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Pokémon Go |OT 2| Servers...gotta crash 'em all!
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it sucks that it's broken and doesn't work rn but that doesn't mean this stuff won't like take some integrity out of the game. a more streamlined people-friendly version of these services will quickly become more efficient than finding them yourself, and if it is will quickly become the main way to catch them.
why waste your time going on runs or walking hunts when you could just set it to search all nearby areas and auto alert? really need them extra pidgeys on the way? probably not
why explore a new area to see what Pokemon are there when you could just open a map?
Right, but it still shows you the location of the Pokemon instead of just saying "this Pokemon is nearby and xxx footprints away". I'm taking a look at the git for PokemonGoMap right now but it seems to me it should be fairly trivial to reduce the functionality to what is available in the base game for an end user instead of completely breaking the game.
Best spot in central park is central park south. 59st and 5th. Thanks to the gaf who suggested this location.
Also when i went, I saw that popular YouTuber Casey neitant doing a video.
Big cities are really different
I see, I understand your wish.
Hope someone will come with a footprint version.
Fox Mulder
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I'm fine with the website tracker. People are squeezing fun out of this despite it being a broken piece of shit.
LucidMomentum
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My problem is, every stop I visit in a large area has had a lure on it. Meaning there are more Pokémon there than I get Pokeballs from each Pokestop. In the 5 minutes I'll hit probably 3-5 stops but then catch 10-15 pokemon.
psynergylover
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How do you use poke vision? Do you put in you current address? Pokestop location?
That why you use a throwaway poketrainer club account.
Just checked, the Python script running for about an hour only had my dummy account at 0.63km moved. So it is sending updated GPS positions to the Niantic servers. It seems that the area it's covering would be much larger movement than 0.63km. It'd probably be pretty easy to build a script to identify users using this and ban them. But nothing stops them from just creating another dummy account.
Not sure how Pokevision works though.
Not sure how Pokevision works though.
Put in an address and if you are lucky (server is always choking), shows you everything that is active in a 10m radius around the pin you drop
psynergylover
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Ignore the fodder until you have enough pokeballs, you don't have to catch every Pokemon you see
Yup, fill first you location at the top right so it can found you then hit after search the red case in the middle. But the website is unstable for me now, so ain't working.
How many steps are you having the script search through?
100 positions encompassing about a square kilometer. Takes about 2 minutes to cycle through.
For those curious this is what the command line output looks like. My extra code basically just filters on Pokemon names and forwards emails in that format to my gmail.
Possibilities are endless with this, I'm going to get it to just send a text to my phone with a Google Maps pin.
For me, after like 5 runs the map won't update anymore and the pokemon get less and less until they're all gone.
Any idea why?
A pair of neat things over the couple of days I've been playing --
There's a little spot a few minutes' walk from my house which used to be an industrial road but, since falling largely abandoned several years ago, is now home to a ton of graffiti; big, elaborate, panelled off and distinct works of graffiti. Every year the local graf artists flock to this long stretch of brick-walled dirtroad and put up their new pieces.
Yesterday, I take a stroll over there with the game (my first 'proper' excursion) and am delighted to find that the entire route has like eleven Stops scattered along it:
(never did find that Meowth, btw)
Picked up a ton of items and found some new friends in colourful surrounds:
And today, I took a long walk to a place called Globen ('the Globe'), named for its striking landmark:
Now, this is probably nothing but delightful conicidence but, as I passed into the middle of town with that building dominating the sky beside me, a never-before-seen-by-me monster pops up on my phone. Which one?
http://www.dltk-kids.com/pokemon/adoptions/100.gif
There's a little spot a few minutes' walk from my house which used to be an industrial road but, since falling largely abandoned several years ago, is now home to a ton of graffiti; big, elaborate, panelled off and distinct works of graffiti. Every year the local graf artists flock to this long stretch of brick-walled dirtroad and put up their new pieces.
Yesterday, I take a stroll over there with the game (my first 'proper' excursion) and am delighted to find that the entire route has like eleven Stops scattered along it:
(never did find that Meowth, btw)
Picked up a ton of items and found some new friends in colourful surrounds:
And today, I took a long walk to a place called Globen ('the Globe'), named for its striking landmark:
Now, this is probably nothing but delightful conicidence but, as I passed into the middle of town with that building dominating the sky beside me, a never-before-seen-by-me monster pops up on my phone. Which one?
http://www.dltk-kids.com/pokemon/adoptions/100.gif
friskykillface
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Haha what the hell just happened , I'm right under the gym and hit fight and each time it kicks me out after "Go" , I can destroy this gym but it's not letting me 0_o
BigJonsson
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So that Pokevision site is pretty hammered eh
whats the link for pokevision?
edit: nvm I had a space between the two words and it wasn't showing in google search, got it now!
Abstrusity
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Ahaha, found a Scyther AND a Snorlax at the gas station literalyl right by my house!
I am become pokemaster, destroyer of valor gyms.
I am become pokemaster, destroyer of valor gyms.
Couldn't tell you, mine doesn't seem to hang, and I'm not nearly familiar enough with the code to make a guess. I'd make a post on the reddit topic, they seem pretty quick to respond.
Time to do some actual work ): which oddly enough is writing different Python code.
So 10 steps like me, it is interesting that it is searching basically a 1.92 km² area yet is recording you travelling a far lesser distance. I wonder how they actually do distance tracking in this game
ZeroMaverick
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Is there a link to this?
Had this bug a couple times as well. Sometimes I can fix it by restarting the app and switching my leadad pokemon, other times I just have to walk away in anger.
I think your position gets uploaded on some period and your distance is calculated on a straight line as the crow flies. So if you are looping in a circle there is a chance that your total path traveled is much longer than the distance between the two points when it updates. That's why a fitness tracker may show 5km but the app 4km if you were trail running and it was a winding trail.
PokemonGO Map Masters Reddit
victreeb3l
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Best spot in central park is central park south. 59st and 5th. Thanks to the gaf who suggested this location.
Also when i went, I saw that popular YouTuber Casey neitant doing a video.
Dont forget to go into the park from the nearby entrance as well (during daylight, might be a little sketchy at night). I got my Gastly there!
If you ever download it you can just do this. I already have it alerting me of any rare Pokemon as an experiment. After line 702 in example.py add:
(code)
Where pokeid is the # in the pokedex. Obviously replace 'from' and 'to' with gmail accounts and 'login' and 'password' with the respective information. So that's set up for anytime it finds a Caterpie. You can make is search a list of Pokemon easily enough. Won't work at work for me due to firewalls but works at home. Remove the block comments as well!
Well that was a productive lunch break
Thanks for the reply! I really appreciate it. I think I'll be able to work with that fairly easily when I get home.
For creating a list, would the proper route to take be to edit the first line of code so it looks like:
Code:
# if pokeid == '10' or if pokeid == '15' or if pokeid ==27:Again, not too familiar with python, so I'm not sure how the OR function works exactly. It's either that or repeat the code for each Pokemon, which is no bueno.
Either way, thank you very much again. I'll have to tinker around with it later.
Yeah I've been using a dummy account to do my scans just in case it gets banned.
It's useful as fuck. Helped me nab a Golduck a few blocks away.
friskykillface
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You could get fancy and use list comprehension etc, but just use a list and check in it:
Code:
pokemonicareabout = ['10', '15', '17']
if pokeid in pokemonicareabout
remainder of codeFor the record the script already has a command line argument '-o' for only at call. It would do that filtering for you but also would only display those on the map. In that case you wouldn't even use the if statement and just send every pokemon found to your email. Either way works, but if you want the full map but to only be alerted by rares then you'd do the extra if I did.
No need for all the extra ifs
Code:
# if pokeid == '10' or pokeid == '15' or pokeid == '27':Edit: Do what It519 recommend, much more efficient and easier to change later.
Edit 2:
Gotta fix the tracking someway
Abstrusity
Member
The nearby system is broken, so we have to get creative.
Easy cheating, no need to randomly move around anymore.
Anyway, started the app and suddenly found a Snorlax. First ball catch, good times.
Just having fun coding (; I'm not actually going to use it, it'd ruin the fun/excitement for me. I'll just wait for Nearby to start working.
Script could be very easily modified to only display pokemon within a certain radius and then calculate and sort by distance and display in a list instead of on a map. We could essentially recreate the nearby list with a couple hours of effort. But you'd need your laptop and a 4G card to walk around doing that, kinda silly. Someone will build an App pretty soon though. Edit: I actually think someone on Reddit is already doing this.
Ok enough of this talk from me, I don't wan to derail this thread and ruin the fun.
LucidMomentum
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Eh, not if I need to level up. Each catch is 100+ XP and candy for evos.
My goal is to have 100 or so Pokémon to evolve when I hit 15, so I can just pop a lucky egg and shoot to 20. Up to about 40 Pokémon so far, but I'm only 3 levels away so I know I'm not going to make it. I'll probably end up at level 18 or so and need to use a second lucky egg in another week or so to push me over.
JayWood2010
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Today has been by far the best the servers has run for me since launch.
*Knocks on wood*
*Knocks on wood*
JayWood2010
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Depends on how many incubators you have. I have about 4 going on most of the time.
You can have one egg per incubator. You may only have two incubators.
AFAIK the typing for Go is the same as for the traditional games, so any typing matchup chart will do.
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