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no one can see that but you sadly
Pokémon Go |OT| As in "Go Outside"
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no one can see that but you sadly
Tritroid
Member
By the way, for the people saying they're walking for hours and nothing finding anything, always double-check to make sure your game is active.
I noticed a few times today while out and about that the game was still 'running' but more or less frozen with nothing new loading. You can check this by actually clicking the map and making sure the 'blue circle' happens.
If it doesn't, you'll need to restart the app, because no Pokemon are going to appear.
I noticed a few times today while out and about that the game was still 'running' but more or less frozen with nothing new loading. You can check this by actually clicking the map and making sure the 'blue circle' happens.
If it doesn't, you'll need to restart the app, because no Pokemon are going to appear.
Deactivate AR. It's nice if you want to take a picture but other than that it's just a hassle.
ArkkAngel007
Member
I spent days attempting to register an account to use for the game...only to find out the other night I had one the entire time (probably from X&Y).
Today being the first day, it went smooth mostly. Had to close out and go back in a couple of times from either the screen not responding to touch prompts or the pokeball capturing and then eternally sitting there while moving like the Pokemon instead of going into the capturing phase.
Spent a bit over an hour in the park with my infant nephew to give the game a go. Pidgeys, Venonats, Weedles, and Rattata were easy finds, with quite a few convenient modules to loop to. Someone had placed a lure at one, and I nabbed a Ghastly there. The Metapod I encountered refused to be caught, so that was the one to get away for the day.
It was amazing to see so many others out doing the same stuff, and even more-so how people were engaging each other despite the game itself not having much of a social aspect.
It's a simple and fun thing, though I do wonder how well the Pokemon are distributed throughout areas and if there is any actual rhyme or reason on how they are. My friends in Chicago seem to be nabbing much more than those in the small city I'm in. Could just be perception or could be an actual issue with favoring major cities and such over other areas.
For now though, I'm enjoying it and hope it sticks.
Today being the first day, it went smooth mostly. Had to close out and go back in a couple of times from either the screen not responding to touch prompts or the pokeball capturing and then eternally sitting there while moving like the Pokemon instead of going into the capturing phase.
Spent a bit over an hour in the park with my infant nephew to give the game a go. Pidgeys, Venonats, Weedles, and Rattata were easy finds, with quite a few convenient modules to loop to. Someone had placed a lure at one, and I nabbed a Ghastly there. The Metapod I encountered refused to be caught, so that was the one to get away for the day.
It was amazing to see so many others out doing the same stuff, and even more-so how people were engaging each other despite the game itself not having much of a social aspect.
It's a simple and fun thing, though I do wonder how well the Pokemon are distributed throughout areas and if there is any actual rhyme or reason on how they are. My friends in Chicago seem to be nabbing much more than those in the small city I'm in. Could just be perception or could be an actual issue with favoring major cities and such over other areas.
For now though, I'm enjoying it and hope it sticks.
balladofwindfishes
Member
Oh come on, some kid and his mom just drove up to the gym I was a part of and clobbered my poor Golbat.
Looks like the gym leader's Venomoth held them back though. We still own the gym and they left!
Huzzah! I'll have to go back tomorrow and replace my Golbat.
Looks like the gym leader's Venomoth held them back though. We still own the gym and they left!
Huzzah! I'll have to go back tomorrow and replace my Golbat.
I have the bag upgrade and can only carry 9 eggs
Don't remember how many I could carry before the upgrade though
victreeb3l
Member
Went to get some groceries and coffee and caught a few new Pokemon. Found an Ekans which was awesome.
Saw so many adults playing it. Thinking about going to Central Park and Nintendo NY tomorrow and see how much I can catch on my way there and back.
Saw so many adults playing it. Thinking about going to Central Park and Nintendo NY tomorrow and see how much I can catch on my way there and back.
Same.
Pros for turning AR off:
1. It makes you less like a crazy person, you can just ease in against a wall and look at your phone normally. Several times I was coming up close to women or elderly(with AR on) and the alarm would go off and I was thinking "not now!".
2. It makes it much easier to catching small agile targets like birds and Zubat etc.
3. The in-game backgrounds are Ok.
Cons:
1. AR presents some great photo opportunities.
2. More immersive I guess.
AcademicSaucer
Member
Is this real ?(from reddit)
im at 9 without the bag upgrade. so nope, doesn't increase egg count.
How do the spawns work anyway? I mean does it really attempt to populate via GPS mountain or plains region/body of water/etc.?
EDIT: My AR is staying on. Just have the volume up and they'll know whats up. Either way, just have fun with it...you're exploring the real world for virtual Pokemon after all.
Father_Brain
Banned
Ah, thanks. Thought they'd be in the item menu.
Man, this game really needs a better tutorial.
sonycowboy
Member
My daughter really wants to play, but we can't even register. Tied ~10 times today and keep getting the page that states that they're limiting the registration and to try back in an hour.
Silphonica
Banned
this happens to me, i reset my phone.
Is this real ?(from reddit)
It is, but it looks like a pretty normal spike I guess considering the past 90 days looks like this
Silphonica
Banned
Icyflamez96
Member
Shamrock7r
Member
won't let me sign on now, weird
i am running the game on the iOS 10 beta. I seem to have far less crashes and freezes than my friend on iOS 9 whos been running around with me all day.
Problems i am aware of for the game in ios 10: it can't use the its unable to do AR properly, and battery saver mode doesn't work.
Problems i am aware of for the game in ios 10: it can't use the its unable to do AR properly, and battery saver mode doesn't work.
Question: If a Pokemon is XL, does that guarantee it's evolution will also be XL?
Pops Maellard
Member
I had the same issues, so I'm restoring my phone to iOS 9.3.2 right now. AR mode and battery saver mode are super, super worth it tbh. Shame it doesn't work with iOS 10 right now, but it isn't exactly fair to expect it to at this stage.
i do somewhat miss the AR, however, my battery was lasting much longer in iOS10 then my friends was in 9 with battery saver on.
diablos991
Can’t stump the diablos
How is everyone such high level? I could barely make it to lvl 5. Every time I go for a walk the servers are down and I don't have the patience to constantly refresh.
That being said, I went to the park today and ran into 3 groups of people playing. Pretty cool!
I have a park my my house that has 9 pokestop and 2 gyms. Takes 5 -7 minutes to hit every pokestop so going back and forth is loads of exp. Last couple of nights we put 3 lures down covering the entire park and use a shiny egg.
Went from 5-10 in a few hours that way.
Question for a first time gym battler: I go to my team's gym to train and lose each battle since they have much higher cp Pokemon, but I don't receive any xp and the gym gains no prestige. Is this normal? For reference, I'll bring in a 76cp Pokemon to screw around and fight their 310cp Pokemon to give the gym prestige.
Meh, AR mode sucks
Silphonica
Banned
How is everyone such high level? I could barely make it to lvl 5. Every time I go for a walk the servers are down and I don't have the patience to constantly refresh.
That being said, I went to the park today and ran into 3 groups of people playing. Pretty cool!
Catch a whole ton of whatever is common in your area (pidgey, rattata probably). Use an incense and a lucky egg and evolve all those common pokemon you caught. turn in the majority of them, weaker ones for more candy to keep evolving the basic pokemons. Walk around and catch everything with remaining time, evolving when possible until the egg and incense run out. Got me leveled up really fast. Level 12 now.
How is everyone such high level? I could barely make it to lvl 5. Every time I go for a walk the servers are down and I don't have the patience to constantly refresh.
That being said, I went to the park today and ran into 3 groups of people playing. Pretty cool!
I'm lvl 7 now. Just don't take this too seriously. Take a walk, have fun, talk to people. Leveling up shouldn't be your main objective. 😄
Marmaladefire
Member
How is everyone such high level? I could barely make it to lvl 5. Every time I go for a walk the servers are down and I don't have the patience to constantly refresh.
That being said, I went to the park today and ran into 3 groups of people playing. Pretty cool!
I think it's been mentioned before, I haven't really read the thread but if you're in a suburban or rural area, you're kind of fucked. So you'll see people in cities at level 10000 and people in more secluded areas at level 3, in my experience at least.
Also, I wasn't given an egg when I started..
It's funny that is the case as the Pokémon Go advert did suggest that you would be able to catch Pokémon in the countryside.
Pops Maellard
Member
What phone do you have? I usually don't like gimmicky nonsense like AR mode, but if you give it the environment it wants the effect is pretty neat. Way more interesting than the (admittedly beautiful) painted backgrounds. That said, on my friend's $50 Android handset it was pretty awful.
Frustrated_Grunt
Member
I only turn on AR mode if I want to plan a photo. Then I turn it off afterwards.
Silphonica
Banned
I live half way between a city and the sea which has a large grassland area.
Took a walk away from civilization, found nothing.
D
Deleted member 231381
Unconfirmed Member
No. There's a set amount of Pokemon in a given radius around each Pokestation, from what I can work out, and that amount doesn't vary between urban and rural areas. So if you're in an area that has 5 closely overlapping Pokestations, it will have 5 times the Pokemon as in an area that has a single Pokestation. Get too far away from a Pokestation (more than 500m or so) and you won't see anything at all.
lol the sponsor
MistressMoitie
Member
So just downloaded this today and played after work. I travel to different locations for work daily and the plaza I was at today was busy with people playing this. Ended up at a fountain in the middle of the plaza and there were 30 or so people a standing around catching pokemon. Pretty incredible sight.
I would've immediately died if that happened to me.Saw a Dragonite. Servers immediately died.