What, no Pokemon Go thread?

bhamv3

bhamv3

I keep getting bug types around where I live and work. I have something like six Pinsirs right now, and I can't go ten steps without tripping over a Weedle. At first all the Weedles annoyed me, but then I thought, screw it, I'm embracing the Weedle infestation. I'm gonna have the best bloody Beedrill ever seen.

Unfortunately, Project Best Bloody Beedrill is currently on hold because I'm out of stardust, but that's ok, I'll get more from catching more Weedles.
 
B

BErt

Krisken said:
Ok, here it goes. I have 90 Pokemon to evolve, 7 to ones I don't already have, just got the last 10 coins for my lucky egg, and I'm about to pop it. Wish me luck!
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screenshot before/after level if you think about it please. I caught on to that trick a little later :( so i havent been getting the most out of it now that I'm aready at 20.
 
Krisken

Krisken

I wish them luck. There are a ton of people in my old town really pissed off because the same guy with three different accounts (he doesn't even try to hid it) has taken over all the gyms in town and just happens to be all LVL 36 with maxed out top Pokemon. They've been emailing Niantic for a week over it, but so far they haven't heard back. I wish them luck as it is ridiculous they have to deal with a botting GPS cheater.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

I don't understand hwy they didn't have anti-bot measures in place from the start, though. I mean, sure, some will always get through, but this game is easy as pie to bot or spoof in, and people were, from the start. It's taken the fun out for a lot of players. Most gyms around here are botted, too - automatically taken over by the same few players all the time, always, with the exact same Pokémon, within seconds. No-one around at 3AM in a closed park where no-one's allowed in so the gym should technically stay the same all night...And my colleagues - you know, the security guard who does his round in the park - can still see it change 1 second after taking it over. Sure, he shouldn't be playing in the job, but still.
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

Bubble181 said:
I don't understand hwy they didn't have anti-bot measures in place from the start, though. I mean, sure, some will always get through, but this game is easy as pie to bot or spoof in, and people were, from the start. It's taken the fun out for a lot of players. Most gyms around here are botted, too - automatically taken over by the same few players all the time, always, with the exact same Pokémon, within seconds. No-one around at 3AM in a closed park where no-one's allowed in so the gym should technically stay the same all night...And my colleagues - you know, the security guard who does his round in the park - can still see it change 1 second after taking it over. Sure, he shouldn't be playing in the job, but still.
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All three gyms in the same park here, which is also closed after dark, and partly inaccessible by car, was taken over by the same botter. I've pretty much lost interest now.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Niantic has started banning bots and cheaters...And "accidentally" completely blocked all traffic from our country's largest network provider. Oops. :awesome:
 
Krisken

Krisken

Bubble181 said:
Niantic has started banning bots and cheaters...And "accidentally" completely blocked all traffic from our country's largest network provider. Oops. :awesome:
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Your whole country's largest network provider is just a front for Pokemon GO cheaters! Burn them all!
 
Krisken

Krisken

Holy crap, I was right (kind of)!

Well, that explains that mystery @Bubble181.

Earlier today, a Redditor on /r/pokemongodev, a community that developed many of the bot programs Niantic is battling against, decided to test a theory on IP bans with surprising results. The redditor allegedly used several burner SIM cards to launch several thousand simultaneous scans of the Pokemon Go servers, similar to what services such as PokeVision did in order to display Pokemon locations. All of the scans were tied to a specific national IP address, used by the cell phone company Proximus. Proximus is Belgium’s largest cell phone service provider.
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Long story short, the phone company received an IP ban since Niantic didn't realize it wasn't a personal account but a network account, leaving anyone on the network with a soft ban.
 
bhamv3

bhamv3

While I was out on my evening Pokewalk a few nights ago, I noticed a guy standing next to a gym, hammering away at his screen. Sure enough, he was challenging the gym. The gym was yellow, he was red, and I'm blue. After he beat the gym, I noticed that he left a CP900 or so Vaporeon in there.

A water type, eh? Well, it just so happens that I have a CP1200 grass type on my roster. Thirty seconds later, the gym was mine.

Best part was, he started to walk away after he took the gym, and right after I flipped the gym, he checked his phone, and actually did a double take at me before walking away dejectedly.

And then like five minutes later the gym became yellow again, with a CP2000 Dragonite guarding it. Ah well, such is the cycle of gyms.
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

Went to Texas A& M this past weekend, got some engagement photos for my daughter done, and played some PG while hiking around campus, hatched six eggs in a 3 hour time.

This is one photo of what the campus looks like, more or less looking west from near the admin building.


Caught this today,


Otherwise just picking up more damn pidgeys and working toward another country grind.
 
Squidleybits

Squidleybits

I taught my son how to play today :). His first Pokemon after his starter was an Eggsecute. Lucky guy!

I also bought my first TGC pack to play against my little guy and on the iPad app.

I'm doomed lol!
 
figmentPez

figmentPez

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Today's patch brings with it the ability to have your team leader appraise your Pokemon, and it's the most time wasting way of finding out next to nothing I can think of.... I can't even....

Basically, all it tells you is what your Pokemon's highest stat is. HP, attack, defense, etc. And then makes a comment about how your Pokemon is the best, and maybe a comment about it's size. A half-dozen clicks per Pokemon, and all it tells you is which of it's (mostly hidden) stats is considered the highest.

Nothing about it's moves. Nothing about what types it's strong/weak against. What useless dreck.
 
DarkAudit

DarkAudit

figmentPez said:
Today's patch brings with it the ability to have your team leader appraise your Pokemon, and it's the most time wasting way of finding out next to nothing I can think of.... I can't even....

Basically, all it tells you is what your Pokemon's highest stat is. HP, attack, defense, etc. And then makes a comment about how your Pokemon is the best, and maybe a comment about it's size. A half-dozen clicks per Pokemon, and all it tells you is which of it's (mostly hidden) stats is considered the highest.

Nothing about it's moves. Nothing about what types it's strong/weak against. What useless dreck.
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"Blown away by the stats" on a CP 93 Magikarp. A fucking MAGIKARP.

The first weekend the hype was this was going to save the world, and could unite communities more than any sports team ever did.

Nope.
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

Krisken said:
I told you, Niantic is terrible at making games. They have no idea what a feature is.

In other news, looks likeLake Park in Milwaukee has had enough of us Pokemon GO players.

What a bunch of assholes.
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So, if I understand this correctly, they want the funding to have public spaces, but they don't want the public to use it. Got it.

I can understand being annoyed at people breaking the rules (disregarding hours, for example), but according to his own letter, citations were issued. It just feels like the underlying issue in the letter is "we don't want to have to do work or enforce the rules". I'm not trying to defend the jerky players who break the rules, they should be punished, but that means everyone else needs to be told they're not welcome?
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

Eh. I dunno, it depends, really, I think. Impacted soil can cause massive damage; it's not like there's ever enough rangers to check everywhere all the time. 102 citations means probably another 1.000 people going unpunished. People being drunk and disorderly, bringing dogs where they're not allowed, walking off the paths,... can cause enormous, long-lasting damage to the environment. A sudden increase of the people visiting by 1000% would be more than a mere annoyance.
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

I do agree with you about people disregarding the rules of the parks and public spaces, but at the same time, the whole reason these spaces exist is to serve the public. We've gotten to a point where we don't need to leave our homes as often anymore, and I've seen article after article lament our sedentary lifestyles. Now people are out and about, and we're supposed to say, "Whoa, there! Only a few of you are allowed to be here, even though our entire existence is supposedly that any of you could come at any time"?
 
Denbrought

Denbrought

Celt Z said:
I do agree with you about people disregarding the rules of the parks and public spaces, but at the same time, the whole reason these spaces exist is to serve the public. We've gotten to a point where we don't need to leave our homes as often anymore, and I've seen article after article lament our sedentary lifestyles. Now people are out and about, and we're supposed to say, "Whoa, there! Only a few of you are allowed to be here, even though our entire existence is supposedly that any of you could come at any time"?
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If they're funded/staffed with the expectation that X to 2X visitors will come per week (outside peaks), and they start getting 10X regularly (pulling numbers out of my sexy booty here) without a corresponding increase in funding/manpower, what are they to do? It's much easier to ask the private company and individuals to follow existing policy (even if it's probably a big stretch, as GO!'s "geo-caches" don't have a physical component) than to get taxpayers to fund them.

They could also sit back and let the park go to shit, I guess? Then we can yell about how lazy public employees are :D
 
Krisken

Krisken

Denbrought said:
If they're funded/staffed with the expectation that X to 2X visitors will come per week (outside peaks), and they start getting 10X regularly (pulling numbers out of my sexy booty here) without a corresponding increase in funding/manpower, what are they to do? It's much easier to ask the private company and individuals to follow existing policy (even if it's probably a big stretch, as GO!'s "geo-caches" don't have a physical component) than to get taxpayers to fund them.

They could also sit back and let the park go to shit, I guess? Then we can yell about how lazy public employees are :D
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Not going to happen. What the article doesn't say is this is a rich white neighborhood in the most segregated city in the US.
 
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