Pokémon Go |OT| As in "Go Outside"
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FirstClaes
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I want to go out and play, but it's raining 
Vanillalite
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This.
Current gameplay loop requires Poke Balls. Without them you are fundamentally gated and can't do anything else to progress on your own.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
Yeah, and if they created a system that gave you pokestop items, you'd have a fairly equal experience, but if they just made pokeballs unlimited I'd have an advantage + unlimited pokeballs. Which makes me less likely to go to Pokestops.
I want to go out and play, but it's raining
I'd rather see some rain than go out with this hoeat tbh lol
superNESjoe
Member
I haven't seen another starter yet, I only have caterpie, weedle, pidgey and sometimes a venonat near me. My Bulbasaur is useless.
orthodoxy1095
Banned
I live in a university town, and surprisingly it seems like a barren wasteland here.
Vanillalite
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Poke Balls are the worst item you an get in terms of perceived best item though.
It's only become the best item do to the broken gameplay loop.
Getting masterballs, lures, incense, eggs should all be better 1:1 than balls.
Hence why you'd want to hit up the Poke Stops.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
I have to put forth effort to go out so I can continue to play for free. If I don't have to put that effort forth I won't. Completely ruining the urge to go to the park just for pokeballs. Your idea would almost ruin the game for me.
Vanillalite
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You should be going to the park to catch Pokémon.
This post right here shows how the gameplay setup in this game is fucked.
It's not about going to catch Pokémon for you. It's about going to grab balls.
This game is not about items you know?
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
I can walk around anywhere and catch pokemon, I have to go to the park to get pokeballs.
Yeah, it's about pokemon. Which I need items to get.
Sweet.
This is like one step away from those minigames in Watch Dogs. The cyberpunk future is now.
You won't get specific pokemon until you move to specific locations.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
So? I don't understand what this point has to do with creating a handicap mode for people far away from pokestops.
superNESjoe
Member
You know what ruins the game for a lot more people in a far more detrimental way? Living out in a rural area where there aren't pokestops for miles. Those people can't even go around their area and catch Pokemon without paying money or driving miles into the nearest town.
My phones GPS is crap. everytime I go even a little bit off the bigger roads my character just stops responding at all. Theres a huge forest walk path right next to my apartment but its not worth to go there in hopes of catching pokemon cause my character stands still and teleports around. Theres also 3 pokestops really close to my apartment but I cant get my character next to them cause its a sand road just a little off the mainroad. What a bummer.
Streaming yes, headcam not yet.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
Go back a few replies in that post line. I proposed a way to fix that.
The problem is, what would you consider far away?
If someone lives 250m from the next stop will get free balls but the person next door lives 245m next from it and won't get free balls, is that fair?
The solution of unlimited Pokeballs would not cripple anyone in any way. The people who live next to plenty already have unlimited balls with no effort at all, but people who live behind the moon can play the game normally.
Vanillalite
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You probably don't even have to walk where you live. You probably can catch some in your house. Yet you have to walk to get balls.
This is why the gameplay loop is fucked.
It should spawn Poke based on movement vs just spawning them based on the map. Not counting lures and incense obviously.
Poke should spawn at X rate for Y distance traveled. That way it gets people on the GO.
I think your idea was good. Maybe every 1KM gives 10 pokeballs. Better than infinite pokeballs. That would be awful
I'm not sure if unlimited balls would be the best solution either. An alternate way to do could be to refill the balls to a minimum point every day. So if I spend all my balls today, tomorrow it's refilled to 50 or something.
Also make items spawn randomly like pokemon do. Looking for chests and items in the wild have always been a part of the pokemon games. Maybe your pokemon can pick up items randomly as well when you walk.
Also make items spawn randomly like pokemon do. Looking for chests and items in the wild have always been a part of the pokemon games. Maybe your pokemon can pick up items randomly as well when you walk.
Dirtyshubb
Member
Went out for lunch and had a walk around, saw a few lures going on which was nice to see.
Annoyingly I decided to upgrade a gym someone else had already taken over so I did about 5 battles, slowly getting more prestige. Right as I upgrade it to the next level so I can add one of my Pokémon I see someone else has somehow snuck theirs in so my levelling was for naught
Annoyingly I decided to upgrade a gym someone else had already taken over so I did about 5 battles, slowly getting more prestige. Right as I upgrade it to the next level so I can add one of my Pokémon I see someone else has somehow snuck theirs in so my levelling was for naught
Also I noticed Pokemon spawn way more in towns/dense areas and like never in rural areas...
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
I don't know but not 250 miles. That's far as hell. They could tinker with that.
No I can't, I have to walk unless I have insence. Or it gives me almost no pokemon ever.
Aw, shame. Ideally, I think it would be neat to have a split screen with the cam and the game. Somebody will do it at some point. I'm waiting for someone to "hardcore" stream it by going in dangerous areas, the wilderness, or simply while black.
Fuck yeah it has been. It's brought all my close friends 20 times closer together
superNESjoe
Member
I met a group of teens yesterday playing downtown, one of which holds all 9 gyms in town. I stand zero chance of getting a gym in town because this little dude has way more time than me, so I've given up on it already. I'll have to try somewhere else.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
I'm talkin meters, i'm not part of the 0,2%
250 meters is like nothing. The closest one to me is probably like 500m then. I have to drive like 5 miles to get to the park.
This. There's three pokestops near me unless I go further than a half hour in any direction.
This game sounds super fun if I could walk to five or six pokestops in a reasonable amount of time.
Instead I drive ten minutes, get three pokeballs, drive ten more, hit those two stops, drive a while more and get to a gym.
This game is broken for people who live places like I do unless you pay money.
The worst part is there are plenty of landmarks and buildings that should definitely be pokestops or gyms, but ingress never took off here so fuck me I guess. The game needs a submission for stops/gyms process.
PandaShake
Member
Went out for lunch and had a walk around, saw a few lures going on which was nice to see.
Annoyingly I decided to upgrade a gym someone else had already taken over so I did about 5 battles, slowly getting more prestige. Right as I upgrade it to the next level so I can add one of my Pokémon I see someone else has somehow snuck theirs in so my levelling was for naught
How you do upgrade gyms? After I captured a gym, the only option after I clicked on it was to fight against my own pokemon that I placed in the gym.
JetBlackPanda
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Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
Read back a few more replies I proposed a way to fix that.
Vanillalite
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That's cause the whole gameplay loop is based on the map overlay vs distance traveled.
This means Poke Spawns, stops, rares, items, gyms well everything.
The core game all revolves around the map overlay vs distance traveled, and it needs to be fundamentally reworked to revolve around the latter.
Yeah, can be tough for some gyms. I noticed some high ones. But, over time getting higher CP Pokemon won't be that hard I think. My Eevee was like CP 150ish and then became a CP 650ish Flareon. But, I'll need bigger Pokemon to take on the bigger gyms. For now, luckily there are a lot of gyms in a like 15 mile radius of my place & work. So plenty to choose from.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
Like someone else said, they should have a "home" point you can set that kinda works like a stop. Slowly heals your Pokemon over time but also allows you to get up to 5 free pokeballs per day.
I don't think that will ever happen.
Vanillalite
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That way only works if you change it so all players move to a distance traveled vs geo location method for the game.
Not that I'm against moving away from geo location and more towards distance.