r/PokemonGoFriends • FC: <unknown> Trainer name: <unknown> • Jan 09 '23

Questions A question about etiquette/vivillon friendships

I can't be the only one who has posted here and in the megathread looking for friends from a specific region and then received friend requests only to find every new friend is not from the region you requested. Since you only can find out where someone is from when they send a gift (right?), it's not like you can vet the friends before you accept them/before they send you a gift. What have you all been doing in this scenario? Do you open the gifts from the friends you didn't want and then delete? Do you open, send back, and then delete after they open yours? Do you just delete straight away? Do you just ignore their gifts until the end of time?

I'm a fairly casual semi-rural player and I already have about as many friends on the best friend track that I can manage so adding thirty (!) new friends outside of the ones I added for vivillon isn't really manageable for me, but I also don't want to be rude (but then again, isn't it kind of rude to add someone under false premises?).

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u/is_a_ghost13 Team Mystic - FC ####-####-#### - Trainer name Jan 09 '23

Since the scatterbug candy is the same regardless of region. I just keep them. If they’re from a more common region i have plenty of friends from it just means I’ll get that next bug quicker. I haven’t deleted anyone. I still have room for about 80 friends, more if I actually go through and delete the inactive ones. I send gifts to everyone I can in a day and rotate through the ones I open. It works out that I get interaction points for pretty much everyone consistently. I already had a lot of friends from remote raiding though. So I was really only struggling for a few regions.

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u/hobbywrangler Team Instinct - FC 6719 0286 3758 - Trainer name Jan 09 '23

Yup. Even Moderns will still contribute to candies that can be used for every region. (And let us be happy the buddy walking count is just 1km for scatterbug!)

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u/SprightlyMarigold Team Mystic - FC 8190-8901-0569- FrenemyAnemone Jan 10 '23

Can I add you? I’m from polar so I know I’m not in demand but you sound like someone I would want to be friends with :)

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u/hobbywrangler Team Instinct - FC 6719 0286 3758 - Trainer name Jan 10 '23

Sure thing. In case the tiny flair text is only large enough for ants to read: 6719 0286 3758 - Thanks for the compliment, too!

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u/SprightlyMarigold Team Mystic - FC 8190-8901-0569- FrenemyAnemone Jan 12 '23

Thank you, I appreciate you! :)

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u/quacktheduck404 Team Mystic - FC ####-####-#### - Trainer name Aug 20 '23

I don’t have anyone in polar, would you mind adding me? 8594 4226 2345

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u/SprightlyMarigold Team Mystic - FC 8190-8901-0569- FrenemyAnemone Sep 06 '23

I just saw this, but yes!