No. I thought that if I retook it, she would do the exact same thing again. I went away and took over a different gym. Just wanted to redeem my coins...
Last edited:
-
Welcome to Smogon! Take a moment to read the Introduction to Smogon for a run-down on everything Smogon, and make sure you take some time to read the global rules.
-
Congrats to the winners of the 2023 Smog Awards!
Pokémon GO
- Thread starter Blitz
- Start date
Hi,
I just wanted to give an advice, do NOT activate pogo while driving, especially on the highway. I've been doing that during 2 weeks every mornings / evenings when I was going at work and leaving it. I've just activated it for the eggs because the kms are still increasing. But I was walking in a park today, catching mon and few minutes after I couldn't be able to take any pokestop and all the Pokemon I've found were going away after I've used one ball.
Some people on Pokemon go room on PS! told me that it is certainly a softban due to what I've said above, because my gps location was changing too fast and they could think that I was manipulating it.
I just wanted to give an advice, do NOT activate pogo while driving, especially on the highway. I've been doing that during 2 weeks every mornings / evenings when I was going at work and leaving it. I've just activated it for the eggs because the kms are still increasing. But I was walking in a park today, catching mon and few minutes after I couldn't be able to take any pokestop and all the Pokemon I've found were going away after I've used one ball.
Some people on Pokemon go room on PS! told me that it is certainly a softban due to what I've said above, because my gps location was changing too fast and they could think that I was manipulating it.
I had this earlier this month while I was traveling by train. I turned off PoGo when the train started moving, and I turned it back on when I arrived at my destination (roughly 100km away). For some reason the game thought I was still at the location I departed from, and it teleported me all the way to my current location. I got softbanned as well, and I got kind of frustrated because it really wasn't my fault at all. And I just wanted to play. Couldn't catch any Pokemon (they would run away instantly) and couldn't spin a single Pokestop. Luckily the trick to instantly lift the softban worked.
Nah, we need the guy/team who inflicted the most damages to get the priority, or the third team can still take advantage of your work. Two days ago, I killed a red gym, then a yellow, then it became red again and I was just powerless. Beat me afterwards if you want, but let me take those 10 coins ;_;
when its 1 low level pokemon that gets cleared every time, the person who won the gym battle should have the opportunity to put something in.
game taking the piss again, go to work, slowbro dratini and golduck on nearby list.
get home... .3km left on egg. walk... it adds ZERO to it.
and then start to eat.. Abra on the nearby list, ABRA!!!
oh and the game still doesnt reward exp properly, been getting a fair few blatant curveballs unregistering.
game taking the piss again, go to work, slowbro dratini and golduck on nearby list.
get home... .3km left on egg. walk... it adds ZERO to it.
and then start to eat.. Abra on the nearby list, ABRA!!!
oh and the game still doesnt reward exp properly, been getting a fair few blatant curveballs unregistering.
Oh, I'm getting the opposite sometimes. I never throw curveballs on low level Pidgey/Rattata, yet it registers them as curveballs.
...which is??
That sounds more like a problem with your phone's GPS tracking than the game itself.
Spinning a Pokestop 40 times consecutively.
Don't know, I don't think it's either my GPS or battery save mode. Sometimes I keep the app open when walking, and I keep looking at my screen. I don't walk faster than 5 km/h, and I also don't see any weird things regarding the GPS and location of my character. When I properly walk 5 kilometers, it never properly registers those 5 kilometers. Pretty annoying.
it was open, and now the egg has hatched into a Spearow... WHY!!! practically anything else OTHER then that, Fearow is freaking useless.
oh and apparently Niantic changed things withe egg accuracy (lol) and more diversity spawning... definitely the latter., and changed some moves, on pokemon, old ones will still have the, new ones won't.
it would be nice if I could level my Gyarados up... its sat in a gym for over a day now, i got enough candy to level it up twice. that's a good 76 cp right there :(
and the eggs only count from Point A to point B as the crow flys, within a set time (which seems to be like 10 minutes), it was far less because I used to get traveling on tram adding a good 0.3.. now it is lucky to add 0.01, and the tram travels slower in some points where it would probably add.
oh and apparently Niantic changed things withe egg accuracy (lol) and more diversity spawning... definitely the latter., and changed some moves, on pokemon, old ones will still have the, new ones won't.
it would be nice if I could level my Gyarados up... its sat in a gym for over a day now, i got enough candy to level it up twice. that's a good 76 cp right there :(
and the eggs only count from Point A to point B as the crow flys, within a set time (which seems to be like 10 minutes), it was far less because I used to get traveling on tram adding a good 0.3.. now it is lucky to add 0.01, and the tram travels slower in some points where it would probably add.
Last edited:
Egg distances can get annoying quickly since they randomly update (one time an egg that said 5.0/5.0 hatch after I walked to my car, drive home and then walk into my room). That and the occasional egg hatching without an animation sometimes, where basically I'll go check on it and it'll just say 8/9 eggs and then require me to check recent mons to see what it is.
This has probably been asked before, but does anyone know the chances of getting a 10K egg or some method to increase the chance of getting one? All I've been getting are 5K's, which aren't bad, other than what they turn out to be.
Also, I've heard that some moves like Steel Wing and Water Pulse can be better for defending/holding gyms because of the way the AI uses them. If possible, does anyone have a list or know where to find one for moves that are better for defending gyms of whatnot?
Starters are so hard to catch, and the worst part is that for me they usually got bad IV's (got like 130 Bulbasaur candy and the highest one was like 66% perfect with the 2nd highest being 42% perfect).
Finally, does getting Great, Nice or Excellent on throws improve the catch rate, or is solely just an exp bonus?
This has probably been asked before, but does anyone know the chances of getting a 10K egg or some method to increase the chance of getting one? All I've been getting are 5K's, which aren't bad, other than what they turn out to be.
Also, I've heard that some moves like Steel Wing and Water Pulse can be better for defending/holding gyms because of the way the AI uses them. If possible, does anyone have a list or know where to find one for moves that are better for defending gyms of whatnot?
Starters are so hard to catch, and the worst part is that for me they usually got bad IV's (got like 130 Bulbasaur candy and the highest one was like 66% perfect with the 2nd highest being 42% perfect).
Finally, does getting Great, Nice or Excellent on throws improve the catch rate, or is solely just an exp bonus?
starters are a pain in the backside, I think every squirtle I catch is way below 50% I did hatch a charmander a while back, so that has good IV's, i'm actually 1 candy off a wartortle
oh and moves were changed on pokemon, pokemon already owned that has these moves are uneffected.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqUqnmcUsAAqieL.jpg:large
wouldn't mind sitting a hyper beam chancy in a gym... high HP (terrible CP) and a freaking STAB nuke, yes please.
hard to say on catch rates tbh, I see little effect.
oh and moves were changed on pokemon, pokemon already owned that has these moves are uneffected.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqUqnmcUsAAqieL.jpg:large
wouldn't mind sitting a hyper beam chancy in a gym... high HP (terrible CP) and a freaking STAB nuke, yes please.
hard to say on catch rates tbh, I see little effect.
So that's what happened. Now it makes sense. I was on a long distance bus trip and thought it would be good to turn it on. Then, I found out that I couldn't spin Stops or catch Pokemon.
EDIT: I still find it funny to see Diglett, Rhyhorn and Charmander spawn on Water ( I was on a ferry )
Check this (click) out. Just click on a Pokemon and scroll down to its moveset. You will see the optimal moveset for both attacking and defending.
There should also be stuff on that site about capturing mechanics and such.
this is the most accurate list if i recall correctly, takes into account the defense mechanics of gym battles accurately as opposed to other sites
as for your bulbasaur remark, thats because of the pokedex bug. the lower a pokemon's pokedex # is, the lower its attack IV will be, which means something like bulbasaur will have almost always a 0ish attack IV, making for really shitty bulbasaurs caught in the wild (this doesnt apply to eggs though, which makes the starters great hatches). This also explains why perfect Eeveelutions and dragonites are so common, eevee and dratini almost always have 15ish attack IVs in the wild.
I can't believe the 1.2 km bug still wasn't fixed. It is only present for some, but the Egg progress stops at exactly 1.2 km for some reason.
That said, it's funny how events made focus less and less on walking. People just chill in parks where they can reach ~4 PokeStops from a single spot and just wait until they recharge and are ready for use. Of course, lures are set on all Stops at all times, so there are Pokemon coming over all the time. But yeah, main source of Exp is just waiting for the Stops to recharge and catching the Pokemon that come to you, without moving from that bench in the park.
That said, it's funny how events made focus less and less on walking. People just chill in parks where they can reach ~4 PokeStops from a single spot and just wait until they recharge and are ready for use. Of course, lures are set on all Stops at all times, so there are Pokemon coming over all the time. But yeah, main source of Exp is just waiting for the Stops to recharge and catching the Pokemon that come to you, without moving from that bench in the park.
Maybe it would be handy if Karxrida could make the OP a bit more informative and put some simple questions and answers in there, just like the Simple Questions thread in the Wi-Fi section has. Stuff regarding IVs, catch rate, movesets, evolving, tools, and other tricks and tips would be useful, since I see a lot of people in this thread asking the same questions over and over again. It would be nifty to have a quick resource to everything in the OP.
This quote is now hilarious with the benefit of hindsight :-)
(No offense meant though, Kurona)
Pffft, don't worry 'bout it. I always end up cringing when I look at my old posts.
That said I still find it incredible and unbelievable that it became a worldwide phenomenon. Like I was out with my friends yesterday and I used Pokémon Go and there was this park full of lures and everyone was there with their phones and I'm just like... what the fuck when did this happen; I'm hearing people call to each other about eevees and magnemites and candy
It's crazy. There are people on my Facebook feed who never once talked about pokemon before this game came out. You walk down the streets and chances are someone's playing it. The college I'm going to has a gym and multiple pokestops, so I saw a bunch of people playing in their spare time when I went to orientation a while back. In the library there was even a board where it asked what team you were on and you could put a mark in the column. It's pretty cool that there's no shame in talking about pokemon in public (well, I never gave a shit, but there was definitely a reluctance for a lot of people.) I don't even care if this game is how some people are getting into pokemon. As long as they try out the main series, I'm fine.
I noticed that the game has been kinda fading away from the media, but I'm fine with that because I don't need them talking about it. It just brings out this negativity in a lot of people, like blaming the game for car accidents and shit. As long as there are people still playing the game though, it's all good.