Hikami
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Pokémon Go |OT 2| Servers...gotta crash 'em all!
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Weird to post just on reddit and not on twitter or anything.
talisayNon
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The worst thing about pokevision is now Niantic cant take advantage of protobuf now that it's been "hacked". I imagine the payload is going to be a lot more if they want to fix this. Shame.
Don't be surprised to see your data rates take a hike when they do fix it is what I'm saying.
Don't be surprised to see your data rates take a hike when they do fix it is what I'm saying.
Pretty sure they would post with a verified account
Seems like someone just BSing
It kinda surprised me that they came on Reddit and not posted on their website instead, kinda fishy tho
I hope that Reddit mods checked his identity, tho.
Edit: lmao they removed it from sticky ?
Noobs
Spiritreaver
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I think I'm gonna continue this nostalgia trip and buy one of the VC games. Not sure if I wanna go Blue for the memories, or Yellow cause it's the better game (color!). What do you all think?
Yellow because of sprites, story and color!!!!!!!!
Dagobert Duck
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Thought about the same thing for 3DS...I got blue as a kid and my brother had yellow...so maybe i should get red...
Permanently A
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Depends where the dot on the CP arc is
if the dot on the 508 Squirtle is significantly higher (like more than 15%) than the Wartortle's then evolve the squirtle
touchéOk, so not EU.
too soon?
Permanently A
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Is it true that the smaller the circle is, the better chance to catch the pokemon?
Went for short morning walk as I was doing / waiting for laundry. Ran into my first Haunter (with pleasing aptness, it popped up as I was cutting between bright, loud streets using a quiet, secluded, leaf-shadowed footpath). Shortly thereafter I was pounced upon by my first Onix, also my first 'red circle' difficulty (I think it was red, the sun was crazy bright and bouncing off everything around me); for whatever it may be worth, I'm lvl 9. That big boy was a dick to capture, kept deflecting my balls away from where I was aiming and repeatedly refused to stay put in the ball when it did connect. Still, gotcha.
Well there's 3 stages of circle
Nice, Great and Excellent or whatever it's called.
They depend on hitting the ball inside the circle. The smaller it is the better and the higher chance you got to capture the mon. Or so I've been told.
Spiritreaver
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I think I'm going to get both. Only proper decision!See... I never played Red either, my sister got that one. Now I want Red!
Higher as in the meter is less filled in or more?
Here is what I got.
I've got a squirtle park 10 minutes away, so i've seen dozens of them.
Grats to you
I have different kind of feelings of this so called game.
Its not so fun, when you have access to 1-3 Pokestops (once) per day and they give 1 pokeball and rest are some revive & potion trash & you have lost countless balls to stupid server errors & glitches. Closest pokestop to your home is over 2km away and to Gym is over 2.5km distance.
Rank 7 after playing over 2 weeks daily. Iam in the minority that doesn't find the fun in this game due to game mechanics (if they work) supporting people living in big cities.
They will further package/encrypt the data you mean?
PSFan
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Don't see what's so horrible about Pokevision or the script. It's not like by finding a Pokemon, nobody else will be able to get it or anything. I really don't see it as cheating at all.
Incitemaybe
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We just found an Onyx tonight as well though it was only 33 cp, whatever, I still like him 🙃
I'm still blown away at how many people I see playing this everywhere, I live in a historical section of town and every single day there are mobs of people everywhere, thankfully not right on top of where I live, but close enough that is super easy to join in if I feel like it.
These are places that would normally only see traffic on weekends and special events, tonight in the middle of the week it was like a carnival.
Such an interesting phenomenon.
I noticed while coming home on the subway yesterday (I say 'sub'way, but 80% of the ride is above ground, meaning phone signal is fine) that I was getting very consistent monster pops every couple of minutes whenever we stopped at a station, plus every single station has at least one Stop to grab items from. Tempted to experiment with just riding a line back and forth for an hour or two with a podcast, indulge in a form of lazy 'chill at the park' hunting except it's lazy hunting that still spans a broad range of locations.
Christ some people are so miserable. I was about to go to bed when I saw a lapras on the map so me and another person went running quickly to look for it(it's 2am) and while we're running down a street we get pulled over by a cop. We asked why the cop is pulling up to us and the cop is like "are you playing Pokemon go?" so we told her yes and then she said that there's two reports about people playing Pokemon Go. I told her we literally just came outside and that we lived nearby and then she asked for my name so I gave it. She then pauses for a minute and we just stand there and since we're in a rush to find the lapras ask "uh so can we go?" And then she says yes and leaves. Such a waste of time and we missed out on the Lapras lol. I think it's mainly annoying because quite a few people play late at night and she kind of just randomly picked us when we had only just come outside and then didn't even give a warning as to what was wrong with what we could be doing.
Dagobert Duck
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See... I never played Red either, my sister got that one. Now I want Red!
Yellow or red.....Yellow is easier with all the starters...
Ok, some people might be a tad too dedicated. Went to bed yesterday at 3 AM, which was right as the servers came back online after a few hours of downtime. I checked my phone and saw someone instantly fighting the Gym behind my house, whittling down the three POKéMON in it and then taking over the Gym. Because there are no houses in range of the Gym, this means that someone came out to the Gym and then waited until 3 AM for the servers to come back online just to take over this single Gym. You know, instead of going to sleep and doing it in the morning.
jellies_two
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I think he is suggesting that since protobuf is currently the obvious way to pack data into a stream, Niantic will have to invent their own much inferior protocol to escape the API leeches and obfuscate the stream. I don't see that follows, however.
Niantic can easily make life hard for pretend API users by including things in the next release of the client that an API mimic would not know, and generally forcing piggy back riders to either constantly work to keep up or reverse engineer new client binaries in detail to find out what is tripping them up. All without changing use of protobuf.
But before they have spare cycles to drive away the leeching services and dissuade other, more damaging, tools, they have to fix the bugs and their load problems.
Because it is already driving people away and generating bad press:
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/im-over-pokemon-go-whats-next-20160720-gq9p59.html
Permanently A
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Higher = more filled in.
The arc on your Squirtle is higher than Wartortle, but not by a lot. It would cost you more squirtle candy to evolve that squirtle compared to how much candy it would cost you to power up the wartortle to equal the squirtle's CP arc marker.
Sort by recent, unless you're super unlucky it should be there
trugs26
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It doesn't make sense to compare the game design of Pokemon Go to the handheld games in this context.
PSFan
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It actually does make sense. And the analogy is quite accurate. As I said before, it doesn't hurt anyone else if you see a Pokemon at a particular location and go there and catch it. It would still be there for if anyone else wanted to catch it.
The dot on the arch is farther to the right on the Squirtle than the Wartortle. When you evolve a Pokémon, the position on the arch (i.e. amount of CP relative to the max for that Pokémon for your trainer level) is kept, so if you evolve the Squirtle it will be higher CP than your Wartortle, obviously meaning you will end up with a higher CP Blastoise. If you have the time I'd say do the Squirtle.
Great stories! lol
I've been tempted to do this but I'm not sure what the patrol officers might say if they (admittedly unlikely) came across me travelling back toward my original travel card 'touch-on' location. I wonder if they'd allow me to just go back and forth.
Same with the bus. Maybe I could ask the driver (of one of our city loop buses) if I can just ride the loop for a few hours... Although after a couple of hours or so I believe $5 gets deducted as a penalty for not 'touching off'.
Last thing, I wish to read is Pokemong Go players annoyed by police offiers or security guards doing their jobs :\
Pokemons will always come back, they're not unique. So you just chill and let it go and not chase it like it was a golden bar, lol
The lapras is a slightly annoying thing but I'm not angry or anything because of that. What bothered me and my friend is that the police officer didn't actually do anything other than waste our time. She could have easily said "okay well please try to be mindful of residents and be safe" or any kind of advice so that we don't do whatever it was wrong that she was searching for. Instead she just blankly stared at us until we slowly asked if we could leave. If you're going to pull people over at least give them a reason.
Dagobert Duck
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The weird thing is that there are 2 reports of people playing Pokémon Go, not 2 people running around the neighbourhood suspicously...well if the person who reported, very well knew what you were doing why did they call the police?
A lot of people go out at night so I'm assuming the report was a noise complaint but hell if I know since the cop gave only that as her answer. It was just weird to stand there in silence and have nothing being said only to just kind of leave lol
Rellik
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Or they were GPS Spoofing.
The cop probably wanted you to ask you if she could join you in your Poke-Hunt, but you didn't provide her the opportunity.
Shame on you!
If she wanted to know where lapras was she just had to ask.The cop probably wanted you to ask you if she could join you in your Poke-Hunt, but you didn't provide her the opportunity.
Shame on you!
She wanted YOU to say:If she wanted to know where lapras was she just had to ask.
"Hey, do you Go too? We're on our way to catch a Lapras, do you want to join us?"
But no, you didn't. I bet she had a quiet sob to herself in her patrol car after you left her there alone.
Also, the unfortunate Japanese Pokémon fan (from the stream I linked earlier) is still refreshing the iOS/Android stores, in the hopes that Pokémon Go is finally released there.
3 and a half hours...of refreshing them every minute or so. I'm starting to feel really bad for him/her and their mental state.
Now that's just petty and shitty. Is there anything Niantic can do against that or will this forever be a thing allowing lazy people to circumvent the purpose of the game?
They are very harsh on spoofers in Ingress
In a few months when they are not working like mad to stop the servers exploding im sure we will see a few ban waves
panthapanda
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Wouldn't do it unless it's completely nonprofit. Nintendo sued someone using a couple of Pokemon on their flyer. But then again, Nintendo might not even see it. And then again, there's probably a bunch of other people and places doing it too.
90 000 now.
Niantic, you HAVE to release it or this poor girl will die by starvation.
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