Pokémon GO - Who is playing?

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  1. hellointerloper

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    Man my city sucks for Pokemon Go.

    No charmanders, bulbasuars or squirtles to be found. No Dratini, magikarp or dozens of others. Plenty of the same 15 common ones I keep catching though.

    Though I did see a charmeleon on the nearby list which was impossible to find.

    And my damned eggs keep hatching into the same things I already have. Even the 10km's.

    I will keep at it for a while longer and if things don't change, no loss since it was a free app.
     
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    Charmanders are very rare in here Finland too, I don't have one. Multiple Bulbs and Squirts though. (And I too didn't know you could choose...)

    I hope they add new features soon as I'm losing interest. I'm at 69 pokemon and finding new ones is hard, random and coincidental.
    I would prefer some illusion of control. Sitting at a lure gathering isn't (usually ) great gameplay for me...
     
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    Wait...you all actually use the tracker? I never do so it doesn't bother me that it doesn't work :lol:

    One thing though, the tracker broke 2-3 updates ago. It works the same except the footprints aren't there, and when it was broken prior to this update, the footprints weren't updating so...there really is no difference. Stop crying about a game that you got for free. ;)
    Also, Pokevision is not made by Niantec so Pokevision being down has nothing to do with Niantec so you can't blame them (unless Niantec asked them to shut down). Stop crying about a free service that someone else has put the time into making at their own expense ;)
    From my understanding of the tracker, again I don't use it so I'm not sure if this is right, the best way to use it is to open the menu > tap on the pokemon you want tracked > close the menu > and then start walking (the pokemon you want to track should appear in the small tracker) > when you walk in the right direction, the tracker flashes. So in theory, if you keep walking and it keeps flashing, you will eventually find the pokemon you are tracking...regardless of the number of footprints being displayed (or not). Is that how it works?

    But for now, it is Sharknado 4! :D
     
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    Since you don't use the nearby list I guess it would make it hard for you to see, but you can no longer use the pulse to see if you are going the right direction. Because they took that away as well. So, in other words there is no way to actually track Pokemon in this game. And if walking around aimlessly for hours trying to find Pokemon that aren't Ratatas or Pidgeys is your cup of tea, more power to you. But, the odds of you randomly finding anything worth while without a website like Pokevision in damned near impossible.

    There is no loss from a free game except for time invested. But, Niantic is going to start losing gamers if they don't fix this shit.
     
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    What?!?! It doesn't blink/pulse anymore? OK...that's just dumb. They might as well get rid of it.
    But really, my guess is that they're having a hard time figuring out what the root of the problem is. By disabling it, they're back tracking and then slowly implementing the tracker in bit by bit to see where exactly the issue is. Once they have an idea, then they can put in a real fix instead of a band-aid.
    I used to complain about all the zubats and pidgeys as well, but not anymore. I just see them as XP so I just grab them all up.
     
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    The tracker is pretty much worthless. The wife and I will have the app open, be in the same location, and we will have two completely different groups of Pokemon. And 90% of the time we can't find anything worthwhile on there. For instance, we don't have a ton of growlithes up here... She had one on the radar so we tried to hunt it down while walking, it moved up into first position, then poof, Off the radar altogether. But there is no lack, of spearow, pidgey and clafairys around me. Pokevision was great just for spawn times alone. From what I read, Niantic did pretty much tell them to stop or else kind of thing.
     
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    PokéVision was indeed shut down at the game's request. I never used it as it was temporarily down the couple times I tried. Niantic asking for it to be shut down is super lame for sure though. I get them taking tracking features away, as it has really helped the servers stay up. However also removing people's only option to track, when it's a separate feature that doesn't affect the game, is all sorts of weak.
     
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    I tried using pokevision but never really got the hang of it. Having said that, though its annoying to see a shadow in your tracking box and not actually be able to track it, I find that to be part of the challenge. I go on walks regularly so catching them is more of a bonus rather than the point. It isnt time wasted if you end up coming home with a bunch of common crap. Plus, who doesn't want stardust? Anyways, hopefully they'll fix the radar they had when the app launched. It didnt give you exact locations but helped you track it.


    tl;dr hopefully they'll get the old tracker back. Go get star dust!
     
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    Haha, wtf, I just caught my first magmar at my desk at work. cp723. I'm level 20 and never see anything in the office. Very surprising.
     
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    I never tried pokevision either, but from the sounds of it, it helped a lot of people catch rarer things. My dogs hate me now because our walks are becoming longer and longer. It's getting pretty hot out also, so the walks are getting later and later. They are old, they need their naps.
     
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    I read somewhere that Niantec plans to add trading to 'Go. I'm excited that they are adding some more player interaction to the game, but I don't like the idea of people buying/selling Pokemon with real world currencies.

    Hopefully they will require people to be adjacent to trade so that Pokemon training doesn't become like another Magic the Gathering, with a "spend more = be more competitive" economy. I like that Pokemon go is more egalitarian in terms of the benefits of spending money.
     
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    Wartortle is mine. Ultra balls made all the difference, though it still took three. By far the toughest to catch of everything I've come across. Now all that candy can go towards Blastoise.
     
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    I've been studiously avoiding all things Pokémon for nigh on 20 years now, but that doesn't mean that thread isn't endlessly entertaining to me. Best word salads on the net!
     
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    @toothaction You are missing out! I just rewatched the first two episodes of the og anime last week and they legit hold up! Go catch 'em!

    I evolved an Eevee (cp 458 ) to Vaporeon (cp 1208 ) today. It was great.
     
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    I got a level 19 Wartortle the other day, what do I even do with you lol

    We found some nice pokemon using the Pokewhere app. We have to go to downtown Charlotte to get anything really significant or interesting - finally found a Dragonite there this past weekend! Loads of Jynx, Mankeys, Grimers, and other random ones up there. Around here it's just piles of Eevees (SO MANY EVEES, we have so many Vaporeon now hah) and nidorino/nidoran. I'm just in this to find them and evolve them for fun, just because I like evolutions like Victreebel, Starmie, Vileplume, Gengar and the like! :) I get to evolve my Ponyta into Rapidash and hopefully my Mankey into Primeape if all goes as planned today!

    Some insane dude at the college campus by us is a level 29 with a level 3004 Dragonite holding a red gym. HOW much time do you spend on this man?!
     
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    I am up to 82 in my Pokedex, but I will have a bunch more since I'm hoarding evolutions until I use a Lucky Egg (I just wanna be somewhere with lots of lures and pokestops when I finally do it! (hopefully with an egg ready to hatch) haha. SUPER BONUS!!!
     
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    I am getting real tired of my 5km eggs hatching into Shellders and Venonats haha Seriously though.. couldn't hook me up with on oddish or poliwag?
     
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    @dannyvslc Its so funny how regional it is. I see Poliwags and oddish all day long and I'm dying for Shellders. HAHA.
     
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    @missy indeed haha I see them from time to time, but I did the whole, I now have a more powerful oddish/poliwag than gloom/poliwhirl, so I evolved them again and it put me back in the candy department haha I am currently at 96 caught, 99 seen.
     
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    85 seen 85 caught. Eggs have been pretty good to me. Fair share of duds for sure, but also ones I never see in the wild. If I can evolve having never even caught one, that's pretty cool. Also finally got a Bulbasaur from a 2k egg today.
     
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    Danny I suppose it just depends, i have 1 clafairy, but can go and nest and evolve arcanine all day 2 city blocks from my home... the problem with that is since you can do that... everyone has arcanines here... i wish i could evolve clafairy... its one of the best ones to mop a vaporeon... also i had a gym for 2 days untouched as we were a level 9... they buffed the vapors and it got taken down in a matter of an hour... kind of annoying honestly.
     
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    Noted!

    I picked up plenty of clafairy at SDCC. I'm JUST short on evolving it though! so hopefully i'll hatch or catch another.
     
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    @eckotyper it's funny how it works on regions. I have a cleafable, but I prefer to use my Wigglytuff haha. I can't catch a growlithe to save my life. Like there aren't any up here in Seattle. I can't find electric Pokemon either. There is a power plant like a mile away with a stop. I've dropped a lure and nothing haha.
     
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    Can someone explain how they populate Pokemon universe?

    I've never played the game, but from what I understand Google spun off a business unit that licensed or was allowed to use GoogleMaps. Then somehow it was "populated" or data points were somehow generated by a computer algorithm?

    The game started in the US (from what I recall) and it can't be employees generating all these "hot spots", right?

    Just curious if anyone has any insight into how Niantic determined what geo location was a gym and where monsters spawned...
     

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