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Yeah little bit. Man the game is silly fun when you're out and about but it's a dead weight when you're at home watching the kids, not gonna find anything walking around in the back yard

Pretty much. And sadly I get stuck in the house more often than not. Though it's nice to do when I'm taking a walk around the suburb in the evenings.

Kids and I spent 45+ minutes at the local sculpture park\museum and many things pogo were accomplished, oldest caught a couple even, it since we got home those poor poke eggs have been cooking in the incubators doin nothing.

Yeah my wife and I started it today and my son is getting a phone to play on as well. We've rode our bikes for 4 to 5 miles then just now walked roughly 2 ish miles and soon as my phone charges up we are driving the next town over and walking their paths for more. I'm nearly a level 5.

Outside of the occasional freeze up of the app it's been working well enough on our end. I'm digging this so far.

 Dreadwinter wrote:
You didn't play very long then, because there really isn't a reason to do in-app purchases unless you are super impatient or do not want to travel to the pokestops. You can get most things from a Pokestop, the things you can't get you can earn currency for by having a strong gym to earn you the Poke Coins for shop purchases. You also don't really need to walk, if you have a good lookout passenger and drive below 30, you can just cruise from stop to stop and catch pokemon in between.

I played it very briefly, like an hour, and I didn't get very far. I was just making an assumption since I noticed everything costs coins and coins cost money, and there wasn't really anything else I could do with the Pokemon. Admittedly I'm not sure how it really works yet, I don't know how to find Pokestops or gyms other than just walking around and stumbling into them. I'm assuming gyms are also how you "train" them.

I have two Venonats and a Paras now. Apparently I'm a bug catcher.

 KingCracker wrote:
Yeah my wife and I started it today and my son is getting a phone to play on as well. We've rode our bikes for 4 to 5 miles then just now walked roughly 2 ish miles and soon as my phone charges up we are driving the next town over and walking their paths for more. I'm nearly a level 5.

Outside of the occasional freeze up of the app it's been working well enough on our end. I'm digging this so far.

Ok I need to change my previous statement a bit. We drove to town like I said and man oh man did we receive crashes like crazy. We spent roughly an hour messing around because we kept getting the server errors, it drove me nuts! It was so bad I think I'm going to give it a fairly bad rating until that gets fixed. Good gravy!

Yeah servers are an issue, I think it's just too popular or something.

Jealous of my sister's apartment complex, was visiting and Pokemon kept wandering through her living room whereas at my place I bit maybe two dudes on a half kilometer loop of my street. Evees live here though, so that's a bonus.


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I'm not sure but I swear you get a daily stipend of balls and incense. Poke stops are all landmarks. Churches, sculptures, etc. Parking lots seem to be good places to find Pokemon, parks too I'm assuming .

I evolved my first Eevee and got a Jolteon. I'm enjoying having it, but I crashed the only time I swung by a gym today.

I'm wondering if there's money to be made in an egg-hatching service- meet someone at a track, and they run 5k with your phone.

Yeah about once an hour I'll get a Pokemon close enough to catch without leaving my living room. But we do have 5 or 6 pokestops within walking distance so that's a plus. You can re-up at pokestops every 5 minutes which is nice. I've got a Ratacate that has a CP219. Not a bad start I think

 GrimDork wrote:
Yeah servers are an issue, I think it's just too popular or something.

The game wasn't supposed to be officially out until next week. The released it to the stores so that beta players could get early access. Someone then put the link on reddit with the APK and everyone started to download and play it. Then there were many people upset they couldn't play, nothing worked right because they downloaded it (even though they weren't supposed too). This prompted them to release it to the general public. It will get better but they weren't really ready or prepared for it to go live just yet.

Huh thanks for that. Interesting. Server issues aren't really unexpected for this kind of thing and it *is* free, not a huge deal but if they got stutter stepped on the start it helps explain things.

The game is officially out in Oceania and North America, the problem is players in Europe and Asia getting access to the game and overloading the servers.

Okay, I have a slightly better understanding of how this works. Pokestops are kinda all over the place: churches, the post office, statues even...there's a stop here in town that's basically just a bust. I was driving home from a friend's house and there's another Pokestop that's just the entrance to a state park at the other end of a bridge. Even a self-storage place, lol.

And there's like tons of gyms even in this tiny little town. Apparently I need to be level 5 to get into that, though.

Also, what is CP? Is that like a Pokemon's "level"? I have a CP100 Eevee, a CP170-something Tangela, and a few others between CP25 and CP50-something. Missed an opportunity to catch another Bulbasaur, a Pidgeotto, and even a Pinsir out at my friend's house where sadly you just can't get a fething signal to save your life. :(

This is, sadly, the rarest and what I also assume to be the most powerful Pokemon that I've found so far. Stupid Tangela. I have a CP92 Bulbasaur now, though.

Is there a Pokemon go Kill counter yet? I'm morbidly curious.

Yeah CP is your fighting power though I'm not sure how analogous to level in the gameboy games it is. You raise it with dust and candy And wild poke's have a random score.

Common wisdom is to keep and improve only the wild Pokemon with the highest CP you can find. Though their abilities are random too and sometimes it's worth powering up an originally weaker guy if he has the right moves.

You mean people killed while playing/because of Pokemon Go? I don't think so, other than in fake clickbait articles, apparently.

Yeah, I've got a collection of what I consider the best I can find at the moment. Got a CP272 Pinsir (who is now the most powerful one I have), a CP220 Seadra, and a couple Bulbasaurs with a higher level but the "best" one I have is XS (which I assume means he's weaker, since XL means they're stronger apparently). Pinsir only knows Fury Cutter and X-Scissor though, and I have no idea how "good" that is.

The arc at the top tells you how powerful the pokemon is, in comparison to others of its similar type. Theoretically, you can max out even a level 10 Rattata- it would just take a buttload of candy and stardust. You can gain candy by Transferring the jobbers back to the Professor- though he apparently eats them, because you cannot get them back.

Interestingly, the pokemon maintain their potential when they evolve- so common wisdom seems to be max out a basic pokemon before evolving it to save some stardust. That will not necessarily tell you how well they will do in a gym fight- for that you need a chart with type weaknesses.

If you're quick, you can pick up pokestops while someone drives you by at about 30 mph. If you're kind, you can swipe for them too- my wife had me dual wielding our cells on the pokestop road near us. I felt silly, and awesome.

Literally upgrading my phone just to play this game. Is there stuff like free battle between players or is it only against the gyms?

So far it's just fighting gyms and afaik there's no interactive PvP there either.

 Sidstyler wrote:
Also, what is CP? Is that like a Pokemon's "level"?

CP is the Combat Power for a Pokemon, it is essentially a general guide for how powerful it is. That doesn't mean that a one that is CP 100 will always win above a CP 75, because it can come down to attacks and if it that type is effective against another type, etc. You use Candy which you the most from hatching eggs. You can also get them by catching that type, then Transfer (you will lose it forever) to the Professor for 1 candy. Candy and Stardust are used to level. The Power up basically increases the CP of that Pokemon. Since you need Candy to Evolve as well, you want to save your Candy for your evolutions and basically keep Pokemon that are high value in CP. When you look at the Pokemon there is a curved line above their head, that shows their CP curve. You basically want to keep things close to the high end, so you use less Candy to raise their power. The rest you turn in for Candy.

There is more information in the general guide I posted on the first page here.

I'm doing pretty well for myself after just 3 days. Have a couple eevee-lutions, vaporeon and flareon specifically, at over 1k CP, a screen-full of various dudes at the 500-900 range, and I've snagged 70 pokedex entries. New stuff is really drying up now though, been a while since I've seen a silhouette of something new, and my trainer level wants 20k for the next level. :/

I'm mainly hoping gym battles get less buggy soon. I've been scoring a bit of dust and coins from defending them (team red wuwu,) but half the time I try to take one it bugs out and does the invincible enemy at 1 hp thing.

Yeah that invincible thing sucks so much. I've only had the opportunity to go after one gym so far and boom you can't win... Oh well.

Caught a Magicarp and got really excited to evolve it until I saw how much candy it takes. 400!?!!!? Sheesh!

Wow. Sounds JUST like magikarp in the gameboy games, you always had to struggle and switch-hit to level those too

Yeah that sucked, I want a Gyarados!



Also, anyone understand evolution? I've evolved 3 Eradicates, and all 3 end up with one of the stats turning XS. Regardless if the stat was normal or XL. Ideas?

just a heads up, for those of you playing Pokemon Go be wary:

http://fox40.com/2016/07/10/robbery-suspects-used-pokemon-go-to-target-victims-near-st-louis-police-say/

Asterios wrote:
just a heads up, for those of you playing Pokemon Go be wary:

http://fox40.com/2016/07/10/robbery-suspects-used-pokemon-go-to-target-victims-near-st-louis-police-say/

I was wondering when this was going to happen. I sort of figured a kid would've gotten run over first or something like that.

Considering how popular the game is I'm glad these incidents aren't more common. I downloaded the game and I have to say it made the idea of walking around LA actually appealing. Kudos Nintendo!

 TheCustomLime wrote:

Asterios wrote:
just a heads up, for those of you playing Pokemon Go be wary:

http://fox40.com/2016/07/10/robbery-suspects-used-pokemon-go-to-target-victims-near-st-louis-police-say/

I was wondering when this was going to happen. I sort of figured a kid would've gotten run over first or something like that.

Considering how popular the game is I'm glad these incidents aren't more common. I downloaded the game and I have to say it made the idea of walking around LA actually appealing. Kudos Nintendo!

hope it wasn't from a third party App since evidently those have a malware program on them:

http://www.techinsider.io/pokemon-go-fake-android-2016-7

Asterios wrote:

 TheCustomLime wrote:

Asterios wrote:
just a heads up, for those of you playing Pokemon Go be wary:

http://fox40.com/2016/07/10/robbery-suspects-used-pokemon-go-to-target-victims-near-st-louis-police-say/

I was wondering when this was going to happen. I sort of figured a kid would've gotten run over first or something like that.

Considering how popular the game is I'm glad these incidents aren't more common. I downloaded the game and I have to say it made the idea of walking around LA actually appealing. Kudos Nintendo!

hope it wasn't from a third party App since evidently those have a malware program on them:

http://www.techinsider.io/pokemon-go-fake-android-2016-7

Nah, I use an iPhone so it should be safe.

When you evolve a Pokemon do you have the option to replace its move set or is it stuck with the original? If it's stuck with the original then evolving Gyarados from Magikarp seems like a silly idea, since you'll have this big fish monster with garbage like Splash and Struggle forever.

I tried a gym battle for the first time today at the local library, controlled by Team Blue...representing Yellow myself, which seems to be a mistake since all I've seen are Blue dominated gyms around here with an occasional Red one. 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. And I didn't realize at first that you literally just tap the crap out of the enemy Pokemon and spam your attacks that way.

I have 9k stardust I've been saving and I have no idea what to do with it, I was waiting until I found a really good Pokemon before I start powering them up but I haven't found anything really cool yet. I have that Pinsir, I have a CP285 Tauros now, 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.

Also really annoying, I kept seeing the silhouette of Scyther popping up in the bottom right, but I never actually found one. I love Scyther, I want one so bad. The closest gym to my house (they're almost all churches too, anyone else notice that?) is dominated by a guy with a CP950-something Scyther. My jaw literally dropped, I can't believe someone got one that high and that quickly.