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something: Aug 1, 2011; Have you ever seen
The most pure look of delight
On a Babby's face?; Pillbug

so I'm nearing level 11 and still using lovely poke balls which are starting to not cut it for the better pokemon i find. Will there be great/ultra/master balls and if so when and how?

# ? Jul 27, 2016 02:56

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# ? Jun 10, 2024 08:23

greatn: Nov 15, 2006; by Lowtax

Great balls at level twelve. Then they can be found randomly

# ? Jul 27, 2016 02:57

wraith_5_: Aug 25, 2003

Kelp Plankton posted:

The Eevee name trick was confirmed legitimate by the development team at their comicon panel, people are just doing it wrong

Nah, something definitely changed, or it doesnt work after you use it for once per eveelution..

I got my first three perfectly, but I just went to evolve a near perfect Eevee after it had been re-named Rainer for 3 days and I'd done countless poo poo in game since then. I'm now the proud new owner of a poo poo tastic Jolteon. It'll still make a candy at least.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 03:02

wraith_5_: Aug 25, 2003

Question on attacking gyms with a friend:

I tried attacking blue gyms and yellow gyms both today with a friend (we're both red) and could never seem to get us both into the same fighting instance at the same time. We tried waiting until the first person to attack showed up on top of the gym on the map, and tried simultaneously. Couldn't seem to find a pattern to it, but one of us either got booted back to the main gym screen, or got put into our own individual instance. Any experiences or advice on this? Tried googling but couldn't find anything concrete.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 03:06

tote up a bags: Jun 8, 2006; die stoats die

To check IVs you need to do it with the trainer level you had when you caught it , right?

# ? Jul 27, 2016 03:07

Internet Kraken: Apr 24, 2010; slightly amused

RealFoxy posted:

Jeremy from Achievement Hunter/Rooster Teeth LOVES Voltorb and despises Electrode so there you go

What the gently caress is this nonsense? How the hell can you hate this;

Best gen 1 pokemon.

Internet Kraken fucked around with this message at 03:38 on Jul 27, 2016

# ? Jul 27, 2016 03:25

Sendo: Jul 26, 2011

wraith_5_ posted:

Nah, something definitely changed, or it doesnt work after you use it for once per eveelution..

I got my first three perfectly, but I just went to evolve a near perfect Eevee after it had been re-named Rainer for 3 days and I'd done countless poo poo in game since then. I'm now the proud new owner of a poo poo tastic Jolteon. It'll still make a candy at least.

I had the same thing happen to two perfect Eevees, I wonder if the the naming trick just doesn't work above a certain IV threshold.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 03:36

Wizchine: Sep 17, 2007; Television is the retina
of the mind's eye.

I thought I read somewhere that naming them works for the first time for each evolved variety, but after that it's random.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 03:39

padijun: Feb 5, 2004; murderbears forever

I managed to go like 6 hours before reinstalling the app

I was down at the park looking for river rocks for a project, and I knew there was a gym and a pokestop there, and it was a decent walk down to the river, so why waste all that time out in nature NOT grinding the KMs off my eggs? this is weakness, I know

:negative:

# ? Jul 27, 2016 03:45

Bill Barber: Aug 26, 2015; Hot Rope Guy

I had a full inventory of pokemon and then an egg hatched but the counter didn't roll over and when I tried transferring the counter went back to 1 under the max. Did my pokebox eat one of my pokemon??

EDIT: Apparently it just broke the counter. I just caught another pokemon and I've got 301 in my inventory even though the tally only says 300.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 04:05

Pomplamoose: Jun 28, 2008

DrPlump posted:

That one will be the next Hitler for sure.

We must secure the existence of normal types and a future for normal type children.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 04:12

Monday_: Feb 18, 2006; Worked-up silent dork without sex ability seeks oblivion and demise.; The Great Twist

The only thing better than catching a Snorlax is catching one on the first ball.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 04:17

Pomplamoose: Jun 28, 2008

Sebadoh Gigante posted:

The eevee nickname trick hasn't been working for me lately but I've heard people say they can guess what it will be based on stats. Is there any truth to that? What do you think this one will be? (Nickname is there just in case the trick starts working again.)

I just evolved it. It's a jolteon.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 04:36

Internet Kraken: Apr 24, 2010; slightly amused

I hope this is a stealth patch to decrease the amount of vaporeons ruling over gyms. This game made me hate eevee.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 04:37

OmanyteJackson: Mar 18, 2012; by Nyc_Tattoo

I tried taking my fist gym today. I feel realy dumb for asking but how do you use moves that use meter?

Also i drew a thing

# ? Jul 27, 2016 04:44

Pomplamoose: Jun 28, 2008

Caught this as a Starmie and then evolved it. Top percentage!

It has quick attack and ancient power, which isn't the best for DPS but at least it hits water and grass types neutrally.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 04:51

Two Feet From Bread: Apr 20, 2009; I'm. A. Fucking. Nazi.

please punch me in the face
i love it
give it to me daddy; College Slice

Sebadoh Gigante posted:

Caught this as a Starmie and then evolved it. Top percentage!

It has quick attack and ancient power, which isn't the best for DPS but at least it hits water and grass types neutrally.

What program is that???

# ? Jul 27, 2016 04:56

Polio Vax Scene: Apr 5, 2009

That's the silph road IV calculator here
https://thesilphroad.com/research

Click on "IV RATER"

OmanyteJackson posted:

Also i drew a thing

Noice

# ? Jul 27, 2016 04:58

Hrist: Feb 21, 2011; Lipstick Apathy

I'm so happy Pokevision exists. I was just checking it for late night Gastlys (I swear one day I will find one of these jerks), and I saw Seaking about 10 yards from my front door. The in-game thing had it at the very bottom of the list.

I ended up catching it on the second pokeball, and thanks to the curve tutorial, I got 650 XP for a Great or a curve (whatever took priority) and a new Pokemon. Still never seen a Goldeen, oddly enough. It's 87 CP, unfortunately, but whatever.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 04:59

Pomplamoose: Jun 28, 2008

Two Feet From Bread posted:

What program is that???

https://thesilphroad.com/research click on the IV RATER tab one space from the right.

Bill Barber posted:

I had a full inventory of pokemon and then an egg hatched but the counter didn't roll over and when I tried transferring the counter went back to 1 under the max. Did my pokebox eat one of my pokemon??

EDIT: Apparently it just broke the counter. I just caught another pokemon and I've got 301 in my inventory even though the tally only says 300.

This is actually a cool and thoughtful feature. You have to throw out some pokemon or use some items before you can get more, but the game won't penalize you for having too many pokemon when one hatches from an egg or you receiving too many items at once.

Hrist posted:

I'm so happy Pokevision exists. I was just checking it for late night Gastlys (I swear one day I will find one of these jerks), and I saw Seaking about 10 yards from my front door. The in-game thing had it at the very bottom of the list.

I ended up catching it on the second pokeball, and thanks to the curve tutorial, I got 650 XP for a Great or a curve (whatever took priority) and a new Pokemon. Still never seen a Goldeen, oddly enough. It's 87 CP, unfortunately, but whatever.

Where's this?

# ? Jul 27, 2016 05:00

Roger Explosion: Jan 26, 2006; THAT'S SPECTACULAR.

Things I told my friends after months of beta testing:
- Don't all go on separate teams. Don't just choose your favorite loving color. That is the stupidest thing you can do. Go on the team your friends are going on. This is loving vital
- Have a strong showing in the first few days for your team, so all the powergamers join you
- Use teamwork so you can split the load when it comes to taking down gyms or building up prestige
- Save up and evolve a tonne of Pokemon with an activated Lucky Egg so you can level up fast
- Save the stardust for when people know how these mechanics work better so you don't waste it
- I have been playing Ingress for a year in addition to Go and I know where everything is so ask me before you go out wandering and I can save you time

Things my friends listen to from the guy who had already been playing for months:
- n/a

And now, as is the story of my loving life with online multiplayer games, I'm stuck carrying a weak team that doesn't use teamwork who is outnumbered by well-oiled powergaming machines. :bang:

# ? Jul 27, 2016 05:26

Bill Barber: Aug 26, 2015; Hot Rope Guy

Sebadoh Gigante posted:

This is actually a cool and thoughtful feature. You have to throw out some pokemon or use some items before you can get more, but the game won't penalize you for having too many pokemon when one hatches from an egg or you receiving too many items at once.

It already happens with your item backpack (if you level up and get a bunch of items that are over your max amount available, your items will roll over above the max) but with Pokemon it's weird because the counter doesn't increase (still says 300/300 even though there are clearly 301) which basically gives you a phantom extra pokeslot forever.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 05:26

Coolguye: Jul 6, 2011; Required by his programming!

Tei posted:

I tried the pokemon go python map thing. I had problems installing pip, problems of different versions of python, problems installing the requirements. Tried a virtual python enviroments. Meh.

Python philosophy used to be "batteries included", but now It feel like before using any application writting in python you have to build yourself these batteries with cocos and bananas.

The python community need to put his poo poo togueter, because this is FUBARED.

gently caress this language, and gently caress the Python programming language with a hot iron bar.

And thats my experience tryiing to cheat in this game.

now imagine this was one of the like 10 years where the administrators of the language absolutely refused to bundle pip with the binary installer. 'batteries included' has always been a colossal load of horseshit.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 05:32

Fix: Jul 26, 2005; NEWT THE MOON

Sebadoh Gigante posted:

Caught this as a Starmie and then evolved it. Top percentage!

It has quick attack and ancient power, which isn't the best for DPS but at least it hits water and grass types neutrally.

Am I seriously the only person that doesn't see the percentages when I use that site? I get the bar and the text, and the attack/stamina numbers, but I never ever see the percentages at the bottom.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 05:32

Pomplamoose: Jun 28, 2008

Roger Explosion posted:

Things I told my friends after months of beta testing:
- Don't all go on separate teams. Don't just choose your favorite loving color. That is the stupidest thing you can do. Go on the team your friends are going on. This is loving vital
- Have a strong showing in the first few days for your team, so all the powergamers join you
- Use teamwork so you can split the load when it comes to taking down gyms or building up prestige
- Save up and evolve a tonne of Pokemon with an activated Lucky Egg so you can level up fast
- Save the stardust for when people know how these mechanics work better so you don't waste it
- I have been playing Ingress for a year in addition to Go and I know where everything is so ask me before you go out wandering and I can save you time

Things my friends listen to from the guy who had already been playing for months:
- n/a

And now, as is the story of my loving life with online multiplayer games, I'm stuck carrying a weak team that doesn't use teamwork who is outnumbered by well-oiled powergaming machines.

Let me guess, you're on the red team?

# ? Jul 27, 2016 05:35

DrPlump: Oct 5, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Just learn to do the curve balls then life is good.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 05:40

Astro7x: Aug 4, 2004; Thinks It's All Real

Just got 75,000 experience from a lucky egg. Mark all your Pokemon ready to evolve as favorites, start at the top and work your way down. I had no new evolutions, so that should be 75 in 30 minutes.

So I'm at level 21 now. If I am reading correctly, now is the point where my eggs are topping out at the random Pokemon inside it? And I still shouldn't evolve anything I want, because I will still be catching better stuff until Level 30?

# ? Jul 27, 2016 05:45

Coolguye: Jul 6, 2011; Required by his programming!

Astro7x posted:

If I am reading correctly, now is the point where my eggs are topping out at the random Pokemon inside it? And I still shouldn't evolve anything I want, because I will still be catching better stuff until Level 30?

Yes and honestly just go nuts respectively. Yeah sure wild pokemon will keep leveling with you until level 30, but the reality of the situation is that the XP curve after 20 is so harsh that if you wait until 30 to get going with the game you're probably never gonna get there and lose interest.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 05:48

padijun: Feb 5, 2004; murderbears forever

OmanyteJackson posted:

I tried taking my fist gym today. I feel realy dumb for asking but how do you use moves that use meter?

Wait til the meter flashes, then hold down and you'll see another meter charge up, when it hits full after ~1 second let go.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 05:49

space kobold: Oct 3, 2009

I leveled it twice just to make sure, and apparently I hit the Eevee holy grail.

Oh god I'm only level 8, what do.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 05:52

Pakled: Aug 6, 2011; WE ARE SMART

space kobold posted:

I leveled it twice just to make sure, and apparently I hit the Eevee holy grail.

Oh god I'm only level 8, what do.

Hello fellow perfect IV eevee haver :toot:

# ? Jul 27, 2016 05:56

Roger Explosion: Jan 26, 2006; THAT'S SPECTACULAR.

Sebadoh Gigante posted:

Let me guess, you're on the red team?

Yes. But if its any consolation, I was all about the Blue team because I'm Resistance in Ingress until my friend in Australia convinced me to be on the same team as him. :gonk:

# ? Jul 27, 2016 05:58

DrPlump: Oct 5, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

space kobold posted:

I leveled it twice just to make sure, and apparently I hit the Eevee holy grail.

Oh god I'm only level 8, what do.

That EV sucks its only 47 CP.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 05:59

Dely Apple: Apr 22, 2006; Sing me Spanish Techno

The highs are 111, 111, 110, and 108 rest of the week

I'm gonna die out there

# ? Jul 27, 2016 06:09

Pomplamoose: Jun 28, 2008

Roger Explosion posted:

Yes. But if its any consolation, I was all about the Blue team because I'm Resistance in Ingress until my friend in Australia convinced me to be on the same team as him.

Haha I knew it. I'm on the yellow team myself but from what I've noticed the red team just can't get their poo poo together and hold any gyms. Blue still holds the most because of sheer numbers, but from what I've seen and experienced yellow is the second best at holding gyms and tend to be more organized than the red team, who has the second most members.

space kobold posted:

I leveled it twice just to make sure, and apparently I hit the Eevee holy grail.

Oh god I'm only level 8, what do.

Name it Rainer if you haven't already. Vaporeon is way better than the other two and type match ups are less important than in the main games.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 06:18

GoGoGadgetChris: Mar 18, 2010; i powder a
granite monument
in a soundless flash

showering the grass
with molten drops of
its gold inlay

sending smoking
chips of stone
skipping into the fog

Name it rainier and then spam the evolve button right away!

And yeah seriously, they made the inherent Pok�mon power spread SO wide in this game that type advantage is practically irrelevant. Vaporeon completely owns Jolteon even with the two 25% and 20% multipliers because his inherent hp, damage, and attack rate just dwarf Jolteon

# ? Jul 27, 2016 06:39

Astro7x: Aug 4, 2004; Thinks It's All Real

Coolguye posted:

Yes and honestly just go nuts respectively. Yeah sure wild pokemon will keep leveling with you until level 30, but the reality of the situation is that the XP curve after 20 is so harsh that if you wait until 30 to get going with the game you're probably never gonna get there and lose interest.

Good Advice.

My Top 6 are no longer just Hypnos!

# ? Jul 27, 2016 07:10

padijun: Feb 5, 2004; murderbears forever

Astro7x posted:

Good Advice.

My Top 6 are no longer just Hypnos!

hello fellow coast-dweller

# ? Jul 27, 2016 07:12

Roger Explosion: Jan 26, 2006; THAT'S SPECTACULAR.

Sebadoh Gigante posted:

Haha I knew it. I'm on the yellow team myself but from what I've noticed the red team just can't get their poo poo together and hold any gyms. Blue still holds the most because of sheer numbers, but from what I've seen and experienced yellow is the second best at holding gyms and tend to be more organized than the red team, who has the second most members.

Assigning traits to colors arbitrary. My point is IVs, CP, Vaporeons etc are not the strongest thing is this game. Teamwork is. My perfect IV'd, max CP Snorlax wall doesn't mean a thing if a bunch of folk on the other teams zerg rush it.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 07:15

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# ? Jun 10, 2024 08:23

cancerianmoth: Oct 18, 2012

Roger Explosion posted:

Assigning traits to colors arbitrary. My point is IVs, CP, Vaporeons etc are not the strongest thing is this game. Teamwork is. My perfect IV'd, max CP Snorlax wall doesn't mean a thing if a bunch of folk on the other teams zerg rush it.

True, as one of the very few folks on Instinct that live downtown that I know, the gyms I do manage to take over only last a few hours. The one at my apt complex is perma-Valor bc of the bike waiters that play while waiting in their HQ on the first floor. I don't care too much, I just turn in my daily as soon as I take over and move on. I know that I can just go take over a gym whenever I want and have time and not worrying about being locked out by my own team.

# ? Jul 27, 2016 07:37

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