Pokémon Go |OT| As in "Go Outside"

That's unrelated- we're talking about step counting (mostly for hatching eggs)

Holy fuck dude. Look at your arsenal. I want a 565 Scyther ;_;

It hatched out of an 10KM egg. And I used the 18 candies that came with it to power it up to that CP!
 
Is there anyway to stay signed on? Otherwise it's a no go for me.

I'm pretty sure it's supposed to keep you signed in. When I first downloaded before the servers died, I could close the app completely and reopen without having to log in again. After the servers got massacred, I have had to log in every time, even when I just minimize the app... my rule of thumb to stay positive about this app is to blame all of my misgivings on the servers.
 
I finally got the game to start but now I'm just standing in the middle of the ocean surrounded by the three starters and it's telling me to catch a pokemon. I'm tapping and nothing is happening. What do I do?
 
I finally got the game to start but now I'm just standing in the middle of the ocean surrounded by the three starters and it's telling me to catch a pokemon. I'm tapping and nothing is happening. What do I do?

Server issues. Turn it off and try again later.
 
Two questions:

Do Pokémon appear in the same spot for everyone?

And have any of you met a random stranger playing the game as you were playing it?
 
Weird that the Pokemon GO Plus accessory is listed at the end of the month. I need that thing now so I can stop draining my battery three times over before work ends.
 
I have no idea how to play this.

I have gone to several places today and have not found a single Pokemon other than the one I got when the game started.

I've visited some of the stops and gotten balls, but I want Pokemon.

What is the small bar on the bottom right? I click it and it says Nearby I can click on some, but o have no idea what it does.
 
Two questions:

Do Pokémon appear in the same spot for everyone?

And have any of you met a random stranger playing the game as you were playing it?

When I've gone out in a group, we usually saw the same Pokemon at the same time. Sometimes it would disappear on people though.

I ran into some people last night actually. It was like 11PM in a park, and we happened to see another group of people walking around with their phones. We made some small talk and gave tips on where we found certain Pokemon, It was pretty cool.
 
And the servers work after I'm minutes away from home. Fantastic. At least I hatched an Abra and got an incubator from a Pokestop so I can work off some of these eggs.
 
GPS issues are persisting, couldn't even tap the pokestop this time due to teleporting constantly out of range...

We still don't have Miitomo in the Scandinavian countries :lol Hopefully PKMN GO comes out here soon. US version already works for my area

How are your encounters? I'm close to an isolated pokestop and I only encountered Pokemon around it. There was some rustling grass even when not being able to see the stop on the map any more, but no encounters at all. I'm hoping it's a one time fluke or a result of not being officially released yet, because it would be piss boring if you can't encounter pokemon while out and about less "cultured" neighborhoods.

How many of you are using your google login vs the pokemon club one?

Google, I couldn't see the option for choosing any other account. It is even using my main google, would have prefered to set it to my alternate but I guess it went with what it found without asking what I thought about the matter.
 
I haven't been able to log on since 11am EST (Pokemon trainer club account). I know server issues are the major reason but people keep saying the servers are going back up. I'm assuming that's for the google accounts?
 
When I've gone out in a group, we usually saw the same Pokemon at the same time. Sometimes it would disappear on people though.

I ran into some people last night actually. It was like 11PM in a park, and we happened to see another group of people walking around with their phones. We made some small talk and gave tips on where we found certain Pokemon, It was pretty cool.

That sounds awesome even if it works sometimes. I'm away from university right now, but I can only imagine how cool it is meeting new like-minded people.
 
how do you find Pokemon I'm just walking around a parking lot

Click on the white icon on the lower right on the screen to see which Pokemon are nearby. They will have footstep icons beside them to denote how far they are from you (with three being the farthest) and then start hunting! You can tap on a specific Pokemon to have it displayed in the lower right so you can see if you start moving away from it.

And have any of you met a random stranger playing the game as you were playing it?

Nope. I'm hoping that changes once the game is released here in Canada.
 
Now that I know my work is full of pocket Pokemon fans, I am hitting up friends.

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Two questions:

Do Pokémon appear in the same spot for everyone?

And have any of you met a random stranger playing the game as you were playing it?

I am actively avoiding the guy who is fighting me and taking the same gym in the parking lot I work at. I'm spoofing my location so I don't have to go over there and he is visibly frustrated that I keep taking the gym back. I saw him outside looking around after I took it but he can't seem to find me... this is way more fun than meeting new people.
 
I am actively avoiding the guy who is fighting me and taking the same gym in the parking lot I work at. I'm spoofing my location so I don't have to go over there and he is visibly frustrated that I keep taking the gym back. I saw him outside looking around after I took it but he can't seem to find me... this is way more fun than meeting new people.

is this post serious.
 
Is there any way to start your game over/reset? I linked my profile to my Google account. Please tell me it's not just the one account and there's a way to reset/change your name/start over.
 
I haven't been able to log on since 11am EST (Pokemon trainer club account). I know server issues are the major reason but people keep saying the servers are going back up. I'm assuming that's for the google accounts?

I'm in the same boat with my PTC account, I can login fine with my google account but my PTC account is just dead in the water and has been for most of the day.
 
I am actively avoiding the guy who is fighting me and taking the same gym in the parking lot I work at. I'm spoofing my location so I don't have to go over there and he is visibly frustrated that I keep taking the gym back. I saw him outside looking around after I took it but he can't seem to find me... this is way more fun than meeting new people.
Wonderful haha. The hospital is a gym, if I see patients trying to fight me I'm gonna have to fight the urge to tell them that you can't use phones.
 
6 Pokeballs left (For some reason sometimes when I throw up it goes way to the side)... It's 21:45 and I'm too tired to go out to a pokestop about 15 minutes down the road for 3 pokeballs.

I might need to stop playing and go on a big pokestop tour when I'm free.
 
I finally got back on but there are no Pokémon anywhere close to my office, even imaginary creatures avoid this joyless place.

If anything I'd think there would be Krabbys, because that's how work makes me feel.
 
I'm pretty sure it's supposed to keep you signed in. When I first downloaded before the servers died, I could close the app completely and reopen without having to log in again. After the servers got massacred, I have had to log in every time, even when I just minimize the app... my rule of thumb to stay positive about this app is to blame all of my misgivings on the servers.
Yeah, you're not supposed to have to log in more than once..
 
6 Pokeballs left (For some reason sometimes when I throw up it goes way to the side)... It's 21:45 and I'm too tired to go out to a pokestop about 15 minutes down the road for 3 pokeballs.

I might need to stop playing and go on a big pokestop tour when I'm free.

I'm down to 8. I might catch a bus into the city tomorrow because I'm sure there's a town of Pokestops downtown.
 
unable to connect at all. keep getting failed to get player info from server.

unless youre force-closing the app and retrying constantly through the day, then I would say its due to their server issues, nothing with your phone.

i've only been able to play about a total of 5 or 10 mins and ive been trying for the past 4 hours.
 
And have any of you met a random stranger playing the game as you were playing it?

I just had a gym taken by a red team member right as I was trying to claim it for the blue team!

Some yellow team person had taken it yesterday, and I was one of the first people at my office so I beat his Pokemon and claimed the spot. When the servers came back on during my lunch break, I noticed that the gym was now unclaimed. I walked over there and noticed another guy holding up his phone walking in a similar direction. We both stopped to look at our phones about 40-50 feet from each other. As I was selecting a Pokemon, the gym was claimed!
 
I am actively avoiding the guy who is fighting me and taking the same gym in the parking lot I work at. I'm spoofing my location so I don't have to go over there and he is visibly frustrated that I keep taking the gym back. I saw him outside looking around after I took it but he can't seem to find me... this is way more fun than meeting new people.

Niantic has been pretty serious about banning people for location spoofing in Ingress. If you're just moving 50 yards to a nearby lot, it might pass detection, but if you value your progress, it would be wise to stop (or just start a new account now in case you've already been flagged for a ban wave).
 
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