Pokémon GO - Weekly questions, bugs, and gameplay megathread - December 2017

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• Weekly questions, bugs, and gameplay megathread - December 2017
• Salty Sunday - Rage Rants and complaints
• What the sunny spawns really mean
• [HUMOUR]Opened Pokemon Go in bed this morning...
• Spoink with her friend.
• Found this guy in New Orleans! This generation has some incredible animation.
• So today has been a thrilling day
• [Discussion] The new weather system is a great solution to the stardust shortage
• [Art] I love playing but always picture those poor creatures trapped and forgotten in my dusty Pokédex. This inspired a series I painted titled ‘Pokémon Go(ne)’, I hope you all like it!
• [Discussion] can we stop with these repeat posts ?
• [Idea] EX Raids should happen just after you defeat a legendary
• Not sure this justified an extreme weather warning
• Extreme Weather needs to be fixed asap
• EXTREME WEA---'SHUT UP! I FOUND A 4000 CP DRAGONITE!'
• [Screenshot] Caught my first Mawile and it's shiny!
• Anyone else still waiting for EX invite?
• Hit Level 40 today and did it in style
• [Discussion] The complete history of new PokéStops and Gyms
• As a rural player, thank you, Niantic!
• I don’t think she likes the cold
• How rare is a 0% iv pokemon?
• [Screenshot] Mudkip got too excited and fell over in the snow. RIP
• Great new warning feature about (potentially) hazardous weather - enough to alter you but it doesn’t mean you can’t play the game
• No Pokémon ever spawn at a Pokéstop?
• This weather buff is pretty sweet

Weekly questions, bugs, and gameplay megathread - December 2017 Posted: 10 Dec 2017 05:10 AM PST Temporary FAQ: LEGENDARIES - Three Legendary Beasts (Raikou, Entei, and Suicune) available, rotating continents on 30 September, then finally rotating on 31 October. LEGENDARIES - MewTwo available via invitation-only EX Raids. Known Issues Page Raids and Battles - open to all Gym-eligible Trainers (Level 5+) as of July 1st Consider asking your question here, instead of making a post and have it buried! Also, to prevent redundancy, do consider doing a CTRL+F in this thread or a subreddit search query for your question! Rules Please note: ONLY AR Screenshots are allowed as image posts. Any other screenshots MUST be submitted as text posts with a link to the image Past Q&A Megathreads Known bugs (some have possibly been fixed): See here for Niantic-recognized bugs. New: Shadow-Bans If you have ever used a third-party service (such as an IV checker) that required you to log into your Pokemon Go account, and/or you have ever received a warning message about unauthorized access, you may have recently been "shadow-banned". You can still play the game like normally, but only common Pokemon will show up and you will not see "rare" spawns while others will. You will need to remove any such services, revoke their authorizations, change your password, etc. Roughly a week after doing so, people have reported the shadow-bans being lifted for legitimate players. New in 0.59.1 The Pokédex displays genders for Pokémon you have caught, if applicable. However, code for genders was only added sometime in December/January. Any Pokémon caught/evolved prior to that will have a (randomly assigned?) gender in the Inventory, but will not properly display the gender in the Pokédex. Sometimes while the game is loading it will get stuck on a white screen. This seems to be due to an anti-bot "Captcha" screen that didn't load correctly, and can usually be fixed by restarting the app. There is a bug with the GPS not connecting properly, which results in nearby Pokémon spawns disappearing for a few minutes. The game will randomly crash sometimes. Having the most updated version of the app and the most updated version of your operating system tends to minimize this, but it still happens. There are graphical glitches sometimes where a Pokémon will spawn as a "miniature" version of itself. If you restart the app and are still close enough, it should reappear normally and be clickable. There is a bug sometimes while battling a gym if you don't have a great connection. If you dodge an attack that would otherwise kill you, sometimes the game won't register the dodge and your Pokémon will "faint". Then the game will sync with the server and undo the damage that you dodged, but your Pokémon still shows as fainted and you can't actually attack. If phone time is not set to Automatic, Incense and Lures may not work properly. Fix this by setting time to Automatic (in your phone's Time/Date settings) Instruction Manual Main Map Menus User Menu Settings Menu Pokédex (Updated 29 Jul for number of available Pokémon) Shop Items Pokémon Storage Pokémon screen Catching Pokémon Gym Battling Pokémon Types Controls Team Selection Gyms Raids (Updated 29 Jul for changes upon Legendary release) Easter Eggs (Includes Eevee evolutions) Useful Links Pokémon GO Info Gamepress The Silph Road Time Until Nest Migration Which Pokémon should I evolve? /r/PokemonGoIVs I'm sick of the memes here, I want the discussion posts! try http://nr.reddit.com/r/pokemongo for desktop users or this for mobile/app users. Niantic support : https://support.pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/hc/en-us /r/PokemonGO FAQ: /r/PokemonGo/wiki/FAQ There's this Pokéstop/Gym near me which seems inappropriate. Can I report it? Use this link. However, Niantic seems to be preoccupied with other things now, so don't expect too much. We have Niantic representatives on both here and /r/TheSilphRoad - please do not ping them for bugs which are in the known issues page unless you have found a niche yet gamebreaking issue/exploit. Where can I find other players in my area? Try our regional subreddits list! Also, see the related subreddits for more niche needs! If you have any suggestions for FAQs to append to this thread or for meta questions, message the moderators or mention /u/PokemonGoMods! submitted by /u/AutoModerator [link] [comments]

Salty Sunday - Rage Rants and complaints Posted: 10 Dec 2017 10:09 AM PST Have you been the one missing the Mewtwo EX raidpass? Maybe you haven't been lucky the whole week and that damn raid Tyrannitar ran and everyone else caught him. Or the worst part, maybe it's monday again?! (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ Here we rant about everything that goes wrong, someone who sniped a gymspot ( ￣Д￣）, a missed Tyrannitar again (ಠ_ಠ) or that stupid bug which made you miss your raid because of the server desync, ending the raid prematurely (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ No personal insults, no trolls and provocation but all salty stuff is accepted. Only salty posts allowed ( ಠ_ಠ ) No uncivilty or personal information allowed. ☜(`o´) Complaints can be posted here as well, agree that stuff needs to change here as well, like the spawn rate or gym bugs. (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻ Don't forget to hydrate after all the salt! submitted by /u/AutoModerator [link] [comments]

What the sunny spawns really mean Posted: 10 Dec 2017 12:04 PM PST submitted by /u/iNoahPhotography [link] [comments]

[HUMOUR]Opened Pokemon Go in bed this morning... Posted: 10 Dec 2017 02:07 AM PST submitted by /u/theboyrossy [link] [comments]

Spoink with her friend. Posted: 10 Dec 2017 12:38 PM PST submitted by /u/RexRegiss [link] [comments]

Found this guy in New Orleans! This generation has some incredible animation. Posted: 10 Dec 2017 01:28 PM PST submitted by /u/cassiekay17 [link] [comments]

So today has been a thrilling day Posted: 10 Dec 2017 01:54 PM PST submitted by /u/TheFlashGod [link] [comments]

[Discussion] The new weather system is a great solution to the stardust shortage Posted: 10 Dec 2017 05:31 PM PST For a low stardust player like me the new weather system has really solved my problem. I have never been able to power up anything to any significant level but just today I caught a high IV level 35 Machop (cloudy weather boosted) which I promptly evolved into a Machamp. Before this update I would have had to find a high IV level 30 and spend 62,000 (or more likely even lower level and spend 100k+) stardust to have the same result. This weather system is a major buff to stardust in a fun way. Instead of just lowering stardust requirements or boosting stardust collection now we can hunt on specific weather for very high level mons to evolve. What do you guys think about this? submitted by /u/scoops22 [link] [comments]

[Art] I love playing but always picture those poor creatures trapped and forgotten in my dusty Pokédex. This inspired a series I painted titled ‘Pokémon Go(ne)’, I hope you all like it! Posted: 10 Dec 2017 02:33 PM PST submitted by /u/crapidrawatwork [link] [comments]

[Discussion] can we stop with these repeat posts ? Posted: 10 Dec 2017 05:43 PM PST 95% of the sub rn is either EX raids suck or woah look the in game weather doesn't match the real weather. We get it these features aren't the best but we don't need 30 posts a day to let us know submitted by /u/UnfulfilledOtter [link] [comments]

[Idea] EX Raids should happen just after you defeat a legendary Posted: 10 Dec 2017 05:50 AM PST Instead of all this planning and random picking. Just make it so that on a % of defeating a legendary raid, a super legendary notices what's happening, and you get an instant second raid there. It'd feel awesome, you already have a group there from defeating the boss, and just feels like a much better solution. Might need to give people a free raid pass for that to work though. submitted by /u/ultimation [link] [comments]

Not sure this justified an extreme weather warning Posted: 10 Dec 2017 05:01 AM PST submitted by /u/darrenrichie [link] [comments]

Extreme Weather needs to be fixed asap Posted: 10 Dec 2017 01:09 AM PST So I looked forward to this update and was hoping to play today to get some water/ice pokemon because the weather forecast told me it would rain/snow slightly. Well that's nothing that could prevent me from playing, right? Wrong! So this is what the game tells me: https://imgur.com/a/B1cKJ And this is what it actually looks like: https://imgur.com/a/jpqlv This is not in any way dangerous or "extreme" and the temperature is around -2 degrees which is a normal winter temperature... I mean why would they introduce weather when everything that isn't sunny is considered extreme weather? submitted by /u/Draenorxy [link] [comments]

EXTREME WEA---'SHUT UP! I FOUND A 4000 CP DRAGONITE!' Posted: 10 Dec 2017 05:27 AM PST submitted by /u/Prophatetic [link] [comments]

[Screenshot] Caught my first Mawile and it's shiny! Posted: 10 Dec 2017 07:42 PM PST submitted by /u/artisanalwater [link] [comments]

Anyone else still waiting for EX invite? Posted: 10 Dec 2017 09:14 AM PST They seriously need to find a better way to do these. I usually try to do at least 1 Raid a day. I've done a total of 153 Champion Raids and 129 Legendary Raids and still haven't had a single EX Raid invite. I know people with less then 50 raids complete that rarely play getting passes. I'd really like to obtain one before the hype train dies off and groups get hard to find. It's getting cold, and most of the local players are starting to drop off already. Anyone else still waiting for an EX invite? submitted by /u/aeniklast [link] [comments]

Hit Level 40 today and did it in style Posted: 10 Dec 2017 11:20 AM PST I went out today to do a raid or two and after catching an Absol from one of those raids I went to a local park and noticed I was 400 xp from level 40. The gym at the park had a Gengar raid (Hex and Sludge Bomb) so I decided to solo it, and when I did I finally got to level 40! I'm pretty proud of finally getting there and it was nice to do it that way instead of a Pidgey stack or something like that. :) submitted by /u/Sir_Magus_Canada [link] [comments]

[Discussion] The complete history of new PokéStops and Gyms Posted: 10 Dec 2017 04:43 PM PST Since it has been exactly 2 months now since many new PokéStops and Gyms disappeared, but Niantic also very recently added some new portals as PokéStops into Pokémon Go, I thought that the recent events regarding new Pokéstops or Gyms might be a bit confusing to some players. That's why I decided to compress every bit of Info we ever got on new Stops and Gyms in the past into a single, comprehensive list for everyone. I'll edit this post with events I've missed, if you write them in the comments. First, the basics: 2012: Niantic releases their first game, Ingress. Players are able to submit new locations into the game for the game to work. These locations are called "portals" in Ingress. They are the only in-game structure in that game. 2012 – 2015: All Ingress players are able to submit an infinite amount of new portals. Each and every one of these submissions is approved or denied by Niantic employees by hand. Of course, the employees are not able to keep up with all the submissions, which results in a growing backlog of submissions. September 2015: Niantic finally closes the feature to submit new locations entirely. Players are not able to submit new locations for the next 2 years. https://plus.google.com/+NIAOps/posts/HfrZxjvjjdU Summer 2016: Niantic releases their next game: Pokémon Go. This time, the locations are taken directly from Ingress. Only most portals that are too close to another portal do not get imported, as well as sponsored portals. November 2016: Niantic introduces "Operation Portal Recon" (short: OPR) as an invite-only Beta feature for Ingress players level 16. OPR lets players rate open submissions from the backlog with stars from 1 to 5 in multiple categories. If enough players give a certain amount of stars, the submission gets accepted and goes live as a portal. If it fails to do so, the submission gets rejected. In both cases, the player who submitted the candidate gets notified via E-Mail. The year 2017 and the steady development of OPR: March 2017: Niantic opens OPR-invitations to Ingress players level 15. https://www.reddit.com/r/Ingress/comments/5zvwwz/operation_portal_recon_now_open_to_level_15/ Pokemon Go players notice new stops and gyms appearing all around the world. Of course, these locations are identical to the approved portals from ingress. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/6kj51v/8_new_pokestops_and_2_gyms_were_added_in_my_1500/ The synchronization between Ingress and Pokemon Go happens at 6pm GMT every Tuesday, once per week. Later, some would appear after only 6 or 4 days, and in June it would only take 24 hours or less, happening at a fixed time, but only on workdays. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/6iptdl/took_it_exactly_6_days_for_my_approved_ingress/ https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/6ke69f/accepted_portals_in_ingress_via_opr_do_not_take_4/ April 22nd 2017: Niantic opens portal submissions for Brazil and Korea only. Also, only players level 8 or higher are able to submit new locations. At this time, there is no limit to the number of submissions. https://plus.google.com/+Ingress/posts/dQjMVXJoEiV June 12th 2017: Niantic releases OPR for every Ingress player lvl 15+ without invitation and adds an in game medal for more motivation to rate submissions. 182.000 new locations have been accepted at this point. https://plus.google.com/+Ingress/posts/EMNx2RcY7TW June 27th 2017: Niantic opens OPR access for every Ingress player lvl 14+. 340.000 new locations have been accepted at this point. https://plus.google.com/+Ingress/posts/SbXmfFs2MsN July 5th 2017: Niantic opens OPR access for every Ingress player lvl 13+ https://twitter.com/ingress/status/882690561110659072 July 11th 2017: Niantic opens OPR access for every Ingress player lvl 12+ Pokemon Go players are still reporting new stops and gyms every week. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/6n5qpe/new_pokestops_and_gyms_were_added_at_least_in_my/ August 22nd 2017: Ingress Update gets released with "preparations for re-enabling portal submissions again". https://plus.google.com/+Ingress/posts/cDi2xccxW4h September 2017: Ingress players around the world are reporting no submissions to review in OPR for weeks. The backlog seems to be almost cleared. https://www.reddit.com/r/Ingress/comments/6r1ho7/opr_suggestion_there_are_no_portals_available/ Recent events September 25th 2017: Portal submissions are live for every Ingress player level 11+ with 7 submissions per player every 14 days. So if a candidate gets submitted, the player has to wait exactly 14 days in order to get the next free submission back. Also, players from Brazil and Korea now have the same limitations as the rest of the world. https://twitter.com/ingress/status/912414302434447361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpokemongohub.net%2Fpost%2Fbreaking-news%2Fingress-portal-submissions-reopened%2F New submissions show up in OPR 1 day later. Some submissions go live within 2 days, others within 14, while some are stuck in limbo or checked by Niantic themselves instead of the crowd. Pokemon Go players are reporting newly added portals as PokéStops and Gyms within 24 hours. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/739vgw/new_ingress_portal_submission_approved_this/ October 11th 2017: Every player is only getting 2 items out of PokéStops instead of 3 October 11th 2017, 1 hour later: Now, only a few players are still getting 2 items out of PokéStops. Every new PokéStop or Gym that was approved since September 25 suddenly vanishes. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/75t6bk/new_pokestops_disappeared_after_2item_bug_was/ October 25th 2017: All players are getting 3 items out of stops again. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/78p8lb/2_item_curse_has_ended/ But every new PokéStop or Gym that was approved since September 25 is still gone. November 10th 2017: Niantic opens up portal submissions for Ingress players level 10+ https://plus.google.com/+Ingress/posts/ePmekxjb6zD Players from Brazil and Korea are still reporting new Pokestops being added frequently. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/78re7l/new_pokestop_after_adding_photo_to_an_ingress/dowue6w/ November 14th 2017: A player from Brazil, redditor and Ingress player writes Niantic support that new portals are not showing up in Pokemon Go and gets 30 new Pokéstops in his town imported from Ingress. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/7czua6/i_contacted_niantic_support_and_got_30_new/ November 16th 2017: NianticGeorge answers on the thread that it was just coincidence that he got the 30 stops after writing Niantic Support. He explains that Niantic did a "refresh of the Pokestops and Gyms in some areas". He also says that he cannot shed much light on the topic of removed PokéStops and Gyms. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/7czua6/i_contacted_niantic_support_and_got_30_new/dpx8kcr/ November 27: Niantic Support sends automatic Mails to everyone who wrote them about the lack of new Pokestops, despite all the new Ingress portals being live for several weeks. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/7fu1z8/support_answer_about_portals_not_syncing/ December 1st 2017: Niantic increases the limit of 7 submissions per 14 days to 28 submissions for that weekend only, because of the "EXO5 Anomaly" (An Ingress event, similar to the Safari Zones in Pokemon Go) https://twitter.com/ingress/status/936667386756734976 December 7th 2017: Some ingress portals that got approved on December 7th 2017 actually got imported into Pokemon Go at approximately 6.30pm. https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/7i8nte/new_pokestops/ Some players reporting multiple submissions of the ones from the weekend before, some only a single one out of 6 that got approved on that date. Other reports indicate a broader timeframe between December 1st and December 7th. Either way, not a single portal that got approved in September, October or November got live (again) in Pokemon Go at that day. In addition to that, many submissions that actually did fall in the chosen timeframe were left out, nevertheless. This indicates that only a very small percentage (like 5% of portals that got approved in December) of a very small sample size of portals got imported into Pokemon Go. December 8th 2017: Niantic forces the new update, releases 50 Pokemon of Generation 3 and activate the new weather feature. No new Pokestops or Gyms got added that day. So Niantic has the ability to port over ingress portals as Pokéstops and Gyms, but they don't do it in one single swipe and they don't do it every day. Instead, they only did it in small areas first and then imported a very small percentage globally as a test. They are probably going to release more in a weekly, monthly or unpredictable way. As of right now, it is not clear why they don't port over the older portals first and instead chose the newest ones that day as a test. It might have been a bug that we got new stops at all, but maybe the bug was that we did only get so few of them. Truth is, we don't know anything about Niantics plans as of right now. But we are definitely able to conclude from this data that Niantic does in fact care about adding new locations into both of their games. They just do it very carefully and might have to do it slower than most of us would like to. tldr; Niantic is constantly improving on adding new locations into their AR platform. Although hundreds of thousands portals are still not PokéStops or Gyms yet, it seems likely that Niantic is going to import most of them into Pokémon Go, eventually. submitted by /u/AgentRocko [link] [comments]

As a rural player, thank you, Niantic! Posted: 10 Dec 2017 09:43 PM PST This update has completely changed how I feel about this game. Living in south eastern KY, doing well at this game felt like a chore more than anything. With spoofing way too common in this area, it was hard to compete. I know some people have been complaining that the game is too easy now, but for people who aren't located in larger cities this update is perfect. From catching high level Pokemon, to filling up my dex, this update has been nonstop fun for me and my wife! Hope everyone else is having as much fun as we are! submitted by /u/hummingdeer [link] [comments]

I don’t think she likes the cold Posted: 10 Dec 2017 05:10 AM PST submitted by /u/denmetagross [link] [comments]

How rare is a 0% iv pokemon? Posted: 10 Dec 2017 09:11 PM PST Today I caught myself a 0% iv magikarp. How rare is it? I still don't have any perfect iv Pokemon. Lvl 27 But it was just funny that I found a perfectly un-perfect one. 😂 submitted by /u/baz00m [link] [comments]

[Screenshot] Mudkip got too excited and fell over in the snow. RIP Posted: 10 Dec 2017 12:01 PM PST submitted by /u/Osharnose [link] [comments]

Great new warning feature about (potentially) hazardous weather - enough to alter you but it doesn’t mean you can’t play the game Posted: 10 Dec 2017 05:15 AM PST submitted by /u/legendfriend [link] [comments]

No Pokémon ever spawn at a Pokéstop? Posted: 10 Dec 2017 03:29 PM PST I've lived on top of a pokestop for about 4 months now and I have never once seen a Pokémon spawn next to it. I've also never seen a Pokémon near it on the nearby tracker. Anyone know about this or have had a similar experience? submitted by /u/sindyboohoo [link] [comments]

This weather buff is pretty sweet Posted: 10 Dec 2017 09:40 PM PST submitted by /u/citizenstone [link] [comments]

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