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Same, I tried that too and it worked. Have yet to test it with a second eevee however.

The Eevee trick has worked twice now for my wife and i.
Anyway, for the power up before or after evolve thing, i think it's better to evolve first, that way if your evolved Pokemon gets a crappy ability, you can hold out for a better one.

Apparently you get a little bit extra if you wait until after they're evolved before you start powering up.


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 Sidstyler wrote:
Gonna have to try some of the gyms again, I think I finally got a contender. Thinking about naming him the "Exeggcutioner"! XD

Give him a name that sounds like he's a good business man.

I haven't given Exeggutor his new name yet, but he's over 1400 now and he's currently guarding a gym...and probably the only Yellow gym in town at the moment. Well, should be guarding it anyway, lame-ass Reds are probably gonna come swarm it before anyone else can come help level up or defend it. I was mainly just screwing around to see if I could actually take over a gym by myself and I did it.

Ok I've had this weird glitch happen 3 times now and wondered if I'm the only one. So far it froze completely twice and this time actually captured the Pokemon. Anyone?

It's a well known glitch. Seems all you can do is wait a little bit to see if its lag, and if it doesn't catch up you'll have to restart the app. The journal will say if you caught it or if it ran away. According to the silph road guys it only happens on the last ball for that encounter as well meaning either you would have caught it or it would have run if you failed.

They also say if you didn't catch it and the journal doesn't mention they ran that on restart that pokemon should pop up again in the same spot in a few secs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/4sv4lk/psa_the_freezing_pokeball_glitch_and_you/

Nope not the ball glitch, I'm talking about the weird.... Play buttons? On the side of the screen

That may be something specific to your phone, or a particular app on your phone. Video capture software, maybe? I don't have anything on my S7 Edge that has icons looking like that.

I thought that too but I have nothing on my phone that had those at all, and like I said this have only showed up during capture of a Pokemon and only 3 times. I'm really only curious what the hell that is lol just one of those things i guess, this game is still incredibly buggy so who knows

My phone did it, too, but my triangles were on the LEFT side of the screen. It didn't break anything, so that was good.

If you are talking about the 3 triangles that are outlines, that appear on the right or left side, those are tracking symbols if you have AR turned on. They show up to show the direction to move your camera to find the Pokemon when it is off the screen.

The next time you catch a Pokemon, move the camera so it no longer has the Pokemon on the screen. They should show up for you.

They shouldn't show up when you have AR turned off. That is just part of the strange freezing, probably caused by connection lag or delay.

Ahhhh see I never turn AR on so I've never seen them. Thanks for clearing that mystery up lol

Tracking is currently bugged, everything shows three paws and nothing seems to be in the right "order", either. Drove myself nuts this morning trying to hunt Scyther before I got tired and gave up.

Hopefully they are fixing the bug. The servers have been down for at least during the night for UK people (tried accessing at 8pm and 8am, no change whatsoever).

Probably bit easier today, as it's a work day. Seems that the servers were okay-ish yesterday morning with mostly Europeans playing, but jammed when the US players started to log in around 2-3 pm UK time.

Yeah servers are fine now. Foot glitch is still there though I think.

Great game when everyone isn't trying to play it xD

So fething salty right now. Saw a CP414 Squirtle earlier. Gave it a razzberry, threw a great ball at it, made a nice throw...busts out immediately and then POOF, runs away. Total bullgak.

Rumor has it Gen 2 will be introduced around December, and legendary Pokemon might end up being released as community events where the three teams have to fight over them, and the winning team gets the Pokemon. So basically if you picked Team Instinct you'll never get fething legendaries ever, then, since pretty much everyone went either Red or Blue.

Plot twist, legendary Pokemon only available for least favourite team xD

Did read that team changing is an idea in the works. Would be cool to see all generations but IDK how it would work.

Team change would pretty much accelerate the steamroller effect, because everybody who's 3rd will switch to 1st. That will force 2nd to switch as well.

I'm just needing the ability to trade and fight with my friends. When they're in the same space as me.

Also, to make it impossible to Transfer a "Favorite" Pokemon - there needs to be a way to "lock" your "good" Pokemons from accidental Transfer.

I just got the weird arrows glitch today as well, but on the left side.

I wouldn't be surprised at the legendaries being community events given what I've heard of Ingress. I'd also like to see team changing, but toss it in the cash shop and make people pay for it. Even though I'd like to stop being what feels like 1 of 3 mystic people here compared to the couple dozen valour and dozen or so instinct that constantly fight over all the gyms.

Interesting thought I had on one of my walks as well is they could have done something like say you mark your favourites (and you get to pick up to 6 or so cause there'd need to be a cap on this) and they could have powered up slowly depending on the distance you've walked with them. Helps out the rural players a bit with few pokemon around at all and helps with the feel of the game, so you're less like this guy just throwing away whatever pokemon you have for the better stronger one you come across.


Cause along with the lack of battling outside of the gym and trading with people, you're missing that feel the series has when you raise your pokemon. I mean at the moment you get your starter at something like 12/13cp, it's trash and you'll just use it for candy later when you catch stronger versions of it to evolve instead.

Well, if you're rural, you just need to walk your way into town...

But yeah, the advantage of city vs country is HUGE.

There is a park across the street from me, so it's not uncommon to see an odd car parked in front of my house, which is almost always a parent with kids.

This weekend there were two teenagers sitting in front of my house, playing on their phones, which was odd. It dawned on me that they may be playing this game.

There are a lot more kids playing with their phones in the park these days (middle and high school aged). Can someone set up some sort of lure or pokemon gym thingy that attracts more pokemen? Perhaps that is what I am seeing.

I've seen several posts on facebook where kids with ASD have really taken to the game, wanting to go outside much more than normal, etc. story

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
Well, if you're rural, you just need to walk your way into town...

But yeah, the advantage of city vs country is HUGE.

Have to agree. I luckily live in suburbs for both term and home time and pokemon are a dime a dozen. There is even a gym and pokestop outside my house.

When I go to my friends, they live in more rural areas with not many pokestops/gyms and barely a chance to get rare pokemon.

Internet is generally better in built up areas too in my experience.

 kronk wrote:


There are a lot more kids playing with their phones in the park these days (middle and high school aged). Can someone set up some sort of lure or pokemon gym thingy that attracts more pokemen? Perhaps that is what I am seeing.

Yep, you can set a lure for 30 minutes, and it can be seen on the map within a half a click or so. Tends to draw a bunch of people there, especially if there's two nearby stops that can be simultaneously lured. Some people even cruise around the town in a car, looking for lured spots. When the lure stops working after 30 mins, and no-one puts on a fresh one, everybody just scatters.

QUESTION:

What's the small 'bird squeek' noise you hear when walking around? Dunno if it's audible, unless you have headphones on. Something to do with tracker list updating, nearby poke within one step, or something?

Strategy-wise, the best is finding a cluster of spots, 3 or more stacked on top of each other. You can farm a TON of guys very quickly this way. We did this the other night, and it was ridiculous.

But you need to be in a suburban / urban area. No chance in the country.

 JohnHwangDD wrote:
Well, if you're rural, you just need to walk your way into town...

But yeah, the advantage of city vs country is HUGE.

Yep, sucks for them.
My area worked out pretty well in terms of stops and gyms.

I have to ride or drive a few miles in a circuit to farm stops. Bit of an annoyance but could be worse

Well then!

Times were hard for businesses without pokestops.

The funny thing is, you only need to stand at their door to catch anything inside the building. It is kinda cute that they are trying to keep people out as if they own the Pokemon.