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**Jackal**

Not too bad here, usually common rubbish by my house but tend to find stacks of scyther and pincer in the field by me.
Then constant Charmander in town.

**Sinful Hero**

Frozocrone wrote:
I think I might be done. Every time I go out, it's either Pidgey or Rattata.

Just give me something that isn't freaking normal type!

Try walking by a pond or river with an Incense on. Incense in general seems to attract rarer Pokémon for me.

But you should be nabbing every pidgey you see to speed the leveling process.

**Dark Severance**

Frozocrone wrote:
I think I might be done. Every time I go out, it's either Pidgey or Rattata.

Just give me something that isn't freaking normal type!

You actually want those. Collect a lot of them. Then use a Lucky Egg, trade and evolve your way up your levels. There is a spreadsheet or webpage that lets you put in how many X Pokemon you have, candies and it'll tell you how many to transfer to professor so you evolve your best and the exp you'd get.

Are you just going around the neighborhood or going to actually different areas? Pokemon are supposed to spawn based on time and locations. Not all of them are fully set that way but ideally some spawn in Industrial areas, others in Rural, others along waterfronts, etc. We hit the community college and caught different stuff than what was at the Zoo vs what was along the waterfront downtown.

**gorgon**

I'm guessing the point is that it's boring to grind on Pidgeys, Rattata and Weedles.

**Frozocrone**

Dark Severance wrote:
Frozocrone wrote:
I think I might be done. Every time I go out, it's either Pidgey or Rattata.

Just give me something that isn't freaking normal type!
You actually want those. Collect a lot of them. Then use a Lucky Egg, trade and evolve your way up your levels. There is a spreadsheet or webpage that lets you put in how many X Pokemon you have, candies and it'll tell you how many to transfer to professor so you evolve your best and the exp you'd get.

Are you just going around the neighborhood or going to actually different areas? Pokemon are supposed to spawn based on time and locations. Not all of them are fully set that way but ideally some spawn in Industrial areas, others in Rural, others along waterfronts, etc. We hit the community college and caught different stuff than what was at the Zoo vs what was along the waterfront downtown.

I walk to and from the city centre and also branch out into rural suburbs. Caught a Koffing, Gastly and Staryu on the way back which was nice.
Shall keep on catching dem pidgeys for the levels. I have a fair few Eevees as well which is cool I guess. A lot of my rare pokemon have been eggs ahaha.

**Jackal**

Grinding the quick evolves is the fastest way to rank up.
I'll throw on an incense and walk through the local area that's packed with normals.
An hour's walk normally gets me around 15 evolutions, so with an egg, 15k XP.

If you want something rare though, find a stop and throw on a module and incense, rare spawns seem to be on the half hour and the hour.
Been using that method for farming dratini and Charmander so far.

Still trying to find a quick way to farm magikarp though as I've got 280 candy and still need another 120.
Far too slow as it is.

**prowla**

Jackal wrote:

Still trying to find a quick way to farm magikarp though as I've got 280 candy and still need another 120.
Far too slow as it is.

Went to a downtown riverbank spot where the kiddies are keeping 2-3 lures up constantly, got about 15 magicarps in less than an hour. Riverbanks seem to be the best place for water-type farming, even better than beaches.

It seems to me that most spawn points have a small collection of different pokemon that can spawn, 10 different ones or so, with different spawn probablilites. However, seems to be difficult to tell which spawn point has most pokemon spawning - I have a couple of leaf piles nearby that never seem to give me anything.

**Gymnogyps**

Not sure if anyone has posted this yet, but this site gives a pretty good estimate of pokemon currently wild spawned.

https://pokevision.com/

I've seen some errors, but it seems mostly to be caused when the pokemon gets caught or I'm not high enough level to see it.

It also seems distance has some variance. But it seems pretty close. Especially since the pokemon-radar (dare I say... pokedar?) isn't working great.

**Sidstyler**

Can't believe they haven't fixed that yet.

**krodarklorr**

So, I feel this game hates me recently.

I found a level 320 Dragonair, and after using an Ultra Ball and a Razz berry, he broke free in one go and fled.

Then I found a level 600 Charmeleon, same issue.

Then to add insult to injury, I tried catching a level 30 Magikarp, that in turn broke lose in one go and fled.

My courage will pull me through, though, right?

**Sinful Hero**

Here's good Intel for the aspiring PokéMasters-

https://m.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4u6ws8/each_pokemon_with_their_best_attacks/

**SagesStone**

Well we know what the team leaders look like, finally.

A Pokémon GO panel at San Diego Comic-Con featuring Niantic CEO John Hanke has revealed some tidbits about the game.
Most notably, the panel revealed the designs of the leaders of each of the three team leaders in the game. Currently, only their silhouettes appear in the games. Hanke hinted that the reason for this was that the team leaders' designs were not ready when the game was released.
As he has stated in recent interviews, Hanke reiterated that trading is currently being worked on, and the next feature Niantic intends to add to the game. However, he also mentioned that they didn't want to add it to the game until the servers could handle it.
Hanke mentioned that Niantic is considering enhancements for PokéStops in the same vein as Lure Modules. One example he gave was turning PokéStops into Pokémon Centers.
Additionally, Hanke confirmed that it is possible to influence Eevee's evolution using its nickname, but did not elaborate on how. Fans had already discovered that nicknaming Eevee after the Eevee brothers will cause it to evolve into the corresponding evolution, but Niantic had not previously acknowledged this.
Hanke also hinted that there are other Easter eggs in the games that players had not yet discovered.
Contrary to rumors beforehand, no special Pokémon were available at the panel.

http://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_GO_panel_at_SDCC_reveals_team_leaders,_more

So the eevee naming method is also confirmed officially too.

**Melissia**

Lol, Spark looks like such a douche. Candela's suit's cool, but the fact that she's wearing nothing but stockings basically from the panties down is a little weird to me. Blanche's is a bit anime but other than that perfectly servicable wtih a nice badass coat.

If those were indicative of team uniforms, I'd go with Mystic (already am anyway, mind).

**EdSnark**

Ugh...the whole Eevee naming thing threw me off. I thought you only had one chance in general to use the naming method to get what you wanted, so I went with a Vaporeon. Two more Eevee evolutions ended up as Vaporeons, and now I see I could have gotten a Jolteon and a Flareon using the naming trick. Oh well, next ones going to be a Flareon. I don't have a good fire type yet.

Has anyone experienced a bug/glitch where an egg will hatch but it won't tell you it hatched? I 'lost' an egg from my screen today, and when I was transferring later on I noticed I had a Horsea I never had before and like 30 Horsea candy, so obviously I had one hatch but it didn't tell me, nor did the hatching screen pop up. Weird.

**JohnHwangDD**

Sinful Hero wrote:
I may just take over every gym in town and leave 33CP Pidgeys behind me.

10 CP Magikarps...

**AduroT**

I just put Magicarps in gyms anymore. They're impossible to hold anyways if someone wants to take them, so the Magicarps amuse me. I've got nine of them named for the gyms I frequent in my area so I can tell which ones get taken out when.

**Frozocrone**

Pretty good haul yesterday. Didn't quite manage to get a Lickitung and a Seaking ran away from me, but a wild Muk, Mr. Mime, Porygon, Machop and stumbling on a Squirtle farm is not bad at all. I don't think I'll try sprinting for Pokemon again though.

The Pokescanner App I downloaded last night is awesome, especially since they've turned off the tracking function.

**Sinful Hero**

EdSnark wrote:
Ugh...the whole Eevee naming thing threw me off. I thought you only had one chance in general to use the naming method to get what you wanted, so I went with a Vaporeon. Two more Eevee evolutions ended up as Vaporeons, and now I see I could have gotten a Jolteon and a Flareon using the naming trick. Oh well, next ones going to be a Flareon. I don't have a good fire type yet.

Has anyone experienced a bug/glitch where an egg will hatch but it won't tell you it hatched? I 'lost' an egg from my screen today, and when I was transferring later on I noticed I had a Horsea I never had before and like 30 Horsea candy, so obviously I had one hatch but it didn't tell me, nor did the hatching screen pop up. Weird.

I've seen the phantom egg glitch too. Usually when it's loading, or has frozen and I restart the app that I find a few new Pokémon. It sometimes takes awhile to update your eggs, and a lot of the time they hit all at once even if they were .2-.4km apart.

**JohnHwangDD**

I seem to have found a Dratini nest...

**Dark Severance**

EdSnark wrote:
Has anyone experienced a bug/glitch where an egg will hatch but it won't tell you it hatched?

I have had it happen where I was walking and it hatched or I didn't notice that it hatched through other means. It usually happens if it was going to hatch when my game locked up. If you notice the egg gone, just look at your Pokemon by recent and you should be able to easily identify what was hatched.

JohnHwangDD wrote:
I seem to have found a Dratini nest...

Yeah the family and I found one downtown, along the waterfront by the docks. There is also a place we've been catching Dragonite downtown as well.

**Frozocrone**

JohnHwangDD wrote:
I seem to have found a Dratini nest...

We had one the other day, but I'm still jealous as my phone was out of power while my friends were busy catching :/ Went home and immediately bought a portable charger.

Did have a Squirtle nest I stumbled on though and Magikarp farms are always cropping up, which is nice.

**Dreadwinter**

Has anybody used the CP Calculators people are making online? Any idea if they are legit?

**Gymnogyps**

Sinful Hero wrote:
EdSnark wrote:
Ugh...the whole Eevee naming thing threw me off. I thought you only had one chance in general to use the naming method to get what you wanted, so I went with a Vaporeon. Two more Eevee evolutions ended up as Vaporeons, and now I see I could have gotten a Jolteon and a Flareon using the naming trick. Oh well, next ones going to be a Flareon. I don't have a good fire type yet.

Has anyone experienced a bug/glitch where an egg will hatch but it won't tell you it hatched? I 'lost' an egg from my screen today, and when I was transferring later on I noticed I had a Horsea I never had before and like 30 Horsea candy, so obviously I had one hatch but it didn't tell me, nor did the hatching screen pop up. Weird.

I've seen the phantom egg glitch too. Usually when it's loading, or has frozen and I restart the app that I find a few new Pokémon. It sometimes takes awhile to update your eggs, and a lot of the time they hit all at once even if they were .2-.4km apart.

This has been happening to me a lot, as well. I was so mad when I thought my eggs disappeared, but they don't. As noted, you do get your hatch, it just shows in your Pokemon list. I'm kinda baffled that it doesn't show in the journal... but anyway, be assured, all your incu-walking is not in vain!

I have patchy cell signal at work (and 3 pokestops), so sometimes I get credit for walking as my phone tries to figure out where I am when I'm sitting at my desk... I figure it balances out with all the walking I *don't* get credit for when I have no signal, at all.

This is when I usually get the weird updates with eggs disappearing/autohatching, or whatever they do.

**Frozocrone**

Apparently a bunch of Pokemon nests were changed this morning. I used to have a lot of Rhyhorn at my park. Now I've got a load of Exeggcute to catch.

**Sinful Hero**

They also toned down Water Gun, powered up a whole lot of charge moves, and other little tweaks to attacks and such.

Vaporeons aren't so OP now!

Automatically Appended Next Post:
http://kotaku.com/pokemon-gos-vaporeon-has-been-nerfed-1784575802

**Frozocrone**

Haha yeah I saw that. Got rid of my Vaporeons, I've beem tainted by IV's. Just got rid of about 20 Exeggcutes because they weren't good enough and i'm debating whether or not to keep my 89-91% Eevee. Did get a 96% Shellder though, that's been evolved into a Cloyster and rocking Ice Shard and Hydro Pump. Very happy with that, would have preferred Frost Breath but I will take it to hold gyms with.

**Sidstyler**

Did they fix the damn tracking bug? I swear the tracker has been broken damn near the entire time the game's been out. I started playing on the 9th and I remember this thing being broken longer than it worked, anyway.

Really irritating since I'm pretty sure I was near a Squirtle nest earlier, saw no less than four of the little bastards on the radar, yet with no idea if I'm going in the right direction or not trying to track it down was pointless. Never even saw one pop up.

I'm not even bothering with the IV crap, just looking for the highest CP's I can and hoping for the best. It's hard enough finding anything good as it is, I'm not gonna start throwing even more Pokemon away just because they aren't absolutely perfect. I've used a CP calculator just for the sake of curiosity but that's about as far as I'm gonna go.

**Sinful Hero**

Pokémon with better IVs will naturally have a higher CP anyway, so you're not really missing anything.

Tracking bug is still not fixed. I've taken to just remembering spawning points to return to later.

**Wolfblade**

Sinful Hero wrote:
Pokémon with better IVs will naturally have a higher CP anyway, so you're not really missing anything.

Tracking bug is still not fixed. I've taken to just remembering spawning points to return to later.

Not always, when putting it into a calc, if it's unsure it's either X level with really good IVs, or X+1 with terrible IVs normally (i.e. a lvl 13 with ~14s in all stats or a lvl 14 with a 9 and 2 6s)

**Sinful Hero**

Yes. You would need to know the specific level to accurately check the IVs.