Pokemon Go Thread

Looks like the local train station is haunted by Ghost Pokemon, and Psychic Pokemon and for some reason a Seel and a Krabby.... Also, looks like there is an Eevee population somewhere close to my home, because I saw them on the nearby list when driving with the bus. And well, one of the Gyms is now Blue and has a Jolteon.

On another note, I am now Level 5 and holy shit my mons are underpowered compared to what is in the local Gyms.... Though none are as impressive as yours guys. The biggest was a 1000 CP Pidgeot.

Is there a maximum to Trainer Level and Capture Power of Pokemon? Or can you keep going forever?

 

Ask the users in Canada how that worked out for them (it didn't cause the app sends Nintendo your location when you use it)

 

Apparently there are people playing the Game in China using a super-complicated process of getting various apps to make it work. So I wouldn't think it impossible.

Does anyone have a clue why Pokemon Go's GPS is so inaccurate a lot of the time? Compared to say, Google Maps. There are times when it doesn't react for like 500 or more, then runs over to where I was a minute ago. Then it proceeds to walk into the entirely opposite direction of me for the next few minutes etc...

 

Weird, I have full accuracy always turned on, doesn't really seem to help.

And yeah, you can turn it off and on, but that kind of ruins the egg-walking thing you know... Though to be honest, it already seems to only count half the way I actually walk.

 

It's mostly due to the fact that the Go servers are wonky. I'm assuming it's because they weren't expecting as many people to play it or something. Similar to the early days of World of Warcraft, so they're rushing about updating all their stuff. Hopefully, they'll have it optimized in a month or so.

 

They look like SMT protagonists

 

Canon anthro Pokemon? Yay!

 

Called it years ago. Pokemon+smart phone proliferation=license to print money. I guess Nintendo finally realized it. That or gave on putting calling/texting and SIM function on the newest Gameboys.

But what I was referring to was just another game. But this is even better.

 

Shops around my place have already started organizing "Catch the Pokémon" evenings, disseminating traps around them while offering merchandize with a discount. I guess every film on it was right about virtual reality: it's viral.

 

How long until shops start buying the rights to have rare Pokemon spawn on their land to get customers in?

 

What happened?

 

Wow. Nintendo went from amazing to full derp quickly. For what purpose I wonder?

 

Welp. I'll wait to download it then.

 

They also decreased the scan radius, but increased the distance pokemon would remain on screen after you pass them.

I've noticed that the catch/flee rates now seem to be heavily biased against trainers as you get up in level.
Unless it's below a 100CP, I've had to waste multiple pokeballs and berries just to catch evo-fodder.
It seems to punish you more, the higher you get.

 

Methinks Niantic Labs are only in this for the money, and is worse than the Kyubey in understanding people.

 

Shutting down the tracking sites specifically is because the tracking sites were hitting Niantic's servers really hard. They basically worked by simulating additional players in the game- they'd ping the game's servers pretending there was a player X distance away from you (usually 50m away) in each direction, then ping X distance away from those, until you have a map around your current location up to, I think it was a kilometre in a radius around you or something. The article Biigoh linked above gives a good example of how this worked with this image. It was fairly obvious to anyone with a basic understanding of how the game works that the tracking sites were doomed- you can't program something to ping the game's servers over a dozen times willy-nilly, have those sites used by tens of thousands of people, and expect the company not to take action against it.

Funnily enough, I don't know anyone in real life who actually cares about the tracker being removed. It's been two weeks since we've had a functioning tracker, everyone just shrugged and moved on. There's been two people (out of a group of over 800 people) on our Facebook page griping about it, but everyone else has just said "whatever" and kept playing as normal. For the most part we just post about rare spawns on our Facebook page. A bunch of us even have texting groups and stuff set up so that we can talk to each other about the game.

 

I've noticed that speed-locks are in effect.
If I go above a certain speed for long enough, pokestops and gyms disappear from the map. The warning message on bootup also stays on the "Don't drive and play" message on repeated restarts. There goes the quick refills for me and friend, with one driving and one dual-boxing. Goddammit Niantic.

They're also shutting down sites that are just people posting pins on a map of when/where they encounter pokemon, and not just the radar sites.

 

There're always a handful of sites that get caught up in mass shutdowns, but I can say with confidence that most of the sites people were using for that purpose are still up.

Niantic has actually made a statement about it in the past few hours.

 

Yeah, smartphone app developers are lazy shits. 99% of these games have less content than what was on the Super Nintendo, and are barely any better than fucking Miniclip used to be. And yet I can cook eggs when some of these games are running. I'd almost say it was intentional, but I doubt it.

And you know what Niantic and other companies should do to these people who make their games better than they can?

Hire them. And fix thier shit. But noooo.

 

Fucking finally, took them long enough to say anything.