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Pokémon Go |OT 2| Servers...gotta crash 'em all!
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panthapanda
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I don't know if somebody else posted before, and I don't care
I was playing Stick of Truth the other day and thought it would be Hilarious if SP did this.
WOah.
So whats the trick. have a lineup of pokemon ready to evolve, activate 1 lucky egg and then evolve them all?
It's not really a bug. As you can see on pokevision, the game use per call charge, which link to a part the google map, so if they want they litteraly can just flick a switch and the three step thing will work again (which explained how the pokevision or the python script can show you the pokemon, it bypass the lock niantic put on the app). But there is the problem. To enable per call charge for every device with the current amount of player will thrash the server (which explain why the pokevision has to put the 30s limit on their app). I think they want to roll out all server, update the server accordingly then they will "fix" the three step bug.
hydragonwarrior
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Mystic curently has a death grip on the gyms around me... I need to even the odds.
And as much as Instinct is cool, there's not enough of them to keep the gym alive... I may have to join team #valorscum to even the odds.
And as much as Instinct is cool, there's not enough of them to keep the gym alive... I may have to join team #valorscum to even the odds.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Pretty much, you get normally 500k per evolution which is doubled with lucky egg. Plus half of them were evolutions I've never had before so the exp for registering to the Pokédex was also doubled. So 1k per evolution + any additions to Pokédex. I likely won't hit that high since a lot was from adding to Pokédex. Probably did 25-30 Pokemon if I had to guess.
To add on to that, Pidgey, Weedle, and Caterpie all give you the best bang for your buck. Any evolution gives you 500XP at the base level (double that with Lucky Egg), so Pokemon that only take 12 or 25 candies to evolve are best.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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I mean or whatever you have a lot of... I had 700 doduo candies since that's like all I see so that was almost 14k right there.
do lucky eggs stack?
LucidMomentum
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Not sure about legendaries, but there are rumors Gen II will be added by the end of the year.
So, how do you all manage keeping enough Pokeballs to keep going during long trips catching Pokémon?
I mean, my neighborhood has nothing for miles. So, that leaves me with:
- Don't do cardio at the gym, go to the park. (8 or so Pokestops, 3 gyms, and countless Pokémon spawn points)
- Sundays when I help with a church stream at our local campus, I can go hunting / gym fighting during breaks in between services (10 or so Pokestops, 3 gyms, and countless spawn points)
But there's no place I can just park and get Pokeballs every 5 minutes or so, like at my office. There's no stops there either.
So, about twice a week I'll be at the park and I go through basically every Pokeball I have, because in a couple of hours I'll catch around 150 or so Pokémon and the stops are too far apart to really camp out at if I want to maximize my item collection.
It's great exercise, but I'm probably going to spend money on this game to make that big push from 15 or so to 20. Not that I mind, Niantic / Nintendo gave me a great excusre to go out and such with friends, but it's kind of a bummer that I can't seem to find a sustainable loop for this game.
Got to level 12, almost 13. Have about 50 Pokémon to evolve so once I hit 15 I'm hoping to just pop a lucky egg and get to 20.
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Every individual building on my college campus is a pokestop.
Zen_Arcade
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I don't think so. I think popping two would just give you an hour of double XP instead of half an hour.
Allright, I just came back from my first experience with Pokemon go. with just a battery charged at 40%, lol. The weather was allright not too hot compared of yesterday, server was also nice, so all green light to go explore!
I tough I will have to use a lot Pokevision a lot because of the 3 steps bug and that I was in a little town. But to my biggest suprise there were many Pokestops (with some lure, not all but a bit) not too far from house. Ideal for a little quick walk to get a bit of sun, also the spawn of random pokemon is decent.
Unfortunaly, my town is a Zubat nest -.-'
So far, though, I only saw 1 gym and I totaly forgot to check what level was the pokemon guarding it! It was snorlaw, thou Also, I saw some people play the game too at a pokespot but my streets ain't filled of players, we're just a few, it seems. By the number of pokespots I can tell there were some quite active Ingress players, lol
Anyway, I just went out for 1 hour and I didn't even noticed the time I spended, usualy I get usualy bored to just walk. Really, to have some objectives/pokemons regulary popping did make the time go fast.
If Pokemon go will make me go out at least 1 hour per day, then I've not regret to have bough a new (cheap) phone for it. To my regret, I couldn't get google survey app that is in the OP. I don't know why it wasn't available for France. Dunmo, how I will make free coins, ugh.
Tomorow, my battery phone will be full so I will be able to spend more time outside!
I tough I will have to use a lot Pokevision a lot because of the 3 steps bug and that I was in a little town. But to my biggest suprise there were many Pokestops (with some lure, not all but a bit) not too far from house. Ideal for a little quick walk to get a bit of sun, also the spawn of random pokemon is decent.
Unfortunaly, my town is a Zubat nest -.-'
So far, though, I only saw 1 gym and I totaly forgot to check what level was the pokemon guarding it! It was snorlaw, thou Also, I saw some people play the game too at a pokespot but my streets ain't filled of players, we're just a few, it seems. By the number of pokespots I can tell there were some quite active Ingress players, lol
Anyway, I just went out for 1 hour and I didn't even noticed the time I spended, usualy I get usualy bored to just walk. Really, to have some objectives/pokemons regulary popping did make the time go fast.
If Pokemon go will make me go out at least 1 hour per day, then I've not regret to have bough a new (cheap) phone for it. To my regret, I couldn't get google survey app that is in the OP. I don't know why it wasn't available for France. Dunmo, how I will make free coins, ugh.
Tomorow, my battery phone will be full so I will be able to spend more time outside!
Have we figured out for sure if biomes are a thing in this games? Keep hearing rumors that certain types of pokemon are more common in certain areas, like desert or beach. It kinda seems like bullshit but I'm level 9 and have yet to encounter a single fire or electric type so who knows..
Irishonion
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Yea, its rough. Even residential areas are tough. Just get the same of any pokemon. I travel to different residential areas for my work and its all the same.
panthapanda
Member
100 more candies to Gyarados. Got a 141 Magikarp waiting to become a beast right now.
The only one I know for sure is water pokemon do show up a good bit near water sources. I work near 2 ponds, so a bunch of Water pokemon show up often, gotten like so many Magikarps.
LucidMomentum
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Yeah, that would be the dream. Having a spot where I could spend a day doing work or studying and get check in at Pokestops every 5 minutes would keep me topped up, but in my area it just seems that Pokestops are too spread out to just sit in one spot. The college campus has stops that are all 1km apart or so, so it gets tiring to make the walk even if it does mean the stop I last checked will reset by the time I get to the next one.
Like if my office had a Pokestop, that would be at worst 1-3 Pokeballs every 5 minutes -> 20-60 Pokeballs every hour -> ~200 Pokeballs a shift.
That would make it so much easier to level up.
Benzychenz
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Was keeping an eye on PokeVision, and decided to go for a jog around the block at 1am for a Vulpix, Bellsprout and Paras.
What is this game doing to me?!
What is this game doing to me?!
Generic Power Ranger
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Yep this. So many water pokemons by the lake near here. Rattatas and pidgeys everywhere else
going pretty far tomorrow to explore with a few friends. Hope to find areas where different types are common.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
good thing servers didnt go down i had a super lucky day at the beach hit level 22 and now im up to 96 caught
UpperCaseN
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I'm close to level 15, my damn great pokeballs (or all?) have started curving on their own, that's some grade A bullshit right there
That only happens when you want to catch strong Pokemon.
Yep, it happens usually after you use a Razz Berry. It's pretty dumb for sure. Best bet is to curve your Pokeballs automatically if you use a Razz Berry. (Or if you see the sparkles when you go to throw the ball.)
Weird, they were pretty smooth for me, I just wend out 30 mins ago.
And server tracker show they're fine too.
http://ispokemongodownornot.com/
Edit: bad move Niantic, your fans are waiting and watching you.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4trab0/come_on_really_you_dont_address_the_bugs_or/
Schadenfreude
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Right now they've turned it off/it's not working so no, it's not reliable.
Mad Season
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An amazing breakthrough game but Niantic should be ashamed of the bugs and lack of communication
http://ispokemongodownornot.com/
Edit: bad move Niantic, your fans are waiting and watching you.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4trab0/come_on_really_you_dont_address_the_bugs_or/
Pssh, people are so damn entitled.
Yeah, Niantic. Get your social media manager on the backend team so he can fix server related bugs. Ridiculous.
Yeah. I'm sure they don't know about it and are just ignoring it. And definitely not working on it!
It's badly expressed but the fans went salty because it has been days that we've 0 news/communication from them and then suddenly fans discovered that Niantics do instead take the time to tweet to a random dude on Twiiter (I think ex streamer?).
While when the server went sht and we're having the 3 steps perma bug no word from Niantics, so yeah, fans went "salt", lol I can understand them.
I think most people are being reasonable about it actually. Looks to me like they came into this without any sort of community manager or PR guy, which is pretty silly. Most people would be satisfied if they said they're aware of it and working on it, or that they did it to lighten the server load, but it's literally the silent treatment at this point.
Rhomega Beta
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Went shopping, caught a Venomoth and evolved Sandshrew along the way.
nope he's a rapper, not even a very relevant one. lol
Benzychenz
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Jesus christ, you have 44 Pokemon and managed to get a Nidoking?!
He's my favourite and I only have 23 Nidoran candy so far, after 80 Pokemon in my dex, Nidoran too rare here
talisayNon
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People entitled to a response from an F2P game LOL #millenials
#millenials
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