Pokémon Go |OT| As in "Go Outside"

I was on my way to work this morning and the DJs on the radio were talking with a woman organizing a Pokemon Go pub crawl this weekend that has 660 participants signed up so far. They asked her why Pokemon Go was so popular and she said it was because this was the first Pokemon game in 20 years.
 
Caught an Exeggutor at a stop sign by my house, and an Eevee right outside it this afternoon. Been capturing mostly Ratatta and Pidgey all day. Saw a Venonat, it escaped.

Loving the Galaxy S7 Active though.
 
batfax said:
Lucky duck. I was hoping Pokemon would start spawning in my rural area when I saw the update hit, but it's as barren as it ever was. Niantic, pls.
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It's completely ridiculous. In the place I actually live all pokemon are 3 feet away and very sparse when I actually go outside. Here I just sit on my ass and throw pokeballs in every direction. Of course not having any pokestops around will put a stop to that soon.
 
RagnarokX said:
I was on my way to work this morning and the DJs on the radio were talking with a woman organizing a Pokemon Go pub crawl this weekend that has 660 participants signed up so far. They asked her why Pokemon Go was so popular and she said it was because this was the first Pokemon game in 20 years.
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lol9
 
RagnarokX said:
I was on my way to work this morning and the DJs on the radio were talking with a woman organizing a Pokemon Go pub crawl this weekend that has 660 participants signed up so far. They asked her why Pokemon Go was so popular and she said it was because this was the first Pokemon game in 20 years.
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Well that explains everything...
 
Saw a Golduck behind work today. 700something CP. Went out to catch it, wasted every single Great Ball I had. For some reason, no matter what I do, every single ball had some crazy spin on it, as if I were doing a curveball. Didn't matter how careful I was about throwing it. It's not a problem I've had before. Is this something that's happened to anyone else?
 
EskimoJoe said:
Saw a Golduck behind work today. 700something CP. Went out to catch it, wasted every single Great Ball I had. For some reason, no matter what I do, every single ball had some crazy spin on it, as if I were doing a curveball. Didn't matter how careful I was about throwing it. It's not a problem I've had before. Is this something that's happened to anyone else?
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Yup. Only happens to me on great balls too.
 
Are you all still catching everything you come across? I'm level 20 now so sometimes it takes 3-4 Pokeballs to catch all the Pidgeys and Ratatas that I come across since they are so high leveled.
 
EskimoJoe said:
Saw a Golduck behind work today. 700something CP. Went out to catch it, wasted every single Great Ball I had. For some reason, no matter what I do, every single ball had some crazy spin on it, as if I were doing a curveball. Didn't matter how careful I was about throwing it. It's not a problem I've had before. Is this something that's happened to anyone else?
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I've had this happen as well, and I saw some other people talk about it earlier in the thread. They thought that grat balls maybe are designed to curve instead of throwing straight. Personally I almost always do a curve ball because I've found it's easier for me to actually throw the right distance when I curve.
 
Falchion said:
Are you all still catching everything you come across? I'm level 20 now so sometimes it takes 3-4 Pokeballs to catch all the Pidgeys and Ratatas that I come across since they are so high leveled.
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lol even 10-99 cp mons are getting hard to capture

this one weedle jumped like 3 times in 5 seconds

I have to make sure to stall after encountering so they don't smack the ball away too
 
Falchion said:
Are you all still catching everything you come across? I'm level 20 now so sometimes it takes 3-4 Pokeballs to catch all the Pidgeys and Ratatas that I come across since they are so high leveled.
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I will attempt to catch anything that isn't a Zubat.

Zubats are insanely difficult to catch at higher levels for some reason.
 
RagnarokX said:
I was on my way to work this morning and the DJs on the radio were talking with a woman organizing a Pokemon Go pub crawl this weekend that has 660 participants signed up so far. They asked her why Pokemon Go was so popular and she said it was because this was the first Pokemon game in 20 years.
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Ouch.
 
MisterHero said:
lol even 10-99 cp mons are getting hard to capture

this one weedle jumped like 3 times in 5 seconds

I have to make sure to stall after encountering so they don't smack the ball away too
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Ahaha, I misjudged a throw but a ratatta jumped at the last moment right into it.

I unfortunately do not live in a major area, so Idon't have many pokemon about.

Further, it's 94 degrees out at 5:30 pm. :(
 
Bought 20 poke balls as my first dive into the microtransactions, and a quarter go to waste on the random blown away throws that act like you did a curve throw...

Easily the most BS element of the game to drive micros.
 
I don't think Pokemon Go is working with my phones Accelerometer. I can't get AR mode to work because it can't detect my phones orientation, and I can't get Battery Saver to work because it wont detect when the phone is to my side. Sucks because I can live with not having the AR Mode, but battery saver not working is literally killing my phones battery
 
ArkkAngel007 said:
Bought 20 poke balls as my first dive into the microtransactions, and a quarter go to waste on the random blown away throws that act like you did a curve throw...

Easily the most BS element of the game to drive micros.
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As long as you live in a reasonably populous area, you should never have to buy pokeballs.
 
Is this a very buggy app? Several times now ive seen a pokemon and realized that, even though my guy is moving around, I cant click on anything. Even more frequently, i'll catch a pokemon and it will just stay in the poke ball. For both things I have to reboot which sucks cuz I lose the pokemon.
 
We're having some intermittent thunderstorms today, will probably be the first evening since launch without a big crowd and tons of lures down at the beach.
 
Really think I may have to drop this game and wait for some updates. It's just too damned frustrating right now..

Pokestops taking way too long to load up, or not at all, and I can catch pidgeys all day no problem, but I come across anything semi-rare and it freezes upon the catch and I don't get it.

Bleh. You'd figure if the game is only using 15mb per hour of data, everything should be loading up damn near instantly if you're on 4g.
 
haendeul said:
I've had this happen as well, and I saw some other people talk about it earlier in the thread. They thought that grat balls maybe are designed to curve instead of throwing straight. Personally I almost always do a curve ball because I've found it's easier for me to actually throw the right distance when I curve.
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This is basically it. The great balls have a higher chance to catch (actually it seems they just lower the color level from Red to yellow or yellow to green, etc), they are succeptible to seemingly random curves. This is negated completely if you throw a curve yourself.

If I am using great balls, or if the monster is higher CP and I am just using regular balls, I always curve now. If you turn your phone diagonally, and make like a Nike Swoosh type motion, it gets really easy to use. I'm guessing as you get higher player level, this is going to be mandatory, so it's probably better to practice on junk pokemon instead of getting assblasted by that 900CP Charizard that you want so bad but can't hit.

It's a really annoying mechanic though. I'm glad the game director (or something like that) said that one of the things they want to do is explain the mechanics better. I still am not 100% convinced that throwing when the inner circle is smallest is the best way to catch something. Also, I'm still confused about what causes a "nice" or "great" or "excellent" throw. Excellent gets you 100 extra xp per catch, so I would totally be trying to do it if I knew how.
 
Went out for a drive stopping at local parks and shops, found nothing.

Went to drive my friend home when he screams "BLASTOISE"

I now have a 900cp Blastoise :)
 
randome said:
Is this a very buggy app? Several times now ive seen a pokemon and realized that, even though my guy is moving around, I cant click on anything. Even more frequently, i'll catch a pokemon and it will just stay in the poke ball. For both things I have to reboot which sucks cuz I lose the pokemon.
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Yep. Possibly related to server overload though, especially that last bit. Hopefully it improves soon.
 
I updated to 1.0.2 and now the game is broken. It worked before for a bit, but now it just says "failed to log in, sign out, try a different account." I used a trainer account. Anyone have this issue?
 
This is probably one of the glitchiest games I've played. Starting to think it's not worth bothering anymore, even though I just got an aerodactyl from an egg.
 
Pops Maellard said:
As long as you live in a reasonably populous area, you should never have to buy pokeballs.
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Was travelling in a new area (Go-wise) that had no Pokéstops for miles. It was an act of caving in, but it still doesn't take away from a BS mechanic introduced later on that has the clear goal of wasting potentially bought items to make you buy more.

At least the breakout mechanics have some reasoning behind them, inspired by the mainline games.

At least prevent that from happening at 10 or 5 and less balls. Lost a Venomoth when my last ball curved away on a nice straight lob.

Ashodin said:
Does the shiny stuff on the ball when you spin it do anything?
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You get 10xp if you catch the Pokémon when throwing that curve ball.

Edit: Valor taking the top of page like your gyms.
 
randome said:
Is this a very buggy app? Several times now ive seen a pokemon and realized that, even though my guy is moving around, I cant click on anything. Even more frequently, i'll catch a pokemon and it will just stay in the poke ball and and kind of freeze. For both things I have to reboot which sucks.
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Bugs:
Moving map as you move, but can't click (restart)
"Nearby" panel doesn't change (restart)
Catch screen has no run away icon on it (restart)
Catch screen hangs after catch (restart)
Gym battle crashes app
Gym battle opponent stops fighting and timer goes to zero (restart)
Click pokestop and get white circle spin and nothing (wait a bit then give up and restart)
Gps position uncertainty rises and player runs back and forth (ignore)

And in my opinion:
Waste 6 plus pokeballs on a zubat You don't want anyway - run away and ignore.

Re-Position Pokemon anywhere for cute picture: turn off AR move phone, turn it back on again
 
Pejo said:
This is basically it. The great balls have a higher chance to catch (actually it seems they just lower the color level from Red to yellow or yellow to green, etc), they are succeptible to seemingly random curves. This is negated completely if you throw a curve yourself.

If I am using great balls, or if the monster is higher CP and I am just using regular balls, I always curve now. If you turn your phone diagonally, and make like a Nike Swoosh type motion, it gets really easy to use. I'm guessing as you get higher player level, this is going to be mandatory, so it's probably better to practice on junk pokemon instead of getting assblasted by that 900CP Charizard that you want so bad but can't hit.

It's a really annoying mechanic though. I'm glad the game director (or something like that) said that one of the things they want to do is explain the mechanics better. I still am not 100% convinced that throwing when the inner circle is smallest is the best way to catch something. Also, I'm still confused about what causes a "nice" or "great" or "excellent" throw. Excellent gets you 100 extra xp per catch, so I would totally be trying to do it if I knew how.
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Nice is when the Pokeball lands inside the circle when the circle is large. Great is when the Pokeball lands inside the circle when the circle is medium. Excellent when small. They have no effect on capture rate as far as I can work out; they're just EXP bonuses.

The best way to do curveballs is to "power them up" first - just draw loops very quickly while dragging the Pokeball and it'll spark up, and it's quite easy to aim after that.

And yes, at later levels, getting good at curveballs is near mandatory.
 
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