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 Sidstyler wrote:
When you evolve a Pokemon do you have the option to replace its move set or is it stuck with the original?

It can and will randomize abilities, replacing what was there when you evolve. It doesn't always do it but for the final evolutions, the abilties do change.

 Sidstyler wrote:
I got absolutely destroyed, full party wipe (I wasn't expecting to have to roll with a full team though, and mostly all I have are grass, bug, and normal types so not very balanced).I have no idea how to dodge attacks apparently, every one of my attempts failed or was poorly-timed I guess.

To dodge you swipe left or right. You tap to attack, filling the blue bar to get your big attack. Once you get a bar full, you hold down on your pokemon and then release to use that power.

Gym Battles aren't really meant to be solo'd but are designed as team events. Get a group of 2-4 players to attack a gym together. When you attack it, you decrease the prestige which lowers the level of the gym. The level determines how many defenders can be on a gym (swipe left or right to see what is defending before attacking). When you win the prestige bar goes down and if it delevels, that means one less Pokemon defending. You can also attack your own color gym, which increases prestige gaining levels (10 level max) so you can put a Pokemon there. You can also simply wipe them out, but starting out that usually doesn't happen as most have already grinded a good 48 hours into the game so the teams are fairly strong.

 Sidstyler wrote:
I have a CP104 Eevee I was thinking about trying to evolve but like I said, I'm not 100% sure how evolution works and don't want to turn it into a Flareon or a Jolteon with freaking Quick Attack and Swift.

Eevee evolution is random. You don't get to choose if it is Flareon or Jolteon, it randomizes it and the new powers.

 Sidstyler wrote:
Also really annoying, I kept seeing the silhouette of Scyther popping up in the bottom right, but I never actually found one.

3 steps means it is the furthest away. 2 steps closer, 1 steps really close. When there are no steps just wait and it will appear. The box will outline and blink with a white border, if you are moving in the correct direction. If you are getting further away it moves down the list, instead of towards the top.

CP1800 Pokemon the highest in the areas that I've seen so far. People have literally been camping out the spots. And of course if you are at Disneyland or Disneyworld, you can max out your inventory from all the Pokestops in less an hour. Then drop 3 lures, in neighboring pokestops catching pokemon every 30 seconds.

 Dark Severance wrote:

 Sidstyler wrote:
When you evolve a Pokemon do you have the option to replace its move set or is it stuck with the original?

It can and will randomize abilities, replacing what was there when you evolve. It doesn't always do it but for the final evolutions, the abilties do change.

 Sidstyler wrote:
I got absolutely destroyed, full party wipe (I wasn't expecting to have to roll with a full team though, and mostly all I have are grass, bug, and normal types so not very balanced).I have no idea how to dodge attacks apparently, every one of my attempts failed or was poorly-timed I guess.

To dodge you swipe left or right. You tap to attack, filling the blue bar to get your big attack. Once you get a bar full, you hold down on your pokemon and then release to use that power.

Gym Battles aren't really meant to be solo'd but are designed as team events. Get a group of 2-4 players to attack a gym together. When you attack it, you decrease the prestige which lowers the level of the gym. The level determines how many defenders can be on a gym (swipe left or right to see what is defending before attacking). When you win the prestige bar goes down and if it delevels, that means one less Pokemon defending. You can also attack your own color gym, which increases prestige gaining levels (10 level max) so you can put a Pokemon there. You can also simply wipe them out, but starting out that usually doesn't happen as most have already grinded a good 48 hours into the game so the teams are fairly strong.

 Sidstyler wrote:
I have a CP104 Eevee I was thinking about trying to evolve but like I said, I'm not 100% sure how evolution works and don't want to turn it into a Flareon or a Jolteon with freaking Quick Attack and Swift.

Eevee evolution is random. You don't get to choose if it is Flareon or Jolteon, it randomizes it and the new powers.

 Sidstyler wrote:
Also really annoying, I kept seeing the silhouette of Scyther popping up in the bottom right, but I never actually found one.

3 steps means it is the furthest away. 2 steps closer, 1 steps really close. When there are no steps just wait and it will appear. The box will outline and blink with a white border, if you are moving in the correct direction. If you are getting further away it moves down the list, instead of towards the top.

CP1800 Pokemon the highest in the areas that I've seen so far. People have literally been camping out the spots. And of course if you are at Disneyland or Disneyworld, you can max out your inventory from all the Pokestops in less an hour. Then drop 3 lures, in neighboring pokestops catching pokemon every 30 seconds.

All of this is correct except for the blink with a white border thing. That has been debunked. Also, not sure how the list works 100% yet, there is a chance that having something move up and down the list isn't a good way to find it. Some pokemon may have larger ranges than other and this could mess with the position on the list.

No options, though I think some moves get replaced. Still not sure if previous moves have anything to do with what you end up with though..

My evee got water gun and hydro pump when he went to vaporeon. He also wound up with 700something CP from Evee's almost maxed 200something.

I can believe the 950 scyther, I'm chugging along my best but a single person (or at least not married and solely taking care of the kids this weekend...) could have done a ridiculously larger amount than me. I got that vaporeon to 700 something and thats about as far as I could get it at my level of 8 or 9. I keep seeing Scythers and Snorlax but they're all 3 sets of tracks away and I'm never sitting anywhere that I can just wander in the right direction.

Bah didn't see the page flip, my info is mostly rehashing

Oh, so camping out in Disney World is how you win at PoGo. Damn. No vacation time

I've got a Flareon and Vaporeon which was lucky. And a Jigglypuff which has me too excited.


About locating Pokemon, where has it been said that the white outline is fake? I'm curious because I read from a few people online it was real even though I hadn't tried it yet myself

 Dreadwinter wrote:
That has been debunked. Also, not sure how the list works 100% yet, there is a chance that having something move up and down the list isn't a good way to find it.

It hasn't been debunked. We have a 99% capture rate amongst the groups between CA, NY, WA and OR that we're part of (which also includes a good group from Blizzard in CA and another group from WotC in Seattle. Personally my family and I have a 100% capture rate to what I want to capture. Now there are however issues with server, gps lag/creep and other factors which can make it look like it doesn't work that way. When you notice your person isn't tracking properly with you on your location or having heavy loading (pokeball in upper left hand corner) then need to stop to recalibrate. If you notice a lock up, bar vanishes or you suspect a server delay you can close out and restart the app. It will do a refresh.

Think of it like a radar. You are in the center. Then expand a circle around your location (with you at the center) by 30 feet, that is no paw zone. Expand another circle about 90 feet, that is 1 paw zone. The numbers aren't exact, it is a real general number so you get the visual. Then expand another circle around you about 150 feet, that is the 2 paw zone. Then finally a third circle at 210 feet, that is the 3 paw zone.

 GrimDork wrote:
Oh, so camping out in Disney World is how you win at PoGo. Damn. No vacation time

No that isn't the only way. The inner cities vs suburbs have an easier time. You just really need to find a good park area. Most large parks have multiple pokestops within 5-10 minutes, that you can create a circuit to start at one end and by the time you get back around it has refreshed. There are a few other parks that have some close enough to plant multiple lures to overlap as well. Twitter is a good place to find places in your region or facebook, groups and meetups are popping up all over the place.

There's groups walking down the street at 11:30pm on Sunday playing this game. Insanity!

I caught a CP196 Eevee so I decided that was the one to start powering up...and then I got to the point where I can't actually power it up anymore because my trainer level isn't high enough. It's practically maxed but it isn't quite there, so I don't want to evolve it yet.

Only been playing a day or so, and not had much time to properly get catching due to jet lag, but there is a pokestop accessible from my desk at work. I can gain items whilst sat working

 Goliath wrote:
Only been playing a day or so, and not had much time to properly get catching due to jet lag, but there is a pokestop accessible from my desk at work. I can gain items whilst sat working

Gotcha beat! I deliver pizza! Incredible synergy with Pokego. Explains why after 3 days I have a crack team of varied 1000+ CP critters and a 'dex of over 80 caught 'mons.

I have a loop we drive in for stops. Since they refresh in 5 minutes by the time I complete the loop is all reset again. And I just let the kids handle everything while I drive. Pretty nice set up

I get a fair mix of Pokemon in my front room. But there's a small park by my parents' house that has 15 poke stops in it.

It has been debunked, just like the Eevee moves changing what Eevee evolves in to. Here is the information: https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4ruoya/this_is_actually_the_correct_way_of_tracking/

Makes sense, I tried that blinky thing earlier and it just didn't work how people have said it did. Yesterday morning i did pretty much what that link said to do, walk until the prints go up or down to get your bearings.

 KingCracker wrote:
Makes sense, I tried that blinky thing earlier and it just didn't work how people have said it did. Yesterday morning i did pretty much what that link said to do, walk until the prints go up or down to get your bearings.

Same, I have found that is the best way to find things.

More Info: Egg Hatchings sorted by Distance.

Loving this game personally. I've never been so excited to go exercise.

Rarest stuff I've caught so far has been Machop, Staryu, Cubone, Pincer, and Magmar going by the one chart I've found. Plus a few "Specials" like the starters.

So, explain how this works to a total no0b?

I was reading about it on an Apple site, about how someone was robbed at gunpoint when they went to a place to collect their pokemons or whatever. And someone else that discovered a dead body down by the river when they went searching for stuff.

Anyway, it sounded like a good way for me to get out and do some walking if it's fun and no one robs me

 Necros wrote:
Anyway, it sounded like a good way for me to get out and do some walking if it's fun and no one robs me

There are a couple incidents where people have been targeted. Almost all of the criminals have been caught, as far as I'm aware there aren't any that haven't yet. The criminals range from 17-21, although mostly 17-18 from what I've seen of various reports. What they don't realize is that since they have a known "target location" it also means the Police know where to look for them. Like anything though, there will be people that will target them but overall it is fairly safe as there is a lot of traffic and people to those areas. They should have paid attention back in the early days of Ingress when people already tried the same thing and got caught.

A group of friends in the Atlanta area quickly organized and started a group which has been growing crazy. They ended up being on the news. Another group in Seattle, three in CA and two in New York have done similarly.

In a nutshell you download the app. It has a radar that shows Pokemon in the area. When they spawn, you tap them and then fling pokeballs at them to catch them. If you turn off the VR, then it doesn't put real image from the camera in the background and instead just have basic grass. Makes it easier to click them when they spawn, then keep moving while you try to capture them. The rest of the information is in the FAQs.

I'm buzzing for when it's released in the UK. Hopefully the servers will be stable when it is.

 Sinful Hero wrote:
Loving this game personally. I've never been so excited to go exercise.

Rarest stuff I've caught so far has been Machop, Staryu, Cubone, Pincer, and Magmar going by the one chart I've found. Plus a few "Specials" like the starters.

Spoiler:

I think rarity is based on where you are. I have heard some people saying they find Diglett and Sandshrew all the time in more arid/deserty areas of the country where people in places like I live, a temperate environment, are drowning in Ratatta and Pidgey. I find a lot of Eevee, I would consider it to be one of the most common things around here also. We also have people with Snorlax around here, my friend having found one while walking down the street.

 Dreadwinter wrote:


I think rarity is based on where you are. I have heard some people saying they find Diglett and Sandshrew all the time in more arid/deserty areas of the country where people in places like I live, a temperate environment, are drowning in Ratatta and Pidgey. I find a lot of Eevee, I would consider it to be one of the most common things around here also. We also have people with Snorlax around here, my friend having found one while walking down the street.

There is a massive Pepco (power station) depo next to my office and we are drowning in Pikachu.

It does seem like some certain pokemon have static spawn points as a bunch of people I know all got Onix in the same spot, and I went there and he was chillin right where they said he was.

Just as a PSA- if you're signing in with google account, you will want to login to your google account and revoke pokemon go's access to your account- for unfathomable reasons, the app is getting full access to your account until you specifically revoke it- including drive, emails, etc.

 Gitzbitah wrote:
Just as a PSA- if you're signing in with google account, you will want to login to your google account and revoke pokemon go's access to your account- for unfathomable reasons, the app is getting full access to your account until you specifically revoke it- including drive, emails, etc.

Can you explain this further or how to do this? I looked in my account and apps and such and didn't see my Pokemon go app listed at all

 KingCracker wrote:

 Gitzbitah wrote:
Just as a PSA- if you're signing in with google account, you will want to login to your google account and revoke pokemon go's access to your account- for unfathomable reasons, the app is getting full access to your account until you specifically revoke it- including drive, emails, etc.

Can you explain this further or how to do this? I looked in my account and apps and such and didn't see my Pokemon go app listed at all

It is only on IOS. They get a lot of access to things on Google. It seems like it is an oversight at the moment, I doubt they will continue to have that much access, because a lot of it seems unnecessary.

Here is an article about it. Warning: Kotaku

Update: Niantic is aware and is changing it. Apparently it was never accessing that information anyways.

Not in to this personally but this story appeared on our local news,
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/81999684/pokemon-go-players-turn-up-at-hells-angels-headquarters-looking-for-pokestop

Apparently Pokeymans cause even more trouble.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-36761331

.....Pokemon Go: Singapore company sacks Australian for rant

An Australian man has been sacked after complaining that the game Pokemon Go is not available in Singapore.
Sonny Truyen's profanity-laden rant on Facebook suggested Singapore was an undesirable place to live due to the unavailability of the smartphone game.
Mr Truyen wrote that Singapore was filled with "stupid people" and said the national IQ would fall if he left........

This is the sort of publicity you can only dream of.

 Dreadwinter wrote:
Warning: Kotaku

Warning Kotaku? Really? Maybe add “Trigger” before that warning .

Does anyone know when it releases in Sweden for iOS? :(

Seems Team Instinct is getting their gak together here in town, I saw a couple of yellow gyms on my way home from work today. That's a relief, got tired of seeing blue everywhere.

I just don't have the kinda time to dedicate to this game to get where everyone else is. I looked at a couple of those blue gyms earlier tonight and I saw Pokemon defending that were in the 1100's. The highest I have right now is a 363 Tauros. Hopefully I'll make more progress this weekend, currently I'm an embarrassment to my team.

Also caught a Squirtle on my lunch break. Fething score! Only CP114 though, but it's certainly better than having no Squirtles.

 Sidstyler wrote:
Seems Team Instinct is getting their gak together here in town, I saw a couple of yellow gyms on my way home from work today. That's a relief, got tired of seeing blue everywhere.

I just don't have the kinda time to dedicate to this game to get where everyone else is. I looked at a couple of those blue gyms earlier tonight and I saw Pokemon defending that were in the 1100's. The highest I have right now is a 363 Tauros. Hopefully I'll make more progress this weekend, currently I'm an embarrassment to my team.

Also caught a Squirtle on my lunch break. Fething score! Only CP114 though, but it's certainly better than having no Squirtles.

Once you hit level 10 you'll start finding higher starting CP Pokemon, especially if you use an incense. Wait to evolve a bunch of Pokemon at once while using a Lucky Egg to maximize your experience gains. If you can time it to include hatching eggs all the better.

Only use your stardust on Pokemon that have the white semicircle almost all the way across- that shows their CP in relation to your trainer level. if I could go back I wouldn't use any dust on anything until I hit level 10 and started catching higher CP Pokemon.

 Hybrid Son Of Oxayotl wrote:

 Dreadwinter wrote:
Warning: Kotaku

Warning Kotaku? Really? Maybe add “Trigger” before that warning .

Kotaku has a reputation of not being right about things. In this case, the issue had already been addressed by Niantic and a solution was in the works. Many other articles updated to let people know about it, Kotaku has not.

Hence the warning.

 Sidstyler wrote:
Seems Team Instinct is getting their gak together here in town, I saw a couple of yellow gyms on my way home from work today. That's a relief, got tired of seeing blue everywhere.

I just don't have the kinda time to dedicate to this game to get where everyone else is. I looked at a couple of those blue gyms earlier tonight and I saw Pokemon defending that were in the 1100's. The highest I have right now is a 363 Tauros. Hopefully I'll make more progress this weekend, currently I'm an embarrassment to my team.

Also caught a Squirtle on my lunch break. Fething score! Only CP114 though, but it's certainly better than having no Squirtles.

Funny how that works because out here everyone (myself included) seems to be Valor and once in a while I'll a blue gym. I've yet to see instinct at all.