts make the crystals and rare cache appear more frequently or does it just up the level? Bc I feel like it makes the items appear more faster

[formal forge]

6 gold gifts a day would be 6000, which is quite a lot imo, but maybe it’s possible to farm that much

[void lintel]

[jovial moon]

[void lintel]

It took around four resets to get the Max Vibes on turn 2

[jovial moon]

This is amazing

Oh resetting is a thing?

[void lintel]

Sort of

[jovial moon]

Can u reset right before they cut you off?

Or

[void lintel]

There are measures in place to make it less effective

[void lintel]

This, we cannot do.

[jovial moon]

Is there a guide for it

[void lintel]

The instant you choose the dialogue choice that would end the interaction, it autosaves clientside

[jovial moon]

Oh

[inland axle]

Holy crap

[void lintel]

So even if you're on airplane mode, it'll just remember the result and report it to the server next time you connect

[orchid glade]

nope probably only get two and use whenever I get below 80%

[jovial moon]

So if I see bad options I just reset and my items don't disappear?

[void lintel]

I mean, you could do it like that and then completely delete and reinstall the game to prevent the bad convo from being recorded on the server

But that's... kind of a bit much

[blazing sapphire]

Yes

[void lintel]

What we do instead is weaker.

Step 1: skip Boost Juice

Step 2: use all other items, prepare presents, etc

Go into the convo. Try to get Max Vibes by Turn 2 (first attention drain is after turn 3, so the first 2 turns are perfectly safe and cannot drop the convo)

[orchid glade]

Yes I've resetted when I forgot to use items too

[void lintel]

If you do not get max vibes by Turn 2, reset

[jovial moon]

Ah

[nimble olive]

All you need to do to reset is close the game right?

[void lintel]

Yup

[jovial moon]

Wait what does max vibes by turn 2 mean

[swift basin]

when you go to convo again do you start over or from the last choice?

[void lintel]

The game will go "hey, your convo was interrupted, here's all your items/interactions back, go ahead and try again"

[nimble olive]

Why is the boost juice skipped may I ask?

[jovial moon]

I need to choose the right event on turn 2?

[void lintel]

...Max vibes mode.

[void lintel]

Yes

[jovial moon]

Ah okay

And reset is basically just to get the right hot topic category?

[orchid glade]

cause you can get 20% plus to attention gifts instead

[void lintel]

Hot topic category doesn't matter as long as you're vibing at the start of turn 3

Doesn't matter which category as long as you hit max vibes before turn 3...
...we do this to skip buying Boost Juice, you see

Saves 600 of each tier2 crystal a day.

[nimble olive]

So this guarantees a good outcome essentially

[void lintel]

No.

It just means you can skip buying boost juice

More tier2 crystals to spend on presents

[nimble olive]

Ah I see

[orchid glade]

Presents are better for 1.3x points

[void lintel]

If you do wanna splurge and buy Boost Juice, you might want to dodge the Hot Topic and choose it on turn 3

Max Vibes prevents the convo from failing on the turn you enter it, I believe

[orchid glade]

You do only want it turn 3

first two are free

[nimble olive]

Hopefully I'll be able to get some higher points using this because I've been super screwed the past two days

[void lintel]

The reset method tries for Max Vibes on Turn 2 simply because of the chance that the convo will terminate after turn 3

...Because we aren't using Boost Juice

... ... ... Gods that sounds like steroids

[blazing sapphire]

It does seem a very very minor optimisation though

[orchid glade]

I use boost juice 😆

cause I get tons of silver

[blazing sapphire]

Also is boost juice one off? I assumed it applied throughout.

[void lintel]

I mean you can only Max Vibes once per convo

[orchid glade]

yes once off for juice

[void lintel]

So yeah, it may as well be one-off

[worldly ivy]

I swear I cheered for 1 team like 3-4 hours after reset and the cheer already wore off and the other team refuses to get a cheer prompt I hate this

[void lintel]

I'm wearing six novelty toy glasses and six novelty toy rings, and juggling six novelty toy shovel microphones, but I will not stoop to using novelty toy performance-enhancing drugs

[magic scaffold]

5/5, EX Cynthia

[void lintel]

Lv40 unlocks... Lear's manor for an Interaction destination

Should I be worried that Lusamine might start side-eyeing the kid who's """dating""" her daughter

[magic scaffold]

TBF, Lear's manor is practically a public place since it's the site of the Battle Villa event.

[pale marsh]

real

[void lintel]

Yeah, it's just super classy and stuff

[pale marsh]

i only have 3/5 EX

[magic scaffold]

Yeah, I went pretty hard on her debut banner back on New Year's 2020.

[urban zinc]

Is the ring really useful though

[sharp solar]

You mean one of his manors

[void lintel]

The neat thing about the holofoil effect is that it does shimmer as you tilt your device from side to side

To simulate real holofoil

[magic scaffold]

12 hrs. since I last claimed any expedition drops: 49 rare caches waiting.

Yeah, it's pretty nuts that that got implemented.

[void lintel]

Now that Lillie's past Lv30 (by a helluva margin), tomorrow I start chatting up Cynthia x5 and then finishing with Lillie x1 (to ensure I get Lillie as the most recent Interaction so she's the one who gives me a daily login gift) until Cynthia's Lv30+ herself, I suppose

[jovial moon]

So most recent interaction gives you a gift?

[void lintel]

So I hear.

[jovial moon]

[void lintel]

I'm not real sure what'd happen if I uninvited Lillie from my Lodge

But I don't wanna fuck around and find out

[smoky wave]

-1 candy coin

[blazing sapphire]

I suspect nothing happens

[urban zinc]

How does the most interaction matters tho ? They give different stuff ?

[void lintel]

No, I mean

Who gives the gift that day

[north solstice]

Ayo can someone tell me if this is true or not?

[sharp solar]

Mind Chatting with Cynthia now? I want to test if it affects the gift.

[void lintel]

Absolutely false, the interval is one drop-attempt per minute

[void lintel]

Just the Chat button?

[sharp solar]

Yup

[urban zinc]

Well increasing level increases the chance to get something and the amount of what you get so... Yeah ?

[void lintel]

Okay. You'll know if it redirects the daily gift to Cynthia because I will ping you to complain about it

If no ping happens, it was still Lillie

[sharp solar]

Ha

[jovial moon]

[sharp solar]

At least that'd save people's time and resources if it's true

[void lintel]

"Oh, were you expecting a gift from someone else?"

[jovial moon]

[vestal kraken]

Does the amount of points ever get higher between levels?

[void lintel]

At Lv40, it's still only 100pts to 41

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1012298913279127582/1013951789499940967/Screenshot_20220829-192040.png

You can see 35/100 there

[north solstice]

Shake you HOW ARE YOU LEVELING UP SO FAST

[void lintel]

Cramming all six interactions in at once and getting lucky on that convo

[smoky wave]

im fairly sure that just the chat button doesnt affect it but do check giga what could go wrong

[urban zinc]

That's what I did today
It didn't go well lol

But I'll do it again tomorrow

[void lintel]

It be like that sometimes...
Hell, it be like that most times

[late sluice]

could someone help me set up my expedition teams? I just got my last slot, skimming through here i've read its not optimal to just go 10/10/0/0 and 0/0/10/10 so if possible could someone educate me a little? My targets for max friendship first are blue and N if that changes anything

Thanks in advance

[sharp solar]

Wait, actually

Why uninvite Lillie

When you can uninvite Cynthia

No Cynthia means no gift from her

If you leave only one pair in Lodge, you should get the gift from them, no?

Fairly simple and doesn't cost anything

[jovial moon]

im interested in this ans too

[vagrant tendon]

Hello! I see that level 9 rcache gives the same things as level 10. Does level 10 raise the rates for rarer caches or is it completely pointless?

[sharp solar]

Rates, yes

[vagrant tendon]

Gotcha! Thanks!

[vestal kraken]

Huh so maybe getting to 100 won't be really hard.

[past dune]

that's definitely lucky

I figure at minimum like 5-6 levels a day but you can get lucky and get 15 which is huge

I wonder if higher friendship level makes the chance for interactions to drop lower? 🤔

it definitely feels like it lasts longer or maybe that's just my brain

[pale marsh]

Has anyone really gotten 15 streak?

I saw 14

I mean it's possible with gifts i think

[covert crow]

Blue and N’s items both use fiery crystals, so the yellow and blue ones won’t see use for awhile. Rare cache the most important because they drop the fourth tier stones needed for refreshing interactions/best gifts. Idk if this is optimal but Im focusing both on just fiery crystals and rare cache (since im doing Silver -> Blue.) That way I can afford enough tier two gifts to give to Silver each day (and even some three tier.) So my advice is focus both expedition teams on rare cache and whatever type of crystal you need for gifts for the character you are maxing. But then again idk what really is the most “optimal” because i havent really followed the guides.

[pale marsh]

But the RNG looks insane

[late sluice]

Ohh alright, tysm! I'll have my first team focus on mostly firey and cashe then

So something like this?-

[void lintel]

That looks great, actually

[glad acorn]

Sometimes I hope Feel Ring throws me more Hot Topic so I can try out my conjecture that "Hot topic is the way" for highest streak

Something like
1st talk - 10 pointer
2nd talk - Hot topic (start max)
3nd - 4th talk - 10 pointer
5th talk and so on - Hot topic to decrease stamina attention drain

Like, which is better? 2 hot topic 7 points or 1 offtopic 10 point?

Theoretically the 7 pointers are the better pick, but the whole thing is a jenga the more attempt you go at it

Players : Yes, I managed to shave off -8% by picking two 7 points! I can do th-
Pair : Sorry but I gotta go (80%)

[lucid steppe]

To be fair the solution to this feels like the old fire emblem rng rigging problem all over again
Where the developers had to force the game to lie to the players about the actual rates so it feels better to play

[void lintel]

The ironically-nicknamed True Hit days, huh

[glad acorn]

Let me guess. The 99% chance but miss rng?

[lucid steppe]

Yeah

[void lintel]

IIRC the True Hit games did two acc rolls and you hit if either of them land

So a 99% displayed hitrate was 99% x 99%

So the actual miss rate was... 0.01%

Or something like that

[lucid steppe]

Yeah which made players feel better because 99% now almost always hits hahahha

[void lintel]

I think it might've inverted the idea for hitrates at or below 50% (if either roll misses, you miss)

Just so that rates above 50% really feel like a majority and rates below 50% really feel like a minority

[lucid steppe]

Yeah

[void lintel]

Exactly 50% was probably just... literally 50%

[lucid steppe]

DeNA clearly hasn't learnt from their FE console counterparts

[void lintel]

Eh, more recent FEs stopped doing it anyway

[lucid steppe]

I know

[void lintel]

IIRC it stopped with Awakening, and that one is extremely Fire Emblem-y

Hm, maybe the Radiance subseries didn't have it either?

[faint plank]

anyone got tickets from chests? seems like its really low

[rancid lance]

Absol has posted the rates

it's like 0.5% on a gold chest

[granite bronze]

What's the meta once you get all 6 slots?

Full lucky chests?

[worldly ivy]

Wait is there a link to absol's post about it????

[wide sorrel]

Yeah

[rancid lance]

probably, but you still wanna be able to farm everything else to get items for interaction and friendship levels

[worldly ivy]

O pins were updated nvm

[rancid lance]

and chests are unreliable for getting mats

[granite bronze]

What would be an optimal team?

Are there pics?

[rancid lance]

there's team recs in the doc in pins

[wide sorrel]

You get more bronze and silver then you need once you reach 6 slots

[glad acorn]

Resources are still finite especially for tier 2 stones unless you pool up teams for the same color

[void lintel]

Or spread your expenses across colors, perhaps

I might need to have a chat with May just to expend all these yellow crystals

[fierce mica]

double cache is the way

[late sluice]

zamn 60k coins batman

[severe river]

I have once

[glad acorn]

Waiting 4 more hours to collect my stash

I'm legit wondering how feasible is a level 100 within a week from now

I saw a level 40 Lillie before

[ivory forge]

ok so I need blue crystals for rosa so I have a 1/1/9/10 team, but im not sure if I should do 1/1/5/10 for the other team for more blue, or 5/5/1/10 so I dont get a bottleneck on the other crystals

[tepid stone]

aww N's lv30 story is very sweet

[marble hemlock]

with two level 10 cache teams both using omni extract, you should get more than enough bronze and silver crystals for the daily glasses/juice/shovel/ring (can skip juice tbh)

[glad acorn]

What are your team build? I go with 10/10/10/10 (2 teams) and still need to worry about tier2 stones

[marble hemlock]

9/1/1/10 Team A (hoenn) and 10/1/1/10 Team B (Alola). don't have SS Giovanni for 10/1/1/10 on Team A

^average daily rates

[glad acorn]

You still manage to keep up with yellow and blue crystals? Incredible

[marble hemlock]

2 lv10 chest teams gives ~1500 silver crystals for all types (on average)

[glad acorn]

Since level 1 only gives out 720 tier1 stones per day

[marble hemlock]

the charts are per team I think

bronze crystals feel kinda useless beyond 1200 per day, and you can get ~1400 daily with 2 omni

[glad acorn]

I'm more concerned with the tier 2 stones

[versed birch]

Love using 3 interactions and all 4 items and having it end on 3rd round at 92%. Great design, much fun.

[marble hemlock]

for feel ring and boost juice? or attention presents?

[glad acorn]

Mostly for feel ring, but attention present is gonna take more for tier2 presents

They are like 400 a piece

I think I am dropping the juices to at least cut costs

Feel Ring is definitely a must have

[marble hemlock]

with two 9/1/1/10 teams, it should average out to:

3400/1400/1400 bronze crystals
3500/1500/1500 silver crystals
1280/280/280 gold crystals
25/25/25 full crystals

that should be enough to afford 6x glasses + 6x shovel + 6x ring. and also 5x silver attention present + 1x gold attention present

[glad acorn]

How do you come up with 1500 silver crystals? Because my count is hella low

[marble hemlock]

lv10 chests averages 763 of each type of silver crystal per team. so daily rate of ~1500 for 2 lv10 chest teams

[glad acorn]

Okay, I think i get it

[jovial moon]

qn does it matter if we open it every few hrs or keep the rewards and open em once its almost full

[lucid steppe]

Probably not

Unless you somehow accumulated 30k worths of stuff

[glad acorn]

I just want to see how much a day will accumulate because math

[jovial moon]

ah okay

[glad acorn]

Hot diggity dog. I guess I got convinced

[lethal marsh]

Is there a guide to get such multipliers without failing to keep the conversation going?

[random portal]

oh hey look 🙂 https://pastebin.com/kcDAuih5

oh it's in the pins already

[glad acorn]

Yeah, we saw that

[void lintel]

"Get lucky"

...Wait, the multipliers?

[random portal]

I was at work all day today

[void lintel]

x6 is just because I used 6 interactions at once

[glad acorn]

This was my response to seeing the rate, but now that the crystal yield is clearly more profitable. I think I will switch out later #1012298913279127582 message

[void lintel]

x1.3 is just because I gave a silver-tier gift

[lethal marsh]

Yep. You made it from lvl 25 to 40 in one go

[void lintel]

"Without failing to keep the conversation going" is just... lucky

The multipliers had nothing to do with that

[lethal marsh]

Oh

[void lintel]

I could have theoretically gotten those multipliers with, like, a score of 50

That would have sucked

[lethal marsh]

What was your strategy?

[glad acorn]

I guess I will pool for double chest later, and maybe focus on blue when I sorely needs them

[void lintel]

Save Boost Juices by doing the conversation without it; resetting if Turn 2 didn't give a Max Vibes

Conversation is incapable of ending until at least Turn 3 because that's when the first Attention drop is, you see

So if I reset before then, I get my stuff refunded-- guaranteed

(Game autosaves clientside, the instant you pick the topic that ends the convo-- so you can't savescum the whole convo)

(...Unless you delete the game entirely and reinstall it I guess)

[glad acorn]

Thanos : Was it worth it?

[short peak]

Is it best to go full chest on both teams? I haven't got anything really good from them yet

[alpine flare]

How about I delete it entirely but never reinstall it

[short peak]

I've unlocked all slots

[glad acorn]

Estimation math shows that they are more profitable than 10-1-1-10 & 1-10-10-1 teams

[jovial moon]

so double chest is superior for now?

[alpine flare]

But more rng

[jovial moon]

true ._.

[alpine flare]

Maybe You wont get any silver or gold you would’ve gotten

I prefer one chest one balanced

Just to ensure I have the silver to buy the rings

[jovial moon]

hmm true

i guess i dont really need gold that much

[alpine flare]

That’s actually also true, high tier gift is kind of excessive

Maybe I will try 10/0/0/10 and 0/5/5/10 if I can make the second one

[glad acorn]

Tier 3 crystals are hard to use since the presents are expensive too

[tulip birch]

Btw, is there a difference between cache lvl 7 and 10? Seems the same all the way up.

[alpine flare]

Yes, drop rates are drastically different. See pins

[void lintel]

Droprate on each chest

[tulip birch]

Oh wow ok

[void lintel]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1012298913279127582/1013821255113257011/unknown.png

[glad acorn]

Number of chest on average per day
Level 7 - 15 + 9 + 2 = 27 (Lower tier first)
Level 10 - 22 + 15 + 7 = 44

Yeah, almost half

[tulip birch]

I'm trying to balance red/yellow on one team, blue/cache on the other

Damn that's huge

None of the 5 slot teams have a build for rare cache yet

[marble hemlock]

the tier3 presents also bait you into waiting until 70% attention. it might be better statistically to use tier3 presents around 80~84% and "waste" the attention refill, but still get the 1.5x point multiplier. (otherwise the chance of them leaving before you can use the present is around 50%)

[glad acorn]

Waiting for 70% is the epitome of winning big ||Then you get 95%'d because of course ||

[alpine flare]

I don’t like how presents reroll the topics

[tulip birch]

How does the attention meter work? There's a chance of your sync pair ending it early basically, and that increases as it goes down?

[alpine flare]

It’s not like I use a present when the topics are bad, I just need to refill the %

[glad acorn]

Think of it like this. With 95% attention, it means you have 5% to get your interaction cut off

And get used to that

[tulip birch]

Oooh, ok

[void lintel]

Also, consider a hypothetical convo whose attention meter goes 100% --turn 1--> 100% --turn 2--> 90% --turn 3--> 80%
If it fails at the 80%, the guest leaves before you get a chance to give a silver-tier present to refill it...

And there's a 28% combined probability that the convo ends on the 90% or the 80%

Now remember that you'll eventually get 6 conversations per day

3 by default, 3 more from the shop via tier4 crystals

[glad acorn]

Well, I guess at least the comfort is that you can save the items for the next day. It hits worse when you spend the items, then get rejected

[void lintel]

A 28% chance is going to happen on average at least once per day

So yeah, folks weren't kidding when they said to get used to the idea of convos cutting off early

[void lintel]

For what little it's worth, you get a present every day from a Lodge guest...

So it's not like the gift-giving is fully one-sided

[glad acorn]

I mean, I know I would be seething if I spent 6x presents and the pair noped out

That said, any consistent 1-1-10-10 yet?

Maybe we can forgo omni-boost just to get the Rare boost

[void lintel]

0-0-10-10 with Rare Extract seems much more doable, yeah

Rare boost pairs are often annoying to build around...

[glad acorn]

Well, they turns out to be valuable

[void lintel]

With Team B, that'd require 9 blue and 7 rare, right? Let's see...

[marble hemlock]

there's 0/0/10/10 Team B, but it's expensive (SS Kris, SS Gio, Silver, Lillie, Lana/Kiawe, Plumeria/fill)

[glad acorn]

SS Gio? That's a nope then 🪴

[void lintel]

Unova and Kalos have the +6 Wistfuls, but not enough rares that don't bite into the Wistfuls in the same region...

[covert pivot]

I mean you don't really have to build around all types once you get all six slots. There'll be one type you want a ton in and two you want silvers in, plus chests should get some love at least where you can.

[keen wolf]

Got Sonia from Trainer Lodge reward

[glad acorn]

Damn, now that's luck

[keen wolf]

Double level 10 rare caches don't dissapoint

[glad acorn]

Newcomer "But how we assemble double rare? "

[flat lantern]

So now that i unlocked 6 slots, what should i do noiw?

what should i prioritize

[glad acorn]

To be fair, there are lots of f2p villains

[covert pivot]

Well first off, who are you going after? You probably want at least one 10 of their gift type on your teams, I run 10 of it on both.

You also probably want a very good amount of chests.

For the two non gift types you prolly only need 5-6 once of each to maintain items.

[glad acorn]

Level 7 - 15 + 9 + 2 = 26
Level 8 - 17 + 11 + 4 = 32
Level 9 - 19 + 13 + 5 = 37
Level 10 - 22 + 15 + 7 = 44

[flat lantern]

i dont think im understand

i literaally dont have that much idea bout the lodge

[steel crag]

So what’s the meta? Double chest?

[glad acorn]

Apparently so

@steel crag #1012298913279127582 message

[void lintel]

0/0/10/10 Team B Rare Extract looks like... SSLusamine, normal Lillie, Lana, Kiawe, Plumeria, Gladion

Though you can replace any three of the non-Lillie non-SSLusamine characters with off-region equivalents

[covert pivot]

I mean there isn't a wrong way to do it, pretty much choose to focus on your chosen trainer's gift type (Like firey for silver) and/or chests

[void lintel]

Since Selene isn't on the team

Ah wait, hm. Forgot to deduct my Omni from the blue score

This is gonna get c u r s e d

[flat lantern]

So, can anyone help me with the lodge?

i have started building friendship with cythia

[void lintel]

We reeaallly need a +3 Rare Support pair

So that its penalties won't fall on Wistful

[void lintel]

What did you have questions about

[flat lantern]

I unlocked the 6 slots and i dont reallty know what to do

or what to go for

[void lintel]

Stack Lv10 in your favorite pair's color (Cynthia is Strike so that's red)

And Lv10 on Rare Cache

Use Omni or Rare Extract to help this

You have two teams; both explore at the same time

Team A gets +1 bonuses to red and yellow

[flat lantern]

i got 2 teams of 6 and i have every single color item on 10

2 on each team

[void lintel]

Team B gets +1 bonuses to blue and rare

Some people do that, sure

[covert pivot]

That's fine

[void lintel]

You might run short on silver-tier crystals for Cynthia though since it's a little too well-balanced

[flat lantern]

what are the accesories for?

[void lintel]

What accessories

[covert pivot]

tbh you'd prolly just want slightly less of yellow and blue to get more of red and chests on those teams if possible.

[flat lantern]

good hair accesory

gifts i guess

[void lintel]

Click the icon to see its description

[covert pivot]

That's a gift, you give it during an interaction to increase attention again and to multiply the reward at the end.

[void lintel]

Remember when the tutorial made you give a sun visor to Rosa?

Hair Acccessory is Cynthia's equivalent

[glad acorn]

Hmm, I think my next project is coming up with two teams of 10 colors and 10 cache

[void lintel]

Gifts partially replenish Attention, reshuffle the convo options you currently have (so you can mulligan a bad set away), and provide a score multiplier to the whole convo

[glad acorn]

So that's 6 teams

[void lintel]

Bronze, Silver, and Gold tier, ranked in order of effectiveness

(...and cost)

Bronze is easy to afford thanks to Omni Extract giving you constant income in all color types

Silver is a little tricky to afford 6 gifts for 6 interactions daily

Gold is definitely not possible for every interaction

Sprinkle one in whenever you can afford one

[flat lantern]

My interactions always finish so fast

and i grt all super exciting

dont understand

[covert pivot]

tbh you make a good point, maybe getting 10-0-0-10 twice if your target is firey for example is better than trying to balance in some silver for the other types.

The drawback would be that you couldn't use silver items help items really, but idk how useful those actually are all the time.

[glad acorn]

Gold is special as in once in a blue moon

[zealous osprey]

Nah that’s a 0/0/9/10 with rare extract

[void lintel]

Yeah I mentioned that

I forgot to deduct my +1 Wistful from Omni

[glad acorn]

Double cache provides around 1500 great crystals per day, so that should suffice

[void lintel]

So to get this to work, you need cursed stuff

[glad acorn]

Each color, mind you

[covert pivot]

mm, aight guess that would prolly work.

Welp, time to see if my teams can even sustain such a thing. Prolly possible or close to it.

[void lintel]

Gonna need to build up a buffer of each crystal before you count on it, of course, to survive an RNG drought

[tulip birch]

What's the current consensus for good help items?

Insight specs?

[void lintel]

Affordable. Use them as a mainstay

Oh those

[covert pivot]

I mean bronze are just super cheap so you might as well use em

[void lintel]

Just use all of them unless you're willing to use the savescum method, in which case you can skip Boost Juice

[tulip birch]

Bronze yes

[glad acorn]

Juice is skippable. Rest is core

[tulip birch]

Skip juice ok

[void lintel]

Specs and shovel microphone may as well be free

Bronze is so plentiful

Juice and ring cost silver, and that's actually worth noticing

[tulip birch]

Presents looks like silver is preferable?

[covert pivot]

btw, have yall found more success targetting down the +10s or targetting down the hot topics?

[void lintel]

Yeah, should be barely able to afford 6 presents per day if you play your cards right

If you can't, you can downgrade to bronze for a day

Or flip to a different trainer to spend other color crystals that day

[tulip birch]

Would have to hyper focus on the element

I'm spread throughout all atm

[glad acorn]

It's jenga no matter how you cut it but I think hot topic is better because less attention loss

[tulip birch]

Flipping not a bad idea

Maybe I should do that

[void lintel]

If you do flip around, take heed of one thing...

The daily present-from-a-trainer gift in the lodge-- its drop pool is determined by that trainer's friendship level

[glad acorn]

Attention drops increases the higher the topic count goes, and hot topic halfs the drop rounded-down

[void lintel]

Upgrades at Lv10, 20, and 30

So try to get one trainer to 30 before you start spreading around

[glad acorn]

Say, you are supposed to drop -11%. Hot topic only -5%

[void lintel]

I hear that the most recent guest you Interacted with is the one that gives you the gift on the next morning....

[glad acorn]

of course we don't know if DeNa does decimals

[void lintel]

If this is true, you could spend the next couple days giving 5 interactions to "someone else" and then the last 1 interaction to the Lv30+ guest

...My gut says it just goes by "highest friendship level among guests at the lodge" but idk

Whoever said it was Most Recent Interaction might've had a good reason to say that...

[covert pivot]

I mean the trade off would be you get half the gain if it's 5 vs 10 topic

But ye prolly safer to do 7 topic if hot over non hot 10, or 5 hot over non hot 7

[void lintel]

Remember the additive Excitement Building bonus

In the lategame, it's not 5 vs 10

It's more like 5+4 vs 10+4

[covert pivot]

Well closest I can get is 9-0-0-10 and 10-0-0-9. Might be possible to get both to 10 with more diversity but don't think my current pool can handle more.

Fair

[void lintel]

Hm... how about this? Go to the Potential & Move Level menu like we usually do for roster screenshots.
Filter for Strikers, post that roster. Clear the filter, and re-filter for Rival + Villain + Battle Facility Foe

And maybe we can figure something out for you

...Actually I wonder if that's still the standard way to do it, with the new Upgrade interface...

[carmine lake]

Optimizing teams with only 5 slots is driving me crazy lol. Is there any possibility of getting 9s (10 with the boost) on all reward rates with the two teams? Best i’ve come up with is 0/9/8/1 and 8/0/0/9

[covert pivot]

Don't worry I get how building it works, I just don't have any other units.

I have only 2 options for "Good" reds since I only have one Johto chest for morty. As for chests, I only have +2 ones.

Alola was close, but the last chest I needed from it woulda been -2 red so had to make the last one off region and lose one or use gladion and lose a net one.

[sharp bramble]

I’m still not sure when exactly to reach maximum vibes haha

Second topic onwards?

[covert pivot]

Still gonna try running it, every cheer will let it be max for a bit I suppose.

[glad acorn]

That's the gist since the first two topics won't cost attention. Imagine if they did

[covert pivot]

I mean you can just get booted after the max vibe phase anyways

[glad acorn]

That too

[eternal mural]

How are my expedition teams

[wind badger]

So im starting to feel like focusing on Rare Cache isnt great in the long run

Im more closer to running out of silvers than i do of crystals

1200 bronze, 1200 silver is needed for all interaction items a day. Plus 1800 bronze of your specific unit of choice for gifts

[covert pivot]

I mean tbh it's not too hard to run a decent amount of chests with 6 silver of types you care less about and 10x2 of the type you do.

The question is do you care more about potential bonus rewards from chests or the silver items.

Both options are viable tbh

[eternal mural]

Help

[covert pivot]

They're fine, balanced well. If you hop between trainers prolly works well.

If you target a specific trainer tho you may want to target their type + chests. Can also sacrifice some chest levels for more silver of the lesser types to guarentee items if you wish.

[marble hemlock]

you can skip the 6x boost juice if you feel low on silvers, but double lvl10 chest should over-sustain daily silver crystals (on average)

[wind badger]

I thought it would, but have been getting mostly green crystals for 2 days

[still finch]

Blue prefers red stuff right? Just got my 6th slot and making rare and red level 10 teams

[covert pivot]

Yes, it's based on if they are striker/tech/support I believe

You can also check in shop

[still finch]

That makes sense

[wind badger]

Also why skip boost juice?

[marble hemlock]

temporarily change one of your teams to 8/6/1/9 (on Team A) or 7/5/1/10 (on Team B) if you have the units (Steven, May, Archie, Maxie, Wally, Noland)

you can only get max vibes once per interaction

my guess it's base 50% chance of max vibes if you pick a hot topic

[covert pivot]

Boost juice is fine to get, but may see less use I've heard. In general priority is the hot topic over more popular topic apparently, and if you know it you should reach it anyways.

[steel crag]

Apparently you can reset on the first 2 turns of interaction for max vibes, thus juice is not needed

[wind badger]

Fair points

[steel crag]

But I ain’t got time for that

[wind badger]

Thats 600 less silvers needed though lol

[steel crag]

I was able to afford it tho

[covert pivot]

I mean I'm not gonna bother resetting but even without resetting it may not be super needed.

[wind badger]

I am too, but kinda just breaking even lately while doing lvl9/10 chests

After a while, you get too much Green cyrstals. That it’d take you several days to go through

[marble hemlock]

you can use the green/tier4 crystals for level cap unlocks in the longer-term

depends how often they add new trainers

[wind badger]

What do we get past lvl 100 though?

Just lodge stones im guessing?

[covert pivot]

Ye

I think main reason chests are run so much is you can get tickets and the like

[analog furnace]

I’m perfectly comfortable with this setup, but one thing:
Anyone have an idea for a build that gives 10 on the red instead of yellow?
E.g. 10/1/1/10, 1/4/6/10
*First team is B, second is A

I'll try to make one that works alright myself ofc

[covert pivot]

Not with SSR Cynthia as the +3, since she subtracts from red.

[analog furnace]

I can rare boost

Would that still allow for 10?

[covert pivot]

Not really, at least with the units I see in A. Again, I don't really know your guys.

[marble hemlock]

10 Fiery/Red/Strike and 10 Chest
Team A - 10/1/1/10
SS Lusamine + SS Giovanni + Masked Royal/SSR Cynthia + Nate + Marshal + Alder + omni

Team B - 10/1/1/10
Selene + Lusamine + Hau + Guzma + Plumeria + Kahili + omni

[analog furnace]

Hold on, think that sent out of order

No SS Giovanni, no Nate, no Alder

[covert pivot]

It really depends a lot on your guys yeah

[marble hemlock]

alt teams
Team A - 9/1/1/10
Steven + Archie + Maxie + Wally/Noland + Brendan + SS Lusamine/SS Giovanni + omni

Team A - 10/1/1/10
Selene + SS Lusamine + Hau + Guzma + Plumeria + Kahili/Hapu + omni

Team A - 9/1/1/10
Selene + Masked Royal + Hau + Guzma + Plumeria + Kahili/Hapu + omni

Team A - 9/1/1/10
SS Giovanni + Silver + Morty + Karen + Barry + Cyrus + omni
SS Giovanni + Silver + Morty + Nate + Bianca + Emmet/Anni N + omni

Team B - 9/1/1/10
Steven + Archie + Maxie + Wally + Noland + Brendan + omni

Team B - 9/1/1/10
Classic Blue + Giovanni + Jessie + Nate + Bianca + Emmet/Anni N + omni

Team B - 10/1/1/10
SS Lusamine + SS Giovanni + Bianca/Anni N + Nate + Marshal + Alder + omni

Team B - 10/0/0/10
SS Giovanni + Silver + Morty + Karen + Ethan/Kris + Barry + rare

[analog furnace]

Yeah naturally, alright hold up

I'll show what I've got for rare

Unfortunately can't do any of these

[winter galleon]

Got this with no cheer

[analog furnace]

[winter galleon]

I guess you could to 10/0/0/9 and just wait for the cheer/do rare extract?

[covert pivot]

Ye that should work fine. There are really just a few key units you really need to make it work or several specific less rare units you may not have all of.

[zealous osprey]

are those generated by program?

[marble hemlock]

no, spent a couple hours theorycrafting looking for 2 teams of 10/1/1/10

[winter galleon]

Because you have base Lusamine if you do all Alola you could easily get to 6, then just do Hapu for 9, the rest with cache

[covert pivot]

I mean I'm running 10/0/0/9 and 9/0/0/10 or some combo of it so I'll tell you how it goes.

[winter galleon]

I had a bad experience with 9 on Rare Cache so I always do 10

[analog furnace]

Rare cache options

[winter galleon]

oof you dont have mr

[analog furnace]

ikr

[winter galleon]

Yeah if you really wanted 10 you're gonna have to do rare cache

[glad acorn]

when lodge of all places have a team building meta

[analog furnace]

I'm cool with rare cache boosting

[steel crag]

Sinnoh yellow+cache team

[winter galleon]

But that's still 9/10 unless you're doing Team A?

[glad acorn]

We math too much

[covert pivot]

same, hoping some pulls I do soon gives me the funny vgc cat

[analog furnace]

@steel crag

1 second sorry, brb

[steel crag]

But that’s like one of the best team comps for 10/10

[glad acorn]

Funny how Royal is now a must have pair. Then again, he is always solid

Oh, let's not forget Selene. The literal queen of lodge meta

since she's near to useless elsewhere

[analog furnace]

Missed what I said about 10 for red instead of yellow, then

[lucid steppe]

lodge meta lodge meta lodge meta

[steel crag]

Thing is idk if there’s a team for that

[lucid steppe]

my mina keeps staring at the distance

[analog furnace]

There definitely are, I just potentially lack the units

[lucid steppe]

I see this as an absolute win

[analog furnace]

alright be back in a sec

[glad acorn]

I hope they give out more 6s and 4s to entice players to go regional

[steel crag]

That would make teambuilding so much easier

[glad acorn]

Some being locked as limited pairs are definitely bruh moment. Looking at you, SS Kris

[analog furnace]

nvm, got my food, I'll be back a while later appreciate you guys all being around to help and give input to anyone when needed

[marble hemlock]

Team B - 7/1/1/10
Hapu + Flint + Barry + Hau + Silver + Giovanni with omni extract

that might be the best you can get for red+cache with f2p characters only

[alpine flare]

For sure, f2p only mean none of those +6 guys lol

[split jolt]

Also 6 red flag steven & metagross

[glad acorn]

At least Steven has rerun.

[split jolt]

Regretsss not picking steven on free select before

[glad acorn]

Many also regretted not getting Cynthia. Too much regret

[alpine flare]

Alder was bait

[glad acorn]

But think, Alder might get into Lodge

[alpine flare]

That’s true, there is definitely a lack of unovans in lodge

[analog furnace]

Damn really, only 7? I'll see if there's something

Non F2P characters that I have to make it possible, I mean

[alpine flare]

Selene enables my 10/0/0/10 set up no limited units

[analog furnace]

What's your team for that?

[analog furnace]

I'm guessing MR, unfortunately

[alpine flare]

Yeah

[analog furnace]

Damn man

I really do need him

[alpine flare]

Rip lol

[analog furnace]

The fact that I'm still 0/5 for him

[next junco]

Overflow with item for the reset

[urban flicker]

I will try team A and change Team B to go full chest to see if its worth it after a full day

[next junco]

gonna get lv 30 Lilie

[marble hemlock]

do you have Selene?

[analog furnace]

I have a 10/1/1/10 rn

Olivia/Guzma/Selene/Hau/Plumeria/Lusamine

[analog furnace]

Yup

I've got a cheer on, but I think that's about right without the cheer

[marble hemlock]

try this on team B

Team B - 10/1/1/10
Selene + Lusamine + Hau + Guzma + Plumeria + Kahili + omni

[analog furnace]

Essentially the team I have now I think, yeah

I think they give the same result

Since Kahili & Olivia are both +3 Red -1

[alpine flare]

Wow, that is better than mine with masked royal

[zealous osprey]

Double 10/10 teams?

[alpine flare]

But I no have guzma, heart breaking

[analog furnace]

Thanks for the help! Gonna double check my A team rn

[opal cosmos]

Is it ideal to fully upgrade a unit and then go to next one? Or do it bit by bit for every trainer?

[analog furnace]

I ended up figuring it out but still, I'm sure it helped

[next junco]

Cant 10/10 only 9/10 and 7/9 for blue

[analog furnace]

Issue is remaking Team A

[opal cosmos]

Help please?

[marble hemlock]

oops it is the same, my bad. didn't see your earlier message

[analog furnace]

You may as well, right? Get their new units sooner by focusing 1

[zealous osprey]

Impressive I only managed to get half the amount of yours today

[analog furnace]

Nah, you're all good, I think we both thought of it around the same time lol

[opal cosmos]

Ok thanks fam gonna focus fully on silver

[analog furnace]

Your team also works, except it's technically even more F2P friendly bc you don't have to use Olivia

I just slapped Olivia in bc she was the first thing I saw

[next junco]

ah no i only get 6 glass, 6 shovel, 6 bronze, 6 silver gift between reset

[opal cosmos]

He's on level 10 while n was on level 4 now n can wait

[next junco]

Perfect number tho

Silver gift grind faster than i thought

Can afford to use 3-4 each day i guess

[analog furnace]

Gonna try to split Yellow with Blue now

[next junco]

Split with blue is hard tho

Most +3 chest unit -2 blue

reset in 1 munite... Can "hang out" again

[analog furnace]

I'll see if I can try to find something even close at least

[next junco]

i'm all ear

Ping me if have good team on that

[analog furnace]

Do be looking kinda rough tho...

[glad acorn]

One 10 Cache got me 10/11/12 stones. So my theory about 1 cache suffices for 3 interactions is spot on

[frank pelican]

So you can get lodge stones from those pokeballs that randomly appear on expedition maps. I just got 50

[glad acorn]

Yeah 1%

The same luck to pull a MF

[frank pelican]

OOF

[analog furnace]

Tfw you make a team that isn't quite what you were looking for, then realise it's impossible to find better, then forget what team it was

Either way, yeah, splitting that is really tough

[vivid trellis]

Nice, and i don't have og cynthia so it's a bit strange that i have her here

[frank thicket]

she pops up for me too

[next junco]

Ok my second pity

[glad acorn]

On the other hand, damn

[void lintel]

The Chat button did not change the daily gift from Lillie to Cynthia

[next junco]

I just played the game for 100 day

[void lintel]

Lillie actually did her special "giving an item" animation from her second cutscene

I wonder if all the lodge pairs have this animation

[glad acorn]

So like, the daily item is at the start of the day. Marnie won't let me interact until I claim it

And I was close to 30

[modest delta]

This is interesting

The Cynthia snapshot

[analog furnace]

I'm missing too many of the pairs necessary to even attempt splitting yellow and red with a 10 on cache

[crisp hornet]

yaaaay

[modest delta]

• tied to new Cynthia move levels

[crisp hornet]

N didn't wanted to leave on that one

[modest delta]

Wonder if they’ll make pairs just having a picture standard going forward

and only a few invitable

Guess ash wasn’t cool enough to get a picture

[crisp hornet]

I'm still surprised that ssr and ss cynthia can't get their o,n picture in lodge like ssa cynthia

[modest delta]

Or any of the costumes

What makes her special

[glad acorn]

Rosa is getting hers too

[analog furnace]

I can only get shit like 1/4/4/9 etc

[modest delta]

Is going for a split focus like that worth?

[glad acorn]

If you have Cynthia, you can pull off 1-10-1-9

[modest delta]

I tried to go as close to 2/2/10/10 on both

Cause I’m doing Rosa atm

[analog furnace]

Likely not unless you have particular units, and only then maybe depending on what you're going for

[modest delta]

Figured rare caches would make up for not getting silver materials for red or yellow

[analog furnace]

Bc I can do 1-10-1-10

But I'm looking to split the yellow into blue

[next junco]

Cynthia anni only give picture

[analog furnace]

At least I can get 2-5-5-10 with a cheer

[modest delta]

Blue is pretty hard for getting caches too

If we had chest units that didn’t reduce blue it’d be doable

Or if you have Lucian I think you can do 1 1 10 10

That might’ve been 1 10 1 10 actually

[analog furnace]

1 10 1 10 yeah

[clear beacon]

5/0/0/9
0/5/5/7 (+2 chest boost)

[modest delta]

Same as Aaron 😳

[clear beacon]

Thanks, I was wondering what she got

[modest delta]

could probably make a good team with her, Lucas Aaron and a few others

1 10 10 1 at least

[analog furnace]

I'd probably prefer 1/4/4/9, but thanks

[modest delta]

Not that you’d be going for no caches atm

[glad acorn]

DeNA "You want another +3 Rare? In your dream"

[analog furnace]

Used double interaction and he ended on 80 right before I gave him a present

Ouch

[modest delta]

That’s not terrible for an option

On B

Although I guess that’s same thing no limited

[analog furnace]

wait... have we concluded that location does matter? or it doesn't?

bc I just took N to the ruins, and saw "ruins" come up for the first time that I can recall

[modest delta]

Probably a pretty good general team for when cheering

[analog furnace]

yeah, not bad

I'm using 1/4/4/9, but that trades 2 yellow & 1 blue for 1 rare cache

I'm missing a few options for sure

[modest delta]

I’m a bit worried on how long it’s gonna be for the certificates of excellence

I guess that’s the benefit of the keys

another level up for lodge stones

[eternal mural]

Reached silver level 30

[twilit venture]

oh boy another funny Rosa face
x6 sure can be nice

[clear beacon]

Congrats

[twilit venture]

Tbh once you get the hang of it its decently easy to get 100 points with glasses + item

[quiet vortex]

Marnie just stopped talking to me at 95%

[clear beacon]

That’s just really bad luck :/

[modest delta]

Indeed

imagine the days where you splurge on gold gifts

[clear beacon]

How do you get x6 multiplier?

Seeing how it looks separate from gift multiplier

[modest delta]

multiple interactions at once

high risk high reward

needs a gift/item for each too

saves time but say they leave at like 95%

then youll only get like 240 for the day

[jovial moon]

is there anyway i can get 10-0-0-10 x2 easily wo cheers?

[viscid kelp]

Blue was so kind to me today,,,?

[clear beacon]

Ah, so you could either do all 6 interactions at one, or doing them one at a time

[modest delta]

probably if you have ss giovanni and ss lusamine

selene would also be handy

[glad acorn]

Not mine, but damn

[modest delta]

pretty pog

[jovial moon]

that is very nice

[glad acorn]

Definitely seems like we will be getting the first 100 at the end of the week

DeNA smh with players clearing their content fast

[twilit venture]

Wow

242 seems like absurd to me

[clear beacon]

The pain

[urban flicker]

I am about to do it

6x with 6 items and gift

[narrow crown]

same...

[clear beacon]

Ouch

[modest delta]

do reds just drop less

ive got way more of the others too

[modest delta]

heres an A team

[jovial moon]

is there a A & B team

im struggling with making a 2nd team

[modest delta]

only looked at A so far

but thats only alola

so might be a b team

[jovial moon]

i end up with 9 on one side

[glad acorn]

If you have sinnoh E4 and SSRC you can do 1-10-1-10 in team A.

[raw hare]

I jumped from 26 to 34... Thx to your resetting tricks

I get max vibes in all 6 interactions

[modest delta]

@jovial moon

cant see anything wrong with that

correct me if im wrong though

[jovial moon]

looks good is there one w/o ssgio 😦

[twilit venture]

Huh that means that for a while we'll be getting 5* tickets way more often

[modest delta]

probably not with the current unts

although i guess you could swap him for a +2 cache

[raw hare]

Marnie still practicing her smile till these days

[modest delta]

and use omni instead

just johto doesnt seem to have many +2 cache

[glad acorn]

We will probably empty the lodge in 3 months

[raw hare]

I won't get SC Rosa soon....

[glad acorn]

Everyone rolling MF while I'm still stuck on Archie/Maxie train

[raw hare]

NO...

NO WAY

You used ALL 6???

[modest delta]

oh wow there no johto cache units other than silver and ss gio

[urban flicker]

Yes

6 items and 6 bronze gift

[wary wasp]

ss gio bros we win 🤪

[urban flicker]

I resetted 1 time and triggered max vibes on 3rd topic

[twilit venture]

This is probably the best way to go about it tbh

[languid terrace]

she stayed up to 11% tf

[urban flicker]

I couldn't afford 6 silver gift

so I went with the bronze ones

[twilit venture]

I mean reset 3rd topic

[raw hare]

You know something... You literally passed my level.....

[urban flicker]

I think the higher your friendship level is, the lower chance they will end the conversation

[raw hare]

I still don't want to risk it

[languid terrace]

Idk, cynthia was lvl 28 and she ended at 96% right after max vibe

[crisp hornet]

Man even with lvl 10 everywhere, it's a struggle to buy silver gifts + items for the lodge

[modest delta]

not any 10 0 0 10 teams i can see without ss gio

i think you can do bronze most days

then splurge a few

with gold/silver

[crisp hornet]

Ypu have ss lusamine ?

[modest delta]

meant 2 10 0 0 10 teams

[crisp hornet]

yeah

oh

[modest delta]

in relation to this

[raw hare]

What items?? 6 glasses?

[urban flicker]

6 glasses, 6 shovel, 6 feel ring and 6 juice

[glad acorn]

Probably shovel, specs and rings

Juice is pretty finicky

[raw hare]

Ohh

[modest delta]

is shovel that worth it

[crisp hornet]

meh

[twilit venture]

Shovel is just chance

[urban flicker]

shovel costs bronze crystal

[twilit venture]

Ring is also kinda ehh

[modest delta]

ive been doing glasses and feel ring

[noble locust]

2nd day of crazy rng

[urban flicker]

you are not guaranteed max vibes even if you hit the topic

[twilit venture]

Because the chance of you not getting ONE in 4 interactions is just

[urban flicker]

without it

[glad acorn]

True but resetting can do that too

[twilit venture]

Ring is mostly because every time you hit the hot topic you get a perma multiplier

[urban flicker]

How can you reset, once you select your answer it's done

[glad acorn]

With juice, 1st hot topic leads to max vibe. Without, 1 to 3

[urban flicker]

if Max Vibes does not trigger then that's it

you have to close the game before you choose an answer

to reset

[glad acorn]

First two topics won't spend attention, but still I can understand having a fail-safe

That 600/600/600 is hefty though

[urban flicker]

yea I know

I'll see how my resources will be tomorrow, I am doing a full chest team at the moment

[glad acorn]

Apparently 2 chests are definitely worth it if great crystals is the aim

So we need to come up with 6 teams of 10 one color and 10 cache

[urban flicker]

before, I was doing Team A 10/10 on 2 colors

and team B 10 on one color and 10 on ches

Now I switched to both Team A and B on chest and 10 Red

[twilit venture]

Tbh with this logic glasses are useless

Since you can just reset until you hit the hot topic accidentally

[modest delta]

i think it caps your resets

[glad acorn]

True, but bronze is cheap so you can just pay for them

[modest delta]

says like "after 10 itll be lost"

or something like that

you should have plenty to do 600 bronze every day though

assuming even running 1 in categories

[glad acorn]

Bronze crystals will probably reach 99999 fast

[urban flicker]

^

might as well use items that just cost bronze crystal

cause you farm those like nothing

[glad acorn]

Funny how we used to have not enough on day 1

[modest delta]

went from 0 to 100 very quickly lol

[hollow frigate]

How did you get that x6 multiplier?

[modest delta]

oh i forgot to claim all my items from scouting

cant wait to get ssa cynthia foil card

[glad acorn]

All interactions. He spent all attempts for the day

[modest delta]

saves time and is probably better if you can be bothered resetting

(you should)

[hollow frigate]

so the 6th one gets x6? I've never noticed it

[modest delta]

its just doing them all at once

instead of 1x1

[glad acorn]

All in ||And ready to fling the phone to the wall when you get 95%'d |||| Even worse if you just spent the present too||

[urban flicker]

I bought the Extra interaction from the Exchange shop

[twilit venture]

Truly we are playing gacha

[urban flicker]

so I used all 6 of them at the same time

[twilit venture]

If you fail a conversation at 95% doing a single pull would give you a 5*

Its less likely lmao

[modest delta]

Who out here with their foil ssa Cynthia

greyed background truly a grand incentive to ex

[hollow frigate]

thanks!

[glad acorn]

Hot take - 6EX loses its meaning after lodge since they literally throw 180 power ups at our face

[modest delta]

im not complaining

[ashen wasp]

yeah, that take quite a bit to get

[modest delta]

until they make 7*

[void lintel]

Aura Cynthia is a Support so she's great to EX anyway

I had amazingly blessed luck with Cynthia today... 5 interactions got her from 1 to 14, and fhen Aura Cynthia popped up on fhe first multipull on her banner

[modest delta]

decided to bless you

[void lintel]

Guess I should expect to have to go all the way to pity for Red

[ashen wasp]

ha, nice

[modest delta]

i did her in 6 multis

probably going for rosa next

[frosty juniper]

This is once again a good step in our friendship

[ashen wasp]

I'll get Red first, Cynthia will have to wait a bit

[modest delta]

want that lodge friend snapshot

filling that out is the real goal of masters

not gauntlet or csmm

[void lintel]

I mean, it almost makes sense with how Masters keeps telling us to build friendships n' stuff

[frosty juniper]

I also want to mention I got 2 omni extracts from blue

[void lintel]

That's pretty valuable for a daily gift

[frosty juniper]

It very much is

[fickle fox]

Rosa gave me three shovels

[urban flicker]

I passed Lv30 friendship level with Rosa, that means starting tomorrow I'll have a ch ance in candy coins

[fickle fox]

also I did like a x6 interaction today and I got the hot topic twice but it didn't trigger max vibes

[urban flicker]

you didn't used the Juice, right

[fickle fox]

yeah no juice

must be it

[urban flicker]

You don't trigger Max vibes just because you hit the hot topic

it may not trigger, unless you use items

so it's a must in my opinion

[fickle fox]

[frosty juniper]

I have 4 more interactions today and Blue is at level 30

Let's see how far I go

[fickle fox]

at least I got to 37 today

[frosty juniper]

Y'know, I kinda feel like your response time is somewhat connected to if they'll drop

Whenever I play quicker, I have a bigger chance of them staying than biding my time

[lethal marsh]

definitely the lowest I've went so far

[frosty juniper]

I'm not too sure though

[sharp solar]

So, next thing you can try is interacting with non-lvl30 pair 6 times, uninviting everyone but lvl30+ pair, waiting for the gift.
Care to try that?

[void lintel]

I already did my 6 interacts (5 for Cynthia and 1 for Lillie afterward)

[frosty juniper]

If you've used a gift, that'd immensely increase your points

[void lintel]

Someone else will need to test it

[frosty juniper]

Well I'm going all the way and all of my present have come from Blue, so I'm out

[sharp solar]

Or we can skip a day

[last trellis]

every since i started delaying my max vibes, Cynthia just ends early 💀

[urban flicker]

You should always trigger it at the 3rd topic in my opinion

that's when the attention starts to drop

and if there is no hot topic option, reset

I will do again a 6x interaction tomorrow

[quiet vortex]

And this time Marnie literally didn't stop talking to me until 0%

[wooden marsh]

Less than 20 mins to go till I collect my chests

[quiet vortex]

Oh btw does SS Cynthia give you another unit also?

When you get her to 100?

[frosty juniper]

It's also partially because the hot topic will decrease the attention drop, so they likely won't end the conversation after the max vibe

[marble hemlock]

has anyone seen Partner Pokemon or The PML as topics from Cynthia?

[lethal marsh]

Partner Pokemon is super exciting for Cynthia

[marble hemlock]

I've never seen it as an option yet. same for Ninjas and Veteran trainers. even with hot topic as Other and feel ring active

[frosty juniper]

It is very much just rng, guess you're just a bit unlucky

[marble hemlock]

it might honestly be worth soft resetting Cynthia interactions until the hot topic is places

Cynthia has like twice as many topic choices for Places, and I haven't seen specific topics repeat within the same interaction

[sonic stream]

So it seems easy enough to maintain enough items to get x6 interactions everyday and all 6 having the 4 boosts, and occassional character specific multiplier gifts. So you basically guaranteed 6+ friendship levels per day

[urban flicker]

Rosa as well

she has so many gold topic for places

it might be worth it

[modest delta]

i dont know why theres so much unova stuff

i guess N and rosa are unova

but its still a lot

[sonic stream]

So at peak efficiency you basically get 2 characters to lvl 100 each month. Meaning in less than 5 months we need them to add new characters

[icy wagon]

Not everyone will be able to do peak efficiency

[lean river]

??????
Man just dip right after max vibe

[icy wagon]

Would argue even not most

[lean river]

95 dude

Not like that, not cool

[modest delta]

i mean the level ups dont stop after 100

[lean river]

[frosty juniper]

What's that compared to bp pairs when they first came out?🤔

[modest delta]

still need to unlock level cap

and get certificates

[frosty juniper]

Yeah but having more pairs means more opportunities for lodge stones

[modest delta]

i hope they do add new pairs

but still can get lodge stones from caches and level ups past 100

[frosty juniper]

Sorry I meant rewards other than lodge stones

If we consider that we could only get 60 per day when bp pairs came out, then bp rewards came out shortly after

[modest delta]

the actual good rewards 😳

[frosty juniper]

We'd average around 70-80 per day

[modest delta]

trying to make 2, 1 10 1 10 teams atm

got one

[frosty juniper]

3 cycles to get 3 master bp tickets is 30k points

30k divided by 80

[lean river]

He just doesn't want to talk to me huh?

[frosty juniper]

About 375 days

Or 125 per Master bp unit

It could be a lot less than that, so let's say 100 days

5 months really isn't all that bad for max friendship for the sync pairs

[frosty juniper]

Have you been using the boost items?

[modest delta]

thats with a silver present too lol

[lean river]

x1.3

Right after i give present and pick 1, he leave

90 and 95

[viral slate]

Going all out sometimes works

[frosty juniper]

Not the gifts, the boosts

Like the ones you activate before the interaction

[icy wagon]

Did you use all interactions at once or what

[frosty juniper]

It's a x6

[viral slate]

Yep, 6 interactions lol

[frosty juniper]

So looks like it

[lethal marsh]

I kinda risk using all interactions

[lean river]

Ya I afraid blue just leave me on 90 when I do x6

[lean river]

Only glasses

But if they want to leave on 90 or right after max vibes with 95
Idk there's anything I can do

8 lv tdy, 6 interactions, 6 glasses, 4 pendant

[frosty juniper]

You'll want to use the others so that you can get max vibes with just 1 hot topic

There's a main strategy listed here

[lean river]

I pretty much did tbh

Only 1 interaction didn't get max vibe

Out of 6

[frosty juniper]

Are you using the guide to get all of the super exciting prompts?

[lean river]

This is after max vibe and I give present from 80 to 100 then he leaves after 1 -10%

[lean river]

I get max vibe on 3rd pick -5%, then he leaves right after max vibe

Just bad luck

[frosty juniper]

Wow, never really happens to me