Pokémon Go: Crazy trade bug makes for a swap bonus until Jan. 24
Apparently, the developers of Pokémon Go made a massive mistake that caused the exchange of Pokémon in the game to be disabled for about 24 hours. However, the people from Niantic then owed the players a detailed explanation when they announced the shutdown.
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100 Pokémon swapped, 100 lucky mon.
AndKrem posted a batten of screenshots from Pokémon Go on Reddit, saying that he had swapped 100 Pokémon with a friend - and that ALL of them became lucky Pokémon. Typically, when you swap pocket monsters, the chance of getting a lucky Pokémon is pretty slim. There is only one exception: if the two swapping trainers are Lucky Friends, then the chance of getting Lucky Pokémon in the next swap is 100 percent. Apparently, AndKrem's Lucky Friends state lasted instead of being lifted after a swap. Or something else went wrong.
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150 trades a day to compensate
The problem seems to have been sorted out, after about a day. Trading Pokémon is possible again, and to compensate you for the feature's downtime, the Pokémon Go folks have enabled in-game trades of 150 Pokémon per day. This increase in the daily limit of trades will be active until January 24, 2022 at 7:00 PM our time. This should allow you to make up for lost trade time and missed XL candies.
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