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Pokémon Go |OT 3| "No Officer, I'm a Passenger"
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Lee Chaolan
Member
How many kms are needed for a Charmander Candy?
That is new.
You had to tap the icon for it to show. Guess they want you paying respects to those who put lures lol.
Naughty_Doge
Member
Well the buddy system was never meant to replace the normal way of getting candy. Also, you have to consider Dragonite is one of the most powerful pokemon on the 1st gen so yeah.
I wonder what other pokemon require de 5km for one candy.
Naughty_Doge
Member
3 Km according to this list.
I got my poor man's Arcanine today.
Finally had enough candies from an egg. Gonna get enough candies with the buddy system to get Dewgong next (poor man's Lapras). My Wigglytuff got the worst moves possible, so gotta work on that one too. >_>Robdraggoo
Member
Just got back from a 10km walk, another 10km egg into a Magmar and when I was doing some clean up I accidentally evolved a bellsprout and then my top tier Eevee evolved into my third Vape. Can't seem to get them to evolve to Jolteon or Flareon anymore.
Getting so hard to track down/evolve these last Pokemon. Some of the 10km rare egg ones and starters I'm not holding out much hope for :/
Ooh wow didn't know update was out. Would have used it. Those are some stingy requirements for candy though. May just just it to get more Lapras candy to beef my homeboy up.
Getting so hard to track down/evolve these last Pokemon. Some of the 10km rare egg ones and starters I'm not holding out much hope for :/
Ooh wow didn't know update was out. Would have used it. Those are some stingy requirements for candy though. May just just it to get more Lapras candy to beef my homeboy up.
Yeah I know, but still 1km = 1 candy wouldn't be gamebreaking imo.
Better than nothing i guess.
Go for opposite naming, so if you want a Jolteon, name it Pyro or Rainer.
Once the naming trick stops working thats what I do. As if I'm trying for a Jolteon and go with Sparky, the game will almost never give me one, so I name it what I don't want and it seems 50/50 to get the one I do.
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
Replace outright, no, of course not. But that's damn near worthless even as a supplement. I'm level 24 and since day one I've tracked 215.9 km. So best case scenario that's a little over 50 candy a month for me, and that would be mean only buddying up with 2km Pokémon, most of which I would never need to buddy up with. I guess it's nice for rural folks who never get anything, but this might as well not exist for me, and I don't even live in a super dense area with tons of spawns.
Hopefully they at least make distance tracking not total shit at some point. I've walked several times the tracked distance. :|
Edit: Wait, it's 3 km for most stuff? Yeah, this is totally useless lol. Oh well.
ReyBrujo
Member
Yes. Only way to confirm whose turn was for the next lure. And to know which pokestops were in range of player's home/work
Considering you can get 3-5km per day just leaving the phone open, with the natural GPS drifting, it's not that bad. I've over 7000km at Ingress, and that's probably 60% of all I've walked with it.
Yeah... it should be 1 candy per KM.
Thats super reasonable.
1 Candy for 3KM? HAH!
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
out of this many eggs ive only gotten 1 grimer and not a single koffing(found 1 in the wild) so i dont care how long it takes but grinding out the candy is better then nothing at all
WhiteRabbitEXE
Member
How the fuck? Do you constantly have 9 incubators or something? That's insane.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
yes incubators at all times
Lee Chaolan
Member
So how much would you say you've spent on the game thus far?
I've only just started buying the Google Play Cards recently for the incubators.
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
dont do what i have done i am a goddamn maniac ive bought 3 of the $99 packs and a few of the $10 and $20 packs but i always have lures incense and eggs active with every egg in a incubator
Lee Chaolan
Member
yeah I've bought three 20 dollar packs already and sorta regret not buying the 40, or just even waiting for 100. lol
I may even trade some old stuff in that I don't use so I don't feel as bad about spending that much xD
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
yeah was why i stopped buying the $10 and $20 packs if i was already willing to spend that might as well go all in and get the $99 packs youll end up saving money in the end
Lee Chaolan
Member
Rygar 8 Bit
Jaguar 64-bit
nice was it a good gengar?
deanote666
Member
Yes. If you clicked on the lure bubble, it would show the name.
Naughty_Doge
Member
At least Pikachu is only 1 km per candy.
ReyBrujo
Member
Highlights today were a 1500 Magmar and a 1500 Blastoise (first time I find a third evolution stage pokemon in the wild). Also, gym leader of a L9 one, still 6 alive around. Since they killed most of the cheaters (especially Instinct ones) Valor gyms stay up for longer. Today I trained my 600 squirtle vs a 1100 flareon getting 900 prestige per battle.
Lee Chaolan
Member
900 CP and a "Strong" rating (second best) from Candella, so I'd say pretty decent. Lots of Gastlys here so I may decide to strengthen it a bit.
Lee Chaolan
Member
Grats. There's 'some' Bulbasaurs here, but they're a bit a ways away, so will take me a while.
With Magikarps only being 1km a candy, I may do that for the extra 100 candies I need for Gyrados for my Pokedex.
dreamlongdead
Member
I saw three new Pokemon on the radar today. Diglett showed up outside of my house, but I didn't walk outside to get him in time. Grimer and Omanyte showed up in another part of town, and I caught both of them.
These are not amazing Pokemon at all, but they are at least new Pokedex entries. I'm at 108 seen/caught, but I'm putting this game down as soon as all of my Lucky Eggs and Incubators are gone. I haven't put any money in, but it's getting to the point where playing for free is not worthwhile.
I will need to be in a city if I want to be able to reliable catch stuff. I'll only be able to get several evolutions by finding them in the wild, because the base forms are extremely hard to find here.
These are not amazing Pokemon at all, but they are at least new Pokedex entries. I'm at 108 seen/caught, but I'm putting this game down as soon as all of my Lucky Eggs and Incubators are gone. I haven't put any money in, but it's getting to the point where playing for free is not worthwhile.
I will need to be in a city if I want to be able to reliable catch stuff. I'll only be able to get several evolutions by finding them in the wild, because the base forms are extremely hard to find here.
That would have seemed reasonable to me. Or every 1km chance at a candy, ultra, or razz. 3km is a lot for just one candy. I've done 160km since the game started and I consider that a pretty hefty amount. So I would barely have had enough to evolve a Dratini (5km per candy). They clearly don't want people using it for evolutions. I'd be OK using it just to get Snorlax or Lapras candy if it came with some stardust too, but I'm short on that as it is too.
This.
Huge problem is the tracking, I can walk 5K or 10K but good luck getting the game to recognize that.
Nothing worse than going on a long walk and after realizing the game apparently wasn't paying attention. Given the enormous amount of fitness apps and easiness of step counters... this is inexcusable for a game built around walking.
BoboBrazil
Member
Well they ruined the chance of me ever going back to this game by blocking rooted users. I was planning on going back once battles were in.
http://pokemongohub.net/datamined-go-plus-coming-android-wear/
Time to look into a Android Watch i guess if what they're saying is true about not having to have the app running.
Also looks like the method to get by root check for Android Pay has been confirmed to work on reddit/xda.
Time to look into a Android Watch i guess if what they're saying is true about not having to have the app running.
Also looks like the method to get by root check for Android Pay has been confirmed to work on reddit/xda.
Updated my list of distanced to walk each Pokémon buddy. Honestly, it seems a bit crazy and it would take me absolutely forever to evolve my Dratini -.- Better than nothing... but still was hoping it would be better.
http://www.levelbased.com/guides/pokemon-go/15-buddy-system/
http://www.levelbased.com/guides/pokemon-go/15-buddy-system/
you could previously see the name of who put it if you tapped on the lure, but outright showing the name like that is new.
chrominance
Member
Go+ preorder cancelled. This seems way more useful even if it just replicates existing Go+ functionality.
I would be cool with 1 candy every 3/5km if they increased the speed limit so I could at least get some while riding my bike to work and back home. That's still exercise (which is what they care about) and I'm not going anywhere nearly as fast as a car, train or whatever. The current limit speed and how bad it is sometimes at registering the distances makes for a bad app even for that kind of stuff
A guy on reddit was showing how on a pidgey walk instead of getting just one candy, he got 2.
So perhaps sometimes you will get more than the standard. Would be nice. Also get experience for it?
Anybody here have the updated and tested it out?
Still not live here... (this is what my life has been reduced to, anxiously waiting for game updates? really?)
So perhaps sometimes you will get more than the standard. Would be nice. Also get experience for it?
Anybody here have the updated and tested it out?
Still not live here... (this is what my life has been reduced to, anxiously waiting for game updates? really?)
chrominance
Member
The original update that mentioned the buddy system implied that you might get other rewards besides candy; it would make sense for that to be based on total distance traveled or some other measure of how tight a relationship you have with your buddy (ex. how long that pokemon has been your buddy). It's even possible the current update already has this stuff in it, and we just don't know yet because the update's only been out for a few hours.
A guy on reddit was showing how on a magikarp walk he was getting 500xp
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/524m57/seems_like_your_pokemon_finds_a_candy_magikarp/