Pokemon Go! (FAQ First Page/Now with Polls!)

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**Tannhauser42**

JohnHwangDD wrote:
My (Level 15) game is starting to be Not Fun.

I'm not going to bother except by convenience, and there's a very good chance that I stop playing altogether in the very hear future.

If Niantic was hoping for a 2-week engagement to ragequit, they've done a cracking job of it.

What we really need is more features to actually play with. The basics of catching and collecting Pokemon, and battle gyms is certainly enough to drive the game for a few weeks. But more than that is needed for player retention. Trading between players. Battles between players. Actual events. Etc.

**Frozocrone**

I'm going to have to out a hold on my Pokemon adventure, but only because running around for rare Pokemon has finally taken it's toll on my legs and feet. At least I've lost a fair bit of weight for it. About 4.6 km a day on average since I started, but I've only really been taking it seriously when I got to level 10, so that skews the results in favour of the most recent days I ran around town.

**Jackal**

Slowly grinding away at the moment.
1 more squirtle and I can evolve my wartortle into a blastoise at last.
Not far of dragonite either.

Helps me alot being with a competitive group of friends though as it drives me alot more.

Still struggling to find bulbasaur though, had 2 so far and both through eggs.
Also in dire need of lapras candy as I've used what I had and can't push him over 2200 CP now.

The levels get steep very quickly over 20 though, and I find myself saving up Pokemon for a week then bulk evolving with a lucky egg.

Have found that with the last update its alot harder to hit or catch things and that the GPS actually works properly now.
So atleast I'm not walking 13k to hatch a 10k egg.

**nkelsch**

Frozocrone wrote:
I'm going to have to out a hold on my Pokemon adventure, but only because running around for rare Pokemon has finally taken it's toll on my legs and feet. At least I've lost a fair bit of weight for it. About 4.6 km a day on average since I started, but I've only really been taking it seriously when I got to level 10, so that skews the results in favour of the most recent days I ran around town.

I have been walking 5-10k a day since this game launched July 7th. I have been hitting parks, hunting nests and active in my local area's subreddit and collecting data. I have a spawn point on my house which before the patch did a pidgey/weedle every hour, on the :29. Now it is different stuff, Ratatta/Paras. With the NESTs getting intentionally rotated, they might just have reseeded all the spawns.

This is my life right now.
http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/

Spoiler:

**Frozocrone**

nkelsch wrote:
Frozocrone wrote:
I'm going to have to out a hold on my Pokemon adventure, but only because running around for rare Pokemon has finally taken it's toll on my legs and feet. At least I've lost a fair bit of weight for it. About 4.6 km a day on average since I started, but I've only really been taking it seriously when I got to level 10, so that skews the results in favour of the most recent days I ran around town.

I have been walking 5-10k a day since this game launched July 7th. I have been hitting parks, hunting nests and active in my local area's subreddit and collecting data. I have a spawn point on my house which before the patch did a pidgey/weedle every hour, on the :29. Now it is different stuff, Ratatta/Paras. With the NESTs getting intentionally rotated, they might just have reseeded all the spawns.

This is my life right now.
http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/

Spoiler:

Pretty much me too, level 18 and can't find Pidgey's to put in the EXP blender.

Did myself no favours today running around for two Eevees and a Kingler. Kingler was OK with a potential 84% for IVs, but sadly didn't meet the standard set by my 96% Cloyster, 98% Eevee and my newly acquired 96% or 98% Slowpoke.

Main concern for Eevee and Slowpoke are the moves that their evolutions get. Really hoping Niantic implement some way of changing moves incase I end up with bad draws.

**GrimDork**

Which site are you using to calculate EVs?

I'm not having too hard a time catching dudes, I've seen some cp300 ratatas go quietly, and evees are generally very complacent. Still seeing enough pidgy to stockpile them for xp.

Little more variety though which is neat.

**Frozocrone**

I used to use an app on the Googleplay Store but my mate has linked me to PokeAdvisor which gives exact IV percentages.

Sometimes I use the calculator if I'm on the go, or if I want a perfect IV (15 in either attack, defence or stamina).

**Sidstyler**

I'm sorry, what was "confusing" about how the tracking worked before? I understood it perfectly after a few minutes of play. The only thing that might have been "confusing" was when it fething glitched out for weeks and showed everything at three steps, with the list in the wrong order. Trying to pull one over on people with that, obviously.

**Wolfblade**

The fact that the steps never changed. It always displayed 3 is what was confusing and annoying people.

**SagesStone**

It only just showed 3 because they broke it, the only people confused on that system were the ones trying to fix it.

**Wolfblade**

tbf, it wasn't entirely their fault, 3rd party apps added to thew problem apparently.

**SagesStone**

Yeh it probably was one of the main causes of their server stability issues, hence why it broke as they got better I think.

**Lord of Deeds**

Wolfblade wrote:
tbf, it wasn't entirely their fault, 3rd party apps added to thew problem apparently.

This is a red herring. 3rd party apps development accelerated once the tracking feature built into Pokemon Go turned out to be broken. It's not the 3rd party developers fault that they were able to build and support more effective tools than Niantic, and that correspondingly their usage increased exponentially once people realized there was an improved solution.

It's become increasingly clear that Niantic oversold the game features, provided poor balance, and totally mis-forecasted XP leveling and player behavior.

It will be interesting to see what happens once school resume how much of a drop off occurs.

**Wolfblade**

Yeah, I'm not saying that the 3rd party apps are completely to blame, naintic way oversold the features, then 3rd parties provided a solution to do what people wanted, and naintic's game couldn't handle it all.

Obvious solution was to not build gak and expect it to just sneak through, especially in a game series like pokemon which has a huge fan base.

**GrimDork**

Alright mini poll time, are you guys really having a horrible time catching Pokemon now? It seemed like things were much worse after the last update and I'll admit it took 10 balls and then a berry+great ball to finally land a cp450 goldeen earlier today, but overall I'm noticing pretty normal or even improved results. After that goldeen I got two cp300+ ratatas and a cp500ish pidgeotto on the first throw no berries. I've had several other critters put up no fight at all and most have been fairly reasonable.

So I dunno I'm not noticing as much of an issue as I did that first afternoon. They jump and growl/posture/invulnerable-to-pokeballs more often but they don't seem much worse to keep overall.

How about you guys?

Also... did they change the weight of the ball? Curve balls for me seem to fly a lot differently, though I'm adjusting.

**Sinful Hero**

I haven't seen a big difference in catch rates.

**SagesStone**

Niantic wrote:Trainers,
We are excited to share a few more details with you regarding Pokémon GO:
- Central and South America - Break out the sneakers and Poké Balls, and get ready to explore the world around you. We are excited to officially be putting Pokémon GO in the hands of our Latin American fans, visitors, and the Olympic athletes in Rio!
- We have been hearing the feedback loud and clear about the removal of the Battery Saver mode on iOS devices. We had removed this feature as several users were experiencing it to be buggy, but we are fairly confident that a fix for this should roll out within the next several days.
- A few of our Legendary Pokémon had erroneously been granted to some Trainers. Thanks to the help of several of our Trainers, we were able to locate them and bring them home safely.
We have been working long hours to fix many other bugs and bring some exciting new features to Pokémon GO in the future. However, next up for us is the continued roll-out of Pokémon GO to more countries around the world.
As always, be safe, be nice to your fellow trainers, and keep on exploring.
The Pokémon GO team

Seems it's continuing to sort of get away from them.
Bugs get worse, but they still focus on releasing in even more countries.

**Frozocrone**

Well, it's more money for them I guess. It makes sense to release it in Brazil because of the Olympics, might have a larger gathering of PGO players. Once every country has it, hopefully then they'll work on existing problems before implementing new features. My scanner no longer works due to the API being changed by Niantic, so I only hope that they implement some sort of tracking device soon so that I'm not running around like a headless chicken.

**KingCracker**

JohnHwangDD wrote:
My (Level 15) game is starting to be Not Fun.

I'm not going to bother except by convenience, and there's a very good chance that I stop playing altogether in the very hear future.

If Niantic was hoping for a 2-week engagement to ragequit, they've done a cracking job of it.

This is pretty much my thought on it. Honestly I'm only playing right now because son is still enjoying himself and so I'm with him for that father son time. That's obviously good and all but on the other hand it sucks that they've ruined this game to the point that I don't even want to play it

**nkelsch**

I am 23, and curveballs seem mandatory now. I didnt think they impacted catch rate so I went for accuracy over curve... But straight throws caused escapes, and escapes cause flees.

You are better missing twice with a curve than escaping twice with a straight as it will have a higher chance of a flee.

Once you get back to curves with tiny circle, my catch rate returned to pre-patch levels with no more than 1-2 balls per poke. (even hard ones)

I think this was response to the android auto-throws which did straight throws. Basically Curve ball or expect to have a bad time.

**Chancetragedy**

Has there been any definitive proof curveballs increase catch rate? I throw them regardless for the exp bonus and follow Reddit and haven't seen anything definitive like the initial data dump revealed.

**Dreadwinter**

It appears they have a community manager now and they have been tweeting up a storm. Looks like a bug is why catch rates are down.

**JohnHwangDD**

Wolfblade wrote:
tbf, it wasn't entirely their fault, 3rd party apps added to thew problem apparently.

Yes it was - piss poor planning produced piss poor performance. Niantec prioritized early launches rather than stabilizing the code and support. The 3rd party apps were like dropping an ant on a whale, and blaming it for being slower...

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KingCracker wrote:
JohnHwangDD wrote:
My (Level 15) game is starting to be Not Fun.

I'm not going to bother except by convenience, and there's a very good chance that I stop playing altogether in the very hear future.

If Niantic was hoping for a 2-week engagement to ragequit, they've done a cracking job of it.

This is pretty much my thought on it. Honestly I'm only playing right now because son is still enjoying himself and so I'm with him for that father son time. That's obviously good and all but on the other hand it sucks that they've ruined this game to the point that I don't even want to play it

Exactly. If my boys didn't enjoy it, I'd have deleted the fething thing.

**SagesStone**

Didn't the guys who made a lot of the 3rd party apps state it was to fix something that was currently broken? Like a stop gap while they fixed tracking and that they would shut their service down once it was.

**JohnHwangDD**

I know a lot of people were using it because the in game tools didn't exist, or didn't work.

**SagesStone**

Annnd more spamming releases instead of fixing serious bugs before releasing the game to yet more people to get annoyed by these bugs which slowly kill the hype they need to make this work.

Only thing I'd buy is incubators, but that's stopped until they fix whatever it is that's made me lose two eggs so far, checked journal and everywhere and nothing just gone.

**Sinful Hero**

Hatched eggs don't show up in the journal. You'd need to go through your Pokémon one by one/know how much candy you were supposed to have before the eggs hatched to know what you got.

**SagesStone**

They don't have the glow to show they were obtained in the last 24 hours?

**Sinful Hero**

They should have that, but some Pokémon are big enough to cover the glow.

**SagesStone**

Well I hadn't caught much for a couple of days (was building pokeballs back up a bit) so that's how I could tell since I had no duplicates or new pokemon I hadn't caught a bit earlier to it.

Not much anyway I think it was a 2k and a 5k.