The scientific papers doubtless take time to define their terms. ;-D While I'm posting the equivalent of fannish alphabet soup burbling about FK: IBs and UFers and FIHS and PotM and LK...!
Long story short: For the past 3 weeks, the game's makers have been releasing 1 powerful, story-heavy, limited-time-only, "legendary" pokemon per week. Catching each is a 2-part challenge: (1) coordinate and cooperate with enough other players to collectively beat a huge, mega-strong version of the pokemon, and then (2) individually capture a smaller, scaled for player-versus-player version of the pokemon.
The base capture rate is extremely low (~4%). Even the best players can get it only so high (~25%).
These engagements -- "raids" -- pop up randomly between sunrise and sunset local time, at various real-world locations, most often in parks or near public art or landmarks. They last 1-2 hours, but there's no way to plan ahead for them. (Those of us who mostly work between sunrise and sunset are a bit limited, and the northern hemisphere has been watching our window narrow over these weeks.)
Today, to everyone's surprise, the makers of the game introduced into this system (with some gameplay enhancements) one of the most powerful and famous/infamous pokemon ever. They also brought back, for the rest of August, the pokemon who had previously been billed as one-week-only availabilities.
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Long story short: For the past 3 weeks, the game's makers have been releasing 1 powerful, story-heavy, limited-time-only, "legendary" pokemon per week. Catching each is a 2-part challenge: (1) coordinate and cooperate with enough other players to collectively beat a huge, mega-strong version of the pokemon, and then (2) individually capture a smaller, scaled for player-versus-player version of the pokemon.
The base capture rate is extremely low (~4%). Even the best players can get it only so high (~25%).
These engagements -- "raids" -- pop up randomly between sunrise and sunset local time, at various real-world locations, most often in parks or near public art or landmarks. They last 1-2 hours, but there's no way to plan ahead for them. (Those of us who mostly work between sunrise and sunset are a bit limited, and the northern hemisphere has been watching our window narrow over these weeks.)
Today, to everyone's surprise, the makers of the game introduced into this system (with some gameplay enhancements) one of the most powerful and famous/infamous pokemon ever. They also brought back, for the rest of August, the pokemon who had previously been billed as one-week-only availabilities.