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Dahbadu posted:or an older person that signed up for a PTC for the same reason (overblown or not) that my wife did. The gmail thing is overblown but a lot of us signed up from rumors that we'd get extra crap from nintendo like they do with other pokemon games. redux posted:Correct, but pokemon only appear on the map when someone scans there, so a user has to actually have scanned a certain area in order for the spawns to appear on anyone's map. To clarify, it's not a user out and about. It's just a PTC account they're using for the site. I play in a rural area where there's no players around but I can check pokemonvision to see if there's something out in the middle of nowhere. chemosh6969 fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Jul 29, 2016 |
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Frown Town posted:Welcome to Something Awful! I don't mind the min max sperging too much, because at least it has the potential to make a difference if Niantic ever introduce pvp battles. And for the people who do it, that's their thing. Among real world people, I've friends who live and work in the pokestop desert that is my home town. A lot of them aren't gamers and have fallen into the microtransaction snare because of this game. Buying batches of pokeballs, lures and other poo poo which is crazy because the spawn rate around here is so low and the types of pokemon that appear are really limited. They could take that money and spend it on an off-peak return rail ticket to Befast. A 5-minute walk from the train station to the city centre will net them more pokeballs than they know what to do with, and since all the stops seem to be perma-lured by nearby businesses they'll catch more mons in a couple of hours than they would in a week back in the sticks.
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chemosh6969 posted:The gmail thing is overblown but a lot of us signed up from rumors that we'd get extra crap from nintendo like they do with other pokemon games. I already had a PTC from earlier Pokemon poo poo. I don't understand what all this "lol PTC" sentiment comes from. It was a login option I picked because it seemed like it may have been relevant on Day Two.  I new sure I regret it now, but hindsight n poo poo. It's still doesn't make a difference aside from login availability.
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Jul 29, 2016 00:31
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Does anybody know what determines the 6 default Pokemon that the game chooses for you when you attack a gym? I know you can swap them out but it's getting to be a pain. It keeps swapping back in really bad Pokemon despite them not being my highest CP or most often/most recently used.
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Jul 29, 2016 00:35
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:My five 10km eggs have been: That's a really really good outcome. Eevee out of eggs make great Vaporeons and Chansey is a great way to troll gyms.
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Jul 29, 2016 00:37
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I'm so glad I learned how to throw a curve ball. Its all I do now, I force myself to throw nothing but curveballs, even at loving weedles. Today checked Pokevision, Dragonite. About 9 blocks away, not much time left but if I hurry I just might make it. So, I jog my out of shape gooney rear end over there, just made it, threw a straight ball and it curves off because I guess strong monsters can say "gently caress your straight ball". poo poo, OK fine, I can throw a curve. 2 balls later and I got it.
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Jul 29, 2016 00:40
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Northjayhawk posted:I'm so glad I learned how to throw a curve ball. Its all I do now, I force myself to throw nothing but curveballs, even at loving weedles. grats on the 22 cp dragonite
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Jul 29, 2016 00:43
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Nephzinho posted:That's a really really good outcome. Eevee out of eggs make great Vaporeons and Chansey is a great way to troll gyms. My puny CP 81 Chansey has 148 hp, three more than my CP 1331 Vaporeon. I'm pretty amused by this.
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Jul 29, 2016 00:44
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Northjayhawk posted:I'm so glad I learned how to throw a curve ball. Its all I do now, I force myself to throw nothing but curveballs, even at loving weedles. Look at this nervous bitch, hands trembling so hard that he made his balls curve a-ha-ha-ha
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Jul 29, 2016 00:45
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Frown Town posted:My puny CP 81 Chansey has 148 hp, three more than my CP 1331 Vaporeon. I'm pretty amused by this. It'll be the first thing your opponents have to throw themselves against, and theywill barely get any reward for it because the xp/prestige calculations are based on CP. Chansey on a gym is just a dick move.
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Jul 29, 2016 00:46
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Colonel Squish posted:Does anybody know what determines the 6 default Pokemon that the game chooses for you when you attack a gym? I'm also interested in this question. And I've decided I don't care about playing correctly. I'm level 13 and I'm powering up a mon or two to keep them at max level because gently caress it. If they add more stuff, I might put in effort.
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Jul 29, 2016 00:47
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Frown Town posted:My puny CP 81 Chansey has 148 hp, three more than my CP 1331 Vaporeon. I'm pretty amused by this. Chansey has a natural low CP. Mine's pretty much maxed at like 400cp.
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Jul 29, 2016 00:49
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Willsun posted:1. Every player is allowed only one Pokemon to a gym. If you want to put one in an existing friendly gym but there's no open slot, you have to build up the gym's HP (called "prestige") until the next level by fighting the friendly gym with only one Pokemon at a time. Each friendly you defeat increases prestige around 100 points. When you can finally put one of your own in, you can either put in your strongest in hopes of making it harder for enemy teams to defeat your gym (and harder for friendlies to help level up the gym), or you can put in a lower CP Pokemon in hopes that it makes it easier for other friendlies to level up the gym, because they'll have to go through the same process. I wish this post was in the game. Now I get gyms
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Jul 29, 2016 00:49
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Does leveling past 20 do anything other than give you care packages full of items? I've got some lucky eggs that would probably get me to 20 but I want to hoard more trash guys to level up if there's any good reason not to just get to 20 right now.
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Jul 29, 2016 00:55
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Xaerael posted:Chansey has a natural low CP. Mine's pretty much maxed at like 400cp. Got one hatched a while back with pretty high CP (377) and just stuck it on a gym. It has 305 hp. 
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Jul 29, 2016 01:00
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So is that a time at the top of the screen in gym battles? What happens if it expires?
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Jul 29, 2016 01:07
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Jul 29, 2016 01:21
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/29/pokemon-go-player-crashes-car-into-school-while-playing-game
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Jul 29, 2016 01:45
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Nephzinho posted:It'll be the first thing your opponents have to throw themselves against, and theywill barely get any reward for it because the xp/prestige calculations are based on CP. Chansey on a gym is just a dick move. I don't think this is quite how XP works on defeating a trainer. Maybe for training your team's gym? Think the minimum you'll get for defeating a trainer is a 150xp and I'm not sure if that's a flat rate or not... Bumped into a random Instinct guy (I'm Valor) in my neighborhood when I was about to take the gym. We experimented taking turns battling each others' low CP pokemons and that's how I discovered my Chansey's ridiculous HPs, and that we could get 150xp/kill regardless of the CP of the Pokemon in the gym and the 'mon battling it.
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Jul 29, 2016 01:47
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Is chansey actually worth throwing into a gym? Is he beaten easily with the hp?
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Jul 29, 2016 02:02
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Zotix posted:Is chansey actually worth throwing into a gym? Is he beaten easily with the hp? Trolls lower level players who think they have a chance of beating something of similar/slightly lower CP. Wastes high level players time beating through the monstrous health pool.
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Jul 29, 2016 02:22
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Zotix posted:Is chansey actually worth throwing into a gym? Is he beaten easily with the hp? If the idea of potentially making a grown man irrationally angry at a giant pink marshmallow in a children's game appeals to you, absolutely.
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Jul 29, 2016 02:26
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Birdstrike posted:https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/29/pokemon-go-player-crashes-car-into-school-while-playing-game People can barely negotiate roundabouts on good days, what was he thinking Also chiming in that the new Google maps update sucks. I wish they had it as an option rather than just unilaterally destroying all that detail, that kind of stuff is nice when you are walking around a city.
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Jul 29, 2016 02:28
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Today I spotted a gym in the center of Amsterdam that had been leveled up by the red team, all trainers between levels 30 and 34, and all Pokemon over 2000CP. They had each of the starters in there, and a Dragonite near 3000CP to top it off. Apparently there are some organized red players out there after all! It stayed up for the whole afternoon too. I feel like I'm way behind... is there a Mystic elite squad I can call to go take that down?
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Jul 29, 2016 03:01
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Kirios posted:People playing this shallow mobile game like it's a proper Pokemon game (finding perfect IVs for example) is hilarious. It's sooooooooooo not needed at all don't min max a loving mobile game. Yeah, in a game where the point is to literally capture scores of the same pokemon we'd be crazy to spend the minimal effort to determine which is the best one.
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Licarn posted:If the idea of potentially making a grown man irrationally angry at a giant pink marshmallow in a children's game appeals to you, absolutely. Then again, I do want Slowpoke just to have.
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Jul 29, 2016 03:27
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Another Zubat hatched. Is there a button to make the game not do that?
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Its a real shame that nicknames don't show up in other people's games. I don't even get why. I mean not wanting kids to see rude stuff makes sense but they already can since trainer names aren't censored. There's a player going on a rampage through all the gyms in town and his name is BLACKDICKNICK. VVV So then what did you name tangela? Internet Kraken fucked around with this message at 03:41 on Jul 29, 2016 |
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Jul 29, 2016 03:33
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I name pretty much every pokemon after the scientific name of the animal I assume they were based on I am nerd supreme
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Jul 29, 2016 03:38
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Internet Kraken posted:VVV So then what did you name tangela? Spaghetti
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Xaerael posted:Has anyone tried to use a lure while riding in a car? does it work, or does it spawn nothing? I have a road trip tomorrow, and I find being a passenger the most boring thing ever. Your lure will spawn pokes, but you won't get them unless you're going ~45 mph or less. The 10-12 mph thing is all about hatching eggs and seeing regular spawns, but I can confirm you still see poo poo even at 70 mph when your GPS glitches for a half second. The problem is that, when you travel a certain distance from a poke, it'll run during your first capture attempt. When we were going 70 mph, I couldn't even get one quick throw in without poo poo running.
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Broseph Brostar posted:Now that the newest version of the desktop map app lets you change locations without logging out, I have been using remote desktop to start the app and drag the ngrok url to chrome, then I can swap over to the tab on my phone's Google chrome and use it easily. Link? I need it for a friend...
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Jul 29, 2016 04:43
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Playing Pokemon Go as a passenger on the highway is pretty futile. If you get caught in traffic though, that's a good time to start up the game. You'll have enough time to catch pokemon that spawn nearby and if its really bad, you'll get credit for egg steps as well. There's barely ever pokestops along the highway for obvious reasons though. I'd recommend playing something else on road trips. Like, uh, real Pokemon! 
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Jul 29, 2016 04:45
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Anyone else's pokedex completely hosed up?
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Jul 29, 2016 04:46
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Well, I got my Arcanine. As I expected, it has disgustingly inflated CP for its level compared to my other Pokemon. About 1050 when my much higher-leveled monsters are topping out around 850. I suspected this was why I see Arcanines topping every freaking gym in the area, and I was right.
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Jul 29, 2016 04:52
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Internet Kraken posted:
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Jul 29, 2016 04:58
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Manslaughter posted:Anyone else's pokedex completely hosed up? Yeah, for a few days.
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Jul 29, 2016 05:02
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Just caught a wild omastar in the middle of the desert. Checks out.
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Jul 29, 2016 05:33
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BrianBoitano posted:Link? I need it for a friend... This one https://github.com/mchristopher/PokemonGo-DesktopMap/releases
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The map is back to full detail for me. Paths and parking lots and such are a grid again instead of the big empty blob they were for a few days.
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