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[Parmadillo Marshmallow]

Me right now. Would have leveled it up more before taking over the gym, but I'm completely out of Stardust.

Also, now that I've dived a bit more into the gym stuff, there's a lot of janky mechanics going on here. They need some sort of contribution tracker in terms of prestige based on the tier the gym's at. It's frustrating that all it comes down to in the end is whoever is paying attention to the gym and whoever's game refreshes the most frequently gets to place their Pokemon in the gym rather than the one who contributed the most prestige up until that point. Someone near me capped a gym, but if I were an ass, I could have easily placed my Pokemon in it before he had the chance to heal his up and put his in. This doesn't make any sense, especially in a community-driven game where a lot of people are likely to be gathered around that gym, likely because there's Pokestops nearby.

And then there's the part where if you cap a gym, collect your reward, and then lose the gym, there's absolutely no point in capping again until the cooldown refreshes. Also, I don't have any idea what the number associated with the gym's cooldown timer means. Right now it says 1 for me. Is it tracking how many Pokemon I have in gyms? How long I've held gyms? What is my daily reward based off of?




This was disproven quite sometime ago.

That box pulsates when the order of Pokemon distances changes, or another is added or taken from the list. It has nothing to do with the direction of the Pokemon you're tracking.

Oh man I have had so many instances in both directions of getting a gym stolen from me after I worked to turn it white. It can get really competetive when you have a bunch of people around 1 gym too. It seems like there are always going to be those popular gyms that are constantly changing hands. You have to cap a remote gym to keep it for any length of time.

I actually wish that you could actively defend a capped gym. As it is the attackers do way more damage to gyms than the defenders could ever hope to heal, so its always attackers win, and then it's up to luck whoever takes it back.

 

[Tawpgun]

The max Cp potential is tied to your trainer level. Explain what you'd have done differently and I'll update the language in that section to be more clear :/

Instead of spending the candy on a 100 eevee I would have waited to catch a 200-300 eevee

 

[titiklabingapat]

Holy shit, this thing is still going. Literally people who never played Pokemon are asking me about this or playing it. I feel like this game is bigger than Sun & Moon at this point.

 

[whyreggielie]

https://www.surveymonkey.com/business/intelligence/pokemon-go-biggest-mobile-game-ever/

Biggest mobile game ever in the U.S.

 

[BTA]

I wonder when the Stops will appear in Japan for good. I got to try it for the first couple days back in the US (and briefly in Canada) but there's nothing here at the moment. At least I'll be able to hatch these eggs while I wait, I guess, but it's weird seeing everyone talking about it and not being able to mess with it more.

 

[Trojan]

Yellow is starting to come up. Its really cool when you see one yellow gym in a sea of red/blue, and defenders start popping up bit by bit.

When I took over a gym for Team Instinct, there must have been a lot of Yellow in waiting because immediately people started power-leveling the gym. It went from 1 to 9 in like an hour and a half.

We're out there...waiting patiently until the time is right.

 

[Incitemaybe]

Anyone know of any iOS pokedex that preferably doesn't have ads?

 

[lt519]

I agree, but is it possible for you to leave the phone on in your pocket while you walk? I've done that at work since the game released. I don't play the game while I'm working but I let it do its thing in the background.

Obviously not the most convenient option, but it gets the job done.

I've had significant problems with my phone switching apps, opening random things, I actually even shared a MapMyRun workout on accident today. I have Battery Saver enabled, I've seen it in action a few times, but every now and then when I pull it out of my pocket my phone has done all sorts of bizarre things.

 

[Vincent Alexander]

I just went out with the first time with some friends and my girlfriend, and we ran into a ton of strangers out and about playing. It was much more fun than I could've imagined reading the stories online. Pretty awesome experience talking with strangers. Being an introvert, I probably spoke with more strangers tonight than I would have in the next 5 years of my life combined.

 

[ajf009]

i need to find some abra fast.. just hatched a nearly topped out cp one from a 5 km egg.
ohhh baby

 

[Falchion]

Just had the craziest experience with GO so far. I was on the beach for about 2 hours hanging out around 3 lures with about 50 other players. My phone dropped to 2% battery so I started walking back home when somebody yelled, "Polywrath on the beach!". I looked up the nearby list and sure enough there was one 2 steps away so I took off running since I wasn't even close to enough candies to evolve my way to one. I found him at the edge of the water about 100 yards away and yelled to the group where it was. By this time I'm at 1% and I'm really worried I won't get him since it turned out it was 700 CP and I only have great balls and below. The first couple of throws get blown away but then I hit an excellent within the small circle and it stayed in the ball just long enough to see it added to the Pokedex before my phone cuts off. I was so happy and then I turned around and the 50 or so other players were all right there and everyone was yelling and cheering as they caught him. I caught him with 1% battery and another guy managed to snag him with his very last Pokeball. I love this game.

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

Anyone know of any iOS pokedex that preferably doesn't have ads?

Didn't the Pokémon Company launch one a while back?

 

[Parmadillo Marshmallow]

When I took over a gym for Team Instinct, there must have been a lot of Yellow in waiting because immediately people started power-leveling the gym. It went from 1 to 9 in like an hour and a half.

We're out there...waiting patiently until the time is right.

Yeah we are certainly a rare breed. I guess I'm glad I chose instinct because when I find another instinct player or gym its actually meaningful.

 

[Poimandres]

Holy shit, this thing is still going. Literally people who never played Pokemon are asking me about this or playing it. I feel like this game is bigger than Sun & Moon at this point.

This is much much bigger than any dedicated handheld Pokemon game can ever hope to be.

 

[deoee]

Nice team blue...

very nice

 

[Incitemaybe]

Didn't the Pokémon Company launch one a while back?

From searching on the app store I don't see an official pokedex. A user recommended one to me earlier today but it has video ads.....

 

[bananafactory]

What does the battery saver setting do? I wanna use it but am worried about it hurting my ability to catch stuff

 

[Red]

Nice team blue...

very nice

Dumb kids.

 

[To Far Away Times]

Just had the most amazing experience. I was taking a walk with the fiance and we stumbled across an apartment complex with 3 lures close together. There were at least 30 people standing around collecting Pokemon. Someone was playing the theme song from their phone. We were completely geeking out.

I probably passed another 20 people playing after that in the last hour or so.

The social aspect and the popularity of this game is unlike anything I have ever seen.

 

[deoee]

What does the battery saver setting do? I wanna use it but am worried about it hurting my ability to catch stuff

Hold your phone vertically with the speaker pointing towards the ground, it turns off the screen but still vibrates etc.

 

[Tigress]

Anyone know why all the sudden it is telling me I need to activate my account? I've been playing for a few days and I'm pretty sure I activated it already.

 

[jellies_two]

Residents in cookie-cutter expensive condos water bomb crowds that gathered late into the night. due to 3 overlapping pokestops.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/cons...police-as-rhodes-swamped-20160712-gq4hb3.html

Police threaten crowds with fines for loitering.

the crowds are ... insane.

 

[guek]

Just had the craziest experience with GO so far. I was on the beach for about 2 hours hanging out around 3 lures with about 50 other players. My phone dropped to 2% battery so I started walking back home when somebody yelled, "Polywrath on the beach!". I looked up the nearby list and sure enough there was one 2 steps away so I took off running since I wasn't even close to enough candies to evolve my way to one. I found him at the edge of the water about 100 yards away and yelled to the group where it was. By this time I'm at 1% and I'm really worried I won't get him since it turned out it was 700 CP and I only have great balls and below. The first couple of throws get blown away but then I hit an excellent within the small circle and it stayed in the ball just long enough to see it added to the Pokedex before my phone cuts off. I was so happy and then I turned around and the 50 or so other players were all right there and everyone was yelling and cheering as they caught him. I caught him with 1% battery and another guy managed to snag him with his very last Pokeball. I love this game.

Beautiful 😄

 

[SoulUnison]

Is it true other people can't see your Pokemon's nicknames when you leave them in gyms?

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

From searching on the app store I don't see an official pokedex. A user recommended one to me earlier today but it has video ads.....

Oops, it seem the app was retired and pulled back in November. Looks like it's basically the same app they released on 3DS, but that was never updated for 6th gen (might have been the same for the iOS version).

 

[Incitemaybe]

Just had the most amazing experience. I was taking a walk with the fiance and we stumbled across an apartment complex with 3 lures close together. There were at least 30 people standing around collecting Pokemon. Someone was playing the theme song from their phone. We were completely geeking out.

I probably passed another 20 people playing after that in the last hour or so.

The social aspect and the popularity of this game is unlike anything I have ever seen.

That's funny, today while I was out riding my bike through a place called Old Town there was a kid with a speaker in his backpack blasting the Pokemon theme song. It was pretty funny. On a Tuesday evening there were at least 50 people in this one particular area....... This just doesn't happen.

 

[Parmadillo Marshmallow]

Is there a way to get rid of eggs besides walking them off? I have a ton of 2km eggs that I don't want.

 

[Ashodin]

FUCK I just went out to catch a Charmeleon and it took like 4 razz berries, 12 pokeballs, and it STILL GOT AWAY

NOOOOOOOO

caught a squirtle though

 

[Hawkian]

I've been doing it for a while and I think it works that way.

Yeah I don't know. I was spinning around and saw the green flash in multiple directions without moving, frankly.

Keeping the full nearby list open and watching the positions is legit, though. By "shuffling" the list around I was able to track an Eevee from 3 footprints in the bottom right, all the way to 3 footprints in the top left, to 2, to 1, to absolutely undoubtedly right on the other side of a fence I couldn't climb. Then I tracked a Magikarp in the bottom right with 3 footprints and caught it with the same method.

Maybe i'm not explaining myself well. Are all Pokemon equally strong? Like, if I catch 2 random pidgeys and level them all the way, will they be equally strong? Or is it like real Pokemon games where some pokemon are just stronger than others? If there are differences in Pokemon strength, how can I tell?

They are equally strong except for CP but may have different moves, and those moves may have different types. You can see those moves and their damage/type under the power up and evolve options. When you evolve one these moves may change.

Instead of spending the candy on a 100 eevee I would have waited to catch a 200-300 eevee

I want to apologize for misleading you and I hope the new language is clearer to others. But I did go back and make sure and the question is absolutely about the difference between powering up a pokemon before evolving it, versus evolving it first and then powering it up. Nothing at all about waiting to catch a stronger base version. The latter is better 100% of the time, but it's also never within your control to just catch the one you want at the cp you want.

 

[Vena]

Nice team blue...

very nice

Have some acetone on hand?

 

[Durock]

Okay. So does it not allow you to select your highest CP Pokemon to hold a gym?

 

[lt519]

Aptly named, me and Drowzee having a good time in the late hours. Need one more to evolve.

 

[deoee]

Okay. So does it not allow you to select your highest CP Pokemon to hold a gym?

heal up!

 

[Shadow Broker]

I wish it factored in accelerometer data so you didn't have to actively have the app open the entire time. I walk 5-10 miles a night at work, and since I can't have my phone out it's all for nothing. They could knock the Eggs up to 5/10/20km for all I care, if they make that one change.

You could open the app and put the phone in your pocket. It's not ideal but it works.

I put the screen facing my leg in my pocket.

 

[Parmadillo Marshmallow]

Yeah I don't know. I was spinning around and saw the green flash in multiple directions without moving, frankly.

Keeping the full nearby list open and watching the positions is legit, though. By "shuffling" the list around I was able to track an Eevee from 3 footprints in the bottom right, all the way to 3 footprints in the top left, to 2, to 1, to absolutely undoubtedly right on the other side of a fence I couldn't climb. Then I tracked a Magikarp in the bottom right with 3 footprints and caught it with the same method.


They are equally strong except for CP but may have different moves, and those moves may have different types. You can see those moves and their damage/type under the power up and evolve options. When you evolve one these moves may change.


I want to apologize for misleading you and I hope the new language is clearer to others. But I did go back and make sure and the question is absolutely about the difference between powering up a pokemon before evolving it, versus evolving it first and then powering it up. Nothing at all about waiting to catch a stronger base version. The latter is better 100% of the time, but it's also never within your control to just catch the one you want at the cp you want.

The key is to catch one that is naturally high on the CP meter. The raw number isnt necessarily indicative of how strong that pokemon is after evolving. For example, I have a CP 98 Magikarp. Seems like crap, right? But the CP meter is pretty close to full. So when I evolve him to Gyarados he will already be close to max, which is well over 1500. I have 138 Magikarp candy and they spawn at my house so I should get there in a few days.

Edit: I actually don't know Magikarp's max at my level. I did see one on a gym today that was over 1500 though. Anyone have a list of max CP per mon per player level?

 

[Ashodin]

You could open the app and put the phone in your pocket. It's not ideal but it works.

I put the screen facing my leg in my pocket.

I'd watch out doing this. you could inadvertently turn your screen or game off because it detects the warmth from your leg

 

[jacobs34]

Drove and walked around the Quad CIties with my fiance tonight and ran into dozens of people playing. It's fun to see people of all ages, both singles and couples enjoying the game and getting out on such a lovely night.

It's unfortunate that so many people are playing as they are driving, when you add that to the fact that I saw a bunch of kids playing in the middle of the street, I really worry that something tragic may happen.

I'm not sure if I find the game to me that much fun, but the social aspect is brilliant and I've never seen anything quite like this in gaming, It is, if nothing else, a moment.

 

[MattyG]

Two of my friends and I just drove around a small town near us for 2 hours getting pokemon, pokespots and gyms. At the end, we parked at a dead rotary to get the gym in the middle. This other group had been circling, but we thought they were gone.

Then we hear a squealing. At first, I didn't think anything of it. "They're back", I joked. But then it got louder and louder, until we saw headlights behind us. They were coming to take back the gym.

We pulled to the side and blasted the pokemon theme as they drove by and flipped us off.

I love this game.

 

[Silent_Ocarina]

I'm still getting that bug where my game freezes once I throw a Pokeball. It's super frustrating. I also get that bug where once I wake my phone from battery save mode, the touch screen is no longer responsive. Those are the two biggest things I would like fixed. There is a lot of potential in this app. I'd like to see them add a lot more social features such as adding friends, trainer customization, and a mailbox where you can get daily gifts like some Gacha games.

 

[JetBlackPanda]

Just got back with my buddy we flipped 4 gyms back to Mystic and hit 30 pokestops. We saw well over 100 people out there. Shit is crazy.

I live in a small town in Utah btw.

 

[Hawkian]

The key is to catch one that is naturally high on the CP meter. The raw number isnt necessarily indicative of how strong that pokemon is after evolving. For example, I have a CP 98 Magikarp. Seems like crap, right? But the CP meter is pretty close to full. So when I evolve him to Gyarados he will already be close to max, which is well over 1500. I have 138 Magikarp candy and they spawn at my house so I should get there in a few days.

Right, because of the hidden base CP for each tier? In terms of saving stardust, of course. Catching the perfect Magikarp on the CP scale is no real problem for me either. But for certain mons that don't spawn regularly for me I'm taking what I can get and evolving the best option I have asap.

 

[tamminen]

Is it a complete waste to burn candies and dust leveling with a low trainer level? I burned quite a bit on my Eevees at lvl9 and ended up with 2 Jolteons at 550cp with plenty of bar left. If I did this at lvl15 would theyve become bigger?

 

[Ashodin]

Magikarps,. I WANT EM

 

[EulaCapra]

Question:

I have a Pidgeotto and a Pidgey both at CP 110. I have PLENTY of Pidgey Candy but wanted to know which one would yield a higher CP when it finally evolves to Pidgeot. Would it be the same in the end? I'm confused with evolution CP gain.

 

[civilstrife]

Holy shit, this thing is still going. Literally people who never played Pokemon are asking me about this or playing it. I feel like this game is bigger than Sun & Moon at this point.

Exponentially bigger. Easily.

 

[Shadow Broker]

Nice team blue...

very nice

Stupid idiots... seriously stupid..

 

[Makonero]

Question:

I have a Pidgeotto and a Pidgey both at CP 110. I have PLENTY of Pidgey Candy but wanted to know which one would yield a higher CP when it finally evolves to Pidgeot. Would it be the same in the end? I'm confused with evolution CP gain.

Evolve the pidgey. It's not about CP, it's where on the arc of cp the Pokemon is. That stays the same when you evolve.

 

[BlueSilver]

Question:

I have a Pidgeotto and a Pidgey both at CP 110. I have PLENTY of Pidgey Candy but wanted to know which one would yield a higher CP when it finally evolves to Pidgeot. Would it be the same in the end? I'm confused with evolution CP gain.

I think the Pidgey would give a higher CP as a Pidgeot.

 

[Jonbo298]

Jesus. I casually decide to go downtown and I see the library has lures going (3 PokeStops at the entry) and lots of people. Over 2 hours later I don't know how many Pokémon I caught. Just endless lures on all 3.

 

[Articalys]

Got the first Lucky Egg from the level 9 bonus, then activated it right before I went on a Weedle/Pidgey/Rattata evolution spree, and had two 5km eggs ready to hatch. Now I'm only a couple thousand XP away from level 12, had to drop almost 60 Poke Balls to make room for the level up bonus items, and my strongest mons jumped from being a 236 Weepinbell and 225 Beedrill to a 623 Vaporeon (both Water moves) and 403 Fearow (Steel/Dragon), with a 340 Taurus (Psychic/Normal) just behind them. I might actually be able to fight gyms now... if all the nearby ones haven't already leveled up to 1000+ already. Just reinforces my belief that if you don't live somewhere with a high density of lured Pokestops, the only way to constantly keep up is microtransactions.

How frequently are you supposed to get new random encounters when standing near a lure anyway?