I easily dropped $20.00 when it was working first week. Bought a bunch of incubators, backpack upgrades, Pokemon inventory upgrades, and then small purchases for regular balls because I was desperate to catch something and had no balls left.
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Pokémon Go |OT 2| Servers...gotta crash 'em all!
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I easily dropped $20.00 when it was working first week. Bought a bunch of incubators, backpack upgrades, Pokemon inventory upgrades, and then small purchases for regular balls because I was desperate to catch something and had no balls left.
I don't plan to spend any real money but once I accumulate more google rewards credits I'll probably spend it in one go on a bunch of coins
10+ great balls and around 6 razz berries to catch a Wartortle around 430CP yet a 600+ Hypno took 1 razz berry and 2 poke balls. The Wartortle just kept on escaping despite getting nice and great throws.
Had a Pikachu showing nearby and even with incense it never showed up, without a tracking app, it could have been around 600m away making it pointless for me to search for him at 2am in the rain. I'm a bit behind so tracking in recent days was helpful, without it I would have never got the Wartortle or seen a Blastoise with 3 mins left but it was 7 min drive away. At least I'm losing weight and got a Charmander from a 2km egg.
Had a Pikachu showing nearby and even with incense it never showed up, without a tracking app, it could have been around 600m away making it pointless for me to search for him at 2am in the rain. I'm a bit behind so tracking in recent days was helpful, without it I would have never got the Wartortle or seen a Blastoise with 3 mins left but it was 7 min drive away. At least I'm losing weight and got a Charmander from a 2km egg.
Google Opinion Rewards is totally glorious for sure.
it was, I almost never see a survey anymore.
Said no one ever.
The Cowboy
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They do know people pay actual money for things like pokeballs right? (/s), I mean this is quite a "bug" when people could have lost actual money due to this.
Refunds should be offered, or pokeballs replaced (for people who bought ball packs) from the date this bug started.
they're fucking impossible to catch
every time it shakes its fucking head
i'm having none of it anymore
none
They could just drop like 50 free Poké Balls in everyone's bags, that'd probably appease the masses
I mean, they probably won't, but...
BoboBrazil
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Should be 100 free pokeballs, but they are a greedy ass company that doesn't care about their customers so they won't offer anything.
I don't know but it analyses in 1 GO all your pokemons so you don't have to manualy input everyhting in the calculator 1 by 1.
Geminosity
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PokeAdvisor should be 100% accurate because it's pulling the data straight from the pokemon, hence why you get an exact percent instead of a rough range. Problem is that you're essentially logging in via a 3rd party and it's possible Niantic can detect this and may ban people for it further down the line... or not. Just be aware there MAY be a risk to using it.
For calculators that don't break ToS I use Pokeassistant and the silph road android app (I don't recommend using the silph road online web calc as it's easy to set the arc incorrectly and get false results unless you know what you're doing)
Naughty_Doge
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I was one of the people who dened the change in catch rates (well I only said I hadn't experienced them). I'll enjoy this crow no problem.
But calling it a bug...lol.
But calling it a bug...lol.
bobs...onGaf
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I wonder if the ultra ball drop rate is also a 'bug'?
Thats getting to me more than the flee rate of Pokemon
Thats getting to me more than the flee rate of Pokemon
panthapanda
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Finally caught a Dratini worthy of evolving. 15/11/15. Lehgooooo
Edit: Steel Wing and Dragon Pulse...
Can't win them all lol. At least it isn't Twister.
Edit: Steel Wing and Dragon Pulse...
Can't win them all lol. At least it isn't Twister.
clearacell
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i would transfer it
Got a wild Venausaur (have to jump out of the bus to track him since he disappears from the map), 2 Squirtle, 1 Elektek, 3 bulbasaur and my 10k was a Lapras 
most of them from riding buses.
If somebody how the in game scanner thing works cause my bro saw a Blastoise on it but didn't have enough time to chase him. And we also so a Dragonite on the map and no clue on how to track him...
most of them from riding buses. If somebody how the in game scanner thing works cause my bro saw a Blastoise on it but didn't have enough time to chase him. And we also so a Dragonite on the map and no clue on how to track him...
panthapanda
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Got a wild Venausaur (have to jump out the bus to track in since he disappears from the map), 2 Squirtle, 1 Elektek, 3 bulbasaur and my 10k was a Lapras
If somebody how the in game scanner thing works cause my bro saw a Blastoise on it but didn't have enough time to chase him. And we also so a Dragonite on the map and no clue on how to track him...
No one knows. It's all luck at this point.
Dirtyshubb
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Decided to log on at home just to have a look and noticed the 6 gyms I can see in my area all had the same level 36 player at the top of the pack with dragonites ranging from 2.9k to 3.3k in every gym so I reported him as I can only imagine you can get to that situation right now by cheating.
Couldn't Believe it, I wonder how much cheating is actually going on.
Couldn't Believe it, I wonder how much cheating is actually going on.
panthapanda
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Oh, it's definitely going on.
I stopped caring once I hit 24. I'm just enjoying the show now.
Dirtyshubb
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I mean I know it's going on but to see that in your back yard is kind of a surprise.
Just wonder how widespread it actually is.
Here are my dreams/ideas:
-Drop the candy system.
-Pokemon now level up and evolve by xp.
-You choose 6 pokemon as your team and they get the xp from all of the activities that you normally get xp from. Also, more xp from higher level captures.
-You can change your team of 6 at a Poke Center and heal there as well of course.
-There is now a daily login bonus equal to a couple stops and maybe 1 or 2 coins. Maybe even a daily encounter that is instanced for you.
-Move tutors might be cool too. Just thought of this one.
-Drop the candy system.
-Pokemon now level up and evolve by xp.
-You choose 6 pokemon as your team and they get the xp from all of the activities that you normally get xp from. Also, more xp from higher level captures.
-You can change your team of 6 at a Poke Center and heal there as well of course.
-There is now a daily login bonus equal to a couple stops and maybe 1 or 2 coins. Maybe even a daily encounter that is instanced for you.
-Move tutors might be cool too. Just thought of this one.
humans are lazy
How do you use your opinion rewards on Go? When I try to redeem, it ask me for redeem code.
JonathanEx
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They've done a blog post on their attempts to keep the servers going. Although there's no numbers on the graph, they try and demonstrate how the third party sites basically had to go for them to launch in more places: http://pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/en/post/update-080416/
What was the quote? "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"? This wouldn't be the first time Niantic's broken something in a patch. And why would they turn that off but leave in the text for Nice/Great/Excellent? And their website has always had that description about pokemon being easier to catch when the circle is smaller. We also know the client-side cock-up that broke that feature.
Kssio_Aug
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Thanks!
deanote666
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I have a local historical park with 10-20 stops, 3 gyms. No pokemon.
Went to a botanical garden with 20-30 stops, at least 3 gyms. No pokemon.
I, too, would like a scanner.
WhiteRabbitEXE
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Alright, but where's zero? Because I doubt it's the bottom of the picture. Zooming and cropping charts doesn't count without numbers, Niantic. Just sayin'.
Dusktildawn48
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funny, i went to a botanical garden 2 days ago, caught a bizillion magicarp and 1 seaking. theyve turned this into such a lame game. im also in a couple facebook pogo groups and i swear every super rare pokemon caught by anyone is at a fucking walmart or gas station.
Excellent
Yet.....my buddy is still spoofed into the city.....catching pokemon on a damn touch screen laptop. Apparently some folks know how to safely fool the damn system
panthapanda
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The people getting banned are probably people spoofing across the country, botters, etc.
Bans tend to come in several waves over time
Haha, yeah, guy near the local library stil at it with his tablet as well.
Bots are currently dead (for the most part). GPS spoofing still lives though.
Also I'm not sure if that ban is legit, sorry.
PeakPointMatrix
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I fucking knew it.
And sooo many people were convinced the catch rate was the same, or easier. Well, the
Mur
And "bug" my ass. All of these bugs suspiciously supported less progress and more spending cash? Ha. I hope they take this as a lesson in the future in how they monetize this game. They're already making bank on the vanilla version, did they really need to "incentivize" their player base's spending habits further?
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