Pokemon Go Thread

And will come out in my country tomorrow. So the question is: should I try this latest crazy trend, which apparently surpassed even porn in the amount of downloaded data, or wash my hands of this madness?

 

Turned out my current phone is not advanced enough. Well, I was thinking to change it anyway...

 

Wait; I thought they are still fixing some stuff before it can come out in Europe?

 

It's just that walking around with the tablet is awkward...

Nope, it's out and running.

 

Huh.... that was unexpected. Tried to get it, but Google Store is so horrible.... I cannot find it on the phone app and if I try to download it through internet explorer, it tells me I need to open it in the app.... why even have a Website anyone can access if you don't allow downloads outside the app!

Actually, anyone knows which Galaxy Samsum you would need? I think mine is S3, so I don't know if it is good enough for the game anyway.

 

I downloaded it and tried to open it, but it won't do so and tells me there was a failure while parsing the file? I have activated the thing that allows app downloads from outside Google Store...

 

I Will try now a trial of Pokemon Go with the phone of a friend. Let's see if it deserves the hype.

 

Result: meh. It needs work. And I need a bike.

 

Did you find any interesting Pokemon in the area?

 

Ratata, Slowpoke, Psyduck and Pidgey to name a few. Zubat and Magikarp too.

 

Since Pokemon Go hasn't come out her in Mexico I will put this video.

Spoiler: Sorry it's in Spanish.

 

I wish I knew what they were saying.

 

Hmmm.... just got it working, but the server is down. And I also cannot make a Trainer Club Account since they don't allow more than a certain amount to get created at a time.

I live next to a river, so there should be lots of potential water Pokemon around.

Is Pikachu more difficult to get than the other starters if you don't take it at the start?

 

So, I walked around a bit, caught some mons. Nothing more exciting than a Goldeen, but it was at least something. I guess I couldn't expect to run into a Mewtwo^^

Have some Pokestops involving minor curiosities, a playground, a sports place and more around. But half of them I cannot reach because GPS goes dead if I go there.

Actually GPS seems to be slower on the uptake. Occasionally my figure won't move for a while, then quickly run to an entirely new place, noticing that I have been moving. Or sometimes a mon will appear that wasn't anwhere on my close-by Pokemon list. Like a male Nidoran that just popped out of seemingly nowhere.

There is also an arena around, but I cannot even look at it closely since I am too low level... there seems to be a Snorlax there!

 

Same as me. I guess it's a common problem.

I also saw more than one arena around, one had a Gyarados. Are those made by the game or by fellow players? I am not sure.

 

I know that if you beat an Arena enough, you can put your own Pokemon in there.

If that is a player controlled Gym, I am curious how rare Snorlax is. I know there was a Magikarp around somewhere, though I didn't find it sadly. So Gyarados at least shouldn't be too hard to get if you can catch a lot of Magikarp.

 

Checking back into the game, things have changed already... now there is a Hypno on top of the one Gym. Another one in the opposite direction has a Pidgeot.

 

How many people can put Pokemon into a Gym anyway? Should I challenge one when I am Level 5 or better wait because there will be dozens of mons wanting to stomp me?

 

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*cries because in Malaysia*

 

Nice. Here's mine:

I'm only level 12, though. Since my game doesn't show me how close Pokémon are, I'm pretty much unable to actually hunt them down. I can only wander around randomly and hope they pop up in my path, so I haven't found very many.

In fact, most of my stronger Pokémon have come from eggs, since I get enough mileage each day to either hatch a bunch or get real close to hatching them. On a good day I can usually hatch a 10km egg and make good progress into a second one, but most days I make more like 8km. Makes me wish I had a second permanent incubator so I could hatch multiple 2-5k eggs at once.

 

You can still play it, I think, if your phone is good enough. Mine isn't, I'm running android 2 here, but basically you go into settings ->applications->Unknown Sources, allow installation of non-Market Applications

And then you get the APK
http $ : $ //www.apkmirror.com/apk/niantic-inc/pokemon-go/pokemon-go-0-29-0-release/pokemon-go-0-29-0-android-apk-download/

 

Have you tried updating your Android system? Mine was at 3.0 and I never updated it until then. I didn't even know that you needed to update it manually.

 

Nah, I can wait.