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Pokémon Go |OT 2| Servers...gotta crash 'em all!

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Fuu

Formerly Alaluef (not Aladuf)
So many lures around work.

The gyms are also way more reasonable and cleaner than last Friday, although I still see some suspicious players here and there.

I just want in-game tracking and for the ban hammer to keep striking down.
 

Chaos17

Member
So with all the talk about 'bots' and gps spoofing and possible bans coming for that, is it possible that you could be caught in that crossfire if for example you have someone in a different location log into your account on their phone to catch a pokemon for you?

From what I've read, account sharing is not permitted in the ToS.
 

Rygar 8 Bit

Jaguar 64-bit
This game doesn't take itself seriously as far as the competitive aspect go. The fact that the moves are pre-determined and can even change after evolving makes it a joke. I have no idea why the hell they put this pseudo-IV system in. I feel like they don't really know what to do exactly with it exactly.

its part of the system to get you to spend more money you want to try and get the perfect pokemon but they are randomized stat wise so you gotta keep farming for perfect pokemon if you could get what you wanted easily you would spend less money trying to catch the thing you wanted they want you to constantly catch stuff so you have to get more pokeballs
 

Yrael

Member
The difference between a 100% IV and a 90% IV Pokemon is that the 100% Pokemon inflicts, on average, 2.63% more damage in battle before fainting (slightly less for the top tier Pokemon).

The difference between a 97.8% and 100% IV Pokemon is even more marginal than that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/4wblf8/actual_impact_of_ivs_on_battle_performance/

There are IVs in the game? Lol wtf?

How do you even determine how strong they are besides the CP?

By using a calculator like this, which gives you a range of possible IVs for your Pokemon given its CP, max HP and required dust to power-up:

https://pokemon.gameinfo.io/tools/iv-calculator

There was another tool called PokeAdvisor that determined the IVs exactly, but by the looks of it it has been shut down by Niantic.
 

Guardian

Banned
I evolved a 95% Magikarp with the best Move set and was happy with the result. I say keep it and use it. Hopefully you get a good move set.
I'm going to get some more pidgeys, and do a mass evolve. Hopefully I'll get a good moveset. Will report back later.

The difference between a 100% IV and a 90% IV Pokemon is that the 100% Pokemon inflicts, on average, 2.17% more damage in battle before fainting (slightly more for the top tier Pokemon).

The difference between a 97.8% and 100% IV Pokemon is even more marginal than that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/4wblf8/actual_impact_of_ivs_on_battle_performance/
Thanks for the info. This is really helpful.

some level 36 asshole (of course he's on Mystic!) is occupying the two gyms near my house :|
Hey we're not all bad!
 

Syntsui

Member
its part of the system to get you to spend more money you want to try and get the perfect pokemon but they are randomized stat wise so you gotta keep farming for perfect pokemon if you could get what you wanted easily you would spend less money trying to catch the thing you wanted they want you to constantly catch stuff so you have to get more pokeballs

The thing is, I never run out of Pokéballs. There is absolutely nothing that I ''need'' to spend money on. Near my workplace, there are dozens of stops and lures.

I just want to know where to get specific Pokémons, but they don't even give me an option.
 

L Thammy

Member
Has it been confirmed that the spawn rates have changed? Because I'm definitely finding a greater variety of Pokemon over the past few days, even in places that I'm at regularly (still fuck eggs tho)
 

Rygar 8 Bit

Jaguar 64-bit
The thing is, I never run out of Pokéballs. There is absolutely nothing that I ''need'' to spend money on. Near my workplace, there are dozens of stops and lures.

I just want to know where to get specific Pokémons, but they don't even give me an option.

where as ive have spent over $200 there arnt enough stops near me so i constantly have to buy more balls incubators and lures and incense so it dose pay off for them
 

Mik2121

Member
Has it been confirmed that the spawn rates have changed? Because I'm definitely finding a greater variety of Pokemon over the past few days, even in places that I'm at regularly (still fuck eggs tho)
Same here. The variety of Pokemon around my office is much greater than before the update.
Too bad I don't play the game as much as before, but I still boot it up every once in a while to check what's up around me.
 

Kinsei

Banned
Has it been confirmed that the spawn rates have changed? Because I'm definitely finding a greater variety of Pokemon over the past few days, even in places that I'm at regularly (still fuck eggs tho)

Since the update I've seen a few of Pokemon that I've never seen around here before. Venomoth, Nidorino, and Dratini spring to mind.
 

GulAtiCa

Member
I don't have to worry about pokeballs anymore sessnetially, esp as I'm running around the trails a lot with all those pokestops. But I'm still spending money for Incubators & Incense (Been really good for me). Did upgrade my bag to 500 too, which is great.

I've also seen more variety of Pokemon around recently too. Caught a Nidoran in my neighborhood this morning. A Bellsprout & Squirtle were there too when I woke up, but was never going to make it in time since just got up and needed to get ready for work.
 

Syntsui

Member
I don't have to worry about pokeballs anymore sessnetially, esp as I'm running around the trails a lot with all those pokestops. But I'm still spending money for Incubators & Incense (Been really good for me). Did upgrade my bag to 500 too, which is great.

I've also seen more variety of Pokemon around recently too. Caught a Nidoran in my neighborhood this morning. A Bellsprout & Squirtle were there too when I woke up, but was never going to make it in time since just got up and needed to get ready for work.

Do you use your Incense when you are at work/home or do you use it while moving? I barely get 3-4 Pokémons with it here at work. If I was actually going after them, I would get at least 10 during the same time.
 
I don't have to worry about pokeballs anymore sessnetially, esp as I'm running around the trails a lot with all those pokestops. But I'm still spending money for Incubators & Incense (Been really good for me). Did upgrade my bag to 500 too, which is great.

I've also seen more variety of Pokemon around recently too. Caught a Nidoran in my neighborhood this morning. A Bellsprout & Squirtle were there too when I woke up, but was never going to make it in time since just got up and needed to get ready for work.

Im curious what do you tend to get from incense that you don't normally get? Im wondering if I should try one later today or not.

I only tried one but it was just pidgeys and rattatas :(
 

Rygar 8 Bit

Jaguar 64-bit
Do you use your Incense when you are at work/home or do you use it while moving? I barely get 3-4 Pokémons with it here at work. If I was actually going after them, I would get at least 10 during the same time.

you get 1 every minute while moving and 1 every 5 minutes while sitting still

Im curious what do you tend to get from incense that you don't normally get? Im wondering if I should try one later today or not.

I only tried one but it was just pidgeys and rattatas :(

like everything else in this game its a roll of a dice you could get all commons in your area only or you could get a dragonite
 

GulAtiCa

Member
I now only use incense while working out and jogging. Don't use it while being still.

I haven't gotten anything truly rare yet. But get things like dratinis, squirtle, Pikachu, Oddish, etc.
 

Nictel

Member
Lol at if they ban anyone that used Poke Advisor. HOW DARE YOU! YOU LOOKED AT POKEMON STATS!!!

They probably don't know. If they just check logins they don't see a difference between stat checking and actual cheating. Or they are just overly strict. They should just permit read-only access on accounts imo.
 

HardRojo

Member
Lol at if they ban anyone that used Poke Advisor. HOW DARE YOU! YOU LOOKED AT POKEMON STATS!!!
I always thought IVs were stupid in the mainline games, as there are enough differentiators already (nature, EVs, held item, moveset, ability), whereas they make sense in Go since you don't have as many variables, but I don't get why they need to be invisible to the players, in fact it'd be a great way to introduce newcomers to IVs, so that they become familiar with the concept once they come across it in the mainline games should they move there from Go.
 

Rygar 8 Bit

Jaguar 64-bit
I've run out of Pokeballs a few times, but then when I go downtown or to a university campus I end up with a hundred of them.

yeah its pretty bullshit went into the city with a friend and yeah its night and day the amount of stuff you get think its crap that they tax people who live outside of city centers if anything people in cities shouldnt be finding pokemon they should all be out in the middle of no where
 

Seik

Banned
Finally managed to convince my GF to play, she was full on against that.

She caught a Rhydon and a Clefairy, which I don't have.

I'm jealous and I hate her now.

Thanks Pokémon Go. :lol

EDIT: Also, Bassin St-Roch is where it's at in Quebec City! :)

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JoeNut

Member
Meh i've lost my excitement for this now, level 16, very rarely see an uknown pokemon on the radar thing in the corner, and theres no way to know which direction it's in anyway?

probably pick this back up when they fix it
 

Growlie19

Member
Today was a great hatching day. Slowpoke was my worst egg, which says a lot. I got an Ekans, which gave me enough candy for my first Arbok. Got a Pikachu with double the power of the one I caught last night. And my two 10K's hatched my first Snorlax and Pinsir, both very strong. I am very satisfied, needless to say.
 

ciD_Vain

Member
Today was a great hatching day. Slowpoke was my worst egg, which says a lot. I got an Ekans, which gave me enough candy for my first Arbok. Got a Pikachu with double the power of the one I caught last night. And my two 10K's hatched my first Snorlax and Pinsir, both very strong. I am very satisfied, needless to say.
I'd say ekans was your worst :p
 

CrazE

Banned
I always thought IVs were stupid in the mainline games, as there are enough differentiators already (nature, EVs, held item, moveset, ability), whereas they make sense in Go since you don't have as many variables, but I don't get why they need to be invisible to the players, in fact it'd be a great way to introduce newcomers to IVs, so that they become familiar with the concept once they come across it in the mainline games should they move there from Go.

Agreed. Well, hopefully they don't get too crazy at those of us who thought it was cool to see stats and show our pokemon caught on a much bigger computer monitor rather than our phones. I thought that site was pretty cool for stat checking.

Oh well for us.
 

Piichan

Banned
Pokemon Go is ridiculous, stupid, a waste of time, and I can't stop playing it. Having two Poke stops at work doesn't help either lol.
 

MutFox

Banned
Went to an island on the weekend...
Found a gym so remote and only has seniors nearby.
Put a pokemon in there...

This should be a good way to get gold... :p
 

M.J. Doja

Banned
200 mil. They could give a fuck about the players I'm sure. They milked the first wave of players, they'll continue to rake it in until they release more Pokemon and all of the big spenders come back to buy incubators and incense. Probably another month will go by and we will see no progress with the game or it's features, just constant news of site shutdowns and cheater bans. Yay.
 

(mat)

Member
Oh COME ON, IDIOT. I just tried to transfer a low CP/low IV Squirtle, but hit "evolve" by mistake. Daaaammit.
 
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