Pokemon Go

[Wood]

Originally Posted by northcrunk

So Jynx is a pain in the butt. She circles around you and moves quickly.

I think if you turn AR off the pokemon stay centred

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by troutman

My son tried to hatch an egg by putting it on a turntable.

It did not work. Clever, lazy kid.

There was a youtube video showing that trick.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Iggy City

Battery saver mode makes my screen unresponsive when it turns back on. Tried on iPhone 5s and Nexus 6p and same result on both

Mine is doing this as. Have you checked if it stills gives you egg walking credit.

Also I think waiting to boost your Pokémon until you get to a higher level makes sense. It appears that stardust will be the limiting factor so catching high CP pokemon is likely cheaper than building them yourself.

And it looks like each level you go up the max CP of pokemon you find goes up too.

[DoubleF]

I've been looking for a model train to strap my phone to for a few hours as a "walking hack". Those things are fracking expensive. Even lego or K'Nex doesn't seem to have any reasonably priced options.

A few observations after asking people and monitoring my own play...


Data usage wise, 15MB-20MB an hour average has been reported online. This sounds about right as I'm using 30MB ish an hour tethering a friend while playing myself. Not crazy data usage IMO. Reasonable. You can also download offline maps on Google maps to reduce this usage, but the difference must be so negligible, I don't even notice it as I have 3GB per month anyways.

Turning off AR during pokebattles halves the drain on the battery. Silent vs sound of course helps as well. Turning off other background apps help, so does turning off bluetooth, though the latter two are negligible.

My personal average drain on a iphone 6 was about 25-30% an hour which included tethering. A buddy on a 5S was losing around 20-25% an hour. Bring a battery pack.

Someone reported placing their phone and battery pack in a ziploc bag helped immensely when it is raining. Unsure of the accuracy of such a claim, though I did see several people with ziploc bagged phones.

The ring around the pokemon (area you can hit) has two bits of info. Small ring = harder to hit, but supposedly higher rate of capture and vice versa for a bigger ring. The color of the ring means difficulty to capture. Green = easy, yellow = medium, orange, hard, red = harder.

Razzberries aid capturing a pokemon. Razzberries however will cause pokeballs thrown after the razzberry to curve when thrown. Learning how to spin throw a pokeball may lessen the difficulties with curving balls and you get an EXP bonus for every pokemon caught.

EDIT: There are conflicting reports whether individuals are accidentally activating curve ball mode (holding down too long/swirling ball) or if it's an actual part of the game, or a glitch causing many random balls to curve regardless of Razzberry. I activate curve ball regularly now due to my annoyance of being unable to control straight flicks on occasion. Once you get the hang of it, it's pretty easy.

http://www.techinsider.io/pokemon-go...-tricks-2016-7

There is a lucky egg EXP strategy. Save up stardust and candies and wait for the right time to maximize the EXP bonus.

http://heavy.com/games/2016/07/pokem...s-lure-module/

[doctajones428]

Originally Posted by DoubleF

I've been looking for a model train to strap my phone to for a few hours as a "walking hack". Those things are fracking expensive. Even lego or K'Nex doesn't seem to have any reasonably priced options.

Ceiling fan?

[Komskies]

Originally Posted by doctajones428

Ceiling fan?

Strap it to a pet?

[burn_this_city]

Prince's Island Park was a zoo at lunch, easily a few hundred people wandering around the grass and bridges playing.

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by doctajones428

Ceiling fan?

Don't have one, seems like a great way to spend the train money on a new screen instead.

Originally Posted by Komskies

Strap it to a pet?

Don't have one. Many pets are lazy

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

Prince's Island Park was a zoo at lunch, easily a few hundred people wandering around the grass and bridges playing.

Dragonite sighting there last night might have to do with it. Heard this info from a friend, unsure of accuracy.

[Top Shelf]

Yeah it was crazy there

[northcrunk]

Good lunch for finding rare pokemon. Got a squirtle, slowpoke and hypno

[Hockeyguy15]

How do you know if they are rare?

[burn_this_city]

I caught Jynx, Staryu, Goldee, and others down there in about 20 mins.

[Wood]

Originally Posted by northcrunk

Good lunch for finding rare pokemon. Got a squirtle, slowpoke and hypno

Come by my house and catch a billion drowzees haha. Last night I had 18 hypnos in storage, some caught but most evolved. I transferred all but 5 and kept the rest for potential gym battles

I'm not even that far along, I'm level 14 I think

[northcrunk]

Co-workers found out you can access the pokestop near my desk. Now have multiple people stopping and looking at their phones when they get near here.

[Flaming Choy]

I know it's a Lambert article, but some Gaudreau quotes about playing Pokemon Go.

https://sports.yahoo.com/news/puck-l...183008561.html

[polak]

This app itself is garbage. Unresponsive after my phone turns the screen off (which is often) and now it won't open at all.

Anyways, went tried to play for a bit. I can see the appeal once you start battling and stuff although I'm sure by the time I'm good enough at it to do that then the fad will be over.

I caught a Squirtle (starter), Weedle, Kakuna, Pidgey, Rattata, Raticate, Zubat and Bellsprout so nothing rare but I saw what I thought was a Jigglypuff, Smog and something I couldn't identify at all in my "Nearby" but I couldn't find them at all. How do you find them? I'm assuming those footprints are supposed to show up? They didn't for me no matter how far or close I was zoomed in. Is that right or another App issue?

Anyways seems silly that they don't have some sort of tutorial in the game. Is there some article where it's all consolidated so you can read about it and actually understand how to play?

[DoubleF]

Originally Posted by Hockeyguy15

How do you know if they are rare?

You don't have it, rarely see it due to your regular geographic location or it's a second or third evolution. Super rare? Follow the crowds. There are online "lists" too.

Originally Posted by polak

Anyways seems silly that they don't have some sort of tutorial in the game. Is there some article where it's all consolidated so you can read about it and actually understand how to play?

I assumed that was the social aspect. People in groups tell each other tips all the time.

Putting "Pokemon go tips/strategies" should work too.

[Wood]

The pokemon games have never had much of a tutorial, especially when it comes to all the background stuff. No one knew IVs and EVs were a thing for a long time

The app will hopefully be more responsive once they get caught up to the demand. They've really struggled with the hype

Getting the 3 step tracking working again should be really high on their list, tracking pokemon around you is impossible without it

[OutOfTheCube]

Basically, every day I am unable to even log in to a server until 8-9PM, when people/kids are all in bed out East and the servers have relaxed a bit. Have wanted to try it on a walk during lunch ever since I got it, but no dice. Kind of killing the fun of it for me -- I'm not going to bother to drive somewhere and look for cool stops or Pokemon when I can't even get online. Will be much better when the fad dies down a bit, the fairweather people move on, and you can actually get on.

[Kybosh]

I just downloaded this. Seems like I'm able to hit 2-4 pokestops without leaving my desk downtown. Everything was going great until the server crashed just now .