Pokemon GO: Friend Online Status, Seedot Quests, Type-Specific GBL Cups and much more

Trainer, Pokemon GO has pushed some new updates in the background. The update includes Friend Online Status text, Type-specific GBL Cups text, Gym tags, it also includes spoilers to the upcoming Seedot Community Day Special research and much more..

Credits to PokeMiners for Data Mine Report!

Here’s the Summary from the Data Mine report:

1. Friends Online Status with searching/sorting
2. Seedot Community Day Quests and Special Research
3. Type-specific GBL cups
4. Free Boxes
5. Gym tags
6. Sending Stickers to friends
7. Throwback Challenge Final Reward

Friendship List

Online Status

The Problem of asking your friends if he is online or not for PvP Battles is soon going to end.

Niantic is implementing a new feature through which you can directly view the online status of your friends in the friends list.

“Your online status can be seen by your friends who also can see your online status. You can change the status at any time.”

RESOURCE ID: niantic_social_overview_desc 
TEXT: New social features have arrived! With Niantic Social, you can now do the following: 

RESOURCE ID: online_status_onboarding_description 
TEXT: Your Online Status will let Friends know when you are available for Battles. 

RESOURCE ID: social_online_consent_note_body 
TEXT: Your online status can be seen by your friends who also can see your online status. 
You can change the status any time from the same button. 

RESOURCE ID: social_online_consent_note_header 
TEXT: You are now Online!

Sorting and Searching

Along with the above feature, you can also be able to sort and search the Friend list by the online/offline status.

RESOURCE ID: social_search_friends 
TEXT: SEARCH 

RESOURCE ID: friendslist_sort_offline 
TEXT: OFFLINE 

RESOURCE ID: friendslist_sort_online 
TEXT: ONLINE 

RESOURCE ID: friendslist_sort_online_unavailable 
TEXT: Cannot sort by online when not opted into Niantic Online! 

RESOURCE ID: initial_onboarding_privacy_tip 
TEXT: Privacy Control: Your safety is our priority, and you are able to control what features are turned on.

Giftable Search

This one would really make gifting easy, Soon Niantic is going to release this one too!

RESOURCE ID: friendslist_sort_giftable 
TEXT: SENDABLE GIFT

Seedot Community Day

The Seedot Community Day which is going to happen on 24th of this month will have some Seedot Themed Research Task and an Ticketed Special Research Quest

Community Day Quests

The following 3 Seedot Community Day themed research task has been discovered.

RESOURCE ID: quest_st_catch_s 
TEXT: Catch 15 Seedot 

RESOURCE ID: quest_st_evolve_n 
TEXT: Evolve a Nuzleaf 

RESOURCE ID: quest_st_evolve_s 
TEXT: Evolve 3 Seedot

Special Research – Seeing Double

The Ticketed Special Research “Seeing Double” will be a 4 Part quest.

RESOURCE ID: quest_title_st 
TEXT: Seeing Double 

RESOURCE ID: quest_title_st_0 
TEXT: Seeing Double (1/4) 

RESOURCE ID: quest_title_st_1 
TEXT: Seeing Double (2/4) 

RESOURCE ID: quest_title_st_2 
TEXT: Seeing Double (3/4) 

RESOURCE ID: quest_title_st_3 
TEXT: Seeing Double (4/4)

It appears that Niantic has extended the time for this event till 6PM instead of 5PM, the start time appears to be the same. Maybe this could be a mistake?

TEXT: A ticket to access the “Seeing Double” bonus Special Research for Seedot Community Day on May 24, 2020, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. local time, wherever you are. Details can be found in the in-game News. 

Type-specific GBL cups

Niantic is planning to bring some variations in GO Battle League Cups, Texts for Type-Specific cup has been discovered.

RESOURCE ID: league_ruleset_info_type_subtitle 
TEXT: This cup is limited to Pokémon of the following types: {0}. All Pokémon on the team must be at least one of these types. 

RESOURCE ID: league_ruleset_info_whitelist_subtitle 
TEXT: Only these Pokémon can be used in this cup. 

RESOURCE ID: league_ruleset_type_label 
TEXT: Eligible Pokémon types:

Free Boxes

Daily Free Boxes are coming soon…

RESOURCE ID: bundle.general1.free.1_title 
Removed: TEXT: DAILY BONUS BOX 
Added: TEXT: Daily Free Box 

RESOURCE ID: bundle.general2.free.1_title 
Removed: TEXT: BONUS BOX 
Added: TEXT: Free Box 

RESOURCE ID: iap_category_free 
Removed: TEXT: NO COST 
Added: TEXT: FREE

Gym tags

Not sure what this could be, categorising Gyms according to the difficulty level? 🧐

RESOURCE ID: gym_tag_ace 
TEXT: ACE 

RESOURCE ID: gym_tag_easy 
TEXT: EASY 

RESOURCE ID: gym_tag_exclusive 
TEXT: EXCLUSIVE 

RESOURCE ID: gym_tag_gofest 
TEXT: GO FEST 

RESOURCE ID: gym_tag_great 
TEXT: GREAT 

RESOURCE ID: gym_tag_hard 
TEXT: HARD 

RESOURCE ID: gym_tag_master 
TEXT: MASTER 

RESOURCE ID: gym_tag_medium 
TEXT: MEDIUM 

RESOURCE ID: gym_tag_mystery 
TEXT: ??? 

RESOURCE ID: gym_tag_normal 
TEXT: NORMAL 

RESOURCE ID: gym_tag_special 
TEXT: SPECIAL 

RESOURCE ID: gym_tag_ultra 
TEXT: ULTRA

Sending Stickers to friends

Some new feature is coming where you can buy stickers from the shop or from gifts and send it to your friends.

Currently we don’t have much information on this.

RESOURCE ID: shop_sticker 
TEXT: STICKERS 

RESOURCE ID: add_stickers_button 
TEXT: ADD STICKER 

RESOURCE ID: change_stickers_button 
TEXT: CHANGE STICKER 

RESOURCE ID: error_out_of_this_sticker 
TEXT: You are out of this sticker. 

RESOURCE ID: shop_max_of_this_sticker 
TEXT: You cannot buy more of this sticker. 

RESOURCE ID: sticker_empty_inventory 
TEXT: No stickers to send. You can get stickers from Gifts or the shop.

Throwback Challenge: Final Reward

It looks like they have changed one of the rewards from the final step of the Throwback Challenge from Patrat to Darumaka.

RESOURCE ID: quest_special_dialogue_tcc_2_0 

Removed TEXT: I can’t stop thinking about how cute Oshawott is— Oh! You’re back! Excellent work catching that Patrat! 
Added TEXT: I can’t stop thinking about how cute Oshawott is— Oh! You’re back! Excellent work catching that Darumaka!

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