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

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

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westtra

1,537 posts

202 months

Tuesday 10th July 2018
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Iwatch has an app if you have one of them.

louiebaby

10,651 posts

192 months

Tuesday 10th July 2018
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Is one of you lot based in San Diego * ???

I'm getting eggs from you, which are going to be ace for trading to boost my kms for the badge...

Also, sorry for the lack of gifts the last few days, I'm just not able to get out and collect over 30 of them every day! hehe

* Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means a whale's vagina.

stevesuk

1,349 posts

183 months

Tuesday 10th July 2018
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There are some areas near me where you'd expect there to be a Pokestop or gym, but there isn't (parks, nature reserves, places of interest etc.).

Seems the only way you can request new locations, is to play Niantic's other app (Ingress) through to level 10, and start suggesting new portals (which - if they choose - become Pokestops in Pokemon Go). Seems a bit of a bizarre process, and I read it can take months to get to level 10 on Ingress.

Has anyone happened to successfully do this? Just curious about the process really smile

Heartworm

1,923 posts

162 months

Tuesday 10th July 2018
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I played ingress before pogo, level 10 is about the same as 33/34 in pogo

Once you submit a portal is sent to level 13/14 players i think who then decide if it meets requirements. Its quite strict but often genuine portals get rejected too which is infuriating as you get no reason why. I just keep resubmitting into they are eventually accepted. You can only submit 10 within 14 days.


There is a relaunch of the game coming soon.

Ruskie

3,994 posts

201 months

Tuesday 10th July 2018
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Just come back to this after a year off and I’m enjoying it loads. One of the reasons I stopped was catching same things all time now there are nearly 400 to catch I have loads of different ones to get. Addictive little game. I’m a passenger a lot and they have nerfed the speed you can hit things at. Anything over 25mph and you can’t hit it.

Zad

12,710 posts

237 months

Wednesday 11th July 2018
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Well bother, it looks like I'm going to be without my only phone capable of running Pokemon Go for a bit, so no more gifts from me for the time being. I have a tablet but that's WiFi only and not really practical to take around with me. Fingers crossed.

louiebaby

10,651 posts

192 months

Thursday 12th July 2018
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Zad said:
Well bother, it looks like I'm going to be without my only phone capable of running Pokemon Go for a bit, so no more gifts from me for the time being. I have a tablet but that's WiFi only and not really practical to take around with me. Fingers crossed.
Keep accepting the gifts though, we can all still build towards being Best Friends and 100,000 XP, right?

Seems that I got 1 gift from the first 11 spins in my first hour of play this morning. (Dog Walk.)

Then about a 70% hit rate having a quick ride around the village on my bike before I commuted to work.

Perhaps there is a pattern, as this is similar to yesterday.

EvoDelta

8,221 posts

191 months

Thursday 12th July 2018
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louiebaby said:
Keep accepting the gifts though, we can all still build towards being Best Friends and 100,000 XP, right?

Seems that I got 1 gift from the first 11 spins in my first hour of play this morning. (Dog Walk.)

Then about a 70% hit rate having a quick ride around the village on my bike before I commuted to work.

Perhaps there is a pattern, as this is similar to yesterday.
I got no gifts from my first ~15 spins today. Then one at the airport, and nothing for ~10 more spins.

c8bof

368 posts

166 months

Thursday 12th July 2018
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I wonder if they have cut the number of gifts given out randomly? I had put the decrease down to a change of location but even in Glasgow city centre, I’m not picking up as many as when it first started.

skip_1

3,475 posts

191 months

Thursday 12th July 2018
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Gift rate had definitely been nerfed. I received maybe 1 gift every four spins today.

Zad

12,710 posts

237 months

Friday 13th July 2018
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I'm back! For the weekend at least. If I seem to be spending a lot of time in The Library, I should point out that it is a pub hehe lovely old Victorian building though and pretty cheap, if you don't mind students.

K12beano

20,854 posts

276 months

Friday 13th July 2018
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Zad said:
I'm back! For the weekend at least. If I seem to be spending a lot of time in The Library, I should point out that it is a pub hehe lovely old Victorian building though and pretty cheap, if you don't mind students.
Crikey - it’s like “The Shining”..... Here’s Johnny!!!


No - welcome back... i’ll Keep trying to ply you with stuff, but it’s difficult round daily schedule to ensure even distribution of plunder .... !

Zad

12,710 posts

237 months

Friday 13th July 2018
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No worries. I don't have enough prizes dropping to send to everyone either, but I try to prioritise anyone who has recently sent me one, with any spares going to other random peeps.

skip_1

3,475 posts

191 months

Friday 13th July 2018
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Zad said:
I'm back! For the weekend at least. If I seem to be spending a lot of time in The Library, I should point out that it is a pub hehe lovely old Victorian building though and pretty cheap, if you don't mind students.
In Leeds? Good pub if so. Not so many students left though now as exams have finished?

c8bof

368 posts

166 months

Saturday 14th July 2018
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2 years playing and I’ve just caught my first shiny! Makes me wonder if I’ve had done before and transferred them, not realising what they were.

Zad

12,710 posts

237 months

Saturday 14th July 2018
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Yes, The Library up Woodhouse Lane in Leeds. Extremely quiet all around there now, it is always kinda weird when the students leave for summer. I remember when I was doing my MSc and we were still on campus over summer, it felt like the set for a zombie movie. Nice and peaceful but ... odd.

I've had very few shiny Pokemon too. I think I trashed at least one, but not many more. I was trying to get a shiny Wailmer last time they were appearing all over the place. Not sure how many I caught, but not a whiff of a shiny one. Talking of which, I think they must have done one of those shake-ups, because I'm seeing a whole different set of types, Wailmer, Torchic, Trapinch, Exeggutor and Geodude with Nigel Mansell eyebrows and spiked hair. I did see something I hadn't caught early this morning, it appeared as a blank icon, but nothing with that profile showed up on screen.


c8bof

368 posts

166 months

Saturday 14th July 2018
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I’ve never seen a Trapinch here but have caught an Alohan Diglett today.

loudlashadjuster

5,192 posts

185 months

Sunday 15th July 2018
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c8bof said:
2 years playing and I’ve just caught my first shiny! Makes me wonder if I’ve had done before and transferred them, not realising what they were.
I got my first the other day too, co-incidence or maybe they've upped the drop rate?

Heartworm

1,923 posts

162 months

Sunday 15th July 2018
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Do taste of shiny plusle /minum is increased for the 48 hours of event.

The plusle shiny is rubbish though.

Zad

12,710 posts

237 months

Sunday 15th July 2018
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Funnily enough I just caught 2 more Trapinches, and they were both next to Digletts. I went for a walk around the centre of Leeds and seemed to re-stock with 10 presents in 10 stops!