AH right the sightings makes sense now, I'm still getting the Pokémon next to tufts of grass on mine.
Hearthly wrote:
By all accounts you get the Pokemon image and a picture of the Pokestop it was last seen closest to.
That sounds pretty useless if you don't live in a town or city.
Grim... wrote:
Hearthly wrote:
By all accounts you get the Pokemon image and a picture of the Pokestop it was last seen closest to.
That sounds pretty useless if you don't live in a town or city.
Yeah this has already been pointed out in many quarters, but TBH the game is basically a bust anyway if you're not in an urban area.
One of the ladies here at work lives in a village over the west of the island, it's not a tiny place but not exactly a major urban conurbation either, there are precisely zero Pokestops anywhere near her, and pretty much fuck-all Pokemon either - her children were quite upset by it, as they have no way of collecting Pokeballs or other items in or around their home (so they have a hard time collecting Pokemon even when they can find any), and their progress compared to their peers who live in town is practically non-existent.
TBH if you don't live in an urban area, or regularly visit one and have a walk around, the game is basically unplayable.
Maybe there'll be one of those Cabela hunting games for mobile soon where you can use AR to hunt virtual animals and those folk living out in the sticks can have the advantage of having more to hunt. 
I am bored of it
The precise tracking thing will probably spark my interest in this again. Got fed up of catching nothing by Pidgey's. Seeing as I only play casually, catching them has a bigger incentive than fighting because all the gyms are being held by players with 1000+ CP Pokemon!
The Great Tyrant wrote:
The precise tracking thing will probably spark my interest in this again. Got fed up of catching nothing by Pidgey's. Seeing as I only play casually, catching them has a bigger incentive than fighting because all the gyms are being held by players with 1000+ CP Pokemon!
Gotta Catch The Pidgeys!
Though I caught so many I went on an evolving spree with them as I had about 300 Pidgey Candy. Good for levelling up!
Best to catch and evolve everything you can so you can level up quicker.
Save up all the evolves for when you've got a lucky egg to pop as well.
Zardoz wrote:
Best to catch and evolve everything you can so you can level up quicker.
Zubats can fuck off though. I also don't bother with Pidgettos if I see them in the wild.
Every catch is lovely, lovely dust though (or whatever it's called). That's what I'm always short on, and you get the same for a Zubat as you do for a Magmar or whatever.
GOTTA CATCH THEM ALL
Mimi, have you spent any stardust yet?
Mimi, have you spent any stardust yet?
Curiosity wrote:
Zardoz wrote:
Best to catch and evolve everything you can so you can level up quicker.
Zubats can fuck off though. I also don't bother with Pidgettos if I see them in the wild.
And that is why you will never be the Champion of Cyrodiil.
Wow, that's a blast from the past.
Even I'm the Champion of Cyrodiil now!
Even I'm the Champion of Cyrodiil now!
Want any Nirnroot?
Yay took a gym down the prom, my 1522CP Vaporeon kicked the ass of all three defenders all by himself.
Yes I catch every single Pokemon I come across, Stardust and Candies innit. Both are needed for powering up your Pokemon and the dust costs get pretty eye-watering as your Pokemon get to high CP levels.
The trick I've found for captures is just use normal Pokeballs and lob as many as it takes to get the catch, time-wise there's not much in it from switching to great/ultra balls and using razzberries. (Which they can still break out of anyway.)
I only switch to the better balls (fnaar) and razzberries if it's a catch I really want to make.
As long as you have decent access to Pokestops ball supply shouldn't be an issue, and destroying most of the millions of potions and revives you get to free up bag space for balls is a splendid idea.
Cras wrote:
Every catch is lovely, lovely dust though (or whatever it's called). That's what I'm always short on, and you get the same for a Zubat as you do for a Magmar or whatever.
Yes I catch every single Pokemon I come across, Stardust and Candies innit. Both are needed for powering up your Pokemon and the dust costs get pretty eye-watering as your Pokemon get to high CP levels.
The trick I've found for captures is just use normal Pokeballs and lob as many as it takes to get the catch, time-wise there's not much in it from switching to great/ultra balls and using razzberries. (Which they can still break out of anyway.)
I only switch to the better balls (fnaar) and razzberries if it's a catch I really want to make.
As long as you have decent access to Pokestops ball supply shouldn't be an issue, and destroying most of the millions of potions and revives you get to free up bag space for balls is a splendid idea.
Some hardcore players in Watford. The station has a gym with 9 Pokemon defending it. Lowest CP was over 2000 and highest was 3100!
Well I've failed at the first hurdle. It tells me that any Trainer name I choose isn't available. 
Zardoz wrote:
GOTTA CATCH THEM ALL
Mimi, have you spent any stardust yet?
Mimi, have you spent any stardust yet?
Yes, I gave one blob of Stardust to Elizadog I, but I didn't understand it so didn't give her any more
Hearthly wrote:
Mimi wrote:
Sorry Hearthky, had obviously missed your post earlier. How does the sightings feature show ehuchbpokestop the pikemen were last sighted near? It's just a list of pictures on mine, and I can't seem to interact with them.
It's not live for everyone yet, they've put the sightings icons in as sort of placeholders for now, only a subset of the user community has the feature running live.
There have been quite a few postings about in the Pokemon Go Isle of Man Facebook group, it looks like it should be pretty good.
By all accounts you get the Pokemon image and a picture of the Pokestop it was last seen closest to.
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Ooh, that looks good! I do hope that they don't restrict Pokemon sightings to pokestops, though, as I live wandering through the Arboretum to catch them
Well, this is unexpectedly heartbreaking
This reminds me that every single object in the katamari games also had a description. That must have been fun to write each one and just go crazy.
Heh, just hatched a Cubone now.
Title.
Title.
Finally caught me a Jigglypuff. It's my Pokemon equivalent. Behold his mighty power!
I also caught an Electrabuzz, or something, plus some other new stuff. Also got to level 20. Best think today was putting a lure on st the arboretum and ((for once) it brought out a load of good Pokemon, and three little kids (ages somewhere between 5 and 20) were saying my username (wrongly) because the lure was being so awesome.
I also caught an Electrabuzz, or something, plus some other new stuff. Also got to level 20. Best think today was putting a lure on st the arboretum and ((for once) it brought out a load of good Pokemon, and three little kids (ages somewhere between 5 and 20) were saying my username (wrongly) because the lure was being so awesome.
Charge your phone!
Haha, it was charging when I took the pic! It was 2% when I hit through the door!
If this is really what is happening hers, then this video is incredible: Rare Pokémon sparks stampede in Taipei - The Telegraph
https://apple.news/An3Tt5t2KSS2ymmFadysd8Q
I dare say a lot of people are rushing to see what everyone else is rushing towards, but still...
https://apple.news/An3Tt5t2KSS2ymmFadysd8Q
I dare say a lot of people are rushing to see what everyone else is rushing towards, but still...
Update to the app now available that includes a new 'appraisal' feature, this means that you don't have to use online IV calculators to get an idea if a Pokemon will power up and evolve into a fearsome fighting specimen, although the online calculators will give exact numbers whereas the appraisal is more of a 'banded' sort of text description.
I've been noticing the effect of server-side changes made earlier in the week too, definitely a more interesting variety of Pokemon being caught now.
Level wise I'm over halfway to Level 23 now, I could pop a Lucky Egg and do all possible evolutions and just about hit 23, but I'm waiting until I have enough candies and Pokemon to do 60 evolutions on the bounce, which is about the maximum number you can do in 30 minutes, and will yield 60,000 XP.
Also got a nice Snorlax out of a 10km egg at the end of the last week which has powered up into my first 2000+ CP Pokemon.
I've been noticing the effect of server-side changes made earlier in the week too, definitely a more interesting variety of Pokemon being caught now.
Level wise I'm over halfway to Level 23 now, I could pop a Lucky Egg and do all possible evolutions and just about hit 23, but I'm waiting until I have enough candies and Pokemon to do 60 evolutions on the bounce, which is about the maximum number you can do in 30 minutes, and will yield 60,000 XP.
Also got a nice Snorlax out of a 10km egg at the end of the last week which has powered up into my first 2000+ CP Pokemon.
Yesterday a friend told me of one of his friends who was mugged at knife point while playing Pokemon Go. The thief even made him disable all the tracking apps/software on his phone.
Stay safe people!
Stay safe people!
TheVision wrote:
Yesterday a friend told me of one of his friends who was mugged at knife point while playing Pokemon Go. The thief even made him disable all the tracking apps/software on his phone.
Stay safe people!
Stay safe people!
I can imagine that in dodgy areas this game is a serious health hazard to play, thinking back to bits of Manchester I've lived in years gone by, there's no way I'd wander around with a £600 phone held aloft in front of me trying to catch fucking Pokemon.
PLEASE! MUG ME! LOOK AT THIS NICE THING YOU CAN STEAL OFF ME!
It's pretty irrelevant. Everyone has a smartphone in their pockets, if you're a mugger you don't have to look out for the people holding it in their hand.
Cras wrote:
It's pretty irrelevant. Everyone has a smartphone in their pockets, if you're a mugger you don't have to look out for the people holding it in their hand.
They could use binoculars or other forms of optical enhancement devices from tactically significant vantage points to identify the highest value Pokemon-playing targets.
It's probably easier to mug someone for something they have in full view rather than in a bag, etc, though.
I've had s look at the appraisal system, and apart from the annoying introductory sentence it plays each time ('hello Eskimimi, I'm available to analyse your ________ if you would like') which is just a pointless click, the analysis doesn't seem up to much. It's almost identical for all Pokemon I've tried (about 30) 'exceeds expectations, certainly a wonder... Yadda yadda) but unless there is s key to decipher that these sentences mean something (power up before evolve, etc) then it's just basically meaningless to me
I need something more explicit, like 'put this one in battles. Give this one done start dust,
I've had s look at the appraisal system, and apart from the annoying introductory sentence it plays each time ('hello Eskimimi, I'm available to analyse your ________ if you would like') which is just a pointless click, the analysis doesn't seem up to much. It's almost identical for all Pokemon I've tried (about 30) 'exceeds expectations, certainly a wonder... Yadda yadda) but unless there is s key to decipher that these sentences mean something (power up before evolve, etc) then it's just basically meaningless to me
I need something more explicit, like 'put this one in battles. Give this one done start dust,
There are at least three pretty clear bands, at the low end I've had 'Your Pokemon is not likely to make much headway in battle' (something like that anyway), there's an 'above average' commentary and also an 'exceptional' one - there have been one or two others as well.
If nothing else it lets you filter out the crap ones and mulch them for candy without worrying you're turning a potential star Pokemon into glue.
If nothing else it lets you filter out the crap ones and mulch them for candy without worrying you're turning a potential star Pokemon into glue.
Um. I just got "Your Pokemon is unlikely to make much headway in battle. Its stats exceed my calculations! It's incredible!"
So that makes little sense.
So that makes little sense.
I'd put that one in the 'maybe' pile then.
Also, most of my Pokemon are tinier than any they have on record. Their records suck.
Cras wrote:
tinier than any they have on record
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Cras wrote:
It's pretty irrelevant. Everyone has a smartphone in their pockets, if you're a mugger you don't have to look out for the people holding it in their hand.
Easier to mug someone who is lost in concentration in their phone though. If the first time you spot your mugger is when they're standing right in front of you with a knife, you're less likely to make a fuss or a noise, I'd reckon.
Also, nerds = easier to mug
I would like to see some one mug me or Grim....
Yeah, me too.
I'd like to watch you trying to mug Grim...
I'll mug him on a ladder outside your flat then.
KovacsC wrote:
I would like to see some one mug me or Grim....
Why bother? You regularly leave your phone on the table when you go up to the bar in the pub...
My work colleague has just been showing me how he's named his pokemon rude names to get them appraised:
- "I must say, your Huge Penis impresses me."
- "Your Tiny Willy is very small, but also cute."
Etc.
- "I must say, your Huge Penis impresses me."
- "Your Tiny Willy is very small, but also cute."
Etc.
That amuses me more than it should
