Pokémon GO

Strangely, I somewhat enjoyed it, if just a little. I can understand about the need of randomness to "diversify" things to keep sense of completion (although while IV is OK, random moves, not so much). Although then again, while I say there's something more than it, accounting gyms the whole game does boil down to something like managing a spreadsheet of Pokemon and item supply. This is old complain I have, but a core aspect of caring Pokemon is completely gone in the game mechanics, aside of nicknames and buddy (which is just more for extra candies anyway). And everytime I play, it is in the end just "is this Pokemon usable?", "How about my supply?", "best counter for this gym is..." and so on as if I'm managing spreadsheet instead....

At least I have my own goal, like getting perfect Vaporeon just as I did X / AS, putting an Arcanine on a monument near my grandpa's grave (family used to have big dog), and other personal matters.


... well, if you remember your account's credentials (username/email and password), you don't have to start over. But yeah, to go to the same grindfest again... I'm surprised to still stay here myself. At least I think I too need to take a break and focus more in Moon, opening Go only to claim coins.
 
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It has been long. Yet I'm still standing anyway.

Gen2 is slowly rolling out. And new moves are leaked, indicating slight change in the gym game. Among the moves are Counter and Mirror Coat, the two things Wobbuffet is very good at. This may indicate gym battle mechanics will have a refreshing change, diversifying things. People even speculate weight will matter as more weight-related moves are found, like Grass Knot and Heavy Slam.


Another matter, now I have completed the maximum Bag/Box capacity and got few good things that stays in gyms for quite a time. But then again, it isn't without effort.

Scanners. Apparently quite a majority of people where I currently live use scanners, explaining the abundance of Dragonites and Snorlaxes. I myself have caught few other Dragonites out of luck (thanks to the mountain biome), but that's without scanners. People over The Silph Road has damned the use of scanners to be a form of cheating, although at least not as bad as spoofers. This advantage goes against pure players like myself, but actually....

Maybe that's why I actually enjoy this game. I have observed that not everyone seems to know much about setting good counters, and my innate knowledge helps me in keeping supply usage at minimum. I don't fear army of Dragonites, while having only one optimal attacker Dragonite and one defender currently in gym. It is my knowledge that makes the game seem a bit more enjoyable, that I can take challenges against the... less pure players. That, or just because I love Vaporeon since little and feel happy it is very strong in GO.

Now in gym I prepare headphone and either listen to "Frontier Brain" music or "Island King/Kahuna" in gym while battling. Fitting especially on the former when the opposing Pokemon is Battle Frontier grade like Snorlax and Dragonite.

... I admit I scanned on my laptop in last two weeks, only to seek that cursed evil six-tail bitches and drown their loathsome corpse in nearest river, but now nest migration had happened.


On another note, evolved a 40/45 IV Growlithe? and got Fire Fang / Flamethower, best defensive set. Just need to max 'im out and someday put him on gym near grandpa's grave. I know he has been nerfed, but Idc; this is sentimental matter.

Well, still have 10+ Pokemon staying in gyms, so I think I should swap my monster balls with Wacom pen now while keeping 21-hour alarm.
Of course dominance in GO doesn't correlate with ability in competitive game; I suck and have never even touched singles like OU.
 
where are these working scanners? other then ones that need 5-10 accounts... being constantly remade? I miss having access to a scanner just to randomly scan places.

I caught 2 Snorlax on Wednesday, both by luck. but I know that with this crappy nearby thing, I am never going to find a wild Dragonite, because the pokestops near the clefairy biome eats the sightings.
 
phalanx said:
where are these working scanners? other then ones that need 5-10 accounts... being constantly remade? I miss having access to a scanner just to randomly scan places.

I caught 2 Snorlax on Wednesday, both by luck. but I know that with this crappy nearby thing, I am never going to find a wild Dragonite, because the pokestops near the clefairy biome eats the sightings.
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Funnily, I live in Clefairy biome too, and yesterday I just caught a Dragonite.
Poor IV, level, and awful move set, but the thrill was real. Quite an experience.


Well, people say this update is improvement on crashing issues in gym, but mine still crashes as badly as usual.
 
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New Pokemon GO warning/ adverts are posted on Japanese railways.
These contain warnings for people, such as "don't fall into the rails when playing Pokemon GO" something like that.
All these posters/ adverts have a pun with a Pokemon's name.

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It seems to me that Pokemon GO is still pretty big in Japan, according to Japanese people's Twitter I follow.
 
Cresselia~~ said:
New Pokemon GO warning/ adverts are posted on Japanese railways.
These contain warnings for people, such as "don't fall into the rails when playing Pokemon GO" something like that.
All these posters/ adverts have a pun with a Pokemon's name.

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It seems to me that Pokemon GO is still pretty big in Japan, according to Japanese people's Twitter I follow.
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What are the puns like? Though you must be happy Jynx is one of them. ;P
 
One another note, this may be an old news, but there's discovery from Sun/Moon....
https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/5pxgd3/possibility_to_transfer_pokemon_go_mons_to/

Maybe in the future there'll be compability of GO to Bank, where transferred 'mon from GO can be then brought to Sun/Moon. Kinda interesting, although then again breeding is very easy in main series game while finding great 'mon in GO is very difficult that one will want to keep them there instead. I'd rather keep my Dragonites there and seek for random Dratini over GTS to then breed it if I want to get one instead.


Also, heard developer of one tracker for Android got C&D letter from TPCi and surrendered. Not that it stops anyone from using 3rd party tracker appli. Heck, I just heard someone in my city has caught like, 60 Dragonites. Oh well, scanners' legality seem to be hot debate over places like Silph Road anyway and seems like spoofers are (still) worse threat if some threads over TSR I read is anything to go by....

Cresselia~~ said:
New Pokemon GO warning/ adverts are posted on Japanese railways.
These contain warnings for people, such as "don't fall into the rails when playing Pokemon GO" something like that.
All these posters/ adverts have a pun with a Pokemon's name.

It seems to me that Pokemon GO is still pretty big in Japan, according to Japanese people's Twitter I follow.
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Oh these, these puns are just as bad as Prof. Okido Nariya (Samson Oak)'s puns, pffff~.

... there were indeed accidents though. Harsh, don't want to remember news on these. At least these ads are nice enough of a reminder to be careful if the loading page isn't enough....
 
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Pikachu315111 said:
What are the puns like? Though you must be happy Jynx is one of them. ;P
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Ya, I was really happy about the Jynx.

The puns go like this:

Mamoru is "protect" in Japanese.
Morufuon is Venumoth in Japanese.
Mamoru + Morufuon --> maMorufuon , which is what that's written on the poster.

Or like the Psyduck one:
Psyduck is Kodakku in Japanese.
Doko is "where"? in Japanese, and can be finished with the particle "da" .
Dokoda + Kodakku --> DoKoddakku
 
It finally came to me that I must stop playing GO. Not that there's any issue, but I now currently have like 12+ Pokemon in stable gyms. With this, the game is pretty much reduced to Safari Zone simulator. It is true that GO severely lack many main series contents that makes it interesting. Trying to make things fun like listening to core game musics instead of GO's like "vs. Frontier Brain" when against rival gyms, but now it's useless ever since my team has the domination. Trying to convince myself to have fun by minds like that I'm superior to average players with my knowledge or I want great 'mons I don't have yet, but it doesn't work and still bored. For me this game is now just as bad as mindless breeding in core games.

I need to stop thinking that I have to improve my supplies (by dropping lower balls and potions). Ah, such greedy part of myself. Seriously, I just have to set 21-hours timer to collect coins and that's it. I have to do something else more productive....

I still haven't achieved my sentimental goals like perfect Vaporeon and others, but I can't fight the lack of interesting things or gameplay anymore. I'll spend my time fishing for Prism Scale in Moon instead and forget rare things like Snorlax ever exists.....
 
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I would love some stable gyms to sit there getting coins off :( I removed a yellow guy who took a gym.. and next guy who comes along puts in a freaking caterpie.
they apparently added more pokestops and gyms... but none around here :(
oh and that can gtfo
248 cp abra escapes from a great ball with a great throw... it had a freaking GREEN CIRCLE wtf.
 
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Be great if they could throw rural players a bone and actually have something spawn out here, or maybe have rarer Pokemon out in the bush, which sorta makes sense.
 
Dreamox said:
Be great if they could throw rural players a bone and actually have something spawn out here, or maybe have rarer Pokemon out in the bush, which sorta makes sense.
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Would be even greater if they can have special stuff for disabled people like me.
It makes me feel really bad that I can't walk normal distances compared to a normal person.
 
Oh, Valentine event is up. Lots of pink stuffs, including the coveted Chancey and apparently Lickitung too. Lickitung though, as if N'tic have dirty idea on Valentine....

There's apparently reshuffle of egg chart. Scraps like Pinsir and Onix is now in 5km eggs. But the unholy triad of Magby-Elekid-Smoochum is there. And Smoochum being more common in eggs while the event is active.

I had lost hope on finding Laplace. It's Legendary.
 
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Oh, Valentine event is up. Lots of pink stuffs, including the coveted Chancey and apparently Lickitung too. Lickitung though, as if N'tic have dirty idea on Valentine....

There's apparently reshuffle of egg chart. Scraps like Pinsir and Onix is now in 5km eggs. But the unholy triad of Magby-Elekid-Smoochum is there. And Smoochum being more common in eggs while the event is active.

I had lost hope on finding Laplace. It's Legendary.
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Antihaxxer said:
Lapras doesn't exist at all :'(
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I already have a Chansey... And I got a Lapras from the single 10km egg I've ever picked up. But this is cool if you get Smoochum more often. Already got a Jiggly this morning and every single node in town has an attractor thingy on it. Shame it's not a huge move to get me back into the game.

Too little, too late Niantic. You've completely tarnished what a great game GO could have been.
 
Lickytung and Jigglypuffs here.... cleafair Biome nearby and a few water spawners.
only thing NOT spawned here is exeggcute, the chansey seemed to have been a stray spawn.
 
Only thing that keeps me playing this is the social aspect. Most of the hardcore crowd here is 35+ and already has over 30 gyms on a constant basis, so we just meet up and do lure parties and stuff like that. This event has helped in that.

The game is pretty stale and I prefer to do other stuff before it which is really sad. I don't even do gyms anymore.
 
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Only thing that keeps me playing this is the social aspect. Most of the hardcore crowd here is 35+ and already has over 30 gyms on a constant basis, so we just meet up and do lure parties and stuff like that. This event has helped in that.

The game is pretty stale and I prefer to do other stuff before it which is really sad. I don't even do gyms anymore.
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I actually desperately look for rival gyms to break to keep me from boredom in this game, with main series game musics. But yeah, it's stale now. Now I consider only setting alarm to collect my daily coins, do daily quests, and that's it.



Now that I think it, I think I kept playing GO not because GO itself, but rather because of lack of postgame contents in Moon. At least breaking gyms is still a bit more fun than wandering aimlessly around Alola....
Which means one same conclusion: Do something more productive instead.
 
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I cant hold 7 gyms they are all too sparse, and always some random takes them down. Plus the game likes crashing on gym battles, meaning more frustration knocking down a tower.. took out a level 7 today, about to attack for the last time to faint the last pokemon.. game crashes...
seriously.. and now some randoms have taken my usual gyms, and my team have come back... one is level 4... I take this gym every day and I now have to prestige it? please... I don't want to prestige gyms because it is the worst mechanic in the game, and it crashes.
Silph road supposed research...
they claim OSM is what they use, I see google maps affecting a park nearby.. I am obviously wrong.. because some people edited OSM and more spawns happened, did they check if people edited in google?
seriously? they are supposed to be RESEARCH, yet go around refuting anything they have "researched" it is wrong, despite there being no 100% proof of them using OSM except in Korea
Park in my area, marked on OSM as a park, with the red paths... spawns nothing... I checked it today to see why in google maps.. oh it appears to be in a School compound (deadzone).
would be nice if Ninatic updated the spawn Data so i could actually prove this with my local park I pathed in both google and OSM, slightly differently due to google maps annyoing format.
 
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finally got my first dratini today after a nice walk on the beach and evolved my grimer to muk. with that, all I have left in the dex (beyond johto baby mons) is hitmonlee, gyara, lapras, porygon, and the rest of the dratini line. still need to see farfetch'd and kanga in a gym as well.
 
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