Pokémon Go |OT| As in "Go Outside"

BernardoOne said:
If a Pokémon is on the "near" liat, how much is the range where its possible to find it? Searching around for Pidgeotto but not luck.
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From Serebii

Serebii said:
0 Footprint - The Pokémon is right on top of you and will appear soon
1 Footprint - The Pokémon is within approx. 20 metres
2 Footprints - The Pokémon is within approx. 100 metres
3 Footprints - The Pokémon is within approx. 1 kilometre.
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Anyone have any advice about incense or lures? I used a lure downtown around 90 minutes ago. I set off a lure party and 4 other people put down lures too in the middle of our square. I didn't see many new Pokemon at all and I feel like not that many popped up. Do you need to go run around places or do they actually come to your location?

Maybe just bad luck?
 
justjim89 said:
So, this game is pretty shallow, isn't it? I made it to level 5, got my ass kicked at the closest gym a few times, and have gone through all my starting items. Including Pokeballs. At this point, my only option is to go around to every Poke Stop and farm healing items and Pokeballs or spend money, right? It feels lame. Especially because the game doesn't bother to actually explain the battle mechanics at all. The lowest level Pokemon at the closest gym to me is a 500-something Flareon and my highest is a 200-something Hypno. It pretty much wipes out my whole team in one shot.

This sucks, at first it seemed like this game could've really been cool.
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The way I play is I do a little of everything. My main focus is Actually the stops. I'm actually increasing my pokeball count as time goes. So I don't need to spend money
 
SDCowboy said:
So I think I'm starting to grow tired of the game already. The game is essentially an interactive fitness app, and since I already regularly go for walks and hikes, I find using this during such outings kind of takes away the reason I'm out there in the first place.

Plus, all the gyms near me are already being held down by Pokemon that are way stronger than any I have the will to actually get around to leveling to that extent.

In the end, I think it's a super neat app that is great for a lot of people to actually get them outside, but I'm not sure the game has staying power for me personally.
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Same. I'm basically trying out the app for my nephew. I tried getting him into Geocaching with me but he wasn't interested but he loves video games and adores Pokemon. It's also summer vacation and he needs to lose some weight. It'd be nice if him and his friends could spend the summer outside instead of playing games on the couch. Too bad this app needs a cellular data connection; not too many pre-teens have cell plans around here.
 
The servers had been rock solid for the last 2 days. I wonder if they officially brought it online in another country and that caused the hiccup?
 
eifer said:
Same here. It's killing it for me. Every time I go to catch a Pokemon, it locks up. And it's not like in using an old phone. I have an iPhone 6+
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I've been noticing a lot of iOS users, including myself, are having issues with the game when on the cellular network.

Is your carrier Verizon?
 
No footsteps: 40m
One footstep: 75m
Two: 150m
Three: 225m (but lots of threes are glitches and do not work)

I tested these myself.
 
Ultryx said:
Anyone have any advice about incense or lures? I used a lure downtown around 90 minutes ago. I set off a lure party and 4 other people put down lures too in the middle of our square. I didn't see many new Pokemon at all and I feel like not that many popped up.

Maybe just bad luck?
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Kinda depends. What do you mean "not that many?" Are we talking like under five during the whole half hour? Were you getting all the same ones the other people were?

Also with regard to "new pokemon", there's nothing about lures that favors new ones over ones you already have or anything like that- in that sense it might have just been bad luck.
Do you need to go run around places or do they actually come to your location?
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You want to be within the rings of all (or as many as possible) the active stops. You can walk around (specially if you're trying to hunt other nearby mons) but if you leave the radius you're not really getting the benefits of the lure anymore.
 
panama chief said:
1 paw - 180 feet
2 paws - 900 feet
3 paws - .621 miles

What I hate is no direction is given. With 3 paws you're fucked
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Seriously. By the time you get back to the starting position by going after a 3 paws the wrong way, it could be gone. There needs to be some kind of indication.
 
panama chief said:
1 paw - 180 feet
2 paws - 900 feet
3 paws - .621 miles

What I hate is no direction is given. With 3 paws you're fucked
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Not true, if you walk in the correct direction the nearby bar will flash. You can also track by ranking. The closer it makes it way up the rows and into the top left slot you know you're on the right track.
 
I just realized you don't need to tap the items when you spin the PokéStop. You can close the menu and it'll auto collect.

https://youtu.be/HB2dwmr1azk

Also, bless downtown Grand Rapids for having so many PokéStops.

https://youtu.be/y8XpkwwrJAw


Yah, that paw estimation is incorrect. For something to qualify at the smallest distance for 3 paws, it's ~300 feet . Anything more than that is still considered 3 paws.
 
I love that they started with the original 150 pokemon.

I wish they would have added in the pre and post evolved forms of the gen 1 pokemon though. It was a missed oppotunity to introduce those forms to some of the lapsed players.

Pichu, Cleffa, igglybuff, Mime Jr, Happiny, Smoochum, Elekid,and Magby would have been great additions.

They would have given some much needed diversity to the selection of wild pokemon at low levels without giving you the big ones directly.
 
Ill be curious to see how they implement some sort of balancing to this game to help make it easier for lower levels to compete or capture gyms of higher level players. I think there should be level tiers of some sort to make it more balanced.
 
BlueSteel said:
Not true, if you walk in the correct direction the nearby bar will flash. You can also track by ranking. The closer it makes it way up the rows and into the top left slot you know you're on the right track.
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Wrong. The bar flashes whenever the nearby screen updates, which can be (for example) because you've gone further away.
 
panama chief said:
You're being beat by people who invested more time than you. To combat them you will have to invest time too whether it's at stops or just walking to hatch eggs.
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So the solution is just to grind for items then, yes? Awesome. Totally worth killing my battery and data. If only the Pokemon universe had established locations that healed all your Pokemon for free of charge. But I suppose that would really throw a wrench in the works of all the microtransactions.
 
Ferr986 said:
Yeah the battery drain is so real. I don't think I'll ever be able to play this consistenyl with my Nexus 5 even with the saver mode ON.

And of course I'm sure as hell not going to buy a new phone for this lol
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Portable battery packs are pretty cheap these days and I bet there a spike in sales amongst Go players. I had to start carrying them since my battery has gotten worse and worse I couldn't even make it through a shift just using it on breaks.

Didn't buy a phone specifically for this but the timing just worked out since I ordered over the weekend. All the crazy locations and then people across all ages groups in class today talking about it was the final straw to install the game. Lol
 
servers being dumb for me. missed a few okay pokemons right now. its like they want to work.

my trainer keeps moving around even when my phone isn't moving. he's so antsy.
 
Does anyone else have this problem? Every time I launch the app not only does it take a while to load (5C) but it makes me log in every time. I use Google and it makes me enter my email, then my password, then I have to wait for a text message to confirm. (2FA)

Any reason? Miitomo didn't forget my login. Why is this one? Can I fix it? It's making me not even want to bother playing.
 
My friend has been experiencing freezing and start-up issues on his Iphone, it's an interesting perspective. While I'll experience freezing a few times (I just restart the game and takes 20 seconds at most) while we run a park for pokestops and pokemon, he'll experience freezing several times AND have to wait minutes to load. It's killing the experience for him while we wait in the shade for his game to load in the rare pokemon I'd find around before him. Seems like there's more issues with the IOS version than the Android one to me. Could be his network too but I don't know either. Just sucks to see the experience soured because of this stuff.
 
justjim89 said:
So the solution is just to grind for items then, yes? Awesome. Totally worth killing my battery and data. If only the Pokemon universe had established locations that healed all your Pokemon for free of charge. But I suppose that would really throw a wrench in the works of all the microtransactions.
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If you don't like the grind, this game isn't for you.
 
justjim89 said:
So, this game is pretty shallow, isn't it? I made it to level 5, got my ass kicked at the closest gym a few times, and have gone through all my starting items. Including Pokeballs. At this point, my only option is to go around to every Poke Stop and farm healing items and Pokeballs or spend money, right? It feels lame. Especially because the game doesn't bother to actually explain the battle mechanics at all. The lowest level Pokemon at the closest gym to me is a 500-something Flareon and my highest is a 200-something Hypno. It pretty much wipes out my whole team in one shot.

This sucks, at first it seemed like this game could've really been cool.
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Yup, all my local gyms already have 500+ dudes guarding it with guys that are level 10+. It's less than a week into the game, and the whales have already landed.
 
Hawkian said:
Kinda depends. What do you mean "not that many?" Are we talking like under five during the whole half hour? Were you getting all the same ones the other people were?

Also with regard to "new pokemon", there's nothing about lures that favors new ones over ones you already have or anything like that- in that sense it might have just been bad luck.

You want to be within the rings of all (or as many as possible) the active stops. You can walk around (specially if you're trying to hunt other nearby mons) but if you leave the radius you're not really getting the benefits of the lure anymore.
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I guess I caught like 7-10 things, but they were all Pidgeys and Rattata again. I've just been seeing some people getting amazing things off lures. I expected more, I guess. I'll chalk it up to bad luck.
 
Crab said:
Wrong. The bar flashes whenever the nearby screen updates, which can be (for example) because you've gone further away.
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I do think the bit about the order in which they appear on the nearby screen is accurate, though. A three-print pokemon in the top left slot is closer than one in the bottom right.
panama chief said:
Good to know. Thanks
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That isn't right.
Ultryx said:
I guess I caught like 7-10 things, but they were all Pidgeys and Rattata again. I've just been seeing some people getting amazing things off lures. I expected more, I guess. I'll chalk it up to bad luck.
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Were the other people getting anything that you weren't? Every single pokemon attracted by a lure should be visible to all present. 10 for the half hour seems more reasonable, that's one every 3 minutes. The specific ones you got, could just have been bad luck
 
oakenhild said:
Yup, all my local gyms already have 500+ dudes guarding it with guys that are level 10+. It's less than a week into the game, and the whales have already landed.
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it's actually not THAT hard to level... you just have to be in a populated area and spend some time on it. My buddy is level 16 and has spent $0. He just plays A LOT lol
 
The placeholder for Pokemon GO seemed more traditional, why do you think this is the final "base product"? Like for instance U'd rather have a pixel art trainer with more clothes options and a skin color changer than the half baked 3D model we got. The CP instead of levels thing makes no sense either.

Was this done to draw people back to the main series if there wasnt enough meta depth here?
 
justjim89 said:
It just says to me that this is a shitty, insidious mobile game first and a Pokemon game second.
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Yes, it's mostly Ingress which was a fun novelty game but nothing super deep. Add on the Pokémon magic touch and people are going ham about it.

But nonetheless, it's still a mobile game that encourages heavy amounts of grinding and in app purchases.

But then again, Pokémon as a game requires a decent amount of grinding too.

I'm playing GO and finding it fun, but I'm not obsessing about it like some of my friends. I like the meetups, but I don't like that people are trying to get me to stay up until 4am looking for pocket monsters when I have work the next day.
 
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