So it's been realised and I am pro leery the only person who is trying to play this but I though sod it, I love the idea of it and bring back childhood for me.
I've got it, not done anything with it yet, I'll have a play over the weekend, if nothing else it'll make walking round the golf course more interesting.
Quote from: RogueTaylor;414961So it's been realised and I am pro leery the only person who is trying to play this but I though sod it, I love the idea of it and bring back childhood for me.
Lol. Most of us were too old first around mate. I hear some moron parked up in the fast lane of an Interstate to pick one up! We need people playing to share a selfie with their most prized Pokemon on this very topic. Get snapping !
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I had a look to see if I could use it as a motivational tool for walking/hiking. Ingress worked well for this until I lost interest in it. Pokemon Go looks fun but as just a tool to get me out and about it's too complicated. Plus I'm enjoying Zombie Run right now.
Zombie Run looks fun. Will try it myself tomorrow.
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78 pokemon caught atm :taz:
If you wanna save a bit of time searching for what's around you, this might come in handy - https://pokevision.com/
The company I work for has had a memo from Network Rail (one of our clients) warning us about Pokemon appearing on Rail Lines and Crossings :/ Ppl really are putting themselves in danger for these things /sigh
This is straight out insane
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36841828
the thing is the minefields sometimes aren't as clearly marked as they could be, I drove into a suspected one in Bosnia in 1997 and didn't realize till 2/3 mile in...q reversing out again very slowly. 3 months later it was confirmed by the engineers as real..
I say natural selection. If people want to walk with their heads Dow. Playing a game they take their own chances.
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Quote from: sulky_uk;415199the thing is the minefields sometimes aren't as clearly marked as they could be, I drove into a suspected one in Bosnia in 1997 and didn't realize till 2/3 mile in...q reversing out again very slowly. 3 months later it was confirmed by the engineers as real..
I don't suppose you were playing Ingress at the time :p
Lol no
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Quote from: sulky_uk;415291Lol no
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I knew you weren't another Darwin award waiting to happen :D
I actually found this more fun than Ingress. I think it will be for mobile games what WoW was to MMOs. It's not the first of it's kind, but it is the first that more people instantly relate to. Will be interesting to see.
Also it motivates me to actually get off my ass a bit, and go outside. Been playing it with the wife, taking some evening walks around the block when the kids are to bed.
On the zombie walk thing. Let's face it. That was already a thing before PoGo. People walking out in front of trains and cars while checking facebook or snapchat or whatever. I actually walk around holding my phone upside down at my side to save battery. I only look at it if I get a notification, and always make sure to not stand in stupid places when I do look at it.
PS: Go team Valor! :devil:
So whats the secret for tossing the balls on harder targets?
How do I get it alerting with the screen off?
How do I stop it consuming battery at a rate of a Tesla?
Other than that feel my Slowpoke! (no joke a kids game with a character called this)
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Been getting into the game and it's quite fun, but it is an enormous waste of time and battery power...
Quote from: albert;415473So whats the secret for tossing the balls on harder targets?
Try throwing a curve ball (spin the ball with your finger then launch at a 45 degree angle). If the Pokemon keep escaping your balls, hit it with a Razz Berry first.
How do I get it alerting with the screen off?
Go settings and check 'battery saver'. When you turn your phone upside down it will go into a 'sleep' mode so you can have it on in your pocket.
How do I stop it consuming battery at a rate of a Tesla?
Same as above. Also, when you're catching a Pokemon turn off the camera with the 'ar' button. You only have to do this once and it will stay off.
You will still run out of battery though and your phone will still get as hot as the sun.
Other than that feel my Slowpoke! (no joke a kids game with a character called this)
Keep your Slowpoke to yourself!
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You might find if you're using an Android phone that the battery saver crashes the game, when the game wakes up again it looks like it's working but doesn't respond, so all you can do is kill it & restart.
Also when try to catch the Pokemon try to aim for the circle that is shrinking, at certain spots if it you hit it you will get a " nice " or a "great" throw this will give you Exp and increase the catch right. I am glad and happy to see some people playing this. What level and team is everyone ?
My tip for getting your spin on when catching is to spin your ball upto speed in the bottom left corner & swipe up & right towards the bottom of the ring that surrounds the target - saw that tip somewhere & it seems to work.
Just took myself out for a walk as I'd not left the house all day, mapped out a 5k route to get my eggs hatched & the damn app decided it'd had enough about 3/4 of the way round, still got a pretty good haul of about 30 pokemon.
& the pokemon tracking sites aren't working at the mo, but I have found this - http://www.pokemongomap.info/ it list all the gyms/pokestops, pretty useful.
& & Lvl 7, team Instinct.
Thanks for the tips folks. I tried the curve thing, funny thing is when I just do a straight throw it often earns a curve bonus. I tried the spin until the sparks fly method and for sure if you start the spin in the centre of the screen then the level of curve you have to generate is far higher and less accurate. I'll try starting the spin in the the corner RizZy, nice advice.
I'm level 9, Yellow team. I have a couple of level 400+ beasties and I still have not tried to train anything or level stuff up. My local station this morning had a level 2200CP guarding it this morning and then a level 740CP as well.
Is there any point to the gym because all I see are impossible battles. I could throw 30x 10CP Pigey's at it but I hear having a collection of them does something.
The only thing I know of Pidgey's being good for is leveling up your character, if you get a load of them & a lucky egg, then you use the egg & evolve as many as you can whilst getting the x2 xp from the egg, as they don't take many candies to evolve.
Quote from: RizZy;415508The only thing I know of Pidgey's being good for is leveling up your character, if you get a load of them & a lucky egg, then you use the egg & evolve as many as you can whilst getting the x2 xp from the egg, as they don't take many candies to evolve.
Yes, Pidgey, Weedle and Caterpie. Gather a ton of them. Pop a lucky egg, and evolve as many as you can in the 30 minutes. Also save up any others you want to evolve till you do this :) Gives you 2 or 3 levels super quick.
Quote from: Vargen;415520Yes, Pidgey, Weedle and Caterpie. Gather a ton of them. Pop a lucky egg, and evolve as many as you can in the 30 minutes. Also save up any others you want to evolve till you do this :) Gives you 2 or 3 levels super quick.
So basically evolve with just candy? Do the low levels? High levels? Or just all of them? As much as you have candy to evolve?
I see these 3 characters don't really get caught with high CP, I have a 158 Pidgey, 86 Weedle and a 45 Caterpie and I have the candy to evolve 14 of them across 3 species. Is 14 a reasonable number to wast a Lucky Egg on or better to waiting for more candy? (I hav eplenty Pidgey's they can be caught whilst cycling!)
I found this in my search to understand the battles: http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/how-to-win-battle-pokemon-go-battling-training-fighting-gym-guide
Then this which details the best chances you have against various other opponents: http://pokemondb.net/type
And this basic guide because the game has no tutorial so there's no way on knowing what the hell to do. Fortunately I have a friendly gym next to my house (yeah like a fat boy like me ever visits a gym!) and I tried it out and found I sucked big time due to not actually even knowing what to do to fight.
I found from that page:
You can take up to six Pokémon into battle with you, so make sure you pick your best six in order to have the highest chance of victory.
When it comes to battles themselves, the goal is, as you'd expect, simply to lower the enemy Pokémon's health bar to zero, whereupon it will faint and you'll be faced with the next puny opponent who thinks they've got what it takes.
Attacking â€" Attacking is the main component of gym battles, and is as simple as tapping the area of your phone's screen where the enemy Pokémon appears. Tapping in this way will unleash a normal attack. The more of these you land, the more you'll build up your special attack, represented by the blue bars below your main health bar in the top-left of the screen. Once you've got a special ready to go, tap and hold the screen to let it loose on your unsuspecting opponent.
Dodging â€" The other main component of gym battles is dodging. Again, it's a simple concept, requiring you to swipe left or right to manoeuvre your Pokémon out of harm's way. Since you can only restore your creature's health once the battle is over, dodging can be an effective way of conserving your precious life energy during a particularly intense battle.
From: http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/how-to-win-battle-pokemon-go-battling-training-fighting-gym-guide
Quote from: albert;415521So basically evolve with just candy? Do the low levels? High levels? Or just all of them? As much as you have candy to evolve?
I see these 3 characters don't really get caught with high CP, I have a 158 Pidgey, 86 Weedle and a 45 Caterpie and I have the candy to evolve 14 of them across 3 species. Is 14 a reasonable number to wast a Lucky Egg on or better to waiting for more candy? (I hav eplenty Pidgey's they can be caught whilst cycling!)
You evolve from basic to the second form. That only costs 12 candy. You can also transfer a few to gain extra candy. 30 minutes is actually a long time, so you usually run out of things to evolve well before the time is up. That's why I usually combine this activity with a trip to a park or something, so I get full benefit from the Lucky Egg.
Quote from: albert;415522I found this in my search to understand the battles: http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/how-to-win-battle-pokemon-go-battling-training-fighting-gym-guide
Then this which details the best chances you have against various other opponents: http://pokemondb.net/type
And this basic guide because the game has no tutorial so there's no way on knowing what the hell to do. Fortunately I have a friendly gym next to my house (yeah like a fat boy like me ever visits a gym!) and I tried it out and found I sucked big time due to not actually even knowing what to do to fight.
I found from that page:
You can take up to six Pokémon into battle with you, so make sure you pick your best six in order to have the highest chance of victory.
When it comes to battles themselves, the goal is, as you'd expect, simply to lower the enemy Pokémon's health bar to zero, whereupon it will faint and you'll be faced with the next puny opponent who thinks they've got what it takes.
Attacking â€" Attacking is the main component of gym battles, and is as simple as tapping the area of your phone's screen where the enemy Pokémon appears. Tapping in this way will unleash a normal attack. The more of these you land, the more you'll build up your special attack, represented by the blue bars below your main health bar in the top-left of the screen. Once you've got a special ready to go, tap and hold the screen to let it loose on your unsuspecting opponent.
Dodging â€" The other main component of gym battles is dodging. Again, it's a simple concept, requiring you to swipe left or right to manoeuvre your Pokémon out of harm's way. Since you can only restore your creature's health once the battle is over, dodging can be an effective way of conserving your precious life energy during a particularly intense battle.
From: http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/how-to-win-battle-pokemon-go-battling-training-fighting-gym-guide
Also Pokemon type matters in battle. See the chart here
http://www.ign.com/wikis/pokemon-go/Pokemon_Go_Pokemon_Type_Chart?utm_campaign=plus.google.com&utm_source=plus.url.google.com
Further, a Pokemon can have several different attack types as main and special. Generally a "same type" attack will be more powerful, in example a water pokemon with a water attack will be more powerful than a water pokemon with another type of attack.
I find dodging every 2-4 normal attacks, depending on attack speed of attacker/defender, or after a special attack works well. You want to be dodging right before/as the other guy is attacking, so with a fast attacker and slow defender, you can get in 4 attacks.
I cracked open a lucky egg and leveled up from 11 to nearly 14 evolving about 12 Pidgeys and 8 Weedle's , and now every normal pokemon ball fails to catch anything. This is even on CP10 Pokemon. Their scaling is nonsense. I have some great balls which work every time.
Yea I noticed quite a bit of difference between lvls 6 & 7 in my ability to catch stuff, I would guess the difficulty curve is to encourage buying stuff, maybe, probably.
Quote from: albert;415526I cracked open a lucky egg and leveled up from 11 to nearly 14 evolving about 12 Pidgeys and 8 Weedle's , and now every normal pokemon ball fails to catch anything. This is even on CP10 Pokemon. Their scaling is nonsense. I have some great balls which work every time.
I dont have this problem tbh, I catch 400CP pokemon with normal pokeballs.
I was trying at my desk at work and the GPS signal was rubbish, I think I was teleporting around during capturing and nothing was staying capped. I took half a doven 400CP+ on my bike ride home in 1-2 normal balls with simple lob.
I stopped at a Gym of the same team as I'm in and tried battles out. 500CP vs the 1100CP defender I could only get him down to about 40% health in any of my top 6 Pokemon.
I may have to start leveling them up, but what CP Pokemon drop does it become worth spending the resources to level?
QuoteFinally, you have the Pokémon Level. In brief, a Pokémon Level is like how hard the Pokémon has been training, so again, a more well-trained Machoke with a higher Level might have an overall higher Attack than an untrained Dragonite. Raising a Pokémon's Level is easy enough - each time you use the Power Up function in-game, it raises that Pokémon by half a level. Note that the Level always caps out at a maximum of 1.5 Levels above your own Trainer Level, but that maximum does still increase alongside your Trainer Level over time. You can get a rough estimate of a Pokémon's Level from the white curved bar above its head - a bar all the way to the right means the Pokémon is at its current maximum Level, and a bar all the way to the left means it's at its minimum Level, which is always Level 1.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-07-21-pokemon-go-cp-meaning-explained-how-to-get-the-highest-cp-values-and-create-the-most-powerful-team
I would say from reading that, the closer to the right of the circle the better it would be to train, but then you also have to take into account its other stats, something with good attack stats would probably be a better idea than a high lvl one that can't fight its way out of a wet paper bag.
A bunch of other useful stuff - http://lifehacker.com/the-pokemon-go-trainers-advanced-tactics-handbook-1784003725
Thanks, I'll read this today.
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Quote from: albert;415534I was trying at my desk at work and the GPS signal was rubbish, I think I was teleporting around during capturing and nothing was staying capped. I took half a doven 400CP+ on my bike ride home in 1-2 normal balls with simple lob.
I stopped at a Gym of the same team as I'm in and tried battles out. 500CP vs the 1100CP defender I could only get him down to about 40% health in any of my top 6 Pokemon.
I may have to start leveling them up, but what CP Pokemon drop does it become worth spending the resources to level?
Not really worth leveling them up, as you get better CP pokemon as you level up your character.
Id say dont use stardust untill lvl 30, because till level 30, because every level till 30 you get the chance the find stronger (CP) pokemon, after level 30 they stay the same.
A small tip is to "save" for about 30 pokemon to evolve (farm pidgeys, caterpies and weedles.) then use a lucky egg and start evolving the pokemon since you get double XP (1000 XP per evolve).
I did this with about 20 pokemon, had 18mins left on my egg and went two levels up (14-16).
I'm getting bored of it already. The game seems geared to making players either starve of balls or want to buy coins to get extra capacity (the latter I don't mind because they have to pay for their people somehow). The throws that were capping me CP 350 when I was level 8 are taking 5 or 6 balls now I'm 15 and they are still only yellow targets. They have coded the game so the higher the level you are the more difficult it is to cap more. I could appreciate this if they were higher level pokemon as well but they're not. It's a total con. I can't see me getting to level 30 simply because there are not enough stops near where I live to stock up on resources and I can't be travelling 5Km to find enough stops.
Anyone trying raiding and catching Legendary Pokemon? I decided to give this a go again after the Gym rules changed and I could actually get a character defending a Gym. So for info, no longer does one person have the ability to put all 6 Pokemon onto a Gym, only one, plus if you attack you gradually reduce the defender CP and given time can totally defeat the gym alone and put your (one) Pokemon on there. You get gold coins for this.
Raiding is a team thing, Legendary Pokemon can be in excess of 43000 CP so you need a decent group. You beat it together and then you get a chance to catch (2% chance) it's lower CP sibling with special balls and golden berries. Fortunately folks seem quite helpful and tend to have a more the merrier attitude. Catching it is a different matter. But my 1869 CP Zapdos is rather nice. Now level 28.5 in the game.
I got up to lvl 30 at the 1 year anniversary & that was about it for me, I'm not personally keen on the way the game is pushing more towards having to be in a group for raids & sutch - I kinda like just bumbling around on my own playing.
I'm also not so happy with the gym rework, I don't think it was any better before, but I thought a better idea would've been to just have gyms npc controlled & you batter against the gym leader for the coins/rewards, there's a small group of spoofers in my town which make trying to do much with gyms pretty pointless most the time - even more so not being in the same team as them.
fun while it lasted anyway.
They just started limiting spoofers accounts. First thing they find is evolved spawns in the wild stop appearing. Then limited pokestops and raids. And the good thing is they don't even tell them it's happening, they just let the spoofers waste their time.
I like the new gym setup because lower level players like me can get a piece of the action. The previous itteration was great for high level players with lots of strong pokemon but useless for anyone below 28.5 lvl where maxing out attack is starting to become possible. I look for the IVs these days and favorite any 15s and transfer teh rest.
The same couple of guys had 3k+ Tyranitar's in pretty much all the gyms in town last time I looked a few weeks back, the local group on FB that I was in reported them all the time & nothing seemed to happen, & even more annoying is the spoofers seemed to get some level of acceptance when the new raids came due to them being able to help out with raids easily.
I think folks who already were high level benefited from raids immediately due to their stock of strong pokemon and the fact they only got stronger rarer bosses to cap from the raids. I've receiced my first ever few 100s of coins in the last 7 days and in my town there are plenty 1k to 2k pokemon on gyms I can do some decent damage to. I'm not sure what Niantic can do to folks who are already high level but got there dishonestly and now follow the rules. But if you gps spoof or find other ways to exploit they can detect you and permaban. I also noticed the game won't authenticate on a rooted Androis phones.
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