Pokemon Go

[bi0boy]

I am sat here waiting for the servers to come back up so i can go for a walk

 

[tommers]

Yeah we had problems earlier. Probably just oversubscribed.

 

[trashpony]

I got a Pikachu

What took you so long?

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

What took you so long?

 

[J Ed]

Pokemon go is cool but my phone stopped working

 

[Vintage Paw]

Barely been able to get the game to work the past couple of hours on my walk. Attempted to catch 5 different pokemon, but it only registered one. Managed to get a couple of balls from a pokestop though. Went to the pub by the canal, which is a gym. Woman working there said there's a guy who works there who was a tester for the game and so has had it for a couple of months and is like level 200 or something stupid and has had control of the gym unopposed and she's really pissed off. She asked if I could get into the game, because she had her phone in her pocket so she could hatch an egg while she worked but all it's done is run down her battery while the servers are offline.

I love this game.

 

[squirrelp]

I have just started downloading this thing. erk

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Some blue team bastard has come along in the middle of the night and taken over every single gym round here, at least 4 of them

This is war



(I'm actually quite impressed at the level of commitment, they must have walked miles in the middle of the night to do it )

 

[Callie]

If you happened to live within reach of a gym, that so far always seems to be affiliated to red what would be the most useful plan? Join red or go against it?

 

[tommers]

If you happened to live within reach of a gym, that so far always seems to be affiliated to red what would be the most useful plan? Join red or go against it?

Go against it. Work hard. Build up the best damn Pidgy that anybody has ever seen and then use it to grind those red bastards into the dirt.

 

[Callie]

Hmmmmm pidgey you say? I've only got 43 of those

 

[Whagwan]

Pidgeys (along with weedles and caterpies) are most useful to save up, use a lucky egg and then evolve the fuck out of as many as possible to level..

 

[Pingu]

there is a squirtle in our garden apparently...

 

[skyscraper101]

Do I take it that this game is not very great if you live out in the sticks with no landmarks or places of interest for miles?

 

[Vintage Paw]

Do I take it that this game is not very great if you live out in the sticks with no landmarks or places of interest for miles?

That seems to be the case, yes. You don't strictly need pokestops or gyms. You get more pokeballs when you level up, but that's no good if you're wasteful when trying to catch pokemon. You'll miss out on testing your mettle in battle, but if you're more concerned with simply 'catching 'em all' then that doesn't matter. And of course, there are always the microtransactions...

 

[skyscraper101]

That seems to be the case, yes. You don't strictly need pokestops or gyms. You get more pokeballs when you level up, but that's no good if you're wasteful when trying to catch pokemon. You'll miss out on testing your mettle in battle, but if you're more concerned with simply 'catching 'em all' then that doesn't matter. And of course, there are always the microtransactions...

I only understood the first sentence of that, but cheers

 

[Glitter]

The servers are doing my head in. It's making it pretty much unplayable for me.

 

[trashpony]

I dropped E off at school this morning and a pokemon appeared outside the gate. Then there was another one on the way home. I was pinned against the alley wall, trying to catch an exeggcute while loads of school kids streamed past

 

[8den]

Pokemon Go player calls 999 to report 'stolen Pokemon' - BBC News

It's worth listening to the 999 call.

 

[Treacle Toes]

.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Pokemon Go player calls 999 to report 'stolen Pokemon' - BBC News

It's worth listening to the 999 call.

Kids are absolute fuckers for calling 999. It's not a pokemon problem; it's a kid problem. Ban kids.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Are the servers down, aksing for a friend.....

Were hacked over the weekend.

Pokémon Go has completely crashed, and a hacking group is claiming credit

 

[binka]

Have had it since the official uk launch but I reckon I fucked up at the start because I didn't really know what I was doing and just sent all the duplicates back to the prof. Not really been out and about with it much especially with the servers being a bit rubbish so I'm only on level 6. Think I might reset and start again. Need to find a good guide so I can level up more efficiently.

By the way not seen it mentioned on this topic yet but if you go into settings you can turn on the battery saver - that means if you walk around with the app on but the phone turned upside down the screen brightness go nearly black so saving a lot of power. It still buzzes if you come across a pokemon though

 

[skyscraper101]

This is all very reminiscent of the Chinpokomon episode of South Park

 

[chilango]

Just been to the gym. Judging by the gaggle of scrawny, pale adolescents hanging around outside with phones trying avoid the sunlight I figured it must also be a Pokemon gym. Result. Single handedly took the gym from the yellow vermin for the Red Army whilst doing my cardio warm up on the exercise bike. Lost it straight away though as I headed off to the weights. Ah well. I'll be back.

 

[souljacker]

We put a gym in your gym because we heard you like gyms.

 

[emanymton]

Think I'll stick to playing digfender

 

[marty21]

A workmate was playing it today he downloaded for his son

He went out at lunchtime with another workmate , she was confused as she couldn't see anything in the street

 

[Ranbay]

This is all very reminiscent of the Chinpokomon episode of South Park

I have been shouting this for a week.... Chinpokomom!

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I had control of a gym today, lasted about 30 mins before some no doubt spotty oik of a teenager who is 12 levels above me took it back