just as a by-the-by with regards to the "Hey those dudes who are really into the game are gonna leave us all in the dust!"
The exp grind gets insane later. IIRC 25-26 takes the same exp as 20-25 did.
It will be difficult for even the most crazy players to severely overlevel everyone.
The game is messing with me this morning. I pulled into work and an Abra popped up in the parking lot and then it transitioned from night to day and it disappeared.
Then, walking into work a ghastly(?) appeared for about 2 seconds and poofed away before I could click on it.
Really I thought most people would pick their team color based on what Gen 1 game boy pokemon game they played back then.
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I totally picked team blue cause it was my first game, and well I like the color blue. Apparently people at work are starting to pick it up and I'm trying to convince everyone to join team blue so we can run around at lunch and crush gyms.
I'm also trying to convince myself to get up and go down to the river in the hopes that maybe I can catch a ton of magikarp.
Really I thought most people would pick their team color based on what Gen 1 game boy pokemon game they played back then.
It's probably that and also people just picking their favorite color which also puts red/blue ahead of yellow. Apparently blue is the most popular color*, and at least for my location it's also the most popular pokemon team. I think if they made the third team green instead of yellow then the numbers would have been more equal.
I thought it had something to do with how you played, so I picked yellow because I was like, oh he's all about hatching and I wanna hatch my own Pokemon.
But now I have yellow pride so it all worked out.
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So. Ive been cataloging the pokemon that spawn near my house.
Turns out one spawns in the exact same location pretty much on the dot every single hour. For me, that's at 5:55pm 6:55pm 7:55pm and so on.
It's either a magikarp or slowpoke (I havent seen anything else.)
I wonder if that's normal or deviant. Like, pokemon spawning near you is all well and good, but every single hour at the exact same time? That cant be intended.
Just looked up the Scout hall where I do my weekly gaming night and it's an Ingress portal, so hopefully it's also a Pokestop and I can get mad spins in.
I'll be kind of narked if it's a gym. Much less to gain from spending hours sat on it.
Got my new phone and it's already paying off--strolled over to the nearest gym this morning and boosted it up strong enough that I could deposit my level 900 Hypno. I've noticed that the gym turns blue in the morning, yellow in the afternoon, and red at night (it's a heavily populated area). :P
I also managed to geolocate my first pokemon (instead of waiting for it to come to me), a pikachu! Walked east to work, saw a pikachu popping up on the radar (3 steps)... continued walking east past work (2 steps, 1 step, 2 steps). Walked back west until it was one step, then crossed the street north and huzzah, triangulation works!
You can't train Pokemon while they're in a gym, at least, which actually probably helps keep one team from permanently sand bagging a gym. Even if they're doing a bunch of crazy leveling, that particular gym will be stuck at that level.
Also, you don't need to wipe the gym to make progress against it. You get xp for trying, and you can lower its prestige, so you have fewer pokemon to fight. It's not perfect, and n it's still not great for low level players, but there are still ways to engage with it.
It's going to encourage local players to team up and meet, which is something I think they really want to push.
I may have missed it, cause the thread is fast. But it would be great for some sort of reward just for fighting at gyms. Still uses potions/ revives, but right now stardust is a limiting resource for powering up, and owning a gym is the only way outside of catching pokes to get more. Also gym ownership gives you freemium coins, so it is frustrating that though I can burn a gym down with crap pokes, if I can't hold it I shouldn't bother.
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still don't know how people are repping pokes this strong!!
I'm level 12 and my strongest poke is a 600 CP goldbat named grandma, and that was only after evolving a nearly maxed out zubat and then feeding more candies
You can't train Pokemon while they're in a gym, at least, which actually probably helps keep one team from permanently sand bagging a gym. Even if they're doing a bunch of crazy leveling, that particular gym will be stuck at that level.
Also, you don't need to wipe the gym to make progress against it. You get xp for trying, and you can lower its prestige, so you have fewer pokemon to fight. It's not perfect, and n it's still not great for low level players, but there are still ways to engage with it.
It's going to encourage local players to team up and meet, which is something I think they really want to push.
still don't know how people are repping pokes this strong!!
I'm level 12 and my strongest poke is a 600 CP goldbat named grandma, and that was only after evolving a nearly maxed out zubat and then feeding more candies
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It also applies to training up the gym--the way I got it up two thousand prestige or so in fifteen minutes was because the lowest pokemon was only 400 CP (the two others were 900+). I beat the haunter, ran (130~ points), beat it, ran, etc. There'll be a strategic advantage to leaving only a mid level poke first.
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If anyone's in Pittsburgh, there's a Go bar crawl Saturday night from 9-2 in the South Side. They're encouraging people to dress in team colors. There's 350 people going and over 2,000 interested, according to the FB event
You know, after reading the last few pages and ruminating on my own experiences .... this game is a piece of crap.
I'm not sure how a team can put out such garbage software and still have it be insanely fun and addictive.
I could go over the list of bugs, but we all know them
what's more interesting to me is the fact that I don't want to stop playing despite the bugs
I really do hate the game itself. I'm only continuing to endure it because of the social environment that's congealed around it. But it upsets me that its success will insulate the responsible parties from any consequences for such incredibly shoddy work.
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It also applies to training up the gym--the way I got it up two thousand prestige or so in fifteen minutes was because the lowest pokemon was only 400 CP (the two others were 900+). I beat the haunter, ran (130~ points), beat it, ran, etc. There'll be a strategic advantage to leaving only a mid level poke first.
yeah, that's what I was learning yesterday. if there's only one poke there and it's high level, it makes it difficult for your team to help out that gym
It also applies to training up the gym--the way I got it up two thousand prestige or so in fifteen minutes was because the lowest pokemon was only 400 CP (the two others were 900+). I beat the haunter, ran (130~ points), beat it, ran, etc. There'll be a strategic advantage to leaving only a mid level poke first.
yeah, that's what I was learning yesterday. if there's only one poke there and it's high level, it makes it difficult for your team to help out that gym
But unless you coordinate, leaving a weaker poke could backfire
still don't know how people are repping pokes this strong!!
I'm level 12 and my strongest poke is a 600 CP goldbat named grandma, and that was only after evolving a nearly maxed out zubat and then feeding more candies
The species makes a biiiig difference to the power. Like you I've not managed to find anything crazy good so I'm currently the bird master and my top three guys are all Pidgeots.
Looks like if you find one strong single evolution guy like Scyther, or evolve one Eevee, then you rocket up the power levels.
You know, after reading the last few pages and ruminating on my own experiences .... this game is a piece of crap.
I'm not sure how a team can put out such garbage software and still have it be insanely fun and addictive.
I could go over the list of bugs, but we all know them
what's more interesting to me is the fact that I don't want to stop playing despite the bugs
I really do hate the game itself. I'm only continuing to endure it because of the social environment that's congealed around it. But it upsets me that its success will insulate the responsible parties from any consequences for such incredibly shoddy work.
It's still a very early version of the game, and a lot of the"shoddiness" had a lot to do with the game being way more popular than could be reasonably expected. I'm willing to give them a moment to build on what's there before complaining that they're being insulated from failure because so many people are playing it
You know, after reading the last few pages and ruminating on my own experiences .... this game is a piece of crap.
I'm not sure how a team can put out such garbage software and still have it be insanely fun and addictive.
I could go over the list of bugs, but we all know them
what's more interesting to me is the fact that I don't want to stop playing despite the bugs
I really do hate the game itself. I'm only continuing to endure it because of the social environment that's congealed around it. But it upsets me that its success will insulate the responsible parties from any consequences for such incredibly shoddy work.
It's still a very early version of the game, and a lot of the"shoddiness" had a lot to do with the game being way more popular than could be reasonably expected. I'm willing to give them a moment to build on what's there before complaining that they're being insulated from failure because so many people are playing it
I mean .... sort of? I've never played pokemon before now, and even I know that the minute one comes out, it's a guaranteed best seller
It kind of sounds like they took the same framework from a less popular game and made pokemon on top of it.
You know, after reading the last few pages and ruminating on my own experiences .... this game is a piece of crap.
I'm not sure how a team can put out such garbage software and still have it be insanely fun and addictive.
I could go over the list of bugs, but we all know them
what's more interesting to me is the fact that I don't want to stop playing despite the bugs
I really do hate the game itself. I'm only continuing to endure it because of the social environment that's congealed around it. But it upsets me that its success will insulate the responsible parties from any consequences for such incredibly shoddy work.
It's still a very early version of the game, and a lot of the"shoddiness" had a lot to do with the game being way more popular than could be reasonably expected. I'm willing to give them a moment to build on what's there before complaining that they're being insulated from failure because so many people are playing it
I mean .... sort of? I've never played pokemon before now, and even I know that the minute one comes out, it's a guaranteed best seller
It kind of sounds like they took the same framework from a less popular game and made pokemon on top of it.
The framework that they took from, Ingress, is also a much more detailed, robust game than Pokemon Go currently is.
It's kind of amazing to me that everyone slept on Ingress but is going nuts over this game, but that is the power of branding, I guess.
You know, after reading the last few pages and ruminating on my own experiences .... this game is a piece of crap.
I'm not sure how a team can put out such garbage software and still have it be insanely fun and addictive.
I could go over the list of bugs, but we all know them
what's more interesting to me is the fact that I don't want to stop playing despite the bugs
I really do hate the game itself. I'm only continuing to endure it because of the social environment that's congealed around it. But it upsets me that its success will insulate the responsible parties from any consequences for such incredibly shoddy work.
It's still a very early version of the game, and a lot of the"shoddiness" had a lot to do with the game being way more popular than could be reasonably expected. I'm willing to give them a moment to build on what's there before complaining that they're being insulated from failure because so many people are playing it
I mean .... sort of? I've never played pokemon before now, and even I know that the minute one comes out, it's a guaranteed best seller
It kind of sounds like they took the same framework from a less popular game and made pokemon on top of it.
Nobody could have reasonably predicted how huge this has been. There's not really a precedent for it, at least in terms of mobile games. And it's not like release window server issues are a problem that's been conclusively solved. Every WoW expansion melts their servers down, and they're on like, the sixth one.
You know, after reading the last few pages and ruminating on my own experiences .... this game is a piece of crap.
I'm not sure how a team can put out such garbage software and still have it be insanely fun and addictive.
I could go over the list of bugs, but we all know them
what's more interesting to me is the fact that I don't want to stop playing despite the bugs
I really do hate the game itself. I'm only continuing to endure it because of the social environment that's congealed around it. But it upsets me that its success will insulate the responsible parties from any consequences for such incredibly shoddy work.
It's still a very early version of the game, and a lot of the"shoddiness" had a lot to do with the game being way more popular than could be reasonably expected. I'm willing to give them a moment to build on what's there before complaining that they're being insulated from failure because so many people are playing it
I mean .... sort of? I've never played pokemon before now, and even I know that the minute one comes out, it's a guaranteed best seller
It kind of sounds like they took the same framework from a less popular game and made pokemon on top of it.
Nobody could have reasonably predicted how huge this has been. There's not really a precedent for it, at least in terms of mobile games. And it's not like release window server issues are a problem that's been conclusively solved. Every WoW expansion melts their servers down, and they're on like, the sixth one.
The server problems are frankly only a slice of the issues with this game. I was up at 4:30 this morning, the little "having trouble connecting" wheel was nowhere to be seen, and the game hardlocked and required me to reboot my phone four times in the walk from my apartment to my bus stop.
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You know, after reading the last few pages and ruminating on my own experiences .... this game is a piece of crap.
I'm not sure how a team can put out such garbage software and still have it be insanely fun and addictive.
I could go over the list of bugs, but we all know them
what's more interesting to me is the fact that I don't want to stop playing despite the bugs
I really do hate the game itself. I'm only continuing to endure it because of the social environment that's congealed around it. But it upsets me that its success will insulate the responsible parties from any consequences for such incredibly shoddy work.
It's still a very early version of the game, and a lot of the"shoddiness" had a lot to do with the game being way more popular than could be reasonably expected. I'm willing to give them a moment to build on what's there before complaining that they're being insulated from failure because so many people are playing it
I mean .... sort of? I've never played pokemon before now, and even I know that the minute one comes out, it's a guaranteed best seller
It kind of sounds like they took the same framework from a less popular game and made pokemon on top of it.
Nobody could have reasonably predicted how huge this has been. There's not really a precedent for it, at least in terms of mobile games. And it's not like release window server issues are a problem that's been conclusively solved. Every WoW expansion melts their servers down, and they're on like, the sixth one.
Yeah, I mean, it's nuts.
I started a week long camping trip with the game not being out, I come back down from the mountains and get cell signal back and its like, more downloads than tinder and my friends are organizing a trip to a bar for pokemon today or something?
I don't even know, I haven't even downloaded the app.
But it definitely feels like I went on a trip, came back and the world went mad.
You know, after reading the last few pages and ruminating on my own experiences .... this game is a piece of crap.
I'm not sure how a team can put out such garbage software and still have it be insanely fun and addictive.
I could go over the list of bugs, but we all know them
what's more interesting to me is the fact that I don't want to stop playing despite the bugs
I really do hate the game itself. I'm only continuing to endure it because of the social environment that's congealed around it. But it upsets me that its success will insulate the responsible parties from any consequences for such incredibly shoddy work.
It's still a very early version of the game, and a lot of the"shoddiness" had a lot to do with the game being way more popular than could be reasonably expected. I'm willing to give them a moment to build on what's there before complaining that they're being insulated from failure because so many people are playing it
I mean .... sort of? I've never played pokemon before now, and even I know that the minute one comes out, it's a guaranteed best seller
It kind of sounds like they took the same framework from a less popular game and made pokemon on top of it.
This is already way, way, way bigger than any pokemon game before
You know, after reading the last few pages and ruminating on my own experiences .... this game is a piece of crap.
I'm not sure how a team can put out such garbage software and still have it be insanely fun and addictive.
I could go over the list of bugs, but we all know them
what's more interesting to me is the fact that I don't want to stop playing despite the bugs
I really do hate the game itself. I'm only continuing to endure it because of the social environment that's congealed around it. But it upsets me that its success will insulate the responsible parties from any consequences for such incredibly shoddy work.
It's still a very early version of the game, and a lot of the"shoddiness" had a lot to do with the game being way more popular than could be reasonably expected. I'm willing to give them a moment to build on what's there before complaining that they're being insulated from failure because so many people are playing it
I mean .... sort of? I've never played pokemon before now, and even I know that the minute one comes out, it's a guaranteed best seller
It kind of sounds like they took the same framework from a less popular game and made pokemon on top of it.
The framework that they took from, Ingress, is also a much more detailed, robust game than Pokemon Go currently is.
It's kind of amazing to me that everyone slept on Ingress but is going nuts over this game, but that is the power of branding, I guess.
Ingress is all combat all the time. This has that aspect but as a sideshow to the main dealio of roaming around and collecting, giving it a much wider appeal. Plus branding as you say.
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I hatched a 45cp diglett whose semicircle is almost halfway full
damn diglett. you are like sub-bug level strength, my dude
But those people who have the gyms are levelling up, too, and they're doing it faster than me
And since the level cap is high enough to still be a mystery, I'm basically stuck on a never-ending treadmill
And I get that the point of the game is walking around, but it's not like I can boot up google maps, search for gyms in my area, and head out.
There are 2 steps of randomness involved. The first is driving aimlessly around town and hoping to stumble upon a gym within my radar range. And the second is the gym owner being near my level. I just do not have the time and gas to waste hoping I'll get lucky, so I'm basically forced to ignore one of the game's three core mechanics.
At least with pokestops and pokemon, if I find them can use them, so wandering to do those never feels like a wasted effort.
There's a max CP value for each Pokemon, so it isn't quite an endless treadmill. However, I understand why you might feel that.
There are several downsides to the game, and as I posted earlier I think that the control aspect of gyms is one of the weakest aspects. It seems more like a holdover from Ingress than a Pokemon game.
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But those people who have the gyms are levelling up, too, and they're doing it faster than me
And since the level cap is high enough to still be a mystery, I'm basically stuck on a never-ending treadmill
And I get that the point of the game is walking around, but it's not like I can boot up google maps, search for gyms in my area, and head out.
There are 2 steps of randomness involved. The first is driving aimlessly around town and hoping to stumble upon a gym within my radar range. And the second is the gym owner being near my level. I just do not have the time and gas to waste hoping I'll get lucky, so I'm basically forced to ignore one of the game's three core mechanics.
At least with pokestops and pokemon, if I find them can use them, so wandering to do those never feels like a wasted effort.
There's a max CP value for each Pokemon, so it isn't quite an endless treadmill. However, I understand why you might feel that.
There are several downsides to the game, and as I posted earlier I think that the control aspect of gyms is one of the weakest aspects. It seems more like a holdover from Ingress than a Pokemon game.
the max CP value of a pokemon increases with trainer level, though
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The exp grind gets insane later. IIRC 25-26 takes the same exp as 20-25 did.
It will be difficult for even the most crazy players to severely overlevel everyone.
Then, walking into work a ghastly(?) appeared for about 2 seconds and poofed away before I could click on it.
I'm also trying to convince myself to get up and go down to the river in the hopes that maybe I can catch a ton of magikarp.
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It's probably that and also people just picking their favorite color which also puts red/blue ahead of yellow. Apparently blue is the most popular color*, and at least for my location it's also the most popular pokemon team. I think if they made the third team green instead of yellow then the numbers would have been more equal.
*probably some bullshit statistics
But now I have yellow pride so it all worked out.
I think Pokemon Yellow being a game in the west and Zapdos being the best legendary bird is doing more favors for its color than green would
Turns out one spawns in the exact same location pretty much on the dot every single hour. For me, that's at 5:55pm 6:55pm 7:55pm and so on.
It's either a magikarp or slowpoke (I havent seen anything else.)
I wonder if that's normal or deviant. Like, pokemon spawning near you is all well and good, but every single hour at the exact same time? That cant be intended.
I'm not sure how a team can put out such garbage software and still have it be insanely fun and addictive.
I could go over the list of bugs, but we all know them
what's more interesting to me is the fact that I don't want to stop playing despite the bugs
I'll be kind of narked if it's a gym. Much less to gain from spending hours sat on it.
I also managed to geolocate my first pokemon (instead of waiting for it to come to me), a pikachu! Walked east to work, saw a pikachu popping up on the radar (3 steps)... continued walking east past work (2 steps, 1 step, 2 steps). Walked back west until it was one step, then crossed the street north and huzzah, triangulation works!
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Also, you don't need to wipe the gym to make progress against it. You get xp for trying, and you can lower its prestige, so you have fewer pokemon to fight. It's not perfect, and n it's still not great for low level players, but there are still ways to engage with it.
It's going to encourage local players to team up and meet, which is something I think they really want to push.
I'm level 12 and my strongest poke is a 600 CP goldbat named grandma, and that was only after evolving a nearly maxed out zubat and then feeding more candies
I've met over a dozen people in 24 hours
It really is incredible
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I might check it out just to meet people
I really do hate the game itself. I'm only continuing to endure it because of the social environment that's congealed around it. But it upsets me that its success will insulate the responsible parties from any consequences for such incredibly shoddy work.
yeah, that's what I was learning yesterday. if there's only one poke there and it's high level, it makes it difficult for your team to help out that gym
But unless you coordinate, leaving a weaker poke could backfire
The species makes a biiiig difference to the power. Like you I've not managed to find anything crazy good so I'm currently the bird master and my top three guys are all Pidgeots.
Looks like if you find one strong single evolution guy like Scyther, or evolve one Eevee, then you rocket up the power levels.
It's still a very early version of the game, and a lot of the"shoddiness" had a lot to do with the game being way more popular than could be reasonably expected. I'm willing to give them a moment to build on what's there before complaining that they're being insulated from failure because so many people are playing it
And I need my goodies.
I did hatch a Cubone though!
I mean .... sort of? I've never played pokemon before now, and even I know that the minute one comes out, it's a guaranteed best seller
It kind of sounds like they took the same framework from a less popular game and made pokemon on top of it.
The framework that they took from, Ingress, is also a much more detailed, robust game than Pokemon Go currently is.
It's kind of amazing to me that everyone slept on Ingress but is going nuts over this game, but that is the power of branding, I guess.
Nobody could have reasonably predicted how huge this has been. There's not really a precedent for it, at least in terms of mobile games. And it's not like release window server issues are a problem that's been conclusively solved. Every WoW expansion melts their servers down, and they're on like, the sixth one.
The server problems are frankly only a slice of the issues with this game. I was up at 4:30 this morning, the little "having trouble connecting" wheel was nowhere to be seen, and the game hardlocked and required me to reboot my phone four times in the walk from my apartment to my bus stop.
Yeah, I mean, it's nuts.
I started a week long camping trip with the game not being out, I come back down from the mountains and get cell signal back and its like, more downloads than tinder and my friends are organizing a trip to a bar for pokemon today or something?
I don't even know, I haven't even downloaded the app.
But it definitely feels like I went on a trip, came back and the world went mad.
check your journal!
This is already way, way, way bigger than any pokemon game before
Ingress is all combat all the time. This has that aspect but as a sideshow to the main dealio of roaming around and collecting, giving it a much wider appeal. Plus branding as you say.
damn diglett. you are like sub-bug level strength, my dude
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There's a max CP value for each Pokemon, so it isn't quite an endless treadmill. However, I understand why you might feel that.
There are several downsides to the game, and as I posted earlier I think that the control aspect of gyms is one of the weakest aspects. It seems more like a holdover from Ingress than a Pokemon game.
the max CP value of a pokemon increases with trainer level, though