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If you couldn't tell by your social media feeds the augmented-reality cell phone game developed by Niantic known as Pokemon GO has taken the world by storm since its release last week.

The game is played by walking around in real life hunting Pokemon who appear on the map which can caught in a mini-game in which they float around on whatever is seen through your phone's camera.

The game, quite frankly, is one of the most fun things I have ever played in my life.

As someone who enjoys the outdoors as well as video games, this is such a great blend of these two things. The best part for me is the social aspect. Not only is my wife playing and walking around with me, but I've actually met and made friends playing around my neighborhood.


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Though the performance of the game has improved greatly since launch, it crashes a lot. I can only hope that performance will continue to improve.

So what say you RFGen? Are you playing Pokemon GO? What team are you on? What tips can you share? What's the rarest Pokemon you've caught? What's the coolest real life experience you've stumbled into while playing?

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I see people walking around, doing this in front of my house. Mostly on the other side of the street but they are definitely playing it. Best meme I've seen so far on it was something along the lines of, "It's raining, so I can't go outside and play video games"
 


PC Gamer put up a video on how you can play it from your PC without leaving your house:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6EQM7yWIgU

I was going to start a thread like this lol

I ran into some trouble tonight i was going to use the tablet and phone i bought and use my WP as a hotspot. I'm guessing that it can't handle the load so it wasn't allowing them to connect.
Additionally the phone never seemed to find GPS which i am hoping was a fluke.

I'm about 3/4 of the way thru level 4 so no team yet. Will end up on Moltres or Articuno tho. Leaning towards Articuno as it was my preference in the games.

Strongest is an Oddish at 110.

Caught:
Rattatta
Oddish
Shelder
Zubat
Pidgeotto
Krabby
Paras
Raticate
Pidgey
Weedle (evolved to Kakuna)

Started with Charmander.(Always my starter in the games.)

@nupoile Talk about defeating the purpose!

Supposedly San Francisco is a great place to play it too, as the developer is located there and it is apparently rich with Pokestops and Gyms.

@Izret Definitely go Moltres (Team Valor in this game), matches the site's color scheme!

Hmm... Pokemon Go with PC, or not at all? I may try the PC method, just to participate with co-workers.

I'm guessing you went Moltres :P

Also saw this.
Fact?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnGOYHBW8AAGGG3.jpg:large

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Meh image not working. Too tired to care. I tried it anyways.
Downloaded the whole north east more or less lol

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Yes, and I don't want to spoil anyone else's choice but I'm not the only one.



I have seen this from multiple sources but have yet to try it myself. Should be legit.

I know that many of you are probably familiar with my disdain for all things Pokémon (too old when it came out, wrong time in my life, annoyed by super fanboys, etc.). However, if you listened to our E3 podcast, you probably heard me express some genuine interest and well yeah, even excitement, about the release of Pokémon GO.  I never saw myself purchasing the app, but when I heard it was free, I thought, "Why not?"  Well, I'm pretty hooked....up to the point where I walked 10 miles yesterday playing it on work breaks, my lunch break, and around my neighborhood last night with the kids.  The funny thing is that my boss plays it and collects Pokémon and balls for her kids to play at night, and my place of employment is a PokeStop!!  I work close to downtown in a fairly big city, so there is a great deal of activity during the day in regards to the game.  My house is out in the country so no Pokestops or gyms, but lots of space to walk and find critters.  My kids absolutely love it and we had a blast last night running around the neighborhood and hunting together.

Like Shawn, I think the game has some great positives such as the social aspect, the exercise, getting outdoors, and for me, spending time doing something fun with my kids.

And oh yeah. VALOR beeyotches!!! 

I am 10 XP shy of level 5. When get home tonight I guess I get to decode where I am siding.

Also got my sons phone activated. When I changed my plan to add him I was given 2 android phones. So now I have 3 android phones and a tablet... Not at all excessive. Plus side back up for inevitable breaking and with a sim swap that means back up batteries lol

I've been playing since the first day or two.  It's been great going around my small town and catching things.  I showed my wife who likes to walk around and has her FitBit so she downloaded it and is now more into it than I am.  Of course my 17 year old daughter saw it and thought it was dumb....until she tried it.  Now we are all 3 walking around looking for Pokemon and trying to keep the Keystone Heights Library Gym for Team Valor!!!  (At least me and my wife are, my kid chose Team Mystic)  Having a great time with this game and really enjoying seeing people out and starting hunting groups with people they would have never otherwise met.  We went to the Atlantic side of Florida yesterday and caught all the MagiKarp I could want.  Even caught a Dratini!  I hope this momentum can sustain itself. 

I am a Gen X'er, and I don't have kids. 'Nuff said.

Not really, I can't tell if that means you're playing or not.

Nobody (possibly a ridiculous small percentage) born before 1985 is playing this, unless they have kids.

I don't think that's true at all from what I've seen. Do you even have it yet in Canada?

I've seen people of all ages playing.

Anyway, when the game launched there was nothing in downtown Austin for some reason, now it's rotten with Pokestops and Gyms. My wife works there and I'm jealous. Where I work there ain't shit.

No, we don't have it in Canada yet. People are playing it here though, by either getting the mirrored illegal version, or changing their region settings. I am probably biased (I hate Pokemon) but I cant see many people, late 30's to early 40's, being on board for this

Just realized my original post was wrong: I meant people born BEFORE 1985

Dude, you're way off base. I'm thirty five and my wife is....well, older than that and we're having a blast. Never played a Pokemon game in my life. There's more to it than that. Read my original post, the fun part is getting out in the world.

Yeahhhhhhh....so you don't have it there yet. Out your element there Donnie. Honestly even if I didn't have kids I would have tried this based on seeing it at E3. I think you'll be really surprised at how many people over 30 without kids are playing this when you finally get it.

I can't stand Pokemon either. I was one of the only kids at my elementary school who didn't own any of the cards. (I'm 26, so I was in the thick of the craze)

My dad recently bought me a new smart phone for my birthday, before he gave it to me he downloaded the official Pokemon app to tease me. I got pissed that it was the first thing on my new phone and the first internet search term.

So, you can tell I really don't like it if my dad teases me with it.

Y'all are killing me. Go start a "We hate Pokemon" thread.

+1 .  Thanks for coming here to throw some shade on stuff other people enjoy. But hey, I guess that's just what the Internet's for right? As I said, I never cared for Pokémon, but tried this and it's fun. Come back when you've actually played it and have something constructive to say. Better yet, do us a favor and don't come back to this thread.

#TEAMVALOR

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My home base here. The Pokestop on the right is a water tower that seems to always have a lure on it, even early in the morning.

The gym is at a nice little park that I didn't even know was there until I started playing. Looks like it's Valor now but it is highly contested. I've even seen it neutral.

This right here is what the game is all about for me on a personal level.

A little over a week ago my wife and I were falling into quite a rut of slothiness. I even asked my wife a few times to go for walks and it simply wasn't happening.

Since the game has come out we're going venturing into the neighborhood up to three times a night. We usually hit our stops as soon as we get home from work, then after we finish dinner, then one last time before we go to sleep.

The weather in Austin has been beautiful lately. I have no qualms that it took a cell-phone game to get me off my butt and back into physical activity.

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We tried again, and failed again, to win a battle at the gym, but we're just not strong enough yet.

A little tip about that if you don't know, multiple people on the same team can enter a battle at once. Just set up your Pokemon, and make sure you hit "GO" at the same time. You'll all deal damage to the same opponent, but he or she will attack you and your crew simultaneously, so if they're a lot more powerful than you (as was the case tonight) you'll still get your butt whooped.

My GPS goes crazy when I am inside but here is my neighborhood
There is another check in directly behind the red gym.
Also angle in between those two shots has another several check ins within walking distance  couple churches, library, post office and some local land marks.

Reds gym is at level 9 blues are only level 4. I went with blue team. Mystic? ARTICUNO!!


How do I select a Pokemon as my started for gym battles?


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Oh yeah I almost forgot. With the help of some other Trainers we encountered on our trip I was able to get my son fully up and running. For some reason the he connected back to my phone's wifi by default instead of running off the data plan. Soon as we got that squared away and launched the game again Pidgie, Caterpie, and Zubat all popped up and were caught after a little struggle since he is still new to most firms of technology believe it or not.

@Izret I'm sure you figured it out, but when you get to the gym, if it's your team hit the boxing glove icon to fight. If it's the opposing team's gym it'll be two Pokeballs. I think it defaults to whichever Pokemon is at the top of you list but you can change it simply by tapping on it.


Today was a ton of fun. Walked to a Pokestop near work early on a break and a random lady yelled at us "Don't mess with my gym!"

So at lunch time we made sure to at least try to f*ck up her gym lol. We lost overall but knocked it down a level.

After work my wife and I went to the gym, which was Blue when we got there. No sooner had we started deciding if we were going to fight or not, when the gym turned Red, and a car pulled up and a guy asks "Are you guys Red? I just took the gym and some slots are open. Jump in." Thus, I was in a gym for the first time. It was amazingly short lived however as minutes later another car pulled over and took it back for Blue.

Back out at home this evening the Pokestops on my block were lure city. I was out there for almost an hour. Had a Pikachu on my radar but never even got close.

Did you know that you can start the game with a Pikachu? Basically when you start you have 3 choices of Pokemon. Ignore them and walk away without capturing one. You will walk on them again. Again walk away. Keep doing this and eventually a Pikachu will show up in the group for you to capture.

Great tip for beginners. I found this out way too late.

Funny, one of the Federal Marshalls at work this morning asked me if I was playing Pokémon GO. This guy is in his late 50s and said he downloaded it to see what all the fuss was about and loves it.  I was shocked.  He even mentioned the Pikachu trick to me. Ha ha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEm_wPGgScU

When this comes out in Canada I will give it a try. I'm 26 and was in the middle of the Pokemon craze, but my interest in faded in the Gameboy Advance era. I guess I stopped caring for the games because they were all too similar and got bored of them. Naturally, because I was the right age I watched the TV show, but only the original series. So now I have zero interest in the franchise (and when I play the games I use the Nuzlocke Challenge rules (http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Nuzlocke_Challenge)), however I want to try out Pokemon Go.

I don't see this as just a kids' thing. I'm sure we'll start seeing Pokemon Go walking tours, people hanging out playing/discussing the game. I think the younger crowd will definitely be hardcore into this but, the older players might find a neat time waster in Pokemon Go being just casual about it.

That Bunnyhop vid was pretty good (and reminds me, I want to check on my Nintendo stock).

Here in Austin, there already are tours, Pokemon pub crawls, meetups, and people offering to drive players around just to play.

During our E3 podcast I had little more than a passing interest in this thing. Now it is a phenomenon that can hardly be described in words on both a personal and public level. Not only do I love the game, but the effect it is having on everyone around me is fascinating.

I've seen tons of social media posts about how the game has improved peoples' physical and mental health and I would include myself in that bandwagon as well.

I hope you guys get it in Canada. You need to actually play it to see what it's all about.

The game not being officially released in Canada, hasn't prevented most people, from playing it here.

But have you?  And regardless, people who are older are less likely to spend the time obtaining a non-regional copy. When it comes there, that's when they will get it. My older neighbor plays it, without her kids. Again, just a matter of someone having astute observations on something without visual proof. Geez man really?  Give it up, back to your toy thread with ya.

Taking the kids downtown tonight to do a little hunting. This will be their first experience with Pokestops and gyms, since we live out in the country.  Should be a blast!  Will report back.

I want to play this. I missed out on the original Pokemon boom in 1998. I was busy worrying about college and what I wanted to do. I would like to get in on the excitement this time around. I do not have a phone though. I will have to try it out on my moms phone.

@BJoin79 You don't have a phone? Thats kind of....awesome.

I'm 32, I do have a kid old enough to play, but I was more excited than he was to play Pokemon Go. I tried to get in the beta. I've played at work with several other guys, both older and younger than myself.

I've only played Pokemon Blue out of the entire series and never played the card game.

If you played Ingress, you'd probably like this.

I would like one I just can not justify the extra expense at this time.

I've always been a (casual) Pokémon fan ever since Blue/Red, the original anime series and the original cards. For reference, the most recent Pokémon game I played was Pokémon Black, which is a relatively recent game.

Despite all that, this game doesn't seem interesting to me at all. I haven't even tried it. Okay, I understand the gimmick of walking around catching Pokémon. But the actual game seems so basic. It's like a traditional Pokémon game, except with just about everything stripped out of it.

I don't know.

It's free so I'd advise trying it. Actually a lot of fun. It's a lot more about the community aspect then the gameplay. Very social and so nice to just be around people who are happy with all the bad stuff going on in the world.

Just a little video about the fears people have about the app.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDZjm4f9CEo

Took my son out this morning.
Ran into some server issues but we ended up walking to a little diner and grabbing bfast and roaming a bit around town anyways.

Tried playing at the bar tonight. It is a deadzone. I left it running for ~5 hours and nothing showed up in my vicinity. Doing the same thing at home i get a garbage pokemon a few times an hour. A Bulbasaur and Eggsecute were nearby but unfortunately i could not leave my customers to roam around the hood.

Got home and the gym across the street from my house jumped from a level 4 to a level 7. Checked out what was in there and the first leader is a friend of my brothers... I know this because he used the same name he had on Xbox Live which is a play on his name. Tried to knock it down solo and made it to the final leader barely. I really only have one strong Pokemon Vaporeon 523 next strongest is a Golbat at 356 and then they start nosediving into the upper 100s.


Anyone know offhand if Eevee evolution is random?

http://www.polygon.com/pokemon-go/2016/7/16/12205402/pokemon-go-eevee-evolution

Apparently not. There seems to be a trick behind getting Eevee to evolve.

Never seen this report, but I've heard other reports about Evee evolution and how it depends on their specific attack.

I've got to agree with the comments on that article.

Also saw things about certain pokemon showing up at certain times and locations doesn't seem really accurate.

I've caught water pokemon when i wasn't near water, i've caught Ghastly during the day and near no cemeteries(in fact there is one near me now), despite us being ~90+ and full sun i have not seen any fire pokemon.

I think it is 100% random with certain ones having much lower odds than others and there appears to be a level barrier on most of them. As i have leveled i have begun to see more different types.

I've had Pinsir, Exeggcute, Bulbasaur(!), Hypno, Poliwag, Seel, Staryu, Abra, Tentacool, Rhyhorn and Pidgeot all in my vicinity but wasn't able to go out and hunt them down.

So far i've gotten Goldeen, Drowzee and Vulpix from a  5km egg and Clefairy from a 2km.


There also appear to be deadzones i was dead stop gridlocked on the highway friday night and none appeared. I've been told from people who go "caravaning" that once you get over 20MPH nothing shows up, and the bar as i mentioned before was dead for me. I think that might be a combination of the water department and train tracks near by. But since other municipal buildings are apparently pokestops or gyms that might not be 100% accurate either and i just had bad luck.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/07/17/come-on-down-canada-youre-the-latest-country-to-get-pokmon-go/

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GrayGhost let me know that the app went live in Canada today. I had to search "pokemon go app" instead of "pokemon go" in the Google Play Store. Weird, but whatever, I've got the app. I think I'm going to go with Squirtel because he was my go-to when I had Pokemon Blue back in the late 90s.

I downloaded the app today. I am at work, and my work is in a heavily industrialized part of my city. Despite that, I still managed to catch two pokemon. The whole time I walked around, i hoped I would capture some kind of ancient demon, like Azazeal or pazuzu. Maybe someday they will make a Shin Megami Tensai GO. Now THAT I could really get into.

ive been playing the .apk file version of pokemon go on my android for about a week now where i was getting too excited to wait for the official canadian release. I'm not sure if i should switch over to the official download or just stay put? I don't think theres much of a difference but I could be totally wrong.

The apk is the same thing that you'd get on the Play Store. Once an update hits, it will update as usual from Google.

thank you so much! i kept hearing different things so i wasnt sure

also apparently some pokemon are region locked

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I know there was news about bootleg versions making it to the app store so be weary canada-ites.


Ended up walking about 10km tonight after work... Something i would have never done otherwise.

Grabbed some food on the way home and hit some of the places i knew were stops. One of them was a Post office. I got out and tried to socialize with the guy there but he closed out the game and immediately said he wasn't playing pokemon. I laughed caught a few since there was a lure on the post office. And left about 5 minutes later when it ran out. He was still hanging out at the post office by himself at 11pm alone.... not playing Pokemon.

Finally found that Pinsir(526cp my new best!) i missed yesterday morning with my son. Someone who was caravaning around hollered "PINSIR!" and the drivers sat thru the a light change from red to green to red while all their passengers caught it. There was no one on the road tonight besides Hunters i loled every time a car full drove by.

I ended up using a lure at one stop where i could make a round trip between two other near by stops if i ambled. It drew about a dozen people. I ended up burning thru a few hundred pokeballs tonight so i'm glad there are so many stops near me (compared to other places. I know some places are absolutely littered with them)

One ended up approaching me on one of my return trips and asked what team i was on. "Mystic. It is always the wrong one." He chuckled said he was on Instinct offered me some pot which i declined (and then he realized he lost it while biking around) and gave me some pointers.*

Also managed to nab a low level Venomoth after about a dozen pokeballs(the first one i saw was ~400cp i used dozens of pokeballs and several berries before it fled >:( ), a Pidgeot, Magikarp and a Jigglypuff. Also hatched a Voltorb and a Cubone for other new additions. I think that is it for new ones. Sitting at 37/150 I could evolve a few to fill out my Pokedex but i am holding out for higher CP starter pokemon.

I caught a 180cp Pidgey, 79cp Pidgeotto and 254cp Pidgeot. So if i evolve the Pidgey it should end up at 700+cp assuming the "it roughly doubles when you evolve" thing i was told is true.


*Pointers
Under 20MPH and all distances traveled should count for egg hatching. Over the counter stops.
Catch and evolve everything to level faster. (I catch but hold out on evolution. Though i have been sending all my weaker dupes to professor willow who kills them and turns them into candies to evolve the ones i keep.)
Save items for when new pokemon or good ones are "in range".
Capitalize on others putting lures into stops(duh)

So, I busted this thing open, full bore yesterday. Went for a walk after I got home from work yesterday. I would have to say the ONLY thing I like about this game, is the fact that is uses GPS + two feet and a heartbeat, but also the whole random encounter aspect. This feels like an RPG of sorts, that you can be walking around and BOOM! Monster. The problem I will always have is the Pokemon themselves. Give me something cooler! I am a horror movie guy. Give me a game where I can hunt horror movie monsters, or demons or something. Other than that, I would say Pokemon Go, is solid enough.

I'm sure something else will come out of this now that is like that. But since that isn't what Pokemon is (there are technically ones based on monsters and demons tho) don't expect anything creepy or gory from them.

Somewhat related:
My aunt immediately let me know she was playing Chardonnay Go!
Which means she downloaded it to be edgy and isn't actually doing anything other than being like
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I meant to bring up Chardonnay Go.

Just got it today. And for the record, I'm 'old' with no kids...so are 4 of my friends that are playing.

On that Pokemon rarity chart...are you stuck with the Special Pokemon that you initially catch? Kinda like how you were stuck with Charmander if you got Red back in the day?

In terms of stuck, do you mean that you can't catch the others that appear at the start up?  If so, I can say that it is not the case.  I went with Charmander and have a Bulbasaur and Squirtle already.  My son caught the starting Pikachu using the skip trick last night.  Wow, words I thought would never come out of my mouth.......

Well I have definitely had to eat my words, regarding the age of players, playing GO. 

I haven't encountered them yet but I have been near all the starters barring Charmander who I picked.

Also that rarity chart isn't the most accurate thing.

This past Friday night, I took the kids into the city for dinner and Pokémon hunting. Probably over 200 people out running around downtown and lounging in the park under its Pokestops. We had a great time!

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Went to the boardwalk yesterday and got a few Pokes:

Psyduck, Poliwag, Seel, Hypno, Staryu, Dratini, Omanyte and a Gyarados.

It seemed like 1/4 of the people there were playing.  My childhood dream of being a Pokemon trainer has been (partially) fulfilled.

I nabbed a Ponyta next to the church/bakery stop a couple blocks from me on the way home and a Seel in a Verizon/Golden Corral parking lot... Also on the way home.

Also got another Eevee.
Mankeys are now showing up for me too as there was one in my vicinity. I DEFINITELY think there pokemon are level locked. The higher your level the more you see.

The strange thing is most of the times when a new one pops up for me it isn't on the step radar. Outside of my first nigth walking around with Rowan i typically don't find the ones on radar outside of the ultracommons which could just have been coincidence.

From what I've been reading/experiencing, the radar system has been broken for a few days.  I haven't seen a Pokemon show up on the radar with less than three steps in a few days.

I was wondering if it was messed up for everyone. It caused my cousins and I to fail looking for a Slowbro.

Yeah, I think something is definitely up with the radar system. Stuff is popping up sometimes that shows 3 steps away from me and I'm not getting any countdown.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/07/19/investing/pokemon-go-nintendo-shares/index.html

120% increase in Nintendo market value since the release of Pokemon Go!

I've never watched MMA for a second in my life, but this is pretty funny...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU6CvPRl2Hw

I almost got myself Cat with Long Ass Arms and Punching Rock yesterday, but they eluded me. I did manage to get a Purple Turd and a Blue DinoSquirrel, though. 

If these were Pokeman's names I would be on board.

I've only caught one punching rock which is unfortunate because his final evolution was a mainstay for me in the original pokemans.

They are the names I give to Pokeinmen so I can be on board.

Trying to think of what Blue DinoSquirrel would be. I got the rest.

Squirtle

Caught a Butterfree tonight while walking outside.  This is the first one I've seen in the wild!

Took my son out for a short walk(1-2miles) after work. He caught some new ones and was pretty pumped about it.

I hatched an Electabuzz from a 10k egg, a Horsea from a 5k egg (already had one), and knocked off ~1km on my next 2 eggs.

Caught a few more Eevees. I only need Jolteon evolution but i will likely keep catching Eevees after i get the final one anyways.

As we got home a Bulbasaur popped up on the step radar but since it is still showing everything as 3 steps away i didn't bother hunting for it after putting him to bed.

Track the pokemon in your area in real-time with Pokevision!

https://pokevision.com/

Eevee, Weedle, and Zubat nearby. Woo?

Sigh... if there's any solid evidence that humanity is too far gone to be saved, it's the runaway popularity of this unholy abomination. Sadly, the sickness is terminal. Time to let the nukes fly...

Yeah, definitely not a game for cool people. Sorry you don't fit it the demographic of our sadness, but hey, thanks for stopping by to share your YouTube comments. 

Seeing that it wasn't clear from the beginning that this was a thread for people who are "actually playing" the app and enjoying it, I decided to change the name of the thread to clarify and help guide you.  It's really sad to me that some feel the need to tear down something other people enjoy for what ever reason. If you don't like it fine, (whether you actually tried it or not) just do your fellow members a favor and keep it to yourself and move on.

One thing that I mentioned while recording the other night is how nice it has been to see the joy on peoples' faces (people from all races, sexes, creeds, and ages) in light off the horrible social climate that has more recently risen in our nation.  I'm not saying that this app is somehow saving our country (that is ridiculous of course), I'm just saying that it's nice to see people out with something in common enjoying time together and talking.   

I hatched an egg yesterday and got a Cubone. There's very little to do before level 5 and being in a very suburban area doesn't really help. Hopefully this weekend I can go downtown and see what Pokestops and critters I can find.

I've tried to cheat the game a few times by driving my car to hatch that egg faster, but that doesn't work. The game knows can track your speed and if it's over 20mph it won't increase your distance for egg hatching.

Maybe Rich has mentioned something about already but there's a special Pokemon Go surprise coming soon!

Yeah Floyd, as you and I discussed privately, I feel your pain in terms of living in a suburb.  My great reprieve is that I work in the big city and that is truly where all of the fun is with this game.  I do hope that you make this trip into the city and get the full experience with this app.  I think you will have a little bit better understanding of what a lot of the buzz is about.

I leave it on when I'm driving anyway. You do get some mileage, just not a lot.

Having said that, don't Pokemon and drive!

Spent some time by a lure last night, the guy who dropped it was playing music and trying to create a party atmosphere. It was really awesome, although it was over 100 degrees yesterday and my phone was overheating so I couldn't see shit.

Plus, there was a Ponyta on my radar for quite a while but it never popped up.

Plus it dawned on me last night that Ekans is Snake backwards. LOL 🐍

Just think - its evolution Arbok is Kobra spelled backwards. :D
It's actually Arbo and Arbok in Japanese, but seems like NoA had some fun with it.

I can confirm that the evvee evolution works. Got my Vaporeon today

I've evolved 2 without changing names and got Vaporeon the first time and Flareon the second.


Depending on how bad work is today i might make it out tonight for some more hunting.

Name that last one Sparky and you're golden to get your set. ;)

Finally got to spend a little time downtown with the game, where of course there are way more Pokestops and Pokemon in general. I was at a party at a bar that was across the street from a Pokestop, but close enough to access it, and it was lured for a good amount of the time that I was there. Then we went to dinner at a restaurant that was a Pokestop itself, and it was lured much of the time we were there as well.

My wife and I finally caught Ponytas, and she hatched a Magmar, which I'm pretty jealous of.

I ended up hitting my item capacity and had to discard 30 Razz Berries (I had over 60).

I forgot to post this but last weekend was the first time I actually ran out of Pokeballs. It was the worst feeling, don't let it happen to you! Now, when I'm getting low, I don't even try for the low level guys like Ratatas etc.

Last thing I'll say here, has anyone else noticed that Pokemon will escape the ball more often? I have no evidence for this, but I wonder if the game has been adjusted so that more balls are used as a way to encourage the microtransactions. :tinfoil:

I think that the chance of escape goes up the higher the level you reach and after you get razz berries. As you probably know, more high level Pokémon start to appear the higher level you reach. The chance of even capturing the more common Pokemon gets lower. The save balls, use razz berries and make sure you wait for the ring to shrink down before you throw. I try to catch any Pokemon to help raise experience and even evolve them as often as I can to level.

Man, I had no idea that this was what the game was like.  I might have to start playing this now!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SFCn0bkGUM

Spoiler (hover to show)

Disclaimer:  I'm not 'hating' on the game.  Just posting a funny relevant video for your amusement

I saw this video the other day. Really funny. ;)

@Disposed Hero - Get it dude! Life changing!

Also, that vid was hilarious.

I accidentally sent my 350+cp eevee to the professor instead of evolving it :'(

WHOOPS! Seen that a few times on FB, but the beauty of this game is you will eventually get another one, probably even more powerful.

I come across eevee quite often. I've leveled up since then so the next one should be more powerful.

I still only tried a gym battle once so it doesn't matter much.

46 caught 47 seen (Bublasaur fled) level 12 still.


How is everyone else doing thus far?

Level 15, with 62 Pokemon.

I'm about to be level 17, caught 58. Not bad considering I've been cooped up in the house for a couple of weeks with a newborn

Nearly level 17, 66 pokemon caught

Level 18 with 70 caught

So, how many pokeymans have y'all caught so far? Anybody here catch all the pokeymans yet?

To my knowledge, only one person in North America has "caught them all" so far. Which means that this person finished the NA common Pokedex.  However, there are a few that are region specific (North America, Europe, Asia, Australia) and several rares that are nearly impossible to find

Well then, you'd better get back to it. They're not gonna catch themselves, you know.

BTW after a little pondering, I realized a VERY big upside to this Pokeymans phenomenon: it's one of the biggest mass-distractions in recent memory. And the more distracted everyone else is, the better chance I have of grabbing all sorts of cool non-Pokeymans stuff before they do! So go forth and keep it up, you Pokeymans-catching Pokeymans-catchers!

 I'll be watching...


[img width=640 height=480]http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jeFtw5VT7Fo/UTdBCbxGrMI/AAAAAAAAcXA/RKeGanbL03A/s1600/cover2.jpg[/img]

Who's getting the most exercise out there? I know it's not me, but I'm curious to see how many KM's (whatever that means  ::)) you guys have walked.

Mine says 51.28 km

Where can you find your total mileage...or kilometerage?

Scroll down under your profile. First badge is for 100 km, so it will tell you how close you are so far

Smart!

I've done 30.9km.

Yeah, I'm far behind you guys. But I thought it was a cool idea for them to add this. At the very least, it's a record of exercise.

I'm fortunate enough that my place of employment highly encourages two 15 minute walks per day and walking at lunchtime. They bought us all Fitbits a few months ago and we have weekly team contests (we all hate the girl who was a runner in college...ha ha).  But yeah, the Fitbit in combination with Pokémon GO has been great for me.  The wife has noticed the weightloss and I feel better. More tired in the evenings, but my sleep is definitely better.  I'd encourage anyone interested in using this app as a motivation tool to go out and get the cheapest Fitbit Flex, which can be had for under $100. It actually tracks a ton of stuff for the price (just doesn't have the clock face). Well worth the price for your health.

Interesting....  http://www.vg247.com/2016/07/28/looks-like-pokemon-go-critters-thought-to-be-region-exclusive-can-be-hatched-from-eggs/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Herzog asked about Pokémon GO. Pretty great.

http://www.theverge.com/2016/7/28/12312538/werner-herzog-interview-masterclass-lo-and-behold

77.1 Km. Working Graveyard shift at work this week, So I drive around doing laps in my truck, to hatch eggs. Have probably walked about 40 KM of that.

Just got my first pokemon into a gym.

How come no one said you can collect in game currency for that!

Do i get XP for any battles my pokemon wins?
Also what happens when the gym gets defeated?
Do i get my pokemon back?

Do i get XP for any battles my pokemon wins?

Yes. And as you mentioned you get coins for defending the gym. I have run a few gyms but have never gotten this bonus.

Also what happens when the gym gets defeated?
Do i get my pokemon back?

Yes, they'll automatically be returned to you when they are defeated.

To collect he bonus go into the shop.

I thought the icon up top would give some discount or extra if you made real world purchases. Since i finally tried training and got into a gym i figured i would check it back out.

Fired it up before my drive home in the hopes of grabbing a little more egg mileage.

There was an update. Checking it out now that i am home looks like it was cosmetic mostly.
Pokedex is fixed now and step counter went from everything being 3 steps away to 0 steps away lol

EDIT
Also there was a new warning screen after launch about not playing in "dangerous" areas.

If you haven't seen it on the front page yet, our Playcast just released a special episode on Pokemon GO. Please listen and give us your thoughts.

Good lord... gotta spam 'em all, eh, sagintesh? If that is indeed your real name...

Report sent.


Speaking of the lord: y'all might wanna steer clear of churches with yer pokeymans hunting, especially the fundy megachurches. Otherwise, you might have to deal with this sorta nonsense:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqfn-5noxpc

Gotta love the logic-leap of the radical Islamic terrorists adapting the app to hunt down IRL Christians. The fact that anybody takes these guys seriously in this day and age is far scarier than the most ardent Poke-fanboy could ever hope to be...  ;)

So that works, huh? I run a carpool to work and a passenger said he wasn't gaining KM's while I was driving. He said he was connected the whole time. We thought that the app knew we were in a car because of the speed we were going, but I thought that would too advanced tech for a free app.

Yep, have to be going under 20 mph

A beta, open-source version of Pokemon Go was just released for Windows 10 Mobile: http://www.windowscentral.com/how-install-pogo-uwp-pokemon-go-windows-10-mobile

"ST-Apps and other developers are contributing to the project on Github, albeit without the blessing of the game's developer, Niantic Labs."

Expect it to get pulled quickly.

Pokevision and related sites were all shutdown for what i would see as a much smaller offense.

They were shut down because of the hacked APIs, I would assume. I do not know how the ST-Apps version is implemented, but if they use the hacked APIs I would assume the same.

I know right, millions of people downloading and loving it. I don't get it either.........


Not even sure what this means. Wasn't aware that this was advertised as being a real-life/AR replication of the Gameboy games. Perhaps you have insider information you can share??


Yes, it uses a GPS system, of which all of them drain your battery. For this type of technology, this can't be avoided.  It is what it is, though I can play on my phone for more than 3 hours straight, so I've had no issues.

Again, this is a thread for people who are enjoying the game to discuss it (see title of thread). If you want to whine about "just not liking it" start your own thread.  No one cares or wants to hear it here.

Went out for a bit with Rowan last night. Mostly to grab flowers/a card for a birthday.
While card shopping we each caught a Psyduck.

Nothing really out of the norm otherwise. There was a Seadra near by but we didn't end up tracking it down before i decided it was far enough past his bed time and we had to return home.


EDIT
Also for some reason he was still able to play on an unpatched version of the game. When the patch was rolled out i had to install it before it would let me log in.

Sorry to upset you man, whoa...

I've removed my post.

I'm not upset, I'm just having a hard time understanding why people keep coming on this thread to s#$t on a game that clearly others enjoy.  It's typically not the style of members on this site, so yeah, I'm a bit perplexed.  However, I apologize if anyone thinks I've been overly rude to them. Not my intent, but again, my responses have come more out of frustration.  I don't expect everyone to like this game, no game has ever had a 100% success rate (except maybe Clu Clu Land...). I just want to discuss it with others who are enjoying it in a friendly environment.  Not too much to ask IMO.

Shawn and I mentioned during the podcast that he and I went Team Valor when we hit Level 5.  I'm curious about what team others joined and why?  And, what is your team's presence in the community?   

@banana - While it might not be the style of most members on this site (and this site is probably the friendliest, calmest, nicest, etc. place on the web), it is still a message board on the internet and unfortunately, there is nothing RFGen can do to save itself from that. (Unless Trump wins and builds that internet wall)

Anyway, I joined Mystic. No real reason why. I don't remember the exact descriptions of what each team was about, but in my head Mystic seemed more 'mind/mental' orientated, which I like. Valor seemed physical and Instinct seemed Speed or Special based. Maybe that's just the role those colors play in my head though...who knows.
As for presence in my community...I guess it's pretty even? I play on my wifi-only phone so I'm missing a lot of area, but I know of 3 Gym's and each team controls one.

PS- Sour news...I know a Clu-Clu Land hater. I tried to tell him he's wack, but he wouldn't listen.

Interesting....  Yeah, I remember reading over the descriptions of the teams and pretty much choosing based on color and a bad@## girl being the leader. Ha!  It's funny but you can go on reddit and there are groups for each team and it appears that they all have a specific mantra they follow.  In my area, Mystic and Valor seem to be the most common and aggressive, running basically all of the gyms. I've seem maybe two gyms that were Instinct and those were in the nearby smaller town. It's funny how these teams evolve and sort of take on a persona of their own.  Interested to hear from others.

Still playing this game, and asking myself everyday...WHY?!?

From someone who never had an interest in Pokemon. I understand that feeling too well.

Valor had a heavy presence in my area initially.
Mystic has everything around me now.

I went Mystic based on Articuno. Of the legendary birds it was the one i used most. Valor was a close second for their mantra. It always seemed strange that pokemon had all these powers and somehow humans controlled them. I let my son be the deciding factor and he also went Mystic.

After the fact i learned all my family went Mystic and everyone else i know went Valor.


As for the teams i've heard some stories and it can be quite cliquey. Not quite as bad as crips vs bloods vs latin kings. But the colors are right at least ;)

So medals don't do anything? No pokeballs, no exp?

Interesting, but pretty much the norm these days.......

http://www.polygon.com/2016/8/4/12376886/pokemon-go-bots-cheats-gps-spoofs

I had read there were already anticheat measures in place. Could t battle in gyms, Pokemon wouldn't appear or would run away before allowing you to catch them, pokestops wouldn't allow you to collect from them.

I had some fun on Tuesday night while at a baseball game. Two pokestops close and lures on the much of the time. I got my first Machop.

But I haven't played since then. In the most recent update it seems my suspicions earlier have come true. Escapes/runaways have increased drastically, no doubt about it.

That combined with the radar being almost completely gone now, and the game sadly is holding little appeal for me.

I'd love to see some numbers of active users now versus the "good old days" of the first two weeks on the game.

I still see people on the internet talking about the game, but a lot of them are complaining about the things I just did, or bragging about cheating and then getting roasted by non-cheaters.

Was all this too good to be true? Can Niantic turn this around?

I've had a few Pidgey's escape. They should be automatic. I've also misfired on a few Pidgey's and Rattata's because they jump around more than they had in the past. I can almost guarantee that the number of active users have been cut by 1/3 since it's debut. I think there were a segment of people who don't play video games who tried it for a week.

I'm still playing at the same rate I have been, but that's not saying much - about five or six 30 second bursts per day.

From what I understand, at least about the Pidgeys, is that your higher level is making it harder to catch the lower level Pokemon.

Yes, we've dicussed that before, however I have been level 13 or 14 for a very long time now and noticed a drastic change. Unless once you hit level 14 the game is jacked, something is up.

I have only been playing this thing very casually. I was right into it in the first couple weeks, but can already feel my interest dropping like a rock. I can imagine several others like myself, who only had a passive interest in the game to start off with, are starting to move on to the next best thing.

I had seen a chart about usership dropping off when the step counter broke.

I load it up daily. Caught a Tauros today.

Escapes have drastically increased probably to make it harder to level spam.
(Catch endless pidgey, rattata, weedle, caterpie, use XP egg, evolve countless times)

I was invite to an event at one of the big parks here today but passed on it.
Apparently a ton of people are meeting up BBQing, dropping lures at all the stops and gym battling to grind XP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-RerthVB54&feature=youtu.be

That's hilarious!

So I went to another anime convention today and everyone there seemed to be way more into PoGO than at the last one. I even went to a Pokemon GO meetup. Also there actually was a Pokestop in the lobby of the hotel this time, and it was lured most of the time.

However, I felt like I was only playing because everyone else was. The same problems still persist. Although I did get a Meowth, I mostly still only saw, say it with me, PIDGIES AND RATTATAS. And when trying to catch an nice looking Eevee, I wasted five masterballs on it before it ran away.

I don't know, I don't want to keep being super negative (this thread is for non-haters after all). Today was definitely a nice flashback to the good old days. I'm just so disappointed with how the game is now. 

I'm going back to this convention tomorrow and I'm going to try be the very best. There's another meet up and I'm actually going to bring a charger so I can stay juiced up.

I went on an evolution spree yesterday. I had saved up enough candies to evolve 40-50 pokemon.
Only a handful were new evolutions; Nidorina, Nidorino, Gloom, Weepinbell, Haunter.

Also caught a Jynx, Squirtle and hatched a Sandshrew. Think that is it for new ones.

For some reason my Psyduck disappeared, Pokedex shows i have seen one but he is MIA and greyed out.

At 61 caught 63 seen. Thanks to the evolution spree i skyrocketed to level 17.

After playing sparingly for the first few weeks, my interest has spiked. Probably because I'm finally seeing new Pokemon. I started doing loser laps in my car (driving at a SAFE 5-10 MPH down a very quiet road) on my way home from work to nab 6 Pokestops.

I'm at level 8. I just wasted a Razz Berry and 6 Pokeballs on a Pidgey. I am not made of Pokeballs.
I think they are becoming harder to catch for everyone. IMO, there is no way a Pidgey, Weedle, or Rattata should ever break free. They should be automatic for everyone and it defies logic that they are harder to catch if your level is high.

I'm still playing, though I have noticed a steady decrease in the amount of people I see going around playing it.  I agree that a lack of variety in Pokémon available in an area and the increase in escape rate is frustrating.

However, I took my soon to a nearby small town yesterday to Pokémon hunt and get some ice cream, and he had a blast.  He hit level 10 and grabbed a few new Pokémon, including a new one for me, Rhydon.  I'm now at 79 caught and 80 seen (still haven't managed to grab a Tentacool I missed on Day 1).  During our venture, I also defeated a Blastoise and took over my first gym.  It stayed up for a solid hour until taken down.  It was fun, but don't know that I received anything for my efforts.

Question: When your team has a gym, how do you join in protecting it and increasing the level?

Good news is that we are headed to the beach for a week soon. My son and I CANNOT WAIT to catch more water creatures and see what other goodies we can catch there!  Still having fun with it as a casual player and understand why it's waning off.

@Banana - I think your gym needs to have an open slot (an unfilled circle) next to the crown for you to join in protecting it. If there are no slots, your gym needs more prestige and a new slot will appear. I think it's level increases if your team wins battles. I think this was the site I read, but if it's not in there, it's still a good site to read.

https://www.vg247.com/2016/08/05/pokemon-go-battle-tips-for-taking-down-gyms/

I guess not too many people here are playing this anymore. Just wanna throw out that the music is really, really good. The main theme, the tune when you get a new pokemon, the battle song, the gym music. I'm not sure if any of these songs are recycled from older Pokemon games, but Junichi Masuda (who composed the older games as well) has done great work with this game.

Funny you say that. I was just thinking yesterday about how I never get tired of the music. I have the game on and walk to it every day and it's never grated on me like some music does. I'm still playing. Hatched a Magnemite yesterday, which my kids flipped out about.

I think a lot of the loss is due to repeatedly catching the same 4-5 Pokémon. I think they need to switch up the more Commons soon so that people can work on evolving other species. Some of them are a bit too rare and evolution s too slow moving.

I've been playing this and the amount of Pidgies and Ratattas I have caught is disturbing. The music is pretty good. I'm lucky to have a gym right next to my house.

I don't mind Weedles, Ratattas and Pidgies anymore because I need Stardust badly. I'm also saving up the candies like some of you mentioned earlier so I can pop a Lucky Egg and do a few evolutions for easy EXP.

I agree somewhat about some Pokemon not showing up in their natural habitat, like Geodudes near rock quarries. But I basically live on a peninsula, a bay 1 mile north of me, a canal a 1/2 mile east of me, and the Atlantic Ocean about 5 miles south of me. I am catching Water pokemon like nobody's business. The canal a 1/2 mile from my house is my local Pokestop/Gym hotspot that I visit daily. When I am there my sightings are usually Staryus, Goldeens, Poliwags, Magikarps, Crabbys, etc.

I have a rock/clay quarry 1/2 mile, a lake 1/4 mile, a forest right behind my house...   And, nothing of interest can be caught. I looked at the map before it was taken down, and there were only 3 Pokemon in my area, all commons and in front of a particular person's house. It doesn't help when you don't have much GPS data to go off. :D

Quick question about Pokemon types and their weaknesses...

I just got an Omanlyte from a 10K egg. It is Rock/Water. Electric deals X2 damage to Water and normal damage to Rock. So is an Electric attack dealing 2X damage to Omanlyte or normal damage or something in between?

Not sure if go uses the same calculations but here is a breakdown
http://pokemondb.net/type/dual

Sadly, I have an Amazon phone so I cannot partake in the fun.

2X. Normal damage match ups basically don't modify the damage taken. If it's x2 or x.5 then it does. Also there is a same type attack bonus or STAB. If the Pokemon's typing and attack typing match, it adds %50 more base damage.

@Izret - Go does not use the same breakdown (not the same as Blue at least). I printed a cheatsheet from this site https://www.vg247.com/2016/07/27/pokemon-go-battle-type-strengths-and-weaknesses-explained/ but it seems to freeze a lot so beware.

@Fleebitten - I didn't mean Normal damage, I meant regular damage. But yes, I found out the hard way that having a dual-type Pokemon seems to be a bad thing.  In my Omanyte's case (Rock/Water), an Electric attack will deal x2 to Omanyte because it's Water, even though Electric would deal regular damage to Rock. It ignores the Rock in this case.

So, a Ground attack deals X2 to Poison and X1/2 to Grass. If you have a Vileplume/Gloom/Oddish (Poison/Grass type), a Ground attack will deal X2 to it, not X1/2.

I turned the music off on Day 1.

Well, I just got back from the beach where I spent a week.  I was hoping for some good Pokémon hunting and especially excited about coming across more of the water/sea creatures like Horseas, Crabbys, Staryus, etc.  Unfortunately, I didn't find this to be the case at all and mostly got more of the same common Pokémon that I'm finding at home.... However, on returning to work today, a co-worker went to a different beach and had good luck finding Magnemites, so many that he was able to evolve one. Kind of odd, but the beach he went to is far more touristy, and the one my family vacations at is much more quiet. Perhaps that's the reason. Who knows?  I'm not sure that the logic I'm using concerning Pokémon locations (and heard that the creators used) is actually valid. It's quite a shame, since it would make the game far more interesting and compel people to head to certain locals in search of certain ones. Oh well...

On a brighter note, I was able to catch quite a few new Pokémon on my trip even though I didn't spend a considerable about playing (beach time > Pokémon, for me). Here's a short list:

Tentacool - I missed this Pokémon on my first day playing this game and finally captured one while we were having breakfast at a restaurant on a local pier.  It was the only one I had seen and not caught in my Pokedex, so I was really happy to have it. Of course, when I got home this Saturday, I caught another one on my couch...figures.

Vulpix - My son got a slinter in his toe on the boardwalk and had to be carried to our house to get it out. While on the way, he spotted a Vulpix, which I figured was probably near a local Pokestop. I dropped him off and duel wielded 2 phones to catch it for both of us. Made him feel a little better.

Seaking (evolved) - Heading to pick up food one night with my daughter, I hatched a 5K egg with a Goldeen. Hatched eggs even with more common Pokémon are pretty great since they usually give you about 25 candies for that species as well. That was enough to finally evolve my Seaking.

Arbok (evolved) - Another egg hatched from walking along the beach. Was able to evolve my Ekans, which was nice. Love the look of this Pokémon; my son loves its action.

Tauros - Was finally able to track down this NA only Pokémon. Had gone out with my daughter to pick up food and my son refused to go. Turned my phone on after picking up the food and it popped up immediately in the parking lot! Showed my son when I got home and made him cry. Take that kid! 

It collects GPS usage, so the touristy beach likely had more GPS data to go off and therefore more Pokemon options to generate. I've mentioned it before, but we don't have a large number of people where I live, so I get basically nothing except for the shopping centers.

Good stuff, Banana & Son!

My town is small as well. I don't know what it's like in a city, but I'd say a Pokemon will spawn once every 10-15 minutes for me. Aside from the commoners, I'm still catching 90% water Pokemon.....Tentacools (so many that Tentacruel is my strongest Pokemon), Slowpokes, Poliwags, Psyducks, Magikarps, etc. I have NEVER seen a fire or rock Pokemon in the wild.

Call it an excuse to play this game, but there is no denying that I am outdoors more and getting more exercise because of it. I'm taking my dogs for longer walks, I've started long boarding again and because of it I am feeling tiny underutilized muscles in my back and legs come back to life.

I did not listen to the Pokemon Go playcast, so I hope I'm not redundant, but I have figured out a few tips recently...
- It's all about the eggs. If you've saved up enough "10 cents" from Gym raids, I'd spend the 150 on Egg Incubators. You get roughly 10-30 candy from a 5k or 10k egg. You're simply not finding that candy in the wild faster than you can hatch an egg, especially from the rarer ones.
- Move set > CP/HP. If you want a strong Pokemon, I believe his move set is far more important than his HP or CP. In general, for the secondary move, the moves that are one long bar are the best. 4 or 5 small blue bars are the worst. Ever fight a Vaporeon and he kills you with one hit? That's because he used Hydro Pump (a one long bar move).
- Lucky Egg + evolutions are the best XP gainer. Last week, I had about 180 Weedle candy, 140 Pidgey, and some other evolves to do. I got over 40,000 XP with one egg.
- Sites like Silph Road and Rankedboost have some good info. Silph Road has a great tool (IV rater) to let you know how strong your Pokemon REALLY is. Rankedboost seems to have the best handle on which attacks and Pokemon are best, with many hidden stats included.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-22/these-charts-show-that-pokemon-go-is-already-in-decline

15 million users dropped out, after a month.

I'm sure lots of new apps have similar fates.  The number is seemingly big, but I bet it's similar to what a lot of apps lose percentage wise after a month.  Still, I see it continuing to lose users, but everyone I know in my area who was playing it, still is.  They will certainly have to implement more updates and additions to the game.

Speaking of implementations, did any one notice the new "Appraise" feature. This tells me that head-to-head battles are probably around the corner. May just be wishful thinking though.

I noticed the new Appraise feature yesterday and got excited, only to be disappointed by the news that all of my Pokémon suck.

LOL

Noticed the appraise feature right away. Don't think it adds much.

It eliminates having to go to a website to see how good your pokemon are, although some websites (silph road in particular) gives a more accurate reading.

Long story short, if you hatch a pokemon from an egg, it'll be awesome. If you catch it in the wild it is likely to be average...maybe even below average.

I don't know if this is breaking news, but I've just figured out you can spin your pokeball before throwing it (you'll see sparks and stars) to get a curveball every time. When you throw it, the physics are similar to spinning a ball in bowling (not that I can do that). 

Yea spinning before throwing is easier than trying to perform the hookshot all on its own.

Sometimes you can get it to curve up to down rather than side to middle but i never got it to happen reliably.

Also the rumor that a curveball is an autocatch is rubbish.

I don't think anything is an autocatch. Not even a Razzberry + Ultra Ball + Green Ring + Excellent throw is 100%, although I think the latter factors help a little.

Pokemon Go will be updating again soon.

Features to look for are - Friends Lists, Leaderboards, Trading (later in the year), Events, PvP, an update to PokeStops, and Pokemon Centers (players will be able to transform PokeStops into PokeCenters where you Pokemon can heal and perform other unannounced actions.

I don't care what that Bloomberg article says, the numbers are misleading anyway. Here's what matters - Pokemon Go will be the highest grossing game of the year.

Update sounds promising

Might start playing again!

http://pokemongolive.com/en/post/buddy/

Cue everyone who doesn't have a Gyarados assigning a Magikarp as their buddy and walking all over the place to get that sweet Magikarp candy.

Is anyone still playing this?

My wife and I play everyday.  Sometimes it's only catch a few and spin a stop, but we still play.