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Pokémon Go |OT| As in "Go Outside"
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Wyndstryker
Member
Say hi to officer jenny while you're at it.
Having a great time with the game - it is so cool to be out and about and seeing so many people going along playing as well. Haven't ever experienced something like this before in terms of the variety of demographics the game appeals to.
Just wish the game was better about tracking distance - I'm at 54 miles (~87km) of riding my bike this week and have had the game running in the forefront for all of the cycling - Pokemon Go has me at 44km which means roughly half of the biking wasn't actually tracked in game. Or I was going too fast? My average speed is usually between 7 to 9 mph though which doesn't seem high enough to hit the speed threshold cutoff.
Not sure what else I could do to try and improve the GPS aspect. I'm on Android and have GPS set to "High Accuracy" already.
Just wish the game was better about tracking distance - I'm at 54 miles (~87km) of riding my bike this week and have had the game running in the forefront for all of the cycling - Pokemon Go has me at 44km which means roughly half of the biking wasn't actually tracked in game. Or I was going too fast? My average speed is usually between 7 to 9 mph though which doesn't seem high enough to hit the speed threshold cutoff.
Not sure what else I could do to try and improve the GPS aspect. I'm on Android and have GPS set to "High Accuracy" already.
I completely missed his. Is it actually confirmed that Pokemon from Pokemon GO can be transferred over? Guessing it's probably a 1-way trip in that case.
Doctor West
Member
When is it a good time to start evolving? I'm level 21 now and haven't evolved anything for a while because every time I do, I find a Pokemon with a much higher CP than the one I just wasted all my candies evolving. I'm currently catching base Pokemon with CP's waaay higher than their evolved versions I made a few days ago. So making those was a total waste of resources.
Currently I can breeze through any gym with just my Vaporeon, so it's not like I need to evolve to survive. I'm just getting antsy sitting on pounds of stardust and candies, lol.
Currently I can breeze through any gym with just my Vaporeon, so it's not like I need to evolve to survive. I'm just getting antsy sitting on pounds of stardust and candies, lol.
No it does not.
Actually, I can't find a direct source either but I've been hearing it so much and it would seem like the obvious thing to do. But now, it might be locked behind Nintendo's systems and servers.
Does anyone know if you can transfer from Go to Sun and Moon? Has it been talked about?
panthapanda
Member
Hmm...maybe Pokémon Bank will hit mobile and you can transfer through that. IDK how they'll do that stats tho.
MisterHero
Super Member
Has anything been said about Pokémon catch locations being blank? A lot of mine have been blank recently
mariachi507
Member
Has anyone experienced a glitch where pokestops will not give you items despite spinning, or another one where when you're catching a Pokemon, and after it clicks two times it escapes and runs off? I haven't been able to catch a Pokemon all day.
Doctor West
Member
Team Mystic needs to pick it up around where I live. Stop putting garbage Pokemon in gyms. The red menace stacks their gyms like crazy and I have to respect it. Meanwhile I clear out a gym and people instantly throw in 300 CP Pidgeottos and Growlithes for days. Why?!?! Nobody takes us seriously when you do that, Mystic. Get it together.
I don't think the Pokémon running off is a glitch. I've had a few stops spin and give me nothing, or tell me "try again later" even though I haven't used them yet.
MisterHero
Super Member
Re-orients the overworld to your forwards view
Doctor West
Member
Pokemon running off is not a glitch. Try giving them berries before throwing a ball to help prevent that from happening. Also, if you have access to better quality balls, switch to them.
MvmntInGrn
Member
Have you checked your journal? Sometimes the sign spins, stays blue, and yet tells you to try again later. Upon looking at my Journal though I see that I did actually get items though.
As far as the escaping thing. Are you moving? I find this happens if I try to play the game as a passenger in a car or if I walk too far away during a long capture attempt.
I think it just rotates the camera so north is the top of the screen.
Supposedly they turned that feature off for the time being to lessen server load.
SynthFetish
Member
Well today yelled me no Porygon. The search will continue tomorrow.
Stats can be hidden under the hood. It would be nice if someone could look through the code and see if each Pokémon object has EVs and IVs.
beepbeepwherethesheep
Neo Member
You click on it and you can move your phone around to change the direction you're looking in
Hickbilly Deluxe
Banned
Talked to a friend of my that has been playing this a bit, apparently a single group of teenagers has overrun all the gyms in town and stockpiled them with supposedly maxed out top tier Pokemon, preventing anyone from other teams from beating them.
First off, I didn't think it would happen this fast that power players would do everything they could to ruin the game for others, and secondly if true its a real dick move.
First off, I didn't think it would happen this fast that power players would do everything they could to ruin the game for others, and secondly if true its a real dick move.
gotchya. i think it was just coincidence the tracker pulsed at the same time.
MisterHero
Super Member
Real people have jobs. That's something to walk away with!
I guess that's a way to look at it, but without being able to be competitive in gym battles it makes the whole experience seem shallow and a bit pointless. This is really only fun if you live in an dense urban area. Also, Where I live has a large number of unemployed, on disability, or just students who can throw hours a day. living in a residential neighborhood with nothing means I'd have to drive to a stop to grind for atleadt a few hours and buy items to boost all while hanging out in my car for hours. The writing is on the wall for me in this, may have to jump out as quickly as I jumped in just for sanity sake. grindcore use to be for the unemployed or the lifeless, no it's for the geographical lottery winners too. Im a little salty but nothing I said is untrue.
Jailer of Hope
Member
Lost a Raichu thanks to the stupid tracking ARGH. I'd rather deal with the app freezing if it meant tracking worked again.
As the requirements to level up get higher and higher it will even out. My friend was double my level but as he hit 21, I'm progressing more levels while he struggles to move up one. So its a bit of a gap at first, but it all evens out.
Also really with gyms, even the super beefy ones, if you have a team of at least 600-700 you can make some solid work. Then once you have some guys in the 800-900 you can still take em down. Don't get discouraged.
Inviusx
Member
Again, I honestly dont see this as true. Ive caught the all different types of Pokemon in the same spot. Magmar, Seaking, Sandslash, Rapidash, Ryhorn, Hitmonlee. Im up to 90 Pokemon in my dex and have been going to the same spot every time.
There has to be some truth
Level 22 and I only have run into 3 water Pokemon...all when I happen to be biking alongside the LA river
I'm not sure how that works.
Beating ai Pokemon is really easy, you can take out things with way higher cp. Getting potions and revives is really easy. Unless the teenagers are waiting at the gym, taking an unattended gym with nothing more than a team of 1000 + cp evolved eevee. (Super easy to get at level 20, don't even need to power up the eevee.)
This is perfect
Wyndstryker
Member
It's not by type, it's by certain groups.All pokemon can be captured but the encounter rates change.
Over where I am, you'll never see the ones you mentioned very often, if anything they're stupidly rare. Had a group of people running for just a Growlithe. But here we see Hypno's, Jynx, Gengar's, Dewgongs, Kinglers, Fearows everywhere(Almost expected to be seen in gyms here). Hell my tracker had a full page of Drowzee's once.
Thanks. i needed to hear that.
Finale Fireworker
Member
Everywhere I go has the same Pokémon:
-Pidgey
-Weedle
-Spearow
-Rattata
-Eevee
-Caterpie
In that order. Very occasionally you will find something like an Oddish, Drowzee, Paras, or Bellsprout. But it's very difficult to find diverse populations of Pokémon. I have driven to a variety of different towns and locations in Southern Maine and they all overwhelmingly feature the same Pokémon at the same frequency. There aren't many places I can drive to and walk around every day, and it's upsetting when the walkable places only feature the usual suspects.
I am spending the weekend in Boston and it's like night and day. The diversity of the Pokémon is so robust, and it actually seems to reflect the terrain. I am actually finding water Pokémon by water as opposed to... Nothing.
The issue is that, from what I understand, Pokémon spawns are reliant on cellular activity. You can't just go for a walk in a nature reserve or on the beach because there isn't anybody there but you. And if there is nobody there, Pokémon don't spawn.
I haven't been able to spawn a single Pokémon around my own house. That's a pain. There's a town next to mine with a perfect walking route to repeatedly hit the same six or seven PokéStops, but no Pokémon actually spawn.
There is a Franciscan Monestary as well with beautiful statues and walking paths around the wooded campus. It's right on the water front. Every statue of a saint or an angel is a PokéStop, but I spent two hours there and no Pokémon spawned the entire time.
-Pidgey
-Weedle
-Spearow
-Rattata
-Eevee
-Caterpie
In that order. Very occasionally you will find something like an Oddish, Drowzee, Paras, or Bellsprout. But it's very difficult to find diverse populations of Pokémon. I have driven to a variety of different towns and locations in Southern Maine and they all overwhelmingly feature the same Pokémon at the same frequency. There aren't many places I can drive to and walk around every day, and it's upsetting when the walkable places only feature the usual suspects.
I am spending the weekend in Boston and it's like night and day. The diversity of the Pokémon is so robust, and it actually seems to reflect the terrain. I am actually finding water Pokémon by water as opposed to... Nothing.
The issue is that, from what I understand, Pokémon spawns are reliant on cellular activity. You can't just go for a walk in a nature reserve or on the beach because there isn't anybody there but you. And if there is nobody there, Pokémon don't spawn.
I haven't been able to spawn a single Pokémon around my own house. That's a pain. There's a town next to mine with a perfect walking route to repeatedly hit the same six or seven PokéStops, but no Pokémon actually spawn.
There is a Franciscan Monestary as well with beautiful statues and walking paths around the wooded campus. It's right on the water front. Every statue of a saint or an angel is a PokéStop, but I spent two hours there and no Pokémon spawned the entire time.
mariachi507
Member
I've been using berries and great balls actually, doesn't matter if I'm trying to catch a 30 CP Pidgey, they escape.
It's even less "locked up" than that. With skill against the AI you can do serious damage to any gym once you have a few "heavy hitters" even at way below CP range. The biggest problem with this honestly is that you actually have to go to a gym to practice but it works.
Finale Fireworker
Member
No, it's based on distance traveled, not steps. You must physically move on the map, even if you're walking back and forth.
DeployThatPizza
Member
I farmed two Pokestops at a local park. Someone had also put up lures but I didn't get anything good. Only Pidgeys and Rattatas.
No. It counts distance.
No. It counts distance.
Yeah with good dodging and clever special move use you can battle way above your CP.
Really helps too if you have a fast guy. My Jolteon is lightning quick an in a good battle I can hit a guy 2, 3 maybe 4 times before they hit me. Also if you are dying, get that super in, so at least your next poke can have a head start.
Also! If you have a friends on the same team, if you all fight the gym at the same time, it will be your 2 or 3 pokemon versus their one.
Even with weak pokes, you can grind that gym down by just reviving and potions. Its actually really hard to keep a gym for a decent length of time.
My strategy now is to find the most out of the way gyms that don't see a lot of traffic and take as many of those as I can, so I can claim a higher store reward before they are taken. Its very rare I will hold a place in a gym longer than an hour or two.