>What is it? Pokemon Go can be described simply as the Geocaching of Pokemon. Grab your smartphone, get some exercise, catch some mons, battle some people - the usual Pokemon gig.
Basic info: As you traverse the real world, as represented on the in-game map, you'll occasionally run into tufts of rustling grass. Approaching these will end with a Pokémon appearing on the map, and clicking on it will initiate a battle.
Battles aren't between two Pokémon, though. They're between a Pokémon and your ability to swipe a Poké Ball in their direction. When you engage a Poké Ball, a colored ring will appear around the opponent. These change in size after each capture attempt. Throwing a Ball during a smaller window seems to be more effective, based on our time with the game, but that's a part we're still trying to figure out. Going near water will attract water Pokémon. Playing at night brings out more nocturnal creatures, like Clefairy and Gastly. Hatching Eggs: Each Egg displays the number of kilometers you must walk for the Egg to hatch. In general, the more kilometers required, the rarer the Pokémon that will hatch. A notification will appear when the Egg has hatched. Make sure you have the Pokémon GO app open while you walk. Kilometers walked when the Pokémon GO app is closed won’t count toward hatching your Eggs.
>Go outside on my motorcycle >The only thing I got is a fucking pidgey
Someone tell me when the servers are up again
Elijah Sullivan
>server shitting itself all day >having issues logging in >leave work cursing the thing >decide to try it as I get closer to home >see a bulbasaur pop up on the "nearby" list >catch it ez
Victory!
Aiden Gray
Does Not Work
John Richardson
You don't. Gym battles is literally just a numbers game, and how fast you can tap your screen to attack, then charge for special. It was designed to be simple.
Luke Anderson
walking to work apparently has its benefits >caught 21 pokemon >hatched 1 egg >dropped off a mon at a gym close to my place
Michael Thompson
>leave the house for the first time in a month for this game >over 90 degrees out because it's fucking Atlanta >46% humidity >walk up and down my hilly-ass fucking neighborhood >get down to the local park >hella readings and shit >aw yeah boutta catch an Eevee and a Pidgeotto >servers go down >getting stared at by the two or three other fully grown adult losers who came to the park to catch fake animals with their phones
FUCK YOU NIANTIC FUCK YOU NINTENDO I COULD'VE FUCKING DIED OUT THERE
Benjamin Lee
Reboot? Clear Cache? Force Close+ Clear Data?
Brandon Thompson
>Walking
Sucks not having a car.
Jace Martinez
Can I just drive around instead? I don't want to walk around in my spic and nigger infested neighborhood.
Jack Young
How advantageous is it to have a car for this game? Thinking of buying one.
Gabriel Powell
So just spam tap the other pokemon? Charge by long holding?should I try dodging too?
Cooper Evans
Is this good or no? Hatched from 10km egg
Samuel Smith
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Kayden Hall
So the game has frozen every time I've tried to feed a pokemon to make it stronger. Is it a game problem or server? Better servers when? most likely never
Kayden Gutierrez
Randomly Clears Itself
Andrew Watson
it's a mile and a half
8 minute drive vs 25 minute walk
Jeremiah Hill
No. As long as your CP is higher it's better to just spam attack and end it. Otherwise grind CP.
Levi Nguyen
>have an entire board >still feel the need to spread their autismo here
Just go back to /vp/ and stay in you containment camp.
Daniel Garcia
You are going to crash into something. I check it at stop lights in my car and that's it for car usage. Game will freak the fuck out if you try to catch a pokemon and move outside it's detection range
Jacob Rivera
10km eggs hatch this sorta shit? Daaaaym. Sittin on a 10km egg myself.
Landon Bennett
Stay mad kiddo.
Samuel Diaz
What are your best tips to git gut at pogo? So far:
evolve > train, energy bank, know footsteps, red team, gym up, camp pokestops, breed eggs
What am I missing?
Adam Gutierrez
Wew, I dunno what to say. What Device and OS are you running?
Camden Price
Trying to catch a pokeon >Lost GPS signal >Game freezes >Can't get back in after quitting
Trying to play the game >Servers fucked, fuck off for a while
Actually go out and walk around and go innawoods >Encounter nothing
Sit down in my apartment >Encounter nidoran, meowth, clefary, a bunch of bugs,birds and rats
This game needs work
Dylan Russell
>game tells me all the good Pokemon are outside my house >as soon as I get to them I lose all signal and disconnect
FUCK How the hell do you people get all these Pokemon in your goddamn house
James Rogers
So do medals even do anything?
Andrew Roberts
Collect 151 and you get to catch mew
Carter Stewart
>tfw fags who never go outside get triggered by this game
Aaron Cook
I rode my bike 18 fucking miles today. All I caught was a fucking pidgey. Then I went to the park with some friends. I caught a ratata, then my phone died. This is the most fun I've had in a while.
Connor Green
Ingress servers are down too.
Adam James
Does anyone know how this works if you happen to go at sea? Once i know servers are stable I'd consider bringing this with me when I go kayaking
Jaxson Ramirez
>tips there isn't even a google doc yet, people don't know much yet it seems
Jayden Hall
Can I just drive and catch pokes? Fuck walking.
Jack Turner
Incense, probably
Aaron Campbell
In terms of distance travelled, yes.if you still get reception. For wild pokemon unknown.
Noah Bell
I doubt they'll have pokemon out there.
William Harris
And what? Pull over the side of the road every couple minutes? God damn you cunts are going to be annoying as shit on the weekend
Jose Wright
>implying I haven't spent $10 on incense
Jason Anderson
>tfw small town goldmine with landmarks on every corner
10 gyms all uncontested, now if only the servers worked long enough for me to grind longer
Austin Scott
you can click a pokemon and keep driving while you are in the capture mode
Cooper Nelson
Samsung S6. Whatever the latest OS is.
Brayden Foster
Can I just sit on this "Please come back later" screen or do I need to log out and log back in to check if they're up?
Ryder Anderson
I just tapped the phone screen and shit just started popping up
I live right off a high way so I imagine it has something to do with population that passes past the area
On that note FUCK SPRINT. I've never had a good connection but every 10 fucking seconds, "lost gps signal"
Owen Stewart
>literally a gigantic replica of the white house and congress building 30 seconds from my house >it's not a pokestop >the fucking elementary school way down the opposite end of the street is
Zachary Clark
Reboot into recovery and wipe cache partition. That's all i can suggest.
John Jones
When I start the app it asks if I should give it permission to take pictures and record video. Do I have to say yes?
Isaiah Harris
>you can click a pokemon and keep driving while you are in the capture mode
Stay off the road.
Anthony Long
Similar setup here but it is only 5 gyms all in the downtown area I live at with one gym being at my place of work specifically.
Jonathan Cook
Appreciate The Assistance
Sebastian Bailey
Forget shitting the bed, these servers are shitting up the house.
Adrian Ortiz
Wouldn't this have to be on /vp/?
I don't care personally just wondering
Ethan Garcia
I was on the bus and tram, that's how I got zubat, ekans, and manky.
Mason Howard
Sprint shouldn't have anything to do with GPS. They don't maintain that system and the signal goes straight to your phone.
Your hardware might be of poor quality or you might be walking between some very tall buildings.
Lucas Murphy
This shit is going to cause so much car crashes.
Fuck it. I text and drive all the time anyways. I have nothing to live for so I'll be using it on the road.
Nathan Evans
There's a statue of a naked pirate woman outside a tacky corner store opposite my place. It's a fucking pokespot. What is the world coming too.
Kayden Jones
I Have a rooted, custom Rom S5 and it works fine for me so I'm just trying to get people more mons.
Xavier Cruz
They leech off of the AT&T network but don't have full privileges to it
Nathaniel Johnson
Blame Ingress.
Jason Rogers
Being a passenger is one thing, driving is another.
Jeremiah Lopez
There's nothing wrong with such a statue.
It doesn't use a signal. Your phone figures out your location based on the GPS satellites. Everyone in the world uses the same couple of satellites so it's not them that is fucking up. This thing was designed for the military, it doesn't use a data uplink.
Again, either you're standing somewhere with interference or your GPS receiver is broken.
Ayden Turner
I'm not going to get into this, but Veeky Forums does not quarantine topics besides MLP. /jp/ has a mobile game general for example.
Carson Powell
Just you fucking wait When classes start back up I'll be in downtown Atlanta all day every day Then you'll fucking see who has the most Pokemon You'll all fucking see
Jaxon Martin
VP is too much porn.
Henry Smith
servers dead or my phone dead?
but user you have to not kill yourself first
Dylan Roberts
I downloaded this game this morning and everytime i check the servers are down. They were up once for like five minutes so i could make my character then boom right back down.
How long until the servers get better?
Jonathan Bennett
Is there a reason you don't want it to have access?
I don't think you need it; the camera is used by the game to integrate the Pokemon into the environment around you, but there is a mode where you can disable this (which is sometimes recommended in low lighting/crowded areas). The camera also gets turned on for taking regular photos, with the Pokemon you are battling overlaid on them, which you can then save onto the phone.
Oliver Lewis
Eh, it's not an awesome statue. She's got her nips out, but no bush. I mean if you're gonna have a naked pirate woman statue, might as well go all the way
Hudson Barnes
Yeah, I'm just saying he's not wrong that you can catch mons that way. If he's got a phone mount he could use it as GPS, pull over when a mon pops up. trying to catch it (throwing balls at it) while driving is a bitch nigger move tho
William Gray
Have you ever ventured into /vp/? It's where I first looked for this, shit's mostly porn
Parker Walker
I asked last night but I'll ask again
Does anyone know if there are any statistical differences between duplicate pokemon?
If I capture 10 zubat that all start at different CP, if I level them all up, will they all end up at the same CP?
Liam Sanchez
I'll last. But I'll die once the game makes me walk into one of the many public parks full to the brim with homeless black guys. And down to the hospital surrounded by homeless people.
Either that or commit suicide once everyone at my university realizes some faggot is walking around catching Pokemon while skipping class.
Ethan Morgan
Still cant connect from NZ. Haven't been able to since I woke up 3.5 hrs ago.
Connor Martin
>Either that or commit suicide once everyone at my university realizes some faggot is walking around catching Pokemon while skipping class. Sounds like a plan, man. I'd join you but I'll be doing the same thing at my own uni in Jew York.
Brandon Reyes
they'll all be different. Weight/size makes a difference. so you want to level them all to max to see which one is the best to evolve
John Flores
Nigger we just got this shit, I doubt the beta players have up-to-date tables on this shit
Joseph Taylor
>Buy some incense >Drive down to the lake and burn it >Immediately spot a Tentacruel >AW SHIT YEAH YOU'RE MINE >Thow my pokeball out onto the water >Land hit on third try >Blink... BLINK... >... >...? >Game just sits there for two minutes >Eat the sandwich I packed, phone still frozen >Finally risk quitting and reloading >SERVERS ARE DOWN >Skip rocks off the water for twenty minutes until servers finally come back up >Just in time to watch the last ten seconds of my incense tick away >Drive home >Uninstall Pokemon Go
Congrats, you got me out of the house. Fuck you.
Bentley White
i got a 10 CP pidgy and a 28CP pidgy in the same day
Mason Robinson
>Weight/size makes a difference has this been documented? is there anything repeatable about these differences? Basically, do we know if it's not just an rng red herring and only the xl/xs indicators make any actual difference?
>uninstall but that's how you let the normies win, user.
Evan Diaz
So, hang on, you don't have to fight Pokemon to catch them? Do Pokemon even have moves? I don't see hardly any stats for my Bulbasuar at all.
Is this even a fucking Pokemon game? Or just a Pokemon collecting game? I was so fucking hype for battling Pokemon in the park, not just throwing balls around all day.
Grayson Lee
>get to character creation screen >finalize my character >servers go down
it was a good run
Andrew Carter
I'm fucked, aren't i?
Chase Perry
It's a pokemon collecting game, the battle system is just to control gyms for your team and there's little to no effort to it.
Gyms just give you coins which you spend on perks to collect more
Joseph Reyes
See that's what I figured as well, but I'm not getting enough captures to justify spending the dust to test it, though I might, for science. I'll start a spreadsheet today and record as I go.
The only problem is, that there's no percentage in the white bar so it can be hard to accurately judge.
If my housemate levels his dodrio to max and i level mine to max, it'd give us an idea, cuz his is like, 3x the weight of mine
I'm an ausfag and we've had this for a couple of days now. Fucking gyms are being passed around like a good joint
Ryan Brown
The moves/types matter at gyms, where you battle.
Levi Gonzalez
If it freezes you could force-close the app and open iit up, waiting for so long probably chanced for the severs to crash. I've had it freeze on me a couple times and the mons were in my group, dust and candy and everything.
Samuel Sullivan
Scroll down on the stats screen you helpless monkey child
Isaiah Jones
yes, all pokemon get 2 random moves. They may be shit, so catch multiple and keep the best.
