Pokemon Go!

@jbartus Right on! I am level 4 on my ipod and level 5 on my Andriod. Will you be joining blue, yellow, or red team?

@connorbush I am uncommitted having only discovered there are teams 5 minutes ago. Should we all get together and pick an unofficially official Meh team?

@jbartus I joined Blue. Most of my comrades have joined blue.

@connorbush I also am team blue. my vote is for blue as meh color

@metaphore @connorbush Sounds good to me! Blue I shall be!

@jbartus I’m blue too.

@jbartus haven’t made it to where I get to pick a team yet.

@jbartus there’s no team Rocket? Sigh…

So I got to pick a team this morning before I conquered two gyms. Blue Team FTW!

@jbartus I blue at this game.

@vanslaterco Definitely things that could happen!

@vanslaterco so true! Who pays attention to warnings and disclaimers anymore!

@PurplePawprints I find the lack of any sort of tutorial frustrating. We shall figure it out together!

@connorbush everything I learned I saw on Google.

@connorbush I had to look up how to play to figure it out. Like @MsSooze, google was my friend.

@MzSooze 4. Log in at various times of day and near unique terrains. Water pokemon by bodies of water, night pokemon at night, etc.

@MzSooze how do you trade pokemon to the professor?!

@jbartus Select the pokemon you want to get rid of, scroll to the very bottom of its stat page and there’s a button to Transfer it to the professor.

@metaphore Got it, thanks!

Shouldn’t I be getting candy from turning them in?

@jbartus You should get 1 I think, a message saying you got one pops up very briefly after you transfer it.

Thanks @metaphore for covering that for me. I was away from my phone a bit.

@MzSooze amen to this.

@MzSooze this is my issue! I wanna be about it but every time I try to play I get the server issue… I have literally been able to get past the opening screen once in the 10 times I have attempted to play.

@Pantheist
/giphy eternal sad

@Pantheist
/giphy bummer

@MzSooze @connorbush got it installed by downloading the apk, but now the server is down

@Pantheist
/giphy Yay!!!

@metaphore I have four pokestops and a gym in the same 50 ft radius.

@metaphore I have two that I can see from my house on the map. They’re both within a five to ten minute walk, but I would be risking my life trying to walk to one of them.

@PurplePawprints yea, better not do that. Safety first!

There is about 20 pokestops and 1 gym within a one block radius of me, and 3 that I should be able to interact with from where I am, if the game could put me in the correct location and stop saying I’m hanging out in the empty parking lot across the street. Looks like there’s probably 100 stops and 5 gyms within 5 blocks of me. Seems like a very high concentration to me.

@metaphore I have a pokestop and gym right next to each other that I can see from my house that are about a ten minute walk.

@metaphore Where I work, there are SOOOO many. Where I live… very very few. Pay attention to areas with high concentrations of historically significant venues.

@metaphore you must be in a city…

@jbartus I am. I’m also close to a college campus which apparently every building has historical significance and every piece of art(which pretty much every building has at least one) is noteworthy.

@metaphore Go here to get a zoomable map of all pokestops/gyms https://www.ingress.com/intel

@MzSooze ah yes only few will know

@CrossIT I’ll just sit right down on the bucket until it works…

@RiotDemon Actually yes. I’m as surprised as you are.

@vanslaterco I don’t mind paying up front for a game, I just hate the ones where you have to keep paying “only 99¢!” And next thing people know, they’ve dropped $150 on the game (my friend with Clash of Clans…)

@RiotDemon there is pay content but it doesn’t seem to effect gameplay. I’m level 8 and haven’t hit a wall where I would need to buy items.

@vanslaterco Cool. Now I don’t feel compelled to delete it right away.

@RiotDemon I could potentially but bored by the time I’d have to buy anything.

@RiotDemon @vanslaterco As long as you keep catching Pokemon and going to Pokestops you shouldn’t ever need to make in-game purchases. My biggest pet peeves is playing a “free” game and having to pay for stuff; paying for a game and still having to pay for stuff.

@MzSooze @riotdemon Ya, when you’re about to run out of Pokeballs, you’re pretty much right on a level up which provides plenty.

@vanslaterco if you hit pokestops like a fiend you’ll never run out anyhow

@RiotDemon you have to flick the pokemon and basically hit the pokemon. Your accuracy increases as thr little green circle shrinks toward the pokemon. Mastering the right flick power stroke is essential…went from wasting 4/5 balls to getting each in just 1 or 2.

@studerc for fun, try spinning the pokeball in a circle before releasing it. gives a nice curveball effect

@jaybird The game sounded exactly like Ingress but with a skin-mod. Then I found out it was made by the same company. Now I found it this. Hilarious.

@DrunkCat yeah, they just copied the portal locations and even the photos to make the pokestops

@jaybird Good post (except for that bit about the resistance)

@hallmike thbts

@jaybird apparently ingress is compatible with my phone even though pokemon isnt. Wonder why

@Pantheist i dont think the graphics demand is as high with ingress

@MzSooze for me, i think pokemon will be lacking. what i like about ingress besides the gameplay is the community. i’ve read that nintendo didn’t want as much of a social aspect to pokemon as to protect the children playing. that is a rumor, but makes sense.

@jaybird Good point. There is Chat for Pokemon GO - GoChat where you can communicate with others. I was unable to use it, seemed to be stuck in an endless error loop. Probably due to all the traffic.

@meh the servers have been down for hours for me…

@PurplePawprints Mine triggered when I hit lvl 5.

@MzSooze I dunno. I know pokemon is huge but even I’m surprised at how virulent it’s gotten.

@DrunkCat @MzSooze A free RPG pokemon to a generation of 23-29 year olds with smart phones? RAMPANT NOSTALGIA!

@vanslaterco might wanna raise that age bracket, I haven’t been in my twenties for a bit. Lol. But, nostalgia is right! I can’t wait to get a Pikachu.

@DrunkCat I admit, I didn’t think it would be this crazy.

@vanslaterco now I suddenly feel old, lol

@riotdemon @mzsooze It wasn’t meant to be a dig, but that age range puts the people at an age where they would’ve played Pokemon Blue and Red, and wished, nightly, that pokemon would be real.

@vanslaterco @vanslaterco oh no, I didn’t think it was a dig. My wording could have been better.

I think the closest any of us got to that wish coming true was when Burger King had all those happy meal toys. That was insane!! A worked there in high school and ended up scoring all of them. I was so jealous.

@MzSooze my understanding is that it wasn’t meant to roll out to the US yet and they shoved it out the door because people were pirating the APK anyhow.

@thismyusername Or standing by a weird building for a little toooooo long.

@vanslaterco im glad this will take the police away from suspicious ingressers to focus on pokemoners

And 4.5 hours in, phone is completely dead. So much for using walking at work to hatch eggs. Unless I carry around my external charger.

@RiotDemon did you enable battery saver? I believe that dims the screen when you put the phone down, and then alerts when pokemon are near.

@MzSooze yeah, I had that on.
I charged the phone, and I killed it again in another 4 hours. I’m not sure if it’s because I’m inside of a building or what.

@jbartus While it doesn’t seem that much worse than a lot of a lot of apps, I am going through my battery 2-3times as fast as normal. I am using my phone more than normal so that is more the issue than the app for me. But it does require a constant connection to both internet and GPS which I assume is a problem for some phones.

@metaphore do you have wifi-assisted location turned on? That might help matters.

@jbartus For me, it’s not really a big deal, now I have to charge my phone every day, instead of the 2-3 days I normally get before needing to charge. A majority of my battery drain is from having the screen on for hours at a time. But using the wifi location would probably be useful for other people.

@metaphore Wi-Fi + GPS or only Wi-Fi location?

@RiotDemon wifi only would probably be kinder to your battery, wifi + gps is supposed to be more accurate but I don’t think it would be any better than just gps battery wise.

@metaphore I was thinking Wifi + GPS so the phone could optimize its usage accordingly.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also… I charge my phone daily anyhow so it never occurred to me that 2-3 times usage causing daily charging was the exception.

@jbartus My phone lists wifi only location as the “Battery Saving” mode, and the wifi+gps as “High Accuracy” mode but I haven’t compared the battery usage in the different modes.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@KDemo I was just reading that on my phone, beat me to sharing! Lots of good tips in there!

@KDemo I’m annoyed that I could of had a Pikachu.

@juststephen
/giphy it’s so fluffy

@vanslaterco yeah, if your Pokemon are good you should get a lot of money. And you can occupy more than one gym… This might be hard when even more people start playing.

@RiotDemon Pretty true. I did make 10 whatevers from one being in a gym just for the day, though. I guess that a few times over would add up.

@vanslaterco you get 10 coins per gym. The bonus is available every 21 hours. Around here, gyms flip very frequently. One strategy would be to get into as many gyms as possible just before the bonus is availabe then collect it before your kicked out of the gyms

@RiotDemon during beta i notuced that your power up doesnt actually power them up significantly. I try to catch more pokemon knowing that rhe next one you catch may be significantly stronger. I am personally saving candies and such for evolving rather than powering up

@RiotDemon for occupation bonus it doesnt matter how strong yours is. I think the gyms can hold up to 21 pokemon. However after a few are added, you have to train at the gym to increase prestige and open more slots to fill

@duodec that is so scary, if it’s the same one I heard of – I hope she isn’t going to be traumatized.

@duodec I’m still waiting for the first teenager to get run over by a car.

@sammydog01 From watching some of the completely oblivious poke-walkers I’m afraid it will happen soon.

@metaphore I had the exact same bug at the gym near my office. It seems to have been worked out for me. Try entering the gym with wifi off.

@vanslaterco I didn’t have wifi on when it was freezing after killing the first guy. Might have had wifi when it was kicking me out as soon as it started. I’ll pay attention next time I’m near a gym and try without wifi. Thanks.

@metaphore it didn’t really help me when I was experiencing it, but the next day I tried on cellular data, and it worked. Could’ve been a server fluke, but it’s worth a shot.

@RiotDemon Out in my suburbs the only pokestops and gyms I have found are at private clubhouses and churches. The church parking lots are all full of cars cruising by. I’m not sure they’ll appreciate that.

@duodec geez

@duodec I’ve noticed an increased police presence where I live. They’ve been checking out sizable groups. Saw one cop talking about Pokemon with a bunch of kids; all were playing on their phones.

@sammydog01 wow! 55!

@jaybird It seems to be the pervasiveness of the brand. I’m no gamer (especially mobile), but I keep up with the times. I had never heard of Ingress. The Pokemon brand has stretched far away from a gamer culture. There were fist fights at Burger King when they released those toys, there were fights over “bad” card trades. Now all those dumpy Pokemon players, nearly 20 years later with almost no gaming experience, are out in the world competing with kids the age they were. It’s gotta be a nuthouse, or else it wouldn’t be human.

@jaybird I think it’s because Ingress is primarily for adults, whereas Pokemon is primarily a younger, more… ahem… energetic client base.

@jbartus Are you trying different times of day? Or going out at night? I still have only left my house once since the game came out, so I don’t have advice there, but I’ve caught or evolved 19 different kinds from my house. That was just in the first two days. I ran out of pokeballs in level six and can’t play any more until I hit some pokestops.

@jbartus I think it’s more about the terrain than anything. Water Pokemon are close by the water. I caught 7 magikarp last night when I was close to a river. Around my house is mostly rattatas and pidgeys. I’ve seen some different ones at night. I’ve caught, evolved, or hatched 32 different species so far.

@RiotDemon I guess I shouldn’t complain since I’m at over 50 unique pokemon caught but it feels like no matter where I go I see the same ones. As for docent paves and times and water yes to all of the above

@jbartus you’re a third of the way there!

@RiotDemon yeah!

@jbartus i caught my first one, now what?

@Yoda_Daenerys send it to the professor to get candy for future higher level versions of it because it’s garbage.

@jbartus how do i send it to the professor?

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@Yoda_Daenerys you saw the professor at the start of the game when you designed how you look. To send it, open your Pokemon ‘inventory’ and select the Pokemon to view its stats then scroll down to Transfer it to the professor.

@OldCatLady the pokestops can be spun every five minutes.

@RiotDemon That’s what it says, but I’m here to tell you, it didn’t work that way. Could have been server problems.

@OldCatLady probably. All the pokestops I’ve gone to reset after 5 minutes.

@OldCatLady hmm guess I’ll keep going south to Boston. I did have a pretty successful night there I just kept seeing similar types after a point.

@narfcake only a matter of time before a serious accident happens.

@RiotDemon the problem I have is that people are choosing to blame Pokemon Go for these things. It’s not Pokemon Go’s fault if people are stupid. If someone walks off a bridge and kills themselves that’s their own fault, if someone drives into oncoming traffic it’s at least as likely to happen as a result of texting or playing some other game as playing Pokemon Go. It’s survival of the fittest and evolution has been weeding out the unfit for millenia.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@jbartus totally agree. I mean, it has the huge warning when you start the app, not to be an idiot.

@RiotDemon Yeah, since when do people read warnings, terms of conditions, etc., before continuing?

Also:
http://www.syracuse.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/07/pokemon_go_crash_cny_driver_hits_tree_while_playing_game.html

@jbartus We just had two idiots wander off a cliff playing PG.

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Two-Men-Fall-Down-Cliff-While-Playing-Pokemon-Go-386743551.html

@DaveInSoCal #Darwin

@jbartus It’s similar to blaming Strava for a crash because you were so focused on getting a K/QOM that you didn’t follow the rules of the road. As a cyclist, I find that pretty freakin’ ridiculous; you’re not racing, the road isn’t closed to other traffic, and it’s just a little badge on a website. No need to be stupid… (Of course, I have the advantage of never being concerned about QOMs, because frankly I’m just not good enough to really be a contender. Still…)

@compunaut no. It doesn’t count your steps anymore, so no cheating to hatch eggs, but I can attest that Pokemon will still pop up on your map to catch.

@RiotDemon So why is everyone walking around getting ‘sore legs/feet’ if they could just drive instead?

@compunaut If you’re driving even as a passenger things kinda go by too fast to hit. You can sometimes get pokestops. Riding the bus around would probably work great, though.

@compunaut I did it as a passenger… Not terrible, but the pokestops won’t work unless you’re very slow.

I have driven to some random pokestops where it was safe to stop. I have also come across Pokemon in parking lots where I could pull into a spot to catch one.

My must fruitful experience was when I went into a downtown city and walked around. I posted a photo above showing the many pokestops. It would of been terrible to try and drive that route. It would of probably worked as a passenger since you can only go about 5mph around the town since everyone is walking around… But I would of probably ran into something if I tried to drive.

Also, more Pokemon show up in the more dense areas, versus where I would normally drive.

@compunaut @RiotDemon I haven’t caught a single critter outside yet; all of my train station stops seem to be Pokestops and one of them is a gym. Curious to see how far I can take that.

@OldCatLady I stopped going to churches. Target is just as good and you can buy popcorn and sit down while you wait for the reset.

@sammydog01 Target store is a few miles away. This is Rednecklandia, we have churches every quarter mile or more. The Polish-American Club has put a chain across their driveway, which means they have a lot of people driving in and doing tight 3-point turns. One side of the driveway goes down into a pond, always exciting.

@OldCatLady I finally left my house today and hit some pokestops and a gym. Four churches, one rec center, a ball park sign, a Burger King, a Pizza Hut, and a little piece of grass in the center of town with two stones with the Ten Commandments were the ones that I stopped at. At several of the stops, I kept seeing some of the same cars over and over. We were all doing the same thing. haha One guy was sitting in his car (presumably) on his lunch break and had dropped a lure. So, the kids and I sat in our car and hung out through a couple resets.

@PurplePawprints Our Burger King isn’t showing, nor is the Pizza Hut (strip mall variety). OTOH, the local chapel of St Francis Choe (Korean) shows up as a gym, but nobody was around when I went by. I expect it’ll take local media a few days to start covering anything related to Pokemon. This area does not have parks, plaques or fountains, but we do have lots of gators.
/giphy alligator

@PurplePawprints I walked to our local Pokestop, a pavilion at a neighborhood association of which I am not a member. I sat on the guardrail reading a book and snuck over to the no trespassing sign every five minutes. The next day I met two 30 year olds there that were taking a coffee break and had thrown a lure. Driving to a strip mall is easier.

@OldCatLady That is the cutest little gator! Here’s a pic of our BK stop. It took me forever to figure out where the Pizza Hut one was because the name of it was “Wings Wall Mural” and had a picture of whatever is on the wall inside. haha I wish I had played Ingress so I’d already know where they all were.

@sammydog01 It’s too hot for that here. At least, it is for me. The kids and I went to the library (which is not a stop) before pokestop hunting and we thought we were going to melt just walking in and back. As much as I’d like to use the game for exercise, it’s just not feasible where I live due to area layout and temps. I’m glad you found a semi-close spot to walk to!

@PurplePawprints We had a heat index of 100 today. I’m waiting for sunset. I had better wear a light colored shirt.

@sammydog01 Ick! Summer sucks so bad. Stay hydrated!

@PurplePawprints @sammydog01 what is “dropped a lure”?

@Yoda_Daenerys at pokestops, you can add a lure module. They make the pokestops look like pink flower petals falling all around. They attract Pokemon to that area for 30 minutes for everybody.

You end up getting a few for free just for leveling up, but you can buy them as well.

Looks like this in the photo I posted above somewhere:

https://meh.com/forum/topics/pokemon-go#5786c7014b96627406c06f01

@RiotDemon thx for the pointers!

@RiotDemon You can also look for businesses or churches which have put out lures, and hang out in their parking lots. One local (Fleet Reserve Association) bar is a gym, a Pokestop and just now I see they’ve put out a lure. Since it’s the only Pokestop for miles, they’re getting a fair amount of traffic. Since their members are - uh- not likely to be playing, anyone driving around gets glared at. Again, I slide by because I’m an old lady.

@Yoda_Daenerys In my experience lures got you a lot more frequent rattatas and pidgeys. I don’t think I would spend actual money on them.

@sammydog01 I had better luck when people dropped lures in places that had more variety.

I probably will never spend money on them either because I see them dropped often in downtown. If I want to waste a few hours, I can just go there.

@RiotDemon The strip mall works here, and they don’t mind if you come.

@studerc suburbia is your friend. That or go out at 3 AM

@studerc I’ve totally given up on the gyms. It just isn’t worth the effort, at least yet. I’m stocking up for when trading becomes a thing.

@studerc How do you even have 1000+ ?!?!?!?

@connorbush ive currently got 7 over 1000 CP.
Lapras: 1295
Vaporeon: 1210
Vaporeon: 1156
Jolteon: 1156
Flareon: 1123
Snorlax: 1099
Scyther: 1045

I mean he’s fascinated, enthralled, delighted and wants one. The mother is still shooting mental daggers at me. Those don’t show up on the screen, though. I ought to tell her that negative energy can be tracked by Them, so everyone can see her emotions…

@OldCatLady does she use Google Maps?

@jbartus Oh yes. She can’t reason from A to B. The other kids in the neighborhood will be playing, her son will make her life miserable, and her husband will chime in on the son’s side. I may have mentioned that McD’s had four creatures pop up while I was there this morning, but I couldn’t catch them.

@OldCatLady so what you need to do is give her husband the link to the google maps location history page.

@jbartus He’s aware. Mostly he just tunes her out. In a couple of years the kid will stop listening to her, like everyone else has.

@OldCatLady Pfft. Google knows everything about me. If I’m inside a building and take a photo, it now asks if I want to upload it to Google maps.

I really don’t care. I’m not a criminal. Who knows, maybe one day it’ll be my alibi for where I was at such and such time on such and such day, lol

As much as I love 1984 and think about the Big Brother repercussions, I’m not worried about Google.

@RiotDemon

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@OldCatLady I haven’t seen anything about Pokestops being taken down. I think that’s pretty cool of Niantic.

@vanslaterco I was watching a video about how a holocaust museum was either a Pokestop or a gym (I forget) and people were being pretty disrespectful. In those cases, I completely understand if they don’t want to be part of the game.

@OldCatLady I’ve never seen a Pokestop completely stop working unless the server has been giving me issues.

@RiotDemon I must research this… tomorrow, when there aren’t so many people on the roads. One local church sign: ‘Come for Pokemon. Stay for coffee and donuts.’ As I was doing a 3-point turn, a parent came up and asked me shyly if I would show his daughters what the game was like. I did a 10-minute demo with an audience of four. Because many players are male, they had been wary about asking, and stores just want to sell you high-end phones. Fortunately I used to train people on databases etc., and the kids were very quick to catch on. They had more questions than I could answer, but it was a start, and the dad was reassured that it doesn’t have to be a money trap. (And I showed them how to get balls every five minutes. I harvested four times there…)

@OldCatLady our generation showing their generation - you go girl!

@OldCatLady so if I follow this correctly… you were driving and playing Pokemon Go?

@jbartus Drove into lot, put in park, pulled out phone from purse, smiled at people standing in the lot, put phone away, did 3-point turn. This gave the dad plenty of time to come over, his youngest in tow, to ask for help. Since it was their church, and their parking lot, and their Pokestop, I figured it would be a nice thing to do, so I parked and held a class. Besides, I like telling people where to go and what to do when they get there. Doesn’t everyone?

@OldCatLady ah, much better. I was worried for a second!

And yeah, I can’t deny a certain satisfaction in doing that!

@mfladd it’s probably server issues, still.
Make sure you’re either on good Wi-Fi, or on the phone’s internet if it’s crappy Wi-Fi.

Best bet is to try again later.

@mfladd also, how old is the iPod? It won’t work with older phones, so I’m guessing it won’t work on older iPods.

…and I just realized in my last post I said to use the phone’s internet, which doesn’t exist in an iPod, haha.

@RiotDemon Actually, I just found this answer on the web.

The iPod 5G doesn’t come with a GPS installed, so it can’t play
Pokémon go.

@mfladd Tech creep. It’ll get you in the wallet every time. My Samsung S7 Edge is working beautifully, except this morning when the servers were all down. Just saying.

@OldCatLady i felt kinda silly downloading this as an , but you are inspiring me!

@Yoda_Daenerys lol… I’ll be 61 next week, and I walked to the nearest convenience store at 6:30 in the morning hunting pokemon… 5 miles round trip… first time I’ve taken a good walk in years. Motrin is my friend.

@capecodjewel I don’t have a good neighborhood to walk in. Driving around other areas (closer to the beach) made me realize they have parks, biking trails etc. I bought this house in a hurry to be close to a new job; now I’m 66 and retired. PokemonGO is a fad, yes, but it has made me think. Time to move, in more ways than one.
/giphy exercise walking

@capecodjewel so glad to hear this, i am also going to get out more and do some ‘hunting’

@mfladd How about this one:
http://www.scarymommy.com/teen-pokemon-go-highway-accident/

“Deiseroth says she was forced to cross a four-lane road to catch Pokémon on Tuesday”

Yep, forced. Dumbass.

@mfladd I don’t mind if people die playing Pokemon Go, they were clearly in the unfit category. #Darwin

@sammydog01 don’t you love how society has things structured such that we can blame others for our own dumb moves? You can see where she gets it too, her mother was blaming the game too. Wake up lady, you’re doing a lousy job of raising your kid!

@duodec Sounds plausible, eh.

@KDemo hilarious

@RiotDemon I used to watch the show with my kids when they were younger, and this made me laugh so hard.

@jbartus Nope again. We don’t walk off cliffs.

@mfladd neither do we. Idiots do, but you can’t blame Pokemon Go for that, idiots play fantasy football too.

Edit: To be clear, the people walking off of cliffs are idiots, I am not calling fantasy footballers idiots.

@jbartus This. Quite a few times.

@Yoda_Daenerys Might reconsider that sign. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/smartertravel/10-innocent-hand-gestures_b_5022230.html

@KittySprinkles story time story time story time!

@KittySprinkles Thank you for not playing while driving.

@narfcake If driving and playing, it’s done with a navigator who is in charge of operating both phones. When they spot something that might be good, we pull over and get out and walk around. Last night, we pulled off the road onto a little turnout. We weren’t there thirty seconds before a cop pulled in facing us and hit us with the spotlight.
“You’ll need to find somewhere else for that, you two!”

We giggled for at least a half hour over how it used to be cops would rouse you for making out, now it’s for collecting pocket monsters.

@sammydog01 #virtualcapitalism

@jbartus Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of people

@jbartus Go Pokemon Pats!

@compunaut if it happened here you can bet it’s happened everywhere.

@OldCatLady Nothing beats playing on the train for a reminder as to how middle-of-nowhere you are…

@brhfl and look at that battery drain! It’s such a juice hog.

@ELUNO

@ELUNO I’m assuming it’s so they can try to not be liable for idiots crashing their cars while driving and playing.

@ELUNO I must walk fast, as I’ve gotten the ‘You’re going too fast, don’t drive and play!!’ message every single time I’ve had the game running to hatch eggs while I walk.

@RiotDemon But those idiots will still be doing it but now have to deal with a distracting message as well…

@brhfl Yeah, I’ve had that pop up a couple of times while standing still! The GPS signal can get funky and have your character move around by itself.

@ELUNO My daughter hatched a 5 km egg sitting at a baseball game because the GPS kept her roaming all over the field.

@hollboll
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@RiotDemon tbh it’s made me less likely to play. It was a lot of fun going out and trying to find stuff, but now it feels completely random. I get that it’s more like how the game itself actually was but it’s still a bummer.

@hollboll
I thought the recent update made it better? Walk one direction and if the pokemon you want disappears, turn around and walk the other way. It should show back up in that tracking window when you get closer.

@medz is that how it works?

@hollboll That’s what one article I read stated. I haven’t really tested it.

@hollboll I guess I never really cared about the tracking to begin with. I usually just catch whatever shows up wherever I’m at versus trying to find specific ones. Maybe now that it’s harder for me to find new ones, since I’ve been playing a while, I might try the new tracking. I had no idea how it works, but if @medz is correct, maybe I’ll test it out. I usually just walk from pokestop to pokestop.

@hollboll i thought the previous tracking was never working, so

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if what @medz says is true that would be interesting, however…

…some of the rationale i am using for playing this is the exercize, so i kinda prefer to just keep walking on my path to pokestops and take what comes.

@hollboll Today I tried it out. @#$%& said ‘GPS signal not found’. I’ve just reset my GPS to include all possible sources, so tomorrow MAYBE I’ll be able to check it out.

@OldCatLady I have .1 km to go on a 10k egg. I hope I get something I don’t have yet. It’s my first 10k. One of my last 5k eggs gave me a poliwog which are pretty much everywhere now that they updated.

My 5k before that was a Ponyta, with 16! candies. I appreciate the extra candies. I have only seen one Ponyta.

@RiotDemon The charts show lots of possibilities, but I haven’t seen a ranking of how common each one has been. http://www.pokemongodb.net/2016/07/egg-hatching-chart-2km-5km-10km.html

@OldCatLady 26 candies!!

@RiotDemon Yay! Well done, you!

@OldCatLady I wish I could say I walked the 10k… But most of it was driving slow into and out of my neighborhood, haha

@RiotDemon I used to leave it running while I drove to work, but now with that stupid pop-up message I can’t do it anymore :’(

@ELUNO you have to go less than 15mph… So it’s kinda pointless anyway unless you’re doing stop and go. I usually just have it run when I’m driving neighborhoods and parking lots.

@RiotDemon Oh, you don’t know Atlanta’s traffic… Plenty of <15mph distance…

@ELUNO I’ll admit, I don’t go to Georgia much. I have relatives in Nahunta… And I haven’t seen them in probably 6+ years.

@RiotDemon I just moved here. Nice place. But traffic.

@RiotDemon My Fitbit and my Pokemon tracker don’t show the same mileage, for exactly that reason.

@OldCatLady I tried to do a stupid gishwhes thing and had to video myself walking to hatch 2, 5, and 10 km eggs. It took 40 minutes of walking at a pretty fast pace to hatch the 2 km egg. I can do 3 miles (5 km) around a track in maybe 50 minutes. The app cheats so we can too.

@sammydog01 The app measures by gps distance, not steps.

I don’t know how often the app checks your location but let’s say four minutes. If you walk straight from point A to point B by the time the app checks your gps location, you get a good distance. However, if you walk halfway to point B but then back to point A, the app won’t realize you’ve moved at all.

I’m saying stop walking around the track, basically.

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@ELUNO thanks for correcting that. Got the link through work, I cut off the beginning of it and didn’t realize the end wouldn’t work publicly.

@Pantheist interesting article. I honestly had no idea about Google stealing info with their street view cars.

@RiotDemon Genealogy research has become vastly more interesting now that users can see the houses where their ancestors lived. That is, as long as the addresses are still there, and not under a highway or something.

@Yoda_Daenerys Incubators are nice.

@Yoda_Daenerys Incubator, and only use it for 5 or 10k eggs, b/c it’s only good for 3 uses. Use the eternity one for 2k eggs. No, I’ve been chasing a Tauros for days. It’s not anywhere I can find, but it keeps showing nearby.

@Yoda_Daenerys I’ve used the nearby tracker to find a couple of rare pokemon. So, what I do is this:

• Walk in one direction until the 'mon is off the tracker. Note your position.
• Walk in the opposite direction, the 'mon should appear again. Keeping going until the 'mon is off the tracker. Note your position.
• Go to the mid point of your line and walk in a
  perpendicular direction until you either see the pokemon or it is off the tracker.
• Capture your rarity, or walk in the opposite direction until you see the pokemon then capture that bastard.

This really has worked for me. As long as buildings and rivers and whatnot aren’t in your way, it should work for you too. I hope!

@emilyap so far it has worked one out of one times, thanks

@sammydog01 i decided to upgrade my backpack since it is permanent

@Yoda_Daenerys Nice! I didn’t even know that was an option.

@dashcloud The place we go on weekends has no pokemon. None at all. Not a stinking rattata. I don’t get it.

@sammydog01 Congratulations! My nearest WMT is less than 3 months old, so it was on a very large chunk of ‘undeveloped’ land when Ingress was setting up locations. Maybe I need to go to another store.

@OldCatLady Nice! About the tauros, not the meth lab.

@OldCatLady i catch 10 taurus a day, rare must depend on location

today i caught a 1997 CP taurus, or sumpin like that

@sammydog01 Haven’t found one yet. But they killed commute playing, which has sucked. No more playing on the train (except at stops) or while riding with someone.

@duodec There was a ditto on the gym at the park this morning. Bummer about the train.

@sammydog01 They have just gotten so risk averse. Its not enough to say you’re not driving; if you are moving over speed ‘x’ they consider you driving no matter what you click, and the pokestops don’t work.

@duodec screw the train. pretend you are 90 yo and drive at 10 mph.

@duodec for me, it’s better they stop pokestops after 25 mph, i’m a safer driver now

at least a little bit safer

@DaveInSoCal I have some horrible “this mon is at a Pokestop but the mon right next to you won’t appear” tracker (official name). I really dislike this update.

@emilyap if you click on the feet under the monster it should show you exactly where it is on the map.

@DaveInSoCal My tracker will show me where the Pokemon by the Pokestop is, but ignores the Pokemon that’s near my location (not near the stop).

To clarify, my tracker will show mons at a distant stop and mons I can catch right now, but nearby mons (like a block away) don’t show up to be tracked like they used to.

@emilyap Yes, the stuff that pops up isn’t usually on the tracker. I don’t get that.

@DaveInSoCal Maybe you live in area where that is being tested? I don’t see that here.

@sammydog01 on main screen, when mons show up on tracker icon, tap on tracker icon. on next (tracker) screen, if leetle teeny pic shows up next to mon (generally a pic from a pokestop), tap on mon; bigger pic should appear , along with footyprints under mon. tap on footyprints, next screen should show position of pokestop/mon location relative to you. i think. ymmv.

@no1 Do I have to be at a Pokestop for it to work?

@sammydog01 i think you have to be near enough to a pokestop to see it on the main screen. sitting here, i can only see one pokestop - about a 10 minute waddle away - but i am not at the pokestop. i saw one mon on my tracker, and it was supposedly located at that stop.

@sammydog01

@no1 Thanks! I will check this out at the park tomorrow. That is really cool.

@no1 It worked! It must have just rolled out today- I would have noticed it yesterday. Cool!

@sammydog01 http://bgr.com/2016/12/01/pokemon-go-tracking-feature-nearby/

@no1 @sammydog01 if you click on the three feet, it will show you on the map where the pokestop is located. butt i see above you already knew that, i was prompting from your screenshot

/youtube nevermind

@sammydog01 if you put it into battle/train it transforms into what it is fighting, butt then changes back to ditto afterwards

@Yoda_Daenerys George has a CP of 28 so he’s probably not going to gyms any time soon.

@sammydog01 yea, i’m not quite sure how that works…

if you do gyms, just throw ol’ georgie in for grins - (s)he’ll turn into the opponent and then be gone (if weak)

remind me please, are you the aMeh.rican with the same “score” on that weird level/age/weight scale i posted some time ago, as me?

@Yoda_Daenerys I think that was me. And I put my favorite pokemon in gyms just to get a screenshot of them in there. My current favorite is my muk. Her name is Lulu and when she’s my buddy she looms over me. She is adorable!

@sammydog01 yea, i found the post i recalled and replied

eye’m hoping ewe are write and mie ackount reterns too mee

Meh.

@sammydog01 Let us know if he moves to your shoulder after walking him 10k.
I’ve hatched a couple of eggs but no babies yet. So disappointed.

@emilyap I hatched an igglybuff and a togepi today so I have a feeling they are pretty common. And pikachu just moved to my shoulder!

@CaptAmehrican Yep! The internet says so anyway.

@CaptAmehrican “the evolution” has a name

@darksaber99999 perhaps but i don’t know it.

@CaptAmehrican Raichu. Pikachu is way cuter.