Pokemon Go - Don't be shy....
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The whole appraisal feature is weird and makes me wonder if Niantic actually have a roadmap for this game or are just winging it based on popular Reddit threads etc.
If you know what IVs are and care about them then you're probably already using IV calculators anyway, and would likely continue to do so because the results from the appraisal feature are vague. If you don't know what IVs are then the whole appraisal feature would be a complete mystery. There's no explanation for why it exists or how relevant it is, it assumes a level of knowledge that doesn't exist unless you've found out about it from friends or elsewhere.
If you know what IVs are and care about them then you're probably already using IV calculators anyway, and would likely continue to do so because the results from the appraisal feature are vague. If you don't know what IVs are then the whole appraisal feature would be a complete mystery. There's no explanation for why it exists or how relevant it is, it assumes a level of knowledge that doesn't exist unless you've found out about it from friends or elsewhere.
From what I've seen of the appraisal thing, he just has about 10 phrases that are trotted out randomly!
I've had him say pretty much the same thing about a 10cp pidgey as he said about an 1100 Pidgeot.
When he thinks that a 14cp bellsprout is "pretty decent", and its "stats are really strong! Impressive!" I'm not really inclined to believe a word he says.
I've had him say pretty much the same thing about a 10cp pidgey as he said about an 1100 Pidgeot.
When he thinks that a 14cp bellsprout is "pretty decent", and its "stats are really strong! Impressive!" I'm not really inclined to believe a word he says.
Chester draws said:
From what I've seen of the appraisal thing, he just has about 10 phrases that are trotted out randomly!
I've had him say pretty much the same thing about a 10cp pidgey as he said about an 1100 Pidgeot.
When he thinks that a 14cp bellsprout is "pretty decent", and its "stats are really strong! Impressive!" I'm not really inclined to believe a word he says.
Appraisal is based on hidden stats, and are not at all linked to CP.I've had him say pretty much the same thing about a 10cp pidgey as he said about an 1100 Pidgeot.
When he thinks that a 14cp bellsprout is "pretty decent", and its "stats are really strong! Impressive!" I'm not really inclined to believe a word he says.
Each Pokemon has an Attack, Defense and HP stat that are hidden, and can vary by 15 over the base stats for each Pokemon.
For casual users you can just ignore it, but having one with high stats could make it that much more competitive in combat.
I think it's a great feature, accurate enough for most, a nice way to know which ones to keep and which ones to ditch, once you know what phrases you're looking out for.
Digitalize said:
Chester draws said:
From what I've seen of the appraisal thing, he just has about 10 phrases that are trotted out randomly!
I've had him say pretty much the same thing about a 10cp pidgey as he said about an 1100 Pidgeot.
When he thinks that a 14cp bellsprout is "pretty decent", and its "stats are really strong! Impressive!" I'm not really inclined to believe a word he says.
Appraisal is based on hidden stats, and are not at all linked to CP.I've had him say pretty much the same thing about a 10cp pidgey as he said about an 1100 Pidgeot.
When he thinks that a 14cp bellsprout is "pretty decent", and its "stats are really strong! Impressive!" I'm not really inclined to believe a word he says.
Each Pokemon has an Attack, Defense and HP stat that are hidden, and can vary by 15 over the base stats for each Pokemon.
For casual users you can just ignore it, but having one with high stats could make it that much more competitive in combat.
I think it's a great feature, accurate enough for most, a nice way to know which ones to keep and which ones to ditch, once you know what phrases you're looking out for.
Evolved a Charizard and Dodrio today, as well as finding a Scyther and Porygon. 124 in the Pokedex now and if I get three more Squirtles I'll be able to evolve a Blastoise too, might even be able to do that this evening.
NJK44 said:
Stopped playing about 2 weeks ago. Got really boring without a working tracker.
Oh well, maybe I'll play it again one day.
I don't really understand why people get so hung up on the tracker? I've found that areas I'm in will either be universally sOh well, maybe I'll play it again one day.
t, with nothing but rats, pidgeys and weedles, or they'll have some decent stuff just from walking around.I've picked up a 538 CP Evee in a supermarket carpark and a 1,000+ CP Pinsir in a little rural village in Somerset so far today. There's no way I would've tracked down the latter in particular with a tracker, so why worry about it?
Having said that, maybe I'm just having a lucky day. I hatched a 2k egg this morning and got a 500+ CP Pikachu!
I think the issue with a lack of tracker is how it effects the balance between effort vs. reward, randomness and grinding.
Without a tracking system you could spend a long time wandering around and find nothing of interest. The chances of finding something interesting are pretty low, so the only solution is to grind it out and spend hours trying to find Pokemon. Fine for the hardcore, but judging by how many people i see it playing in my area now compared to a few weeks back, most people go bored of it approximately 7,096 Ratattas ago.
Personally, i would put it the other way round and say what's wrong with having sites like Pokevision? I used to have a look at it at lunchtime in the office and would combine going out for lunch with a walk to where something worth catching was (if there was anything). What was so bad about that? I still had to go out and catch it, but it also meant i wasn't wasting my time. It's not like you can instantly complete your collection with it. If anything Pokevision just showed the amount of dross that spawns.
I can see why Niantic are banhammering people using bots and rightly so, but they also seem to be determined to force people into a massive grind. No thanks.
Without a tracking system you could spend a long time wandering around and find nothing of interest. The chances of finding something interesting are pretty low, so the only solution is to grind it out and spend hours trying to find Pokemon. Fine for the hardcore, but judging by how many people i see it playing in my area now compared to a few weeks back, most people go bored of it approximately 7,096 Ratattas ago.
Personally, i would put it the other way round and say what's wrong with having sites like Pokevision? I used to have a look at it at lunchtime in the office and would combine going out for lunch with a walk to where something worth catching was (if there was anything). What was so bad about that? I still had to go out and catch it, but it also meant i wasn't wasting my time. It's not like you can instantly complete your collection with it. If anything Pokevision just showed the amount of dross that spawns.
I can see why Niantic are banhammering people using bots and rightly so, but they also seem to be determined to force people into a massive grind. No thanks.
It's an awkward target audience for this game isn't it?
Kids from the age of about 6-13 are still crazy about this game - they are everywhere! Trouble is it is only really the 11 year olds and up who have phones and are allowed to travel around by themselves. The others are begging their parents to take them out for walks and bike rides and asking to borrow their phone.
My son is still playing - on my bloody phone - he screamed his head off in the middle of town today when he hatched a 2000cp Snorlax. Usually he is quite a shy lad but if he sees someone else playing the game he has no problem introducing himself. Also he must have travelled about 15 mile yesterday on his bike and without any complaints of tiredness.
Kids from the age of about 6-13 are still crazy about this game - they are everywhere! Trouble is it is only really the 11 year olds and up who have phones and are allowed to travel around by themselves. The others are begging their parents to take them out for walks and bike rides and asking to borrow their phone.
My son is still playing - on my bloody phone - he screamed his head off in the middle of town today when he hatched a 2000cp Snorlax. Usually he is quite a shy lad but if he sees someone else playing the game he has no problem introducing himself. Also he must have travelled about 15 mile yesterday on his bike and without any complaints of tiredness.
272BHP said:
It's an awkward target audience for this game isn't it?
Kids from the age of about 6-13 are still crazy about this game - they are everywhere! Trouble is it is only really the 11 year olds and up who have phones and are allowed to travel around by themselves. The others are begging their parents to take them out for walks and bike rides and asking to borrow their phone.
My son is still playing - on my bloody phone - he screamed his head off in the middle of town today when he hatched a 2000cp Snorlax. Usually he is quite a shy lad but if he sees someone else playing the game he has no problem introducing himself. Also he must have travelled about 15 mile yesterday on his bike and without any complaints of tiredness.
Same with my boys, except oldest has his own phone, youngest grabs my wife's, and I play on mine! Kids from the age of about 6-13 are still crazy about this game - they are everywhere! Trouble is it is only really the 11 year olds and up who have phones and are allowed to travel around by themselves. The others are begging their parents to take them out for walks and bike rides and asking to borrow their phone.
My son is still playing - on my bloody phone - he screamed his head off in the middle of town today when he hatched a 2000cp Snorlax. Usually he is quite a shy lad but if he sees someone else playing the game he has no problem introducing himself. Also he must have travelled about 15 mile yesterday on his bike and without any complaints of tiredness.
Given that my office is in the Southbank right in the middle of London, they don't half get jealous of what I pick up if I go out for a stroll at lunchtime!
272BHP said:
It's an awkward target audience for this game isn't it?
Kids from the age of about 6-13 are still crazy about this game - they are everywhere! Trouble is it is only really the 11 year olds and up who have phones and are allowed to travel around by themselves. The others are begging their parents to take them out for walks and bike rides and asking to borrow their phone.
My son is still playing - on my bloody phone - he screamed his head off in the middle of town today when he hatched a 2000cp Snorlax. Usually he is quite a shy lad but if he sees someone else playing the game he has no problem introducing himself. Also he must have travelled about 15 mile yesterday on his bike and without any complaints of tiredness.
My eldest (9) was in tears at Palma airport because a Sandslash appeared which his younger brother brother managed to catch but he didn't (the Sandslash ran away). My wife thought he was being ridiculous because she doesn't get gaming, but I felt for the little fellow.Kids from the age of about 6-13 are still crazy about this game - they are everywhere! Trouble is it is only really the 11 year olds and up who have phones and are allowed to travel around by themselves. The others are begging their parents to take them out for walks and bike rides and asking to borrow their phone.
My son is still playing - on my bloody phone - he screamed his head off in the middle of town today when he hatched a 2000cp Snorlax. Usually he is quite a shy lad but if he sees someone else playing the game he has no problem introducing himself. Also he must have travelled about 15 mile yesterday on his bike and without any complaints of tiredness.
There were loads of Mr Mimes in Mallorca - the boys thought that was great, but they seem to be more common in the UK now as we've caught a few since we've been back.
They (ahem) are both on about 91-92 in the Pokedex. They're still enjoying it - I go for a walk at lunchtime and caught them a Porygon on Monday and a Diglett yesterday.
I definitely need to have a wander over to Holland Park for the fabled Bulbasaur nest.
Kermit power said:
I've been one single Magikarp candy short of being able to evolve for the last 3 days. Manchester is utterly crap for finding pokemon!!
Haha! Got so many of them I'm ⅞ of the way toward a fourth Gyarados! I even had a 5km egg hatch into a Magikarp yesterday! Admittedly that was a quite impressive CP135 mind....Kermit power said:
I've been one single Magikarp candy short of being able to evolve for the last 3 days. Manchester is utterly crap for finding pokemon!!
Chester Zoo have held 2 after hours charity events. Managed to raise £34k from both, might be worth checking if they are having any more.There was a stampede to the main enterence when a Snorlax spawned at the first one 
I must say my fitness has improved the amount of walking me and my wife have put in.Level 23 - 114 Pokedex.
K12beano said:
Kermit power said:
I've been one single Magikarp candy short of being able to evolve for the last 3 days. Manchester is utterly crap for finding pokemon!!
Haha! Got so many of them I'm ? of the way toward a fourth Gyarados! I even had a 5km egg hatch into a Magikarp yesterday! Admittedly that was a quite impressive CP135 mind....Also on 136 out of 142, I just need some more Abra, Geodude and Omanyte for my Alakazam, Golem and Omastar, and then I need to hatch or catch a Chansey, Snorlax and a few more Grimers (I say hatch for Grimer as it's rare as hell in the wild). I know I can get the first three quite easily, but the last three are going to cause problems. I might just give up once I'm on 139.
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