1.21Gigawatts
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Was just able to log in again. Germany.
Looks like Japan gave up.
Looks like Japan gave up.
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Pokémon Go |OT 2| Servers...gotta crash 'em all!
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PSFan
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Uh, yeah they could. Japan wasn't the first region the game launched in. Knowing what happened in previous regions' launches, they most certainly could have been better prepared with more servers before launching there.
Especially considering Japan is the Pokemon capital of the world.
Fox Mulder
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While that's true, this game is really only held back by server issues. People are going to give up on it.
Dagobert Duck
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But is it that simple to get servers for such a ,lets face it, massive game up and running? They are just running behind schedule, relax dudes, its a free game....
this pokemon fad will fade
PSFan
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In this day and age of virtual servers? Yes.
And not just because of the servers. If all people keep seeing are pidgeys and rattatas and similar commons, it will bore them really fast.
struggler_guts
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So I got pikachu as my starter, should I put points into him or will I find better versions in the wild?
Geminosity
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Well, you'll definitely find higher CP versions in eggs/the wild but I don't actually know what the IVs on the starters are now that I think on it
You can try running it's stats through this but if the hp and cp are 10 then it's probably too low for the calc to work out a reasonable range for it: https://poke-assistant.herokuapp.com/main/ivcalculator
It´s been like this for me since day one (3 or 4 days ago). I´m having fun with the game, but I really hope they fix this so I can really go hunting, because right now I´m just going from stop to stop catching whatever pops-up. And it´s great, but following a Pokemon around and finally finding it must be awesome.
PSFan
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Yeah, I'm in too but my white ball is spinning like crazy nonstop.
I'm not sure why anyone is surprised anymore, I have never played an online focused game that hasn't had server load problems within the first month of release. Destiny, the division, Ultima, World of Warcraft, every single one has had them and at this point I'm just left to assume it's impossible to properly "prepare" for prior to actually releasing.
Hell my wife did cloth diapering and some of these special edition cloth diapers can crash servers and websites. One of these days if really like to educate myself on what makes this issue so hard to compensate for.
Hell my wife did cloth diapering and some of these special edition cloth diapers can crash servers and websites. One of these days if really like to educate myself on what makes this issue so hard to compensate for.
Well your lifeKidding
Finally was able to get my gym reward now 100 coins...50 more for the damn incubator
Haha. They spawn like crazy on my way to work.
After seeing how the game is programmed at higher levels (not just the crazy exp per level required, but also the fact that catching a level 23 pokemon starts taking 8-11 pokeballs in order to catch it), I am sure it will fizzle out in a couple months. Unless they program it to have normal rates for pokemon you have never caught, having an already hard time catching the pokemon you are missing before they run, and having that catch rate go even lower since you are higher level... then add in super low encounters for lots of pokemon is a big middle finger to completionists.
Encountering something like a Snorlax which already runs after 2-3 balls thrown at it, and then having to use 8-11 great/ultra balls to catch it since you are higher level are not the kind of odds I want playing a "catch them all" game.
All this information comes from people that already hit 30 or whatever.
Geminosity
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I'd guess it's economics. Most companies probably make a relative estimate of how much they'll need and go as low as they can to keep costs under control
Realtime Worlds high-balled the server estimates to way more than I thought they'd ever need for APB and... well... realtime worlds isn't a company anymore so I think the financial outcome speaks for itself
Moff
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it's a common error to think you need to hold them
you don't: you capture them, you cash in INSTANTLY, with the top right button in the shop menu
after that a 21h cooldown starts where you can't cash in
then you capture again as many as you can, cash in, cooldown starts again
no holding required ever
I stopped doing it, though, not enough coins as rewards to make it worthwile imo
Geminosity
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If you can get any pokemon into gyms then you can open the shop and click the shield on the top right to claim a 'defender bonus' which gives 10 pokecoins for every gym you have pokemon in plus a bunch of stardust.
The defender bonus claim has a cooldown of 21 hours though so pick when you use it carefully :3
If you don't think you can take down a gym or join a group of your fellow team in doing so, keep an eye out for any gyms owned by your team where the number of pokemon in said gym don't match the gym's level because that means there's empty slots available and you can put one of your own in there if you're quick about it
JonathanEx
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It's not just a case of a button marked 'add server' though. It's what functions can be split across servers and why. It's how load is balanced between them. It's how the data is kept correct and up to date between them. It's how they deal with traffic that's just DDOSing. It's every single line of code of the game that causes interaction with the server that's under question. Some things you think you got right won't show their flaws until you have tens of millions of simultaneous requests. And even if you knew the game was going to be big, the fact it had no real ramp up (per country) gave even less time to prepare and fix all that.
If you don't think you can take down a gym or join a group of your fellow team in doing so, keep an eye out for any gyms owned by your team where the number of pokemon in said gym don't match the gym's level because that means there's empty slots available and you can put one of your own in there if you're quick about it
While adding your Pokemon to someone else's gym that is on your team is a good way to get coin it is also rude if all you have is weak Pokemon. (And if you can't fight a gym then that's all you have) Nobody wants to take out a gym and put a 1k+ Pokemon there only to see a few minutes later that you put a 90 CP pidgey. Just continue to level up till you have at least a decent Pokemon to put in the gym
Don't worry. We'll have Bidoofs before you know it.
PSFan
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I know that, I've been in IT for over 20 years. It's much easier to spin up more virtual servers than it was back in the days of physical servers. With virtual servers, you can clone an existing instance and then make a few modifications to it before adding it to the farm.
And DDOSing should be dealt with at the routers/firewalls, not the servers.
Geminosity
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Having a lot of low CP ones is a bad idea but a single low CP mon is actually handy on non-maxxed out gyms as your team can beat it over and over to quickly raise the gym's level
Otherwise, yeah, I guess I should've clarified that you should at least be trying to match what's in the gym with your contribution rather than just slinging trash in to claim a few easy coins. Apologies :3
AmaterasuOni
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I can login with google account but not with Pokemon Trainer Club account. What gives?
Geminosity
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PTC logins are handled by seperate servers and seem to notoriously be less reliable than the google ones I'm afraid ^.^;
According to http://ispokemongodownornot.com/ the EU and US PTC login servers are down right now, but the google ones are A-OK.
Yeah I can't log in with Pokemon Trainer Club account it's getting really annoying.
AmaterasuOni
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Well, that figures. This 10yo is getting really grumpy here.
Cheers for the info!
PSFan
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Yeah, I went with PTC because I felt that it would probably be needed in order to interact with Sun and Moon, like I heard it was supposed to.
Geminosity
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No worriesWell, that figures. This 10yo is getting really grumpy here.
Cheers for the info!
Oh? I missed this. What kind of stuff were they talking about?
Just put in whatever, us scrubs also have the right to use gyms. I see no high-level players leaving any gym alone so low-level players can enjoy that aspect of the game, so why should low-level players give them any consideration in return?Having a lot of low CP ones is a bad idea but a single low CP mon is actually handy on non-maxxed out gyms as your team can beat it over and over to quickly raise the gym's level
Otherwise, yeah, I guess I should've clarified that you should at least be trying to match what's in the gym with your contribution rather than just slinging trash in to claim a few easy coins. Apologies :3
Edit: quoted the wrong post
Yeah same here and some info on this would be nice.
struggler_guts
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Well, you'll definitely find higher CP versions in eggs/the wild but I don't actually know what the IVs on the starters are now that I think on it
You can try running it's stats through this but if the hp and cp are 10 then it's probably too low for the calc to work out a reasonable range for it: https://poke-assistant.herokuapp.com/main/ivcalculator
Yeah my pikachu is coming 11 ho 10 so it didn't show anything. Strange how the starters are pretty much useless since I guess all 4 can be found in the wild but stronger
PSFan
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No worries
Oh? I missed this. What kind of stuff were they talking about?
Transferring Pokemon and things like that. Previously your PTC account allowed access to the Dream World and you could catch Pokemon there that weren't in your game and transfer them. I think that was for Black and White.
J-Roderton
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What exactly does this mean on the bottom right of the screen? So these are the Pokemon nearby. So if I click one does that just make that particular one show up or what? Doesn't seem to do anything at all.
From what I understood: get it if you're tired to hold your phone all the time! It can catch Pokememo and warn you when you're near a Pokespot.
http://www.pokemongo.com/en-au/pokemon-go-plus/
Geminosity
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The plus is a little odd for a couple of reasons. The first and most important is that it's not actually currently compatible with android phones. They've said they'll work on adding it later but if you have an android then right now it's just a fancy piece of plastic as far as your'e concerned but not many retailers make this as apparent as they probably should.
Secondly, you still actually have to have the pokemon go app actively running on your phone for it to interact with the plus (so not minimised or anything)
As for what the plus does, it's effectively a vibration device / remote control for the game. It'll vibrate in various ways to let you know there's a pokemon nearby or a pokestop and you can press it in certain ways to auto-claim items for the pokestop or even attempt to auto-capture pokemon you've caught at least once before without getting your phone out (whether it's successful or not is another matter, but it'll let you know whether it succeeded or not :3 ).
I know people talk about servers shitting themselves but you're not actually supposed to put diapers on them
Lol ridiculous. My phone autosleeps after fifteen seconds if I don't keep it active. I swear they don't actually playtest their own game.
Geminosity
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That's the tracking/nearby system. It's currently utterly borked so it won't help you much and it even currently shows pokemon that might not even be near you anymore.
When it worked, the window you can bring up would sort nearby pokemon from top left as closest to bottom right as furthest away. If you got close enough, the 3 pawprints you see next to them would reduce to 2, then as you get closer 1 and finally zero paws when you're almost on top of them. Using this you could actually hunt about for nearby pokemon and narrow down their location (hopefully before they despawn: pokemon only stay around for 15 minutes... I think some kind of indicator that they're about to run away would've been nice but it wasn't part of the system even when it worked)
You do know that you can disable autosleep or put it to like 15 minutes?
You're the kind of person that joins a super high level party in an MMO when you're only level 2 aren't you? And then stay behind everyone and just reap the rewards of their hard work.
While technically you have the right to use the gyms same as everyone else (I never said you didn't) it's still rude to put your trash Pokemon in after someone on your team worked hard get that gym
they're probably going to add more content like trading, pvp, pokemon, functionality
gotta keep the cash cow going
Yes but not via the game, so 90% of the users won't do this. It doesn't really matter anyway, because if I leave it on while putting it in my pants, it will invariably push the app switcher or back button at some time, killing the game too.
If someone wants to take over the gym he will. Doesn't matter if the lowest is a 500 cp pokemon or a 50 cp
Geminosity
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Awww, I hope I don't miss out on anything too severe by going the google route :/
Can't a higher level pokemontrainer of the same team simply defeat your pokemon and take its spot? I'd say not being welcoming of new players is exponentially more rude than them trying to join your gym.
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