Pokemon GO! (2016)

NeedAUsername · 19 Feb 2017 at 00:14

XeNoN89 said:
Turn wifi off

It was, I use mobile data as wifi doesn't properly work in my bedroom. I have a Z3.

Disco_P · 19 Feb 2017 at 00:16

NeedAUsername said:
GPS spoofed as the Pokemon are crap near me. Got soft banned as the spoof apps are iffy and kept relocating between the real and fake location.

Boo hoo

topgun06 · 22 Feb 2017 at 17:13

What's the player base like for this now? All the hype has gone and I've not touched the game for over a month. I've got a friend who is still obsessed though!

Disco_P · 22 Feb 2017 at 19:05

Nowhere near as large which is somewhat a good thing. Less competition for gyms but those who remain are the real try hard sorts with hundreds of powerful mons

DB_SamX · 24 Feb 2017 at 22:07

Disco_P said:
Nowhere near as large which is somewhat a good thing. Less competition for gyms but those who remain are the real try hard sorts with hundreds of powerful mons

Pretty much that. If you need any chance of staying in a gym for a few days, you need 2500+ cp pokemons. I've got a top 5 which are above and next 5 are above 2000cp.

413x · 25 Feb 2017 at 12:10

I turned this on for the first time in months too. Saw the gyms occupied and decided to turn it straight back off. With no other real objective than gyms. And no way to compete is kind of pointless.

Disco_P · 25 Feb 2017 at 13:07

I just try to catch em all.

steve5424 · 25 Feb 2017 at 22:15

I'm still collecting but given up on gyms totally. the 4 near me are all level 10 and the lowest cp in them is at least 2200, no chance of taking any of them

Disco_P · 25 Feb 2017 at 22:50

I am very fortunate thst my parents live in the middle of nowhere with poor signal and very few people in winter. I've held 2 gyms there for over 2 months. In the city here I just don't stand a chance.

Craig1981 · 26 Feb 2017 at 19:39

I've been playing the game on and off, mainly off, but I got back into a bit with gen 2 coming out.

New event starting today similar to the Christmas one. Basically just Pikachu's in party hats.

mark43 · 27 Feb 2017 at 13:49

The gym situation isn't that bad everywhere, really depends where you live. My local gyms rarely get above 5 and are usually around 3, though it's a different matter if I go into town.

delta0 · 25 Jun 2017 at 22:53

The new gym system has just resulted in pokemon being stuck in gyms and not getting any rewards for it. The previous stronghold gyms seem to be ignored and as a result they don't get any gold. The previous high turnover gyms just keep changing hands before 10 mins so you get no coins. Even if you get over 10 mins you are getting 1 coin. I wouldn't mind so much if there was more than a 50 coin limit per gym per day. Then at least it could be possible to accrue gold for holding the gym a long time. Even better you get the gold even while the Pokemon is still in the gym.

Disco_P · 26 Jun 2017 at 01:02

Yeah the new system has some positives and lots of negatives. Mostly negatives. I've lost a single gym out of 6 in 3 days so 50 coins rather than 180.

Raids are cool though.

Steeps · 26 Jun 2017 at 15:51

In rural areas raids are nearly impossible (for the 3-4* rated) unless you hang around street corners waiting for someone to come and assist. A gym that was dominated by a pub team no one touches as they'd take it over within 10mins so now we just leave it and they are no longer getting daily coins for it. The others usually change hands every few hours which works quite well. Overall I'm getting more coins than I did before.

chroniclard · 26 Jun 2017 at 15:59

So I tried a raid, 2*?, no other players around and solo'd it. Assuming they get harder......

Randell Floyd · 26 Jun 2017 at 18:35

chroniclard said:
So I tried a raid, 2*?, no other players around and solo'd it. Assuming they get harder......

1 and 2 are easy picking, 3 if you have the right team with the right move against the right raid boss it's do-able but not something many can do, 2 players it becomes a lot easier with the right team mate, 3 people it's a breeze.

Level 4 it's usually a case of 5 minimum and they need to be selecting the right pokemons for the job, with each extra player it gets that bit easier.

Sadly after the initial couple of days I've not found a single raid with more than a couple of us, there's too many raid in a day with people only using a free pass for one a day, so it's already become unachievable. (That's in a City 30 miles away). Nearest town with a gym is 7 miles away, and that's going to be solo raid only going off the last couple of days.

Once again Niantic seem to be releasing ideas that are more in the alpha stage never mind beta.

Orcvader · 27 Jun 2017 at 11:17

Loaded up the game but wow, the performance seems incredibly worse on my 6P, low framerate and longer loading times when tapping a pokestop/gym in busier areas. A few months ago it was running pretty smoothly.

Tried a gym but the HP and special guages kept jumping all over the place, and the enemy pokemon was stuck on 0 HP most of the time which usually leads to time running out. Same with raids, and more often my phone kept coming up with network error on both wifi and mobile.

Disco_P · 27 Jun 2017 at 21:03

Try deleting the app data and see if that helps.

arknor · 28 Aug 2017 at 11:51

topgun06 said:
What's the player base like for this now? All the hype has gone and I've not touched the game for over a month. I've got a friend who is still obsessed though!

still loads playing it in newcastle upon tyne, most lvl5 raids in the city centre areas get at-least 2 different groups of 12+ people

Usually I'll pop a long to a raid then most if not all the group will stick together for a few more
We have a really active discord group for organising as well.

When I was in Nottingham for 3 weeks I only ever saw one raid taking place in the city centre :S

I'm just missing moltres from the birds