i'm almost halfway to a gyarados, and i live near a beach with an apparently endless supply of magikarps
― Autumn Almanac, Monday, 18 July 2016 12:49 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/LnK70Ct.jpg
― skateboard of education (rip van wanko), Monday, 18 July 2016 12:50 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sj2iQyBTQs
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, 18 July 2016 16:22 (seven years ago) link
"having 3 teams (really 2 and a scrappy underdog)" qualx what do you mean by this? haven't played nearly enough (like, at all) to know what the teams do
lol i thought i'd give this a more determined shot by saying to hell with battery and going on a 5k run with the app open. when i got done i was horrified to see the incubation ticker had not advanced at all. i had missed the li'l mechanic where you actually put the egg in the incubator. whoops.
― goole, Monday, 18 July 2016 16:36 (seven years ago) link
which team is the scrappy underdog?
― El Tomboto, Monday, 18 July 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
I assume yellow?
― http://porno (DJP), Monday, 18 July 2016 16:39 (seven years ago) link
yeah yellow's definitely the smallest, though there's a massive stronghold of them at my local fire department
you pick a team (blue/red/yellow) at level 5 and try to take over gyms for that team
it's based on ingress where everyone has a choice of two teams and they try to take over landmarks in a way that coincidentally seems to resemble the game Go
― qualx, Monday, 18 July 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
from ancient china, not pokemon
― qualx, Monday, 18 July 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
my measly S3 is getting accustomed to playing this in my apartment and the combined effect of phone with horrible gps that isn't supposed to play game + 8th floor room means the game constantly thinks i'm at a legion post 3 blocks away
but people keep dropping lures there and i got a bulbasaur so nbd
― qualx, Monday, 18 July 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link
I'm surrounded by Red and dumbly picked blue. I've picked up the occasional gym, but basically its a sea of red in my neighborhood :-/
Mainly the point of holding gyms seems to be for getting coin rewards, but the trickle I can pick up makes me despair of ever affording a backpack upgrade.
― woke-ing class zero (s.clover), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 03:00 (seven years ago) link
playing this amidst a crowd of hundreds of people who are also playing it and no one is talking to each other is a really weird thing
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 14:18 (seven years ago) link
Couldn't you try talking to people?
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 14:34 (seven years ago) link
i did! most did not look up!one dude kinda heckled me as we were both going for a pikachu"I got it!" "You ain't got it bro" "Ah fuck" "I'm telling you, you ain't got it bro"ftr, i eventually got it
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 14:38 (seven years ago) link
just ran thru all my balls trying to grab a jynx. is that r4r3?? it escaped 3 times, boo
― goole, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
i'm at the jersey shore this week and they definitely have different pokemon here than they do at home. i wonder how many biomes there are.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 17:00 (seven years ago) link
berries are key for this
― thos beads (jamescobo), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
I always learn when to use items after it's too late too; I didn't figure out berries until I was complaining to coworkers about burning like 15 balls catching a Scyther and I totally forgot about great balls until I watched Abra immediately peace out after I saw it in the wild for the first time
― thos beads (jamescobo), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 21:32 (seven years ago) link
okay, explain berries please
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 22:16 (seven years ago) link
throw a berry at a pokemon, its odds to be captured go up by some unknown amount.
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 22:20 (seven years ago) link
and the odds of the ball curving away for no reason go up by 38678372526352113
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 19 July 2016 22:25 (seven years ago) link
I just found a Clefairy, fed it a berry, hit it with a great ball, and it broke out and ran off; what the FUCK
― thos beads (jamescobo), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 00:22 (seven years ago) link
i think curving increases your chances of capture? i've been trying to practice but i'm literally running out of balls. i do know the smaller the target circle is, the better your chances are of keeping the ball shut (according to niantic at least)
half the time i catch one on a "curved" ball i don't get the curveball bonus. it's so janky.
― qualx, Wednesday, 20 July 2016 03:31 (seven years ago) link
hot tip:
Eevee: 'Pokémon Go' Players Discover How to Control Evolution of CharacterReddit user smithnigel found renaming the character can determine which evolution Eevee will undergo, which is usually random. Sparky yields Jolteon, Rainer gives Vaporeon and Pyro creates Flareon.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 20 July 2016 13:07 (seven years ago) link
im sure they'll have this patched out before i get enough eevee candies to evolve
― bitcoin bajas (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 13:16 (seven years ago) link
Have seen people playing this in the park but I got stuck behind my first Pokemon Go dawdler on my walk to work this morning. Keep moving!
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 20 July 2016 13:23 (seven years ago) link
Poss just jealous cz my phone is probably not good enough to run this at all and would def run out of battery within approx 20 minutes even if it did run
― a passing spacecadet, Wednesday, 20 July 2016 13:24 (seven years ago) link
zubat zubat zubat rattata rattata zubat rattata zubat rattata rattata zubat rattata zubat rattata zubat zubat
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 21 July 2016 03:47 (seven years ago) link
some fun everybody on ilx complains about reddit crossover: https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4tsyuv/can_we_stop_mincing_words_niantic_youre_royally/
When this game launched I'd go to the park and make new friends among a crowd of 50-60+ people. The game didn't need to be good, it just needed to work in order to drive people to the park.Now the crowd is down to maybe 10-15 people. Most of the casual players have quit because they got tired of a game that never works eating their battery. They've stopped scheduling time to go into town for Pokemon hunting.
it's sad how a lot of the excitement for the people who really want to be hardcore about this is built on it remaining a huge Thing That Brings Everyone Together Ideally and not just another nerd thing
i don't care to get all sociological about it but i will continue to gawk @ reddit dorks and feel a bit sympathetic about it all
― qualx, Thursday, 21 July 2016 04:05 (seven years ago) link
otm, there's not a lot to keep casual players around once the thrill of "mum mum there's a pidgey in my toilet!!!!" wears off. ingress and geocaching have kept a moderate but loyal core following, and i expect pokemon go will too. as niantic builds new and interesting features into the game, there'll still be theme days/nights, lure parties &c. but they won't attract the hundreds they're pulling now.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 21 July 2016 04:12 (seven years ago) link
imo what's more exciting is the prospect of new geo-based games that get people out for different reasons, that wouldn't get momentum/funding without pokemon go exploding like it has. geocaching can be insane fun if (a) the caches aren't stupid and (b) there are enough nearby. something that sits in between, but without ingress's insanely complicated and bonkers ui, could be where we end up with augmented reality
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 21 July 2016 04:16 (seven years ago) link
one thing niantic absolutely does deserve shit for is not expanding on crowdsourced ingress at all, completely ignoring the massive demographic shift between the two games and making it virtually inaccessible for a massive amount of people
this has been both a great and horrible rollout for them but i'm not gonna blame crappy server issues for casual funsters getting bored of a game with very little depth
― qualx, Thursday, 21 July 2016 04:46 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/hcF0Xur.jpg
― 龜, Thursday, 21 July 2016 11:52 (seven years ago) link
i ran out of space in my bag for items so i stopped playing lol
yeah this is absolutely divisive. from my inner-city flat i can see 54 pokestops and five gyms (so all within 700m). from my sister-in-law's house in the burbs i can see nothing at all. she drove us 15 minutes to her 'local' shopping centre which has one gym and two pokestops. if she were to sign up she'd have to buy supplies, but when i need 100 pokeballs i just walk round the block.
apparently niantic stopped processing portals ~2 years ago, and i'm guessing a lot of late-to-the-game ingress players operated in these empty areas. niantic needs to work on the enormous discrepancy here if they want the game to succeed long term, whether it's processing those portal submissions or importing points of interest from some other database.
of all the issues with pokemon go, this feels like the most vital to resolve because it's cutting swathes of people out of the game and/or forcing them to spend money just to keep up.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 21 July 2016 22:46 (seven years ago) link
https://pokevision.com
^ This is good and pretty essential, lots of people complaining that it's game-breaking but eh, the game's broke already imo, this actually makes it playable again.
Pro tip though - don't check it when you're in bed, nothing more frustrating than seeing a squirtle around the corner when you're already undressed etc.
― JimD, Thursday, 21 July 2016 23:20 (seven years ago) link
^ proof that i live on a doduo nest
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 21 July 2016 23:28 (seven years ago) link
it's super weird that those mapping api calls have been broken for almost a week. 3 paws was always silly but not having 1 or 2 means that whole function is useless. i'd be happier if they just hid the whole feature until they got it working.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 21 July 2016 23:30 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/zyUdsyI.jpg
― based stress reduction (crüt), Thursday, 21 July 2016 23:37 (seven years ago) link
oh shit
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Friday, 22 July 2016 01:23 (seven years ago) link
A wild Kermicycle appeared!
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 22 July 2016 05:13 (seven years ago) link
there's a magikarp spawn point down the road but it's in precisely the most active street corner for sex workers
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 22 July 2016 05:15 (seven years ago) link
as in the only public blowjob i've ever seen was right on magikarp corner
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 22 July 2016 05:16 (seven years ago) link
Tales of Magikarp Corner
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 22 July 2016 08:18 (seven years ago) link
magikarp's evolving into gyarados all over the place
im sorry ilx
― a simba man (Will M.), Friday, 22 July 2016 14:32 (seven years ago) link
Magikarp Corner: where 'em all is only the beginning of the things you can catch
― thos beads (jamescobo), Friday, 22 July 2016 18:04 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/zBKrFIu.jpg
― 龜, Saturday, 23 July 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link
Had another game crash right as a egg was hatching. Done with this game until that big is fixed. Stop making me walk for nothing!
― Jeff, Saturday, 23 July 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/6a48VPy.jpg
― 龜, Saturday, 23 July 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
if it hatched u still get it?
― How Butch, I mean (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 23 July 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link
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