My town is .93 square miles in size. It takes me less than 15 minutes to take all the gyms in town. It's the only consolation I have here...because sure as shit ain't enough pokestops around here
What, no Pokemon Go thread?
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Magikarp just flops around.
But you've probably already paid for the bag extension and a bunch of lures, or whatever your fancy is. I've tried taking gyms at 3AM and they still change hands within minutes....and that's bmuping the mto level 4 with my gf's help before moving to another one.My town is .93 square miles in size. It takes me less than 15 minutes to take all the gyms in town. It's the only consolation I have here...because sure as shit ain't enough pokestops around here
Might be spoofers. That's been happening a lot lately according to reddit reports.
For the last 3 nights, I've noticed all of the gyms in my neighborhood turn blue at the same time every night, with the same 3 people in it.
One of those gyms is in the park directly across the street from my front door. I've gone out there while the gym was being fought (because I observed the prestige changing, and observed the 'fighting' animation at the top of the gym), and nobody was around. Looks like spoofers have found my little town.
For what it's worth, I've only ever used like 3 lures since starting playing--but I was lucky enough to get a 1400cp vaporeon early, which put me over the top of what anyone else in town seemed to have. Plus, I caught onto the lucky-egg-pidgey/caterpie/wheedle xp grind pretty quick, and was up at level 18 where everyone else seemed to still be at 14-15
Pokemon Go not being released in Taiwan yet may be because one guy is suing Niantic for infringing on his patents.
Dude, I sympathize with you feeling like your intellectual property rights have been trampled, I really do. But on behalf of Pokemon fans throughout Taiwan... please stop suing Niantic.
Dude, I sympathize with you feeling like your intellectual property rights have been trampled, I really do. But on behalf of Pokemon fans throughout Taiwan... please stop suing Niantic.
figmentPez
Staff member
I'm pretty sure it happened to me today. I took over a gym, and within 2 minutes it had been taken over. This gym is in the middle of a pond surrounded by parking lots, every place within range was visible. There was no-one.
I expected a patent troll, but I think he has a point. He's just demanding too much for settlement.
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Pokemon Go: After Dark
B
BErt
Yeah, so... there's a house down the street from me that is a damn haven for Pokemon.You walk by and at least 6 spawn immediately. Funny thing is, there is always 1 random water Pokemon. I've caught a magicarp, poliwag, squirtle, horsea and a dewgong. All amongst the normal awful trio of rattata, weedle, and pidgey of course.
I can't say anything about nests, but we have noticed here that different pokemon seem to be "hot" as the week goes on. I saw my first mankey here in the wild today, for instance. Yesterday was ponytas.[DOUBLEPOST=1469830856,1469830679][/DOUBLEPOST]
I don't know jack about tiawan's patent system. But in the US
Would likely be considered overbroad and obvious, since basically what's he's patenting is "hey, your phone sends a gps coordinate to a server. The server does stuff with it, whatever you want."
Reddit is reporting that nests changed today, as well as some tweaking to the base damage of many attacks.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4v92bj/game_changes_several_reports_that_ingame_nests/
I think I held them for about an hour before the usual populace woke up and rushed down to claim them. My walk does come at about six in the morning after all.
figmentPez
Staff member
Patch came out today, notable changes:
- you can change your trainer's appearance (and gender)
- medals now have varied icons
- the transfer button has changed locations (and should be quicker to access, since it won't require scrolling)
- the map looks a little different, streets are wider. Not sure what else.
- supposedly some memory issues have been fixed
- the three footprints bug has been fixed... by removing footprints completely. yeah.....
- you can change your trainer's appearance (and gender)
- medals now have varied icons
- the transfer button has changed locations (and should be quicker to access, since it won't require scrolling)
- the map looks a little different, streets are wider. Not sure what else.
- supposedly some memory issues have been fixed
- the three footprints bug has been fixed... by removing footprints completely. yeah.....
figmentPez
Staff member
Man, removing the steps completely is a bullshit move. Pokevision is shut down as well, meaning you've either got to go further and do more, or jsut give up and wander around.
Wandering around aimlessly is fairly useless, with "nearby" Pokémon being somewhere in a few hundred square meter radius. Using even more side programs/apps is just pretty much cheating.
I have friends who openly say they're just botting it by now, I see people spoofing gyms (10 gyms all turning the same color at the same second, all turning another color 5 seconds later, and so on, it's clearyl a concerted effort to have a number of player all get the full 100 coins in seconds, then give it to the next player and so on - for half an hour on end)...
Idea of the game = good
State of the game = rubbish.
I really don't feel the need to be the Very Best Like No-one Ever Was - I can only wander around a few hours a day max, after all, and I'm not spending money on it. But keeping it fun or interesting would've been a good plan. if the "optimal" strategy is to sit besides a shop hanging lures to attract customers all day long, well, okay....But that's boring. Walking/wandering is pretty much the most useless way of running the game right now.[DOUBLEPOST=1469984325,1469984154][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, more personally: Incense doesn't work for me. Yesterday, my gf and I both set off incense at the same time, and walked beside one another to a park nearby. She got 6 Pokémon I didn't, all spawning directly under her feet pretty much. I didn't get a single Pokémon she didn't catch, just a few few alert buzzes of my phone. Nuts to that.
Wandering around aimlessly is fairly useless, with "nearby" Pokémon being somewhere in a few hundred square meter radius. Using even more side programs/apps is just pretty much cheating.
I have friends who openly say they're just botting it by now, I see people spoofing gyms (10 gyms all turning the same color at the same second, all turning another color 5 seconds later, and so on, it's clearyl a concerted effort to have a number of player all get the full 100 coins in seconds, then give it to the next player and so on - for half an hour on end)...
Idea of the game = good
State of the game = rubbish.
I really don't feel the need to be the Very Best Like No-one Ever Was - I can only wander around a few hours a day max, after all, and I'm not spending money on it. But keeping it fun or interesting would've been a good plan. if the "optimal" strategy is to sit besides a shop hanging lures to attract customers all day long, well, okay....But that's boring. Walking/wandering is pretty much the most useless way of running the game right now.[DOUBLEPOST=1469984325,1469984154][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, more personally: Incense doesn't work for me. Yesterday, my gf and I both set off incense at the same time, and walked beside one another to a park nearby. She got 6 Pokémon I didn't, all spawning directly under her feet pretty much. I didn't get a single Pokémon she didn't catch, just a few few alert buzzes of my phone. Nuts to that.
figmentPez
Staff member
Yeah, I came to the conclusion the other day that gyms are pretty much pointless if you don't have super-powerful Pokemon (or you get really lucky). There's nothing to do there if you don't have strong enough Pokemon to take out whoever is holding the gym. Even if you can defeat the lowest tier to get some XP, you'd still be better off just visiting more Pokestops and catching Pokemon than fighting at the gym.
Also, whose stupid idea was it to leave gyms open for the taking after they've been defeated? It should not be possible for just anyone to come in and claim a gym when someone else was the one who beat the reigning Pokemon. That's just bullshit.
The UI is crap, there are so many obviously bad decisions made with the mechanics that I don't even know where to begin, it's tremendously resource intensive when it has no need to be.
It looks pretty and it has the Pokemon IP. That's pretty much all it has going for it. I'm only playing because it's incentive to get off my ass and get some exercise. Otherwise I'd be passing it by.
Also, whose stupid idea was it to leave gyms open for the taking after they've been defeated? It should not be possible for just anyone to come in and claim a gym when someone else was the one who beat the reigning Pokemon. That's just bullshit.
The UI is crap, there are so many obviously bad decisions made with the mechanics that I don't even know where to begin, it's tremendously resource intensive when it has no need to be.
It looks pretty and it has the Pokemon IP. That's pretty much all it has going for it. I'm only playing because it's incentive to get off my ass and get some exercise. Otherwise I'd be passing it by.
I am pretty much the highest trainer in my town, but the kids constantly take gyms out from under me by cooperating. Two or more people can fight a gym at the same time. If they're both fighting the same pokemon at the same time, they both do damage to that single pokemon simultaneously, making it much easier to take down. There are these Instinct teamed teens who live near me who look like they're 13 or 14, and travel in this pack of 3-5 of them.
They're constantly knocking down my 1800-ish pokemons out of gyms by all sitting down and hitting "go" at the same time on the gym battle. even with 800cp pokemon, if you've got 4 of them battling your 1800-ish pokemon, they're going to win. Especially since they can each bring 6 into battle.
The point? Make a friend or something and team up
Offense will always trump defense. Offense can bring 36 hand picked Pokémon based on who they're fighting, type-wise; defense can have 10 (max) Pokémon in play, in a set order, without manual finetuning or dodging.
Of course, it doesn't help that CP is a fairly meaningless stat. I've taken down 400+CP higher Pokémon with one of mine. Type, HP, attack type etc are more important by far.
Additionally, each offensive victory is -500 Prestige per Pokémon, with a 2000 Prestige bonus if you defeat all of them, while training to raise is a slow and arduous process which may result in, maybe, +400 if you're lucky and defeat 3 or 4 Pokémon with one of your own.
Holding a gym for more than a few hours is impossible unless you're in nearly uncontested country, are much stronger than everyone else, or cheat (have a couple of spoofed accounts constantly battling to raise Prestige back up again).
Of course, it doesn't help that CP is a fairly meaningless stat. I've taken down 400+CP higher Pokémon with one of mine. Type, HP, attack type etc are more important by far.
Additionally, each offensive victory is -500 Prestige per Pokémon, with a 2000 Prestige bonus if you defeat all of them, while training to raise is a slow and arduous process which may result in, maybe, +400 if you're lucky and defeat 3 or 4 Pokémon with one of your own.
Holding a gym for more than a few hours is impossible unless you're in nearly uncontested country, are much stronger than everyone else, or cheat (have a couple of spoofed accounts constantly battling to raise Prestige back up again).
I actually want the other teams to take my gyms. I'll often put a low cp pokemon in there just to encourage another team to kick me out. I used to put big pokemon in there to hold the gym, but I just don't care any more.
Every morning, I awake hoping to see 5 differently-colored gyms around town at gym levels 3-6.My biggest disappointment is when the gyms are all blue, because it means I have to work hard to put a pokemon in the gym before collecting my bonus.
But if they're all red or yellow, I rush around town just before sun-up, taking them all for big xp. Then I immediately hit the store for my daily bonus. When the teens get up a couple hours later and take the gyms back, I don't care. They can hold it all day if they want the bragging rights. I just want them for 15 minutes so I can collect my bonus.
Every morning, I awake hoping to see 5 differently-colored gyms around town at gym levels 3-6.My biggest disappointment is when the gyms are all blue, because it means I have to work hard to put a pokemon in the gym before collecting my bonus.
But if they're all red or yellow, I rush around town just before sun-up, taking them all for big xp. Then I immediately hit the store for my daily bonus. When the teens get up a couple hours later and take the gyms back, I don't care. They can hold it all day if they want the bragging rights. I just want them for 15 minutes so I can collect my bonus.
figmentPez
Staff member
Dave
Staff member
Yeah, Niantic has fucked up bad. I don't think they could be more tone-deaf than they already are. Fuck the people who are using our app. Let's open it to other countries as fast as we can and not fix shit. In fact, let's go after third party apps that help people use our broken shit. That'll do it.
Chatter on reddit suggests their behavior could get the app yanked from the Apple and Google stores. The email listed is "not monitored" and OP in that thread calls it a violation of Google's terms and conditions.
Another thread calls the latest update just a cynical ploy to wipe all the 1-star reviews from the previous update.
Maybe, but they have a lot of time to refine it. They are in the wild west of technology right now. Nobody is close to what they have going so far. They are years ahead of anyone else producing an AR game like this, I'd wager. The possibilities are quite exciting. Imagine an AR sword and sorcery RPG, or a Lovecraftian mystery. Nobody is close to that kind of thing until Pokemon Go feels out the territory for them. All that said, they could probably use a little better PR right now to handle the inevitable missteps while they figure things out.
Dave
Staff member
They aren't years ahead of shit. As I've stated before, my friend Don and his startup had a game remarkably similar to this before Niantic was a company, only it used Super Heroes & Villains instead of Pokemon. But since they didn't have the Pokemon name it didn't do shit.
They aren't innovative at all.
They aren't innovative at all.