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The density distribution on this game is hosed, but man if this game isn't addictive. I live in Southern MD (btw if there was a goon at the library hunting mons and he saw a super tall dude with a pitbull and a cellphone that was me) and my neighborhood is a weird combination of suburban homes and townhouses. I walked a total of 3.5 km. 2km was around the suburban homes and the other 1.5km was through some townhomes and a library. During the first 2km I saw Rattata and a Pidgey. In the final 1.5km I saw a Pidgey, Rattata, Beedrill, Zubat, Spearow, Venonat, Staryu, Meowth, Spearow, and Nidoran. My dog certainly didn't mind the walk (she hasn't moved since we got back), but if I hadn't gone through the townhomes on a lark I would be pissed at how lovely the spawn rate was.
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What's the highest level person that you guys know of?
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Jul 11, 2016 00:40
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bizwank posted:Everyone benefits from lures, they aren't team specific. Find one and milk it. Aside from gym battles I haven't seen/heard hardly anyone caring about teams, especially at stop/lure gatherings. I'd pay twice as much for a lure that's only usable by team yellow
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Jul 11, 2016 00:41
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Very often, when I catch a pokemon, the camera image flips upside down during the pokeball animation. Is that happening to other people?
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Jul 11, 2016 00:42
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showbiz_liz posted:Very often, when I catch a pokemon, the camera image flips upside down during the pokeball animation. Is that happening to other people? Yup, happens here.
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Jul 11, 2016 00:42
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RC Cola posted:What's the highest level person that you guys know of? Well I'm level 6.
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Jul 11, 2016 00:43
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Fellatio del Toro posted:I'd pay twice as much for a lure that's only usable by team yellow A proper response for the proper team
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Fellatio del Toro posted:I'd pay twice as much for a lure that's only usable by team yellow Axel Serenity posted:A proper response for the proper team showbiz_liz posted:Very often, when I catch a pokemon, the camera image flips upside down during the pokeball animation. Is that happening to other people?
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Jul 11, 2016 00:45
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Is there any way to view your stuff outside of the app? Or maps etc? Its so lovely I'd like a way to talk to the professor or whatever on my computer without the app crashing or freezing.
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Jul 11, 2016 00:46
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Is there a way to find out which Pokemon are rare?
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Jul 11, 2016 00:49
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bows1 posted:Is there any way to view your stuff outside of the app? Or maps etc? Its so lovely I'd like a way to talk to the professor or whatever on my computer without the app crashing or freezing. App-only for now. It'll probably be a while before we see something as extensive as the Ingress Intel map.
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Jul 11, 2016 00:49
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RC Cola posted:What's the highest level person that you guys know of? I've seen a level 19. Currently a gym downtown that has 3 pokestops in range with 3 lures keeps changing hands every 2 minutes or so. They are using 200 CP pokemon so I dunno if they're doing it for XP or if the players are just poo poo but I'm gonna roll down later and see what's up.
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Jul 11, 2016 00:50
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Beer4TheBeerGod posted:Is there a way to find out which Pokemon are rare? I'm sure Buzzfeed could tell you.
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Jul 11, 2016 00:50
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bizwank posted:I don't play with the camera on, pokes are easier to hit that way and battery lasts longer. But that's no FUN (I finally opened the battery pack I got for Christmas because of this game. With that, I was able to be out for 5+ hours without running out of battery.)
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Jul 11, 2016 00:52
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Arrgytehpirate posted:I've seen a level 19. Currently a gym downtown that has 3 pokestops in range with 3 lures keeps changing hands every 2 minutes or so. They are using 200 CP pokemon so I dunno if they're doing it for XP or if the players are just poo poo but I'm gonna roll down later and see what's up. How can you tell that it's changing hands so frequently?
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Jul 11, 2016 00:52
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Prolly asked and answered a dozen times by now, but the steps to hatch an egg only occurs when the app is on and active, right? Outside of the other issues, I quit Ingress because I just didn't like holding my active phone while walking around. Like, gently caress, let me feed the app my Fitbit data.
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Kharmakazy posted:How about you stop? No wonder the servers are hosed if everyone in the world is elbowing to get into something only designed for certain regions to use right now. lol at blaming people in other countries over Niantic's remarkable lack of any foresight regarding how to launch a video game
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Jul 11, 2016 00:54
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I really hope Nintendo sees the success of this game and decides to invest more money and time into its development to turn it into the amazing game that the current iteration is only just hinting at.
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Correct. It's a good idea to check your phone, too, to make sure it hasn't fallen asleep or lost connection to the server.
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RoflcopterPilot posted:I do wish they had a better leveling up/evolving system and made capturing their evolved forms much more rare. The original evolving through battle experience was great and much more fair in terms of the areas people have access to. Yeah it feels super weird to me. There doesn't seem to be any reason to hold onto any Pokemon if I catch another one with higher CP. It's difficult to tell whether to hold onto evolved forms too because sometimes their moves aren't great. It's a total crapshoot.
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RC Cola posted:What's the highest level person that you guys know of?
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:lol at blaming people in other countries over Niantic's remarkable lack of any foresight regarding how to launch a video game It's literally their fault. If I invite 30 people to my party and buy enough food for 30 people and you show up with 60 people I didn't invite it's not my fault if I run out of food. Media outlets were even telling people to download third party versions of the game to bypass region restrictions, and now a whole lot of people are going to have a real bad time because of it. https://www.proofpoint.com/us/threat-insight/post/droidjack-uses-side-load-backdoored-pokemon-go-android-app
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Jul 11, 2016 00:59
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Kharmakazy posted:It's literally their fault. If I invite 30 people to my party and buy enough food for 30 people and you show up with 60 people I didn't invite it's not my fault if I run out of food.
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Jul 11, 2016 01:01
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If IM slightly outside the circle of the Lure does it work? mY dude keeps walking away from my house while Im sitting on my couch.
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Jul 11, 2016 01:01
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Does the screen have to be on for an egg to gain progress?
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Jul 11, 2016 01:03
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bows1 posted:If IM slightly outside the circle of the Lure does it work? mY dude keeps walking away from my house while Im sitting on my couch. Zotix posted:Does the screen have to be on for an egg to gain progress?
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bizwank posted:Niantic invited 30 people but only had food for 5. You say that, but there is no evidence to support it. We don't know how things work when only the expected number of users are online, because that never happened. I literally can't understand your need to blame the company providing the free service when 10 million people cut in line to use the same resources they set aside for you.
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My local gym hasn't changed hands, but the lowest-level pokemon in there vanished, leaving an empty slot that was later replaced by a different person's pokemon. How did that happen? I thought your pokemon were stuck in there until the gym was taken over by another team.
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Jul 11, 2016 01:09
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Has anyone tried an auto tapping macro for gym battles? Does tapping above a certain speed even matter?
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Kharmakazy posted:It's literally their fault. If I invite 30 people to my party and buy enough food for 30 people and you show up with 60 people I didn't invite it's not my fault if I run out of food. hurrdurr we're going to release this game in a public format where literally anyone who is sufficiently determined can gain access to it wait why are there tons of people playing the game and loving up our servers You have to be loving dense to not see this coming. Blaming players for wanting to play the video game is retarded.
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Kharmakazy posted:You say that, but there is no evidence to support it. We don't know how things work when only the expected number of users are online, because that never happened.
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MisterBibs posted:Prolly asked and answered a dozen times by now, but the steps to hatch an egg only occurs when the app is on and active, right? Outside of the other issues, I quit Ingress because I just didn't like holding my active phone while walking around. only 34.99 for the go+ to do part of this. maybe they'll sell a hardware DLC later for an extra 30
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Kharmakazy posted:You say that, but there is no evidence to support it. We don't know how things work when only the expected number of users are online, because that never happened. There are only 35 million people in Canada, of which a small number would go through the trouble to get early access to the game. Maybe tens of thousands of people. If that tiny number is enough to crush their servers then I just dont even know what to tell you.
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Kharmakazy posted:How about you stop? No wonder the servers are hosed if everyone in the world is elbowing to get into something only designed for certain regions to use right now. As a Eurogoon I'll say straight up that this isn't the case. I've had the game sideloaded since Tuesday and it plays flawlessly from around 7AM GMT, when I start my commute to work, up until about lunchtime when the East coast of America comes online. It craps out for a bit, but returns to normal service not long after. Around 5PM GMT, when the East coast of the USA comes online (9AM their time), the servers regularly died and didn't recover for the rest of the day. It's not a case of filthy foreigners stealing your pokemons and crashing the servers. It's down to the game being popular beyond all expectation in the regions it has been released in. Ironically, as a European playing an unauthorized version of the game in a country it hasn't been released in yet, I've probably had a better experience than folks in the US. My hope is that they've beefed up the servers by the time it gets released here, because I don't want to go through the birthing pains the US has suffered the past few days. edit: I say popular beyond expectation, but really, they release a game in a franchise that has sold 250+ million physical copies, and they release it on the 2 most popular gaming platforms. When setting up their servers, the baseline user load should have been "everyone who owns a phone". Clyde Radcliffe fucked around with this message at 01:29 on Jul 11, 2016 |
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i think that since there's a lot of issues playing, yall could try not playing for a week or hell, even a whole two weeks
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Blazing Zero posted:only 34.99 for the go+ to do part of this. maybe they'll sell a hardware DLC later for an extra 30 Clyde Radcliffe posted:As a Eurogoon I'll say straight up that this isn't the case. I've had the game sideloaded since Tuesday and it plays flawlessly from around 7AM GMT, when I start my commute to work, up until about lunchtime when the East coast of America comes online. It craps out for a bit, but returns to normal service not long after. Around 5PM GMT, when the East coast of the USA comes online (9AM their time), the servers regularly died and didn't recover for the rest of the day. Blazing Zero posted:i think that since there's a lot of issues playing, yall could try not playing for a week or hell, even a whole two weeks
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actually, scratch my last post. i just got off the phone with my uncle at niantic and HE says they are fixing all the problems because of the bitching itt. good job everyone! 
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showbiz_liz posted:My local gym hasn't changed hands, but the lowest-level pokemon in there vanished, leaving an empty slot that was later replaced by a different person's pokemon. How did that happen? I thought your pokemon were stuck in there until the gym was taken over by another team. Actually I think I can maybe guess the answer to this - when a gym gets attacked and kicked down a level, it must kick out the lowest-ranked pokemon, and then when it gets leveled back up there's an empty slot.
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Blazing Zero posted:i think that since there's a lot of issues playing, yall could try not playing for a week or hell, even a whole two weeks Maybe just trying to get past us in Levels? Sneaky.
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bizwank posted:Ingress player for two years; "MU" (mind units) is a unit of measurement in that game which varies based on human density in an given area, data which was provided by Google (where Niantic got it's start). This game is built on the same platform and is using a lot of the same mechanics and locations, just dumbed down and cuted up. It stands to reason that spawn rate would scale to player density so that everyone gets a similar play experience. Anecdotally, a friend who's L20 has captured the bulk of his pokes (well over 500) sitting at home in a 100+ unit condo and hasn't spent a cent. I'm in a single-family neighborhood and see maybe 2-3 a day spawn naturally, if that. If you're just sitting still (or in an area where walking around doesn't really do much, like inside your house/apartment), and you catch a Pokémon, just close the app, and play again in an hour. Someone earlier in the thread said they respawn once an hour, and I've managed to catch 4 Pokémon in the last 4 hours, at the same time, so I'm pretty sure they're right. bizwank posted:poi? Point Of Intrest.
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