Pokemon Go - Don't be shy....

[louiebaby]

loudlashadjuster said:

Tried this, didn't seem to work

I might be able to have another play tonight, I'm not convinced either, but worth a try...

[sheldimus]

I'm not finding any of the new Pokemon in the wild or getting them from eggs, despite the Pokedex now going all the way up to 239! That's not far off an additional 90 or so animals and I can't even find 1!

[Shaoxter]

sheldimus said:

I'm not finding any of the new Pokemon in the wild or getting them from eggs, despite the Pokedex now going all the way up to 239! That's not far off an additional 90 or so animals and I can't even find 1!

There's only 8 new pokemon available for now, and they all come from eggs. Unfortunately your best chance of hatching them has now passed (there was a higher hatch rate of the new baby pokemon around the holiday period).

I've got 4 so far but without spending money on incubators there's not much hope of getting the others

[loudlashadjuster]

I got four too; Smoochum, Elekid, Cleffa and Togepi. Now at 125 caught and 140 in the Pokedex, about halfway towards level 27.

The whole thing is really losing its shine now though, anything short of trading in a forthcoming update probably means it's a busted flush.

[Kermit power]

sheldimus said:

I'm not finding any of the new Pokemon in the wild or getting them from eggs, despite the Pokedex now going all the way up to 239! That's not far off an additional 90 or so animals and I can't even find 1!

I've got nothing between 148 and 172 (Pichu, 5km egg). Then I've also got Togepi at 175m then nothing until 238 (Smoochum), 239 (Elekid) and 240 (Magby). Everything after 148 has come from eggs.

On a completely unrelated matter, does anyone know who decides where to put Pokestops and Gyms and how they decide?

I'm used to rural environments having next to nothing in them, with an interesting exception being the IBM Hursley labs in the middle of rural Hampshire 3 miles outside Winchester which is a little oasis of 9 Pokestops and 2 gyms....

[loudlashadjuster]

Kermit power said:

On a completely unrelated matter, does anyone know who decides where to put Pokestops and Gyms and how they decide?

Only that they were derived from Ingress (Niantic's original AR game) and must've been generated from a Google/Wikipedia-like source of 'culturally notable places' and player data, hence odd bits of graffiti and some pubs being listed, as well as the inclusion of places like Dachau originally.

Niantic was part of Google when that game was developed so it probably used Google's correlation of popularity and mapping data originally.

[topalwaysdown]

Being an Ingress player myself I know of Hursley from the early days of the game, despite never having been there. The portals were submitted by a couple of players on the opposite team to me who worked at IBM and were well known around the south as being one of the best 'farms' ie. clusters of high level portals that players would use to get high level items to use in the game. Since he has moved away from the area it doesn't get farmed any more. Did the 'Happy Sun' make it across?

Now that I've broken my silence in here I should probably introduce myself as DuracellBunny, having a break from 4 years of Ingress and playing for the red team on Pokemon Go. Just hit L34 and now chasing a Chansey and a Magby to finish my Pokedex

[Kermit power]

topalwaysdown said:

Being an Ingress player myself I know of Hursley from the early days of the game, despite never having been there. The portals were submitted by a couple of players on the opposite team to me who worked at IBM and were well known around the south as being one of the best 'farms' ie. clusters of high level portals that players would use to get high level items to use in the game. Since he has moved away from the area it doesn't get farmed any more. Did the 'Happy Sun' make it across?

Now that I've broken my silence in here I should probably introduce myself as DuracellBunny, having a break from 4 years of Ingress and playing for the red team on Pokemon Go. Just hit L34 and now chasing a Chansey and a Magby to finish my Pokedex

Yes, pretty sure the Happy Sun made it. I didn't go for a walk round all of them, as I had to get on the road straight after our meeting, but I'll check next time I'm there.

As of yesterday lunchtime, btw, both gyms were held by the red team.

[sheldimus]

Actually hatched a Pichu and a Elekid yesterday..

[Kermit power]

anonymous said:

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I must be even slower, as I'm not sure what the result of that would be?

[Some Gump]

You the system? Pit a mGicarpnbup, then swap it for something hard. Does the ditto stay a magicsr, or does it flip to whatever you have?

[topalwaysdown]

Some Gump said:

You the system? Pit a mGicarpnbup, then swap it for something hard. Does the ditto stay a magicsr, or does it flip to whatever you have?

It stays as the Magikarp, that's my usual thing to do when I see a Ditto in a gym

[loudlashadjuster]

Noticed an XP bonus when catching some unremarkable Pokemon the other day. It was listed as something like

Pokemon Caught 100XP
Great Throw    50XP
Bonus          100XP

Any idea what this bonus is for and how it is given?

[topalwaysdown]

loudlashadjuster said:

Noticed an XP bonus when catching some unremarkable Pokemon the other day. It was listed as something like

Pokemon Caught 100XP
Great Throw    50XP
Bonus          100XP

Any idea what this bonus is for and how it is given?

It's a bonus for catching 100 of that species, you get it every 100 of them that you catch.

[loudlashadjuster]

topalwaysdown said:

It's a bonus for catching 100 of that species, you get it every 100 of them that you catch.

Thanks. Typically generous of Niantic

[Kermit power]

Does anyone know when the second generation Pokemon are coming out? I'm getting a bit bored now, although I did catch a wild Ninetails last week, which was new for me.

[Chester draws]

No idea about gen 2 release date...

I wonder if it'll be held off until the warmer weather, maybe with an Easter (egg based) event to fill the gap between now and then.

Mean time, I'm just saving coins, and saving up candy for those that will have a further evolution in Gen 2, specifically eevee, zubat, poliwag, slowpoke, horsea, Oddish.

As well as making the most of all the pidgeys with all the pokeballs I keep getting.

[louiebaby]

Chester draws said:

No idea about gen 2 release date...

I wonder if it'll be held off until the warmer weather, maybe with an Easter (egg based) event to fill the gap between now and then.

Mean time, I'm just saving coins, and saving up candy for those that will have a further evolution in Gen 2, specifically eevee, zubat, poliwag, slowpoke, horsea, Oddish.

As well as making the most of all the pidgeys with all the pokeballs I keep getting.

I'm hoping for a Valentines Day event, for fairy things and candy. I might be wrong though.

Didn't know about poliwag, slowpoke, horsea and oddish, I'll have to keep an eye out for those. Are there any other that I need to be aware of?

[HappyMidget]

louiebaby said:

I'm hoping for a Valentines Day event, for fairy things and candy. I might be wrong though.

Didn't know about poliwag, slowpoke, horsea and oddish, I'll have to keep an eye out for those. Are there any other that I need to be aware of?

Chansey: Now evolves into Blissey
Horsea: Now evolves into Kingdra
Onix: Now evolves into Steelix
Porygon: Now evolves into Porygon2
Scyther: Now evolves into Scizor
Zubat: Now evolves into Crobat

New split evolves as well:

Eevee: Can now evolve into Espeon or Umbreon under certain conditions
Oddish: Can now evolve into Bellossom under certain conditions
Poliwag: Can now evolve into Politoed under certain conditions
Slowpoke: Can now evolve into Slowking under certain conditions

[louiebaby]

HappyMidget said:

Stuff