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Post Post #275 (ISO) » Thu Jul 14, 2016 11:45 am

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So I think i've linked it before, but this is the AR I'm hopeful for. I'm a little gunshy because the shooter part of the game requires actually buying something to add on, which can only serve to drastically reduce potential players. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fath ... aser-tag#/
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Post Post #276 (ISO) » Fri Jul 15, 2016 5:15 am

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Almost ran out of pokeballs yesterday. Would have, had I not hit lvl 7 on my last through. Still, I've got 13 currently in my bag, so unless I find a pokestop to sit on for a while I'm going to be out of luck soon :(
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Post Post #277 (ISO) » Fri Jul 15, 2016 6:58 am

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I don't play pokemon. Never have. It came out when I was 13 and I had other things on my mind then. I have many friends that can't stop talking about it. And co-workers that can't stop talking about it. An email just went out at my work place urging people to stop coming to the giant fountain at the front of my work place during work hours for pokemon go related stuff. Apparently its a pokestop or something. This game and the fad it has garnered is ridiculous
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Post Post #278 (ISO) » Fri Jul 15, 2016 8:26 am

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The fountain would have been registered by someone playing Ingress a while back. They were supposed to use public places as map points but they also put them in front of restaurants, shops, etc. I saw a lot of that at west side market the other day.
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Post Post #279 (ISO) » Fri Jul 15, 2016 8:40 am

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In post 278, Jahudo wrote:The fountain would have been registered by someone playing Ingress a while back. They were supposed to use public places as map points but they also put them in front of restaurants, shops, etc. I saw a lot of that at west side market the other day.
relevant: here or possibly here too
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Post Post #280 (ISO) » Sun Jul 17, 2016 12:17 am

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I just had a Bulbasaur spawn in my house, but I think the servers are overloaded (it jammed on the in-ball screen and the pokeball in the corner is still spinning), but I don't want to quit the app because I know he's despawned if it's not loaded the option options, but I don't think it's going to grant me that.
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Post Post #281 (ISO) » Sun Jul 17, 2016 1:20 am

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If you get the ball-glitch, you may still have caught it. The game will have already decided whether he broke free or you caught it, but it got stuck trying to load the relevant animation. If you end up having to restart the game, the bulbasaur will be in your inventory and your journal if you caught it. It's happened to me a lot.
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Post Post #282 (ISO) » Sun Jul 17, 2016 1:32 am

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Usually it finishes spinning the pokeball before that.
I gave up on having it confirmed something happened after 40 minutes of waiting, as the next Pokémon was going to be appearing. I haven't got back into the game since I did that though, do there's still hope.
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Post Post #283 (ISO) » Sun Jul 17, 2016 1:35 am

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But I think it's going to have gone the same way as the Radicate I had under the same circumstances a week ago where I left the game open overnight waiting, the only trace of it was a greyed outline in the pokedex
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Post Post #284 (ISO) » Sun Jul 17, 2016 2:32 am

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yeah, most of the time when I catch something and it freezes on the ball I have ended up catching it.
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Post Post #285 (ISO) » Sun Jul 17, 2016 10:00 am

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Post Post #286 (ISO) » Sun Jul 17, 2016 12:00 pm

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Didn't get the bulba :(
Only trace is the outline to say I've encountered one in the pokedex, but there was nothing I could do about getting kicked from the server (as I never got back on last night, I think that has to the only possible scenario as for why it was taking so long to spin out)
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Post Post #287 (ISO) » Mon Jul 18, 2016 6:10 am

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Jahudo wrote:The fountain would have been registered by someone playing Ingress a while back. They were supposed to use public places as map points but they also put them in front of restaurants, shops, etc. I saw a lot of that at west side market the other day.
Just learned its not a pokestop out front of my workplace, its a gym so people are battling for control of the gym and the people in the executive office can see them from their main windows. lol
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Post Post #288 (ISO) » Mon Jul 18, 2016 7:47 am

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Today I found out why I never got anything from lures and incense. I was pretty sure there was something wrong since CES would always see stuff there and I couldn't.

Looking forward to finding a lure now that it might have actual pokemon :)
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Post Post #289 (ISO) » Mon Jul 18, 2016 7:47 am

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Oh maybe this also explains why my lucky egg only lasted for 26 minutes :?
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Post Post #290 (ISO) » Mon Jul 18, 2016 8:04 am

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This game was finally released in Canada, but it's basically unplayable for me.

I have the glitch that only lists Pokémon that are three paw prints away, so it's impossible to actively hunt one. Instead of the joy of discovering side streets and new locations while searching for a rare Pokémon (which seems like the major appeal of the game), I can only walk down the street and wait for a Zubat to jump in my face.

And the only times I've tried to access a Pokestop, the game froze on me. Never mind how often the servers are down.

I can certainly understand why it's so addictive, though, given how much effort I've put into trying to play it despite its unplayability.
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Post Post #291 (ISO) » Mon Jul 18, 2016 8:10 am

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In post 290, Mina wrote:I have the glitch that only lists Pokemon that are three paw prints away, so it's impossible to actively hunt Pokémon. Instead of the joy of discovering side streets and new locations while searching for a rare Pokémon (which seems like the major appeal of the game), I can only walk down the street and wait for a Zubat to jump in my face.
I think everyone has that at the moment. It's not a glitch with you, it's the server. The pokestops freezing is probably also the server; mine have been iffy all day. It'll probably get better in a day or two, especially if the Canada launch was today.
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Post Post #292 (ISO) » Mon Jul 18, 2016 3:16 pm

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Post Post #293 (ISO) » Mon Jul 18, 2016 7:30 pm

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So moved from Boston area to Mountain View today. Lots of interesting discoveries in the land of pokemon go. Specifically that the pokemon here are totally different, with the exceptions of things like rattata/spearow/pidgey/zubat etc. I haven't seen a drowzee yet, for one, and I've seen many pokemon (either on radar or in encounters) that I hadn't seen at all in Boston (sandshrew, ekans, pikachu, ponyta to name a few). There are some pokemon I've seen a lot of that were in Boston but just uncommon there (the most notable example is paras).

I was at a lured stop at LAX long enough to get three spawns there as well: a rattata, a pidgey, and an ekans, the last of which surprised me. The only reason I already had ekans and sandshrew was because I hatched both of them from eggs.
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Post Post #294 (ISO) » Mon Jul 18, 2016 7:51 pm

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In post 275, zoraster wrote:So I think i've linked it before, but this is the AR I'm hopeful for. I'm a little gunshy because the shooter part of the game requires actually buying something to add on, which can only serve to drastically reduce potential players. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/fath ... aser-tag#/
And it's on indiegogo which is darn near a synonym for scam
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Post Post #295 (ISO) » Tue Jul 19, 2016 1:40 am

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I mean there have been scams, but I don't think most are. Still, I didn't put any money down for it for kind of that reason.
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Post Post #296 (ISO) » Tue Jul 19, 2016 1:42 am

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In post 293, implosion wrote:So moved from Boston area to Mountain View today. Lots of interesting discoveries in the land of pokemon go. Specifically that the pokemon here are totally different, with the exceptions of things like rattata/spearow/pidgey/zubat etc. I haven't seen a drowzee yet, for one, and I've seen many pokemon (either on radar or in encounters) that I hadn't seen at all in Boston (sandshrew, ekans, pikachu, ponyta to name a few). There are some pokemon I've seen a lot of that were in Boston but just uncommon there (the most notable example is paras).

I was at a lured stop at LAX long enough to get three spawns there as well: a rattata, a pidgey, and an ekans, the last of which surprised me. The only reason I already had ekans and sandshrew was because I hatched both of them from eggs.
Oh my goodness are there a lot of ekans. I thought they were meant to be nearly as common as rattatas and pidgeys. But from area to area it varies a lot too. I've only gotten a handful of eevee's from where I am, well short of an evolution, but my wife has collected enough to evolve a number of them mostly from work.
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Post Post #297 (ISO) » Tue Jul 19, 2016 4:51 am

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I got a hitmonchan and it doesn't appear to have an evolved form? Is that common?
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Post Post #298 (ISO) » Tue Jul 19, 2016 5:06 am

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I think most Pokemon have evolution states, but there are several that don't. Hitmonchan and Hitmonlee both are one-stage (although they got a pre-evo later), Tauros is one-stage as well. All the legendaries, also.
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Post Post #299 (ISO) » Tue Jul 19, 2016 9:14 am

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It's rumored that Pokemon Go is releasing in Japan tomorrow. Just a heads up to anyone who was planning any long walks tomorrow, since the servers will probably crash again if it does release.
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