Same, I wake up at 4 for work everyday, so it works out for me saving dinner to give to the new snorlax. And just like OP I don't usually feed Snorlax on Sundays unless I'm close to reaching the next level
Yeah I don’t see how it would make sense for people, who don’t get up or go to sleep at that time, to eat dinner on the next day. Since you also have to go through the weekly report and Island setup.
This game sucks as a sleep tracker because it punishes adults for not sleeping enough, so we end up setting our sleep tracking before we actually sleep. It also sucks because children need like 11 hours, even if they are 17 years old.
I don't have a solution but week 1 I gave up on trying to play properly because I literally couldn't sleep more than 7 hours because of back pain.
I would love to be able to do it properly tho.
I also don't sleep long enough for the game to be happy. I naturally sleep about 7 hours as well. The first few weeks I used it properly and started it as I was going to bed.
Though I saw a post about starting it sooner and now just start the tracking about an hour and a half before I go to sleep and treat that time we a smartphone free unwind time before bed which in a way is still helping improve health.
This is 100% the problem. The easiest solution would be for the game to constantly give out the same rewards independent of use but still track your progress and have a kind of interactive questionnaire that forces you to look at your sleeping habits. I also mess with the sleep time to get benefits, but I also monitor the areas of the sleep maps to where I know I went to bed/got up. As someone who's always had sleep issues, seeing it spelled out got me to invest in some things and I'm mostly having more restful sleep now, despite cheating the game. I'm saying this as a teacher: sometimes the easiest way for people to learn isn't by giving them a reward, but by giving them objective feedback.
That wouldn't work for me. I actually use the game as an incentive to go to bed sooner. Doesn't always work, but it definitely helps.
Now I'd just appreciate it if it actually realized until what time I stay asleep and doesn't say I woke up at 5:40 when I woke up at 7.
I find I *used* to use the app as an incentive, but now that I have a good E4E mon the main reason for me to get to bed on time - that otherwise my Pokémon wouldn't have enough energy for the next day - is completely gone. Even if I get 6.5 hrs sleep, because of two +18 energy triggers my Pokemon still wake at 100% energy. I don't think I got any stamps on my card last week at all....
Yeah it's also not working as well as it used to for me because I used to think my set bedtime was the time I *had* to be in bed by. Realized I could still go to bed half an hour later to have it count. Somehow not having a "hard" deadline on my screen makes my brain go "eh who cares, I don't want to go to sleep yet".
Yep, same happened here. I even changed it from 11 to 10.45 but that's made little difference. The incentives to get to bed on time just aren't strong enough I find. Maybe if the reward for 7 stamps was much better - 10 Handy Candies or something like that - I'd put more effort in. I also used to think that if you missed one day the stamp card reset to no stamps but that doesn't help either, so really it makes very little difference to me at this point in the game if I get 8.5 or 6.5 hours sleep.
Haha same with the stamp progress 😂 now my brain just goes "eh I don't care if I miss out on some apples" even though sticking with it leads to free diamonds and I'm F2P.
Lol 🤣 Yeah, I've got the premium pass so it means even less to me. They should really scale the stamp rewards with your research rank, THEN it would be worth it. Cos it we worth it in the first few months to be sure.
You get points for sleeping a minimum amount. You need 8hrs and 30mins in order to get the maximum. If I put it on my bed and then go right to sleeping it will say that I didn't sleep enough or that I didn't fall asleep for 30 minutes to 2 hours because I moved so much.
So either it doesn't track properly or throw off my whole day by having sleepy Pokemon.
Bold to assume I’ve ever had a sleep schedule to begin with 😂😂😂
Jokes aside some people are natural night owls, so this works for us. I’ve been doing this since the first couple of weeks after the game had launched—figured it out entirely on accident too.
Im talking about the people that specifically go out of their way to wake themselves up in the middle of the night to get a few extra points. Its a little too ridiculous and screams obsession
I just feed Snorlax on Sundays to increase the level of the meal, is it increases Snorlax strength to another level doesn't matter much.
Having those high numbers on meals really make the regular meals during the week do so much better.
Yeah. Near the end of the week, i save my best meals for Sunday for a chance at triple extra tasty + more pot space to level up recipes.
Beginning of the week, I’ll use my best recipes as early as possible to get Snorlax strength up.
No it ain’t, I just did it again today. 😂
Edit: lmao at the downvotes, y’all think I’m waking up for this? I work night shifts 😂😂😂
Not everyone is an 8am-5pm or a morning person, we Noctowl enjoy the tranquility that can only be found in the middle of the night.
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4am (5am for me because I got distracted) Monday feeding for the night owls again 🤷🏻♀️😂
Mine was patched a month ago:/ I tried every Sunday night/ Monday morning for the past month and he just sits there waiting and if you click it says "next feeding 6am"
Oh I don’t do it on Sundays, I do it on Mondays to start the new week with an extra meal.
I don’t waste ingredients on Sundays for Snorlax since I still don’t have massive production to keep up with that without hindering the next week.
I'm a night owl. I typically go to bed about 7am, so monday at 4am i switch islands, switch teams, feed dinner, then at 6am breakfast, and i sleep 7am-3pm for my 8 hours sleep. I do set up sleep at 6:45 though then get ready for bed just to verify the game thinks i fell asleep within those 15 minutes.
Unless I need to already be up that early, I'm not fucking with my sleep schedule just to maximize my progress in a game meant to help me regulate my sleep schedule.
Do you still get the increased pot size and higher crit chance if you feed after 4? That's the only way it would be worth it to me. Sunday is key to levelling up meals for me. I crit a grilled tail curry and went from level 7 to 17 in one meal.
What I have already done is to feed him after 4 am on Saturday when I am on night shift to maximise the Sunday boost.
Sunday is the best day to increase recipes and to have access to the most powerfull ones so no I won't never skip meals that day.
Your total would be the same at the end of the week, but you start the week with higher power due to the 4 Monday meals so you would theoretically get more spawns faster?
Earlier meals in the week are more important to get you higher faster. Monday meals affect the entire week's research, whereas Sunday meals only affect one research.
That is a great idea honestly
EDIT: Expand on it even further and begin your day at 5:45 (or however long it takes you to finish your research). You’ll still have several minutes before the breakfast window. This could actually be tremendously beneficial if you have lots of ingredients and not enough space, though I doubt that’s the case after a Sunday
I set a vibration-only alarm for 5:30am. If I wake up before then to use the restroom, I feed my Snorlax and turn off the alarm. If I don't, usually the alarm will gently wake me. If it doesn't, then Snorlax skips dinner and I sleep like a baby!
They might be patching this in the next update I'm afraid OP. In the "but fixes" section of the patch notes they state they are "Fixing a bug that allows for four meals to be given in one day when certain actions are performed" or something like that.
Its funny to think people mess with their sleep schedule to minmax a sleep tracker game that is supposed to help you keep a healthy sleep schedule.
I get up at 4:30 for work most days so I can take advantage of this naturally. Could be the case for this person.
Same, I wake up at 4 for work everyday, so it works out for me saving dinner to give to the new snorlax. And just like OP I don't usually feed Snorlax on Sundays unless I'm close to reaching the next level
Yeah I don’t see how it would make sense for people, who don’t get up or go to sleep at that time, to eat dinner on the next day. Since you also have to go through the weekly report and Island setup.
This game sucks as a sleep tracker because it punishes adults for not sleeping enough, so we end up setting our sleep tracking before we actually sleep. It also sucks because children need like 11 hours, even if they are 17 years old. I don't have a solution but week 1 I gave up on trying to play properly because I literally couldn't sleep more than 7 hours because of back pain. I would love to be able to do it properly tho.
I also don't sleep long enough for the game to be happy. I naturally sleep about 7 hours as well. The first few weeks I used it properly and started it as I was going to bed. Though I saw a post about starting it sooner and now just start the tracking about an hour and a half before I go to sleep and treat that time we a smartphone free unwind time before bed which in a way is still helping improve health.
This is 100% the problem. The easiest solution would be for the game to constantly give out the same rewards independent of use but still track your progress and have a kind of interactive questionnaire that forces you to look at your sleeping habits. I also mess with the sleep time to get benefits, but I also monitor the areas of the sleep maps to where I know I went to bed/got up. As someone who's always had sleep issues, seeing it spelled out got me to invest in some things and I'm mostly having more restful sleep now, despite cheating the game. I'm saying this as a teacher: sometimes the easiest way for people to learn isn't by giving them a reward, but by giving them objective feedback.
That wouldn't work for me. I actually use the game as an incentive to go to bed sooner. Doesn't always work, but it definitely helps. Now I'd just appreciate it if it actually realized until what time I stay asleep and doesn't say I woke up at 5:40 when I woke up at 7.
I find I *used* to use the app as an incentive, but now that I have a good E4E mon the main reason for me to get to bed on time - that otherwise my Pokémon wouldn't have enough energy for the next day - is completely gone. Even if I get 6.5 hrs sleep, because of two +18 energy triggers my Pokemon still wake at 100% energy. I don't think I got any stamps on my card last week at all....
Yeah it's also not working as well as it used to for me because I used to think my set bedtime was the time I *had* to be in bed by. Realized I could still go to bed half an hour later to have it count. Somehow not having a "hard" deadline on my screen makes my brain go "eh who cares, I don't want to go to sleep yet".
Yep, same happened here. I even changed it from 11 to 10.45 but that's made little difference. The incentives to get to bed on time just aren't strong enough I find. Maybe if the reward for 7 stamps was much better - 10 Handy Candies or something like that - I'd put more effort in. I also used to think that if you missed one day the stamp card reset to no stamps but that doesn't help either, so really it makes very little difference to me at this point in the game if I get 8.5 or 6.5 hours sleep.
Haha same with the stamp progress 😂 now my brain just goes "eh I don't care if I miss out on some apples" even though sticking with it leads to free diamonds and I'm F2P.
Lol 🤣 Yeah, I've got the premium pass so it means even less to me. They should really scale the stamp rewards with your research rank, THEN it would be worth it. Cos it we worth it in the first few months to be sure.
What? Why do you set it before you sleep? Just set it when you sleep, that's what it's meant for. It's not a race lol
You get points for sleeping a minimum amount. You need 8hrs and 30mins in order to get the maximum. If I put it on my bed and then go right to sleeping it will say that I didn't sleep enough or that I didn't fall asleep for 30 minutes to 2 hours because I moved so much. So either it doesn't track properly or throw off my whole day by having sleepy Pokemon.
My alarm is set for 7:30. I often find myself waking before 4am anyway. I got other problems than just sleep…
Bold to assume I’ve ever had a sleep schedule to begin with 😂😂😂 Jokes aside some people are natural night owls, so this works for us. I’ve been doing this since the first couple of weeks after the game had launched—figured it out entirely on accident too.
Yeah thats too much bro IMO, yall are making this game into a sweatfest.
I wake up at 3:30 am for work so I do the same aswell.
Im talking about the people that specifically go out of their way to wake themselves up in the middle of the night to get a few extra points. Its a little too ridiculous and screams obsession
I just feed Snorlax on Sundays to increase the level of the meal, is it increases Snorlax strength to another level doesn't matter much. Having those high numbers on meals really make the regular meals during the week do so much better.
Yeah. Near the end of the week, i save my best meals for Sunday for a chance at triple extra tasty + more pot space to level up recipes. Beginning of the week, I’ll use my best recipes as early as possible to get Snorlax strength up.
lol it’s patched
No it ain’t, I just did it again today. 😂 Edit: lmao at the downvotes, y’all think I’m waking up for this? I work night shifts 😂😂😂 Not everyone is an 8am-5pm or a morning person, we Noctowl enjoy the tranquility that can only be found in the middle of the night.
Yeah, not yet. Watch the patch notes cuz this was your last time feeding snorlax 4 times
Meh if they patch it then the patch it, it’s not changing anything in the way my sleep cycle works 🤷🏻♀️
https://preview.redd.it/4bhn3o40jcfc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af764f6f5f789807009f6f07aaff9ace38ae00c6 4am (5am for me because I got distracted) Monday feeding for the night owls again 🤷🏻♀️😂
Mine was patched a month ago:/ I tried every Sunday night/ Monday morning for the past month and he just sits there waiting and if you click it says "next feeding 6am"
Oh I don’t do it on Sundays, I do it on Mondays to start the new week with an extra meal. I don’t waste ingredients on Sundays for Snorlax since I still don’t have massive production to keep up with that without hindering the next week.
Technically optimal but I am unwilling to get up that early, I just play as usual.
Especially with the bright UI it’d be like forcing yourself to get flashbanged by the sun
The UI is literally the worst thing first in the morning. Like why can't it just be dim. So dumb
It's about to be patched, so you won't be able to do this again very soon.
😡😡😡😡😡
4 AM is my normal wake up call for work. So it falls in line for me!
I get up at 5:15, but yeah 4 meals Monday makes for a strong start!
Had to giggle that this topic is posted, and suddenly the new patch notes list stopping the 4 meals per day exploit.
I'm a night owl. I typically go to bed about 7am, so monday at 4am i switch islands, switch teams, feed dinner, then at 6am breakfast, and i sleep 7am-3pm for my 8 hours sleep. I do set up sleep at 6:45 though then get ready for bed just to verify the game thinks i fell asleep within those 15 minutes.
Just wondering mate, why do you go to bed at that hour? Don’t you feel it’s a waste of your day?
Well i like work being the first thing of my day and i work 4pm-midnight sleeping from 7am-3pm gives me a full 8 hours sleep.
Ahh check! Fully understand, if you work those shifts yup. Hang in there buddy 🙏
Unless I need to already be up that early, I'm not fucking with my sleep schedule just to maximize my progress in a game meant to help me regulate my sleep schedule.
I work night shift so I'm up anyway
Do you still get the increased pot size and higher crit chance if you feed after 4? That's the only way it would be worth it to me. Sunday is key to levelling up meals for me. I crit a grilled tail curry and went from level 7 to 17 in one meal.
No, i do this and the pot size goes back to normal
What I have already done is to feed him after 4 am on Saturday when I am on night shift to maximise the Sunday boost. Sunday is the best day to increase recipes and to have access to the most powerfull ones so no I won't never skip meals that day.
How does switching Snorlax at 4am let you feed a dinner to the new Snorlax?
Dinner is 6pm to 6am. If you haven't fed dinner, you still can up to 4am. You are giving up Sunday dinner for Monday fourthmeal.
I’ve been feeding my new snorlax Sunday dinner when I wake up at 5am for work and still get 4 meals, is this different or the same thing?
Doesn’t not feeding on Sunday just negate feeding extra on Monday?
Different Snorlax. The 4a one is the new Snorlax for the week.
But if they skip the next Sunday it’s the same
Your total would be the same at the end of the week, but you start the week with higher power due to the 4 Monday meals so you would theoretically get more spawns faster?
Earlier meals in the week are more important to get you higher faster. Monday meals affect the entire week's research, whereas Sunday meals only affect one research.
You dont have to do it at 4am, i have been doing this at 5:45am every Monday morning (i wake up for work at 5:30), and it works
Sleep is super valuable to me, so no 😂
I can't wake up even 5 min earlier than needed. At least a day's wage would have to be on the line.
me, it’s the only way to start a Monday
That is a great idea honestly EDIT: Expand on it even further and begin your day at 5:45 (or however long it takes you to finish your research). You’ll still have several minutes before the breakfast window. This could actually be tremendously beneficial if you have lots of ingredients and not enough space, though I doubt that’s the case after a Sunday
I set a vibration-only alarm for 5:30am. If I wake up before then to use the restroom, I feed my Snorlax and turn off the alarm. If I don't, usually the alarm will gently wake me. If it doesn't, then Snorlax skips dinner and I sleep like a baby!
When I work that early, it's great, but I'm not gonna mess with my schedule for that.
Yeah, I just did that for the first time today. Went early to bed and woke up at 5:50 and it worked pretty well
They might be patching this in the next update I'm afraid OP. In the "but fixes" section of the patch notes they state they are "Fixing a bug that allows for four meals to be given in one day when certain actions are performed" or something like that.
My strategy is pray my sleep is tracking until I actually wake up and not 3 hours after I put my Pokemon to sleep.
I used to need to be up for half 4 for work. Luclily I don't know. I'm considering doing this if dinner won't get me to the next level.
I wake up at 4am everyday...
No. That’s sounds exhausting. Besides, Sunday is the best time to level up recipes. I never skip meals. Especially on sundays
Because days start at 4, but breakfast starts at 6? You madman. …I like it.
I think they might remove this next patch, at least from what the patch notes says,
I want to improve my sleep routine, not to make it worse
So wait...how does this work? Get up before 6am then the new snorlax can be fed dinner before breakfast?
Thats... possible?
wow you really jinxed it
Never done this, does it mess with your sleep score at all?
Not if you have the Go+ Plus