NobleGundam
Banned
So my work is mainly a Growlithe nest but at night Abras spawn as much as they do. I have enough candies to evolve a kadabra into alakazam.
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Pokémon Go |OT 2| Servers...gotta crash 'em all!
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CapNBritain
Member
Third time at Santa Monica pier without getting any of the big boys. Tons of uncommon pokes and even 2 dratinis though. Still, it stings when I hear from my friends who have gone 2-3 times and caught 2 dragonites, 2 laprases, and an aerodactyl.
My poor wife is heartbroken. She wants a Lapras so badly...
It's probably a good thing trading isn't enabled
My poor wife is heartbroken. She wants a Lapras so badly...
It's probably a good thing trading isn't enabled
because she would "make" me trade her the one I hatched
Snkfanatic
Banned
Congrats, starting to think Abras is a lost cause for me, whenever I do rarely see one he runs after most attempts. Only caught 2 so far.
clearacell
Member
Did you go this morning or last night? I have only gone once to SMP for the sole purpose of pokemon... I do that for disneyland too lol. usually epic spawns are in the dead of night.
I went to the Long Beach Pike for the sole purpose of getting magikarp and getting to level 28 finally. I know in the middle of the night thy get epic spawns too but I don't wanna wake up so damn early or stay up so damned late, however you want to put it.
dreamlongdead
Member
I can relate to a few of the recent posts.
Yesterday was kind of frustrating. I was basically on the verge of quitting today, after my three hour binge. I hatched about six 2km eggs in a row with the yellow incubator, and I had a 10 km in a blue incubator. The 10km is the fourth one I've had. I've mentioned my town's crappy Pokemon selection in a previous post, so eggs are a big deal to me.
Only one of the 2km eggs was decent. It was a high CP Bulbasaur with very solid IVs. The rest were Magikarp, Rattata, Weedle, Pidgey, and Caterpie.
The 10km egg was a freaking Eevee! In a weird twist of fate, though, I received two 10km eggs later after my eggs had been hatched. I won't even expect good stuff from my fifth and sixth, but I do have somewhat of a reason to continue. The grind to level 23 was very tough.
Other minor annoyances included wild Pidgeot. This is the second occurrence where I have literally used all of my balls trying to catch one. Most of them simply missed, but it was still breaking out even after I had landed solid hits.
I still manage to get 30 coin bonuses when I go out, but this Team Mystic domination is getting out of hand. I'm doing very well as an Instinct player, and it is not that easy being on this team. I can bring down most Blue gyms if I dedicate the time. A big problem is that some Blue gyms have between 40,000 to 50,000 prestige, and they have been around for a while.
All of this means that it is even more important for me to train Yellow gyms when I find them.
Yesterday was kind of frustrating. I was basically on the verge of quitting today, after my three hour binge. I hatched about six 2km eggs in a row with the yellow incubator, and I had a 10 km in a blue incubator. The 10km is the fourth one I've had. I've mentioned my town's crappy Pokemon selection in a previous post, so eggs are a big deal to me.
Only one of the 2km eggs was decent. It was a high CP Bulbasaur with very solid IVs. The rest were Magikarp, Rattata, Weedle, Pidgey, and Caterpie.
The 10km egg was a freaking Eevee! In a weird twist of fate, though, I received two 10km eggs later after my eggs had been hatched. I won't even expect good stuff from my fifth and sixth, but I do have somewhat of a reason to continue. The grind to level 23 was very tough.
Other minor annoyances included wild Pidgeot. This is the second occurrence where I have literally used all of my balls trying to catch one. Most of them simply missed, but it was still breaking out even after I had landed solid hits.
I still manage to get 30 coin bonuses when I go out, but this Team Mystic domination is getting out of hand. I'm doing very well as an Instinct player, and it is not that easy being on this team. I can bring down most Blue gyms if I dedicate the time. A big problem is that some Blue gyms have between 40,000 to 50,000 prestige, and they have been around for a while.
All of this means that it is even more important for me to train Yellow gyms when I find them.
I think Abras usually run after the first term to intentionally imitate the mainline games. I've caught a few; I generally go right to Ultra Balls + Razz Berries if I have them.
Snkfanatic
Banned
Yeah I read that before too, did the same thing to any I see now and nope...gone.
Team Valour right? The first statement is about their overall stats. The latter statement is about the specific stat that the leader just mentioned.
There have been translations available since the update if you need more clarity.
Acerac
Banned
There are some community threads in gaming that are 5+ years old, it's kind of impressive.
clearacell
Member
it also means you get a lot more chances for xp from taking out gyms. I'm on mystic and I get annoyed that a) there are too many mystic gyms I can't get my pokemon in them to get a bonus without spending like 10 minutes on leveling it and b) I don't get much xp if every gym is blue and I can't take one down.
thank goodness there are still plenty of team red.
the thing about the teams is that as time goes on it should start to balance out...since yellow can more easily xp farm with more gyms to take out they will eventually have more xp overall than red and especially blue, so the yellow gyms will be slightly more difficult to take out but that makes a difference in the bigger scheme. blue gyms will start to be cannon fodder while yellow will become fort Knox
ForsakenLotus
Member
To those beta testing the new Sightings feature: if a Pokemon shows up on a lure, does that pop up in the Sightings screen? I'm still miffed about a Lapras that spawned on a lure that I couldn't get to in time.
Not from what I saw
Snkfanatic
Banned
Lee Chaolan
Member
My great day continues!
Evolved an Abra and Meowth for my first Kadabra and Pursian.
Then I find this fella.
Actually caught him this time. :')
Evolved an Abra and Meowth for my first Kadabra and Pursian.
Then I find this fella.
Actually caught him this time. :')
ForsakenLotus
Member
I can't see them adding 5-10 Pokemon at a time. That's...an odd request.
They should add Gen 2 early November, and it should start by hatching a Togepi from an egg. Then they can have not just more Pokemon in general, but more diversity even amongst the fodder.
You can have nighttime Pokemon like Hoothoot replace Pidgey, Spinarak replace Weedle, Murkrow replace Spearow, etc. You can have special eggs that hatch baby Pokemon. If they want they can even try to refine some Pokemon spawns so water areas like beaches, piers, and lakes all have mostly different water Pokemon spawns - although I don't know the difficulty in this task.
Releasing a handful of Pokemon every month or so just results in a small change in what you normally see and maybe one or two uncommon Pokemon every now and then. It just doesn't make sense.
Lee Chaolan
Member
Exactly this. Sounds like a great way to do it.
I just reached over 100 caught myself, and been playing more now so I'm confident by the end of September I should be able to complete all that's here.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
|OT3| Overall, Your Pokemon is a decent Pokemon
darkhunger
Member
|OT3| Your Onix is tinier then any we have on record. Astounding.
I spent the afternoon out on the town and failed to find much good. A haunter and a Mr Mime appeared on the list but I never found them. I did however get a top percentage Electabuzz out of an egg, which after a couple of boosts is now my first to hit the 1000 mark.
Looking at my things IVs, I have a couple of good'ns, like a 15/15/? Eevee and a 13-14/13-14/13-14 Ponyta. I also have a ?/15/? Dragonair... that's level 1. Oh boy.
Edit: Also, its amusing to see Blanche speak the name of my Metapod, freet. Because stuff they say types out letter by letter, they speak the HTML tags while spelling out the name.
Waylon Drums
Member
It is, but I've caught *some* and I can't fathom what would have gotten me banned.
Waylon Drums
Member
I'm in after signing out. Must just be back luck. Oh well.
Geminosity
Member
I only really pop pokemon go when I'm already heading out for something now. I used to go out to try and find spawns on my own, using a community map for ideas. Then once the trackers came I would just quickly scan the city center and run out the door if I saw anything exciting which would usually turn into a 3 to 4 hour walking fest as I roamed around town from point to point nabbing interesting stuff. Now without the trackers I just don't feel motivated to head out, though the fact I'm not a huge gen 1 fan doesn't help
One other issue with the standard method is that it assumes the pokemon appeared on your 'sightings' because you walked into it's radius. You have to walk back after seeing it pop up (if you were lucky enough to be watching it when it popped up, which I never am) to ensure it didn't just spawn with you in its radius before following the usual steps if you want to be accurate.
I've found the triangulation method using Sightings works extremely well, even in my suburban neighbourhood. Already tracked down several Pokémon in the last couple days. At least in my experience, Pokémon generally don't appear too far away from the street, so even if I stick to the sidewalks, I'm always close enough to ping it.
The one glaring issue is you never know when the timer will expire. It takes me at least about 5 minutes to get a decent idea of where the Pokémon is.
The one glaring issue is you never know when the timer will expire. It takes me at least about 5 minutes to get a decent idea of where the Pokémon is.
NobleGundam
Banned
That's awesome, congrats!My great day continues!
Evolved an Abra and Meowth for my first Kadabra and Pursian.
Then I find this fella.
Actually caught him this time. :')
I need to save this on my phone lol
You need to create a new one with the random name and password it gives you.
It's asking you to create an account for it to use as part of a crowsourcing effort, since scanner accounts are getting banned as fast as they can be made, not to put in an account you use already.
It gives you easy links to let you do it too.
Waylon Drums
Member
Okay, NOW I can't log in. I'll be fucking livid if I got banned for no reason.
Edit: In again, for now. No idea what's happening.
Edit: In again, for now. No idea what's happening.
Yeah but I wanted Jolteon with Thunder...
silver.tongue
Member
I had my first magmar running from me today...
Ffs we need an item that blocks escapes...
Ffs we need an item that blocks escapes...
I was at the park today and there is like 3 pokestops really close to each other there and the 3 had a lure active so there was a lot of people grouped. It felt weird because all the people was playing the same thing but none was talking to each other so you can literally just heard the fiums and blips of pokeballs flying and hitting pokemon haha. Probably everyone there was like "This is so awkward but I gotta catch them all" lmao
I had my first magmar running from me today...
Ffs we need an item that blocks escapes...
That would be good but the item would need to be very rare.
Lee Chaolan
Member
Maybe a once per week usage?
MegaKungFuRadio
Member
Has anyone noticed/felt that battery consumption is getting worse with each version update?
Before the first big update, my phone would slowly gain charge while playing connected to a battery with a 2.0A output (I guess I should have sprung for 2.4).
After that update, it was a slow drain, but I was also playing more during the day, so having to increase the screen brightness probably had something to do with it. I could still have the app running for like eight hours and only lose 25% of my phone's battery.
Today, I was only out for three or four hours and my phone battery was nearly dead. It could be my battery pack or USB not carrying the current it maybe once did, but I don't have the equipment to check. It could be a lot of things, really. Maybe it was especially sunny today, I was switching apps a lot, and I had only recently started having my desktop scanner send push notifications to my phone, which means more vibrating, and I have the vibration intensity on my phone set to max. I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed their battery draining faster than before.
Before the first big update, my phone would slowly gain charge while playing connected to a battery with a 2.0A output (I guess I should have sprung for 2.4).
After that update, it was a slow drain, but I was also playing more during the day, so having to increase the screen brightness probably had something to do with it. I could still have the app running for like eight hours and only lose 25% of my phone's battery.
Today, I was only out for three or four hours and my phone battery was nearly dead. It could be my battery pack or USB not carrying the current it maybe once did, but I don't have the equipment to check. It could be a lot of things, really. Maybe it was especially sunny today, I was switching apps a lot, and I had only recently started having my desktop scanner send push notifications to my phone, which means more vibrating, and I have the vibration intensity on my phone set to max. I was just wondering if anyone else has noticed their battery draining faster than before.
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