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I'm at level 62. If possible, get to level 100 by the end of the year as well as getting the 500 decor pikmin badge.

The new event has been a total pain in the ass. I keep doing mushrooms, but when i complete them i only get like 20 or 40 music notes. I haven't gotten any golden seedlings from the event. (previous events would give you like 200 to 100 event currency, or give out seedlings). It also sucks that event currency missions only award you with clothing instead of golden seedlings, which will make it harder to collect this months event pikmin.

I dunno if this is a coincidence, but the scopely acquisition was finalized on May 29th, and the event that is immediately after starts making it much harder to get pikmin.

regardless, here's to another 3.5 years, if the game lasts that long.

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>thread finally died

F guys.

Also post friend codes.

i havent actively played or kept up with the game in ages, but are there any plans on adding ice and glow pikmin? i heard ice pikmin were in the files, like a year ago at this point

>>1764024
Nothing official and all the leaks and data mining just shows new decor.

COMMUNITY DAY

EVERYONE GET YOUR STEPS IN

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>>1759990
>I keep doing mushrooms, but when i complete them i only get like 20 or 40 music notes. I haven't gotten any golden seedlings from the event.
Haven't had that experience, my mushroom challenges have been giving me 80 or more music sheets since day 1. Hope they didn't change it to favor higher-leveled players, that would suck. Seedling from item-collecting and mushrooms didn't start until June 6th, and it's just for the puzzles.
>I dunno if this is a coincidence, but the scopely acquisition was finalized on May 29th, and the event that is immediately after starts making it much harder to get pikmin.
Idk, I think my drops were already starting to suck around mid-May. Either way, I'm probably gonna drop monthly tasks starting in July (I'm only doing June because I like music and I was in a marching band in high school). Optimizing mushroom challenges for tasks or just power breakpoints is giving me mad, and it's also a headache trying to plant a specific kind of plant every day. I miss being able to just plant what I want, when I want to, without having to optimize everything that I do.

>>1764024
>>1764032
They added some assets for Ice Pikmin around a year ago, but they deleted them one update later.

>>1764216
Only got 8k steps on Saturday, so I had to walk another 10k on Sunday.

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where's my july datamine????

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>>1759990
I was so sad that i basically only was able to get one of the Nintendo console seedlings and that was it.
A lot of my friends stopped playing so its hard to coordinate large mushrooms on the weekends too for maximum output. I really feel like it went hard pay2win especially with tickets and racking up enough of whatever the month's material is to try to hit the level thresholds. There's not even a point to doing regular, non event mushroom anymore because there's no downtime between events.

I still enjoy what i've done with the game so i can't be too mad. Just a shame that I don't think its for me any more.

What gameplay mechanics could they add?

>>1771721
Right now, they really need to focus on tweaking stuff VS entirely new mechanics.

Events every month either need to be dialed back to every few months or just one a "season" (so 4 total for the year). You should be able to get the event materials from all mushrooms, to continue to encourage players to do them and just scale with difficulty (ie, you get less from small mushrooms, and more from large mushrooms but you still get some either way).

Get rid of the spin the wheel thing and replace it with something else. Using the materials you obtain you should be able to "buy" event seeds (both for the current event and seasonal relevant previous events). 100 step ones are still entirely random, but the 10,000 step large seeds should be more in favor of what you're missing. You're still "gambling" and will still need to play the game, but its a little fairer for the player.

Most everything else I think can stay the same. You can still moneyhat tickets to do more in a day, still pay to get flowers and maybe even sell bundles of materials too.

I think the costume stuff should all entirely be microtransaction cosmetics - there's never been one during event that I said "oh gee, I'm glad i got this instead of a seedling from the event".

After they fix existing bullshit, then they can focus on new stuff. I think there should be "combat" in the game in the form of like Bulborb or other enemy raids you can do with others. Basically same mechanics of the mushroom except you can "lose" (I would say the "fair" way to do that is to just have the pikmin return to you and you have to walk to repluck them. Maybe even a ding to friendship?) and at night they could add the Glow Pikmin and Lumiknolls you can send Glowies to.

I'd like to see other items to pick up instead of just fruit - fruit can stay to get nectar but it'd be cool to see like a battery you can bring back and it'd convert into event currency.

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>>1771721
They really need some other game mode or something. The only things you can do in this game are walk, plant flowers (i.e., walk) or micromanage tasks. There's no combat (mushrooms don't count) or anything else to do besides collecting novel decor Pikmin. One of the most appealing aspects of Pikmin to me was all the various creatures you'd find in the Pikmin world. We still don't have any bulborbs in this game, let alone anything besides Pikmin, mushrooms and Mii characters. They should at least add a pet system or some other way to bring them into the game, even if they don't want the Niantic game that's clearly more targeted to women over Pokémon GO to have fighting.

>>1771819
>Events every month either need to be dialed back to every few months or just one a "season" (so 4 total for the year).
Monthly events in general are just way too intrusive. Even if you're fine with spending the money to keep up with the monthly flowers, you still have to plant them, which can be pretty tedious if your main walking area isn't a long path with giant sprouts to benefit from. If you want to get all the free cosmetics, you also have to devote yourself to almost always doing event mushrooms, even if you'd rather do some large mushrooms to build up your rare flower nectar.

The new update introduces something called bird's eye view, it's extremely useful because now I can see what type of mushrooms and plants I can expect if I plan on going somewhere, not sure if it shows if a mushroom is currently being fought though. Great update!

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https://linksharing.samsungcloud.com/sP5gh1bM875K

Made a party walk foe the holiday weekend. Let's see how many steps we can get. Freedom to walk!

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Pikumin experts, is this true?

>>1779481
what does it say? the only thing i see is ntr

>>1779537
Each pikumin has a personality quirk just like it's physical quirk.
Red like reverse rape
blue likes crossdressing
yellow likes kemonomimi
purple is an overly passionate lolicon
and white is into NTR

>>1779560
alternatively yellow is into bestiality

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>>1779560
Pikmin are genderless little alien plant creatures. They have no want or need besides beating the ever loving fuck out of larger creatures when they're forced to and eating nectar

>>1776366
>tfw no one joined my party walk.

yall boring!

>>1780599
almost all plants have sex. None of these fetishes are related to reproduction.

Hey! Decided to try out Pikmin bloom, wanted to ask what the invite code does and if anyone has one they want to give :)

picked this up recently, it's pretty fun

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COMMUNITY DAY

https://linksharing.samsungcloud.com/sC4DaeMxEYZB

Totally forgot but why not start now?

missed community day whoops. Anyways when you guys invite friends to mushrooms, does it bother you when those friends use their bullhorn and invite others and take away spots? I have this happen way too often.

>>1786256
Nah, the more the merrier especially now with the 10 people invites

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Starting another party walk for this weekend. Hope you can join!

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>>1793541
>mfw someone actually joined

Yay!

What if instead of pikmin it was pikmon and they where all Jamaican?

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>Almost four years of this shit
>Game is basically unchanged outside monthly rollouts of new flowers and new decor
I hate that this game and Pokémon GO are the only GPS-based games worth playing nowadays.

>>1813271
Pikmin needs to add routs like pogo has.

The sticker pikmin are lame. Look ugly and its a bitch to fill the collection out

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What did Nintendo mean by this

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Made a party walk for community day this weekend.

https://linksharing.samsungcloud.com/y8KQGn15nnmB

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>>1830754
I actually never tried out smaller-scale Party Walks, but ever since the most recent update I've been getting invites from people on my friend list to do them. Joining this one too.
The Party Walks seem like a good motivator for getting steps in, since the weekly challenges become get finished way too soon even if teammates lag behind. It always sucked when Thursday-Sunday end up having no motivator since you breeze through it in the first half of the week. Sure, walking for the sake of is nice, but seeing number go up as you do it is even nicer.

>>1832974
Yeah I wish they would have a few more options for hardcore walkers.

Peakmin

So, that new short released on Nintendo's youtube channel
Totally Pikmin related, right?

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>>1859821
Confirmed

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Is there any kind of tool out there that allows you to search a world map for all available mushrooms? Especially since the bird's-eye view feature came out. I don't know how APIs or whatever work.

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Here's a code for this weekend's community day! Hope everyone can join!

>>1865359
COMMUNITY DAY PIKERS LET'S GOOOOOOOOOO

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>>1867356
Thanks everyone for another great community day!

ICE PIKMIN ARE COMING!!!!

holy shit it's real

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Roadside and restaurant only for the ice guys?

>>1876228
>Mfw having to do roadside again to get all the special decor

fucking kill me.

TEAM YELLOW FOR THE WIN!

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>>1879245
Looks like yellow is actually winning.

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Happy community day everyone! Yellow is currently in the lead for the event. Seems like they have been keeping strong. It's supposed to snow in some parts of the US so stay bundled up!

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Holy shit, that was fast! That's gotta be a record.

>>1880453
>>1881585
Yellowman here, I haven't paid any attention to the walking challenge. Does my team specifically get anything if we win?

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Didn't thinkt there would be a Bloom thread!
See picrel for my code (and invite code if anyone wants to grab that).
>>1876228
I've only gotten roadside so far...

>>1758973
Can people join this game without showing location? It sounds comfy, how likely is Nintendo to pull the plug.

>>1883169
You are able to set a part of the map (up to a radius of 300m) where the flowers you plant are hidden to everyone else. You can creat up to 5 of these. Apart from that the flowers you plant are visible to everyone, and if you partake in a mushroom battle everyone within range to partake can see you fighting it (otherwise it doesn't show you).
If you're talking about playing the game without sharing location data with Nintendo/Gpogle you're SoL.
As for Nintendo pulling the plug, there's still updates adding new features and new events every month so it's probably a case of the game being piss cheap to upkeep. I'd say at least 1 more year of new content, maybe more, then after that I can see it lasting a while before EoS.

>>1883169
Yes. You can both set up privacy zones or just completely turn off the flower planting option. It's in it's 4th year and still seems pretty popular so it seems like it will be around for a while just like with PoGo.

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>>1883303
>>1883669
Sounds good. It's less demanding for a F2P player, and having a daily tracker more than a game proper could be useful.

>>1884198
Sent! I'm noodle

>>1884328
Thanks. Btw, if I send a postcard, does my Pikmin have to walk all the way to the other player? If so, RIP yellow dude, got a bad feeling they won't be around for Christmas.

>>1885348
No. It should be sent instantly.

>>1885383
Update. It isn't, poor Pikmin is in for a very long walk. I can't even dismiss it lol

>>1885632
It's about 1-3 days to arrive at the destination, not like normal expeditions.

How you bloomers holding up in this weather? Haven't been able to go on a proper walk in weeksm

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>Starting December 12, we'll be running tests in the United States, Germany, and Hong Kong.
>In these areas, Mushrooms may take longer to reappear after being destroyed, and you may also see more Mushrooms than usual.
>Only thing I've noticed is that 3 mushrooms within a 10-mile radius of me have disappeared, no new mushrooms or sprouts
This is somehow worse than the POI reshuffle during September 2024 that cut my local sprouts by 25%.

>>1902596
I'm from the Midwest so I walk through rain, snow or sun. Game hasn't been particularly fun lately, the silver seedlings for the 4th anniversary snack Pikmin have been a bit obnoxious.

>>1907379
I'm from Michigan so weather has been all over the place. I've noticed some new mushrooms but that's it.

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>Weekday: Can't find any large mushrooms
>Weekend: There are more large mushrooms in my county than giant event mushrooms
>They increased the item-collecting reward from 12k to 12.9k
Goddammit Scopely, it's bad enough this shit is already anchored to randomness.

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Anyone else save their yearly review email?

>>1926469
I didn't even know this happened.

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Well, there goes my main motivation for walking. Guess I'm gonna have to go to the grocery store more often.

>>1940205
God I hate roadside so much. Park/clover pikmin are fucking worse though because their rare variation isn't tied to xp yet, it's still pure RNG.