Pokemon Go

[Gromit]

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.

It's a bit too uncontrolled. Someone could rob the cat.

However, cellotape a load of phones to a dog, find a nice comfy park bench, get one of those ball throwing devices, keep throwing the ball. Charge people for levelling their eggs. I reason that a medium sized dog could do twenty phones at once.

 

[Fingers]

It's a bit too uncontrolled. Someone could rob the cat.

Not if the cat was really hard.

 

[Gromit]

Not if the cat was really hard.

Get real. The cat won't resist. It's more likely to thank them for relieving them of the weight or ask for a share of the fence money.

 

[trashpony]

It's a bit too uncontrolled. Someone could rob the cat.

However, cellotape a load of phones to a dog, find a nice comfy park bench, get one of those ball throwing devices, keep throwing the ball. Charge people for levelling their eggs. I reason that a medium sized dog could do twenty phones at once.

I've got an armband for my phone for running. I could attach it to my dog's collar/harness and throw balls for him

 

[spanglechick]

It's a bit too uncontrolled. Someone could rob the cat.

However, cellotape a load of phones to a dog, find a nice comfy park bench, get one of those ball throwing devices, keep throwing the ball. Charge people for levelling their eggs. I reason that a medium sized dog could do twenty phones at once.

You could do it with a small child, too.

 

[Gromit]

You could do it with a small child, too.

Nah you'll get into trouble throwing a small child for a dog to fetch. Stick to balls.

 

[xes]

It's a bit too uncontrolled. Someone could rob the cat.

However, cellotape a load of phones to a dog, find a nice comfy park bench, get one of those ball throwing devices, keep throwing the ball. Charge people for levelling their eggs. I reason that a medium sized dog could do twenty phones at once.

you're thinking waaay too small. A small bum bag can fit 10 phones in easy. You can get 10 bum bags on a dog easy. A small ruck sack and you're laughing.

 

[bi0boy]

Just pay someone training for a marathon to take it out every evening.

 

[xes]

Just pay someone training for a marathon to take it out every evening.

just think how many bum bags you can strap to a marathon runner

 

[Fingers]

Just pay someone training for a marathon to take it out every evening.

Actually, my ex does park run a lot of weekends

 

[pengaleng]

I evolved a Golduck he's 1065 83%

 

[NoBystander]

I have 5 pokestops and a gym in my bedroom. my gPS jumps between them while walking my eggs.

Only managed to get to the gym for long enough to dump defenders. Bah

Downloaded this thing to get out more. fail

 

[mrsfran]

Caught a Growlithe and got up to lvl 20 today too My work runs special buses to tube stations and the one I take travels at approx 15mph for 30 mins past approx 30 pokestops. It then drops me at an Ekans farm

I need more Ponyta, want to power up my awesome Rapidash.

 

[Ranbay]

Lv 13 now just used lucky egg and evolved about 10-12 of em, half way to lv14 so must have got about 10k Xperia or more, caught a few same time so well worth saving up all the shitty ones and doing that

 

[mrsfran]

Interesting speculation re: what's next. 'Pokémon GO': Gen 2 Might Be Coming Sooner Than We Think

 

[squirrelp]

I've just upgraded to find I couldn't login again.
they say they haven't got my email on file for the password reset.
wtf

 

[Saffy]

It's kept freezing on me today and at really annoying moments.

 

[squirrelp]

I am back to the start. was 75% through level 16

 

[strung out]

Just hit level 23 today - saved up 60 or 70 pidgey/weedle evolutions, so i'll be close to 24 soon too hopefully! My Vaporeon is now nearly 2,000 CP

 

[trashpony]

Interesting speculation re: what's next. 'Pokémon GO': Gen 2 Might Be Coming Sooner Than We Think

That's so funny! The foal was saying to me yesterday that he thought they would bring it out 'by the end of the summer holidays' and I was pooh poohing him. Shows what I know

 

[BigTom]

I stayed in the gym for more than 21hrs but no extra bonus, aside from not having to spend the time or items taking the gym again this morning. Gym is now level 10 and I think that's the maximum because it says 52k/50k prestige and prior to that it was counting up to a target to level up. Be interesting to see how long it is before someone spends the time caning it down to nothing, as it's building prestige up past 50k it might take a while just to knock one out so I could be there a while
Currently held by a 2383cp Arcanine (player is level 30) and then a 2294cp Gyrados (player level 31!), I'm fourth with a 1465 flareon.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

I stayed in the gym for more than 21hrs but no extra bonus, aside from not having to spend the time or items taking the gym again this morning. Gym is now level 10 and I think that's the maximum because it says 52k/50k prestige and prior to that it was counting up to a target to level up. Be interesting to see how long it is before someone spends the time caning it down to nothing, as it's building prestige up past 50k it might take a while just to knock one out so I could be there a while
Currently held by a 2383cp Arcanine (player is level 30) and then a 2294cp Gyrados (player level 31!), I'm fourth with a 1465 flareon.

Blimey. Gyms round here last about 10 mins.

 

[mrsfran]

Blimey. Gyms round here last about 10 mins.

Same here. I'm delighted I've had Pokemon in two gyms for over an hour now.

Caught a Ponyta from my sofa this morning and then my first Magnemite on the way to work.

 

[hegley]

I still don't really get gyms.

 

[mrsfran]

I still don't really get gyms.

You find one that belongs to a different team to yours that you have a realistic chance of fighting and winning (ie. there is at least 1 pokemon with a CP lower than your best pokemon, or it only has one or two high level pokemon that you could beat via cumulative damage with your six pokemon). Every time you fight and beat another pokemon at a gym, it lowers the gym's prestige and increases your XP. So you fight repeatedly (reviving and healing your pokemon as you go) until you've lowered the gym's prestige to 0, at which point the other team is ejected from the gym and you can take it over. Revive and heal your best pokemon with potions, then put him/her in the gym and hey presto, it's yours. Immediately go to the shop, click on the shield in the top right corner and claim your coins and 500 stardust.

To fight: tap repeatedly on the opposing pokemon. When the blue bars under your pokemon have been filled, do a longer tap to do a special move. You can dodge special moves from your opponent (usually announced just beforehand with the words "Hypno does a Shadow Ball" or similar) by swiping left or right (you have to be quick). Special moves inflict more damage on your opponent but also leave you open to damage longer.

 

[Saffy]

I don't understand gyms either.
I went past one the same colour team as I am and I put my Hypno in there. I then panicked as we were driving out of Harrogate to go back down south that I'd lost him.

 

[mrsfran]

Oh and when you go to fight, it will display the 6 pokemon it thinks you want to fight with. You can swap these around by tapping on them and chosing other pokemon if you wish. For example, if you're fighting a Fire-type, then you might want to choose a Water-type to fight it as apparently Water types are very effective against Fire types.

 

[mrsfran]

I don't understand gyms either.
I went past one the same colour team as I am and I put my Hypno in there. I then panicked as we were driving out of Harrogate to go back down south that I'd lost him.

No, once you've been ejected from the gym they come back

 

[Saffy]

My OH was pissing himself laughing at my forlorn face when I thought I'd lost him.

 

[Saffy]

Thanks mrsfran that info is really helpful. I'm off on a bike ride today with my boy to do some pokemon hunting, so I'll give it another go.