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Title: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 10, 2016, 12:51:30 AM
Has anybody else tried this trainwreck high-maintenance, low-function non-game thing yet?

Ask me again in three days I guess, but right now Pokemon Go is wedged firmly in the "I wish I could recommend this but I really, really can't" category. It just doesn't work. Server uptime is more off than on. The AR on my phone just isn't functional despite meeting all hardware and software requirements. The one gym I've tried to fight just glitched out and crashed every single time I was about to KO one of their Pokemon. Items are worthless because the second you equip one the server crashes and consumes your item but doesn't give you any effect out of it. 10% of the time when you catch a Pokemon your game locks up. It constantly forgets your settings and turns the music and sound effects back on when you have them set to off. Etc.

It's so frustrating to play that I recommend avoiding it like the plague until an update comes out and hopefully fixes things, or they get their servers actually up to par with the traffic, or anything really. It's effectively just a super-simple grindfest, but the social elements plus the collecting element do make it fun in theory. It's fun to compare which cool rare Pokemon you have with your friends. But it just seems like it was released in a barely-functional beta state or something. Fingers crossed things get fixed soon because I really do want to enjoy this game. And hey, if nothing else it's caused me to take a lot more walks the last few days and that's cool.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Sect on July 10, 2016, 01:18:18 AM
So, after my sister and a guy in my unit talked me into getting it, I ended up in a graveyard with my roommate hunting for Zubats and monuments. We came across this guy, playing with his smartphone, and he gave us a knowing look.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 10, 2016, 01:25:28 AM
Graveyards are a cheat for this game because they count every other monument as a Pokestop. I was just at one trying to fight the broken, worthless glitch gym (there are actually two gyms, but one is already controlled by my team) and I ran into three other dorks wandering around with their phones out. Kind of fun.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 10, 2016, 01:34:12 AM
I went for a walk on a nature trail today, and found... nothing.

So far I'm really disappointed with the overhype. I'll keep playing, sure, but it's nothing like how it was made out to be. It's a complete non-game that is an extreme battery and data vampire (there should be ABSOLUTELY NO REASON for how intense that is), and you can't even participate in the fucking game unless you have your phone unlocked and on (the "battery saver" is utterly worthless), which means you constantly have to be walking around, staring at the thing.

If I can run my GPS with the screen off and still have alerts for when I should turn, there's no reason why I can't walk around with it in my pocket and have it go off when I'm near something/a Pokemon approaches instead of having to keep the screen on and sucking my battery dry.

This had (rather, HAS, if they get their shit together) so much potential and right now, it's buggy trash that should have been in beta longer. Right now it just feels like a shitty GPS with a random minigame built in. You can't even do battles outside of Pokemon gyms. That's like 75% of what Pokemon is to begin with!  Collecting and training and battling! This is just collecting and collecting and collecting.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Ruka on July 10, 2016, 01:46:46 AM
I think my main complaint is the high battery cost. It even makes a dent in my Xperia z3 compact.

I did see the version number, and it looks like it's still technically beta. Make of that what you will.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 10, 2016, 01:55:15 AM
Fucking christ. So I just walked down the block to a gym on the corner, battled it, game glitched out when I won and crashes. Restarted, did it again, game glitched out. Again, game glitched out. I sat there for 20 minutes hacking away at it over and over and over and it's just an invincible gym that can never be captured apparently. So keep that in mind, once you have a gym you just win the game because it's impossible to ever capture. The core mechanic of the game literally doesn't work. Ugh.

Ran into literally ten other players in the few blocks between me and the gym, which honestly is super cool, but I wish we had, you know, a game to bond over rather than literally nothing.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 10, 2016, 02:05:18 AM
Servers are currently doing fine for my area it seems. I saw at least 10 groups of 3-4 people wandering the art district & city hall area.  I caught a Bulbasaur near some dead dude's statue.  People already have 900+ eeveelutions guarding gyms.  I can't keep up  :(
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 10, 2016, 02:23:52 AM
All of my anger aside, I'd really like to know when I can find a Clefairy. It's one of my all-time favorite gen 1 Pokemon, and I will work toward having the strongest Clefable in all of Indiana.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 10, 2016, 02:40:33 AM
It actually is location based. My area has Eevees as an uncommon, it's our best option besides the rats and birds. 
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 10, 2016, 02:41:16 AM
I've caught a couple Eevees. Does that mean Clefairy aren't even in my area?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 10, 2016, 02:54:20 AM
Are you in a plains/grassland type area?  I am and I'm wondering how much that matters.  For Clefairy... Do you have a mountain nearby?  Maybe find a group for your city to ask.  Pokemon currently on the map are the same for everyone. I sent a group running to the Bulbasaur earlier.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Jq1790 on July 10, 2016, 02:54:40 AM
While my phone refuses to get past the Niantic logo, I did read up just a moment ago that Clefairy are only available at night, so there's step 1.  As for locations, nothing popping up yet that I can give you but if anything does pop up I'll edit the post or post a new one or something.  It could just be rare.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 10, 2016, 03:02:36 AM
I've caught a couple Eevees. Does that mean Clefairy aren't even in my area?

remember to go to mt. not-moon on monday night and you may see clefairy dancing around a moon stone
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 10, 2016, 03:23:25 AM
Also, is there any other way to level up your pokemon than just... collecting the same fucking pokemon over and over and over and transferring them one candy at a time?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 10, 2016, 03:34:34 AM
No it's like other mobages where you feed dupes to each other.  But for random pokes on the field I think catching better ones is better than spending stardust. I saw an out of context discussion that it was important to save star dust?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 10, 2016, 04:20:39 AM
I mean, you have to spend stardust to feed them anyway, right? I don't really understand the system yet.

Just got back from a late-night walk to the grocery store for a couple things I needed. Managed to catch a few Pidgeys (which gave me enough candies to evolve one to Pidgeotto), and caught a Psyduck as well. No sign of Clefairy. Maybe Monday nights are, in fact, better?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: aUsernameIsFineToo on July 10, 2016, 05:24:32 AM
AR mode runs like a PowerPoint on my Nexus 5X. The game also gobbles up RAM, killing every background app, even the ones that show a status bar icon.

This shouldn't be happening on a new phone, and it just shows how unoptimized the app is. What does work is the "going places to catch Pok?mon" part of it. So far I've caught 6 of 'em, playing casually. I'm probably not going to get into this game too much.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Iced Fairy on July 10, 2016, 05:40:01 AM
Gyms seem to be a huge waste yeah.  I've never had it not crash on me.  Then again giving up on gyms might be the best because the whales have gone mad already.  (760+CP Vaporeon???)  Just catching vulpixes and hoping for ninetails at my apartment.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 10, 2016, 06:35:01 AM
Yeah, that's the problem with every PVP game ever, whales just shit on the experience for everyone else. I'm not sure if just chipping away a bit at some ultra-buff whale Pokemon matters since, you know, gyms don't work at all so I can't figure out their mechanics, but it might? Maybe enough normal players working together can still matter? I don't know.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 10, 2016, 11:04:53 AM
They need to enable trading / battling ASAP. That is all. People have been asking for a Pokemon MMO for years and if this is what Nintendo finally put out then they're shitheads.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 10, 2016, 12:49:16 PM
Ahahah I finally get to a gym and start a battle

And the game

Fucking

Crashes



what a tragedy of a non-game
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 10, 2016, 02:16:28 PM
I think it can be fixed. I think it can all be fixed. But will it be, and in a timely fashion? All I know for sure is, it's making me real thankful for PAD and how functional it is and how much of a real game it is.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 10, 2016, 02:36:23 PM
So I had to wait until this morning to start to see if a certain something was true.

Apparently it is.

(http://i.imgur.com/hFRvoY8.png)

Did anyone else have trouble putting their name in and have like everything be taken?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 10, 2016, 02:51:14 PM
I think it can be fixed. I think it can all be fixed. But will it be, and in a timely fashion? All I know for sure is, it's making me real thankful for PAD and how functional it is and how much of a real game it is.

I dunno man. I went to a different (enemy color) gym, and I totally STOMPED the Pokemon there, but it just stayed alive at 1 HP until time ran out. I beat the everloving hell out of that Drowzee and it just... didn't die. And the game lagged out. Fuck this.


Anyway, did about 2 hours (approx. 5 km?) of collective walking around. Today's notable catches/evos:

Wigglytuff, found at the coffee shop I walked to. Named her Powerpuff bc she's huge
Dratini, found near a bridge PokeStop.
Staryu, found near my apartment.

Eevee -> Vaporeon, who is just fucking massive at 600ish CP. Gonna take some gyms on with this baby. You know, once the goddamn game actually works as a game.


Data drain was not as bad as I had initially thought. Battery drain is fuckin' REAL though. 2 hours of play and my battery went from 100% to 15%.

God, this has SO much potential. I hate to see it go to waste.

So I had to wait until this morning to start to see if a certain something was true.

Apparently it is.

(http://i.imgur.com/hFRvoY8.png)

Did anyone else have trouble putting their name in and have like everything be taken?

My ign is MatsuriShirabe because Framboise was taken and I couldn't fit many other words with Framboise.

It's 2016. Why are there such small character limits for names, still? God.

Also nice find on the Pikachu. I haven't seen one since I first started, and I never had a chance to go out and find it.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 10, 2016, 02:57:50 PM
My ign is MatsuriShirabe because Framboise was taken and I couldn't fit many other words with Framboise.

It's 2016. Why are there such small character limits for names, still? God.

Also nice find on the Pikachu. I haven't seen one since I first started, and I never had a chance to go out and find it.

Pikachu is apparently a "secret" that you can do at the start of the game. You have to literally get up off your ass and walk away from the 3 starters that appear three times. When they pop up again, a moment later a fourth blip will appear on the map, and it'll be Pikachu.

I had to be doodmaster3000 because like every name I tried was taken. Gonna be the best like no one ever was then vanish from the public eye.

Wigglytuff, found at the coffee shop I walked to. Named her Powerpuff bc she's huge

smh gibe plis

EDIT: I found something slightly amusing, and I really hope this game gets better.

(http://i.imgur.com/y0B9WBU.png)

Apparently a regular pikachu according to the games' pokedexes is 6.0kg, and 0.4 meters tall. This thing is friggin fat!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 10, 2016, 03:05:03 PM
Pikachu is apparently a "secret" that you can do at the start of the game. You have to literally get up off your ass and walk away from the 3 starters that appear three times. When they pop up again, a moment later a fourth blip will appear on the map, and it'll be Pikachu.

I had to be doodmaster3000 because like every name I tried was taken. Gonna be the best like no one ever was then vanish from the public eye.

Nah, Pikachu was on my radar, but it was 3AM and my battery was near dead, so I didn't bother. I just caught my Bulbasaur straight away, without running away from them.

Quote
smh gibe plis

shes mine fite me scrub

oh wait

you can't

gg niantic
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 10, 2016, 03:36:38 PM
I dunno man. I went to a different (enemy color) gym, and I totally STOMPED the Pokemon there, but it just stayed alive at 1 HP until time ran out. I beat the everloving hell out of that Drowzee and it just... didn't die. And the game lagged out. Fuck this.

I know. The literal exact same thing happened to me. In two different gyms across probably twenty attempts. It's infuriating.

God, this has SO much potential. I hate to see it go to waste.

Those are my precise thoughts right now.

Apparently a regular pikachu according to the games' pokedexes is 6.0kg, and 0.4 meters tall. This thing is friggin fat!

Yeah, XL and XS Pokemon are sprinkled in with the rest and have stats to match. Rumor is that it doesn't actually effect anything except certain achievements, but nobody actually knows. Because none of the mechanics in this game are actually explained anywhere.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 10, 2016, 03:42:41 PM
I think the sizes mean absolutely nothing. When I evolved Eevee, it went from being like 7kg XL to a 3kg XS Vaporeon. But it's still huge CP and has a really sweet Hydro Pump attack too.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 10, 2016, 03:43:14 PM
shes mine fite me scrub

watch me catch a clefable in a few days and it'll be super fucking awkward
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 10, 2016, 03:45:06 PM
you wouldn't dare

(for real tho if they ever get their heads out of their asses and enable trading I will trade you)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 10, 2016, 04:09:31 PM
you wouldn't dare

(for real tho if they ever get their heads out of their asses and enable trading I will trade you)

if the meteors land near my fuckin house that is 120% not my fault
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Iced Fairy on July 10, 2016, 04:28:46 PM
So I had to wait until this morning to start to see if a certain something was true.

Apparently it is.

(http://i.imgur.com/hFRvoY8.png)

Did anyone else have trouble putting their name in and have like everything be taken?
Yep.  Part of it is that if the servers are down it gives you the name taken info.  Part of it is their name database overlaps with Ingress, so... yeah.

I ended up using my real name as every variant of IcedFairy was either taken or happened during server crash.  Fortunately I'm the only person with my real name.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 10, 2016, 06:18:12 PM
Tinder already drinks my battery like a frat boy chugging a 40, so I'm pretty reluctant to run this, as much fun as it looks.

Further adding to my curiosity is to see what I run into if I go, say, up into the Highlands near a glacier.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 10, 2016, 06:20:28 PM
So far I'm observing a 0% server uptime over four hours today. Impressive, honestly
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 10, 2016, 07:03:36 PM
[15:00] <Chirei> well
[15:00] <Chirei> I just had to apply videogame knowledge to real life
[15:00] <Chirei> there was a pokestop in a neighborhood but the entrance was streets away
[15:01] <Chirei> so I had to go up as close to the wall as possible and hug it pixel perfect so that the gps would let me use the pokestop
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 10, 2016, 07:26:01 PM
Today I found out I don't get GPS at all. The approximations I have are pretty shitty and apparently it's because it's o.ly based on other networks. FML.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Ruka on July 10, 2016, 08:12:33 PM
[15:00] <Chirei> well
[15:00] <Chirei> I just had to apply videogame knowledge to real life
[15:00] <Chirei> there was a pokestop in a neighborhood but the entrance was streets away
[15:01] <Chirei> so I had to go up as close to the wall as possible and hug it pixel perfect so that the gps would let me use the pokestop
+1 for game knowledge.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 10, 2016, 08:17:00 PM
Yeah, yesterday I was sitting in the back room of a game store playing Magic well away from the street but the game still barely let me reach the nearby stops and grind the shit out of them without really doing anything. And a local whale had kindly put an Attract Module on one of them so I was being swarmed by Drowzee and Taurus the whole time.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 10, 2016, 08:42:09 PM
Sitting on a park bench watching people do loops of the six spots here. Finally managed to put a defender in a gym and got my ten coins.  I had to level the gym to make a spot for myself but the place isn't really accessible from a car so I think it will be a steady source of coins.  My Eevee luck has dried up and I really need an evolved one because I'd like to be on the other end of aqua tail.

Edit: it may be placebo but I got better performance out of my phone in the 100f heat when I took the case off
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 10, 2016, 10:31:27 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/6W296C0.jpg)

Found this lil' cutie in the parking lot of my building. I wish I had a cool AR shot of it sitting on the trunk of my car, but the AR still inexplicably doesn't work with my camera, so no dice.

It's extra small, so it's a Pocket Puff.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on July 10, 2016, 10:41:50 PM
why do we not call whales in this game wailords
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 10, 2016, 11:59:16 PM
i decided to get it

i'm not sure why i expected not to be in  a pokestop draught area :v

feels bad being ct man
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 11, 2016, 12:03:23 AM
I went camping this weekend and my battery died three times because of this game. I've learned from that, and I now have 3 external batteries charging near my desk, along with an iPad to test tether play, which worked horribly in Ingress, and so will likely not work here either.

Anyways, during that trip, I hit level 5, and now I intend to last as long as I can as a teamless player. I'll see how that goes, not being able to use gyms and all.

Yeah, XL and XS Pokemon are sprinkled in with the rest and have stats to match. Rumor is that it doesn't actually effect anything except certain achievements, but nobody actually knows. Because none of the mechanics in this game are actually explained anywhere.

Maybe this game will actually have a legitimate story that will explain all of that. That'd be cool. Oh, and the weight probably does matter, for moves whose names I forget that calculate damage based on weight classes. Just about every Pokemon I catch is XL.

i'm not sure why i expected not to be in  a pokestop draught area :v

feels bad being ct man

Literally every large city has a dozen or more PokeStops. Not sure what country you live in, but I only have to go 10 minutes away to farm items.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 11, 2016, 12:21:38 AM
Literally every large city has a dozen or more PokeStops. Not sure what country you live in, but I only have to go 10 minutes away to farm items.

i live in connecticut

aka suburban hell where like 10 minutes for you (Which is a super generous distance tbh) is generally like double to triple in length due to the fact we don't have streamlined areas and such

my options for pokestop is literally find a way into the center of town (Which walking would be like....generously 30 minutes probably more and all fucking off-road with no sidewalks because jfc) l i t e r a l l y h i k i n g across the beach while low tide which is far more of a task than just a 10 minute walk nb, or a single graveyard like, 15 minutes down the road that i'm not sure if it's actually a gym or not which would end me

there is a lot to say about how this system is obviously disadvantageous to me tbh

in short, i have a bad location for this game.

That isn't a real argument here.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 11, 2016, 12:29:45 AM
Oh, and the weight probably does matter, for moves whose names I forget that calculate damage based on weight classes. Just about every Pokemon I catch is XL.

I will be fucking shocked if that turns out to be true. This game is waaaay too simple to have damage calculation like that. I hope they prove me wrong I guess, but that would be really out of place.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 11, 2016, 12:36:43 AM
10 minutes for you (Which is a super generous distance tbh)

You're right, actually. I live in Washington, to the north side of Seattle. I was actually thinking about a route to the start of my city's downtown area, which is ten minutes away by bike (which, given my group of friends, is likely what I'd do), but there's actually a large cluster about five minutes closer (also by bike).

That isn't a real argument here.

Click here (https://www.ingress.com/intel) and log in via Google; check around your vicinity. Ingress and Pokemon Go use almost all of the same locations, so just look for a cluster, and see how far away it is. Connecticut is just a bit less paved, though, so I see your point. I only ever go to places with decent roads (except San Francisco and even then), so I wouldn't know your pain.

EDIT:
a single graveyard

I hate that so much, when the only nearby stops are in graveyards. I feel so... imposing playing Pokemon Go in a graveyard.

I will be fucking shocked if that turns out to be true. This game is waaaay too simple to have damage calculation like that. I hope they prove me wrong I guess, but that would be really out of place.

It's a legit move that Wailord has. It's called... let's see... Heavy Slam.

Level Learned: 70
Type: Steel
Category: Physical
Attack Power: ??
Accuracy: 100
PP: 10
The user slams into the target with its heavy body. The more the user outweighs the target, the greater its damage.


Source: Serebii

EDIT2:
Oh, did you think I meant that that was part of general calculation? Because that would be dumb, I agree.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 11, 2016, 12:52:07 AM
Just got back from a basically all-day excursion with my friend, got to Level 5 and joined Team Red and discovered at my house is apparently Pallet Town, with everyone and everything at about one-half the CP from where he lives for some reason.

(http://i.imgur.com/6W296C0.jpg)

Found this lil' cutie in the parking lot of my building. I wish I had a cool AR shot of it sitting on the trunk of my car, but the AR still inexplicably doesn't work with my camera, so no dice.

It's extra small, so it's a Pocket Puff.

bruh why does everyone have the balloons but me

Jigglypuff is 5.5kg, so yours is almost half the weight of one, and approximately 2 and a half igglybuffs worth.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 11, 2016, 01:05:27 AM
Click here (https://www.ingress.com/intel) and log in via Google; check around your vicinity. Ingress and Pokemon Go use almost all of the same locations, so just look for a cluster, and see how far away it is. Connecticut is just a bit less paved, though, so I see your point. I only ever go to places with decent roads (except San Francisco and even then), so I wouldn't know your pain.

bruh i would not be talking about 30 minute away clusters if I didn't already know about that.

It's also actually not accurate completely to go.

So that cemetary pokestop.... is... not actually there, and the pokestop that IS there is not actually on the map.

I'm not sure if the water-side stops are either, ESPECIALLY if I did not notice them while down at the beach.

So my situation might actually be even worse.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 11, 2016, 01:10:42 AM
It's a legit move that Wailord has. It's called... let's see... Heavy Slam.

Level Learned: 70
Type: Steel
Category: Physical
Attack Power: ??
Accuracy: 100
PP: 10
The user slams into the target with its heavy body. The more the user outweighs the target, the greater its damage.


Source: Serebii

EDIT2:
Oh, did you think I meant that that was part of general calculation? Because that would be dumb, I agree.

Yeah, I know Heavy Slam is a move, but you're taking that text from an entirely different game. Pokemon and Pokemon Go are not the same game.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 11, 2016, 01:13:14 AM
Yeah, I know Heavy Slam is a move, but you're taking that text from an entirely different game. Pokemon and Pokemon Go are not the same game.

They may not be, but they use a lot of the same moves, so it's not an entirely unsafe bet to make, that they also use similar move calculations, even if they're not identical calcs.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 11, 2016, 01:24:07 AM
I have seen no evidence to back that assumption up, but the game just won't let me play in gyms 90% of the time. Has anybody seen any evidence that moves have properties other than type, attack speed, and damage? Has anyone seen any status or multi-hit moves or anything?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 11, 2016, 01:27:18 AM
I had to look this up because while my friend and I were driving in at a movie theater someone dropped lures at, apparently the refresh time for a pokestop is a mere five minutes. This might be something to look at considering there's only one pokestop where I live  :ohdear:
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Iced Fairy on July 11, 2016, 02:26:16 AM
I have seen no evidence to back that assumption up, but the game just won't let me play in gyms 90% of the time. Has anybody seen any evidence that moves have properties other than type, attack speed, and damage? Has anyone seen any status or multi-hit moves or anything?
Some moves are super effective.  That's all.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Ruka on July 11, 2016, 03:19:09 AM
I had to look this up because while my friend and I were driving in at a movie theater someone dropped lures at, apparently the refresh time for a pokestop is a mere five minutes. This might be something to look at considering there's only one pokestop where I live  :ohdear:
Sounds about right. I spammed 2 poke stops at downtown Disney earlier at that interval.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 11, 2016, 03:39:57 AM
Some moves are super effective.  That's all.

Not clear if double resistance or quadruple effectiveness are things. I've got a Parasect that I intend to level (because the local meta seems to be Hypnos and Vaporeons and it's super effective against both) so I'll see how it fares against Pidgeots.

Dropped off my Hypno (which is my best Pokemon right now) in a gym earlier. It's right in the middle of a busy shopping mall so it may not last, but I wanted to give it a try.

By the way, are gyms overwhelmingly blue everywhere or just here? I think only a single gym I saw today wasn't blue. Is team blue way more populated than the others or do we just have one crazy local Wailord going nuts on every gym in town?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 11, 2016, 03:50:18 AM
Yeah even in my areas, blue has a strong following, followed by red, and then yellow. Blue has all of the people from Ingress, or so I hear. Red, at least in my state, has pretty much all of the smash players who have phones. And then there's yellow. I think I might join yellow for that reason. I'm not touching gyms until a) Niantic has fixed them, and b) I know the team demographics here.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 11, 2016, 05:19:37 AM
Oh! I found yet another glitch! When I try to view any Pokedex entry except Bulbasaur my game freaks the fuck out and the text and model starts vibrating and rapidly scrolling through entries until it gets back to the start. Can anyone else confirm if the Pokedex works for them?

Gotta catch 'em all. All 'em computal gleeches that is.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 11, 2016, 05:55:47 AM
I just picked Team Mystic because Articuno's my favorite of the three legendary birds. But yeah, Team Mystic is everywhere on my map. Not that it matters, because gyms are utterly unplayable.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Firestorm29 on July 11, 2016, 01:47:16 PM
Haven't really had much of the problems mentioned in here, other than battery. Ran into someone that runs this game and it seems like things like trading is a couple weeks away. I'm left to wonder why Nintendo wanted to pull the trigger so fast, unless that APK someone made that I've been hearing about forced them to release faster than they planned...

As far as Pokemon are concerned, seem to be seeing quite a few Clefairy, Eevees and Jigglypuff along with the usual forest pokemon. The game's been taunting me with some ground/rock types and Vulpix (really want) far away, they always show up while I'm on shift or working at the house.

However, things got interesting this morning when a Dragonite decided to go shopping in the gas station while I was on shift... :3 Also, I think the local teams are mostly yellow so far, there's a group of them nearby I'm joining with.

Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 11, 2016, 02:04:40 PM
Today I got up at 8AM. The first thing I did was throw on my clothes and running shoes and go noclip into some bushes for pokeballs. I should probably also note that this is the only pokestop from my house for miles.

(http://i.imgur.com/Xt92LCY.jpg)

The picture above is how far I can walk before I'm impeded by the bushes. The picture below is what I get if I push into them and stretch my hand out with phone held towards the wall. WTB HM01.

(http://i.imgur.com/SIqr8bN.png)

For the record, I went there into the neighborhood proper to actually see what it was like on the other side of the wall. It's not much better. Gross-ass weeds everywhere and nowhere to sit.

(http://i.imgur.com/cmyFJ7T.jpg)

According to the two eggs I hatched, I walked about 3KM total, and I got something interesting for my troubles...

(http://i.imgur.com/2m8cOqz.png)

Does anyone know what comes out of 10KM eggs? I heard they're pretty rare.

#couchto5k
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 11, 2016, 02:08:11 PM
I don't know, but I have one .4km from hatching. Will report back.

I also hatched a Geodude out of one of the common eggs, which is nice because I've never seen one in the wild.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Reddyne on July 11, 2016, 03:04:21 PM
I have played exactly 0 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds of this game and I intend to keep it that way. I have still already been on 2 pokemon adventures and had a ratatta in my lap. I went as part of a group of 5 people to a restaurant. 2 were playing at the start of our meal and a third had started by the end. I then got a text from my girlfriend about how she caught an eevee in a coffee shop.

While I am not playing, it's very tempting to open up a business of hatching eggs since I can clock a good 40km during the course of a week.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 11, 2016, 03:10:32 PM
important if you wanna try to save some battery

(http://i.imgur.com/dp0ap9p.png)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 11, 2016, 03:13:25 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/35XDw3m.jpg)

This is what was in my rare egg. Cooool.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 11, 2016, 06:08:46 PM
Yeah it took a day but I'm functionally unable to play the game at this point.

Been a pretty mediocre run really.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Suwako Moriya on July 11, 2016, 06:15:12 PM
I "proudly" hatched the racist caricature today. A shame she's only (only) CP 176.

I have still already been on 2 pokemon adventures

DUDE THERE WAS AN ABRA THOUGH
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 11, 2016, 06:22:27 PM
Is it bad form to yell "Go Pokemon go!" out the window of my car every time I pass by a group of nerds wandering around with their phones up to their faces? Because it comes up A LOT.

I "proudly" hatched the racist caricature today. A shame she's only (only) CP 176.

There are a bunch of those and Drowzee in downtown Lansing, so our gyms tend to be loaded with them.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Iced Fairy on July 11, 2016, 06:23:48 PM
Red seems to be most popular here, but gyms don't last more then an hour so...  No defender bonus for Iced~!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 11, 2016, 07:03:40 PM
I haven't managed to find mr popo's waifu yet, but I did find this http://www.serebii.net/pokemongo/eggs.shtml

The only thing out of that 10km pool I have is eevee... and even then that wouldn't be too bad because I hear you get a shitton of candy.

Red seems to be most popular here, but gyms don't last more then an hour so...  No defender bonus for Iced~!

That's a thing I wonder about. Is it even a reliable way to get coins if they just change hands every half-day or so? I think in the time I arrived at my friend's house and by the time he had to take me home (about 3hrs), two of the gyms had changed hands. I feel like this was intended...
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Think Komachi with a Rifle on July 11, 2016, 07:35:36 PM
important if you wanna try to save some battery

(http://i.imgur.com/dp0ap9p.png)
More seriously this too...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/11/pushy_pokemon_go_criticized/ (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/11/pushy_pokemon_go_criticized/)
That is not good, not good at all.
Make sure NOT to use your Google account, and if you have consider revoking access.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Reddyne on July 11, 2016, 07:53:54 PM
DUDE THERE WAS AN ABRA THOUGH
Anyone who started out with gen 1 pokemans knew just how great the abra line was and how many emotions swirled around it. The patience needed to hunt one down in the grass north or Cerulian. The strategizing involved with putting it asleep or stunning it before it could teleport away. The success of capturing one. The exasperation on finding that they were a pittance at the Celadon game corner... Still, this was gen 1. Psychic was OP and the abra line was monstrous. Friendships were forged and cultivated for the sole purpose of getting Alakazam.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 11, 2016, 08:00:00 PM
Pokemon Go doesn't even show up in my list of connected apps. 
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 11, 2016, 09:36:12 PM
Does anyone know what comes out of 10KM eggs? I heard they're pretty rare.
Here's a nice visual. (http://i.imgur.com/9HdbtXA.jpg)

More seriously this too...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/11/pushy_pokemon_go_criticized/ (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/11/pushy_pokemon_go_criticized/)
That is not good, not good at all.
Make sure NOT to use your Google account, and if you have consider revoking access.
"We've asked Niantic for comment and hope to hear back from them soon."

You'd think they already have enough on their plates to bother with security concerns rofl.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 11, 2016, 09:50:17 PM
Pokemon Go doesn't even show up in my list of connected apps.

Apparently this is an IOS issue only atleast.

Which is good, but the fact it exists at all is a complete nightmare.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: triangles on July 11, 2016, 10:26:53 PM
Ceci has hunted 4 mice so far, but a bug eludes her
(http://i.imgur.com/NeVJ7UL.jpg)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 11, 2016, 10:35:47 PM
Ceci has hunted 4 mice so far, but a bug eludes her
(http://i.imgur.com/NeVJ7UL.jpg)

if the weedle gets into that tower in the back will your computer be bugged
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 11, 2016, 11:26:07 PM
Apparently this is an IOS issue only atleast.

Which is good, but the fact it exists at all is a complete nightmare.

It's not showing up in mine and I run Android too.

I started the game with my Google account, but I figured I should just use the Trainer account I already have, so I deleted the game and restarted, logging in with that. But still, that's sketch as fuck.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 11, 2016, 11:55:10 PM
It's not showing up in mine and I run Android too.

I started the game with my Google account, but I figured I should just use the Trainer account I already have, so I deleted the game and restarted, logging in with that. But still, that's sketch as fuck.

Yeah it's not a small thing to have, especially because Niantic should know far fucking better.

I would be unsurprised to see this blow over but it really shouldn't, this is super beyond any reasonable allowance of incompetence.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 12, 2016, 01:04:09 AM
an intruder flew in through the window!?!?

guards, seize them

(http://i.imgur.com/FKOlNno.png)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 12, 2016, 01:16:49 AM
plz no bully the birb
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 12, 2016, 02:11:26 AM
I would be unsurprised to see this blow over but it really shouldn't, this is super beyond any reasonable allowance of incompetence.

Yeah, that's pretty fucking horrifying. This really should be a huge fiasco.

Is there, uh, a way to not restart the game but disassociate it with my Google account?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 12, 2016, 02:19:36 AM
Nope. In the same way they don't allow you to change teams (excepting maybe a support call) or avatar, they also don't allow you to relink your profile with another account.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 12, 2016, 02:20:58 AM
The Struggle in Normal Pokemon Games:
Waiting for the click after the third shake

The Struggle in Pokemon Go:
Getting the ball to fucking shake at all instead of freezing up


The Struggle in Normal Pokemon Games:
Using Repel to avoid Pokemon encounters you don't want

The Struggle in Pokemon Go:
Using Incense and having the item vanish with no effect


The Struggle in Normal Pokemon Games:
Beating Gym Leaders

The Struggle in Pokemon Go:
Actually even getting the battle to even START in Gyms


The Struggle in Normal Pokemon Games:
The game's memory battery dying after 10+ years of enjoyment

The Struggle in Pokemon Go:
The game crashing three days after release and forcing you to log back in EVERY FUCKING TIME for it to just crash again


~*~piece of shit kusoge of the year 2016~*~

EDIT: I CAN'T EVEN LOG IN NOW AHAHAHAH THIS GAME IS THE FUCKING WORST

DID THEY EVEN TRY TO MAKE THIS PLAYABLE
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 12, 2016, 02:30:58 AM
oof, game down for me too. was running out of balls anyway
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 12, 2016, 02:34:30 AM
I lost 20+ pokeballs today just from the game glitching the fuck out

I walked to a PokeStop a while ago and the fucking thing loaded

but as I spun the center disc it just said "Try Again Later".

It's like... opening a fortune cookie

you open it thinking you'll find some predictable optimistic platitude

but instead the little paper just says "go fuck yourself"
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 12, 2016, 02:46:13 AM
I lost 20+ pokeballs today just from the game glitching the fuck out

Somewhat related, I heard that if you miss a pokeball throw, you can quickly tap on it when it hits the floor to retrieve it again. If someone has the balls to try this out...
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 12, 2016, 03:01:26 AM
Just tried it. Ended up tapping until the next ball came out.

Now I lost TWO balls for the price of one!

:V


(I only have 6 left orz and god help me I fucking refuse to IAP this trash game until they make it a product worth paying for)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 12, 2016, 03:04:53 AM
it absolutely does not work, trust me.

I'm fresh out and done too. So I have to wake up at noon to hike across the beach to a few stops or delete the app already :v
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 12, 2016, 03:07:34 AM
Tomorrow is my work from home day, taking Donut to a cafe that's in between 2 stops to grind out pokeballs since I throw/flick like a drunk toddler.  Hopefully I can get a lot from that and then do the Lucky Egg grind with my rats and winged rats
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 12, 2016, 03:13:36 AM
"Oh hey the game finally loaded, but nothing is nearby. Oh well, may as well evolve some stuff.

"Hmm, Pidgeotto has enough candies. Let's do it!"

*pause*

>"Cannot evolve Pidgeotto due to an unknown error."


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 12, 2016, 03:36:51 AM
I heard a valid strat is just to save tons of pidgeys and rats then wait until you can get a lucky egg from pokestop coins and evolve them all for double exp. Probably going to have to do that to maximize on limited resources.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 12, 2016, 05:11:04 AM
Information stuff:
1: A Google Engineer has stated that the maps bypass does not work. At all.
2: I don't know how accurate this is, but there's a rarity chart for Eggs based on KM.
3: This is probably a troll, but somebody data mined the game and found a McDonald's logo.
4: Posting off of phones is a pain when you have images; attachments are cool.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Polaris on July 12, 2016, 05:20:26 AM
Re: server problems, if the server seems even the slightest bit unstable I would suggest just not playing until it seems better. "No Pokemon nearby" is the biggest clue to servers being wonky as far as I'm aware; there should always be at least one Pokemon nearby. I like using this site (http://cmmcd.com/PokemonGo/) to check the server status if I have any doubts.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on July 12, 2016, 05:34:18 AM
The map download thing shouldn't do anything. 1) If they're using the Maps API then they're going to be... using the API calls to grab tiles, not checking a local stored version of a map (besides what's cached already). How would it access it anyways? 2) If this actually worked then we'd know about it from Ingress existing for years already.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 12, 2016, 05:39:50 AM
It did seem too good to be true, but nobody posted a counter to Chirei's post yet, so I figured I might as well, before half the people here spend 500MB on maps.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: hyorinryu on July 12, 2016, 06:14:23 AM
Their guidelines say you can only have one account. This makes playing with friends and family  difficult when they're on the same teams.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 12, 2016, 06:57:25 AM
They want to prevent team sabotage. What they are okay with (or at least, haven't suspended accounts over, yet) is backpack accounts. It'll only be useful once trading is a thing, but you can store items and Pokemon on a separate account and Niantic doesn't care. If you're playing with a mixed team group, the only solution they offer is not caring, which defeats the purpose of teams.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on July 12, 2016, 07:03:30 AM
Out of curiosity I've checked this game for my iPhone 5s. Not sure if they intend to implement, but why the hell did they leave out the most crucial element of Pokemon: Battling and training your caught pokemon.

The game is just walk and catch. It would've been far more interesting if you would actually walk out and play like the actual game. The Gyms alone don't justify for this. Completely missed the boat for now.



Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Polaris on July 12, 2016, 07:26:59 AM
Well, the whole point of Pokemon Go is for it to be a walk and catch game (like geocaching or Ingress). It seems a little unfair to compare it to main series Pokemon games when they're fundamentally different :v
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 12, 2016, 02:06:49 PM
I broke down and got it. Thought it would be a lost cause on account of my living in a tiny, remote country.

Instead, there are 2 gyms and a dozen stops within a block of my apartment. And apparently a Charmander and a Horsea were hanging out in my room. I don't know what that's about but I should have a talk with them about proper social boundaries I guess.

e: I suppose using incense isn't cheating, is it? I mean I'm going to walk eventually but you know.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 12, 2016, 03:12:29 PM
That moment when there's sparse stops around me for miles, and then I decide to go with my sister to our university.

(http://i.imgur.com/8l5VRMq.png)

(http://mememarket.net/media/dank/pizap.com14567761317501.jpg)

e: I suppose using incense isn't cheating, is it? I mean I'm going to walk eventually but you know.

I believe the incense is there specifically so that you can get pokemon while idle. I think every five minutes I usually have one appear right next to me (or even under me, check carefully!) while it's on.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 12, 2016, 03:12:45 PM
Local business has a lure up 24/7 and the best/worst name

(http://imgur.com/Nj3xcbal.jpg)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 12, 2016, 03:20:12 PM
Local business has a lure up 24/7 Ave the best/worst name

(http://imgur.com/Nj3xcbal.jpg)

There's a Pokestop a mile from my house just called "Crypts" that's just two adjacent crypts.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Suwako Moriya on July 12, 2016, 03:25:19 PM
I'm kind of jealous that all of my town's stops are legitimate interesting non-silly things. The "worst" we get are memorial benches.

Also living in New England is a severe advantage in terms of stops because there are churches everywhere here.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 12, 2016, 03:26:03 PM
All the Icelandic Pokestops so far are either weird-ass statues or graffiti. I'm OK with this.

And the incense paid off: I now have nine pokemons, although the strongest only has 49 CP (Pidgeotto).

Damn shame I'm nowhere near the Westboro Baptist Church (http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/pokemon-go-westboro-baptist-church/?tu=dd).
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Suwako Moriya on July 12, 2016, 03:29:01 PM
Gotta give the devil his due: the WBC is clearly committed to Pokemon anime canon in choosing a Jigglypuff to counteract a Clefairy.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 12, 2016, 04:10:58 PM
Also living in New England is a severe advantage in terms of stops because there are churches everywhere here.

Assuming you're in the more populated regions, sure, yeah
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 12, 2016, 05:46:01 PM
So I went to the nearest Pokestop to my place. I'm standing there in kind of my own world, doing my thing, when I look up to see this teenaged kid with a smartphone standing next to me.

We regarded each other, nodded in solemn recognition of what brought us together in front of some stranger's garage, and then parted ways. It was quite the moment for both of us, I'm sure.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 12, 2016, 05:50:53 PM
I'm kind of jealous that all of my town's stops are legitimate interesting non-silly things. The "worst" we get are memorial benches.
I have some cow sculptures in a center near my house and they get called "Cows".

I'M kind of jealous of all the people who seem to be able to catch stuff at home.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 12, 2016, 06:47:27 PM
I have some cow sculptures in a center near my house and they get called "Cows".

I'M kind of jealous of all the people who seem to be able to catch stuff at home.

If I leave my phone with PoGo on, occasionally something will show up every 30-60 minutes, but I think it's because my neighborhood has plenty of greenery. Then again, I was at my friend's neighborhood with significantly less and still getting something at around the same interval or more just idling and playing MtG. I have no idea what determines this.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 12, 2016, 07:00:08 PM
Near as I can tell the spawn points are semi-static.  My neighbor 2 doors down has a grass spot more often than not and pokemon spawn in her house every morning.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 12, 2016, 07:37:31 PM
The average age of guys in my office is probably 40, but this morning I found out more than half of them play Pokemon Go. One of them was asking me for tips earlier, but in some bizarre attempt to save jock face was desperately trying to avoid saying the word "Pokemon". I don't believe the two of us have ever exchanged that many words about anything.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 12, 2016, 08:04:43 PM
I just got back from another 3km walk and was met with a delightful surprise. The servers went down as I arrived at my house, but apparently it was logging the extra meters I was walking even though it crashed, so when I opened the app again one of my eggs was out of the incubator, and in its place this little dude:

(http://i.imgur.com/AsG7xYl.png)

I couldn't have asked for a better result, barring one that was ultra-fat. One question, though. Why does this thing have almost three times as much health as other ~200CP pokemon I have, who only have about 30? I knew the Igglybuff line had higher than normal health, but not 3x as much???

Also bonus round upon turning on the app in my room:

(http://i.imgur.com/OeVmMNq.png)

>try to catch it
>THE SERVERS FUCKING GO DOWN

>turn the app back on
>IT'S STILL THERE

(http://i.imgur.com/F7B1A6y.png)

D E T E R M I N A T I O N
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 12, 2016, 08:18:46 PM
About spawn points...

(http://i.imgur.com/VeDHpSL.jpg)

There's a spawn point where I touched the map, and two PokeStops. Just out of reach.

What a fucking troll. I'm not looney enough to exit the house to a busy intersection every five minutes. And it's mostly Ekans anyway.

First world PokeProblems.

EDIT: But BT! Why don't you just sit outside and grind? Because it's humid as you wouldn't believe. Man they could have at least dropped a few water types for extra sense-making.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 12, 2016, 08:21:16 PM
Shit, at least it's right outside your house.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on July 12, 2016, 09:26:36 PM
I hope we'll get more spawn points and stuff once Canada goes live, these situations sound way more plentiful than what I'm seeing
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 12, 2016, 09:51:39 PM
So it turns out that despite my phone being brand new and claiming the contrary, it does not have a gyroscope. So no AR shenanigans for me, which is pretty disappointing. Maybe someone will come out with a reliable hardware or software stopgap, or maybe Niantic will allow other methods of using AR eventually, although obviously that should be pretty low on their list of priorities right now.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: triangles on July 12, 2016, 10:22:17 PM
they gave me the power to name pokemon we're doomed
(http://i.imgur.com/6DPR11r.jpg)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 12, 2016, 10:52:46 PM
You know, before this game came out, I never really realized just how many people live in my city. Now I go out to a 'quiet' area and see a car and three people. I wonder what downtown area is like. Or worse, Seattle. I mean, I think that a tourist city that also serves as a train terminal for several other cities and an international airport might get a little bit more crowded because of this game. Maybe.

EDIT: I can't even imagine Times Square right now.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Kilgamayan on July 12, 2016, 10:53:54 PM
I got my first Defender Pokebucks today o/
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: triangles on July 12, 2016, 11:09:39 PM
EDIT: I can't even imagine Times Square right now.
Not Times Square but still Manhattan, my husband works in the West Village and is in range of 3 Pokestop from his desk which get lured very frequently.  He catches so much without getting off his butt meanwhile my town is full of rats, birds and bugs :fail:

Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 12, 2016, 11:18:36 PM
yo if you use ptc to login don't update to 1.0.1 if you can

it broke logins
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 12, 2016, 11:27:57 PM
Ah ha ha god dammit.

God dammit Niantic, you fucked it up.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 12, 2016, 11:53:34 PM
Ah ha ha god dammit.

God dammit Niantic, you fucked it up.

i'm honestly kinda amazed how fast things are already going downhill
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Polaris on July 13, 2016, 12:03:52 AM
On the other hand, the google account permissions are fixed... kind of :v If the app already has full access, you have to remove it and allow permissions again so that it only gets the basic account info.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 13, 2016, 12:09:49 AM
i'm honestly kinda amazed how fast things are already going downhill

I mean, it started from virtually nonfunctional, so I guess it's not THAT much worse.

Anecdotally I've been having WAY fewer server issues and way less trouble playing with gyms, so from my point of view things seem betteeeeer.

On the other hand, the google account permissions are fixed... kind of :v If the app already has full access, you have to remove it and allow permissions again so that it only gets the basic account info.

Huh. Well, that's... Sort of good? I mean, yeah, I guess that's good. BRB, fixing that shit.

Edit: According to Niantic's site (https://support.pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/222648408-Permissions-update) users don't need to take any action and the permissions will sort themselves out. That article isn't dated though so maybe it's no longer the case?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Polaris on July 13, 2016, 12:17:59 AM
^ The server issues may have dropped because all the PTC users can't log in anymore :V

When I logged in after the update, it prompted me with an "allow basic permissions" dialog box, but when I said yes and checked my account permissions, it still said that the app had full access. I was assuming that since the app had already had full access, it didn't bother downgrading to basic access since it was redundant? *shrug* But at least it's not a problem anymore.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 13, 2016, 12:47:14 AM
The PTC logins crashed RIGHT as I was about to take a gym.

Fuck you, Niantic. Fuck. You.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 13, 2016, 01:48:07 AM
Turns out there are 3 pokestops in the 20-minute walk between my house and a friend's (graffiti on a garage, a statue and some mushroom-painted air vents), and capturing, transferring, powering up and evolving have done alright for a single day. Looking forward to taking this down to the harbor tomorrow.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 13, 2016, 01:53:26 AM
Just got back from a Pokemon adventure around my neighborhood. Here's what I found:

-I caught a 531 CP Scyther, which is not too far below my strongest Pokemon.

-I captured a gym from yellow team and left my Aerodactyl there, but by the time I had run a circuit of the three gyms in the area (the other two of which are firmly controlled by blue team already but not close to accepting new members) it had already been taken back.

-The game gleeched out on two semi-important captures (a weak Eevee and a very strong Gastly) with the game freezing on the Pokeball right after the capture, but upon rebooting I found that it let me keep the Pokemon.

-I'm running out of extra incubators and could really use some gym cash as a means to get more incubators. Hatched a lot of Pidgeys.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 13, 2016, 02:51:05 AM
how I see my life right now this week

(http://i.imgur.com/NOKUDwT.png)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: trancehime on July 13, 2016, 02:54:17 AM
meanwhile

i'm stuck here in asia

where pokemon go isn't officially out yet

=(
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 13, 2016, 02:54:47 AM
how I see my life right now this week

(http://i.imgur.com/NOKUDwT.png)
Actually, a caffeine shot or two might not be a bad thing to pack, while on a longer PokeStop run.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Monarda on July 13, 2016, 03:04:52 AM
how I see my life right now this week

(http://i.imgur.com/NOKUDwT.png)

No Igglybuff Charm to protect you from evil ?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 13, 2016, 03:24:40 AM
No Igglybuff Charm to protect you from evil ?

And no Red Scarf either. We got a low-level scroob on our hands.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 13, 2016, 03:34:47 AM
I really really like this game but the mosquito bites are a bit out of hand, as my friend said, couldn't they have released in Fall?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: ☆ Kana ☆ on July 13, 2016, 05:25:06 AM
As expected, my university has no shortage of Pokestops. One of them is literally just called "Learning, What".  :]
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 13, 2016, 10:24:01 AM
My bus ride to work took me to 5 at last. For a country where the game hasn't even been officially released yet, this town is lousy with pok?stops and random wild pok?mons. And being an old-school Lutheran country where even the most desolate podunk villages get a church, there are gyms everywhere.

Some shots of my bus ride into town - notice the rapidly increasing concentration of stops (pop: ~120,000):
(http://i.imgur.com/Wif711Bl.png) (http://i.imgur.com/gBVE0kEl.png) (http://i.imgur.com/oVxL8pSl.png) (http://i.imgur.com/TUpdDonl.png)


And just for fun, here's some of Iceland's pok?stops:
(http://i.imgur.com/QxbEpRil.png) (http://i.imgur.com/57A8vDvl.png) (http://i.imgur.com/kfYC4jOl.png)

I will try to screenshot some of the more interesting stops as they arise. There's a metric shit-ton of them in a park close to my home.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Kilgamayan on July 13, 2016, 11:18:01 AM
https://twitter.com/VinceMcMahon/status/753035502484348932
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 13, 2016, 02:19:48 PM
Glass Domes looks straight outta Teletubbies.

Niantic have done a good job upgrading the servers aside from the login problem (lol), but is there anything important in client-side v1.01?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 13, 2016, 02:29:47 PM
Essentially it makes the game playable. Gyms have been fixed (ish), Google BS has been fixed, PTC accounts can actually log in properly, and it makes login less repetitive.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 13, 2016, 03:34:54 PM
Here's a few more Icelandic Pok?stops. Turns out there's one right next to my office window, too, which is pretty damn convenient.

(http://i.imgur.com/YbwkWkW.png) (http://i.imgur.com/iGN5il2.png)
(http://i.imgur.com/uSYKZDO.png) (http://i.imgur.com/g8X8VIV.png)

And my personal favorite:
(http://i.imgur.com/NZuGCiM.png)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 13, 2016, 03:49:33 PM
That moment when your 10km egg says 10km/10km when you get back to your house but when you click it it actually says 9.97km walked

Cue me running up and down my sidewalk like poor egg runners would do in the games

>Hitmonchan

the fat chansey miracle never happen :negative:
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 13, 2016, 04:03:49 PM
Hey, Hitmonchan's still really fucking cool. How strong did it hatch? Usably strong?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 13, 2016, 04:21:41 PM
Hey, Hitmonchan's still really fucking cool. How strong did it hatch? Usably strong?

240cp / 35hp / 19 candies / rock smash(it hatched with an HM move?!?) / thunderpunch

hitmonchan is indeed cool, but it's not fat chansey

(http://i.imgur.com/yWFUjbg.png)

just look at how perfectly found and fat it is

(http://i.imgur.com/DIztt3h.png)

LOOK AT IT
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 13, 2016, 04:26:20 PM
(it hatched with an HM move?!?)

Moves match up to their Pokemon counterparts in name and type only. You can spam Sucker Punch on a Pokemon who isn't attacking too.

Also, isn't Rock Smash not an HM in some games? I want to say I vaguely remember a few odd cases of Pokemon being able to learn it by leveling up.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 13, 2016, 04:34:09 PM
Encountered an Eevee.

Game froze on Pokeball throw.

Lost the Eevee.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 13, 2016, 05:00:18 PM
Encountered an Eevee.

Game froze on Pokeball throw.

Lost the Eevee.

Hey, I caught one of them yesterday!

After one full day of hunting, this is what I got (having powered up a couple and evolved three) - don't know how good this is but I must've given the Professor a dozen Weedles:
(http://i.imgur.com/WVno8Iz.png)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 13, 2016, 05:09:36 PM
Hey, I caught one of them yesterday!

After one full day of hunting, this is what I got (having powered up a couple and evolved three) - don't know how good this is but I must've given the Professor a dozen Weedles:
(http://i.imgur.com/WVno8Iz.png)

(http://i.imgur.com/IdHcE1N.png)

this is all i need to see to know you did good
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 13, 2016, 05:19:34 PM
Yeah I literally squeeled with joy in the middle of downtown's main street when that little guy turned up.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Suwako Moriya on July 13, 2016, 05:33:47 PM
Came up just a couple of hours short of holding a gym for an entire day. D:
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 13, 2016, 05:47:19 PM
At the ugliest building in the city where I work there is a team Mystic fortress

(http://imgur.com/v661sGul.jpg)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 13, 2016, 06:32:51 PM
At the ugliest building in the city where I work there is a team Mystic fortress

(http://imgur.com/v661sGul.jpg)

That's okay, we had one of those here and it went down overnight. I think the odds are just stacked too heavily against anyone ever keeping a gym.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 13, 2016, 07:00:31 PM
That's okay, we had one of those here and it went down overnight. I think the odds are just stacked too heavily against anyone ever keeping a gym.

Yeah, speaking of that: If one Pok?mon is set to guard a Gym and is subsequently getting its ass whooped, can another member of the same team step in and tag in their own Pok?mon?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 13, 2016, 07:16:46 PM
Yeah, speaking of that: If one Pok?mon is set to guard a Gym and is subsequently getting its ass whooped, can another member of the same team step in and tag in their own Pok?mon?

This is my understanding of how gyms work:

-The number of Pokemon a gym can hold is based on its rank. Rank is based on Prestige.

-Rank can be increased by members of the same team battling there and winning. This is called "training", and you can only bring a single Pokemon to train. Every consecutive gym Pokemon you beat, without healing in between, gives a slight Prestige boost. If you KO every defender I assume the prestige bonus is large, but I've found this very difficult to do since you have to beat the entire gym with a single Pokemon.

-Rank can be decreased by members of opposing teams battling there and winning. They can bring their whole team, and every gym Pokemon KOed drops the gym prestige some, while KOing all Pokemon in the gym drops it considerably.

-Pokemon in the gym heal back up to full after every battle. Being KOed does not kick a Pokemon out of the gym.

-When the gym drops by a level, the weakest Pokemon in the gym gets kicked out.

-If the gym drops below rank 2 (?) it becomes neutral and anyone nearby can claim it and put their Pokemon in, making it their color. I'm pretty sure the gym needs to be ranked back up at this point.

-Multiple people battling the gym at once seem to be able to team up on the defender. Not sure if this requires the attackers to be on the same team.

-Every 21 hours (?) you keep a Pokemon in the gym gives you a tiny number of coins. Nothing else seems to pay out anything.

Can anyone deny any of that or expand on any of it? This is just from personal experience and a bit of hearsay, so I don't stand behind any of it very strongly.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Firestorm29 on July 13, 2016, 08:05:56 PM
Just spent an hour getting cockteased by a Pikachu...

Granted, I did manage to fill in a few other blanks in the Pokedex minus the Pikachu, still a buzzkill to have the one thing you went out to get to be very far out of reach. :/
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 13, 2016, 08:20:30 PM
just finished a ride through most of the state emptying my college apartment

A) universities are unfair why does this happen right when i graduate

B) i missed that charmander on the ride back and will never recover

C) i have so many eggs to hatch oh god
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 13, 2016, 08:23:22 PM
Commandercool,

Unless I've misread, I think that's the exact process.  I've only gone through it once myself so I could be wrong. 

Also the gym my Vaporeon is in has been up for 16 hours! \o/
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 13, 2016, 10:51:03 PM
-Every 21 hours (?) you keep a Pokemon in the gym gives you a tiny number of coins. Nothing else seems to pay out anything.

It also gives an amount of Stardust, or so I hear from /r/PokemonGO.




I just "caught" a Venomoth, but it froze. I'm just leaving my phone on until it does something.
I was going to play PAD or F/GO, but oh well.

EDIT: Defiance worked:
EDIT2: Wiah where did that 1.533k Stardust come from :o
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 14, 2016, 12:11:02 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/ff6oCaD.jpg)

This is the spookiest Pokestop.

There's berries and aigs in there.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 14, 2016, 12:37:49 AM
eggs give enough stardust to fuel my bird training habits

i'm going to need to run a lot more now ;;
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: hyorinryu on July 14, 2016, 12:46:05 AM
Yesterday, people activated lures at my college so they could rob people. I saw a bunch of police car coming as I was leaving. College will look interesting when school starts.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Jq1790 on July 14, 2016, 12:48:18 AM
Sadly predictable, but...this is why it takes a lot for people to be able to have nice things.

/me lets out a slow heavy sigh
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 14, 2016, 01:39:18 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/StBEZMF.jpg)

Hey guys check out my cool gym.

No, I don't know why it's called that.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: triangles on July 14, 2016, 02:05:38 AM
-Every 21 hours (?) you keep a Pokemon in the gym gives you a tiny number of coins. Nothing else seems to pay out anything.

Close - every 21 hours you can hit the shield button in the upper right of the Shop page you will get coins/dust for each Pokemon you have in a gym.  It's basically impossible in my area to hold anything for 21 hours straight, so I just smash it as soon as I get one in there I stand no chance in getting multiple outposts at my level in my area.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 14, 2016, 02:17:34 AM
Oh what. That's super cool, I actually didn't know that. Thanks. That makes actually getting a payout WAY easier.

So I had a weird Pokemon Go etiquette thing come up earlier. Another guy and I were training at a gym and we ranked it up and I finished my battle first, so I could have slipped a Pokemon in there before he finished his battle. He was in his car with the windows up so I couldn't ask him what he wanted to do. He had been there training longer and I came along to help in the last few minutes before it ranked up.

I ended up letting him have it, but I'm not sure if he planned on grinding out another rank after that so we both could have gotten in. Almost fucked him over because he was obviously just driving from gym to gym and not, you know, actually playing the whole game, but that's not really fair. I hope he went and put something in my gym after that though since it had a slot open and was just a quarter mile or so away in the same cemetery and it's super vulnerable right now, if way off the beaten path.

Also hatched another 10km egg earlier and got a Pinsir. Cooool. I've been semi-wasting my Stardust leveling up rare egg pulls that I can't feasibly support since I have no way to get more candy for them, but they're so much cooler than anything else I have. And Pinsir has Fury Cutter, which is a move with only 3 power that I assume you can attack very quickly with. That seems super useful and I want to give it a try.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Jq1790 on July 14, 2016, 02:28:16 AM
If it's at all like Fury Cutter in the games it has the potential to get very silly.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Jana on July 14, 2016, 02:45:50 AM
Hello yes I am playing this game too! Getting ready to make my Lucky Egg evorush from 15-20.

(https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/152205573201330176/202978190241562625/Screenshot_2016-07-13-21-41-51.png)

It's kinda weak and I'll never be able to battle with it but Porygon is cool!!! From a 5km egg, surprisingly enough!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 14, 2016, 03:09:37 AM
You only get Porygon from 5km eggs.

(http://i.imgur.com/b1GBvA6.jpg?1)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 14, 2016, 04:38:30 AM
You only get Porygon from 5km eggs.

That's good to know! I have two 5km eggs incubating right now.

Went with Team Mystic, and turns out the gym at the church a block away from my home is being held down by us pretty steady. Which is good, because the next closest gym is changing hands left and right with defenders who are like 200+. I'm thinking a campaign of expansion could be fun, so I'm seeing a lot of long walks downtown getting my evolving freaks into shape.

e: Caught a Meowth this morning!

Also, checked out the gyms on my route to work this morning. Whole lotta scrubs in the 200-300 CP range. But then we passed by Harpa Concert Hall...

(http://i.imgur.com/B0Mlhs4.png)

What's funny about this, is that I'm noticing that the trainers with Icelandic-sounding names pick unremarkable locations that tourists ignore for their gyms, while gigantic tourist attractions such as Harpa seem to be a magnet for trainers with foreign-sounding names; presumably tourists themselves, coming to our country with their ridiculously powered Pok?mons and taking over our gyms. #buildthewall
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 14, 2016, 01:16:53 PM
Also, checked out the gyms on my route to work this morning. Whole lotta scrubs in the 200-300 CP range. But then we passed by Harpa Concert Hall...

Yesterday my friend and I screamed. We drove by my university and one of the gyms had a Snorlax in it. We knew Snorlax was rare, so it couldn't have possibly been that high CP, but to our great dismay it was 1700+ CP. The guy must live near a spawn point or something...
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 14, 2016, 01:30:56 PM
Yesterday my friend and I screamed. We drove by my university and one of the gyms had a Snorlax in it. We knew Snorlax was rare, so it couldn't have possibly been that high CP, but to our great dismay it was 1700+ CP. The guy must live near a spawn point or something...

I don't know, this game seems to have invented a new kind of whaling (which, as per Drake's suggestion, will be called Wailording). In normal whaling you just pay to win in-game, but in Wailording you pay to win in real life too by spending a bunch of gas money to drive around battling gyms and farming Pokemon from inside your car.

And I don't know how, but I am 100% cerain that our biggest local Wailord has found a way to cheat at hatching eggs too, because there is absolutely no fucking way he's walked the hundred plus miles he would need to to hatch all of the eggs he claims to have hatched.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 14, 2016, 01:37:19 PM
I don't know, this game seems to have invented a new kind of whaling (which, as pee Drake's suggestion, will be called Wailording). In normal whaling you just pay to win in-game, but in Wailording you pay to win in real life too by spending a bunch of gas money to drive around battling gyms and farming Pokemon from inside your car.

And I don't know how, but I am 100% cerain that our biggest local Wailord has found a way to cheat at hatching eggs too, because there is absolutely no fucking way he's walked the hundred plus miles he would need to to hatch all of the eggs he claims to have hatched.

Could have slow-drived or had someone slow-drive him around.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: triangles on July 14, 2016, 01:54:23 PM
Or bought extra incubators and storage space?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Suwako Moriya on July 14, 2016, 01:58:24 PM
Yeah, it's probably worth remembering that a number of people are, in fact, spending money on this game.

EDIT: Speaking of eggs, an egg started to hatch for me this morning, but the game froze on the "Oh?" screen, and when I quit and restarted, the egg was gone, but there was no new Pokemon. Nice job, programmers.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 14, 2016, 02:04:08 PM
Or bought extra incubators and storage space?

Is it actually possible to hold more than 9 eggs with expansions? I am a bit disheartened that you can't even discard eggs, because for some reason the game decided to give me just 5km eggs yesterday, when I only want 2's and 10's.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 14, 2016, 02:16:39 PM
And I don't know how, but I am 100% cerain that our biggest local Wailord has found a way to cheat at hatching eggs too, because there is absolutely no fucking way he's walked the hundred plus miles he would need to to hatch all of the eggs he claims to have hatched.

You can tie your phone to a ceiling fan and it counts distance. Just get a bunch of incubators and do that overnight.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 14, 2016, 02:58:21 PM
Finally evolved my Eevee and got a buff-ass Flareon. That is cool, but it feels unfortunate given the Vaporeon meta that seems to exist.

I feel like I've had bad RNG on this game. 3/6 of my main team right now have Steel Wing as their main attack, which is pretty weak.

Want to hug Flareon though. So fluffy. And after just one candy it's now my strongest Pokemon (although I think that's my guys being too evenly leveled more than anything).
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 14, 2016, 03:31:24 PM
Slow drive is probably how most people are cheating the egg game.

Cars, unsurprisingly (because they were also op in ingress) are the best cheat tactic. Which is unfortunate for so many reasons.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 14, 2016, 03:44:14 PM
Hell, even taking the public bus can be fruitful. So long as you're either fast or lucky.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: nav' on July 14, 2016, 04:09:31 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/ff6oCaD.jpg)

This is the spookiest Pokestop.

There's berries and aigs in there.
This is sooo death metal.

At times I really wish I had a smartphone, just to have a curious stroll around my rural area and see what comes up. Oh well.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 14, 2016, 04:40:02 PM
Someone took my gym with a Gyarados  

I don't even know how you could do that with whaling.  I've never even seen a Magikarp in our area.  Maybe I should visit one of the lakes for a day this weekend.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 14, 2016, 04:42:14 PM
Slow drive is probably how most people are cheating the egg game.

Cars, unsurprisingly (because they were also op in ingress) are the best cheat tactic. Which is unfortunate for so many reasons.

This. (http://www.dailydot.com/debug/pokemon-go-egg-hatching-trick-cheat/)

Why use a car when you have a fan? This is what I mentioned earlier. This is almost the best possible method, bar remote accessing a drone with your phone attached to it. Which has also been done, for the record.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 14, 2016, 04:44:36 PM
Someone took my gym with a Gyarados  

I don't even know how you could do that with whaling.  I've never even seen a Magikarp in our area.  Maybe I should visit one of the lakes for a day this weekend.

It's possible to just actually flat out catch a Gyarados, but rare. This way you don't have to waste 400 candy on evolving, and just use it to level the Gyarados.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 14, 2016, 04:56:45 PM
Someone took my gym with a Gyarados  

I don't even know how you could do that with whaling.  I've never even seen a Magikarp in our area.  Maybe I should visit one of the lakes for a day this weekend.

Local Wailord (who I've been told by multiple people is actually hatching his eggs legit, albeit with ten incubators, which is actually really good to hear because he's horrifically out of shape and that's really cool) apparently has 200 Magikarp Candy. No idea how.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 14, 2016, 05:14:38 PM
Local Wailord (who I've been told by multiple people is actually hatching his eggs legit, albeit with ten incubators, which is actually really good to hear because he's horrifically out of shape and that's really cool) apparently has 200 Magikarp Candy. No idea how.

I'd believe it - on my first day of playing the local movie theatre was spawning a Magikarp every 5 minutes with a lure on it.  If someone were to live near a similarly advantageous spawn point, 200 should be fairly easy just from getting 4 candy per catch+transfer every time.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: PX on July 14, 2016, 05:45:24 PM
I saw a Moltres on the poke tracker at work yesterday. I never found it ;_;
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 14, 2016, 05:58:10 PM
I saw a Moltres on the poke tracker at work yesterday. I never found it ;_;

Wait wut. Nobody has eva done that, in the history uv Pokemon GO!
Seriousness though: Are you sure it wasn't a Fearow? Because you might just get to feel even worse about not finding it. Nobody has found a legendary yet.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 14, 2016, 06:20:15 PM
Apparently this is a thing that exists for people who need more pokestops in their area. (https://support.pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=319928)

It currently doesn't work right now since they're full on requests, but something to keep in mind incase the situation changes, maybe.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 14, 2016, 06:38:36 PM
Yeah, they're always full with this stuff. As a matter of fact, they almost never go through new requests, that's how bogged down they are.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 14, 2016, 06:43:09 PM
Apparently this is a thing that exists for people who need more pokestops in their area. (https://support.pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/hc/en-us/requests/new?ticket_form_id=319928)

It currently doesn't work right now since they're full on requests, but something to keep in mind incase the situation changes, maybe.

This seems more like reporting existing ones for various reasons, actually. Not adding new ones.

Why use a car when you have a fan?

Not tying your phone to a ceiling fan like an idiot, holy shit?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 14, 2016, 06:44:14 PM
Not tying your phone to a ceiling fan like an idiot, holy shit?

Variable speed.
It doesn't matter how slow it is, if you're leaving it overnight.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on July 14, 2016, 06:50:04 PM
To note, there's been analysis on terrain+climate done and some things are very likely to spawn certain types of pokemon. Being near some bodies of water is correlated to water type pokemon, so lots of Magikarp isn't that unexpected.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 14, 2016, 06:54:33 PM
Variable speed.
It doesn't matter how slow it is, if you're leaving it overnight.

I'm really tempted to just repeat what I said because that does like nothing for the overall fact that is the stupidest idea.

And now just brings up 'or you just drive 15 km while hitting pokestops and do one better during the day'.

This is like, the pettiest, smallest, dumbest way to break your phone over a phone game dude.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 14, 2016, 07:34:32 PM
Is it just me or has the game worsened a LOT in the last 36 hours? Aside from a bunch of connectivity problems, it takes 15-20 seconds on average to load PokeStops (which is usually enough time for you to walk out of range so you actually have to STOP and wait for it to load) and in my 4km walk earlier today I lost like 4 out of 5 catches to the freeze-on-shake glitch. It's never been this bad to me. I know Germany and the UK got the app recently, but is this happening to everyone?

To note, there's been analysis on terrain+climate done and some things are very likely to spawn certain types of pokemon. Being near some bodies of water is correlated to water type pokemon, so lots of Magikarp isn't that unexpected.
RIP desert dwellers. The only Uncommons in my vicinity and work are Growlithe, Sandshrew, Mankey, Ekans, etc. with NO water types. Arcanine mirror matches are the worst thing.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 14, 2016, 07:36:05 PM
Is it just me or has the game worsened a LOT in the last 36 hours? Aside from a bunch of connectivity problems, it takes 15-20 seconds on average to load PokeStops (which is usually enough time for you to walk out of range so you actually have to STOP and wait for it to load) and in my 4km walk earlier today I lost like 4 out of 5 catches to the freeze-on-shake glitch. It's never been this bad to me. I know Germany and the UK got the app recently, but is this happening to everyone?

That was happening to me a lot yesterday, yeah.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 14, 2016, 07:44:22 PM
Is it just me or has the game worsened a LOT in the last 36 hours? Aside from a bunch of connectivity problems, it takes 15-20 seconds on average to load PokeStops (which is usually enough time for you to walk out of range so you actually have to STOP and wait for it to load) and in my 4km walk earlier today I lost like 4 out of 5 catches to the freeze-on-shake glitch. It's never been this bad to me. I know Germany and the UK got the app recently, but is this happening to everyone?

For me it's been worse than yesterday, but better than the worst it's ever been. In particular I've been having the game freeze up on capture A LOT, and once I had it stop loading new things and had to reset to see any Pokemon or Pokestops or gyms.

Gym battles have been playable but glitchy. Doing better than a one-for-one seems to be impossible since whenever I KO anything the game backs up for a while after the second Pokemon comes in and I end up eating like ten simultaneous attack and instantly dying.

RIP desert dwellers. The only Uncommons in my vicinity and work are Growlithe, Sandshrew, Mankey, Ekans, etc. with NO water types. Arcanine mirror matches are the worst thing.

Hmm, we don't have any of those. I don't know what counts as an uncommon, but I'd guess ours are Jynx, Magikarp, Krabby, Nidorans (?), and Tauros. We have no fire types at all and very few rock or ground (nearby college has Geodudes though).
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 14, 2016, 07:45:23 PM
Is it just me or has the game worsened a LOT in the last 36 hours? Aside from a bunch of connectivity problems, it takes 15-20 seconds on average to load PokeStops (which is usually enough time for you to walk out of range so you actually have to STOP and wait for it to load) and in my 4km walk earlier today I lost like 4 out of 5 catches to the freeze-on-shake glitch. It's never been this bad to me. I know Germany and the UK got the app recently, but is this happening to everyone?
RIP desert dwellers. The only Uncommons in my vicinity and work are Growlithe, Sandshrew, Mankey, Ekans, etc. with NO water types. Arcanine mirror matches are the worst thing.

Stops have been fine for me, and this is with my crap phone that can't technically run the game and has GPS problems under trees or roofs.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 14, 2016, 07:50:31 PM
Hmm, we don't have any of those. I don't know what counts as an uncommon, but I'd guess ours are Jynx, Magikarp, Krabby, Nidorans (?), and Tauros. We have no fire types at all and very few rock or ground (nearby college has Geodudes though).
Uncommon == not Pidgey, Rattata, Spearow, Meowth, Zubat. :V

I mean, I actually had to wait a long time before I found Weedle/Caterpie, so even some of the 2km-to-hatch group mons can be no-shows according to region I guess.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 14, 2016, 07:51:41 PM
Is it just me or has the game worsened a LOT in the last 36 hours? Aside from a bunch of connectivity problems, it takes 15-20 seconds on average to load PokeStops (which is usually enough time for you to walk out of range so you actually have to STOP and wait for it to load) and in my 4km walk earlier today I lost like 4 out of 5 catches to the freeze-on-shake glitch. It's never been this bad to me. I know Germany and the UK got the app recently, but is this happening to everyone?

I got freeze-on-shake once after the update, and PokeStops load just fine when I'm not in a car. The big issue for me is Gyms. All the models and stuff will unload while the Gym display is loading, which takes more than a couple seconds.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on July 14, 2016, 07:54:35 PM
apparently in-line skating to hatch is a bad idea. You're going to fast for it. Did a 5km route and checked my eggs > 0km added. Fuck this.

also these are Pokemanz Trainers in my park where there are 8 poke stops in total scattered around.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 14, 2016, 07:57:53 PM
Uncommon == not Pidgey, Rattata, Spearow, Meowth, Zubat. :V

I mean, I actually had to wait a long time before I found Weedle/Caterpie, so even some of the 2km-to-hatch group mons can be no-shows according to region I guess.

We have no Meowths at all.

Then add Venonat (common), Drowzee (common), Bellsprout (uncommon) and Gastly (rare). I'm told downtown there are uncommon Goldeens and rare Lapras, but I have yet to confirm.

We've also been observing Weedle being much more common than Caterpie and Pidgey much more common than Spearow.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 14, 2016, 08:00:06 PM
Uncommon == not Pidgey, Rattata, Spearow, Meowth, Zubat. :V

I mean, I actually had to wait a long time before I found Weedle/Caterpie, so even some of the 2km-to-hatch group mons can be no-shows according to region I guess.

Weedles are semi-uncommon here, and Caterpie I only see like every other day for some reason. My neighborhood is a rather neatly built one with lots of grass, so it's odd that it's more of one one but not the other. I've only witnessed a Meowth on a car trip somewhere and didn't even get close enough to try to catch it, so I have no idea where that could spawn.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 14, 2016, 08:07:18 PM
Uncommon == not Pidgey, Rattata, Spearow, Meowth, Zubat. :V

I mean, I actually had to wait a long time before I found Weedle/Caterpie, so even some of the 2km-to-hatch group mons can be no-shows according to region I guess.

I find all of those on a daily basis, but I rarely see Eevees, Ghastlies, or Water-type Pokemon. I'll see a Poliwag once in a blue moon at beaches, and sometimes I'll find a Magikarp on the freeway.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on July 14, 2016, 08:27:13 PM
Weedles way over Caterpies and Pidgeys way over Spearow here.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on July 14, 2016, 08:33:35 PM
Ratata, Weedle, Pidgey and Sparrow most from where I live.

Occasional Beedrill, Pikachu (caught today), Squirtle from here.
Meowth is little 20m ahead of me.
Growlith too 20m ahead.
Onix 30m (caught him today)

I'm running into pretty much a lot of types here.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Ruka on July 14, 2016, 09:41:41 PM
Somehow caught a goldeen and staryu at work where there were 0 bodies of water nearby.

I do have 2 pokestops on the way to work and 3 back. May have to hit them up regularly since I'm getting low on balls.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 14, 2016, 10:00:02 PM
Just another hour before I can hopefully collect from multiple gyms... Probably going to get knocked out of all of them at the last second, we'll see.

Ratata, Weedle, Pidgey and Sparrow most from where I live.

Occasional Beedrill, Pikachu (caught today), Squirtle from here.
Meowth is little 20m ahead of me.
Growlith too 20m ahead.
Onix 30m (caught him today)

I'm running into pretty much a lot of types here.

~Oh~

I want Onix!

Somehow caught a goldeen and staryu at work where there were 0 bodies of water nearby.

I do have 2 pokestops on the way to work and 3 back. May have to hit them up regularly since I'm getting low on balls.

I keep seeing Staryus off in the distance but they never get too close somehow.

We have a fair number of water types on land here. Maybe because there's a river running through town? Or might just be a quirk of the way Pokemon are generated.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Sect on July 14, 2016, 11:30:32 PM
Pokemon Go is getting frustrating because everytime I try to catch a pokemon it keeps freezing. It did it five times in under twenty minutes. Missed out on a Squirtle and Horsea because of it.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 15, 2016, 01:50:00 AM
Main downside of having a secret gym in the woods: I can't use Toasty Boy (Toasty Boy is my Flareon) for anything until someone finds and beats it. After taking like four days to find my first Eevee I was raking in the Eevees all day, so I have plenty of Eevee souls to feed him. And the cash bucks to bribe him to eat them for once since I have gyms paying out for the moment.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 15, 2016, 02:06:06 AM
Am I correct in my guesstimation that incubators are the best use for coins?  With them you can at least choose the tier of bonus you get, to avoid wasting your efforts on the vermin pokemon.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Failure McFailFace on July 15, 2016, 02:19:15 AM
>TFW you don't have Pokemon Go
>TFW no data plan in $current_year
>TFW Windows Phone
>TFW you can't ever get Pokemon Go
>TFW you get a no-GPS/data capable iPad from the school district for school
>TFW Pokemon Go won't work on that anyway

I want to play this so bad, but everyone in my family has a Windows Phone, and only my parents have unlimited data.

If I'm getting a new phone, I'm getting an Android with an external battery pack.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 15, 2016, 02:43:08 AM
I want to play this so bad, but everyone in my family has a Windows Phone, and only my parents have unlimited data.

If I'm getting a new phone, I'm getting an Android with an external battery pack.

Yeah, what my friend is doing is he's mooching power off me, because I have three external batteries in my bag, and he's getting a BLU R1 HD off Amazon. Apparently it's really cheap for a good phone. Interestingly enough, Amazon installs ads on the lockscreen, and an ad widget on the Home Screen, but both can be removed.

The lockscreen can be replaced with one off of the Play Store, and the widget...
Can be deleted.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 15, 2016, 02:56:59 AM
Am I correct in my guesstimation that incubators are the best use for coins?  With them you can at least choose the tier of bonus you get, to avoid wasting your efforts on the vermin pokemon.

That's been my operating assumption, yeah. My one significant experience with mooching off an Attract Module from a whale was actually pretty profitable though, so maaaybe those are worth it too?

Honestly even the trash pulls from eggs aren't that bad since they translate into a bunch more experience from evolving more Pidgeys with a Lucky Egg on.

Hmm. Yeah, I guess that means occasionally Lucky Eggs might not be bad buys either.

I notice the game gives out some free copies of all of the IAP items upon level up, but I don't seem to have gotten any in a while. Are those freebies all concentrated at low levels to try to hook players on whaling or are there more free incubators and things available at higher levels too?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 15, 2016, 03:14:48 AM
Today's Adventure:
- Chased a Jynx for about 30 mins before it disappeared. I can only figure the Red Team fuckers camping the Gym near my apartment took her, because suddenly they had a Jynx on their roster.
- Went and stole their gym multiple times, because they kept taking it back. Man, sitting there in a car is fucking cheap. :(
- Walked the rest of my 10km to hatch... a fucking Magmar. Lame.
- You know you're havin' a real fuckin' neato night when Weedles, Spearows, and Pidgeys will pop out of their balls on GREEN, and run away.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 15, 2016, 08:23:25 AM
I went out on a Lucky Egg run and got from Lv. 13 to allllmost 15. The server fared a LOT better now, since there's a lot less traffic around 3:00 AM EST; too late for the states, too early for Europe.

I thought Lucky Eggs were the best buy? Being Instinct means you get almost no gym profit tho, so it barely matters to me.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 15, 2016, 08:25:59 AM
I've noticed that turning AR off makes for a much smoother, less buggy experience, but it is quite a bit less exciting to play. But when you play almost exclusively at night anyway, it's not a very big deal since you'll only see Pokemon floating in darkness anyway.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on July 15, 2016, 08:30:39 AM
Hatched a ~300 Bulbasaur today. Almost caught another one that randomly showed up at the end of my grind; it ate like 10 well-timed and razzed balls and then fled, then my game froze. Ok.

Trained up a gym like 20 times, enough that I could get a ~300 Raticate in there. Plopped the Bulbasaur in a different open gym. Just realized I could cash Defender bonus right away, derp.

Lv11 now, but the Evolvening is happening soon. 170 Pidgey Candy, 130 Weedle Candy, 150 Rattata Candy. With just a bit more I'll probably get to 15.

By the way I really hate how unresponsive, clunky, and buggy the battle system is. It took me forever to not get wrecked at that gym from stupid animations and timings.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 15, 2016, 10:11:05 AM
Was getting pretty bored of all the Weedles, Pidgeys, and Ratatas everywhere, even though I keep catching and transferring them. But on the bus ride to work today I caught a Fearow, and then caught a Gastly at my desk at work. I take this as a good omen for the rest of the day.

Thinking of taking the city bus to the edge of the suburbs and back to finish hatching this 10km egg I picked up, too.

Also, the gym at Harpa Concert Hall takes an interesting turn:

(http://i.imgur.com/qhJvdNf.png)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Firestorm29 on July 15, 2016, 10:45:05 AM
One thing to point out, when a pokemon shows up for one person, it'll show up for everyone. Noticed that with the Dragonite encounter that a person with multiple accounts was able to see the same dragonite, maybe with different stats.

Also feels like pokemon tend to spawn and move around rather than stay in one spot sometimes before you make them appear
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on July 15, 2016, 11:57:28 AM
I thought that was known. Instance of pokemon is per user, but appearance or tracking goes for everyone. This is why everybody rushes.

So learn your spots for rare pokeymanz and track them frequently.

Oh and pray for no-freezes
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 15, 2016, 12:19:45 PM
Am I correct in my guesstimation that incubators are the best use for coins?  With them you can at least choose the tier of bonus you get, to avoid wasting your efforts on the vermin pokemon.

I feel like it's incubators, with the occasional lucky egg to keep leveling and poooossibly a little item space. If you live by enough stops then it wouldn't be good to buy incense or lure modules because people just do it for you, and while I realize you can stack the incense and lure module, my experience is that you will probably freeze up long before you catch every pokemon that appears unless you're lucky, and maybe even forget to spin the stops in the process.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 15, 2016, 01:30:24 PM
Game's out in Italy, Spain, the UK, and Portugal. And Germany, I guess, but that already happened a while ago.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Suikama on July 15, 2016, 01:43:59 PM
Canada when ;-;
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 15, 2016, 02:05:34 PM
Canada when ;-;

Nevah
Probably in a couple of days. They release the game to a country or two or three every day. Today is Central Europe, yesterday was the UK, day before was Germany.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 15, 2016, 03:07:08 PM
What does it actually take for them to release it in a region? Translating to a different language, or is it a legal thing?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Iced Fairy on July 15, 2016, 03:09:29 PM
Pokemon Go is getting frustrating because everytime I try to catch a pokemon it keeps freezing. It did it five times in under twenty minutes. Missed out on a Squirtle and Horsea because of it.
Most of the time it freezes on catch, so wait for it to do the pokeball spin twice before restarting.  Then check your box.  It's not 100%, but it's better then losing a pokemon.

Still pretty annoying though.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 15, 2016, 03:13:20 PM
Probably mostly legal and infrastructure; distance to server farms would be a concern but it may be a simple matter of allocation.

Oh and all the bank transfers from the previous roll outs and sales have to clear or loans have to go through.  I suspect IAP is going directly to new servers still.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 15, 2016, 03:54:58 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/Me9nkwc.jpg)

Aw, look, it's a tiny tiny Fearow.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 15, 2016, 04:18:42 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/Me9nkwc.jpg)

Aw, look, it's a tiny tiny Fearow.
I transferred it already, but I'm pretty sure I had a 23 CP Fearow show up just yesterday. Took it a while to cross the Atlantic!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 15, 2016, 05:23:22 PM
I just had my first actual awful experience with pogo.

Went to the gym the other direction I normally walk on my main street, found that the first pokemon was something I could reasonably take on over and over again, and just as i'm about to get the last battle that would level the gym up and let me put a pokemon inside after an hour, some lv18 jackass in a white car pulls up, assumedly beats everyone in there, and stuffs his shitty Lapras in, leaving it about 2000 from the next level up and I was out of potions. Didn't even bother to run the gym again so that I could put my stuff in there.

It seems like a constant that other people always almost all the time usually only exist to be obstacles and bring me down in real life video games.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 15, 2016, 05:26:19 PM
That about sums my experience up from last night. Seriously, camping a gym in the comfort of your car is fucking c h e a p.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 15, 2016, 05:43:09 PM
That about sums my experience up from last night. Seriously, camping a gym in the comfort of your car is fucking c h e a p.

He didn't even camp. He was there for all of three minutes because I assume he used some 2000CP pokemon or something I couldn't see and just wiped everybody, dumped some shit reserve pokemon, and left.

If I ever have to use my car to do this shit, I will make sure there's extra room for at least one more person before I leave. It's not called Team Valor for nothing.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 15, 2016, 07:34:55 PM
So I've been sitting here with my phone on and plugged in, and I've come to believe the game spawns Pidgeys and Rattatas as a kind of incentive to pay attention to it.  None of these appear on the radar but they just keep popping up.  Then again my workplace has 2 grass patches on the map so it may just be the effect of those.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 15, 2016, 08:03:11 PM
I was at the mall, trying to capture a gym. I managed to wipe it out (fuckin' Team Red is such an epidemic here), but before I could get my buff as fuck Vaporeon in there, they took it over again, and whenever I tried to take it back, as soon as the battle would start, it'd take me back to the gym menu.

I call cheating shenanigans. :matsuriscowl:
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 15, 2016, 08:14:46 PM
fuckin' Team Red is such an epidemic here

Same. Really don't know why that is.

Although I admit I find some of the cross-team trash talking on social media hilarious. #mystic4lyfe
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 15, 2016, 08:20:21 PM
I was at the mall, trying to capture a gym. I managed to wipe it out (fuckin' Team Red is such an epidemic here), but before I could get my buff as fuck Vaporeon in there, they took it over again, and whenever I tried to take it back, as soon as the battle would start, it'd take me back to the gym menu.

I call cheating shenanigans. :matsuriscowl:

I had this also happen after the jerk put his Lapras in the gym, so I couldn't even try to boost the prestige up any more even if I wanted. Never heard about this glitch until today.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 15, 2016, 08:32:12 PM
i really need to scope out the town more seriously to see what team to choose.

(okay the actual answer is 'none, because fuck you there are no accessible gyms near you' or 'red because boobs')
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 15, 2016, 08:40:29 PM
(okay the actual answer is 'none, because fuck you there are no accessible gyms near you' or 'red because boobs')

how does red correlate to boobs
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Suwako Moriya on July 15, 2016, 08:43:57 PM
Candela got da big baps, I guess. If I actually got to see the people instead of just their silhouettes when choosing a team, I've already forgotten what they all look like.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 15, 2016, 08:51:55 PM
Candela got da big baps, I guess. If I actually got to see the people instead of just their silhouettes when choosing a team, I've already forgotten what they all look like.

The fact that the game has 4 characters and only 1 gets actual fucking art is a huge complaint. I want to see what the actual leaders look like.

The fact we can't is kind of just E X T R E M E L Y L A Z Y not to say that isn't a large part of go's kit but yeah.


also yeah candela has baps and you can kinda tell through the outline look no judge
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Suwako Moriya on July 15, 2016, 08:54:19 PM
(http://i68.tinypic.com/21luz40.png)

It's true, Candela confirmed for boobers
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 15, 2016, 09:04:17 PM
there is like 0 way I would have ever noticed that wow
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Suwako Moriya on July 15, 2016, 09:07:46 PM
Your anime-titty-fu is weak, young one.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 15, 2016, 09:13:13 PM
Wow, living or working in downtown Lansing is super-ultra-easy mode. Every time I've been down there lately every single stop within four blocks of the capital has had a lure on it 100% of the time.

Several local eateries are giving discounts to customers who put an Attract Module on the store while there. Cute.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 15, 2016, 09:29:02 PM
People keep dropping lures at Austurv?llur, the town square in front of parliament. In particular, they choose the statue of J?n Sigur?sson, aka the George Washington of Iceland.

So when you go down there to try your luck, there's like a dozen or more people standing around, drinking beer, cheering, swearing, talking about past glories and failures. It's a very social occasion, and kinda refreshing. It's like, all these nerds forgetting to hide their power levels and just enjoying their hobby openly. I bet you could get dates this way.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Suwako Moriya on July 15, 2016, 09:38:29 PM
I bet you could get dates this way.

Team "Will you Pokemon Go out with me?"
Team "Hey babe, wanna make like the servers and crash at my place?"
Team "Are you a popular Pokestop? Because you've Lured my Module right to you."
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 15, 2016, 10:02:04 PM
in the year 20xx, pokemon catching has gone to the next level

(http://i.imgur.com/dS1JwP1.png)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Ruka on July 15, 2016, 10:11:55 PM
I picked Team Instinct without really thinking about it. I would like to convert to Team Valor or Mystic please.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 15, 2016, 10:13:51 PM
All this talk about Valor and Mystic and it's like whhhyyyyy did I even pick horrendous yellow. I don't like yellow, no one likes yellow, it looks horrible in gym portraits, that's why no one picked it.

This is an impulse decision I'm gonna regret for the rest of my life.

EDIT: THAT NINJA THOUGH
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 15, 2016, 10:42:41 PM
That's... kind of surprisingly fitting.
The people I know on Blue and Red: "Yeah I thought about it for a bit, and decided that [team] would be more fun."

The people I know on Yellow (Instinct): "Oh I just chose a team."
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: aUsernameIsFineToo on July 16, 2016, 02:47:45 AM
Let's talk app optimization!

I'm out and about and I find a Rattata in my backyard sitting atop a pile of fruit. "Pretty nice," I say, as I reach for the power and volume down button to take a screenshot. *Click* goes the phone, and the screenshot animation plays. Mid-way, everything freezes and I see the dreaded "System UI is not responding" message box pop up as the status bar and navigation buttons disappear. Before I can even press the OK button the screen goes white and the phone reboots itself. That's right, a kernel panic occurred because the app pushed important system processes out of RAM, on a phone with two (2) whole gigabytes of RAM! Yay!

gj Niantic
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 16, 2016, 04:04:40 AM
It's been really interesting seeing which gyms get sniped instantly and which don't. I've been holding two gyms for over 24 hours now, and both of them are within easy walking distance and map sight of gyms which change hands constantly.

One is tucked away in the woods, but it's in a nature center that has two other gyms that are highly contested. The only difference with the one I'm in is that it's very slightly further away, but one of them is already a decent hike so I'm amazed this one is holding out for so long. The other is on a nature trail less than a quarter of a mile from a shopping mall, and the mall has a gym in the fountain at the center that changed hands three times in the time it took me to cross the parking lot to get to the trail and back. This one is even reachable by road, but nobody has taken it from me yet. And it's not like these are huge, well-guarded gyms either. When I left them both just had me and one other Pokemon.

I wonder what accounts for the difference? There are a couple of other gyms near me that I would consider to be "out of the way" (one is at the very back of a large cemetery, the other is in a residential cul de sac far away from other gyms or stops) and they don't last for very long at all. Might just be coincidence I guess, I'll have to keep an eye out them all over time and see what happens.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 16, 2016, 04:25:08 AM
I think I might just have to surrender to the might of valor soon, I'm pretty sure the beach gym near me is pretty consistently red.

I mean, who knows though.  Sure would be nice to have something like the ingress map.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 16, 2016, 04:28:36 AM
I mean, who knows though.  Sure would be nice to have something like the ingress map.

What does that do?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on July 16, 2016, 07:35:13 AM
Yesterday me and my nephew took the car and roamed the city all over for almost 2 hours. We managed to find Machop and catch him. Detected Kingler but couldn't pin-point his location proper.

Did people find other Fighting pokemon?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on July 16, 2016, 08:08:42 AM
The only Fighting types in Gen 1 are Mankeys, Machops, Hitmons, and Poliwrath. Not much to choose from. I know Mankeys spawn in some regions.

Hit Level 14 today. I was at a convention and it was pretty great (the pokemon, not the con, which is crap as usual). Tomorrow I'm probably going to see if I can take better advantage of the parties there since I was only usually within range of one~two stops and it's more interesting than most of the actual events. I caught so many pokemon today, including a Lapras immediately after I dropped a courtesy lure.

(http://i.imgur.com/acZ8pG2h.jpg)

it's happening
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on July 16, 2016, 09:06:58 AM
[10:44:37] <Helepolis> FUCK GROWLITH IS UP
[10:44:40] <Helepolis> and I am at home
[10:44:44] <Helepolis> and onix too
[10:44:45] <Helepolis> FFFFFFFFFF
[10:44:47] <Helepolis> going to dash for it
[10:45:00] <Helepolis> bbl
 - - -
[11:02:49] <Helepolis> back
[11:03:08] <Helepolis> got onix, growlith disappeared
[11:03:15] <Helepolis> dratini also dissapeared
[11:03:21] <Helepolis> couldnt detect belsprout either
[11:03:36] <Helepolis> I am suspecting more and more several pokemons are on rotation spawn
[11:03:48] <Helepolis> their spawn location always fixed but their appearance on timer


Can anybody confirm or reject this based on their own experience. Onix for sure spawns always at same location here. So does Growlith.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Amraphenson on July 16, 2016, 09:13:31 AM
What does that do?

Points of interest are lifted directly from Ingress.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 16, 2016, 10:13:39 AM
Can anybody confirm or reject this based on their own experience. Onix for sure spawns always at same location here. So does Growlith.
Yeah someone researched that and that's how it works, I think each spawn point spawns a Pokemon for 15 minutes, and then the Pokemon disappears, and it spawns another one same time next hour.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 16, 2016, 03:03:25 PM
What does that do?

The ingress intel map fully maps out every Location in the game, and gives out real-time updates on what it's current status is. Namely, which team owns it.

I'd like maybe gee a bit more on a poke intel map like a less dumb 'find the pokemon!!!' system, maybe, sure, but yeah we'll pretend we're actually keeping the 'exploration' aspect with this mess.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 16, 2016, 05:44:20 PM
What. A. Troll. Servers have been down for 5 hours straight and it looks like they're finally up now. The problem - I went to the beach a few hours ago and was hoping they'd fix the problem while I was still there. I mean, it actually looked like it! They brought the server back on for like a minute until it crashed again, and in that time I finally found out what PoGo at the beach looks like: hordes of Magikarp, Krabby and Psyduck. Imagine if they replaced all the Pidgey and Rattata with cool Water-types. Except Zubat was still there. :V

Goddammit now I wanna go back and run on the shoreline. ;___________________________;
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 16, 2016, 06:20:51 PM
I just keep getting "Unable to Authenticate" errors.

I'm genuinely beginning to hate this game already. The bugs outweigh the enjoyment.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Ruka on July 16, 2016, 10:41:04 PM
Well apparently everyone had the same problem this morning, and there were several news posts on google about it.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 16, 2016, 11:43:50 PM
Well apparently everyone had the same problem this morning, and there were several news posts on google about it.

yeah this morning blew chunks

Probably because of new servers. I don't think they were ready for just how big this game was going to get.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 17, 2016, 12:51:23 AM
Kinda sucked because that was at low tide, which is the only time I can access the best gym+stop area.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 17, 2016, 01:03:20 AM
Okay Niantic, please, PLEASE don't fuck this up (any worse). I was just downtown for a couple of hours and there were hundreds and hundreds of people wandering around playing, hanging out, and talking. It was fucking magical. This game has so much potential to be something special. Hell, it already is special in spite of itself, and I want that specialness to last as much as possible. Please acknowledge that you accidentally made something better than the thing you made and take good care of it.



On an unrelated note, saw a Dratini and a KOFFING! on my radar, but I hunted around and couldn't locate either one.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 17, 2016, 02:27:18 AM
Okay Niantic, please, PLEASE don't fuck this up (any worse). I was just downtown for a couple of hours and there were hundreds and hundreds of people wandering around playing, hanging out, and talking. It was fucking magical. This game has so much potential to be something special. Hell, it already is special in spite of itself, and I want that specialness to last as much as possible. Please acknowledge that you accidentally made something better than the thing you made and take good care of it.



On an unrelated note, saw a Dratini and a KOFFING! on my radar, but I hunted around and couldn't locate either one.

There is apparently yet another issue going around where every pokemon shows up as 3 steps away. I simply now treat the game as I treat the actual pokemon games, where i'm walking around and suddenly OH GOD FLASHING COLORS AND LOUD BLARING ALARM FROM GSC my phone vibrates. That's more or less how i've caught 85% of anything in this game so far...
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 17, 2016, 02:33:30 AM
Everyone seems to be throwing their hands in the air in frustration, but I remember people doing the same with PAD, and recently we had a "NA is actually good now?!" thread title.

Releases are hard, and the bigger the fanbase/app the more difficult it is.  It can sometimes take days/weeks to fix what seems like a simple bug to the user.  If you've spent money on things only to have the servers go down and waste it, keep note of that and inform Niantic every week or two weeks, they absolutely should compensate you for that, but otherwise patience will help everyone.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 17, 2016, 02:42:11 AM
Everyone seems to be throwing their hands in the air in frustration, but I remember people doing the same with PAD, and recently we had a "NA is actually good now?!" thread title.

Releases are hard, and the bigger the fanbase/app the more difficult it is.  It can sometimes take days/weeks to fix what seems like a simple bug to the user.  If you've spent money on things only to have the servers go down and waste it, keep note of that and inform Niantic once or twice a week, they absolutely should compensate you for that, but otherwise patience will help everyone.

As unimaginable as it might be right now if you've been keeping up with the news with how this game has been changing the world over, this game easily has the potential to be far bigger than it currently is. I consider my actions with the game right now an "investment" for when it gets better, so I can enjoy the more completed state not at a noob level. That's how I feel, at least. I've gotta truck through all the glitches and shit without microtransactions and stuff and without any cool grinding spots within reach, but I feel like this is a horse I'm willing to bet on and see how far it goes, and I think a bunch of other people are in Pogo's corner too.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 17, 2016, 03:27:15 AM
To answer my own question from earlier about whether the IAP freebies on level up are a one-time bonus or not, they are not. I just received more of all of them at level 15. Good to know. I'm Lucky Egg power leveling right now, and it got me another Lucky Egg.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 17, 2016, 04:17:50 AM
To answer my own question from earlier about whether the IAP freebies on level up are a one-time bonus or not, they are not. I just received more of all of them at level 15. Good to know. I'm Lucky Egg power leveling right now, and it got me another Lucky Egg.

http://www.ign.com/wikis/pokemon-go/Level_Rewards_and_Unlockable_Items

Not complete since I hear levels go up to 50, but that level 20 bonus looks delicious.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Firestorm29 on July 17, 2016, 05:17:09 AM
I can confirm the 3 step glitch, driving me insane right now. Also, I think they had to fend off a DDOS attack earlier today, which might help explain some of the problems...
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 17, 2016, 12:18:58 PM
On an unrelated note, saw a Dratini and a KOFFING! on my radar, but I hunted around and couldn't locate either one.
Dood, we have Koffing here, but I'd trade that and my own hatched Aerodactyl just for a chance to catch Dratini. ;-;

Also I hatched my third Jigglypuff and it keeps giving me crap candy bonuses, I want a Wigglytuff dammit.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 17, 2016, 01:28:48 PM
Still no Clefairy here, would trade Wigglytuff orz

Man it kind of pisses me off, even if I could catch her, she'd be worthless if I can't level her up :(
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 17, 2016, 02:41:18 PM
Well, my game control froze on me while I was checking my egg status.
[attach=1]
Then I force crashed it. And saw a skewed character set appear.
[attach=2]
I don't even know.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 17, 2016, 02:43:07 PM
Still no Clefairy here, would trade Wigglytuff orz

Man it kind of pisses me off, even if I could catch her, she'd be worthless if I can't level her up :(

Our best bet is 2km eggs, sadly.

I found a jigglypuff spawn point at an elevator of all things (They seem to like buildings??), but apparently the things only respawn every hour and I'm not staying at school that long.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 17, 2016, 03:05:00 PM
Of the four people who I see daily who play, three of them are apparently whales (or at least significant IAP). That's always fun, having probably the most time invested of any of us and the second-lowest rank and worst Pokemon.

Doesn't help that most of them work downtown where just sitting at your desk gets you constantly flooded by Pokemon and within range of three stops, whereas I have no stops within half a mile at work and am lucky to see one Pidgey there all day.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 17, 2016, 03:48:56 PM
are the servers down since a few hours ago exactly like yesterday or is it just me
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 17, 2016, 04:23:01 PM
I have a 100% freeze rate on catch right now, so I'm gonna guess the server's fucked. Or maybe that's me, I don't know.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 17, 2016, 04:36:07 PM
I have a 100% freeze rate on catch right now, so I'm gonna guess the server's fucked. Or maybe that's me, I don't know.
maybe they split the servers now to shut up the east coasters because my server has been down completely for four hours straight.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 17, 2016, 04:56:39 PM
I haven't really been able to play since like Thursday.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 17, 2016, 04:58:28 PM
According to /r/PokemonGO, the servers have been DDOS'd over the last couple of days.

EDIT: But then, that's just hearsay, so take it with a grain of salt. Or sugar. Salt is bad.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Monarda on July 17, 2016, 05:02:20 PM
I guess it's good that Pokemon GO isn't here yet.

Speaking of that, any notices about GO going to other countries ? I saw that it went to Germany one of these days.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: aUsernameIsFineToo on July 17, 2016, 05:09:00 PM
According to /r/PokemonGO, the servers have been DDOS'd over the last couple of days.

EDIT: But then, that's just hearsay, so take it with a grain of salt. Or sugar. Salt is bad.
DDOS'd by players logging in by the thousands, perhaps :V
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on July 17, 2016, 07:57:43 PM
Apparently the game just officially released in Canada on iPhone. Android should follow soon.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 17, 2016, 08:11:22 PM
server issues would be a lot less of an issue (beyond the fact this is the worst set of server issues i've ever seen in a mobage) if uh

i didn't have like an hour to visit the closest cluster of pokestops so I can actually play the game, because this game has garbage playability in the first place
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on July 17, 2016, 08:17:02 PM
Release in several more regions has caused the game servers to go even more wonky. As we speak, in NL I am suffering from downtime. I am level 14 and I want to powerlevel already using mass-evolve and lucky egg =.=
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 17, 2016, 09:03:40 PM
I guess it's good that Pokemon GO isn't here yet.

Speaking of that, any notices about GO going to other countries ? I saw that it went to Germany one of these days.

[outoftheloop]

Yeah, US, Australia, Canada, and all of Europe except France and Russia. Still no word on SEA.

EDIT: Or Africa.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 17, 2016, 09:27:17 PM
[outoftheloop]

Yeah, US, Australia, Canada, and all of Europe except France and Russia. Still no word on SEA.

EDIT: Or Africa.
That feel when Malta and Cyprus get added but not the rest of the Mediterranean. You can see us as a big yellow patch on the Server Downtime map. :V
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Firestorm29 on July 18, 2016, 03:46:38 AM
Our best bet is 2km eggs, sadly.

I found a jigglypuff spawn point at an elevator of all things (They seem to like buildings??), but apparently the things only respawn every hour and I'm not staying at school that long.

I've been keeping a clefairy stash for you guys when trading starts. Kinda hoping it's not limited to local trading
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 18, 2016, 03:56:29 AM
I've been keeping a clefairy stash for you guys when trading starts. Kinda hoping it's not limited to local trading

oh only matsy's gonna want that, my goal is to just collect as many igglybuff and its other forms as possible when the game updates enough

won't even care about gyms, I will just aim to have as many of them in my box as humanly possible as the endgame
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 18, 2016, 04:20:14 AM
I can theoretically catch Jigglypuffs from my bedroom if I can just figure out when they spawn. I can stack them up once trades are a thing and send you many. WTB Koffings, Machop, and Magnemites.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 18, 2016, 05:13:59 AM
I can theoretically catch Jigglypuffs from my bedroom if I can just figure out when they spawn. I can stack them up once trades are a thing and send you many. WTB Koffings, Machop, and Magnemites.

i have 1 koffing how many jigglypuff does this get me
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 18, 2016, 05:46:43 AM
I have all of those. Give me Magikarp because what are Water-types?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on July 18, 2016, 12:48:11 PM
Yesterday at midnight local time I was able to login and evolved close to 50 mons boosting my level from 14 to 17,5 or so. Going to repeat this as much as possible times with lucky eggs.

Hope to catch more higher CP potential mons also.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 18, 2016, 02:42:02 PM
I am very sad that I have a meeting and that the radar is bugged .
(http://imgur.com/1RWvntrl.jpg)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 18, 2016, 05:41:21 PM
Saw an Arcanine today with CP: ? ? ?. Bugger fled so hard I felt the recoil.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 18, 2016, 08:35:19 PM
the only stop cluster (With a free, hardly contested red gym) is gated off by a fence so i can't even walk there on low tide

yeah okay, pikachu showed up, took my last few balls to poor hit scan (i didn't curve those balls. At all.) and ran away with my berry.

game over, return of pikachu
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Suikama on July 19, 2016, 12:39:39 AM
For some reason my trainer spazes out at work so I managed to get a few pokemon by just leaving my phone on sitting on my desk :V

Unfortunately he's a lot more calm at home :/
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: iVAwalys on July 19, 2016, 12:44:09 AM
Man, I would really love to join the fun, but I'm way too clumsy to hold a phone in my hand at all times and not drop it on concrete immidiately or bump into someone. :V
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 19, 2016, 01:03:36 AM
God damn, so I was just trying to sneak a few Pokemon into some gyms in a nearby graveyard since I'm, you know, not a whale and have no better source of resources.

No fewer than SIX slow-driving Wailords immediately mobbed me the second I tried to battle a gym and start rapidly taking it over from each other with their 2500+ power Pokemon. I managed to slip a random Pidgey in and collect my single gym for the day, but... No gyms for me anymore ever I guess? Thanks whales, really making the game more fun.

I don't think I would have minded that much had they not ALL been slow driving, but that left a bad taste in my mouth.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 19, 2016, 01:31:04 AM
God damn, so I was just trying to sneak a few Pokemon into some gyms in a nearby graveyard since I'm, you know, not a whale and have. o better source of resources.

No fewer than SIX slow-driving Wailords immediately mobbed me the second I tried to battle a gym and start rapidly taking it over from each other with their 2500+ power Pokemon. I managed to slip a random Pidgey in and collect my single gym for the day, but... No gyms for me anymore ever I guess? Thanks whales, really making the game more fun.

I don't think I would have minded that much had they not ALL been slow driving, but that left a bad taste in my mouth.

The slow drivers are the worst because you can tell they're tryhards
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 19, 2016, 01:46:17 AM
Alright, so I've got a bunch of questions about the mechanics of this game. Any answers or insight would be greatly appreciated.

-Do quadruple super effective or quadruple resist exist in this game?

-Does Same Type Attack Bonus exist?

-Are there objectively terrible and objectively amazing Pokemon, stats-wise, or is everything roughly balanced? Like, is a Butterfree of a certain CP just worse than a Dragonite of the same CP, types and moves excepted?

-How does CP actually work? I've had a fair number of battles in gyms lately where I was maybe 200 CP behind the defender and my super effective attacks would do 2-5% of their health, while their not very effective attacks would take off 15-20% of mine. Is being a little behind in CP that big a deal? Are my Pokemon just trash-tier and theirs are amazing? Do gym defenders get a massive stat boost?

-Where do whales get Stardust from? I catch every Pokemon I see, I hatch eggs, I do my best to claim at least a couple of gyms a day, but I have none ever and my Pokemon seem weak as hell (one is ~1000 CP, and the rest on my team are ~700) compared to everyone I see in gyms. And as I level up I can only imagine that getting worse since my Stardust intake will be the same but my requirements will be much, much higher. Do whales only have a single 3000 CP Pokemon with all their proverbial eggs in one basket and I just always happen to run into it in gyms?

The slow drivers are the worst because you can tell they're tryhards

The worst part is that this is the only source of clumped Pokestops within three miles or so. Which is why they're there I'm sure. I might be able to occasionally sneak my way into gyms that "aren't worth their time", but I'll be at zero Pokeballs in no time. So I have my pick of either the Whales Only Fools spot where I actually have a supply of Pokeballs, or the desolate suburban wasteland where I might be able to hold three gyms at once but have virtually no source of items. I feel like I don't reeeeally have time to go to both every day.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Suikama on July 19, 2016, 02:12:06 AM
STAB exists but it's weaker than normal. weaknesses are also weaker than in the actual games (it's more like 1.2x than 1.5x)

Game isn't balanced. Basically Vaporeon with water gun OP.

CP is just calculated from base stats (atk, def, and HP) so yes any difference matters. But it also doesn't matter if you can dodge like a god and it's possible to beat high CP gyms even with a 10 CP magikarp

Save your stardust until you get something good, like a high base CP Vaporeon, Dragonite, Lapras, Alakazam, or Snorlax. Getting high base CP pokemon completely depends on your trainer level. Easiest way to level is to spam pokestops and egg hatching, then mass evolve Pidgey/Weedle/Caterpie and whatever else you want all at the same time with a lucky egg boost. Also catch every wild pokemon with a "GREAT" or better (wait for the ring to shrink and then shoot the ball through it)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 19, 2016, 02:27:23 AM
STAB exists but it's weaker than normal. weaknesses are also weaker than in the actual games (it's more like 1.2x than 1.5x)

Interesting.

Game isn't balanced. Basically Vaporeon with water gun OP.

Fuck. So no reason to use actually cool Pokemon, huh? That blows.

CP is just calculated from base stats (atk, def, and HP) so yes any difference matters. But it also doesn't matter if you can dodge like a god and it's possible to beat high CP gyms even with a 10 CP magikarp

Maybe, if gyms weren't horrifically laggy. Dodging was impossible at the gym I was trying to capture earlier. A Psyshock or Aqua Tail could miss you by a country mile and you'd still take full damage. And that's to say nothing of the enemy getting stuck at one HP 50% of the time.

Save your stardust until you get something good, like a high base CP Vaporeon, Dragonite, Lapras, Alakazam, or Snorlax. Getting high base CP pokemon completely depends on your trainer level. Easiest way to level is to spam pokestops and egg hatching, then mass evolve Pidgey/Weedle/Caterpie and whatever else you want all at the same time with a lucky egg boost. Also catch every wild pokemon with a "GREAT" or better (wait for the ring to shrink and then shoot the ball through it)

Okay, so what's good and what isn't?

I've done the mass evolve thing with lucky egg once, it got me to level 16, which is apparently like nothing. Everyone I know who's very high level got there because they just constantly play at work (and often whale for a ton of Lucky Eggs as well), and I don't have that option.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Suikama on July 19, 2016, 02:33:19 AM
but vaporeon is cool :<
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 19, 2016, 02:39:30 AM
Yeah, Vaporeon is pretty cool, but it's being ruined for me right now by the way absolutely everyone is using it. I can't help it, I'm a contrarian jackass.

And I've grown pretty attached to my Flareon. Want to hug Flareon's fluffy fluff.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Ruka on July 19, 2016, 02:41:02 AM
I guess regarding phone carriers, ATT? T-Mobile? Something else?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 19, 2016, 04:24:25 AM
but vaporeon is cool :<

vaporeon doesn't deserve anything 0/10 would beat up with a snorlax

Okay, so what's good and what isn't?

Vaporeon is the best easy catch option in the game, assuming you roll the right Eevee.  Snorlax is the best pokemon for raw value in the entire game as well, but having no stab on base attacks.

Puff is the second best easy catch, and Lapras i kinda like a slightly better vaporeon. Except, you know, far harder to level up. Muk's pretty good but on the weaker side of all those.

If you find a dratini and want to waste time, Dragonite has the best CP but loses to everything else in hp by a pretty significant amount.

Everything else is basically 'bad' to 'okay but still not as good as other things'.

This game is even worse than the actual games in balanced, it's really dumb.

Edit: also alakazam is loving fucking TERRIBLE suikama what the fuck, that's lower than even jolteon and sub 100 hp, pidgeot is fucking better than it
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Firestorm29 on July 19, 2016, 09:26:31 AM
I think there's more to CP than simple trainer level. Found two caterpies within a day of ea ch other, one before a,level up and ome after. They have about the same CP, the one before with 136 is behind on the gauge than one I caught after with 130. Will attach photo after to try and explain what I mean
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 19, 2016, 10:08:50 AM
Easy catch you say... Eevee has been extremely rare for me at all times, I only have three.

Aaaanyway, went out for lunch with coworkers, overheard another Pogo group talk about lures. This is the result:

(http://i.imgur.com/8I6P2gt.jpg)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Suikama on July 19, 2016, 12:04:32 PM
vaporeon doesn't deserve anything 0/10 would beat up with a snorlax

Vaporeon is the best easy catch option in the game, assuming you roll the right Eevee.  Snorlax is the best pokemon for raw value in the entire game as well, but having no stab on base attacks.

Puff is the second best easy catch, and Lapras i kinda like a slightly better vaporeon. Except, you know, far harder to level up. Muk's pretty good but on the weaker side of all those.

If you find a dratini and want to waste time, Dragonite has the best CP but loses to everything else in hp by a pretty significant amount.

Everything else is basically 'bad' to 'okay but still not as good as other things'.

This game is even worse than the actual games in balanced, it's really dumb.

Edit: also alakazam is loving fucking TERRIBLE suikama what the fuck, that's lower than even jolteon and sub 100 hp, pidgeot is fucking better than it
zam is only good if you can dodge cause psywhatever
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 19, 2016, 01:14:36 PM
Just got back from a trip in the country. Stopping for food about 50km out of town, the village we stopped in was swarming with Electric types, which was super fun.

Apparently resting my phone on the dashboard while driving didn't register any kilometers for me, and my eggs were at a standstill. The bus and of course walking seem to register just fine though. Weird.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Suikama on July 19, 2016, 01:40:17 PM
It doesn't count distance if youre moving above a certain speed (20 kph or something) to prevent ez driving eggs
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 19, 2016, 02:10:52 PM
Ah, I see. Well that explains why the ceiling fan hack works.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 19, 2016, 02:48:47 PM
It's so hot today that fire types are spawning when they usually never do, but with 65% humidity and a high of 100F no one is going outside
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 19, 2016, 03:03:55 PM
It's so hot today that fire types are spawning when they usually never do, but with 65% humidity and a high of 100F no one is going outside

except the true pokemon masters!!!111
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 19, 2016, 03:06:48 PM
except the true pokemon masters!!!111

I know what that means! Driving around in their mom's minivan with the windows up and the air conditioning on, right?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 19, 2016, 03:08:35 PM
True Pok?mon Masters fight with honor. I walk to and from my gyms, dag nabbit.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 19, 2016, 03:33:17 PM
(http://imgur.com/352Oq4A.jpg)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Iced Fairy on July 19, 2016, 05:10:10 PM
Yeah I've given up on gyms.  There's no way I'm getting high enough level to challenge them.

Kinda losing interest in the game as well.  It just eats up too much of my life to play.  If it was a little more stable I could justify mixing it with walking trips, and if it didn't demand constant attention I could do it casually, but as is it's too much effort for questionable reward.  Maybe I'll get back if they fix the Quality of Life issues.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 19, 2016, 05:53:27 PM
Easy catch you say... Eevee has been extremely rare for me at all times, I only have three.

Eevee are pretty prominent where i'm around so maybe that's  just me, and it appears to be a staple of every citydweller i've seen.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Polaris on July 19, 2016, 06:28:01 PM
Man someone has a Starmie in a gym near me and I'm thinking, "now there's a Pokemon you don't see often" :V

To list all the common Pokemon in my area, it's Ekans, Sandshrew, Mankey, Machop, Geodude, Doduo, Cubone, and Rhyhorn. So many Ground-types `_` I hardly get Pidgey here so I can't even do the Pidgey power-leveling trick.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 19, 2016, 06:44:02 PM
the Pidgey power-leveling trick.

Do elaborate!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Polaris on July 19, 2016, 07:02:32 PM
Basically, evolving nets you the most EXP with 500 EXP per evolution. Pidgey evolves with only 12 candies (the lowest cost for a Pokemon), so the trick involves hoarding a lot of Pidgey and then evolving them all at once to get a ton of EXP, especially when combined with a Lucky Egg that doubles your EXP gain.

It works since Pidgey is supposed to be a common Pokemon, but it's unfortunately not the case for me 8(
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Jq1790 on July 19, 2016, 07:11:49 PM
Vaporeon is the best easy catch option in the game, assuming you roll the right Eevee. 
I have heard that if you name your Eevee Rainer (http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/Rainer) it will force-evolve into Vaporeon.

Same is supposed to apply to Sparky (http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/Sparky_(Trainer)) for Jolteon and Pyro (http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/Pyro) for Flareon.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 19, 2016, 07:23:12 PM
Basically, evolving nets you the most EXP with 500 EXP per evolution. Pidgey evolves with only 12 candies (the lowest cost for a Pokemon), so the trick involves hoarding a lot of Pidgey and then evolving them all at once to get a ton of EXP, especially when combined with a Lucky Egg that doubles your EXP gain.

It works since Pidgey is supposed to be a common Pokemon, but it's unfortunately not the case for me 8(

Well damn, I need to try this. This place is swarming with Pidgeys, Weedles and Ratatas.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Suikama on July 19, 2016, 07:27:11 PM
Rats take 25 to evolve so they aren't as good

Weedle and caterpie are good though
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 19, 2016, 07:39:14 PM
Pretty sick of Ratatas anyway tbh. But I'm really looking forward to evolving and powering up some of these Electric types. They seem to pack a real punch (depending who they're up against, of course).
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on July 19, 2016, 08:29:17 PM
relevant to above

(http://i.imgur.com/wfqcAhDh.jpg)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on July 19, 2016, 08:39:22 PM
Besides the rattatas, weedles and pidgeys: Prepare also a lot of evolve-able pokemons you didn't register on your pokedex. It will grant you also a lot of Exp for the evolve + registration.

Also FML:
[22:35:55] <Helepolis> my god the servers keep going down
[22:36:03] <Helepolis> why did i even sign up for this game with a pokemon club account
[22:36:08] <Helepolis> could've used my yt acc
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 19, 2016, 09:01:29 PM
I have heard that if you name your Eevee Rainer (http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/Rainer) it will force-evolve into Vaporeon.

Same is supposed to apply to Sparky (http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/Sparky_(Trainer)) for Jolteon and Pyro (http://pokemon.wikia.com/wiki/Pyro) for Flareon.

That's still rumor last i checked, but yeah. I don't have opposite proof and i haven't seen a large debunk post yet.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on July 19, 2016, 09:06:54 PM
It's been consistent for like three days now, it's pretty safe to say it works.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 19, 2016, 09:24:07 PM
Turns out my 10km egg was the last Eevee I needed to make this lil guy, making it well worth the wait.

(http://i.imgur.com/mIv70Nv.png)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
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Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 20, 2016, 12:19:06 AM
Yup, I haven't been able to log in once all day. Classy.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Ruka on July 20, 2016, 01:06:59 AM
So Japan was supposed to get the game either today or tomorrow...
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: trancehime on July 20, 2016, 01:45:56 AM
So Japan was supposed to get the game either today or tomorrow...

Along with the rest of Asia.

THANK THE FUCK GOD
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 20, 2016, 01:56:18 AM
just in time for everyone to quit :V
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 20, 2016, 02:43:07 AM
oh

So you're saying it'll never work again because Asia's going to have the servers overloaded 24/7?

Makes about as much sense as anything else in this kusoge.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Firestorm29 on July 20, 2016, 06:10:25 AM
Man someone has a Starmie in a gym near me and I'm thinking, "now there's a Pokemon you don't see often" :V

To list all the common Pokemon in my area, it's Ekans, Sandshrew, Mankey, Machop, Geodude, Doduo, Cubone, and Rhyhorn. So many Ground-types `_` I hardly get Pidgey here so I can't even do the Pidgey power-leveling trick.

Caterpies and weedles work, too. Geodudes might make an ok substitute though.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Polaris on July 20, 2016, 06:18:57 AM
Brah if Caterpie and Weedle were common they'd be on my list `_` As it stands they're even rarer than Pidgey. I haven't even seen a Caterpie yet (I've seen a Weedle silhouette but I wasn't able to track it down)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 20, 2016, 12:54:28 PM
Brah if Caterpie and Weedle were common they'd be on my list `_` As it stands they're even rarer than Pidgey. I haven't even seen a Caterpie yet (I've seen a Weedle silhouette but I wasn't able to track it down)

Fly on over then. This whole town's crawling with them.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: hyorinryu on July 20, 2016, 05:09:20 PM
I mainly get pidgeys and ratatas. In the gyms, you can several eevee evolutions(mostly Vaporeons), Gyrados, Pidgeots, and some stand alone guys like Scyther and Pinsir.

They could make candy easier to get in this game for certain pokemon. Especially the starters. Don't have much reason to use mine. Would add more variety.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 20, 2016, 05:48:45 PM
Candy should be type specific not evo line specific. If a Pok?mon gains a new type or changes type in evolution the evo should require the new types candy. Eevee would eventually have a huge evo menu.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 20, 2016, 07:42:59 PM
Candy should be type specific not evo line specific. If a Pok?mon gains a new type or changes type in evolution the evo should require the new types candy. Eevee would eventually have a huge evo menu.
This so much. Like every time I think of catching a super rare Pokemon in the wild I think, "What's the point? I'll have to get a gazillion candies for it anyway." Hatching and getting a bunch of candies from the hatch is the only option.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 20, 2016, 08:48:55 PM
Oh hey, the server is down AGAIN. Wonderful. I've been able to play for 90 seconds in the last 36 hours.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Polaris on July 20, 2016, 08:57:54 PM
hey man at least we got some minor text fixes in the latest update B)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on July 20, 2016, 09:14:14 PM
hey man at least we got some minor text fixes in the latest update B)
I can imagine the management deciding at a crucial meeting with the dev team: "We need to release SOMETHING"

Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: trancehime on July 21, 2016, 04:04:14 AM
hey man at least we got some minor text fixes in the latest update B)

(http://i.imgur.com/O4LKq6P.jpg)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 21, 2016, 04:13:05 AM
hey man at least we got some minor text fixes in the latest update B)

Yeah, I bet you anything they weren't important, either. They probably decided to fix a typo or some garbage, and shut down they servers for most of the day so that they could update them, too. It'd be funny if it were some Pokedex information that nobody reads.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on July 21, 2016, 05:12:15 AM
They shouldn't have to shut down the servers to update the app at all if it was only user-side changes like text; more generally, any changes that wouldn't leave database discrepancies between playing the game on different versions should not require servers to be off to update. Essentially all current major issues with the game don't have to do with the gameplay mechanics themselves, and so updates that fix these issues should be fine to release without any server downtime. At worst, if the way the app communicates with the game server changes, then downtime would be needed because they'd need to change server code. On the flip side, if they do make any changes to the game mechanics, the app itself shouldn't have to change very much, if at all. Kind of the point of having a game that relies on server-stored information is that the app itself is just an interface for the user to interact with that data.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 21, 2016, 05:26:50 AM
So wait, status effects are a thing after all? I'm almost certain I got poisoned at a gym just now. How does that work? What does it do? What other statuses are there? Or am I insane and I just imagined Toasty Boy the Flareon turning purple and hemorrhaging HP?

Yeah, I bet you anything they weren't important, either. They probably decided to fix a typo or some garbage, and shut down they servers for most of the day so that they could update them, too. It'd be funny if it were some Pokedex information that nobody reads.

Wait, is the Pokedex supposed to work? Whenever I open it it just twitches and jitters and crashes my game. Do other people not have that problem?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Raikaria on July 21, 2016, 06:31:20 AM
I watch a Pokemon Go Youtube video with 3 million veiws.

The person arrives where they are going to hunt Pokemon.

IT'S LITERALLY MY HOMETOWN.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on July 21, 2016, 06:34:18 AM
Wait, is the Pokedex supposed to work? Whenever I open it it just twitches and jitters and crashes my game. Do other people not have that problem?
no problem here dude
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 21, 2016, 11:42:25 AM
I'm at the airport.

Oh god there are lures everywhere.

[X] Onix
[X] Omanyte
[X] Cubone

This is Pogo heaven. I've never had so much fun waiting in airport lines before.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Firestorm29 on July 21, 2016, 04:10:01 PM
Wait, is the Pokedex supposed to work? Whenever I open it it just twitches and jitters and crashes my game. Do other people not have that problem?
I don't.

Biggest issues I have is the distance meters not working, the order of the nearby pokemon not making sense, pokemon appearing that aren't even on that list

And this one irritating problem where I'll have pokeballs that I throw straight and the ball goes up straight, but them arcs one way or another widely, like the pokemon has some sort of Protoss Shield around it.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 21, 2016, 06:17:01 PM
First thing I see opening the app in Vienna is a Pikachu and Dratini on radar.

(http://i.imgur.com/SODKUwX.jpg)

Why don't I live abroad.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on July 21, 2016, 08:06:47 PM
And this one irritating problem where I'll have pokeballs that I throw straight and the ball goes up straight, but them arcs one way or another widely, like the pokemon has some sort of Protoss Shield around it.
That's just a curveball happening when you don't want it to. I usually get it when I'm trying to throw the ball too fast.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Ruka on July 21, 2016, 09:27:07 PM
Crap. Niantic isn't taking pokestop suggestions right. Was going to see if I could get a couple put at work.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 22, 2016, 02:06:16 AM
Crap. Niantic isn't taking pokestop suggestions right. Was going to see if I could get a couple put at work.

nope, it's super unlikely we're going to see them open since ingress hasn't forever either

there are

real serious problems with that since ingress wasn't even properly covered
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Ruka on July 22, 2016, 02:21:54 AM
https://t.co/x7L49ldEZE
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cn7zMi2UMAIT1uW.jpg:large)

It has begun.

Also RIP Vegas (of Drill Chichikuri fame) since his phone isn't supported.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on July 22, 2016, 05:10:55 AM
Did power leveling with egg and evolve. Gone from lvl 20 begin to 21,2 or so. Probably got more than 70k.

I did a rough counting and took me aprox 20s to evolve > watch animation > unfavorite > confirm to go back to overview > select the next mon > press evolve > press yes.

That is 3 per minute and 90 per egg. Though that is impossible to maintain due to w/e reason (excluding crashing). So I counted 25s avg per mon. Meaning ~72 mons can be evolved.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 22, 2016, 10:31:08 AM
Wait, is the Pokedex supposed to work? Whenever I open it it just twitches and jitters and crashes my game. Do other people not have that problem?

Not having any trouble here.

I was also having network problems the other day. But being not being able to connect to my free game on the day it opened for like millions more people is no skin off my nose. What does grind my gears is stepping off my bus at around midnight last night, walking to the gym near my place - controlled at that time by my team - as two guys in a car simultaneously rolled up and proceeded to shove their Team Valor whale into the gym. Like jesus christ guys were you waiting across the street or something.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 22, 2016, 11:49:28 AM
Ah, trancehime. The game released last night PST. Forgot to mention.

Surprisingly, it only released in Japan; not in China or Taiwan.

And the servers are being overloaded, so it's hard to login right now.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Caterpie on July 22, 2016, 04:22:25 PM
Got the game a week or so ago, just took my first gym today. The church I go to was taken over by Team Valor, but whoever took it only put a 136 caterpie in it, so it was easy enough to take for Team Instinct :V

Of course, it'll probably be taken back by now, since I only had a <900 fearow to put in it, but whatever.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Firestorm29 on July 22, 2016, 04:59:58 PM
Had a go with some power leveling last night, twas glorious. Basically someone bought lure for other people and there's a concentration of pokestops nearby that line a road. Al 6 were lured for about a few hours, along with an incense and two lucky eggs, it was insane how many pokemon were popping up.

Although I got trolled by a pair of Dratini though. One disappeared in the lure horde before I could get out of catching someone else (was there only a minute) and the other was just out of my ping's reach in an industrial complex.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Espadas on July 23, 2016, 08:03:28 AM
So, i am kind of interested in trying Go, but how is the stability right now?
Not so fun to play something if it crashes every 5 minutes or you can't login at all...
And speaking of crashes, can they damage the phone?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 23, 2016, 09:52:31 AM
In my experience, stability is absolute shit. Don't see how it'll damage your phone though, just suck your battery dry.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 23, 2016, 04:57:31 PM
In my experience, the stability is shakey at times but overall just fine. I've had connection problems a few times, namely when they open the game to another few million people.

For the sake of your battery, I highly recommend disabling the highest performing GPS settings when you're not playing the game, and be sure you're fully charged if you intend to go on an extensive walk to hatch eggs or go hunting.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Ruka on July 23, 2016, 07:21:36 PM
Stability today is fine. Also, anyone experience screen lag with ATT? Thinking of switching back to T-Mobile.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Jana on July 23, 2016, 08:09:10 PM
Stability seems directly related to your connection to the servers. Things are 100% for me at home on wifi (which is good because that's how I do my lucky egg evolves) and maybe 80% at work near downtown Chicago where I have a decent connection. But there are certain neighborhoods without good coverage from my carrier (T-Mobile) where the app drops connection more often.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on July 23, 2016, 09:00:38 PM
Yeah, that's why I don't use wireless for Pok?mon Go. My telecom of choice has a great offer for connecting via mobile frequencies, and that works like a charm for me.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 23, 2016, 09:07:20 PM
Every gym I've seen today has been a nightmare. It's like they're hours behind the actual action or something. Constantly changing color and leader even when nobody's around, impossible to battle, just become empty periodically for no reason. It's a real mess. Managed to clip a random Pokemon into one when it was empty and claim points for it, but I got kicked out by nothing almost immediately.

Also, was downtown for a good few hours earlier and am so jealous of how easy mode this game is for people who worked downtown. There were two stops within reach of the store I was in that I just kept periodically spinning, and I caught nine Magikarp, a Haunter, and a Dratini while I was there. I mean, I understand that there are places that have no stops at all, but goddamn. I have three within four blocks of my building which is far from nothing, but it's not that.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 24, 2016, 05:27:22 PM
Tell me if you've heard of this.

Today I came across something I've dubbed the bankrupcy glitch. Here's how it works:

-When in range of a Pokestop, you will never get any items. The stop spins normally but you get nothing and no purple message explaining what happened, only the XP.
-Pokemon will show up on the map. On your FIRST Pokeball throw on any mon you approach, the mon will break free and RUN, regardless of berries, ball type or the CP. The items you use during the fight are wasted.

This has been going on for the last SEVEN HOURS. I've tried restarting the phone and reinstalling the app. Two family members playing the game right next to me had no problems at all.

What the hell do I do?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Ruka on July 24, 2016, 05:38:07 PM
First I've heard of that.

I know I've spun stops before and says "try again" but registered in the journal. Haven't heard anything regarding catches.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 24, 2016, 05:55:52 PM
As of just now, the problem is over. Thanks NianKek.

TBH this has happened to me yesterday where four mons ran on the first throw, in a row, and then I think I reset the app and it got fixed. I just got worried that it wasn't going away this time.

As for mons I've never seen, it cost me two Squirtle, a Paras, a Venonat, a Nidorino and an Electrode. Cost me some Eevee and Dratini too. Sadface.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 24, 2016, 10:40:42 PM
Relevant:

Reddit (https://m.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4uf6vi/pokemon_go_team_leaders_revealed/?utm_source=mweb_redirect&compact=true)

EDIT: Oh yeah, I should mention that trading is a planned implement. After they fix three-step issues.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Ruka on July 24, 2016, 10:46:53 PM
But what about the real updates?  :derp:
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on July 24, 2016, 10:51:06 PM
candela's outfit is different than i expected but overall she looks cool

spark looks pretty boring in color

blanche is still a loser text is #valorlife
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 24, 2016, 10:55:50 PM
But what about the real updates?  :derp:

There's a pinned link on that Reddit page to the SDCC stuffs. They talk about planned updates and whatnot.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: trancehime on July 25, 2016, 05:39:16 AM
I've caught some Pokemon now! FeelsGoodMan.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Labuto on July 25, 2016, 04:13:52 PM
Ahahaha I live on top of 3 pokestops, literally. 2 are in the private areas of my estate. This is amazing.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on July 25, 2016, 11:26:38 PM
pokemon go die pls
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on July 26, 2016, 10:16:48 PM
Powerleveled with egg and mons. +76k. Leveled 72 mons (few poke entries). Level 23 now.

So my average of ~25s per mon was correct. Poke entries cost more time but are worth it.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: trancehime on July 27, 2016, 11:53:41 AM
Ahahaha I live on top of 3 pokestops, literally. 2 are in the private areas of my estate. This is amazing.

there are about 7+ pokestops and 2 gyms in walking distance from where i live

one of the gyms is the post office

LUL
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 27, 2016, 12:31:43 PM
My university is apparently having a Pokemon Go Tournament where whoever catches the three highest CP pokemon on campus get cash prizes. While this is skewed towards people with higher levels, I find it incredibly amusing that this is basically the Bug Catching Contest from G/S/C/HG/SS brought to life.

On the bright side, apparently I can volunteer for it for extra credit!!!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on July 28, 2016, 04:05:18 AM
Be sure to listen to one of the best tracks in the series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBlX2LOffn0) while hunting!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 28, 2016, 04:58:43 AM
Be sure to listen to one of the best tracks in the series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBlX2LOffn0) while hunting!
Personally, I prefer this symphony-arranged version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdsYG51vKYI) on loop. It was the top recommended for the one you linked. Old chip-generated tones hurt my head after a while, so things like this are nice.

EDIT: But it's not extended, so I have to do that myself :X
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on July 28, 2016, 05:48:43 AM
Be sure to listen to one of the best tracks in the series (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBlX2LOffn0) while hunting!

I actually can't participate in the contest if i'm volunteering, though I prefer the HGSS version of this.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 29, 2016, 12:53:04 PM
What do you guys think of that Pokevision site that finds Pokemon for you? I'm pretty sure I consider it to be cheating, but apparently everyone around here has decided anything short of hacking your game is perfectly fine.

Normally I'd say tool assisted is tool assisted, but the fact that the in-game radar is completely broken and has been for some time is a valid point I guess.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: trancehime on July 29, 2016, 02:07:47 PM
My mom found a Pinsir

so I went over to PoGo and lo and behold, I caught a 610 CP Pinsir.

Thanks mom
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Jana on July 29, 2016, 10:51:05 PM
What do you guys think of that Pokevision site that finds Pokemon for you? I'm pretty sure I consider it to be cheating, but apparently everyone around here has decided anything short of hacking your game is perfectly fine.

Normally I'd say tool assisted is tool assisted, but the fact that the in-game radar is completely broken and has been for some time is a valid point I guess.

I've used it at work a couple of times. My break times are kinda short and I can only walk so far in a certain direction before having to turn back.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Ruka on July 29, 2016, 11:30:00 PM
What do you guys think of that Pokevision site that finds Pokemon for you? I'm pretty sure I consider it to be cheating, but apparently everyone around here has decided anything short of hacking your game is perfectly fine.

Normally I'd say tool assisted is tool assisted, but the fact that the in-game radar is completely broken and has been for some time is a valid point I guess.
If the in-game radar was working properly, I'd still probably use it as a guide since my sense of direction is apparently bad.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 29, 2016, 11:40:58 PM
If anything seeing one of the developers calling out map apps while approving of artificially hatching eggs in basically the same sentence has swayed me toward not necessarily having a problem with them. It definitely rubs me the wrong way that they can't be bothered to fix their problem (I mean, I'm sure they're working on it, but it has been quite a while) but don't want anyone else offering a solution.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on July 30, 2016, 12:28:43 AM
Artificially hatching eggs with dumb ideas in comparison to using map-based apps to locate pokemon is to me extremely similar to the public's relative trouble of grasping what's generally allowed in speedrunning versus actually cheating. If this exploit, why not this exploit?

Really the only argument I think that actually holds whatsoever is the fact that the game's API is publicly accessible, which is just on a technical level pretty stupid. I think it's absolutely great that some things were publicly accessible, like the master protobuf detailing pokemon and item data and all the kind of stuff that makes analysis on the game even possible, but being able to spoof and manipulate the game's workings itself is just fundamentally something beyond what I'd consider as "not cheating". It might not be super apparent from the user side, but using pokevision and other similar apps are technically about the same as botting; the information the user can find from it is a side-effect.

A lot of people just argue that the game is currently broken for finding pokemon and so they're fine with using external tools to not make it stupid. Which I find totally reasonable, but it's still cheating. Many people seem to have the notion that if it's justifiable, it isn't cheating, which is silly and just a way to try and avoid feeling bad about it.

Personally, while I don't like the use of map tools to find individual pokemon for the individual user at specific times, what I would like to see happen is the use of these tools to instead do anonymous large-scale analysis on spawn locations and times, and use this data to map out probable locations of pokemon. This to me is wayyyy more like actually doing science on "pokemon behaviour" and it doesn't benefit individual people instantly as they wish, it just informs them where pokemon could spawn at likely times, and isn't just something people can easymode their way through finding pokemon. On top of this, random rare spawns would still have the same impact of discovery and hunting. Something like this is really what I'd want out of a game like this, honestly. People are already doing this with crowdsourced information, which I think is the best case scenario, but if access to the maps is a given, this would be the best use of it imo.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 30, 2016, 03:49:10 AM
I fully agree with this, but can you elaborate on:
the public's relative trouble of grasping what's generally allowed in speedrunning versus actually cheating. If this exploit, why not this exploit?
Is it hard for people to realize that using a thing not in the game in any form is cheating? As in, code injection and (this one's borderline) cart tilting?

Anyway, that's off-topic.
Using a public API is fine, in my eyes. The problem is the way Niantic is releasing data to it. No API should (for the purpose of keeping the game fun and fair-ish) tell you exactly where Pokemon are at all times.
What they should be able to tell you is simply the fact that there is a Pokemon somewhere. That would actually add to the game, being able to know simply that something exists there. From there, it's the community's job to build a custom map on top of that which, based on user-collected data, tells you what is likely to be in a location.
I reread your post.

The next issue with this would then be that nest locations cycle every now and then.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4v92bj/game_changes_several_reports_that_ingame_nests/
Is the source for that.


And, in significantly older news, https://twitter.com/nintendoamerica/status/758194900466671616
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on July 30, 2016, 04:01:12 AM
The Rural-Suburban-Urban disparity really bums me out.  I'd been hearing about crazy hotspots in cities, but to actually see that there's nothing but Rattatas and Pidgeys within several miles of you is really disheartening.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: hyorinryu on July 30, 2016, 05:20:17 AM
Yeah, it's pretty unfortunate. The difference between my neighborhood and my college is huge, when I went to the basin in Washington DC, that was ridiculous. Got several pokemon, I'd never appeared once in my neighoborhood or the college area.

As for the pokevision/spoofing stuff, I think they're both cheating, but I'm okay with pokevision. Finding stuff is pain in the butt and I'm not even sure you can use the the pokemon in the left hand corner is close to you anymore. If you're in a rural area and there are 3 or less pokemon available it might as well not exist.

I don't mind that they changed nest locations, it's not very interesting if you just know where you can find stuff. I want a dragonair/dragonite though.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on July 30, 2016, 07:30:47 AM
I noticed that a lot of spawn points in my neighbourhood changed their pokemons. Nidoran male now is always a Nidoran female. Onix, who spawned always at same location has now become a Doduo spawn.

Curious about your own experience.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on July 30, 2016, 10:35:12 AM
It's been confirmed that a lot of nests have changed species. Some more general spawns have probably also changed.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on July 31, 2016, 08:44:58 AM
Pokevision site is up but their service is no longer provided. A tweet on their twitter says they are respecting Niantic's wishes. What ever that might be.

I agree Pokevision is cheating. No need for justification to use it, but not having a proper working in-game tracking is equally bad. There is no justification for that either on Niantic's side. The game is simply rubbish now.

Edit
So the new pokemon update removes the paw-print tracking entirely. Not sure how to feel about this.

The game seems smoother now. They also fixed the map (certain park roads were not shown)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 31, 2016, 02:14:36 PM

So the new pokemon update removes the paw-print tracking entirely. Not sure how to feel about this.
Livid? It was cute thinking of Niantic as a floundering seal trying its best and failing, but this move completes the public's change in perception of the company to "malicious". This is not the direction I wanted my hugely popular Pokemon fad to go in.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on July 31, 2016, 04:11:46 PM
Even though I heavily abused Pokevision's availability, I am all for preventing cheating as long as they bring back the damned paw-tracking.

Seriously, anybody at any regular development would get 1000% fired for the exact same shit Niantic did with the removal of the paw-tracking. You don't just shove things under the carpet because you can't get it fixed. And as usual, there is no PR / Spokesman/woman explaining why it lead to this decision. It smells of incompetence at maximum.

The worst part is, doesn't matter how many people complain on Social Media or real life. Niantic can and will get away with this.

Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 31, 2016, 04:42:06 PM
Yeah, I'm not happy about this at all. On the plus side, if my understanding of this is right assuming you weren't using third-party cheat apps before your effective ability to find Pokemon did actually go up, since the range at which they appear on-screen has been increased fairly significantly. So if we assume the broken tracking and the complete removal of tracking are equivalent, it's all upside.

In practice though, the apparent lack of shits given by Niantic is much worse than a slight boost in effective spawn rates since as far as we know they just don't want anyone to be able to track anything at this point, meaning a fix may not be on the way after all. I hope that's not the case, but we're not being given much information to work with.

I know two people who just deleted the app after this update because they made extensive use of Pokevision and can't be bothered to play if the game's not going to allow them to track anything in any way. Can't say I really blame them.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 31, 2016, 04:43:16 PM
In case anyone didn't notice, they also removed... power saver. Because that had issues, right? ...Right?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on July 31, 2016, 04:54:24 PM
The rage is real. They removed nice, great, excellent exp boost on a catch.

Imagine if you had game play mechanics in a game to reward your effort.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on July 31, 2016, 04:55:13 PM
Ah god dammit, what? Why? What could the possible balance reason for that be? Or was it a performance thing?

This game is so broken and is barely a game, so updates that are just "remove much of the game" are what we need, right? Maybe they can remove Revives next or something.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 31, 2016, 05:10:58 PM
While I was looking for other dumb things, I realized that "Tips" (in the pokeball center button menu) and "Quick Start" (in Pokeball button>Settings>Quick Start) give you the exact same information about PokeStops and Gyms. But changing/removing one of those isn't a better idea than blatantly removing things that either need to be fixed (radar) or are already working (Power Saver), apparently :V


Actually, I just realized something.
You would think that the "minor text fixes" in at least one of those would change "Tips".
What are these "minor text fixes", anyway? It's seemingly not something that we're seeing.

I guess I'm kind of nit-picking, but still. What are "minor text fixes"?
EDIT: Apparently IVs are a thing http://www.idigitaltimes.com/pokemon-go-stats-explained-newly-discovered-secret-numbers-behind-your-pokemon-546188
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on July 31, 2016, 05:46:28 PM
"Minor text fixes" is a meme.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on July 31, 2016, 05:52:13 PM
"Minor text fixes" is a meme.
Indeed. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ueycNrzwF0&feature=youtu.be)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Ruka on July 31, 2016, 06:14:32 PM
Removing steps changed nothing as far as I'm concerned. I've been working on the line of people report nests, that's where I'll go if I want something specific. Anything else that's reported by the tracker is a rare or uncommon encounter.

Honestly, I just think they're removing the steps until they can figure something out. If not, that's fine too.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Spotty Len on July 31, 2016, 06:35:46 PM
Indeed. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ueycNrzwF0&feature=youtu.be)
This never gets old.

I wasn't using Pok?vision, but I could easily see why it was essential for some players, especially since the tracker doesn't work at all. I was expecting it to go down eventually, but I wasn't expecting Niantic to just remove some more functionalities altogether.

And yet, they'll get away with this because it's Pok?mon. Kinda frustrating.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on August 01, 2016, 12:25:24 AM
As for iOS, they just replaced the battery saver with background app refresh (http://i.imgur.com/C0Oj4JY.png) so you just don't need to have the thing unlocked while running around to begin with. So uh better. Pretty sure you should be setting Location to Always, as well.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on August 01, 2016, 01:47:24 AM
As for iOS, they just replaced the battery saver with background app refresh (http://i.imgur.com/C0Oj4JY.png) so you just don't need to have the thing unlocked while running around to begin with. So uh better. Pretty sure you should be setting Location to Always, as well.

In Settings, the options are "Never" and "While Using", unless I'm doing something wrong.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on August 01, 2016, 01:59:41 AM
Indeed. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ueycNrzwF0&feature=youtu.be)

Everytime I come in here, I am reminded of why I laugh a full laugh once everyone is all 'PoGO IS THE BIG THREAT TO MUH MOBAGE'. Thank you.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on August 01, 2016, 03:01:21 AM
In Settings, the options are "Never" and "While Using", unless I'm doing something wrong.
Well, some people have said that's what they've been doing to keep steps tracked while locked. I can't really confirm, maybe it's fine just while-using; I don't know iOS.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Firestorm29 on August 01, 2016, 05:56:30 AM
Willing to wager they removed all tracking and websites due to the whole fiascos going on with trespassing and the like if the tone of tge pop-ups I'm seeing are any indication. I highly doubt it'll be coming back, and surprised that the nearby list wasn't removed as well.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: trancehime on August 01, 2016, 12:36:58 PM
Willing to wager they removed all tracking and websites due to the whole fiascos going on with trespassing and the like if the tone of tge pop-ups I'm seeing are any indication. I highly doubt it'll be coming back, and surprised that the nearby list wasn't removed as well.

Here is what PokeVision's dev had to say about it (https://twitter.com/YangCLiu/status/759607552313217024)

Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 01, 2016, 02:58:24 PM
My roommate's been sending me PoGo memes all morning. I still stand by Team Mystic because Articuno is so much better than Garbage Chicken, but goddamn, Candela is so much cooler-looking than Blanche...
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on August 01, 2016, 04:19:59 PM
My roommate's been sending me PoGo memes all morning. I still stand by Team Mystic because Articuno is so much better than Garbage Chicken, but goddamn, Candela is so much cooler-looking than Blanche...
If only there was a third team.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Moogs Parfait on August 01, 2016, 04:33:31 PM
If only.  Niantic screwing it up again
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: trancehime on August 02, 2016, 08:34:46 AM
https://twitter.com/YangCLiu/status/760276499811282944

Good luck dude...
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on August 02, 2016, 02:01:15 PM
Niantic came up with an excuse for this update.

https://www.facebook.com/PokemonGO/posts/940141879465704

It sounds like they plan to bring steps back at some, unknown point.
And it sounds like they're calling Pokevision a problem. Maybe.
And Brazil is in line for releases.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 02, 2016, 02:21:34 PM
Honestly communication is good even if it's late and this is basically what we wanted to hear, so...  Good step I guess? I'm choosing to take this as a good sign.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on August 02, 2016, 03:53:17 PM
Noticed also that pokemon are jumping more or 'fighting back'. But the 'break out' chance from balls have dramatically increased. Even for stupid low CP weedles/pidgeys.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Spotty Len on August 02, 2016, 04:08:28 PM
Niantic came up with an excuse for this update.

https://www.facebook.com/PokemonGO/posts/940141879465704
That's not an excuse, that's a non-answer and marketing speech.

And according to some Ingress players, we better get used to it.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on August 02, 2016, 05:51:25 PM
Niantic came up with an excuse for this update.

https://www.facebook.com/PokemonGO/posts/940141879465704
Years of sniffing bullshit in mafia games have trained me for this moment.

"The [tracker], although enjoyed by many, was also confusing and did not meet our underlying product goals."
Yeah, no, it wasn't confusing at all.

"If you haven?t heard us Tweeting much it?s because we?ve been heads down working on the game."
Rolling out a tweet or two is waaay easier than fixing server bugs.

Like, this kind of stuff bugs me at surface level, but what actually gets me is the tracker. It's such a core function of the game and probably something the devs had in mind since early planning stages, so how does it suddenly not meet their product goals? Screw that noise. My friends and I think they're trying to make Pokemon collecting harder and expand the game length for the whales.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 03, 2016, 03:34:38 PM
Being periodically told "There's a rare Pokemon really close but you'll never find it in time, fucker!" is not particularly fun. I know that's a problem regardless of tracking, but it's fundamental game design that you're not supposed to make players feel bad as a core part of your game. It would probably be really exciting the one time I might stumble into that Poliwhirl or Exeggutor with no tracking but THAT'S NEVER HAPPENED SO HOW WOULD I KNOW?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on August 03, 2016, 05:30:22 PM
I never really found the tracker particular helpful to be honest.

I've been having a pretty good time of this. In particular where gyms are concerned. The gym near my home (like a block away) is controlled by my team, Mystic. The other day I went up there and trained it up from a 6 to a 7 and popped a 900+ CP Hypno in there. Been through two 21-hour cycles now, occasionally re-visiting the gym to bring their prestige up when others take cracks at it. Training has been hugely helpful for me, in being able to know on the fly which of my Pok?mons will do better against which other kinds, and in learning to dodge better (which I'm still not very good at).

I guess part of what helps is that my gym is an ugly-ass church in an ugly-ass boring neighbourhood. Try adding a Pok?mon to a wildly popular tourist spot, like Harpa Concert Hall, and you're lucky to have a Pok?mon in that gym for an hour before some whale rolls up and mows everyone down with their 2000+ CP Snorlax or whatever.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 03, 2016, 07:31:13 PM
I never really found the tracker particular helpful to be honest.

Oh yeah? It was clunky, but it did work for me. Admittedly my sample size was small, but I successfully used it to find Pokemon as intended on a number of occasions.

So I just saw a Clefairy spawn near my house. I really, really want a Clefairy, so I went outside, completely arbitrarily picked a direction, and walked in it until the Clefairy disappeared from my radar. That told me that it wasn't any further in that direction, so I turned around, went a block over, and went in the opposite direction until the same thing happened. Theoretically given a lot of time I would have eventually found it doing this, but it despawned after ten minutes or so before I saw it. With the footprint system the amount of space needed to narrow down the possible area to search was much smaller because you just needed to see the number of footprints change, which made using this method within the time limit much more possible. Still not good, really, but it wasn't completely luck-based like this current system is.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Mr. Sacchi on August 03, 2016, 11:19:39 PM
As of a few hours ago, Brazil (and the rest of South America) has gotten Pok?mon Go.

Rather amusingly, my university has two gyms and zero pok?stops :V
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Monarda on August 03, 2016, 11:42:20 PM
Well..... good thing i can't play it.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Firestorm29 on August 04, 2016, 05:14:23 AM
Oh yeah? It was clunky, but it did work for me. Admittedly my sample size was small, but I successfully used it to find Pokemon as intended on a number of occasions.

So I just saw a Clefairy spawn near my house. I really, really want a Clefairy, so I went outside, completely arbitrarily picked a direction, and walked in it until the Clefairy disappeared from my radar. That told me that it wasn't any further in that direction, so I turned around, went a block over, and went in the opposite direction until the same thing happened. Theoretically given a lot of time I would have eventually found it doing this, but it despawned after ten minutes or so before I saw it. With the footprint system the amount of space needed to narrow down the possible area to search was much smaller because you just needed to see the number of footprints change, which made using this method within the time limit much more possible. Still not good, really, but it wasn't completely luck-based like this current system is.

Had an instance of this whIle tracking a pikachu, and that was with the footprints still working.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 04, 2016, 10:19:39 AM
Yeah if you see it late in the spawn timer you could end up being fucked regardless. But at least you have a chance.

Is the radar even accurate at all as far as what's nearby right now? I was Pokemon hunting with a group yesterday and none of us ever showed the same nearby Pokemon. And all of the cool stuff I got, like my first Koffing finally, were on the list. I caught the Koffing while trying to find a Weezing which tempered my excitement a bit, but if it turns out the Weezing was an illusion then I guess I don't feel too bad.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on August 04, 2016, 01:09:11 PM
It seems that the reason the radars are different is due to level differences, at least from what I've seen.
My mom plays PoGO, and we're about the same level because she plays every day and actually goes outside often.
[beside_the_point]

At some point, we were both level 11, and our radars showed the same thing. She leveled up because Lucky Eggs, and she then had different stuff on her radar. I caught up to her by evolve spamming with a Lucky Egg and now it's the same stuff again. Maybe that's just my situation, but I think it has something to do with level.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on August 04, 2016, 04:49:24 PM
Currently just a hair away from Level 18 here, and noticed no real difference myself, but that could very well be because I just wasn't paying attention to it closely.

Taking Pok?mon Go into the Icelandic countryside is a lot of fun. Nothing like rolling into  some tiny village with like two Level 3 gyms, demolishing one of them and making it a Level 5 for your team, and then rolling back out. Pok?mon banditry on the open plains.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on August 04, 2016, 05:23:09 PM
I'm pretty sure levels didn't matter to the Pokemon radar once. Maybe it's a new thing.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on August 04, 2016, 05:32:24 PM
Or pure coincidence. You never know.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 04, 2016, 05:34:02 PM
I'm almost certain they didn't at one time, and I'm not sure I'm convinced they do now.

The people I was with last night were very close in level (20, 21, and 22) and we were seeing different stuff. However, I had a number of times where I was with a huge group (200+ people) and we were seeing the same spawns at the same time, if not maybe the same radar.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Suikama on August 04, 2016, 08:14:19 PM
We're they using incense maybe?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on August 04, 2016, 10:14:56 PM
IIRC, Incense runs on RNG. As a result, it doesn't display on the radar or any of that stuff. Additionally, any spawns from it specifically are circled in magenta, instead of white.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on August 05, 2016, 05:34:23 AM
Correct. Incense is private lure, mons spawning under incense are purely for you only. Lure module is public. Any mon spawning there is seen by everyone.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on August 05, 2016, 06:43:01 AM
The radar has a tendency to not get rid of pokemon that have despawned or you're out of range for, unless you restart the app or do some other witchery. That's very likely all this is.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on August 05, 2016, 05:33:53 PM
I swear catching Pokemon is really annoying now. I don't particular mind if they jump more or punch back more. But a $!#@ 60 CP weedle shouldn't be escaping out of 6 curve balls. What the hell.

Edit:
Used incense (as I never used one before). The results were to cry for. Did anybody encounter anything awesome with incense? A high CP weedle/pidgey/rattata doesn't count :V
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 05, 2016, 08:16:14 PM
No. I've been told the only reason to use incense is stacked with attract modules but I haven't tried it yet. I may tomorrow.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on August 05, 2016, 08:43:41 PM
I have never gotten anything decent with incense. Lures have a tendency to generate some interesting stuff if there are like three or more together. From what I see anyway.

Actually tried to defend a gym Mystic was holding alone against what turned out to be a Norwegian family of four - dad, teen son, two younger boys - huddled in a circle across the street, faces in their phones. They quickly took over shortly after my battery died. That's what happens when you put a gym in a library. It's Fortress Family.

On the plus side my Flareon had a good run. Getting gold is not easy.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 05, 2016, 10:48:22 PM
I just sat in the middle of five lured stops with an incense on and got nothing. My best catch was a Squirtle, but it wasn't from the incense.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Bardiche on August 06, 2016, 12:08:29 AM
Edit:
Used incense (as I never used one before). The results were to cry for. Did anybody encounter anything awesome with incense? A high CP weedle/pidgey/rattata doesn't count :V

I got an Eevee.

And a Dratini.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on August 06, 2016, 02:37:03 AM
No. I've been told the only reason to use incense is stacked with attract modules but I haven't tried it yet. I may tomorrow.

You activate a Lucky Egg and an Incense at the same time in a populated area with lures, and then evolve stuff while you're doing that.

Anyways, all of the above stuff about catching Pokemon being BS isn't actually intended, fortunately.
https://twitter.com/PokemonGoApp/status/761301330967326720
Essentially, not having an XP bonus for good timing is a bug, as is low-CP Pokemon breaking out all the time.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 06, 2016, 03:13:21 AM
Essentially, not having an XP bonus for good timing is a bug, as is low-CP Pokemon breaking out all the time.

 :derp:
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Ruka on August 06, 2016, 12:33:39 PM
And finally got to lv20. Now to think of how I'm living my life...
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on August 06, 2016, 05:06:04 PM
Almost got my next 70 mons for another powerlevel session to reach level 25.

Ironically I was viewing the promo video again when the game was getting launched:
- Go catch > Catch what!? All these nifty  x-meters ?? Pokemon
- Go trade > Will be implemented after Minor Text Fixes.
- Go battle > Ha ha ha ha. . . .
- Go play together > This was a social interactive game? Huh?
- Go unite > I'mma let you finish but (ry
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 06, 2016, 05:11:25 PM
To be fair if you're playing the game right (not slow-driving) and don't live in a rural area the social element of tbis game is huge. It's legit amazing.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on August 06, 2016, 05:15:33 PM
To be fair if you're playing the game right (not slow-driving) and don't live in a rural area the social element of tbis game is huge. It's legit amazing.
The video shows 3 v 3 trainer battle with the title 'Go play together' Since battling isn't even in, you can't socialize much on this point to be honest.

And I am living in a city. I cycle usually. Slow driving is waste of gas + dangerous. Meeting plenty of people having small chat is common thing. But everybody is feeling iffy after that since you can't do much aside than show each other's e-peen with your pokemon.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Bardiche on August 06, 2016, 05:36:39 PM
The video shows 3 v 3 trainer battle with the title 'Go play together' Since battling isn't even in, you can't socialize much on this point to be honest.

And I am living in a city. I cycle usually. Slow driving is waste of gas + dangerous. Meeting plenty of people having small chat is common thing. But everybody is feeling iffy after that since you can't do much aside than show each other's e-peen with your pokemon.

My socially recluse brother's actually out every day hanging with people he met over Pok?mon Go. They now go Pok?mon hunting together. It's defo possible to bond over Pok?mon Go.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on August 06, 2016, 07:51:37 PM
I cannot deny the fact that that is a wonderful thing of course. Perhaps I am being slightly too whiny / picky about this. Maybe because hitting a certain level and number of pokemon makes it a bit dull.

I'll wait patiently for future content.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Ruka on August 06, 2016, 08:11:36 PM
I cannot deny the fact that that is a wonderful thing of course. Perhaps I am being slightly too whiny / picky about this. Maybe because hitting a certain level and number of pokemon makes it a bit dull.

I'll wait patiently for future content.
If pvp gets implemented before next Reitaisai, I will battle you then. Already planning my next trip.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on August 06, 2016, 08:20:58 PM
I'll be happy to crush you with my Nidoking and Nidoqueen.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Suikama on August 07, 2016, 02:59:04 AM
I'll be happy to crush you with my Nidoking and Nidoqueen.
in b4 ruka has a 3000 CP dragonite
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Monarda on August 07, 2016, 03:01:52 AM
At Discord:

Ruka: "I'm gonna take a walk."

Us: "Pokemon GO ?"

Ruka: "Yep."

So i'm actually not gonna be surprise if he has one.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on August 07, 2016, 06:17:08 AM
About future content: I kinda stopped playing last week until they implement trading, which they said would happen very soon a month ago. If they can't keep their promise, well... So long.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Spotty Len on August 07, 2016, 10:59:30 AM
About future content: I kinda stopped playing last week until they implement trading, which they said would happen very soon a month ago. If they can't keep their promise, well... So long.

Welcome to Niantic.


Some friends and I were heading to the store by car, one of us was playing and spotted a Wartortle. The one driving made a U-Turn just so we could catch it, what a homie. :derp:

As for me, I'm "grinding" Pidgeys so I get enough things to evolve once I wanna use my Lucky Egg. I'm still at level 11.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on August 07, 2016, 01:25:23 PM
++73k exp. (was 83k or so on level 24). Level 25 get.

Ooooh, Max Potions. And a handful of Ultra Balls. Good, because I was running out of them.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Aba Matindesu! on August 07, 2016, 03:55:18 PM
Late, but

"The [tracker], although enjoyed by many, was also confusing and did not meet our underlying product goals."
Yeah, no, it wasn't confusing at all.
It wasn't confusing until you hit Pokemon with 3 footprints that was anywhere between 2 blocks or the entire length of Route 66 away and your GPS service sucked so much it wouldn't register you turning, effectively rendering the "right direction" pulse feature useless.

Well, it was really mostly the first part, but I certainly wouldn't have known about the pulsing thing if I didn't watch a video on it.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on August 07, 2016, 06:44:34 PM
Re: socialization, a big part right now isn't so much one-on-one stuff as it is doing the most efficient catching method and camping lures with a billion other people, and chatting it up with them. And/or hanging at these places with friends.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 08, 2016, 12:07:20 AM
Can anyone confirm if the "nearby" window has ANY merit, or is it just a broken troll with no correlation to reality?


(http://i.imgur.com/Wz1xMQQ.jpg)

This was the view from my bedroom a few minutes ago, so of course I dropped what I was doing, got up, and scoured the neighborhood. And of course I didn't find anything. Something like this has happed like 8-10 times in the last week alone, and I have NEVER found anything cool that popped up in that box. What gives?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: R.P. on August 08, 2016, 02:15:20 AM
Can anyone confirm if the "nearby" window has ANY merit, or is it just a broken troll with no correlation to reality?


(http://i.imgur.com/Wz1xMQQ.jpg)

This was the view from my bedroom a few minutes ago, so of course I dropped what I was doing, got up, and scoured the neighborhood. And of course I didn't find anything. Something like this has happed like 8-10 times in the last week alone, and I have NEVER found anything cool that popped up in that box. What gives?
The nearby window is indeed strange, sometimes it feel like the pokemon in that thing like to avoid you and occasionally some common Mon that you could swear weren't there a second before appears out of nonwhere, then other times it work kinda fine and you start finding all the cool things that are on the radar even if your movements are severely restricted (being in a building or in a car (that you'd better not be driving) for example) I don't know if there is a secret mechanism beind it or if is just lag and/or the servers don't working like they should
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on August 08, 2016, 03:44:21 AM
(that you'd better not be driving)

Speaking of which, I saw I car the other day with this on it:
"I brake for Pokestops" (https://www.etsy.com/listing/466420491/pokemon-go-i-brake-for-pokestops-car?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=shopping_us_e-electronics_and_accessories-car_parts_and_accessories-car_accessories&utm_custom1=12f9d5b9-d5a0-4a54-baaf-fd2921b8966c&gclid=CPLO0MTzsM4CFY17fgodl-IE_g)
edited for clarity
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on August 08, 2016, 04:10:16 AM
Pokemon spawns are fixed. Spawns basically work by having specific, static locations spawn a pokemon out of some pool of possible pokemon using some algorithm, at fairly fixed intervals throughout a day. The spawn points that are active at any given time then seem random because the pokemon spawned are random and the locations are active only at certain times that can be frequent or infrequent. So,

I don't know if there is a secret mechanism beind it or if is just lag and/or the servers don't working like they should
It's a really straightforward system that is obfuscated by what's unknown to the player, i.e. where spawns are located, when they're active, what pokemon they spawn and with what distribution.

As far as the nearby window goes, I'm pretty certain there's no order to it, it's just a collection of what pokemon have popped up in your radius that may or may not have despawned, and may or may not still be in your radius. It definitely sucks badly but I don't think it's trickery.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 08, 2016, 04:33:20 AM
So for what it's worth, regarding that Victreebel I was trying to find earlier, I was periodically shutting out the app and re-opening, as well as constantly checking the Nearby window. The Nearby window appeared to be behaving in a reliable way, with Victreebel moving down the list as I went in a certain direction and up in another, but at some point a number of trash Pokemon popped in above it, pushing it way down. That would make me think that a bunch of things had spawned in the intervening area between me and it, but none of the stuff I was encountering as I was searching was on the list, or if it was it wasn't first on the list.

So on one hand I feel fairly confident that the "Nearby lists Pokemon in proximity order" is bunk because I was encountering things that weren't even on the list despite periodic refreshings of the app. On the other hand, it really did look like Victreebel was moving up and down the list in a predictable way at one point. I don't know. Given that I've tried a number of different things and have never gotten any results from any of them I think it's best for my sanity if I just assume it's totally meaningless. I've missed out on a Victreebel, a Poliwrath, a Weezing (really bad for me because Weezing is one of my favorite Pokemon), a Lickitung, a Ryhorn, and several Clefairy in the last week that appeared in Nearby but where nowhere to be found and it's reeeeally starting to wear on me.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on August 08, 2016, 01:17:42 PM
Re: the social aspect.

Apart from my battle against the Norwegian family, I had another run-in last weekend. A slot opened up in a Mystic gym in this park, so I jog on over there, only to find its prestige already falling. I look all around for possible culprits, and see only a little kid - like maybe 8 years old, tops - sitting with his parents, eyed glued to his phone. Once the parents got up and pulled him along, the damage stopped, and I resumed training. Just as I manage to pop my Flareon in there, this gaggle of shirtless bros wander up, all talking about being on Valor. I was completely outgunned, but I kept training anyway. I giggled like a child as they complained like "wtf why isn't the prestige falling further" and for some reason it never occurred to them to look around them. They won in the end, but not without frustration.

I'm beginning to understand that trying to defend a gym alone against a group is futile. So my solitary player strategy is pretty much just training up existing Mystic gyms, opening a slot, and popping one of mine in there, however briefly.

Also noticed another tendency about gyms (in my area anyway): high flow of traffic past the gym = greater turnover, while a higher flow of traffic to the gym  = higher level gyms. Like, a gym at a busy downtown intersection will be at Level 3 and change hands every few minutes, while a gym at a concert hall will be at Level 7 and be held by one team for several days. Makes sense as I think about it; it just never occurred to me before.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on August 08, 2016, 03:33:28 PM
@ commander,  the order stopped making sence when they broke the tracker. I've been running in circles 15 minutes to find a Grimer. The behaviour of the "tracker" was exactly as you described. Rebooting the app sometimes showed or didn't show. This is due to the 10 seconds polling limit as well.

@ Tengu. Gym battles are a complete joke once you have 2-3 strong pokemon. A single person shouldn't be able to take down a multi level gym. And solo you'll never be able to hold a gym unless suddenly people back you up. And half of the time those backing up people are cheaters (GPS spoofers) who appear out of thin air. And you're wondering who put them there.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on August 08, 2016, 03:42:21 PM
@ Tengu. Gym battles are a complete joke once you have 2-3 strong pokemon. A single person shouldn't be able to take down a multi level gym. And solo you'll never be able to hold a gym unless suddenly people back you up. And half of the time those backing up people are cheaters (GPS spoofers) who appear out of thin air. And you're wondering who put them there.

I've been able to take down gyms alone, but only if they're Level 4 or smaller. Defending gyms alone, however, is an exercise in futility (unless you wait for that golden moment when the gym is up for grabs, and drop one of your stronger defenders in there as a final Fuck You to whoever is trying to take over).

My current top Pok?mons include two 1000+ CP, two 800+ CP, and two 700+ CP. Currently powering up the lower ones on account of a Venemoth I found whose special attack does 75 damage; double that of a 900+ CP Venomoth I had.

But I need to collect more potions before I can do more training/fighting anyway, so I'm in yukkuri mode right now.

e: Speaking of GPS spoofing (http://www.gamenguide.com/articles/36828/20160806/pokemon-go-latest-news-update-niantic-plans-to-end-gps-spoofing-shooting-with-harsh-bans-soon.htm).
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on August 08, 2016, 04:47:26 PM
Even though I am guilty of using Pokevision in the past, GPS Spoofing and Botting is what really breaks this game as they require no effort at all.

Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Ruka on August 08, 2016, 09:49:57 PM
A couple articles from Silph Road that I feel I need to share.

I'm the madman who set out to gain 1 million exp using legitimate methods in just two days. Turns out it's fun to prove people wrong. (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/4wow2a/im_the_madman_who_set_out_to_gain_1_million_exp/?st=irmkj1mi&sh=07546e76)

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Start Enjoying Pokemon Go (https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/4wr3s0/how_i_learned_to_stop_worrying_and_start_enjoying/?st=irmkiyj0&sh=7db367b5)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 08, 2016, 10:09:32 PM
So I'm level 21 right now and I have two Pokemon with capped levels, a Flareon and a Cloyster. Their CP is about 500 apart though. Cloyster has a little over 1100 CP, and Flareon has about 1600. Why is that? Does each Pokemon within a species have a different cap, or do species all cap at the same CP for a given level? Does this mean my Cloyster is horrible and I should never use it, or does it have some other trait that offsets the low CP?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on August 09, 2016, 04:01:09 AM
Latest Update Notes (reddit) (https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4wsrgx/pokemon_go_update_20160808/)
They fixed timing EXP bonuses, are experimenting with new tracker code, and enabled a one-time name change. And curveballs have to be intentional, now.

And there are more text fixes, but this time there's two different kinds!

The new tracker is actually good: http://imgur.com/a/KXY80
Information from a random guy who analyzed the tracker for a bit (https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4wsrgx/pokemon_go_update_20160808/d69m1r9)

Quote
Also says the new radar has been added for "a subset of users" in patch notes. Im seeing a vast improvement and if you are not, then this could be why.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 09, 2016, 04:39:04 AM
So wait, how is this supposed to work? I have a new radar but I don't understand it. Nearby window has been replaced by a "sightings" window and all of the Pokemon in it have a grass icon behind them now, but what does that change? Is it somehow now possible to actually use this to track?

Edit: For the first time ever my Pokedex is functional after this update, so that's something at least.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on August 09, 2016, 05:39:58 AM
So I'm level 21 right now and I have two Pokemon with capped levels, a Flareon and a Cloyster. Their CP is about 500 apart though. Cloyster has a little over 1100 CP, and Flareon has about 1600. Why is that? Does each Pokemon within a species have a different cap, or do species all cap at the same CP for a given level? Does this mean my Cloyster is horrible and I should never use it, or does it have some other trait that offsets the low CP?
Each Pokemon has its own Level, base stats and a random generated set of bonus stats for Attack Defence and Stamina (called Individual Value (IV)). IV is determined upon "birth" (or when the Pokemon is encountered). All this combined form the CP as far as I know.

If you're level 21 and you have maxed out Flareon and Cloyster, it means they are level 21,5. A pokemon can be never a higher level than the trainer (excluding the 0,5).

I am unsure how you can read out the base stats, but their IV can be checked here: https://pokeassistant.com/main/ivcalculator

Two Flareons can technically have the same CP for exact same trainer level and exact same IV. But a Cloyster and Flareon are two different Pokemon.

Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on August 09, 2016, 05:44:55 AM
So wait, how is this supposed to work? I have a new radar but I don't understand it. Nearby window has been replaced by a "sightings" window and all of the Pokemon in it have a grass icon behind them now, but what does that change? Is it somehow now possible to actually use this to track?

Edit: For the first time ever my Pokedex is functional after this update, so that's something at least.

I haven't updated yet, but from what I hear, when you tap the icons in the Sightings window (it's been renamed), it goes to a zoomed out map in which you can get a much better idea of where the Pokemon you're looking for is.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on August 09, 2016, 06:38:53 AM
I haven't updated yet, but from what I hear, when you tap the icons in the Sightings window (it's been renamed), it goes to a zoomed out map in which you can get a much better idea of where the Pokemon you're looking for is.
No idea where you got this info. Nothing happens when I tab it. Rebooted the app several times > still nothing happens.

Edit Reading around on Reddit, there is a 'sightings' and 'nearby' in the tracker menu. The 'nearby' is the behaviour you described. The sightings is for now doing nothing
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/4wu2ky/my_tracker_just_updated_with_an_enhanced_nearby/d69yi48
http://imgur.com/a/KXY80


Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 09, 2016, 12:38:25 PM

Each Pokemon has its own Level, base stats and a random generated set of bonus stats for Attack Defence and Stamina (called Individual Value (IV)). IV is determined upon "birth" (or when the Pokemon is encountered). All this combined form the CP as far as I know.

If you're level 21 and you have maxed out Flareon and Cloyster, it means they are level 21,5. A pokemon can be never a higher level than the trainer (excluding the 0,5).

I am unsure how you can read out the base stats, but their IV can be checked here: https://pokeassistant.com/main/ivcalculator

Two Flareons can technically have the same CP for exact same trainer level and exact same IV. But a Cloyster and Flareon are two different Pokemon.

So what does that mean practically? Does that just mean the Cloyster is horribly weak and should go straight in the dumpster because the combination of those factors is showing a CP so massively lower, or does it not matter so directly? 

Obviously in real Pokemon IVs could cause some variance in stats, but never to the point of one Pokemon of the same level having fully 50% more stats than another.

No idea where you got this info. Nothing happens when I tab it. Rebooted the app several times > still nothing happens.

Edit Reading around on Reddit, there is a 'sightings' and 'nearby' in the tracker menu. The 'nearby' is the behaviour you described. The sightings is for now doing nothing
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/4wu2ky/my_tracker_just_updated_with_an_enhanced_nearby/d69yi48
http://imgur.com/a/KXY80

How do I get to the "nearby" menu then? All I see is Sightings.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on August 09, 2016, 01:12:41 PM
No idea where you got this info. Nothing happens when I tab it. Rebooted the app several times > still nothing happens.
On one hand, don't take my word for it as the info I find could be completely wrong, and I haven't bothered yet to test it, but on the other hand, here's the source (reddit). (https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4wu2bo/is_this_the_new_tracker_seems_like_im_part_of_the/) The functionality was mentioned in the title, and I'm not seeing anyone correcting this OP. In fact, somewhere in there, this video (twitter) (https://twitter.com/ummjackson/status/762860057159618561) was linked, which backs up the claim.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Sophilia on August 09, 2016, 01:29:04 PM
So what does that mean practically? Does that just mean the Cloyster is horribly weak and should go straight in the dumpster because the combination of those factors is showing a CP so massively lower, or does it not matter so directly? 

Obviously in real Pokemon IVs could cause some variance in stats, but never to the point of one Pokemon of the same level having fully 50% more stats than another.

According to stat pages, a completely max level, perfect IVs Flareon and Cloyster should have a 600 CP gap, which is a 23% difference.  So if there's a 500 point difference at level 21, your Cloyster is probably just shitty.  That said, species do have different stat blocks.  Flareon has a very strong offense stat, which makes most of the CP difference.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 09, 2016, 02:37:45 PM
Alright, I IV tested Toasty Boy the Flareon and Snappy Boy the Cloyster. Toasty got an A- in his stats, Snappy got a turbo-F. Time to neglect him forever then I guess. And I spent sooo muuuuch stardust on him...

Maybe my Golduck will do better.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Jq1790 on August 09, 2016, 04:14:17 PM
Even outside the maingames, IVs doing nothing but ruin everything, I see.  I've always thought they were a terrible concept that has no business existing.

"Oh, you put the same amount of effort into your Pokemon?  Doesnt matter, itll still be less powerful than it should be because screw you that's why."
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Helepolis on August 09, 2016, 04:27:14 PM
How do I get to the "nearby" menu then? All I see is Sightings.
A selective number of users seem to have been "blessed" as a form of beta test or something. If you don't have it then you're not selected. (I don't have it either).
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 09, 2016, 04:50:17 PM
Ugh. The urban/suburban/rural, whale/IAP/non-IAP and hard cheat/soft cheat/fair play divisions didn't give Niantic a harsh enough haves vs. have nots divide, huh? Now we need allowed to track Pokemon/not allowed to track Pokemon too? Classy.

Well, I hope they get this rolled out to everyone quickly because I'm getting tired of not really being able to play. Then again, maybe not. If they roll it put quickly then it'll probably be horrribly broken and not actually fix the problem.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on August 11, 2016, 12:05:31 AM
Apart for like 5 minutes this afternoon, the servers have been down for me for 24 hours now.

Well, at least I dropped a 1200CP Golduck into a gym juuuust before this happened.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Ruka on August 11, 2016, 12:46:07 AM
Servers are fine on my end? Then again, I use Google for login, so I don't know if that has to do with anything.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Jana on August 11, 2016, 01:37:28 AM
Things are more stable for me now than ever. I use Google as my login too.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on August 11, 2016, 01:38:32 AM
Well shit. Guess I'll figure something out.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on August 11, 2016, 01:59:28 AM
Latest Update for iOS (Pokemon GO 1.3.1):
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on August 11, 2016, 02:09:50 AM
It's just really frustrating because this "cannot connect to the server" shit started immediately after the update. I've seen people here talking about connecting. I've seen occasional people downtown connecting. But for whatever reason, I'm not, and the message is consistently for server reasons. Which just doesn't seem right in light of all this.

No possible idea why this is happening and the internet is being entirely unhelpful about it. Kinda bums me out to be honest.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on August 11, 2016, 03:47:29 AM
If you use a PTC account, can you log in through the website? That's the first thing I'd check to see if it's something local or not.

On a side note I now have 58 62 Bulbasaur candy from meticulously checking the school field. I found two three today so far and I expect at least one more. I'll get that Venusaur eventually! Only 17 16 Bulbas to go!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on August 11, 2016, 09:11:20 AM
If you use a PTC account, can you log in through the website? That's the first thing I'd check to see if it's something local or not.

Yeah, attempting to sign in to PTC gives me the same Humbled Server message.

Maybe the update was to lock Iceland out!

EDIT: OK this is really weird. I still can't connect through Google. I can through PTC, but it starts me at the very beginning.

I have reinstalled the game, updated every Google-related app I have, and have deleted all traces of my second Google account from my phone. The servers are fine. There's people out there right now playing this game with wild abandon but I can't pick up where I left off.

Any ideas would be much appreciated.

EDIT OF EDIT: The only solution I have found that can be replicated is to first sign in through the PTC, sign out, then sign in again via Google. No idea why this happens but I'd be very interested to know, if anyone can shed some light on this.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 12, 2016, 04:43:16 PM
So I've been sitting on this problem for a few days where I'm just out of Pokeballs, and I haven't had the time to take a trip to a place where I can actually collect a significant number of them, so I just haven't been playing at all. Normally I would at least check my surroundings periodically from my desk, but I'm not even bothering right now.

@Tengu: I wish I could help, that sounds really shitty. But unfortunately I got nothing. So is this a common problem in your region or is it just you?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on August 12, 2016, 04:46:33 PM
 I really don't know. It may be an issue with some folks here and there. Popping in to PTC, signing out, and then singing through Google is not the perfect solution, but it sorta works anyway. I'm tempted to just start over through the PTC. Seems more reliable anyway. Though it would suck to start from scratch when I'm at 20, it's better than not being able to play at all!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: MatsuriSakuragi on August 12, 2016, 05:03:59 PM
From my experience, it's the PTC that's unreliable, but that's just me. I can't even be bothered to play this non-game ever since it became less of a game and remained just as unstable.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: BT on August 12, 2016, 07:17:57 PM
From my experience, it's the PTC that's unreliable, but that's just me. I can't even be bothered to play this non-game ever since it became less of a game and remained just as unstable.
I think the app is generally pretty stable nowadays, aside from this Iceland business just now. I still have coworkers talking about the game here and there so I'm looking to get back into it when they enable the beta tracker for everyone. Or when they enable trading. I kinda want the app to be a true multiplayer game already and not this weird private collecting thing.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 12, 2016, 07:24:55 PM
I feel like I'm on board to keep going until the community stops being really fun. It's slowed down a bit locally, but still plenty of people playing. Many coworkers too which is fun. I've had a shelf of those Tomy Pokemon figurines in my office for years and since PoGo came out people come in to look at them all the time.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on August 13, 2016, 03:15:59 AM
By "stops being really fun", do you mean slowing down? Most likely, after the initial surge of users due to global releases and whatnot, there's likely going to be mini-surges at every Generation Update. Add in the fact that mechanics are still in the process of being found, the game probably won't drop off for a few years, at least. When you get bored of it is another story, though.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 13, 2016, 04:27:22 AM
What I mean is that every time I go downtown there are hundreds of people playing it absolutely everywhere and it's a fantastic fun environment. Big groups of strangers looking for Pokemon together, people relaying rare sightings to strangers across multiple blocks, etc. As long as there are other people to play with I can put up with the horseshit.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on August 13, 2016, 05:15:05 PM
I'm just looking forward to school starting again over here in the next week or so. Something tells me that'll make a difference.

I think the PTC>Sign Out>Google thing has something to do with the GPS signal. Because when I attempt to sign in through Google alone, the "GPS not found" message pops up before I get the Humbled Server message. Not only does this not happen with PTC; the GPS pin stays in the panel after I sign out. This is underlined by the fact that this is much, much easier to do outside - something that made no difference to me before the update.

If that's the case then alright, I can take an extra step to sign in. I really don't mind all that much, so long as things are stable once I do log in, which they have been almost all the time.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Your Everyday NEET on August 13, 2016, 05:32:53 PM
Yeah, my classmates just played it through their laptop during the class, wonderful. It's convenient you know, traveling around the city, finding Pokemons, capturing Gym when the real person just sitting there, in front of their laptop.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on August 13, 2016, 05:36:45 PM
Yeah, my classmates just played it through their laptop during the class, wonderful. It's convenient you know, traveling around the city, finding Pokemons, capturing Gym when the real person just sitting there, with their laptop.

OK that is legit infuriating. Very unsporting. I'm not sure grade school kids over here are savvy enough to do this though.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on August 13, 2016, 06:09:40 PM
Convenient time to pop in for me. Speaking of spoofing and whatnot, Niantic has been handing out bans for using 3rd party tools, and emulators (if you spoof with them). What you can do with emulators, though, is piggyback on Wifi and then actually walk around with your laptop.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on August 13, 2016, 06:15:57 PM
Convenient time to pop in for me. Speaking of spoofing and whatnot, Niantic has been handing out bans for using 3rd party tools, and emulators (if you spoof with them). What you can do with emulators, though, is piggyback on Wifi and then actually walk around with your laptop.

Yeah they announced they were going to start laying down bans for GPS spoofing a few days ago. Which made me very happy. If you can't be bothered to physically go to a gym, you shouldn't even be playing. But I reckon half the fun of spoofing and other hax is being able to pull it off.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 13, 2016, 06:24:52 PM
I can almost sympathize with it if you live in a rural area since it seems like people who do just aren't allowed to play, but yeah, that's made cheating. It's super cheaty no matter what, but if you do it in the middle of an urban area it's exceptionally low.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on August 14, 2016, 12:14:52 PM
I can understand the rural argument, sorta. I guess it varies from region to region. Here, even a village of like 100 people has at least one gym and a few pokestops. OTOH, there's people in this thread who are deprived of resources.

Maybe in future iterations you can actually make stops and gyms if there are none within like 1km. Might get pretty crowded though.

edit: In today's great adventures, I noticed my home gym was Mystic again and had a slot open. Went up there and popped in a 1200+CP Golduck, then started training it up from Level 3. As I did so, this little kid came running up, asking me if I was attacking the gym. I said I was not; that I had just dropped a mon in there and was training it up. Relieved, he started training it up with me. Together we got it to Level 7 - a pretty respectable increase, especially as it appears my Golduck is #4 in line.

Is that static, by the way? I mean, does the order in which your mon appears stay there until someone beats the predecessors, does it rotate around, or what?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Chaore on August 15, 2016, 06:00:24 AM
Maybe in future iterations you can actually make stops and gyms if there are none within like 1km. Might get pretty crowded though.

'hey dad i made our house a pokestop'

'what does that mean so- OH GOD WHY ARE THERE ALL THESE MILLENIALS EVERYWHERE NOW CALL THE POLICE AND GET MY GUN'
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on August 15, 2016, 10:00:00 AM
Is that static, by the way? I mean, does the order in which your mon appears stay there until someone beats the predecessors, does it rotate around, or what?
It's sorted by ascending CP, and the lowest CP is always kicked out first.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on August 15, 2016, 01:53:41 PM
'hey dad i made our house a pokestop'

'what does that mean so- OH GOD WHY ARE THERE ALL THESE MILLENIALS EVERYWHERE NOW CALL THE POLICE AND GET MY GUN'

"No sweat dad, I turned it into a gym instead."

"Oh that's good you could use the exerci- WHAT ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE DOING IN OUR DRIVEWAY!"

It's sorted by ascending CP, and the lowest CP is always kicked out first.

Oh sweet, that's good to know.

Well my 1200+CP Golduck got booted out of my gym with like 1h45m left to go. Which is all good - just means I have a lot less time to wait before I can fill a slot again and have it pay off.

Also, forgot to mention: in my sprint to the gym yesterday, at one point the game gave me that "You are going too fast!" message. Whether this was a glitch or they really lowered the speed limit, I thought it was funny. I mean, I always thought I wasn't in particularly great shape. Thanks, PoGo, for convincing me otherwise!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Jq1790 on August 15, 2016, 10:43:57 PM
Now now, I know you're a rather big fan of Aya's, but maybe you should calm down a little and stop channeling her so much, hm?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on August 15, 2016, 11:35:43 PM
I don't choose when she speaks through me.

For real tho, I know I wasn't running 20 kph.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on August 23, 2016, 11:13:07 PM
Update 1.5.0/0.32 is coming out!
-Adds IV checking (roughly) via the same menu containing "TRANSFER" and "FAVORITE"
-Minor bot fixes

So yeah, this seems interesting. We can now hear (read?) the Team Leaders' speech patterns by IV checking, as showcased here. (http://imgur.com/a/Jqw4C) Here's to hoping they turn this into something much more developed than the current state! Oh, and the meaning of "Minor bot fixes" is up for debate. I think it's going to be the new "Minor text fixes" :derp:


Source:
https://twitter.com/pokemongoapp/status/767881639045238784
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on August 25, 2016, 02:24:16 PM
Aw yiss.

(http://i.imgur.com/H30kYIt.png)

I'm still having to sign into PTC, sign out, and then sign in through Google in order to connect at all. The process though has become like second nature to me so I don't really mind.

Now that school has started, as predicted, this game has become a lot more fun to play. I love fortifying an existing Gym most of all, though battling is fun too, and either way it's nice that any mons I sit in there might actually last through the first cycle.

Although yesterday my Golduck was booted out of a Mystic gym with 8 minutes remaining on the clock. That was a little rage-inducing.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on August 30, 2016, 03:43:17 AM
I've been finally learning how to reliably do curveballs the last couple of days. It took, embarrassingly enough, a guy who just staeted playing last week to show me how to do them, but now that I can they seem a lot more reliable than just aiming. And I seem to get way more Excellent catches with curveballs than I ever did with straight shots.

Meanwhile, I'm going on like day ten or something ridiculous like that of being at 99 Gastly Candy. Gastly are usually pretty common, come on!
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: hyorinryu on August 31, 2016, 01:57:30 PM
Why does Twister Gyarados exist? That was a 91% IV Magikarp.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on September 05, 2016, 01:38:55 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/f3VYpGW.jpg)

Guys I found it. I found the world's tiniest Ratatta.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Drake on September 05, 2016, 03:12:12 AM
working hard on that youngster joey achievement
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Hikarin on September 05, 2016, 04:00:14 AM
http://pokemongolive.com/en/post/buddy/
http://pokemongolive.com/en/post/update-082916/

New (kinda meh) feature in the works!

This coming feature adds "buddy Pokemon", which is a single Pokemon that you select as your favorite, giving you (as of yet) unknown bonuses in game! Well, one is known. Walking with a Pokemon gives candy for that species, greatly shortening the time to evolve 'mons. Your buddy Pokemon will appear on your profile page for the world to see (or something), and can be changed at any time.

As a side comment, Niantic has been dishing out bans for using third-party stuffs because they claim it acts like "a DDoS attack" on their servers. Something about background app refresh. They can now unban users, so they have unbanned users banned for this reason, but will not lift the ban on bots and third-party map reading services. Oh, and spoofers.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on September 05, 2016, 05:22:14 AM
Buddy Pokemon doesn't sound meh at all, it sounds great. The game really needed this since what Pokemon you're allowed to use was previously entirely based on your region. If the thing you want doesn't spawn nearby, you can't have it. Or if you can manage to get one through an egg hatch, while traveling, or through a lucky nest spawn you were never able to use it because candy is so hard to come by. That sounds great frankly. I can finally have a nice Weezing even though they're extremely rare around here. And the fact that it can be changed at any time will make filling out the Pokedex way easier since you can just produce extra candies to evolve rare Pokemon that would normally take forever to deal with. The downside is that it kind of kills the whole "regional meta" thing, but I still think it's smart overall. I honestly expected the candy shortage problem to be solved by an IAP Pokestop plugin, so this sounds like a much friendlier alternative.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Tengukami on September 05, 2016, 04:27:24 PM
Yeah I will most certainly be making use of the Buddymon. I have this one Gloom that I can't even power up let alone evolve, on account of a lack of candy. She's just under 1000 CP and I've been caring for her since she hatched as a 550 CP mon from an egg.

In related news, I have finally resolved the issue I had with connecting. Everything works hunky dory again. No idea why. Only thing different that happened is I ran out of credit for my mobile broadband, and switched to wireless. Then it not only started working again, but kept working even after I put credit on my mobile broadband and switched back to that.

I'm taking a utilitarian approach to the whole thing tho - asking no questions, just welcoming the result.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Jq1790 on September 09, 2016, 12:20:34 AM
I suppose my phone recently dying had some benefits...I can finally play this!  Decided to go with Charmander for my starter, have also caught Bellsprout, Butterfree, Pidgey, and Weedle so far.  Never had a chance to hit a Pokestop yet, but I may later.

Enjoying my time so far, and I haven't even gotten to do a proper hunt yet.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on September 13, 2016, 09:07:47 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/DbU2ENl.jpg)

Yaaaay.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: OverlordChirei on September 13, 2016, 10:07:35 PM
>buddy pokemon

>tfw no igglybuff still
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: hyorinryu on September 17, 2016, 03:32:32 PM
>buddy pokemon

>tfw no igglybuff still

At you can get the bigger ones. I never played the core games, but if you were breeding, would Wigglytuffs give you Igglybuffs? At least you only need one km per candy.

Too bad, there's no online play. Most of my friends have pretty much quit already, and even when they played, they were on team blue.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on September 17, 2016, 03:49:38 PM
At you can get the bigger ones. I never played the core games, but if you were breeding, would Wigglytuffs give you Igglybuffs?

As far as I recall all of the baby Pokemon from the second generation, Igglybuff included, will always hatch from a Jigglypuff/Wigglytuff egg. Later babies need a special item to be held by the parents though. Like a Chansey egg will hatch a Chansey unless the parent was holding a Lucky Incense, which would produce a Happiny egg instead.

Baby Pokemon are, uh, a dumb mechanic.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on October 26, 2016, 01:46:53 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An2Dq6FcMjU

So it looks like we're getting an actual special event. Might not be much, but it's something. I'm curious.

And it looks like it increases Drowzee spawn rates. Oh joy. Now I can be surrounded by five of them instead of four at all times I guess...
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: hyorinryu on October 26, 2016, 07:00:45 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An2Dq6FcMjU

So it looks like we're getting an actual special event. Might not be much, but it's something. I'm curious.

And it looks like it increases Drowzee spawn rates. Oh joy. Now I can be surrounded by five of them instead of four at all times I guess...

I actually rarely see them. Starting get more Ghastlies and Cubones though.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on October 26, 2016, 07:11:23 PM
They're just extremely common locally. Like EXTREMELY common. Drowzee is definitely more common than Pidgey downtown and Pidgey is pretty fucking common.

I've also see a lot more Cubones incidentally too lately, which is nice. Is that related to the event?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: hyorinryu on November 03, 2016, 05:33:04 AM
I'm going to miss the event, especially the 4x buddy candy. At least I got a Charizard out of it. He has Wing Attack and Flamethrower, so that's not bad.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on November 03, 2016, 02:52:43 PM
Agreed, I got tons of value out of that. Got around 80 combined Clefairy and Jigglypuff candy and got a real nice perfect IV Wigglytuff going.

Looking forward to the next event, but I hope they shake up what the bonuses are each time more than just different boosted spawn rates. I'd like to see a stardust bonus and faster egg hatches next time or something.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on November 11, 2016, 10:29:52 PM
So there's been a fairly sizable overhaul of how the game plays recently. Not sure if some of these changes were pre-existing or if they're all from the last week's update, but it's like this now:

-Pokemon spawn rates are WAY up. I would speculate probably quadrupled. Granted you'll still see tons of crappy filler Pokemon, but you can now easily afford to pick and choose what you want. You're no longer obligated to just catch every Pidgey, Spearow, or Weedle you see, you can now just focus on one of those plus whatever better stuff you come across and still be pretty much constantly engaged while walking around.

-Pokestops give WAY more items. Probably at least double, and the maximum number of items possible is much higher. I would speculate that Pokeball drop rates have been boosted as well, they seem to be well over half of total items now.

-There's now a daily reward bonus that gives bonus experience for the first Pokemon caught of the day and a ton of bonus items for the first Pokestop visited in a day. These rewards count consecutive days and apparently do something after seven days in a row, no idea what.

-Training at gyms has been overhauled to be much easier. It's now exactly the same as battling an opposing gym. You can bring a whole team and you can be KOed, but because it's now much more plausible to take down the entire gym solo the amount of experience you can give to friendly gyms is MUCH higher. This means rank-10 gyms are very common, which means they're not quite as liable to change hands repeatedly over a single day as they were before.

I know it's too little too late and most people are beyond caring, and we're still missing a bunch of essential features that were promised months ago, but it's some progress and for my money it's made the game quite a lot more fun to play. Probably not enough to reel people back in, but if we can get trading, boss battles, and maybe some new Pokemon implemented this might start to fully feel like a real game.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: triangles on November 11, 2016, 11:33:37 PM
Is it still unplayable with root?  Cause that's why I stopped and I'm not really about to redo a root for one game - certainly not now that it's getting chilly.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Phasm on November 18, 2016, 04:33:18 PM
I heard that Generation 2 pokemon are currently in development for Pokemon Go
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on November 18, 2016, 05:07:41 PM
Hmm. That's ultimately good news (except that I would have hoped they would have started earlier I guess?). I was hoping they would jump right to generation seven and work backward to cash in on the Sun/Moon hype, and because I think generation two is the weakest by far so I wasn't looking forward to it particularly. Still, new content is good. And this gets me... Crobat I guess?
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: Phasm on November 18, 2016, 05:10:22 PM
Fun fact... they are progressing to Gen 2 but... where exactly are the legendaries ???
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on November 23, 2016, 07:45:15 PM
Ditto is out! Has some interesting mechanics too. It doesn't appear on the map, but any Pokemon can turn out to secretly be Ditto upon catch. I haven't tried to battle with it yet but apparently it turns into a random Pokemon.
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: commandercool on November 25, 2016, 03:49:24 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/T09oA52.jpg)
Title: Re: Pokemon Go: Looking Silly In Public For Pokemon
Post by: hyorinryu on November 28, 2016, 07:07:16 PM
Ditto is out! Has some interesting mechanics too. It doesn't appear on the map, but any Pokemon can turn out to secretly be Ditto upon catch. I haven't tried to battle with it yet but apparently it turns into a random Pokemon.

Got two. They were both Pidgeys.

Is it still unplayable with root?  Cause that's why I stopped and I'm not really about to redo a root for one game - certainly not now that it's getting chilly.
I want to say other people have made things that allow you to play while rooted. I know spoofing is still a thing sadly.

In other news, I finally got myself a dragonite.