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[Hawkian]

Ashby, the speed limit pertains to the distances you need to walk/jog/slowly ride your bike to hatch eggs, nothing else.

How do you leave a Poke at a friendly gym?

There'll be buttons on the bottom to train and leave a Pokémon, but you can only leave Pokémon if the gym has free slots.

The gym was the same color as my team, and j had a button on the bottom left of the screen. Bottom right is battle (1 on 1)

Ah the dark side of city living. I only had a boxing glove icon at my local Brooklyn friendly gym.

Just to elaborate here:

If you attack a friendly Gym, you get XP, and the Gym gets Prestige. To get the most benefit, attack with Pokemon very close to (especially slightly under) CP of what your allies have at that Gym. When a Gym gets enough prestige, it goes up in Gym Level and unlocks another Pokemon slot. If you're on the Gym when the slot is open you can leave one of your Pokes in it.

If any individual pokemon is defeated in an actual battle (other team), it gets sent back to the owner. Challengers have to defeat all of the pokemon stashed there to actually claim the Gym.

 

[sgjackson]

Holy shit I just caught two Pokemon and got Pokeballs from a Pokestop going 60 mph down the highway with my gf driving. Who said there was a limiter at 25mph haha

I think it's range based - I've been sitting in cars doing 30-40 and grabbing like 8 stops in a minute. It's awesome.

 

[Kinsei]

It's good to know that my surrounding area is basically just Route 1 and 2. Only get Pidgeys, Spearows, Ratattas, and Weedles. Thanks, Nintendo.

Also, anytime I actually go to the city proper the servers go down, so annoying lol...

Ha-ha, right? I already wasted one trip downtown. I'm scared I'll waste another.

If you're in NA then if you're on the east coast then go before the west coast wakes up. If you're on the west coast then wait for the east coast to go to sleep.

 

[Dyna]

I'm really liking the game so far, it's really addicting - and great exercise too! Today's notable finds were Beedrill, Gloom and Eevee. I also had an egg (5km) in the incubator and a Nidoran hatched out of it. I was also amazed to see that other people in my area have been playing the game, I found a few gyms that were conquered by other players. Tackled on a few of those and won, ha! The battle system is a bit strange, I just tapped the screen furiously until the opponent's Pokémon fainted. Is it supposed to work like that? The game really makes me lose track of time and suddenly my walks are way longer than usual, there's always one PokéSpot that's nearby or a gym that I just have to check out... Hopefully they'll fix the server/connection issues in the near future, that's the only bad thing about the game for me right now.

 

[Panda Rin]

Went for a 2-mile run...and only caught a rattata

 

[Unbounded]

Guh. I want this game so bad but I can't play it on my Galaxy S3.

Live the dream for me guys.

 

[eudaemonic]

Saw three teens at a Pokéstop with their phones out so I yelled "BULBASAUR!!" at them. *chuckles*

 

[Dennis]

lol I am walking by the lake in Centennial Park, Nashville and all around people are talking about and playing Pokemon Go.

Waiting for a corpse to float by any minute now.

 

[Hawkian]

Is it supposed to work like that?

Your options during battle are:

Regular attack by tap (charges your "super meter")
Dodge left or right by swiping
Special attack (when meter is charged) by holding down.

The special your pokemon has and how much it takes to fill the meter can vary, as can the type of the move (old super/not very effective rules).

 

[Red]

I can get in game but am stuck with "No GPS signal found."

Aaaaand here come the server issues

 

[SoulUnison]

I caught an Alakazam at the park!

Gym Battles are totally borked... They either won't load or I can't win because of the 1HP bug.

I wish there was some sort of indicator or something during battle of when you're "ready" for another move, and I wish special attack was just a button instead of a long press.
There's no feedback and sometimes things just don't register.

Wish this had even a "lite" version of the normal battle system instead of this "tap as fast as you can with some numbers attached" system.

Hopefully they gradually introduce the real battle system as a way to introduce newcomers to Pokemon.

 

[Kssio_Aug]

That sounds kind of weird. If you haven't try uninstalling and reinstalling maybe? If you're using an apk, uninstall that and get the regular Play Store version. Outside of that you might just be boned for the time being, in which you should contact Niantic who might be able to help out. But at this point contacting them might be difficult lol

Yeah, that's soo strange! :/ I hope it gets fixed soon, if I wasn't banned!

 

[Tall4Life]

Also, I do wonder how Pokestops are chosen. There are Pokestops in my city just for fucking murals on the walls near train tracks. I don't really understand why. Also, some of the descriptions seem to be from Google Maps or something, because I've noticed small grammatical errors like extra spaces in some of them.

 

[Ferrio]

Also, I do wonder how Pokestops are chosen. There are Pokestops in my city just for fucking murals on the walls near train tracks. I don't really understand why. Also, some of the descriptions seem to be from Google Maps or something, because I've noticed small grammatical errors like extra spaces in some of them.

The game prior to this (Ingress) allowed players to submit landmarks that could be used as portals (ingress's version of pokestops/gyms). They're using all that data for this game.

 

[Chaos17]

Saw three teens at a Pokéstop with their phones out so I yelled "BULBASAUR!!" at them. *chuckles*

How did they responded ? XD

 

[SoulUnison]

Also, I do wonder how Pokestops are chosen. There are Pokestops in my city just for fucking murals on the walls near train tracks. I don't really understand why. Also, some of the descriptions seem to be from Google Maps or something, because I've noticed small grammatical errors like extra spaces in some of them.

There desperately needs to be some sort of convenient, transparent way to suggest/edit PokeStops. There's a couple things by my house - shopping centers, parks, a sculpture or two, but none of it is in the system. When I go into town to find things, they're often spelled strangely or described wrong or have a terrible photo provided.

Let me fix that and do the legwork for you, Niantec/Nintendo!
I don't want my city represented by misspellings, out of date info, and out of focus photos with fingers half over the lens.

 

[RecRoulette]

PTC login is still broke, is it worth it to just switch to Google?

 

[Violet_0]

How did they responded ? XD

they punched me in the gut and stole my wallet ... oh, sorry, you were replying to eudaemonic

 

[Speedy Blue Dude]

By the way, walking last night I found the most depressing Pokemon I've ever seen.

Come on bruh. I've found stronger Rhyhorns than you. -.-

 

[Khalifa Jayy]

So what's the point of the game?

 

[SoulUnison]

You shouldn't be able to "Transfer" Favorited Pokemon.

There's a million little quality-of-life and presentation issues this app needs to fix.

 

[Hustler]

Has anyone been able to takeover a gym? I'm running into the 1hp glitch and then my Pokemon die, other times it'll freeze and my Pokemon remain at full health. Could've taken over at least 3 gyms on the way home from work!

 

[Ferrio]

So what's the point of the game?

1. Catch them all.
2. Taking over gyms for your team.

 

[Elfstruck]

Waaahhh, caught a squirtle and sandshrew in my room. Didn't know you could catch starter pokemon after your first login.

 

[Red]

So what's the point of the game?

Collect Pokémon, control territory.

Waaahhh, caught a squirtle and sandshrew in my room. Didn't know you could catch starter pokemon after your first login.

You in fact must catch more of them to evolve the one you choose.

 

[jerry113]

I live in Howell, NJ - the epitome of suburbia. I walked down the street to the Baptist Chirch (pokestop), spun it, then walked to the edge of the parking lot where a water tower (gym) stands. The gym has 2 Pokemon - a ~100 venonat and a ~400 vaporeon. I had never battled before but managed to beat venonat. I got vaporeon halfway down before my team bit the dust. It took a few minutes and then googling to realize how to heal my team. I thought with venonat down (does he stay down?) I might be able to take on vaporeon.

I challenge the gym again and now it's only a Venomoth. Weird..what happened? I then see a car with 2 dudes in front of the water tower in the short dead-end driveway. They reverse and drive off, and I realize they had beat the vaporeon and took over the gym, right in front of me! They were also team blue so I left my kadabra and went home. Looking now, 2 hours later, my kadabra is back with me and another Pokemon is at the gym. I can't believe this - I'm not in a major city or anything, yet the craze is in full effect.

This game is ridiculous. I love it.

I live near a cemetary and this is the first time I've seen kids just walking around the cemetary for fun. lol.

 

[BenjaminBirdie]

Walking around the park and I put up a lure. It was like a migration of people lmfao.

Do lures show up on everyone's maps?

That's amazing.

 

[Not]

This is neåt. not sure if it's been posted

 

[Keyser Soze]

So what's the point of the game?

1) To be the very best, like no one ever was.
2) Travel across the land, searching far and wide
3) Battle everyday, to claim your rightful place

 

[digitalflame]

This is neåt. not sure if it's been posted

Is this based on data or just an estimate?

 

[Falchion]

Just got back from a 1.5 hour walk down by the beach. Caught a shit ton of Pokemon (Dratini!!!) and am almost level 10. I've heard that you can catch a Gyrados right by the water but I walked around at the edge for a while with no luck. You have to go at the top of the beach where there's a bunch of Pokestops on the boardwalk to get all the Pokemon.

Also for me, walking on the grass tornadoes doesn't trigger wild Pokemon to appear so I'm not really sure how that works.

 

[TimeEffect]

Any way to cheat the walking and make the game walk for u? >_>

 

[everyday math]

I have to many eggs.

 

[QisTopTier]

So has this game killed anyone yet

 

[Silphonica]

anyone in the uk who made an international account know if we'll have to start again when the uk one is released?

 

[jasminlovesyoux]

This is neåt. not sure if it's been posted

Not accurate in West Los Angeles at all.

For sure pidgey, rattata and zubat are the absolute most commons though. That seems to be the case everywhere.

 

[Elfstruck]

This is neåt. not sure if it's been posted

I want magma >:-(

 

[ReaperXL7]

This is neåt. not sure if it's been posted

Kiss my ass...I want to find a snorelax

 

[everyday math]

Any way to cheat the walking and make the game walk for u? >_>

Get in your car and drive.

 

[xXCrazyCostaXX]

I caught a snorlax on my table at winghouse lol

 

[CountAntonius]

Kiss my ass...I want to find a snorelax

They exist. One of them guards a gym by my house.

 

[ReaperXL7]

They exist. One of them guards a gym by my house.

I know but if they are under the myth category I'm guessing they are super rare.

 

[Kinsei]

This is neåt. not sure if it's been posted

Is this based off of data mining?

 

[xXCrazyCostaXX]

If anyone cares the snorlax I caught was caught with incense.

 

[Rhomega Beta]

Get in your car and drive.

And even that probably won't work depending on your speed.

 

[everyday math]

And even that probably won't work depending on your speed.

It does. Just drive around town. I know cause I did it lol.

 

[A Human Becoming]

So has this game killed anyone yet

No but it did assist in finding a dead body.

 

[parasight]

This is neåt. not sure if it's been posted

It's just one guys experience. The spawns are region-based. For example, in Canada (Toronto here) there are tons of Jynx everywhere.

 

[Reszo]

This is neåt. not sure if it's been posted

Nooo i need magmar noooww

 

[Chaos17]

I can't get enough of those stories XD

I work at an answering service that takes after hours maintenance calls for apartment complexes, and last night I had a call from a tenant trying to report suspicious looking guys who kept stopping and looking at there phones... I had to page the on call maintenance man about it. I wanted to tell her, "look lady they're prolly just capturing pidgeys to level up their pidgot, chill"

https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4rvl1f/taking_911_calls_at_0300_when_suddenly/