Shadow Ranger
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Seriously. Lucky egg and now I can't log in. I expect some free lucky eggs and items being dished out as an apology. Especially to those paid for!
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Pokémon Go |OT 2| Servers...gotta crash 'em all!
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sssstententen
Member
Yup! I'm really close by, its a great Go spot.
I'm really not sure how you figure. It doesn't allow you to capture the pokemon, and the game does a basic job of it by giving you the distance meters. Personally, with how broken the pawprint system is right now, this is extremely convienent.
psynergylover
Member
Been getting the glitch where your pokeball vanishes mid throw.....sweet.....
spatenfloot
Member
I caught a Ghastly outside Arby'sA man, there was a Haunter right for the taking... game glitched.
Fun fact; the Haunter appeared next to a retirementhome...
Hahahahaha yeah no we won't be getting anything why would they.
panthapanda
Member
Finally got another 10km egg. It's another Chansey. If these things weren't the most useless things ever lol.
Corronchilejano
Member
Since I started playing two weeks ago, I've lost 10 pounds.
That is all.
That is all.
Yeah it's pretty much my hometown. I'm out in Pittsburgh now but glad to hear WC has a lot of Go action for when I head back to see my family every once in a while.
Geminosity
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Evolving is always 500xp no matter what. Eggs give xp based on their distance in the numbers you've stated as far as I'm aware. If the pokemon that hatches or the pokemon something evolves into isn't on your pokedex you still get the 500xp bonus for a 'new' pokemon on top of these values.
Dat HP doe.
this guy
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
Got a Mr. Mime from mine earlier, yay
are you in europe by chance?
Yep.
this is really nifty and one step farther than I wanted.
I'll have to talk to the wife about this before I inquire farther if she wants to use something like that.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
hmmm still hope i can get a kangaskhan and mr mime from eggs in america
Things usually not said while talking about pokemon.
sssstententen
Member
Yeah definitely, I completely understand that to some people, the allure is totally about not knowing what you're going to find.
Luckily its not a very easily accessible tool as of yet, but I'm sure with the game's popularity, there'll be websites and easy to use tools for it very soon. So I'm torn.
That does seem like cheating though.
It does with the pawprint system, but this is straight up information that can be gleaned and used to exploit the absolute position of Pokemon. Meaning, players can use it to get the advantage on other players who don't use it to get more of the Pokemon they need/want.
EX: I have a strong Pokemon at the gym nearby, that is weak to Fighting. I know in the area that fighting types are extremely rare. An individual using this could go find the Fighting types that are nearby with pinpoint accuracy with this device and get the drop on my Pokemon.
So, spend money to fix a bug? Nope!
Fox Mulder
Member
Level 19 and have a 62 Kakuna hop out of a ball three times.
Why.
Why.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
the nearby list dosnt require money just have to learn how to read it
I wonder if Niantic will ever give away a few lucky eggs and poke/great balls for whenever the servers went down, or the game froze on the catching screen.
Kinda like a "Sorry 'bout that!"
It's a little annoying, though, whenever I see how Niantic's servers have been "humbled" by us trying to play.
It turns an apology into more of a
for me
Kinda like a "Sorry 'bout that!"
It's a little annoying, though, whenever I see how Niantic's servers have been "humbled" by us trying to play.
It turns an apology into more of a
for me
panthapanda
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Got a Mr. Mime from mine earlier, yay
Are you US? I would love a Mr.Mime.
Edit: nvm you answered above.
Are you US? I would love a Mr.Mime
EU
I wonder if Niantic will ever give away a few lucky eggs and poke/great balls for whenever the servers went down, or the game froze on the catching screen.
Kinda like a "Sorry 'bout that!"
It's a little annoying, though, whenever I see how Niantic's servers have been "humbled" by us trying to play.
It turns an apology into more of a
for me
Best thing to do is probably to just give everyone 500 pokecoins or something to spend on whatever they want.
sssstententen
Member
I guess it all depends on the opinion of the person. You still have to physically go to that location and you still have to catch that pokemon, it can still get away, and other players are all able to get the same information as well, especially if someone works to make this more accessible.
Like I've said I can remove the post if anyone else feels like its an unfair advantdage, but its already out there.
I personally would rather see people doing this than full blown cheating like some twitch users have been doing.
But it's been nice for me to check if there's any intersting mons near my usual dog walking park every morning.
my ideal thing would be something like this on a small scale, where once I get close enough if I want to track down something I can without to much issue. The idea of a rare pokemon pinging on my game is enough excitement for me to go track it down with a proper radar to get it, I don't also need some barely functioning step system to make it impossible to hunt down things I want.
The three step bug hasn't really changed the way I play as anything beyond 1 step I was ignoring anyways because anything I wanted would always vanish before we could find it anyways.
post should be fine, no one is forcing anyone to use it, and in general the game doesn't have much direct competition so it's not like it's existence will really effect things to much.
I mean someone having the money to constantly buy incubators/lures/incense/lucky eggs are way more balance breaking for PVP than being able to see where stuff pings in your area and trying to get there before they vanish.
Twilight Princess
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If anyone uses this, remember to create a throw away account.
The rest of the solutions you mentioned require money, and the nearby list only works for commons. I chased a golduck, ninetails, and magneton for hours in every conceivable direction, with lures and incense placed. It just doesn't work. They hop around the radar endlessly. The game is broken.
EL CUCO
Member
Just got out of work and servers crap themselves. Been moderately playing for most of the day with no issues (just your occasional restarting). Now that I got some free time for hardcore play, can't do anything...
There's no way I can spend any real money on the game with how it's currently functioning.
There's no way I can spend any real money on the game with how it's currently functioning.
Well, you can sit at home, test some locations around you and when you find a Pokemon you want, drive there. It actually takes the whole exploration aspect away from the game. Why scour the town with a friend when you can instead just look it up?
heh kotaku just posted a piece about an app that does what we are discussing
The thing with an app like that is it is probably super simple for Niantic to randomize pokemon spawns.
I'll just drop in here with some quick questions; I tried to power up my Raticate to the full bar, but when I try and power him up that last bit, GO tells me I'm not high level enough to do that. When will I be high level enough to do that? I have also noticed twice now that my Raticate lost some CP / CP bar.... somehow... Is this a glitch? is it related to trying to power them up but not being 'high level' enough (whatever that may mean)?
That's actually completely different.
Permanently A
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When your trainer levels up, the CP bar cap increases. Meaning your say 372 Raticate is still a 372 Raticate, but the dot on the arc went back since the overall CP ceiling is now increased because you leveled up.
Welp
Anyway, the python script is amazing. Even shows you when the Pokemon despawns when you click on it and is able to render Pokestops and gyms as well. Perfect for planning a small triparound the neighborhood.
brb catching those two Pidgeys I need to evolve my Pidgeotto
E: Just reporting back, both were completly accurate. Pidgeot GET! Done for today after endlessly running in circles thanks to the broken distance meter...
jellies_two
Member
This is basically reverse engineering of the communication with the server and within literally a day will see people submit "assistant" apps which will be able to warp you to the location of any pokemon you enter, or warp you around gyms, or alert you of any pokemon you are after without having to run the Pokemon app and anything else.
Mark my words, within days or as fast as the app stores allow it, they will launch these and the game will be effectively hacked out of any resemblance to actual effort or luck or anything else but willingness to use one of these tools.
my bad, I didn't look at it closely
didn't want to be tempted to use it until my wife gave the okay or not with the idea lol.
sssstententen
Member
I assumed as much.
The difference is that people warping around from spawn to spawn should be fairly obvious and hopefully banned.
We already have GPS spoofers using emulators on twitch getting softbanned, I'm sure Niantic would take SOME action.
chrominance
Member
The people worried about soft bans/feel like they've already experienced them for the crime of driving around/not walking: I kind of think everyone's assuming soft bans when actually it's just glitchy servers. I've definitely gotten the thing where you spin a Pokestop and it tells you to try again even though it's still blue, or it spins and turns purple but doesn't give you anything but the 50XP, but I don't drive. I do take transit, but I've had the glitch happen to me in the middle of a long walk and success for the entirety of a streetcar trip. I really don't think it's a soft ban.
Re: the Python stuff. A few things about it: one, I don't think anyone's gotten it to run on a phone yet. Right now, you'd have to be wardriving to take advantage of this while on the go, and while I think that's a possibility/is totally happening, it's probably a very very small number of users. Two, you'll need to sign up for a secondary PTC account (i.e. don't use your main you idiot), and PTC account creation is throttled right now. Three, in my experience, it's flaky as hell; I've never gotten it to load a full map. Because it's also reliant on a PTC login, any PTC flakiness magnifies the issues. Four, it doesn't seem like it would be terribly difficult to harden the API to stuff like this. You probably can't completely eliminate this kind of application but you can absolutely make it harder to use/stay connected.
I'm not that worried about the game being ruined by stuff like this. I'd probably consider it a bit of a cheat, though, especially if you do manage to get it running on a phone. If you're GPS spoofing with this app, sure, that's an issue, but GPS spoofing is already resulting in bans. Plus, I don't actually think knowing the exact location of pokemon helps very much anyways compared to the massive advantage you get from being able to teleport anywhere you want.
Re: the Python stuff. A few things about it: one, I don't think anyone's gotten it to run on a phone yet. Right now, you'd have to be wardriving to take advantage of this while on the go, and while I think that's a possibility/is totally happening, it's probably a very very small number of users. Two, you'll need to sign up for a secondary PTC account (i.e. don't use your main you idiot), and PTC account creation is throttled right now. Three, in my experience, it's flaky as hell; I've never gotten it to load a full map. Because it's also reliant on a PTC login, any PTC flakiness magnifies the issues. Four, it doesn't seem like it would be terribly difficult to harden the API to stuff like this. You probably can't completely eliminate this kind of application but you can absolutely make it harder to use/stay connected.
I'm not that worried about the game being ruined by stuff like this. I'd probably consider it a bit of a cheat, though, especially if you do manage to get it running on a phone. If you're GPS spoofing with this app, sure, that's an issue, but GPS spoofing is already resulting in bans. Plus, I don't actually think knowing the exact location of pokemon helps very much anyways compared to the massive advantage you get from being able to teleport anywhere you want.
Head of Vengarl
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Man I'm only level 6 and I keep running out of Poke balls.
I wish there were more Poke stops around my house.
I wish there were more Poke stops around my house.
Rygar 8 Bit
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