Unlabelled Pokémon GO - For your enjoyment.

11/19/2017 01:26:00 pm
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Pokémon GO - For your enjoyment.

For your enjoyment.

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 06:49 PM PST

Pokemon Go is NOT a top 50 grossing game - as of November 18th, 2017 (AppAnnie)

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 07:27 AM PST

The good old days... bugged tracker and Dratini nests.

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 06:01 PM PST

@PokemonGoApp has just announced the winners of the AR Photo Contest on Instagram!

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 03:29 PM PST

Through all the game's failings and disappointments, it's nice when the stars align to create a special memory. [Rhône-Alpes, France]

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 05:39 AM PST

[Story] Today, I soloed Mewtwo

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 07:52 PM PST

About me as a player: I started playing in September of last year and reached level 40 in August (about 11.5 months). For most of that time I was F2P. I bought GO+ earlier this year, and only in the last few months spent money to buy Poke coins (~$11 of my own money and ~$14 of Google Play credit). I play every day and do 10-12 raids per week (using daily free passes and buying premium passes with gym coins). Before this month, I did Legendary raids almost exclusively, but now that our Beast is Suicune, I've shifted my focus to raiding at gyms where EX raids are more likely to occur (so ignoring raids at gyms that are on a street corner, for example). I had done a raid at a Starbucks after the 2nd wave of invites, and then a raid at a Sprint store after the 3rd wave, but never got an EX invite for those gyms (both gyms are outside of my normal area of play so I didn't do more raids there).

My city has received EX raid invites every week since the first week, with the exception of the third week (I think that adds up to 8 but I've lost count). I didn't receive an EX pass for the first several weeks and was starting to get salty, and then I finally received my first pass last Friday afternoon, for a gym that I had only ever done one raid at (a tier 3 by myself) the weekend before (the gym is not where I normally play, about a 15-min drive from where I live). I got pretty excited and restless and started looking up videos to prepare myself to battle and catch Mewtwo. Then I saw a bunch of posts on this sub and The Sliph Road about last week's EX raid groups being smaller - some too small to even complete the raid. I got a bit worried, but I didn't hear of that being a problem in my city (I went to a friend's EX raid last Saturday and though they only had 10 people, they still beat it easily), so I thought I'd be okay.

I had posted a pic of my EX pass on my local Discord group, but didn't see anyone else post the same one or mention they got the same one, which worried me. But I also noticed some people last week got their pass only 2 days before the raid, so I thought maybe some would get it late, and I also figured some people who don't use Discord may have gotten an invite.

So today I arrived at the EX raid location ~20 min before it started. The gym was at low motivation and just had Eevee and its evolutions so I took it over and put a Blissey. No one else added and no one else attacked. The raid started and I didn't see anyone else playing Pokemon GO. I waited and waited, watching the lobby count to see if there might've been spoofers. As time ticked by, I started to lose hope. I was hoping maybe a group had organized through other means and was planning to come towards the end. I thought maybe the other invitees were an organized spoofer group that did their own private group, but that didn't seem likely, especially not at that gym (there's a Sprint store less than 10 min away).

With less than 10 minutes left on the raid timer, I accepted that I still would not be getting my first Mewtwo. So I futilely battled it, just for fun, and was at least a bit pleased to see I could take about one-third of its HP.

I'm left wondering what the heck happened. I'm wondering if I just got trolled by Niantic. I honestly have no idea if anyone else even received an invite. I don't normally play in that area so I don't know how many raids pop up at that gym and how many players raid there. The gym (located at a park) is in a pocket of a mostly residential area, just around the corner from a city college. I figure it's not a high-traffic area, but I think it makes a perfect EX raid location: it had a pretty big parking lot, there was even street parking, and it wasn't crowded. It could've easily accommodated 40+ people.

During the first round of EX raids, I heard that at least one location near my area (a Sprint store) had over 50 people. Bringing together so many people over a shared interest/hobby is one of the things that makes the game fun and exciting to me. And doing that at a park would make so much more sense in my opinion (I mean, I think at a Sprint store it would annoy customers and employees more than it would promote their business).

I don't even know what Niantic is testing at this point. It seems like they are just reducing the invites week by week until eventually there are EX raids but no invites. I don't know who at Niantic thought this EX system was a good idea: limiting players to a specific time and location, and if you can't make it or don't have enough people to beat it, you don't even get to use the pass at a different EX raid. Mewtwo is the only reason why I'm still raiding now. If I can't get one, then I don't even know what the point is anymore.

The one silver lining is that it was a nice day today, and I did enjoy walking around the park after the failed EX raid. It's a shame that Niantic didn't invite more people out to enjoy the nice weather at the park. I think they could have realistically invited every single player that completed a raid at that gym in the week before the invites was sent out, and it wouldn't have been too many.

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[Humour] "Wait, Shellder! That's not a Slowpoke!"

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 07:46 PM PST

I got a doll of the Christmas-themed Pikachu!

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 01:39 PM PST

[Discussion]Cheaters are now mainstream in my city

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 04:16 PM PST

There are many ways for people to cheat in Pokémon Go, but some are more annoying than others. The two ways that most directly impact the game for others are spoofing and multi-accounting/account sharing. Since these ways of cheating harm others directly, you would think people would be strongly opposed to it. Surprisingly, the exact opposite is true. You get hated for speaking out about spoofers and/or multi-accounters/account sharers. At this moment some spoofers hunt me and some other players down and the majority of our local community supports them.

You would expect that Niantic would be on our side, but here again the opposite is true. All reports so far have been ignored completely. Most of the higher level players know who the most active spoofers of the city are. The spoofers admit that they spoof without any shame. The same holds for multi-accounters/account sharers. They sign up for raids with multiple accounts and simply raid with multiple phones. I get that it is not possible to ban all cheaters, but it is definitely possible to find the most annoying ones. Everything is better than doing nothing.

With the EX raids this issue has become very clear. At this moment 3 people in my city own a Mewtwo. One of them is a spoofer with multiple accounts and one of them has gotten his EX-raid invite by account sharing. The third player plays fair himself, but does his raids mostly with spoofers. He also pushes the spoofers to attack our gyms.

I would like to know if this is also the case in other cities around the world. If so, how do you deal with this as a fair player? Are you able to do raids with fair players and exclude cheaters? Are you able to keep the gyms relatively clean? Please tell me your stories.

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Looks like the Yaz gym and the Kaz gym made an agreement on gyms

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 08:10 PM PST

Fishing for seaturtles (July2016) - missing those gamefreeze moments :(

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 11:36 AM PST

We expected some communication from niantic last week and that's why I'm now disappointed.

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 09:12 PM PST

They had an announcement last week saying they are trying to communicate more. I expected something about why the game is so terrible rn. Or hopefully something about bugs? Something about the future for the game? No, nothing. They announced the AT winner. It came to the point that niantic showed that they don't care enough. So I figured, why should i?

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[Question] Is anyone still saving Pokémon in their bag space for future Trading system?

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 03:37 PM PST

Today I hatched 3 baby Pokémon; in a row. Seeing as I have 5 of each (all IVs over 85%), already in bag for "Trading," these felt like complete and utter wasted hatches.

Got me thinking, at this point saving anything for Trading that aren't regionals, legendaries, max CP/IVs or super low (ex 0%IVs) trophies, seems super pointless. Is my bag is filled with crap that at one time could have been of trade value, but by now is just trash for the grinder (ex. baby mons)?

So 2 questions please.

1- Are you saving anything in your bags for some eventual Trading system to use as currency with other trainers?

2- If Trading were a thing today, and worked as a sensible system, what would you be looking to acquire?

Thx.

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No iPhone X support yet?

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 04:53 PM PST

Anyone else playing on an iPhone X and annoyed by the fact that app isn't optimized for the display yet?

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Serious Raid problem (mass kick out)

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 03:52 PM PST

We just beat a Suicune with 9 players and in the catching mini game it gave us all error 26. When it reloaded, one of us caught the boss but the rest of us had over 10 balls left. Is this happening to others, is it a unique occurrence, is there a way to prevent this from happening again?

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Why Pokemon should be returned after a certain amount of time. Stuck gyrados for 25 days

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 12:53 PM PST

[Questiony Have you or anyone you know caught a 100% IV Pokémon from an Incense?

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 07:23 PM PST

Just looking for base data. Anything, even rumors are accepted.

Just a random bar question, couldn't find anything on Google or this sub//r/thesilphroad about it so thought I'd post and see what came up.

Thanks!

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[Ideas] Daily Quests Reward

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 12:47 AM PST

Gym Update Concept Art - Leaderboard system (WIP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 06:51 PM PST

[Photo] Quagsire Heaven Glitch

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 12:07 AM PST

https://imgur.com/a/EssvA

Happened on my brother's phone. His potential explanation: "When you go click on a Pokémon when the game is in night mode and then the game changes to daytime mode when you're going back and forth from AR mode it can't work it out and does a weird bug". Anyone else replicate this?

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[Discussion] Big annoucement: new fancy clothing or player AR shots?

Posted: 18 Nov 2017 09:35 PM PST

Barring another annoucement in the next 1 hour and 25 min... which annoucement did Niantic meant as the big annoucement they alluded to last week? XD

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