Pokémon Go |OT| As in "Go Outside"

Anyone found Charizard ?!

I have spent days to find him but looks like I need to be very lucky to find him .. very sad

I saw him when I took my son to the park but I wanted to play with my son, the park was small and it was the 3 steps BS where its anyones guess where it would be at.
 
I there anyway around for us who have a foreign Pokemon Go app to buy in game purchases? I live in Norway and have the US app (it's not out here), but I always get Credit Card declined when trying to buy something.
 
They are indeed. Data dumps have found that each Pokemon has 3 IVs - one for Stamina, one for Attack and one for Defense. Stamina runs between 0 and 31, we don't know what Attack and Defense go between, but... it will be 0 and 31. :p

As a side note, it looks like some Pokemon are continent-exclusive. Mr. Mime only has recorded sighting in Europe, Tauros in North America, Kangaskhan in Australia/New Zealand, and Farfetch'd in Asia (specifically in Sokcho, the only place in Asia that can play the game...).

If I go with my European phone/account to Asia, can I play it?
 
Yes! Lucky egg.

So whats the best way to use this? I could drive to the huge mall near me that has a LOT of poke stops in it. Should I use a lure and collect a ton of pidgeys, then use the egg and evolve them, while catching any more I can after in the 30 min?
 
Niantic should address the problem of cities having massive advantage over rural areas instead of banning people. Some of us would absolutely love to go outside and be part of the fun but if you live in a town with a few pokestops then you're not going to have supplies or good pokemon to even catch.

Solutions to Pokeballs and Pokestops, to stop people from rural areas/small towns to quit the game:

1. Introduce Mini Pokestops. Mini Pokestops will pop up just like the Pokemon do on the map. Mini Pokestops will only give you 50 % of what a regular Pokestop will though. So instead of getting 4 items, you will get 2 items. I am not a programmer, but I suspect this would be an easy solution with easy logistics and medium balancing. Make it so that the Mini Pokestops will pop up at a steady rate if there are no regular Pokestops around, and less so if there are Pokestops around.

2. Introduce Daily rewards. Give players who log in a daily reward every 24 hours. The higher level you are, the more items you will get. So if you are level 3 you will, for example, only get 20 Pokeballs and a couple of Potions and Revives. At level 16 you will get Great Balls and Super Potion. Just a few though. If your bag is full, you will be able to do some item management, where you can delete items, and choose what do take from the daily reward list.

3. Introduce an infinite amount of regular Pokeballs. At later levels, you will begin to exclusively use Great Balls and Ultra Balls. Why not just make it so that the players will eventually have an infinite amount of regular Pokeballs. Let us say at level 12, when you start getting Great Balls. Or better yet, scrap that, why not just introduce it permanently, from level 1. People living in cities basically never have the problem of running out of Pokeballs, so why not just make this equal to everyone.

This is part of an email I sent to Niantic. Hopefully they will consider either one of those.
 
If I go with my European phone/account to Asia, can I play it?

I think so - I know people who have already been GPS-spoofing to other continents to look for the exclusives.

Also, apparently there's a very small sample of continent-exclusives hatched from eggs received in the wrong continent, but they're all from 0.29.0, so it looks like they caught that one and didn't tell anyone. If you have some left-over older eggs, you might be in luck?
 
Niantic should address the problem of cities having massive advantage over rural areas instead of banning people. Some of us would absolutely love to go outside and be part of the fun but if you live in a town with a few pokestops then you're not going to have supplies or good pokemon to even catch.
Agreed with this. I live in a small city. We have quite a few stops but they are very spread out.

Right now sat with Pokémon around me but no pokeballs to catch them with...
 
Yes! Lucky egg.

So whats the best way to use this? I could drive to the huge mall near me that has a LOT of poke stops in it. Should I use a lure and collect a ton of pidgeys, then use the egg and evolve them, while catching any more I can after in the 30 min?

Yep. You'll want to be evolve 45 mons at a minimum, up to 50 or even 60 if you are confident you have a very strong connection, a phone that doesn't lag, and the servers look in good nick.
 
So if I request and say I want, like, 20 stops added to my town they'll actually do it? Or will they look it up and add a pity 1 somewhere?

That's a suggestion page but I vote for option 1 because I've read some gaffers that live in small rural town and they had gym and pokespot. So, imo, it's about luck if Niantics will process your suggestions or not since they're a tons of people hammering them now.
 
the problem is that the feature you are asking IS NOT CRUCIAL.
you can play without it, if you want it, you pay it.

TALKING SHIT? nice, thanks for the offense
Well you are talking rubbish if you're under the impression they're so poor that they have to charge for features lol.

They don't have to charge at all, they chose to, so they can milk it for even more money.

It's a pretty damn important feature being able to put the game into the background and not have to drain your phone playing it all day, also not having the problem of your phone timing out after so long(Android phones automatically turn the screen off after 10mins(less if you set it to). Yeah you can play without it, but locking it behind a paywall? I don't see how that isn't being sleazy..

Pointless arguing anyway, we obviously won't see eye to eye on this.
 
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Only stop in the whole large shopping district. There have been three lures while I've been sitting here enjoying free wi-fi and charging both my phone and powerbank. The café is the only establishment in range of the stop that serves food and drinks. They're aware of the marketing opportunities.

The game hasn't even officially released here in Sweden.
 
Well, if Nintendo had charged 10 bucks for the game and include all the features the watch does, people would complain. So yeah, they can't please anybody. I would rather not pay anything for the app and not have to pay for the watch, then have to pay for an app for a feature I might not use.
Thats one way to defend scummy paywalls of basic functionality I guess.
 
So if I request and say I want, like, 20 stops added to my town they'll actually do it? Or will they look it up and add a pity 1 somewhere?

They just started accepting requests yesterday I think, so who knows. One of the reasons to add a stop is "there is none around me". And like you said they can be dense in the cities, so I don't see why they would refuse multiple stops around you. I mean it would probably help a lot if you could even get 2-3 added near you. Probably helps to have them in unique areas/features. Maybe ingress players would know more about this though.
 
Oh boy. Foot pain is increasing. I'm either very bad at walking or should see a doctor. Either way poor timing on my part with the weekend coming up.
 
Have any of you folks visited locales you've never been to simply because of Pokemon GO?

Yup, found a park a short drive from our apartment that we didn't know about, because we saw several poke stops in one area.

My girlfriend ended up buying a new phone last night, partially because of this game. She has been using my old iPhone 5, but everything it freezes, which happens a lot, it either takes a really long time for the game to load back up or she has to re-install it to get it to work. I couldn't figure out a way to force it to log out in ios, like I could on Android using the back button, when I was having that problem.
 
They just started accepting requests yesterday I think, so who knows. One of the reasons to add a stop is "there is none around me". And like you said they can be dense in the cities, so I don't see why they would refuse multiple stops around you. I mean it would probably help a lot if you could even get 2-3 added near you. Probably helps to have them in unique areas/features. Maybe ingress players would know more about this though.

2-3 would help but like I said, they're all 10 minute walks apart. And that's just where I'm at. The outskirts of town have none and are even further from stops. Honestly you could add 30-40 and it still wouldn't be anything close to pictures I've seen of NYC. It's pretty depressing when you walk 10 minutes to a stop and get a couple potions, a revive, and no pokeballs.
 
Just heard that 4 people had to be rescued from caves near me. This was on BBC Radio 2, the most listened to station in Britain. I'm shocked at how big this has become here and how quickly it did so.
 
They just started accepting requests yesterday I think, so who knows. One of the reasons to add a stop is "there is none around me". And like you said they can be dense in the cities, so I don't see why they would refuse multiple stops around you. I mean it would probably help a lot if you could even get 2-3 added near you. Probably helps to have them in unique areas/features. Maybe ingress players would know more about this though.

If you're on about the Contact Us page thing they actually removed the option of how to add a new pokestop/gym. Though even if you sent something in before it just said an automatic reply stating they aren't taking submissions at the moment.

If you send an email under the my area has none, they say they aren't considering expanding to your city.

As I said before, I think they're just too busy sorting out the launch at the moment. We may see submissions open once every thing has settled.
 
3. Introduce an infinite amount of regular Pokeballs. At later levels, you will begin to exclusively use Great Balls and Ultra Balls. Why not just make it so that the players will eventually have an infinite amount of regular Pokeballs. Let us say at level 12, when you start getting Great Balls. Or better yet, scrap that, why not just introduce it permanently, from level 1. People living in cities basically never have the problem of running out of Pokeballs, so why not just make this equal to everyone.

I wonder if Niantics has a way to identify rural areas specialy through a lot of countries... because if not I doubt they will consider your suggestion.
 
They just started accepting requests yesterday I think, so who knows.
Well 4 of 6 gyms were removed from my neighrborhood this morning so it seems like they're going through requests at a brisk pace, but I have my doubts that they're actually giving any thought to the requests, rather than simply doing what the request asks of them.
As far as I can tell it's "Remove this popular gym"
Niantic: "ok"


...Yes I'm salty that the gyms were removed. lol
Honestly you could add 30-40 and it still wouldn't be anything close to pictures I've seen of NYC.
Don't worry, we're getting nerfed as we speak. :(
Texted my friend about it and she said stuff was missing by her apt as well.
 
They are indeed. Data dumps have found that each Pokemon has 3 IVs - one for Stamina, one for Attack and one for Defense. Stamina runs between 0 and 31, we don't know what Attack and Defense go between, but... it will be 0 and 31. :p

As a side note, it looks like some Pokemon are continent-exclusive. Mr. Mime only has recorded sighting in Europe, Tauros in North America, Kangaskhan in Australia/New Zealand, and Farfetch'd in Asia (specifically in Sokcho, the only place in Asia that can play the game...).

Not that it needed any more, but more confirmation that trading is coming sooner or later. They really should do a little more to encourage direct trainer interaction.
 
What is with the Pokemon this morning. Everyone I tried to catch escaped atleast once. Had a Bulbasaur not only escape like 4-5 times but the app then froze! Argh!
 
I there anyway around for us who have a foreign Pokemon Go app to buy in game purchases? I live in Norway and have the US app (it's not out here), but I always get Credit Card declined when trying to buy something.
This sounds strange. I'm in Denmark and using the US app, and I just tested and bought 100 PokeCoins. I'm on Android.
 
Fed the hell out of Professor Willow's grinder this morning. Between lucky egg evolving and sending the rest for candy, went from 302 to 24 Pokemon. Unfortunate my first 2 eevee evolvutions were Jolteon, I want Flareon.
 
Just heard that 4 people had to be rescued from caves near me. This was on BBC Radio 2, the most listened to station in Britain. I'm shocked at how big this has become here and how quickly it did so.

Three people had to call the police to be let out of a cemetery they had been locked in in my hometown of Scranton, PA. Funny thing is that in high school I had gotten locked in the same cemetery with some friends... but we just climbed the fence.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/wei...chnology-Smartphone-Weird-News-386678101.html
 
I wonder if Niantics has a way to identify rural areas... I understand your pain but I'm still agaianst infinite normal pokeball though.

I actually sent that mail in regards to a couple of friends of mine who live in a town with a pop of 1500. There are no Pokestops or gyms there, and the closest Pokestop is in another town, a 10 minute drive away.

In my town, with a pop of 2500, there are 4 Pokestops and 2 gyms. Not bad, but the distance between the stops is on average half a mile, so it's still a problem for us.
 
Fed the hell out of Professor Willow's grinder this morning. Between lucky egg evolving and sending the rest for candy, went from 302 to 24 Pokemon. Unfortunate my first 2 eevee evolvutions were Jolteon, I want Flareon.

Ugh, the words Professor Willow and grinder (Grindr) in the same sentence. Yes daddy please.
 
I don't think they should introduce any daily oder other system that allows to get pokestop items outside of pokestops

moving around to visit pokestops and meet other players are a key factor of this games success.
sure, you catch pokemon on the way, but the route you take is from pokestop to pokestop or gym.

do not make them worth any less, don't hand out pokestop items outside of pokestops

the best solution to the problem in rural areas is set up a system that lets you create new pokestops easily and very quickly
 
So just read a stat that 6.2% of Android devices in Canada already have the game installed.

It really sucks trying to be one of the ones to do this legitly, I feel like we are going to be at a massive disadvantage once it finally officially launches here.

Just release it already.
 
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