Pokemon GO! (2016)

Steedie · 19 Jul 2016 at 11:56

A guy posted on our local Facebook group today that Dratini's spawn at our football club every 35 minutes past the hour. My friend has been going every hour as he lives across the road. Got 8 so far!!

I'm going at lunch

chroniclard · 19 Jul 2016 at 12:15

When sat at the pub last night the kids were playing on my old S5(Cyanongen mod) and I had my S7(stock rom). My phone kept locking up catching pokemon, they had no issues at all. :mad:

AHarvey · 19 Jul 2016 at 12:53

having played ingress i thought i'd give this a quick go last night despite knowing nothing about pokemon.

It was about 1am when I went out and came back about 2am. I saw several cars driving around looking for pokemon and one parked at a local gym.

I was catching a few around my home but I must have walked for a good 25 mins without seeing anything.

Working right next to a pokestop helps too.

I imagine that after a month many will move on to something new, not really a great deal to keep people interested so far.

snips86x · 19 Jul 2016 at 13:03

AHarvey said:
having played ingress i thought i'd give this a quick go last night despite knowing nothing about pokemon.

It was about 1am when I went out and came back about 2am. I saw several cars driving around looking for pokemon and one parked at a local gym.

I was catching a few around my home but I must have walked for a good 25 mins without seeing anything.

Working right next to a pokestop helps too.

I imagine that after a month many will move on to something new, not really a great deal to keep people interested so far.

Put a lure on it if you have one, that will attract more to catch

No1newts · 19 Jul 2016 at 13:34

DampCat said:
Although walking round Southern Cemetery at midnight wasnt my best move but damn i wanted that Haunter.

Didnt get it.

Or stabbed, so all in all things panned out i guess.

Would you have took the knife for a Haunter?

No1newts · 19 Jul 2016 at 13:37

snips86x said:
Put a lure on it if you have one, that will attract more to catch

To what extent do lures work?

I used 2 today and got pretty much sod all.

Steedie · 19 Jul 2016 at 13:42

Lures seem pointless on the most part to me, the two that I've used have produced nothing better than Rattatas and Pidgeys.

Once in town I was sat in between two Poke-stops with lures at the same time and got a ridiculous amount of good Pokemon, but since then, they've all been rubbish

krooton · 19 Jul 2016 at 13:52

First off, make sure that the time on your phone is correctly set, or incense and lures will do nothing. I learned this the hard way, as I usually have my phone set 5 mins fast to ensure I'm never late for anything.

Lures spawn a mon every 5 minutes, for anyone whose radar circle thing touches at least the edge of the circle that shows around the pokestop.
You do not have to be in range to spin the pokestop to be able to collect lure spawns. Incense does the same, but just for the user, and is active even when walking around.

The actual spawn list seems to be random, more often than not we just get worms, rats and pidgeons, but sometimes a lure will spawn Magikarp, Poliwags, Venonats, Eevees, etc.

Can't figure it out, as when good spawns spawn, almost all spawns are worthwhile, or you just get 6 trash mons.

Skeeter · 19 Jul 2016 at 13:54

Why am I still playing this thing!

Its pointless. Its a crap Pokemon game and not even that good an AR game (Ingress is much better), so why did I spend the whole of lunch hitting up all the Pokestops in town and catching about 30 Pokemon!

ARGH! I need to uninstall it I think.

krooton · 19 Jul 2016 at 14:04

Gotta catch em a ll?

I like being don at 3 local gyms

happy_2008 · 19 Jul 2016 at 14:25

Sat in Grosvenor square for lunch time and pretty much all the pokestops had lures on them so everyone was leeching getting some decent Pokemon. Shocked at how many people were playing though, I reckon a good 80% were playing sitting between two lure spots. Managed to get a 400+ haunter and graveler.

wozza2k · 19 Jul 2016 at 14:42

Went out for a quick walk at the 3 pokestops near me to top up the pokeballs ended back with less due to the number of lures installed around me. What a problem to have

Psypher5 · 19 Jul 2016 at 14:47

rumour of japan launch tomorrow and mcdonald's integration.

GG servers.

edit: buy all that nintendo stock now.

delta0 · 19 Jul 2016 at 15:20

Maxed out the items in my bag now. I managed to get a Pokemon in a gym. You seem to get coins straight away doing this so hopefully I can get enough for a bag upgrade.

No1newts · 19 Jul 2016 at 15:38

krooton said:
First off, make sure that the time on your phone is correctly set, or incense and lures will do nothing. I learned this the hard way, as I usually have my phone set 5 mins fast to ensure I'm never late for anything.

Lures spawn a mon every 5 minutes, for anyone whose radar circle thing touches at least the edge of the circle that shows around the pokestop.
You do not have to be in range to spin the pokestop to be able to collect lure spawns. Incense does the same, but just for the user, and is active even when walking around.

The actual spawn list seems to be random, more often than not we just get worms, rats and pidgeons, but sometimes a lure will spawn Magikarp, Poliwags, Venonats, Eevees, etc.

Can't figure it out, as when good spawns spawn, almost all spawns are worthwhile, or you just get 6 trash mons.

Yeah I got complete dross from both (best I found was a magikarp) yet in a 30min walk down the coast I found a Dratini, Gloom, Growlithe, Squirtle and a load of less rare but still new stuff like a Krabby, Horsea, Goldeen, Drowzee I even saw an Abra but it escaped

krooton · 19 Jul 2016 at 15:40

delta0 said:
Maxed out the items in my bag now. I managed to get a Pokemon in a gym. You seem to get coins straight away doing this so hopefully I can get enough for a bag upgrade.

Nope, if you have never claimed your gym rewards, they are available instantly, but that then starts the 21 hour timer before you can collect again.

If you don't have a strong hold on a number of gyms, or the ability to claim a good few in a very short space of time, you won't be making many pokecoins.

krooton · 19 Jul 2016 at 15:43

No1newts said:
Yeah I got complete dross from both (best I found was a magikarp) yet in a 30min walk down the coast I found a Dratini, Gloom, Growlithe, Squirtle and a load of less rare but still new stuff like a Krabby, Horsea, Goldeen, Drowzee I even saw an Abra but it escaped

I also think there might be a correlation between number of users in range of the lure.

I've never had super-amazing spawns, but have only ever lure farmed from bed or from a local park, sometimes with us being the only 2 making use of them.

Maybe the spawns I keep hearing about in central london lure zones is due to there being MANY people near them, possibly upping the rare spawn rate.

The Running Man · 19 Jul 2016 at 16:35

Imagine pokemon kinder eggs and happy meals. It would be cash money

Orcvader · 19 Jul 2016 at 17:23

Psypher5 said:
rumour of japan launch tomorrow and mcdonald's integration.

GG servers.

edit: buy all that nintendo stock now.

McDonald's integration? What's this about?

EDIT: Apparently more servers have been added: http://pokemongohub.net/new-pokemon-go-servers-deployed-in-europe/

Explains why I found the game running so well when I was at Oxford Street half an hour ago.

mark43 · 19 Jul 2016 at 18:17

Orcvader said:
McDonald's integration? What's this about?

EDIT: Apparently more servers have been added: http://pokemongohub.net/new-pokemon-go-servers-deployed-in-europe/

Explains why I found the game running so well when I was at Oxford Street half an hour ago.

Certainly not my experience at the moment. Dying as it always does at this time if day.