Plodding here too, level 31, 212 caught.
Not so much fun now the gyms have changed, could have earned 700 coins a week if really lucky now that is down to a max of 350. Gym " Raids" are pretty pointless now, you either need plenty of people or can do it on your own for a crap mon. To bag a...
Keep it as a Magikarp then unless you fall in to a whole lot of candy..
You can Buddy with a Magikarp and you will get 1 Candy per Km but even then that's a lot of walking. Prefer to use a Pinap berry on every capture to boost
Yes, I have heard of this in the last few days. Lots of high value " Wonder " Magikarp about for another couple of days... it would be nice to bag one as I bet the Red Gyrados is a beast !
Apparently from now on you will get a " Special item " on the 7th day of every 7 Day Streak you do.. so hang in there, I picked up a scale thing yesterday to go with my one Metal Coat and 2 Upgrades ( I have already upgrade my Porygon so 2 more are needless !
Picked up my Steel Coat at a normal pokestop in middle of a stroll.... It may be you got your goodie simply because of the huge number of items you can get on a Streak ?
Picking up plenty of fruit treats today at Pokestops... Tried a Pinap berry on something and got 5 candy instead of the usual 3. No sign of the extras needed to do Syther evolutions though.