/pgg/ Pokemon Go General

GIT GUD EDITION

>About the game
pokemon.com/us/pokemon-video-games/pokemon-go/

>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.

>Some questions answered
pastebin.com/YP458esi
Feel free to add more.

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.
Gyms: Fight at your team's gym to train and increase it's reputation. Fight at other team's to decrease their reputation. Tap your opponent to hit them, swipe left or right to dodge attacks, once one or more blue bars are filled, tap and hold to power up your secondary attack, release when the smaller blue bar fills up. Take over other teams' gyms and put your mons in to defend them.

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Can I play the game effectively without leaving the house?

>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.

This isn't exactly right.

Ive been popping incense for the past 4 hours from my home
>Tauros and Scyther, my other rares
>Level 257

;(

No. You're gonna have to move those legs tubby

First for big dick Mystic masterrace.

Valor are a bunch of fucking autistic shitlords.

Instinct is aight.

Yes, pay someone else to play for you.

if youre in a very crowded place, yes

i have to get up to get to the pokestops though so

>Can i play a game specifically designed to make you get up and leave the house without leaving the house?

Nobody gives a shit about moltres, that's why he's the third wheel.

>walk down to local park with a gym
>fuckin Pidgeotto shows up
>throw like six balls at it and it doesn't get caught
>about to throw again
>servers go down for like ten seconds and it's gone forever
>a couple of buff dudes also playing walk by
>buffer of the two says "don't take my gym"
>i'm the gym leader who took it from a yellow

>tfw instinct
>all 3 gyms near me are mystic but rather shitty CP
>going to go on a night raid when the sun goes down in an hour or two
sorry senpai

Too bad. They won't be getting my money.

fuck... all my shirts have stains on them im gonna look so gross going outside...

I just spent 2.5 hours walking around town at midnight
I met 2 groups of 2 people playing the game, I was with my brother too

fun game
my legs hurt

>Valor is for reddit
>Mystic is for edgy Veeky Forums mental patients
>Fine with Instinct

I can't find any pokemon, I live in europe rural zone btw. My map is empty only me and the ground

instinct master race

>needing to spend any money
Everything is free if you go for a walk

>Live in florida
>Its 94 degrees AT NIGHT

Fuck this game is gonna convince me to move

Reminder to use ingress.com/intel to find points of interest

Why not?

instinct is aight, better than valor at least

>Character keeps running around in circles
>there is 1 fucking ratata
>Phone keeps vibrating
annoying

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i was out playing for 2 hours to, its 2am now. I went to a graveyard, hospital, fire station and a school. took over 3 gyms out of 5 in my town.

me on the right

>they didn't shut down their ingress servers
No wonder GO has server issues

>molTRES
>he's the THIRD wheel.

I see you mate.

That shit doesn't work, you can stand on patches of grass and nothing will happen, then the patch will dissapear never to be seen again

The general on /vp/ is much more active.

>need to download ingress
eh

why would they shut down their ingress servers when that's their main game and not PoGo?

you wouldn't happen to be dutch, would you?
i didnt take over any gyms :( i just started playing today
but ive got a few 200cp pokemon now so im feeling confident about tomorrow

Eyyy

>valorfags

It's also on /vp/.
See the problem here?

You ain't slick, if you ain't Big Dick Mystic.

Fuck valor.

Nobody gives a flying fuck about Instinct.

>That GPS tag showing where pokemon are caught
That's going to be so fuckin cool once trading is implemented. I want some transcontinental pokemon...

Because why would you waste your time hosting servers of a game that nobody plays?

Please increase the active radius around the player so I don't have to jaywalk to activate Pokespots across the street.

Nah, Swedish guy here.
I only got a few above 100cp.
I might be in a pretty good standing, the only gym occupied at all was a hospital owned by a 12cp squirtle

>been trying to get gyms all day
>have a decently strong pokestable for the area that should be able to handle what's around no problemo
>game keeps glitching either as the fight starts or won't kill the other mon

This is infuriating. It's cost me at least two gyms today

You're right, they should just kill PoGo

yeah i went past like 8 gyms that were all occupied by like 3-4 pokemon all 100 to 400
I did beat one gym, but I didn't take it over? I'm not quite sure how it works

Valor = yellow = reddit's team, yes?
Are the bonuses (e.g easier to hatch eggs) depending on which team you pick?

I have gotten 10 pokemon in the dex and am now level 5 since I started playing yesterday. Haven't left the house, so it is possible. But VERY slow.

valor is red.

The signal is shit at my work, and my character glitches out and walks around the whole damn town while I stand still.

I literally took over a gym 2 blocks away from where I was.

Valor is red.

Who here getting fit because of this app? I walked 16000 steps today because of this shit.

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>steps
who cares
if you're some 160 manlet I can take 100000 and have gone further

Can anyone confirm if this works on a samsung note II phone? It says not compatible with my device, but that might be because it's not released in my region yet.

>I did beat one gym, but I didn't take it over? I'm not quite sure how it works
You have to beat it multiple times.

There's a counter you have to bring to 0(??) The counter looks something like XXXX/XXXX numbers. When it becomes 0/0 they are kicked out the guild.

It's fucking storming now and I waited all day through shitty servers going down and even hotter weather.
I just want to level my Pokemon and take over the gyms nearby.

So what does tapping do?

I hear a sound but it doesn't seem to do anything?

Is it suppose to frighten pokemon out of grass?

I wasn't aware it does anything

I'm mystic myself but that is a shit house word

>walks for a few hours
>already thinks hes getting fit
nice try you fatfuck, don't get your hopes up.

Ahhh, okay
we thought it might be something like that but didnt feel like reviving our pokemon and stuff to keep on fighting for god knows how long

btw how often do gym pokemon stay at 1hp for you guys?

> flick ball
> goes two feet

FUCK

grass gives a general idea of where the Pokemon are at any given point. It's never exact.

16000 steps isn't "fit". Just go and hit the gym

>Implying they're not instinct

>go on nice poke hike with gf and brother
>gf gets 561 cp lapras, it runs from me
>bro gets 499 snorlax, doesn't show up on mine
>go to a pokestop, shirtless squatter emerges from an old colonial museum-house and yells at us
I still give it a 8/10, pretty fun day

if you hold the 2nd tap, you can zoom in and out.

Be a man and go outside. It's just a storm, won't kill you.

Dude thats what im saying its fucking hot as the gobi desert then storming theres never anything but shitty weather

Full fledged Pidgeot showing up on my 'Nearby' list.

Cba to go outside at 2:31 am.

>A lot of my mates complain that the "1hp glitch" keeps happening to them
>go to the last gym my mate said bugged out for him
>kill the pokemon at it and capture it just fine

Okay?

How do i evolve pokemon? Other that walking around catching everything i see i have no idea what im doing

Fuck you buddy

gps spoofer on jailbroken iphone?

>Like the idea of pokemon depending on the type of area you live
>Live in the mountains
>expect something cool
>nope ratatatas and pidgeys
>Never going to see anything else in any reasonable numbers

like sure ill get a rare now and then but what does it matter if i cant level it up.

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I know this sounds retarded but how do you tell where a gym is before you're level 5? I can't see the location by tapping on it because I get the "come back when your level is higher" message

I walked across the street in the pouring rain to get a Pinsir. Don't be a bitch

Are you literally retarded?

so does being Veeky Forums give you an advantage? just walked 15 miles and can probably do another 15.

>Urinal pokestop
lmao

Doesnt work

rate my 10km egg

evolved mons suck dude
they have lower CP potential
you want to get a high CP pidgey and evolve that

>Catch a goldeen, magikarp, and staryu
>Not even close to water

I wonder if I can get a lapras in my apartment

The gym is literally where it appears on your map.

>get to an intersection
>Fearow is close
>battery almost gone, middle of the night
>2 ways in the city, one in the forest
>check both city ways, it's not there, battery on 2%
why

Well my fellow redmates were all saying
>"going to capture this gym now"
another chimed in with
>"i tried to take it, but its bugged with a snorlax"
>capture it ez and chuck my 500 pidgeot on it

I have yet to encounter this so called glitch

>giving third party apps root access to a unix-like system

im using one as we speak. try a different one

go find a >130 pidgey then we'll talk

Hes a big bug.

>peerocket
Ayy lmao

so what CP does pokemon range between in the wild?

>400 CP
>XL XL
>Steel wing basic attack

Being Veeky Forums won't help the servers if that's what you're asking

it depends on trainer level. Higher trainer level = better chances for high CP

I've run into it with five gyms in a row now, and it's a fucking nightmare. There was a gym just west of me that was sitting there with low CP Pokemon for hours but nobody could take it because of the glitch.

it's happened to me on at least 2 gyms

It either glitches at 0/1hp or will start the fight and get to GO, then back a menu

fuck yellow and their cheating

>pastebin.com/YP458esi
>Finding and training a 90 CP pidgey, will not give you a stronger pidgey than training a 70 CP pidgey. The max is still the same. It just means the 90 CP pidgey has a higher % trained. Training the 90 CP pidgey is more efficient, however, as you need less candies.

>Evolving a pokemon raises the min/max, but the % trained stays the same. So it does not matter if you train or evolve first.

>Catching a pidgeot, will be just as strong as a pidgeot you have gained by evolving. If you compare two pidgeots at 350 CP, you'll see that the % trained is the same. That's why I recommend saving your pidgey candies for when you find a pidgeot.

Basically, the only difference is that you don't have to spend all your candy/stardust to get same results.
You both can choke on Valor dick.

There are videos of it online so saying "so called" is acting pretty haughty. I've never run into it myself but this is a known problem.

time to fuck over the one gym near me