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Pokémon Go |OT 3| "No Officer, I'm a Passenger"
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Waylon Drums
Member
I'd like to apologize for shitting up the thread yesterday with complaints. I was sick and my anxiety is through the roof. No excuse, but I am sorry.
Side note: Can the extra stuff from Pokestops stay? PLEASE!
Side note: Can the extra stuff from Pokestops stay? PLEASE!
Bedameister
Member
YESS
Hatched a Doduo. Evolved it.
Pokedex at 137 now
Hatched a Doduo. Evolved it.
Pokedex at 137 now
Waylon Drums
Member
I got a second "first catch of the day" bonus yesterday afternoon after getting one in the morning. I haven't gotten another one today so I wonder if my "new" day starts this afternoon now...
Fright Zone
Member
FINALLY got a Dragonite! After 135km walked with my Dratini.
He has 2389 CP pre-boosting and has Steel Wing and Dragon Claw, are those decent moves?
Just need Lickitung, Lapras and Chansey now.
He has 2389 CP pre-boosting and has Steel Wing and Dragon Claw, are those decent moves?
Just need Lickitung, Lapras and Chansey now.
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
This would be amazing. This event was going to be my saving grace, but it ends on Friday. I live in Indiana...It gets dark by like 5:15-5:30. Had it lasted until Saturday, I could at least hit up Indy for a few hours and stock up. But instead, because it's dark so early, I can't go take advantage of it here. Boo.
I was all excited and about to write that I've been getting tons of new spans today but just now I'm reading that is because of a damn event that will end on friday??? SIGH, I was so hyped thinking this additional new spawns were going to be permanent, goddammit!! :'(
In other news, finally, after more than two months of hard work, I'm finally ready to do a super massive evolving session with a lucky egg. I have 17 new evolutions for the pokedex:
-Butterfree
-Beedrill
-Cleffabble
-Wigglypuff
-Starmie
-Gloom
-Dugtrio
-Golduck
-Alakazam
-Weepinbell
-Tentacruel
-Slowbro
-Magneton
-Dewong
-Cloyster
-Hypno
-Electrode
And all of them with 80+ IVs!
And I will evolve some others that I already have to use them for gym battles since they hatched from eggs and have excellent IVs:
-Arcanine
-Exeggutor
-Nidoqueen
-Nidoking
And I have tooooons of pidgeys an rattatas to evolve as well for even more aditional XP.
I'm currently at level 23 with around 54k of XP so I hope I can reach level 24 after this and from there, well, hope I can still have some motivation left to continue playing since this evolving session was the only thing that kept me playing...
In other news, finally, after more than two months of hard work, I'm finally ready to do a super massive evolving session with a lucky egg. I have 17 new evolutions for the pokedex:
-Butterfree
-Beedrill
-Cleffabble
-Wigglypuff
-Starmie
-Gloom
-Dugtrio
-Golduck
-Alakazam
-Weepinbell
-Tentacruel
-Slowbro
-Magneton
-Dewong
-Cloyster
-Hypno
-Electrode
And all of them with 80+ IVs!
And I will evolve some others that I already have to use them for gym battles since they hatched from eggs and have excellent IVs:
-Arcanine
-Exeggutor
-Nidoqueen
-Nidoking
And I have tooooons of pidgeys an rattatas to evolve as well for even more aditional XP.
I'm currently at level 23 with around 54k of XP so I hope I can reach level 24 after this and from there, well, hope I can still have some motivation left to continue playing since this evolving session was the only thing that kept me playing...
HammerOfThor
Member
wait, you can get extra xp from evos when using an lucky egg??
Lucky egg doubles all XP during a half hour.
HammerOfThor
Member
Also, anyone else getting double candy for their buddy? Is this part of the mini event thing?
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
holy fucking shit
just tried leveling up a lvl 3 gym for the first time since the update....is this a damn joke? did they even test this in the field.
this is so infuriating. what a waste of time.
just tried leveling up a lvl 3 gym for the first time since the update....is this a damn joke? did they even test this in the field.
this is so infuriating. what a waste of time.
Corronchilejano
Member
It happens randomly
And then there were 140through fortuitous hatches and walking during/after the Halloween event, Charmeleon, Charizard, Venusaur, and Machamp are checked off. Just Kabutops and Omastar to go.
Movesets were...fine? Ember/Fire Blast for Charizard, Vine Whip and Petal Blizzard for Venusaur, which could be worse. However, Machamp managed to get Bullet Punch and Stone Edge, so I've got a Fighting Pokemon with zero fighting moves. Not ideal.
Movesets were...fine? Ember/Fire Blast for Charizard, Vine Whip and Petal Blizzard for Venusaur, which could be worse. However, Machamp managed to get Bullet Punch and Stone Edge, so I've got a Fighting Pokemon with zero fighting moves. Not ideal.
Yep, I'm done with gyms for the time being. Training is an ordeal, not bothering with it anymore.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Theres also a weird bug since before the last update... if you are listening to music with aux/headphones plugged in, it will lower the music when the game is open. When a notification pops up it will return the volume to normal (which is really loud if you are in the car with an aux cable)
Anyone else run into this/ know of a fix?
Anyone else run into this/ know of a fix?
HammerOfThor
Member
I fucking hate this bug, but I'm sure it was done intentionally so people don't completely block themselves out listening to music and walking across the street playing Pokemon Go.
I have pretty bad hearing and need to listen to stuff louder than the average person, but this bug sets the max volume way too low for me, but then when I switch apps to do something else my ears get blown out. Fucking sucks.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Seems intentional, which is obnoxious as fuck.
I even got 14 i think with my first pokestop of the day (3rd in a row)
billmcdougal
Member
to bad the event ends Friday, would be interesting to see how many you can get for the 7th day. Would be a crazy amount, maybe like 16. lol
deanote666
Member
Just saw my first wild lapras today. 2000+CP. Ran after the first ball.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Jailer of Hope
Member
I have 250 great balls and 100 ultra balls.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
I'm at about 200/75 myself, and rising lol. I have had jack shit to use them on.
I threw like 15 great balls at a Wartortle and it finally was a great ball with bonus that did it. Starters and especially the evolutions are a nightmare to catch. That Wartortle gave my final push to Blastoise, it has water gun and flash cannon. Apparently the best defensive moveset, but I'm not sure he's actually worth dropping in a gym. +1 at least, at 137 now.
Tomorrow I'm going item hoarding. Trying to hold gyms has drained my potion count severly, I'm at like 200/400 items.
Tomorrow I'm going item hoarding. Trying to hold gyms has drained my potion count severly, I'm at like 200/400 items.
Jailer of Hope
Member
I just arrived at Disney World and it's the Promised Land. I'm just constantly smashing my pogo+ button and catching everything I can but the items are pulling up still lol
269 Great balls and 165 Ultra Balls.
And yet no Lapras, no Snorlax to use them on.
Benzychenz
Member
710 CP Eevee popped up (like 95% filled bar at level 24), and then the moment of truth when I appraise it...
"Overall, your Eevee simply amazes me."
YAAAAAAAAS
Not sure if I should evolve it now or wait for gen 2. Might wait.
"Overall, your Eevee simply amazes me."
YAAAAAAAAS
Not sure if I should evolve it now or wait for gen 2. Might wait.
Icyflamez96
Member
I have over 430 Eevee candies at any given moment.
Everytime I get an Eevee that's at level 24/23, I evolve it hoping for a Vaporeon.
and guess what i never get
I used to wait for one that was high level AND had high IV's. I just realized that's not really worth it at all in this case, since Eevees are super common for me.
spyroflame0487
Member
Wow I thought you guys were kidding about the PokeStops, but geeze I just got a ton after class today downtown.
I wish GO Plus would use other balls. Or does it? If we get an increase of Great/Ultra then that's less Pokeballs which means less Pokemon for capturing.
I wish GO Plus would use other balls. Or does it? If we get an increase of Great/Ultra then that's less Pokeballs which means less Pokemon for capturing.
Until you bring it to a more accurate IV reader and the stats are like:
13ATK | 10 DEF | 11 STA
clearacell
Member
It's pretty normal to spend 10 or more minutes trying to catch a dragonite with all ultra balls and berries being used. starters take almost as long and they are no where near as good
Icyflamez96
Member
I really think the gym change was a bad one, and this is coming from a person who has never a pokemon in a gym for over a day more than twice, and who checks out only 10 or 20 coins at a time 95% of the time. I had a pokemon in 5 gyms ONCE, but that was short lived. I was contributing 0% to the stagnation.
I thought gym stagnation was bad in the sense that seeing the same gyms held by the same teams at level 10 just seemed, well, stagnant... And it would suck for people on the same team who could never get their Pokemon in certain gyms.
But I thought it was a good thing in the sense that it was a pretty valid reward for players who coordinated or played together to hold down a territory.
A huge part of my motivation to play and work my way up in strength was to have the luxury of being able to have a pokemon in a gym for a few days, and being able to get coins on days that I'm not actively doing something. (Because I typically couldn't play like that everyday) I really want to be able to buy more incubators... I envied people like BowieZ (my rival) who could regularly check out 400 coins (and tons of stardust) because of all of the gyms they had every day. I can only imagine that's on the extreme side. If I could have 5 pokemon stay in a gym for 2+ days, that would be awesome for me. It was an enticing goal to work for.
I don't really think I need to go over why I think the specific changes they made are bad, but here are some changes that I think would have been much better.
There was nothing wrong with the speed of building up gyms or taking them down before. There just needed to be more of a reward for someone who takes the time to take it down... Whether it's in more XP, some stardust, whatever.
They could have even made a daily bonus for lowering the level or prestige of a gym each day. Things like this would encourage people to actually spend more time taking down these gyms because it would actually be worth the time.
On the plus side, I hatched Snorlax for the first time a few days ago. 2 days ago as I walked to school (on a route where I normally take the bus), I came across a gym inside some grocery store. Trained it up 1 level, got sniped by a teammate, trained another level up, put my 2263 Snorlax on the top, and it's still there. Yay. Feels great to check out coins for a Pokemon that's rightfully held its place for this long.
I thought gym stagnation was bad in the sense that seeing the same gyms held by the same teams at level 10 just seemed, well, stagnant... And it would suck for people on the same team who could never get their Pokemon in certain gyms.
But I thought it was a good thing in the sense that it was a pretty valid reward for players who coordinated or played together to hold down a territory.
A huge part of my motivation to play and work my way up in strength was to have the luxury of being able to have a pokemon in a gym for a few days, and being able to get coins on days that I'm not actively doing something. (Because I typically couldn't play like that everyday) I really want to be able to buy more incubators... I envied people like BowieZ (my rival) who could regularly check out 400 coins (and tons of stardust) because of all of the gyms they had every day. I can only imagine that's on the extreme side. If I could have 5 pokemon stay in a gym for 2+ days, that would be awesome for me. It was an enticing goal to work for.
I don't really think I need to go over why I think the specific changes they made are bad, but here are some changes that I think would have been much better.
There was nothing wrong with the speed of building up gyms or taking them down before. There just needed to be more of a reward for someone who takes the time to take it down... Whether it's in more XP, some stardust, whatever.
They could have even made a daily bonus for lowering the level or prestige of a gym each day. Things like this would encourage people to actually spend more time taking down these gyms because it would actually be worth the time.
On the plus side, I hatched Snorlax for the first time a few days ago. 2 days ago as I walked to school (on a route where I normally take the bus), I came across a gym inside some grocery store. Trained it up 1 level, got sniped by a teammate, trained another level up, put my 2263 Snorlax on the top, and it's still there. Yay. Feels great to check out coins for a Pokemon that's rightfully held its place for this long.
Benzychenz
Member
Until you bring it to a more accurate IV reader and the stats are like:
13ATK | 10 DEF | 11 STA
I mean I, don't really care? One with 80% IVs and one with 100% is such a minuscule difference. 80%+ is good enough for me regardless.
Bedameister
Member
Yeah, as long as it's 80+ I don't care.
Hope the Pokemon gangbang that is going on right now will still be active on the weekend since I'll be going for some rounds with a friend
Benzychenz
Member
I'm really dreading all the single stage Pokemon in gen 2.
Sudowoodo
Aipom
Yanma
Murkrow
Misdreavous
Unown
Wobuffet
Girafarig
Dunsparce
Gligar
Quilfish
Shuckle
Heracross
Sneasel
Corsola
Delibird
Mantine
Skarmory
Stantler
Smeargle
Miltank
Whew. Gonna be fun to collect those.
What do you guys think will be as rare as Snorlax, Lapras, Chansey, Aerodactyl, Porygon etc?
Think we'll get more region exclusives?
Sudowoodo
Aipom
Yanma
Murkrow
Misdreavous
Unown
Wobuffet
Girafarig
Dunsparce
Gligar
Quilfish
Shuckle
Heracross
Sneasel
Corsola
Delibird
Mantine
Skarmory
Stantler
Smeargle
Miltank
Whew. Gonna be fun to collect those.
What do you guys think will be as rare as Snorlax, Lapras, Chansey, Aerodactyl, Porygon etc?
Think we'll get more region exclusives?
supposed to be going till friday