Pokemon GO! (2016)

On top of last nights haul got a Starmie, Rhyhorn and Shelder on the way to work which are all new.

Got a tonne of dross to evolve with a lucky egg tonight and that should get me up to level 14 where I was before I switched to the google account.
 
Is it just me or is the app not showing pedestrian paths any more? Was walking through Hyde park and noticed a chunk of the map didn't load. Reloaded the game only for every single path in the park to be missing. Tried resetting/reinstalling the app but that didn't work either. Then went to Chinatown London only for Gerrard street to be missing from the map as well.
 
Orcvader said:
Is it just me or is the app not showing pedestrian paths any more? Was walking through Hyde park and noticed a chunk of the map didn't load. Reloaded the game only for every single path in the park to be missing. Tried resetting/reinstalling the app but that didn't work either. Then went to Chinatown London only for Gerrard street to be missing from the map as well.
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I had that this morning up Newcastle way but restarting the app solved it for me.
 
There really should be Pokemon in rural areas and places of interest. Reservoirs, popular walking areas, popular villages etc.

I'm not in the greatest of locations to get rarer Pokemon, but I don't find myself short. I feel sorry for people who want to play who live in villages. There are some around me which have zero.
 
topgun06 said:
There really should be Pokemon in rural areas and places of interest. Reservoirs, popular walking areas, popular villages etc.

I'm not in the greatest of locations to get rarer Pokemon, but I don't find myself short. I feel sorry for people who want to play who live in villages. There are some around me which have zero.
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Yeah a colleague gets next to nothing at his house. My village isn't much better bit at least I get pidgies :p
 
My village is **** but my house seems to be a hotspot for random pokemon. Whole village is rattata/Pidgey/Weedle but from my house I've caught an Alakazam/Squirtle/Rhyhorn/Butterfree/Jigglypuff/Nidoran/Fearow and a few others. Nothing ultra rare but blinking good for my front room :p I've even seen a mr mime appear a few times on the tracker but with the footstep thing broken I have never been able to track him down exactly.
 
I get to walk past 6 Pokestops on the way into work in the morning, two of which overlap and throughout lunchtimes usually have lures installed.
Don't have the time to spend ages out there alas but my walk to work is full of "phone vibrations".
My home town however - meh.
 
No1newts said:
My village is **** but my house seems to be a hotspot for random pokemon. Whole village is rattata/Pidgey/Weedle but from my house I've caught an Alakazam/Squirtle/Rhyhorn/Butterfree/Jigglypuff/Nidoran/Fearow and a few others. Nothing ultra rare but blinking good for my front room :p I've even seen a mr mime appear a few times on the tracker but with the footstep thing broken I have never been able to track him down exactly.
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To be fair I've not done too badly from my street. On my drunken walk home last Friday night I caught a Kingler and a Snorlax on my street. A Squirtle, a Seadra (ran away), and a few other rare ones have appeared outside my house.

But there is a lovely walk I go on often along the canal to a pub and back. Zero Pokemon. Its a really popular route too. Yes sure, have you're Rattatas, Pidgets, Weedles etc... your odd rarer Pokemon in a Town; more frequent rare Pokemon in Cities. But I'd find it much more exciting to have to get out on a walk to catch the rarer Pokemon. None of this specific London park nonsense where tons of Squirtles appear.
 
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topgun06 said:
There really should be Pokemon in rural areas and places of interest. Reservoirs, popular walking areas, popular villages etc.

I'm not in the greatest of locations to get rarer Pokemon, but I don't find myself short. I feel sorry for people who want to play who live in villages. There are some around me which have zero.
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How would they know what is 'popular' though? That is kinda what they have tried using mobile cell usage data :p
 
Yeah, I don't quite get how it works. So they base it from cell data? Does that mean that they can't pinpoint it to a location with enough accuracy to pick out a busy walking route?
 
topgun06 said:
To be fair I've not done too badly from my street. On my drunken walk home last Friday night I caught a Kingler and a Snorlax on my street. A Squirtle, a Seadra (ran away), and a few other rare ones have appeared outside my house.

But there is a lovely walk I go on often along the canal to a pub and back. Zero Pokemon. Its a really popular route too. Yes sure, have you're Rattatas, Pidgets, Weedles etc... your odd rarer Pokemon in a Town; more frequent rare Pokemon in Cities. But I'd find it much more exciting to have to get out on a walk to catch the rarer Pokemon. None of this specific London park nonsense where tons of Squirtles appear.
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I agree, for usage and ease keep the city spawns but as a counter point I think the less used pokestops should also generate the rarer Pokemon to get people out and about visiting them.
 
AndyCr15 said:
Surely they would base it on players locations? They have millions and millions of them, all accurate to within a few feet. Build a sort of 'heat map'.
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Yes, I'd have thought that would have been the case.

The Vodafone call centre in Stoke is pretty out of the way but they have 7 within the building.
 
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