Pokemon Go

[tommers]

I don't think the tracker ever worked after official UK release - I d/l'ed on the same day and it never worked for me - everything stayed 3 footprints away. I thought that's why they disabled it?

Yeah, same. Downloaded on the release day.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

you do but it's 50k to go from 20 to 21, and 75k for 21 to 22 so it starts to feel a bit pointless trying to chase levels now.

There's a player round here taking over gyms who is level 29

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

Open letter from Yang Liu (creator of the now defunct Pokevision).

An Open Letter to John Hanke & Niantic

Everyone ought to read it but the thing that stood out for me was the fact that Pokevision had 50 million unique users a day. PokemonGo has 80 million. That is bonkers. It patently means the app isn't working properly and the developers aren't listening.

Also this choice comment (because not everyone plays to catch endless pidgeys):

Brilliant article Yang — let me give you 2 scenarios I’ve encountered this week…..we live in a rural area which means 2 pokestops and mainly weedles, zubats and pidgeys. Before any type of tracker we had to drive 20 minutes into town to make the game “more fun”

Then we discovered pokevision and it completely changed the way me, my son (15), daughter (14) and daughter (9) played the game. We became active players excited by the fact we could “see” the pokemon we wanted to catch. We ran, drove and walked towards pokemon all around the city (and around our village)- we didn’t catch every single one (so people saying it is cheating are completely wrong). The excitement was in the chase NOT in aimlessly walking around waiting for your phone to vibrate. We’ve seen and missed 2 hitmonlees, we spotted a Persian but got there too late. We laughed, we’ve got giddy, we’ve had crushing disappointment and we’ve done this as a family, having fun with a purpose.

In our city (lincoln uk) we have 2 lures on 2 pokestops side by side with 100s of people just sat, not moving, waiting for the next random pokemon to spawn. No fitness benefits, no mad chases, just sat…waiting…before pokevision there were crowds of people around these stops, last Saturday there were at the most 6 people- everyone else we bumped into was using pokevision. They were up, running around, chasing pokemon (isn’t that the point?).

Just before pokevision was pulled we were on our way out of town and had a quick look on pokevision at our route home. By some miracle a dragonite appeared in the remotest of areas (one with almist zero footfall) and we managed to catch it. No one else turned up in those remaining 12 minutes before it despawned. With pokevision only 2 people caught it at that time- without pokevision there would he been zero — what a waste??

Now without tracking abilities we are back to casually checking our phones when walking the dogs. No chasing, no trips into town…just watching weedle after pidgeys after zubats appear on our 30 minute walk. All fun removed from the game. The urgency to go pokemon hunting gone.

I struggle to see how niantic expects people to just get on with it, stop whinging and carry on playing? The game has gone from excitement to pointless — even if I can see something on nearby there are 360 different directions I could go and still not even see let alone catch the mystery pokemon. That’s not fun that’s frustrating nonsense

As yang has stated- you’ve managed to reignite a passion that for many of us was long gone. You’ve got families playing together, collectively interested in this pokemon treasure hunt. My son would ask if we could head to the neighbouring village as some pokemon he didn’t have had appeared — I was taken back to being 12 again…rushing to get shoes on and try and make it in time.

If niantic and John don’t offer something very soon you’ll end up with a great case study of how the greatest ever mobile game by downloads and usage became the most pointless, unplayed unloved game in a matter of 14 days.

Please, please don’t ruin this one opportunity…..

 

[hegley]

Everyone ought to read it but the this that stood out for me was that Pokevision had 50 million unique users a day. PokemonGo has 80 million. That is bonkers. It patently means the app isn't working properly and the developers aren't listening.

The game's been out in the UK for just over two weeks; Niantic have about 50 employees. And people are getting arsey with them for not developing it/solving problems quick enough? It's free ffs. Wait it out. It's so hugely popular there's no way they won't sort stuff out eventually.

 

[pengaleng]

if it was free then why are people asking for and getting refunds?

freedom aint refundable.
money is.

 

[pengaleng]

I hatched a pikachu and a squirtle on the bus, been doing loadsa poketings

 

[Pickman's model]

I hatched a pikachu and a squirtle on the bus, been doing loadsa poketings

nearly a haiku

 

[pengaleng]

glad you like it, worked on it for ages.

 

[Ranbay]

Been saving up candy ready for my lucky eggs! got about 8 I can evolve now add that same time as I lure and an incense, all I need now is 30 mins sat still

 

[souljacker]

I got a magnamite yesterday. Very odd looking thing.

 

[Ranbay]

Just got some coins from a Gym! only 10 but w00t!

 

[Ranbay]

Whats the shield top right in the shop? it's counting down from 21 hours by the looks of it?

 

[pengaleng]

Been saving up candy ready for my lucky eggs! got about 8 I can evolve now add that same time as I lure and an incense, all I need now is 30 mins sat still

dont waste the incense on sitting still

 

[trashpony]

Whats the shield top right in the shop? it's counting down from 21 hours by the looks of it?

You get more coins etc if you hold a gym for 20 hours iirc

 

[bi0boy]

I was in quite a remote place today, there was a church and house next to it and that was it. I had no mobile signal and I bet no other networks did either. If that church is a gym the residents of the house are going to be well sorted with their fixed line internet and no competitors. Bet they've levelled the gym up to 20 or something.

 

[BigTom]

There's a player round here taking over gyms who is level 29

That's some serious game time / grinding going on - this morning I rinsed out my local gyms and 4 of them had 1800cp+ Lapras' in them all from one player, fuck knows how they managed to catch so many as I haven't seen a single one!
Still in two of the 6 gyms from this morning, one of them has gone up to level 8 during the day so I might actually get a 21hr bonus. I doubt it though, someone will spend the time caning that gym down I'm sure.

Whats the shield top right in the shop? it's counting down from 21 hours by the looks of it?

When you are in gyms you can get coins and dust by pressing that button - 10 coins and 500 dust for each gym you have a defender in - the number in the shield tells you how many you are in. You get a bonus for holding a gym for more than 21hrs (I think it's 21hrs anyway) and you can only press the button once every 21hrs, so once that timer has counted down you can press it again for more coins.
Further up thread someone suggested going round at 3am and claiming loads of gyms (10 max iirc) which I did this morning (6am rather than 3am and I'm usually up at that time), got 6 out of the 7 ones near me and claimed 60 coins and 3,000 dust after I got the last one. Rinsed out all my potions and super potions, some of my hyper potions and most of my revives doing it so don't know if I'll be able to repeat it anytime soon.

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

The game's been out in the UK for just over two weeks; Niantic have about 50 employees. And people are getting arsey with them for not developing it/solving problems quick enough? It's free ffs. Wait it out. It's so hugely popular there's no way they won't sort stuff out eventually.

Which is why I said if Ingress is anything to go by you'll be waiting for months/years before they fix it. That's how Niantic operate.

It's fine if people put up with it like they did with ingress but this is much bigger and has Nintendo's name on it.

People are already getting refunds for what was mis-sold. Lucky eggs, and such like. It's not "free". Ingress was a data mine, they gave you a game and got free data in return. Pokemon is the same except you can buy stuff in their shop.

 

[hegley]

It's not "free". Ingress was a data mine, they gave you a game and got free data in return. Pokemon is the same except you can buy stuff in their shop.

It's free to play. Choosing to make optional in-app purchases to make the game easier/quicker to level up doesn't change that.

 

[Ranbay]

 

[Fingers]

Had a rather good day yesterday. Had to go round London a load of places on the bus and it is great for getting your pokeballs up and getting Pokemon.

Went up two levels to 14, caught four new ones including three Jinx.

I notice there are a lot more Ghastlys around in this area as caught one in the COOP and three from my bed today.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Level 20 today. Looks like it's a bit of a slog from this point on

 

[pengaleng]

I got level 20 today

 

[trashpony]

I think the egg walk thing is borked in the upgrade. I've been stuck on 4.7k and walked home from the park and round Aldi and it hasn't budged.

 

[Gromit]

I think the egg walk thing is borked in the upgrade. I've been stuck on 4.7k and walked home from the park and round Aldi and it hasn't budged.

Slow down. You've obviously been walking faster than 15mph.

 

[trashpony]

Slow down. You've obviously been walking faster than 15mph.

 

[pengaleng]

I've upgraded and hatched bare eggs today

 

[BigTom]

I think the egg walk thing is borked in the upgrade. I've been stuck on 4.7k and walked home from the park and round Aldi and it hasn't budged.

Working for me this evening, does take a few minutes to register distance now though, also it it possible that you walked 900m, and were on 4.65 before and are on 4.74 now? (If you press on an egg it gives you an extra decimal place on the distance, it rounds up at .5 which is especially annoying when you get to 4.95 and it's saying 5.0/5.0 on the front screen).

 

[trashpony]

Working for me this evening, does take a few minutes to register distance now though, also it it possible that you walked 900m, and were on 4.65 before and are on 4.74 now? (If you press on an egg it gives you an extra decimal place on the distance, it rounds up at .5 which is especially annoying when you get to 4.95 and it's saying 5.0/5.0 on the front screen).

I think I mistook the dog doing a lot of running about as me doing a lot of walking which I clearly wasn't.

 

[Fingers]

I think I mistook the dog doing a lot of running about as me doing a lot of walking which I clearly wasn't.

Which makes me think, will it work if you strap a phone to a cat? Some cover a fair bit of distance when they are not sleeping.

 

[tommers]

People are already getting refunds for what was mis-sold. Lucky eggs, and such like.

How can a lucky egg be mis-sold?