Yeah, my main worry is that people would just abuse the XP doubler to get to a really high level, to a point where they could pretty much just generate Pokemon that would outclass anything trained by more casual players. It's interesting to learn that the soft level cap is relatively low (20). Is there a Reddit post where people have worked all of this out?
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Yeah, my main worry is that people would just abuse the XP doubler to get to a really high level, to a point where they could pretty much just generate Pokemon that would outclass anything trained by more casual players. It's interesting to learn that the soft level cap is relatively low (20). Is there a Reddit post where people have worked all of this out?
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
we will for sure be getting the other gens how they will be implemented no idea
DukeLongfellow
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Huh? I've seen different names around for sure. 0_o
ForsakenLotus
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Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
sure your not confusing the trainer name for pokemon name?
The subreddit is where I see most of the technical information and testing: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad . It's pretty good, they find a lot of stuff like How often incense actually spawns pokemon or a full type advantage chart with damage multipliers. It's pretty useful if you are looking to find the most efficient way to do things in the game.
Moff
Member
is it really just a switch?
was ingress released in the caribbean?
if not, don't they or even the players need to "build" all the pokestops and gyms first?
In other regions like mine we had pokestops and gyms a week before the official launch, everything was already there
PSFan
Member
Again, more BS. I've literally driven my car to pokestops and used them no problem and caught Pokemon as well. I've even caught stuff and used stops being a passenger in a moving car as well. There is no soft ban.
Dunno what's this about soft bans but earlier today we went for a Pokémon hunt with my sister. She was driving and I was using the app as we drove trying to check out for Pokémon and use PokéStops. When we went for the actual walk she got 3x more Pokémon than me (she still got the same Pokémon as me but also got extra I never saw).
EDIT: Oh and also got way better stuff from PokéStops. I kept getting 3 PokéBalls and she got eggs.
EDIT: Oh and also got way better stuff from PokéStops. I kept getting 3 PokéBalls and she got eggs.
What level are you? Also, how many eggs did you have already? Once you have 9 eggs, you won't get anymore until you hatch some.
We were the same level 4 and I have 3 eggs total now.
PSFan
Member
Did she use an incense? Because that will cause her to get Pokemon you won't see and more of them than you as well.
Are you the same level?
AFAIK you can only have 9 eggs, so if you already have 9 you won't get any more, and if she didn't have 9, then she would get them from pokestops.
NVM
DukeLongfellow
Member
Knowing my luck, it would be below 100CP. Walked around the block searching for a nearby Victreebell and met it with 32CP. I have a Bellsprout literally more than 10x more powerful (at 334).
We both used incense when we started walking.
Oh and btw after 1 hour (pretty sharp actually) we both started seeing the same Pokémon again.
For pokemon I don't have in the pokedex yet, I'll gladly run after them even if they wind up being at 10cp. Eevee actually aren't that easy to come by around here.
You mean some others have already done so? I have a Moto X Play and was very happy with it until I found out it had a lack of gyro after playing GO.
MisterAnderson
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Does a 2nd tier evolution yield more or the same experience than a 1st tier evolution? For example, I currently have 85 Pidgey candies. It costs 50 to evolve a Pidgeotto to a Pidgeot. Does that give me more experience or does it make more sense to just grind out Pidgy > Pidgeotto evolutions with the Lucky Egg for 12 Candies per pop to farm XP?
Fright Zone
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I'm level 14 and I basically haven't touched the gyms so far.
So you get 10 coins and some dust every 21 hours? Meh.
Doesn't seem like a big deal. Is there any other point in visiting gyms?
I mainly just want to catch 'em all.
So you get 10 coins and some dust every 21 hours? Meh.
Doesn't seem like a big deal. Is there any other point in visiting gyms?
I mainly just want to catch 'em all.
Hikami
Member
I go to my local park and sit by a lure module'd Pokestop and hang out with the people there.
The 3 step bug does kill my motivation to actually walk around and find Pokemon though :/
Do you have close to max items? I only get eggs when I hit my 150 limit.
Nah.
ArchedThunder
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Never in my life did I thing I'd be walking around catching Pokemon in real life...
With my mom.
With my mom.
MisterAnderson
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The 3 step bug is annoying but the tracking element works for me sometimes regardless. (As it approaches the top leftmost point of the "grid", the closer it is to your position going in a zig zag pattern from (furthest to closest):
bottom right > bottom left > middle right > middle left > top right > top left
can you draw a picture?
Icyflamez96
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Just went on a 3 or so hour Pokemon Go bike ride. Gyms are really hard to keep down in my town. I biked back and forth a couple times between gyms to reclaim them just so I could redeem the most rewards from the shop as I possibly could. I wanted to have 4 gyms at once before doing it, but it was sorta impossible. I ended up settling on 3.
On my way back to a gym that I was ready to retake over, I saw a few different groups of people standing around the area, all on different teams. One person said they were just taking over the gyms over and over again from each other, and just putting weak pokemon in its place so that they could get XP off of each other easily. I wanted the shop points, so I just put a CP 10 pidgey there for a sec so I could at least have 3 gyms before getting the coins and stuff.
This one. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013MDDEDG/?tag=neogaf0e-20
I moved it a smidge over, but my hand still fits well on the outer half of the bar.
On my way back to a gym that I was ready to retake over, I saw a few different groups of people standing around the area, all on different teams. One person said they were just taking over the gyms over and over again from each other, and just putting weak pokemon in its place so that they could get XP off of each other easily. I wanted the shop points, so I just put a CP 10 pidgey there for a sec so I could at least have 3 gyms before getting the coins and stuff.
This one. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013MDDEDG/?tag=neogaf0e-20
I moved it a smidge over, but my hand still fits well on the outer half of the bar.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
incense and lures and knowing how to read the nearby list eliminate those problems
Geminosity
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All evolutions regardless of pokemon or evolution stage give 500xp, so you're best just doing whatever you can do the easiest
sssstententen
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So I've been tinkering with the scanner that some dudes over on /vg/ developed using Python, and it seems to work pretty well.
I'm not sure how against the rules or not it is, but if anyone has some general locations and they wanna see what's nearby, I can take a pic for you.
For example, here's a picture of my local college town that I use to hunt around in that I just made.
Again, if this is ill-advised I'll back off, just wanted to see if anyone wanted some help pinpointing some rare mon's.
I'm not sure how against the rules or not it is, but if anyone has some general locations and they wanna see what's nearby, I can take a pic for you.
For example, here's a picture of my local college town that I use to hunt around in that I just made.
Again, if this is ill-advised I'll back off, just wanted to see if anyone wanted some help pinpointing some rare mon's.
My housemate is convinced different eggs give different XP rewards for hatching, etc. 2km gives 200XP, 5km gives 500XP, 10km gives 1000XP - but no guides I've read online mention differing egg rewards. Any truth to this?
Trying to figure out the real XP bonuses from hatching/evolving, so much conflicting info online.
Trying to figure out the real XP bonuses from hatching/evolving, so much conflicting info online.
hydragonwarrior
Member
Yeah, I'm hoping the path to upgrading my Moto X Play isn't too pricy lol (I got it as part of the Koodo deal that happened on Boxing Day)
Parmadillo Marshmallow
Member
Link to the scanner?
Moff
Member
I need this, how does it work
Empty Space
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Wait what the heck is that? Like a long range ping to find Pokemon? Or is it just a map with manually placed spawns?
If I knew where to reliably find Abras I'd probably drive a good 30mins to them.
Pretty interesting concept. I can see how some people would want to find the locations of rare pokemon on their own, but having the locations of a few that consistently spawn is a cool resource.
sssstententen
Member
Basically uses a Pokemon trainer login combined with gmaps flask to fetch pokemon locations.
It also gives you a timeline of how long they have left until despawn.
You can input either coordinates or a direct address or general location.
Link to the github:
You just need a basic understanding of Python to get it running. https://github.com/AHAAAAAAA/PokemonGo-Map/
Nope, plus that would be cheating and not very fun. This is just a nice way to tell you exactly where to go and how long you have until something despawns, its very nice and in my opinion harmless, hopefully it doesn't lead to any more malicious tampering of the data.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
whaaaaaaat. this seems against the nature of the game.
It's sort of like a feature of the Pokedex in the games, which is something this game would benefit from.
Hey it's West Chester!
This is amazing, thanks for the link. Especially useful since the in-game mechanic for this is borked for the time being.
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Is there a way to drop eggs? Kinda don't want to "waste" distance for 2km Poke
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