Pokémon Go |OT| As in "Go Outside"
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My rural/wilderness area lacks any Pokestops/gyms/Pokemon. What gives?This is a legitimate issue that Niantic was seemingly unprepared for and may need to take a lot of steps to fix, if they have underestimated the popularity of their game even more than it already seems.
In Ingress, the landmarks and points of interest that became in-universe objects were all user-submitted and reviewed before being added, and not all of these have even been ported over to Go. If your town did not submit any of these points, they just won't be there. On the other hand, forests, unmarked/unofficial parkland and trails and other wilderness areas won't ever have any of these Pokestops, but players (rightfully) feel that the appropriate-type Pokemon should appear in these locations- logic Ingress never had to consider.
Hopefully some kind of middle-ground can be implemented. For now, if you are not in an area with at least a few stops and a Gym or two, your options are severely limited for regular play.
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I wouldn't have added this stuff except SO MANY people I ran into or read about in the thread made comments about them, and I was kicking myself too for not bringing mosquito repellent. I think it's fucking awesome that so many people that ordinarily don't do so are spending a bunch of the day outside. Especially if it's something you're going to do regularly you want to take some basic precautions.
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Safety Tips for all trainersWatch where you're going... listen to the Gyarados on the loading screen and be aware of your surroundings. If something looks sketchy or you are somewhere you aren't allowed to be, you need to be willing to abandon the Charizard. I know it stings. I've already personally seen a gym that turned out to be on someone's private property (unbeknownst to me until we got there).
Don't attempt to play and drive. The UI totally sucks for it and that makes even trying to do something more dangerous than anything is worth. If you have a passenger playing give them your phone, the same things will pop up on both of them and they just have to tap each. The speed limit that currently restricts egg hatching does not affect your ability to grab stops and start to catch Pokemon.
Might sound silly, but consider a backpack or something else you take for the purposes of going out hunting, especially if (like me) you're trying to involve your car as absolutely little as possible. A water bottle, any extra charger/battery stuff you need, snacks. I keep a little first-aid kit from CVS in mine. Remember, your phone is also pretty likely your lifeline if anything goes horribly wrong, and you don't want to have it die on you just for a game. If your region calls for it, bug spray. I hate mosquitoes. So much.
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Safety Tips for trainers on bikesHaving a bike to cover larger distances in Pokemon Go and still hatch your eggs just kicks ass. I have a cheap bike computer that shows my speed and setting myself to a max speed limit (no matter how hard I hold the button down) feels so much like I'm the little sprite in the games that it makes me laugh out loud. But it's really enjoyable especially if your area is decent for it, and is phenomenal exercise.
Please wear a helmet though. A lot of dudes I ran into today were riding their bikes without them. Because of the way you tend to fall in a bike accident, a helmet can be like the difference between 100% fine other than scrapes versus dead or paralyzed. Cyclists who are involved in fatal accidents also tend overwhelmingly not to be wearing helmets, 97% of those who died in 2013.
Don't try to interact with the game while riding... even if you can maintain control of the bike with one arm it's not worth the risk. I actually keep mine in my backpack which means I have to stop if I need to check something, but I can do that quickly. The Go Plus seems perfect for this scenario even though I don't want to shell out the cash.
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Safety Tips for daytime huntersSunscreen, even if you don't burn easy, skin cancer blows. If you're somewhere hot and humid OR hot and dry, keep drinking water.
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Safety Tips for nighttime HuntersI am a night owl and going out looking for Pokemon late at night is fucking awesome, I'll just say it. Especially here where it's so brutal in the heat of the day. Just be careful. Consider a flashlight other than your phone as it's not always gonna be the most convenient, plus you have the whole battery to contend with. Consider wearing something shiny/bright/reflective. If you are on a bike, at least have one red "be seen" light in back or center of your bike, they are super cheap. Don't go anywhere near anything that could even possibly be private property at night, you could get shot.
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Myths and Easter Eggs:
Eevee will evolve into certain types based on the special attack it has: FALSE.
If you ignore the 3 starters and walk away, you will find Pikachu to choose: TRUE
Ghost Pokemon are more common in cemetaries: Unconfirmed but most likely a coincidence.
You can retreive missed pokeballs from the ground: FALSE.
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Good luck and good hunting!
everyday math
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looks like I made the right choice valor brother
when do I get my red name to signify our pride?
edit: nvm give it to hawkian
You stayed at the Pokestop right? Dumb question I'm sure...
May have just been bad luck, I've seen lots of different things from Lures, though not necessarily always more rare I guess.
Unless I'm misreading, that's a friendly gym, your own team. See 16 above!
The fighting seems weird for some reason. I fought a level 350 tangela earlier with my 475 pidgeot and even though everything was super effective against them but not effective against me I only barely beat them. I feel like I'm missing something because it seems that unless you are way over their level they still deal a ton of damage. Special attacks don't even seem to do that much.
On a side note, I haven't read much of the thread today but has there been any consensus on what happens with the pokemon that glitch in the pokeball? I had 5-6 happen earlier and every time I had to restart the app completely and it never counted them. I came home and went to sleep and when I woke up I specifically noticed at least 2 were now in my bag.
yikes!!!!!!
superdeluxe
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I got my pidegot to 580+ CP by just evolving and powering up. Haven't touched a gym yet.
Off-Kilter
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Awesome stuff Hawkian
Thanks, I'll keep an eye on Reddit as well!
You can't put more than one on one stop, right?
I gotta try heading downtown next chance I get, I bet there are a ridiculous amount.
Correct, gotta find a place that has multiple nearby stops
superdeluxe
Member
If you are going to spend money, spend on incense. You can rack up a ton of pokeballs at the stop.
superdeluxe
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I mean, yeah, of course you don't need your phone to go outside. But for some people, who would be inside otherwise, it's a good reason to go out. I rode my bike 5 miles around a lake today to catch water Pkmn. If you don't like the game, fuck off elsewhere, yeah?
AnythingBut
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jellies_two
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I tried a single lure on a pokestop it lasts 30 minutes and your phone buzzes about once every 4 to 5 minutes so you collect maybe 6 to 9 vs maybe none or one of you sat there without a lure.
I found it less rewarding than just walking for 30 minutes...
It was interesting spotting players vs those that are just using their phone for normal stuff. A wide range of people are playing.
I found it less rewarding than just walking for 30 minutes...
It was interesting spotting players vs those that are just using their phone for normal stuff. A wide range of people are playing.
That we do.
250 is base storage capacity, not amount of dif Pokemon
A friend forgot his battery charger in a bar at the far edge of the city and he needs it today. He's not here at the moment so he asked another friend to maybe get it for him but she's stuck at the OTHER side of the city until tonight.
Me: "You know what? I'll get it for you and then bring it to her."
Him: "Wow you're awesome! Thanks a lot!"
Pokemon Go : Fool your friends.
Me: "You know what? I'll get it for you and then bring it to her."
Him: "Wow you're awesome! Thanks a lot!"
Pokemon Go : Fool your friends.
Nothing yet... it takes a lot for me to ever fuck with any microtransactions.
I REALLY need incubators though.
I don't know, I think Lucky Eggs and Lure Modules are the best bang for the buck. Incense seems like what you use if you aren't going to be somewhere with any pokemon.
And if you ride a bike a lot (and can watch your speed), incubators sound reallllly good. I have a full inventory of eggs I could be leveling up with and only 2 incubators.
I'd say delete the last part of your post, but this idea here is so obviously a good thing to me that it honestly freaks me out that anyone would think otherwise?
Even if you don't like the game at all, "I don't need my phone to go outside" was clearly not motivating as many people to go outside.
IchigoSharingan
Member
So is there a consensus on Pokemon weight? Everywhere I read nobody seems to really know.
Yeah, lucky eggs, lures, and incubators are def the way to go
My understanding is that weight and height mean nothing
Okay I finally decided to try this thing out. I'm shocked to find that my crappy phone can actually sort of run it.
But I'm feeling completely retarded because I can't figure out how to even play the damn thing.
I got through the setup reasonably well, though I was annoyed by the lack of decent clothing options (undoubtedly something they'll charge real world money for) and pissed at the fact that somebody had already taken KevinCow. But whatever. Then I started the game.
First the GPS put me at somewhere that wasn't anywhere near my house and going outside didn't fix it, so I had to close it and restart.
Then it finally got my correct location (mostly, it still showed me across the street) and showed the three gen 1 starters around me, and tapping on them didn't work at first but then it finally decided to start working? Whatever.
Then I get into an encounter with a Charmander where I'm supposed to fling a Pokeball at it. Took me a little bit to figure out how to even do that, then I wasted like 10 Pokeballs trying to throw it at the correct angle because it's a fucking garbage game mechanic that seems to exist solely so that you'll miss a lot and waste a bunch of Pokeballs so you have to buy more.
Then the professor tells me that to get more Pokeballs without paying, I have to visit special landmarks, but doesn't really give me any idea as to what that even means or where I might find these landmarks? Well okay, thanks then.
And now it's just plopped me down on an empty map with absolutely no further instruction.
So like, what, am I just supposed to wander around randomly in the hope that I'll run into a Pokemon? I'm sure that's great if you live in a city, but that's pretty awful for someone like me who lives in the suburbs.
So yeah, I'm probably not ever going to open this game up again. It'll surely be the first thing I delete if I ever need space.
But I'm feeling completely retarded because I can't figure out how to even play the damn thing.
I got through the setup reasonably well, though I was annoyed by the lack of decent clothing options (undoubtedly something they'll charge real world money for) and pissed at the fact that somebody had already taken KevinCow. But whatever. Then I started the game.
First the GPS put me at somewhere that wasn't anywhere near my house and going outside didn't fix it, so I had to close it and restart.
Then it finally got my correct location (mostly, it still showed me across the street) and showed the three gen 1 starters around me, and tapping on them didn't work at first but then it finally decided to start working? Whatever.
Then I get into an encounter with a Charmander where I'm supposed to fling a Pokeball at it. Took me a little bit to figure out how to even do that, then I wasted like 10 Pokeballs trying to throw it at the correct angle because it's a fucking garbage game mechanic that seems to exist solely so that you'll miss a lot and waste a bunch of Pokeballs so you have to buy more.
Then the professor tells me that to get more Pokeballs without paying, I have to visit special landmarks, but doesn't really give me any idea as to what that even means or where I might find these landmarks? Well okay, thanks then.
And now it's just plopped me down on an empty map with absolutely no further instruction.
So like, what, am I just supposed to wander around randomly in the hope that I'll run into a Pokemon? I'm sure that's great if you live in a city, but that's pretty awful for someone like me who lives in the suburbs.
So yeah, I'm probably not ever going to open this game up again. It'll surely be the first thing I delete if I ever need space.
CountAntonius
Member
Should be added to the OP. Great work Hawk.
Movement should have no effect if you've initiated an encounter
I use public transportation and yeah it's amazing for this game
Ok thanks, there must have been some weird delay. I thought I lost all of them.
Darkstorne
Member
Man's House "Accidentally" Becomes a Pokemon Go Gym.
I feel sorry for the guy =P He's slightly wrong about his info. It's a gym because it's a historic building, not because it's a church. Same way churches are gyms because they're historic buildings, not because they're churches. But it must still suck when the game is so popular.
I feel sorry for the guy =P He's slightly wrong about his info. It's a gym because it's a historic building, not because it's a church. Same way churches are gyms because they're historic buildings, not because they're churches. But it must still suck when the game is so popular.
yes apparently it is all measured in kilograms
it's flavor text. i have a real pudgy Ponyta.
Tram commutes are pretty good too especially in the city (in Melbourne) where lures are aplenty and speed is low(ish)
I could see them having skins at the ready. First for an anniversary event but after that for sale. "Traditional Pokémon Skin ($9,99)"
Your phone is trash. Don't even bother.
Logging in was super fast for me today.
Huge improvement, I've had pretty much 0 issues all weekend
Permanently A
Junior Member
fukken hostile guerilla warfare gym takeovers in the dead of the night
this game is special
Jim_Cacher
Member
Got it yesterday evening, didn't think they we're that rare?
Mew is this ultra-rare little thing. Niantic probably saves it for community event.
mechashiva
Member
Could make a killing selling refreshments.Man's House "Accidentally" Becomes a Pokemon Go Gym.
I feel sorry for the guy =P He's slightly wrong about his info. It's a gym because it's a historic building, not because it's a church. Same way churches are gyms because they're historic buildings, not because they're churches. But it must still suck when the game is so popular.
I won't deny that my phone is trash. But the game is clearly also trash, especially if you don't live in a city where walking around everywhere is a reasonable thing to do.
Gotta level up the gym