Everyone's outside, and it's because of POKÉMON GO

and the odds of the ball curving away for no reason go up by 38678372526352113

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

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.

hot tip:

Eevee: 'Pokémon Go' Players Discover How to Control Evolution of Character
Reddit 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.

im sure they'll have this patched out before i get enough eevee candies to evolve

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!

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

zubat zubat zubat rattata rattata zubat rattata zubat rattata rattata zubat rattata zubat rattata zubat zubat

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

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.

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

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

http://i.imgur.com/hcF0Xur.jpg

i ran out of space in my bag for items so i stopped playing lol

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

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.

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.

^ proof that i live on a doduo nest

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.

http://i.imgur.com/zyUdsyI.jpg

oh shit

A wild Kermicycle appeared!

there's a magikarp spawn point down the road but it's in precisely the most active street corner for sex workers

as in the only public blowjob i've ever seen was right on magikarp corner

Tales of Magikarp Corner

magikarp's evolving into gyarados all over the place

im sorry ilx

Magikarp Corner: where 'em all is only the beginning of the things you can catch

http://i.imgur.com/zBKrFIu.jpg

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!

http://i.imgur.com/6a48VPy.jpg

if it hatched u still get it?

sort by recent

http://i.imgur.com/y63k7Wy.jpg

No hatchy. It freezes at Oh?

i'd walk ten miles and tell google all about it for a chance to mess around on a pedal steel

http://i.imgur.com/D9J5r1p.jpg

dan called this btw
http://www.sbnation.com/2016/7/24/12265552/iowa-lineman-faith-ekakitie-pokemon-go-police

In fairness, that wasn't a very difficult call

no, but credit where sadly due

http://fortune.com/2016/07/23/pokemon-go-tamir-rice/?xid=soc_socialflow_twitter_FORTUNE

a people's geography via pokestops is unlikely but somebody should look into making an "it happened here" GPS app.

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13680622_10100769010987616_2531515915286928143_n.jpg?oh=339d6f2a17ca3ef6fd69d94dde6c1329&oe=5833CB5D

Turns out that if you're on a boardwalk and you haven't maxed out your pokeballs you aren't trying

tried my first fight yesterday. either my signal cut out or my phone hit a bug. after a minute or two it stopped registering taps and i got to watch my 6 get wiped out. fun!

so there's no way to get pokecoins / get the bag upgrade etc. without paying real money right?

take over a gym, go to the "shop," click the shield, you get stardust and coins.

500 dust + 10 coins for each gym you're holding; i find it tough to hold more thna one at a time, though. By the time you walk to another, someone's knocked down the last one.

You can click it once a day, roughly, meaning it'll only take you almost a month to upgrade your storage!

im addicted to this game. goodbye my phone battery.

i live in new york city there's no way in hell i'm taking over any gym that i can get to xp

Even if you're low level, you can take a gym. Just wait until it's already getting attacked by your team, and jump into it once they take it.

I haven't had any gym success. my highest cp pokemon is a 690 hypno :( only at level 11 though.

my new goal is to try and knock over as many gyms as i can w/ the last hour of my 20-hour timer going and see what happens