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Pokémon Go |OT 2| Servers...gotta crash 'em all!
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Kor of Memory
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Same here, got more Drowzee Candies than Rattata Candies.
Man, finding new Pokemon has slowed to a crawl for me, which is a little unfortunate--I'm at 80 caught and haven't run into anything new in the wild for days now. Anything new I'm adding has just been from evolving Pokemon I already had or hatching eggs, and both of those methods are just incredibly tedious--it's not fun to catch dozens of Bellsprout over and over and over again just to get a Victreebel, and there are Pokemon that I've only found one of in all this time like Abra who it would take a miracle for me to get all the way up to Alakazam. I really wish you could get candies for the Pokemon you use to beat gyms or something.
I know they're going to wait until the hype has died down before they go adding in later generations, but for me the inevitable Johto expansion can't come soon enough.
I know they're going to wait until the hype has died down before they go adding in later generations, but for me the inevitable Johto expansion can't come soon enough.
donkey show
Member
Yeah, it's not looking too hot. Was totally fine and pretty solid for most of the day here in the UK though.
Naughty_Doge
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servers have been down for nearly 4 hours
Didn't the head of Niantic talk about how instead of localized instances for players and dedicated servers for different locations, they have one giant instance for everyone? That alone is going to be hard to maintain with hundreds of servers and VMs. I'm wondering if they regret that choice now.
Finale Fireworker
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I've been playing Pokémon Go nearly non-stop every day since the 12th. I "play" for hours a day. I turn it on before I leave the house for work in the morning, stop at all the PokéStops in between, then leave the game running at my desk and periodically check to see if anything has spawned. I also check in at the nearby PokéStop that I can sometimes reach from my desk.
But actually playing the game involves getting out and moving. So I keep making plans with girlfriend to go to the beach, or downtown, or a few towns over, and every time I have wanted to do this I have been unable. I even went down to Boston on Sunday (from Maine) and was unable to play for the majority of the afternoon.
In my experience, server performance is getting worse, not incrementally better. Every day after 3:00 PM EST becomes an inevitable dead time where I can't play for hours. When it comes back, it will never be for long, and I will have to restart the app and will be unable to relaunch it.
It's really depressing me because my girlfriend, who also loves the game, does not have the patience to keep driving somewhere to play and then being unable to play. I don't know how much more I can take either. I can't imagine how bad it is for bars and businesses planning huge events and meet ups only for the servers to be down.
I've been reading a lot of people's opinions on why th server performance is so poor and I don't know what to think. From my outside perspective, I don't understand why "more servers" won't fix the problem. On the other hand, even if that won't fix the problem, I'm upset there has been zero communication over what the problem IS and what measures are being taken to fix it.
I just want to plan to play and be able to. Constantly losing incense and lures and driving 45 minutes to a populated area just to hang at the loading screen is dismal.
I never wanted this game and now all I want to do is play it. Maybe I deserve this.
But actually playing the game involves getting out and moving. So I keep making plans with girlfriend to go to the beach, or downtown, or a few towns over, and every time I have wanted to do this I have been unable. I even went down to Boston on Sunday (from Maine) and was unable to play for the majority of the afternoon.
In my experience, server performance is getting worse, not incrementally better. Every day after 3:00 PM EST becomes an inevitable dead time where I can't play for hours. When it comes back, it will never be for long, and I will have to restart the app and will be unable to relaunch it.
It's really depressing me because my girlfriend, who also loves the game, does not have the patience to keep driving somewhere to play and then being unable to play. I don't know how much more I can take either. I can't imagine how bad it is for bars and businesses planning huge events and meet ups only for the servers to be down.
I've been reading a lot of people's opinions on why th server performance is so poor and I don't know what to think. From my outside perspective, I don't understand why "more servers" won't fix the problem. On the other hand, even if that won't fix the problem, I'm upset there has been zero communication over what the problem IS and what measures are being taken to fix it.
I just want to plan to play and be able to. Constantly losing incense and lures and driving 45 minutes to a populated area just to hang at the loading screen is dismal.
I never wanted this game and now all I want to do is play it. Maybe I deserve this.
Ftfy
But ugh seriously.
Just picked this up and was having fun. Hopefully they learn to let people know about maintenence breaks and such.
I kept thinking it was me.
LordOcidax
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Yes.
Revolutionary
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Turns out it hatched in the background. It was an Omanyte. -_-
xZoneHunter
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Pff had a night trip to the city planned and the servers arent working again.... What a downer.
BlueSilver
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I hatched this guy yesterday. I just wish he had a higher CP level and a different type on the first move. Think I should level him up?
I can drive less than 5 minutes from my house and get to 2 different parks that have electabuzz and magmars as common spawns in them. This is a small town with 20k people. There's another park 10 mins away that has hitmonlee as common spawns. I've never seen these anywhere else outside those parks.
You just have to get out there and explore. Joining local Facebook groups also helps on finding hot spots.
Personally, I feel like that's part of what makes Pokemon Go special. That Charizard at the other end of the park is there for everyone and you can team up to hunt down the same Pokemon. It wouldn't be as cool or special if everyone had their own instance, IMO.
FleetingFlowAir
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Finale Fireworker
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I wonder if the app recognizes these parks as "locations".
Part of my problem in my small town is that our parks and fields aren't PokéStops and have no discernible representation on the overworld map. Most roads don't even represent our houses. When I go to these parks and fields, I don't find anything. Usually literally nothing will appear. Other times it will just be the usual vermin.
The issue I face is that almost everywhere I go has the same spawns. I've made a point to try lots of different places and the experience you have has just not been mine.
Most of my diversity comes from hatching eggs.
Revolutionary
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I had caught a really weak one already, and the new one didn't come with enough candies to evolve so I can't help but feel disappointed lol. Oh well, there's always the next 10k.. whenever I get one.
now to hatch more to evolve it lol
you don't have enough stardust to level it up for more than 450 cp so I'm gonna guess no.
True but there is little reason for all continents to be on the same instance.
It depends how easily you would shift from one to the other when traveling. The target market in that case is probably small, but also probably very vocal
Duane Cunningham
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I got a Jynx earlier from a 10k!
Same here! Just before everyone gets off work too...
Shamrock7r
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Haven't been able to log on all day. The game has been down more than it hasn't. Really just awful all around
Damn, man, Jynx show up in my house all the time haha
look at the graphs on this page
http://ispokemongodownornot.com/
thats what everyone else has to deal with
UpDownLeftRight
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Two questions. Do you need to do anything with the egg or does it hatch just by owning it and walking? Have Niantic said anything about bulking it out a bit in rural areas?
Try running back to the pier, then you'll see some gains
Ha! Per your suggestion, I might work up to the bike ride, at least. Right now I'm too impatient and would probably blow away in a stiff breeze if I did that ride too often. I gotta eat more.. Lol
you just have to put it in an incubator
Empty Space
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Well then my region is just bad because while I do have nest as far as I can tell they are all Hitmonlee nests and they are in golf courses, so I'm never getting anything from there. Otherwise there are no real consistent spawns other in city of 150k people and when I went to the next biggest city it largely had the same spawns and in all the nests were Hitmonlee nests in golf courses.
Jawbreaker
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I should be going out because walking and taking in the nice weather is generally great, but instead, I'm enslaved to this infernal device that houses Pokémon Go. I refuse to leave until the servers are up.
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