Everyone jokes about Team Insight but they seem to have a lot of Vancouver on lockdown. I went out tonight hoping to find an Insight gym to take over only to find that each one was stacked deep with high level Pokemon.
On the other hand I had my first "meeting a bunch of random people at a Lure spot" experience, so the night still turned out pretty well.
Everyone jokes about Team Insight but they seem to have a lot of Vancouver on lockdown. I went out tonight hoping to find an Insight gym to take over only to find that each one was stacked deep with high level Pokemon.
On the other hand I had my first "meeting a bunch of random people at a Lure spot" experience, so the night still turned out pretty well.
It also isn't officially released in Canada yet, so all it means is that Insight are a bunch of cheaters!
Everyone jokes about Team Insight but they seem to have a lot of Vancouver on lockdown. I went out tonight hoping to find an Insight gym to take over only to find that each one was stacked deep with high level Pokemon.
On the other hand I had my first "meeting a bunch of random people at a Lure spot" experience, so the night still turned out pretty well.
We've talked about Vancouver in the Team Insight Discord a fair bit
My friend messaged me that a lure got used in a community about 10 minutes away so I hopped in my car in the pouring rain to go check it out, met him and his sister and brother there
there were...minimum twenty people I would say, chilling out in the rain, catching pokemon. We sat in the gazebo and people came and had conversations and caught mons and trash talked teams that weren't theres and then said peace and went on their way. Pokemon Go isn't even OUT in Canada, and more cars were pulling up as we left (people were still there and I dropped a lure for everyone as a courtesy lure before I left).
Everyone jokes about Team Insight but they seem to have a lot of Vancouver on lockdown. I went out tonight hoping to find an Insight gym to take over only to find that each one was stacked deep with high level Pokemon.
On the other hand I had my first "meeting a bunch of random people at a Lure spot" experience, so the night still turned out pretty well.
It also isn't officially released in Canada yet, so all it means is that Insight are a bunch of cheaters!
The lack of a Canadian release isn't stopping anyone. I've seen a lot of players out already.
Everyone jokes about Team Insight but they seem to have a lot of Vancouver on lockdown. I went out tonight hoping to find an Insight gym to take over only to find that each one was stacked deep with high level Pokemon.
On the other hand I had my first "meeting a bunch of random people at a Lure spot" experience, so the night still turned out pretty well.
We've talked about Vancouver in the Team Insight Discord a fair bit
How do people just know when a lure has been dropped
they were just kind of driving around, you can zoom the map out pretty far and you can see on the map, it's super obvious when a pokestop is lured because there's confetti EVERYWHERE
I live/work too far away from pokestops/gyms to visit them at all.
And I've run out of pokeballs. Am I right to assume that I can't get any more until I spend money?
If so, goodbye Pokemon GO, I hardly knew ye.
if you level up you might get some
unfortunately you kind of need pokeballs and pokestops for that, so
This happened to my brother tonight. So until he has a reason to run into town he can't play Go unless he drops cash on some balls. At least I can hit the one stop near my work if I wanted.
After our pretty shit Pokemon hunt hike this evening he's probably just going to uninstall though. Not gonna go get itchy traipsing through a corn field for a Weedle.
Everyone jokes about Team Insight but they seem to have a lot of Vancouver on lockdown. I went out tonight hoping to find an Insight gym to take over only to find that each one was stacked deep with high level Pokemon.
On the other hand I had my first "meeting a bunch of random people at a Lure spot" experience, so the night still turned out pretty well.
Instinct (Proud member here) controls every single gym in my work and home neighborhoods except for 2, which seem to swap hands daily between us and Mystic. Barely any Valor presence except for one player with a super OP team who rolls into town, takes a few gyms, and is kicked out within the hour.
Everyone jokes about Team Insight but they seem to have a lot of Vancouver on lockdown. I went out tonight hoping to find an Insight gym to take over only to find that each one was stacked deep with high level Pokemon.
On the other hand I had my first "meeting a bunch of random people at a Lure spot" experience, so the night still turned out pretty well.
Instinct (Proud member here) controls every single gym in my work and home neighborhoods except for 2, which seem to swap hands daily between us and Mystic. Barely any Valor presence except for one player with a super OP team who rolls into town, takes a few gyms, and is kicked out within the hour.
INSTINCT OR EXTINCT.
As a Mystic member I commend your team's efforts, even as I look forward to your defeat on the glorious field of battle.
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My experience with this game is oddly different from what I read online. Like, people are happy about finding pokestops and here there's one every 10 to 20 meters. On the other hand I feel I see very few Pokémon themselves. I'm only level 7 so I don't expect to catch rare stuff, but just the plain quantity feels off. I have also never caught something standing still. Someone dropped a lure right next to my home and the only thing that popped up for me was a rat in 10ish minutes.
As an aside, my main complaint about this game, even obey the server issues is that you can't change the language, it always uses what the phone is set to. And German Pokémon names are stupid.
Everyone jokes about Team Insight but they seem to have a lot of Vancouver on lockdown. I went out tonight hoping to find an Insight gym to take over only to find that each one was stacked deep with high level Pokemon.
On the other hand I had my first "meeting a bunch of random people at a Lure spot" experience, so the night still turned out pretty well.
Instinct (Proud member here) controls every single gym in my work and home neighborhoods except for 2, which seem to swap hands daily between us and Mystic. Barely any Valor presence except for one player with a super OP team who rolls into town, takes a few gyms, and is kicked out within the hour.
INSTINCT OR EXTINCT.
As a Mystic member I commend your team's efforts, even as I look forward to your defeat on the glorious field of battle.
lol team mystic
the only way team mystic gets invited to the party is if they're in the wait staff
they just said bi-weekly updates even though that could mean two things and they didn't say which one
what two things could this mean?
Twice a week or every two weeks
I know every two weeks is probably what they meant, but they still didn't say
Also they just put out a statement that the full access thing was a bug, they only take basic info and they'll be reducing the permissions shortly so it can't do anything more
Twice a week would be semi weekly
I looked up the definition, it said it was both
stupid English language
semi-weekly (half-weekly) definitely means twice a week so why does biweekly (two-weekly) even mean that
guess they could've used fortnightly
and it's not like bipartisan means half a party or bisexual means half a gender
My lady startled me out of sleep a little but ago telling me there was something big coming. I resisted the urge to make a dumb joke and asked her what she meant. She told me to check my pokemon app. Sure enough there was a Tauros nearby. She was pretty happy when we both caught it. Less happy after we drove around for 40 minutes trying to find and capture a Pinsir. That was one tricky dick for sure.
I don't know how I feel about this game yet but it sure is something else lol.
Man, the gym stuff is really frustrating if you don't live and/or work in an area that's conducive to putting time into PoGo.
Like, just tonight I decided that, hey, I have a shitload of revives lying around. Let's see if I can grind out the gym that's currently being held by a 1000 CP Vaporeon (I had just caught a 300+ Arbok today, and the rest of my Pokes are in the mid-100's). So I drive across the street from my workplace and find there's a car already sitting there battling the gym. We wave our phones at each other and then get to business grinding the gym down.
I end up having to revive my entire team twice, but we did beat the gym.
But as I'm reviving my team that second time and getting back to the map screen, my heart sinks. The gym is yellow now. I'm team valor. The other car was team instinct the whole time.
They've got a 360+ pokemon in there (ground type, can't remember exactly which), and I give it a shot. But almost my entire team is weak to his basic move, so I get wiped out pretty quick. So I've now burned 18 of my revives and have absolutely nothing to show for it except piddly amounts of XP that I could have gotten by just catching, like, 3 pidgeys or something.
So that's pretty fucking disheartening.
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Man, the gym stuff is really frustrating if you don't live and/or work in an area that's conducive to putting time into PoGo.
Like, just tonight I decided that, hey, I have a shitload of revives lying around. Let's see if I can grind out the gym that's currently being held by a 1000 CP Vaporeon (I had just caught a 300+ Arbok today, and the rest of my Pokes are in the mid-100's). So I drive across the street from my workplace and find there's a car already sitting there battling the gym. We wave our phones at each other and then get to business grinding the gym down.
I end up having to revive my entire team twice, but we did beat the gym.
But as I'm reviving my team that second time and getting back to the map screen, my heart sinks. The gym is yellow now. I'm team valor. The other car was team instinct the whole time.
They've got a 360+ pokemon in there (ground type, can't remember exactly which), and I give it a shot. But almost my entire team is weak to his basic move, so I get wiped out pretty quick. So I've now burned 18 of my revives and have absolutely nothing to show for it except piddly amounts of XP that I could have gotten by just catching, like, 3 pidgeys or something.
Yeah, a little. In situations like this, before you revive everyone, pull up the shop page and hit the shield icon in the upper right. You'll get the gym rewards for that gym at least.
I did this when I was walking around yesterday. Three blues were taking down a red gym and it went neutral as I walked by, so I tossed a low level krabby there and got the rewards, while they fought and cleared my krabby out.
Can we get the chemicals in. 'Cause anything's better than this.
Man, the gym stuff is really frustrating if you don't live and/or work in an area that's conducive to putting time into PoGo.
Like, just tonight I decided that, hey, I have a shitload of revives lying around. Let's see if I can grind out the gym that's currently being held by a 1000 CP Vaporeon (I had just caught a 300+ Arbok today, and the rest of my Pokes are in the mid-100's). So I drive across the street from my workplace and find there's a car already sitting there battling the gym. We wave our phones at each other and then get to business grinding the gym down.
I end up having to revive my entire team twice, but we did beat the gym.
But as I'm reviving my team that second time and getting back to the map screen, my heart sinks. The gym is yellow now. I'm team valor. The other car was team instinct the whole time.
They've got a 360+ pokemon in there (ground type, can't remember exactly which), and I give it a shot. But almost my entire team is weak to his basic move, so I get wiped out pretty quick. So I've now burned 18 of my revives and have absolutely nothing to show for it except piddly amounts of XP that I could have gotten by just catching, like, 3 pidgeys or something.
So that's pretty fucking disheartening.
this sucks but it sounds like you got played by another player that wasn't on your team
which is shitty but I don't blame the game for that
I wonder what it is about this game that makes it so frustrating when you're unable to match another like...player or obstacle in terms of level
Video games always have things that you're unable to do, things that don't scale, to try and get you to work at it more...I think about stuff like MMOs, where you have to work to level someone up, and nobody expects to instantly be able to throw weight with people who have put more time into a particular MMO, because there's just tacit knowledge that it took some amount of effort for them to get there
is it just because the core mechanics of this game feel so simplistic that it feels like everything should be in reach at all times? makes you think
I wonder what it is about this game that makes it so frustrating when you're unable to match another like...player or obstacle in terms of level
Video games always have things that you're unable to do, things that don't scale, to try and get you to work at it more...I think about stuff like MMOs, where you have to work to level someone up, and nobody expects to instantly be able to throw weight with people who have put more time into a particular MMO, because there's just tacit knowledge that it took some amount of effort for them to get there
is it just because the core mechanics of this game feel so simplistic that it feels like everything should be in reach at all times? makes you think
Half of me really hopes PvP street battles become a thing.
The other half of me sees the headlines of people using the game to lure people into armed robbery and I take pause.
And then I decide I still want PvP Street Battles.
There was a steam sig here. It's gone now.
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I would say that the annoying thing about having to work for certain rewards is that the work is something that is completely arbitrary - such as having to drive into town to get more revives/potions simply because nobody ever played Ingress in your neighborhood and thus have no access to pokestops
I would say that the annoying thing about having to work for certain rewards is that the work is something that is completely arbitrary - such as having to drive into town to get more revives/potions simply because nobody ever played Ingress in your neighborhood and thus have no access to pokestops
this part is definitely annoying -- that interview said they were considering reopening the submission process for data points, which I think would be a smart thing to do once the app has global release -- it gives them an effective idea of where they have gaps that need to be filled in, because way more people seem to be playing/care about this compared to Ingress. But I don't fault them for having a limited jumping off point.
That said, I have to drive to hit everything save one pokemon stop, and that pokemon stop is like....a minimum ten minute walk away if I'm moving at a clip. Most of my leveling has just come from catching and evolution, not stops and gyms. Just going for walks (which is a good thing to do!!) and catching mons along the way works
definitely looking forward to it expanding further into suburbs though, the density of interaction points between suburban areas and urban sprawls is staggering
I would say that the annoying thing about having to work for certain rewards is that the work is something that is completely arbitrary - such as having to drive into town to get more revives/potions simply because nobody ever played Ingress in your neighborhood and thus have no access to pokestops
this part is definitely annoying -- that interview said they were considering reopening the submission process for data points, which I think would be a smart thing to do once the app has global release -- it gives them an effective idea of where they have gaps that need to be filled in, because way more people seem to be playing/care about this compared to Ingress. But I don't fault them for having a limited jumping off point.
That said, I have to drive to hit everything save one pokemon stop, and that pokemon stop is like....a minimum ten minute walk away if I'm moving at a clip. Most of my leveling has just come from catching and evolution, not stops and gyms. Just going for walks (which is a good thing to do!!) and catching mons along the way works
definitely looking forward to it expanding further into suburbs though, the density of interaction points between suburban areas and urban sprawls is staggering
Oh, this must be my situation. There probably were a lot of people playing Ingress here. I see roughly equal pokestops and pokemon and while always having hundreds of balls is nice, it's not like I can do anything with them.
So far I found two major types of Pokestops:
1) Art in the public space and since this includes street art and we have cool graffiti everywhere, this is a lot.
2) "Stumbling Stones". This is a project in Berlin, where everywhere someone lived who was murdered in the Holocaust they put a little stone on the sidewalk with their name on it. As a remembrance sort of thing, it's a real good idea imo, because you see them everywhere and it really drives home the pervasiveness of the Nazi crimes. But literally every one of those is a Pokestop, too, so these are also a lot.
The rest of the pokestops and the gyms are mostly related to public transport, but I haven't been to the actual touristy part of the city, so I assume there's some at sights, too.
they just said bi-weekly updates even though that could mean two things and they didn't say which one
what two things could this mean?
Twice a week or every two weeks
I know every two weeks is probably what they meant, but they still didn't say
Also they just put out a statement that the full access thing was a bug, they only take basic info and they'll be reducing the permissions shortly so it can't do anything more
Twice a week would be semi weekly
I looked up the definition, it said it was both
stupid English language
semi-weekly (half-weekly) definitely means twice a week so why does biweekly (two-weekly) even mean that
guess they could've used fortnightly
and it's not like bipartisan means half a party or bisexual means half a gender
but thanks for clarifying either way!
I'm used to seeing bimonthly mean "twice a month" regarding comic book releases, so when I saw people using biweekly for the first time about "every two weeks" I got really confused as those are the same thing
I missed if it was posted earlier, but SwiftOnSecurity (the original reporter of iOS being jagged with it's account permissions) tweeted that this is actually Google horrifically mislabeling a depreciated API and it sounds like it doesn't actually have access to all those things? So that's good news.
I wonder what it is about this game that makes it so frustrating when you're unable to match another like...player or obstacle in terms of level
Video games always have things that you're unable to do, things that don't scale, to try and get you to work at it more...I think about stuff like MMOs, where you have to work to level someone up, and nobody expects to instantly be able to throw weight with people who have put more time into a particular MMO, because there's just tacit knowledge that it took some amount of effort for them to get there
is it just because the core mechanics of this game feel so simplistic that it feels like everything should be in reach at all times? makes you think
Yeah, but in MMOs you're still able to engage in all the core mechanics. It's just that you're engaging with them at a lower level/complexity.
I mean, it's not like WoW or FF14 force you to do 60 levels of killing rabbits and then you can finally do dungeons and raids. There are lower level dungeons you can do to get nice loot, better experience gains and break up the monotony. So no, you can't fight the high-end bosses at level 20, but you can still at least fight some simpler bosses that give you a taste of what the end-game will be like.
In PoGo, if the nearby gyms are taken up by players who are twice your level and who own Pokes with several hundred more CP than yours, you have no other options. You just straight up can't engage with that part of the game unless you spend a lot of time and gas searching all over town for a chance at finding a gym that's closer to your own power.
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On the other hand I had my first "meeting a bunch of random people at a Lure spot" experience, so the night still turned out pretty well.
It also isn't officially released in Canada yet, so all it means is that Insight are a bunch of cheaters!
We've talked about Vancouver in the Team Insight Discord a fair bit
there were...minimum twenty people I would say, chilling out in the rain, catching pokemon. We sat in the gazebo and people came and had conversations and caught mons and trash talked teams that weren't theres and then said peace and went on their way. Pokemon Go isn't even OUT in Canada, and more cars were pulling up as we left (people were still there and I dropped a lure for everyone as a courtesy lure before I left).
this game might be magic, you guys
like honest to goodness magic!!
I live/work too far away from pokestops/gyms to visit them at all.
And I've run out of pokeballs. Am I right to assume that I can't get any more until I spend money?
If so, goodbye Pokemon GO, I hardly knew ye.
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The lack of a Canadian release isn't stopping anyone. I've seen a lot of players out already.
Is the situation here that unusual?
if you level up you might get some
unfortunately you kind of need pokeballs and pokestops for that, so
there are kind of purple floaty petals surrounding the pokestop
they were just kind of driving around, you can zoom the map out pretty far and you can see on the map, it's super obvious when a pokestop is lured because there's confetti EVERYWHERE
This happened to my brother tonight. So until he has a reason to run into town he can't play Go unless he drops cash on some balls. At least I can hit the one stop near my work if I wanted.
After our pretty shit Pokemon hunt hike this evening he's probably just going to uninstall though. Not gonna go get itchy traipsing through a corn field for a Weedle.
Instinct (Proud member here) controls every single gym in my work and home neighborhoods except for 2, which seem to swap hands daily between us and Mystic. Barely any Valor presence except for one player with a super OP team who rolls into town, takes a few gyms, and is kicked out within the hour.
INSTINCT OR EXTINCT.
As a Mystic member I commend your team's efforts, even as I look forward to your defeat on the glorious field of battle.
As an aside, my main complaint about this game, even obey the server issues is that you can't change the language, it always uses what the phone is set to. And German Pokémon names are stupid.
lol team mystic
the only way team mystic gets invited to the party is if they're in the wait staff
Leveling up gets you pokeballs.
stupid English language
semi-weekly (half-weekly) definitely means twice a week so why does biweekly (two-weekly) even mean that
guess they could've used fortnightly
and it's not like bipartisan means half a party or bisexual means half a gender
but thanks for clarifying either way!
She's now sitting on the couch reading articles about the game, and think she's about five seconds from downloading it.
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I don't know how I feel about this game yet but it sure is something else lol.
Like, just tonight I decided that, hey, I have a shitload of revives lying around. Let's see if I can grind out the gym that's currently being held by a 1000 CP Vaporeon (I had just caught a 300+ Arbok today, and the rest of my Pokes are in the mid-100's). So I drive across the street from my workplace and find there's a car already sitting there battling the gym. We wave our phones at each other and then get to business grinding the gym down.
I end up having to revive my entire team twice, but we did beat the gym.
But as I'm reviving my team that second time and getting back to the map screen, my heart sinks. The gym is yellow now. I'm team valor. The other car was team instinct the whole time.
They've got a 360+ pokemon in there (ground type, can't remember exactly which), and I give it a shot. But almost my entire team is weak to his basic move, so I get wiped out pretty quick. So I've now burned 18 of my revives and have absolutely nothing to show for it except piddly amounts of XP that I could have gotten by just catching, like, 3 pidgeys or something.
So that's pretty fucking disheartening.
That's lame
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That is definitely a parody site, right?
I mean, the "Meet Pokewalk" section reeks of "This is a goof."
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What tracker is this?
Also there's but 150 Pokemon in this game. My Dex only goes up to 133.
Yeah, a little. In situations like this, before you revive everyone, pull up the shop page and hit the shield icon in the upper right. You'll get the gym rewards for that gym at least.
I did this when I was walking around yesterday. Three blues were taking down a red gym and it went neutral as I walked by, so I tossed a low level krabby there and got the rewards, while they fought and cleared my krabby out.
this sucks but it sounds like you got played by another player that wasn't on your team
which is shitty but I don't blame the game for that
Video games always have things that you're unable to do, things that don't scale, to try and get you to work at it more...I think about stuff like MMOs, where you have to work to level someone up, and nobody expects to instantly be able to throw weight with people who have put more time into a particular MMO, because there's just tacit knowledge that it took some amount of effort for them to get there
is it just because the core mechanics of this game feel so simplistic that it feels like everything should be in reach at all times? makes you think
Half of me really hopes PvP street battles become a thing.
The other half of me sees the headlines of people using the game to lure people into armed robbery and I take pause.
And then I decide I still want PvP Street Battles.
It's the Samsung S Health default thingie, it's actually quite good! Your dex goes up to the highest number you've got, mine's at 147 for dratini.
this part is definitely annoying -- that interview said they were considering reopening the submission process for data points, which I think would be a smart thing to do once the app has global release -- it gives them an effective idea of where they have gaps that need to be filled in, because way more people seem to be playing/care about this compared to Ingress. But I don't fault them for having a limited jumping off point.
That said, I have to drive to hit everything save one pokemon stop, and that pokemon stop is like....a minimum ten minute walk away if I'm moving at a clip. Most of my leveling has just come from catching and evolution, not stops and gyms. Just going for walks (which is a good thing to do!!) and catching mons along the way works
definitely looking forward to it expanding further into suburbs though, the density of interaction points between suburban areas and urban sprawls is staggering
Oh, this must be my situation. There probably were a lot of people playing Ingress here. I see roughly equal pokestops and pokemon and while always having hundreds of balls is nice, it's not like I can do anything with them.
So far I found two major types of Pokestops:
1) Art in the public space and since this includes street art and we have cool graffiti everywhere, this is a lot.
2) "Stumbling Stones". This is a project in Berlin, where everywhere someone lived who was murdered in the Holocaust they put a little stone on the sidewalk with their name on it. As a remembrance sort of thing, it's a real good idea imo, because you see them everywhere and it really drives home the pervasiveness of the Nazi crimes. But literally every one of those is a Pokestop, too, so these are also a lot.
The rest of the pokestops and the gyms are mostly related to public transport, but I haven't been to the actual touristy part of the city, so I assume there's some at sights, too.
I'm used to seeing bimonthly mean "twice a month" regarding comic book releases, so when I saw people using biweekly for the first time about "every two weeks" I got really confused as those are the same thing
Felt like a boss.
Satans..... hints.....
Yeah, but in MMOs you're still able to engage in all the core mechanics. It's just that you're engaging with them at a lower level/complexity.
I mean, it's not like WoW or FF14 force you to do 60 levels of killing rabbits and then you can finally do dungeons and raids. There are lower level dungeons you can do to get nice loot, better experience gains and break up the monotony. So no, you can't fight the high-end bosses at level 20, but you can still at least fight some simpler bosses that give you a taste of what the end-game will be like.
In PoGo, if the nearby gyms are taken up by players who are twice your level and who own Pokes with several hundred more CP than yours, you have no other options. You just straight up can't engage with that part of the game unless you spend a lot of time and gas searching all over town for a chance at finding a gym that's closer to your own power.