I have no further interest in the Zubats, really, so I reasoned catching the Goldbat to get the entry would work, though probably not now that I think about it. Still, hit that point where you've spent enough and you just keep going because you want *something.* Of course, now that I'm level 5, I'm getting other items besides pokeballs so my stops are less helpful.

Right now I'll guess I'll just keep catching and hatching eggs. There are supposed to be Eevee around but haven't found many yet.

Eggs are crucial for if you aren't in a major area. About 1/3 of my guys are from eggs. (1/3 being repeats)

I get a lot from just letting my phone sit, but I'm taking advantage of being near a Pokestop that's easily walkable. I'm still terribly unfit, and the stop by my brother's place is down a steep dirt path and stairs, and there are none at all out where I actually live.

If there's a park you can drive to they might have a bunch of stops there. The one park I went to has a museum as well, so if I go there I can look around too and hatch eggs.

Nice. I would go out to the stop again but I think I need to rest today, knees and back less than happy. I am going to work on some craft projects so if I can't find any tracing paper (or access to a printer) then I might take a drive out, and use the excuse to stop a few places. The most pokemon I've seen at once was when I stopped at a gas pump.

So many Pokestops!

Went to my campus to get some supplies and print things and there are some 8 stops or so, and two gyms. I got my Venomoth in one of them, and it's still there. I have pokecoins!

...and three more eggs. One 10km, one 5km, and one 2km. Working on two 5km right now.

I still haven't gotten a 10k egg....

Do the distances mean much?

More distance means for rarer pokemon inside


Also new update people!

Cool.

Aha! Update! Not that I'm sure what any of it really means yet.

I found it amusing walking around campus today. Not a lot of people so you could see the Go! players circling the gyms. I had some idea of who was who after taking a couple passes. (The bookstore and my workroom are on opposite ends, so I could detour slightly to hit a few things on the way.) There was active fighting on the one gym and I happened to be there when it popped to neutral. I threw my moth up fast as I could, though in hindsight I perhaps should have put up a weaker one and trained a little. Is training against yourself possible?

It default to my Venomoth even though my Nidorina is tougher. That because it was favourited?

Training against yourself is possible, yes. If you put a Pokemon up to defend a gym, you can spar against it just like you can any other Pokemon on the same team.

And it MIGHT be because favorites? I'm not sure.

That would be my guess.

Alas, he has been dislodged. Valiant effort Mr. Venomoth!

I suppose I could give him a nick-name now.

I found a squirtle playing in the sprinklers!

Okay, I'm guessing the game isn't smart enough to know when I turn the hose on but I got a horsea the other day doing the same thing. They know!

Someone is putting out late night lures about town.

*throws 12 pokeballs at a 100cp ratata... breaks out of every ball and flees*
So done with this game... I should not have this difficulty with catching... Either they attack too much, jump too much, or break out the ball and run...

Yeah… the difficulty has upped since it started and it is really getting on my nerves

Also if I knew now what i knew when I started I would probably have a few more level under my belt and a lot more stardust.

Keep in mind that the smaller the circle is, the better your catch chances are. Also with the latest update, they fixed a bug with nice/great/excellent throws, and the previous update made curveballs improve your catch rate more.

Yes, spamming balls doesn't work as well as it used to, but it rewards skillful throws more now.

I average two balls per catch now, roughly (level 6). I take my time and aim and it works pretty well. I find if you watch the pokemon for a minute, you can see what it does, like whether it dodges or swings.

The ball goes in something of an arc, too. I've hit a few pokemon off screen, if they appeared to be further away.

Huh, the circle being smaller thing doesn't work for em or my friends, it seems to work better when its larger for us. o.O And you were lucky to even get your pokemon onto a gym, I tried to grab a gym that was for my team (Valor) but by the time I got to it it had been grabbed by another team. ^^; I've had no luck with getting a single gym, all the pokestops in my town are in a bad area (my friend didn't even want to get out of the car the one time we went there, he doesn't like going there during the day, let alone at night). And I'm out of balls because I forgot to grab them at the one spot this morning and then a truck was parked where I pull over to get it on the way home. =(

Yeah, I was lucky, the gym had just changed over to my team, and I was able to get my guy into an open spot as there were only two other trainers there. That's probably what helped. Not a lot of trainers there but the ones who were there had tough Pokemon. I wouldn't have been able to get in by actually beating anyone.

Got another bulbasaur! EEEEE! Evil thing escaped about 5 times. Took about 7-8 tries since I missed a couple times (got to level 7 while I was out). If dark orange isn't a thing (it wasn't yellow) than it was a red circle. I found it harder to judge if it escaped any faster if the circle was smaller when I hit it.

My 5km egg hatched into a Staryu while I was picking up dinner for later at a sushi restaurant.

Question: does anyone know if the eggs are determined when they are gained or when they are hatched as far as pokemon inside? I'm wondering if I should hang onto my 10km egg until I'm higher level, or if it won't make any significant difference.

It's easier to hit the inner circle when it's bigger, which makes it easier to get a Nice! throw, and Nice! throws do give you a bonus to your catch rate, but you don't HAVE to hit the inner circle -- the catch attempt will fire as long as you hit the outer circle, and the smaller the inner circle is when you hit it the higher your catch rates are. The BEST result is to hit the inner circle with the ball while it's small, getting both Nice!/Great!/Excellent! bonus and the higher base catch rate for the smaller circle.

Gyms have major balance problems, unfortunately. If you didn't get into the game pretty much immediately at launch, you can forget having a meaningful gym experience until you're level 15+.

Yeah, saw that one becoming an issue rather fast. Looks like one of those things where, for later players to have a shot, earlier players need to make some space. I suppose the single pokemon per gym thing is supposed to help, but with the sheer number of playing, not really.

I'm rank 16 and still having issues. T-T Some people already have 2k CP pokemon on their teams because there's a park I don't know how to get to that have like 20 pokestops in it and everyone goes there to get rank 20+ in like one day. T-T

Yick. The pokemon at the gyms here are fielding 1000+ CP Pokemon. My niece has been playing longer than me and her top Pokemon is 300+, and mine is just over 200+, though that might shift once I evolve some guys.

Does anyone here have a metapod or kakuna that they can tell me how many candies they need to evolve? I want to evo my caterpie and weedle but I feel like doing it in one go, give me time to get the highest little dude I can find while earning candy.

I think it's 50 for Metapod->Butterfree and Kakuna->Beedrill. Not sure off the top of my head.

I live in Los Angeles, so I've seen 2900+ Dragonites holding down gyms. ._.

I hope this hype dies down soon so that I can grab some gyms. >>; I'm not going to stop until I can catch all of the pokemon except legendaries (Mew, Mewtwo, Moltrese, Zapados and Articono) because those ones might be special ones I might not be able to grab anyways. >>;

The other one you can't get yet at all is Ditto, and there are a few (Kangaskhan for example) you'd have to travel internationally to get.

Travel or Hatch

You can hatch any of the regionally locked pokemon out of eggs.

Ah, that's true, you could get lucky and hatch one. Would be stupid hard to train, but you could at least complete your Pokedex that way.

Which is why I'm hoping they implement trading soon and that you just need to know the person's account name. >>; I don't like giving out my number.

@coda I get it to the smallest circle possible. They break out every time.

They won't ever use phone numbers for that -- that would be incredibly risky from a legal perspective due to COPPA and the fact that the game targets children. Not to mention that not every device that can play Pokemon Go is an active cell phone -- my son plays on a phone without a SIM card using wifi tethering to my own phone, and I've got a tablet that I COULD (if I wanted to) activate a data plan for and install Pokemon Go on and it wouldn't be able to make phone calls.

It's almost certainly going to use your display name, because that's separate from your login credentials.

Confirmation bias. They don't break EVERY time, but you get more upset when they do. It's easy to fall prey to superstition -- "oh, I caught something, so the last time I must have done something right!" but then when those things you think are supposed to work don't result in a caught Pokemon the same mental bias goes "I didn't catch it, so it must not work!"

Catching Pokemon is, at its core, random. Things you do only influence the randomness. It's been verified by decompiling the code and by statements from Niantic that Nice/Great/Excellent throws increase catch rate, that curveballs increase catch rate, that smaller inner circles increase catch rate, that better balls increase catch rate, that higher Pokemon levels decrease catch rate, and that rarer Pokemon and evolved Pokemon have fundamentally lower catch rates. But even a 10CP Pidgey with a perfect throw doesn't have a 100% catch rate, so sometimes it's just not going to work.

I took on a gym today and manage to take down the lowest pokemon. Yay? Still had to burn through my party to do it, but my best guy is 540 and the gym guy was 800+. Type advantage seems to help a lot. I haven't figured out how to do anything but regular attacks though. I think this game could really benefit from some manner of tutorial. It seems stupid having to look up how to fight besides "swipe to dodge." I have no idea how the stronger attacks work, but apparently those bar things have something to do with stamina?

Type advantages are HUGE. Also, offense has an advantage over defense because the AI runs on different mechanics than the player.

Every Pokemon has two moves: a fast move, and a charge move.

Fast moves have a particular cooldown that isn't displayed anywhere; if you tap the screen, the Pokemon will use that attack as soon as it can. When you use a fast move, it generates some amount of energy.

Charge moves consume energy. The blue bubbles show how much energy they consume. When one or more bubbles fill up, hold down a touch on the screen and a little charge bar will fill up below the bubbles. Once it's full, you let go and the Pokemon will use the attack, and one blue bubble will turn dark. If you still have energy, you can use it again, otherwise, you have to use your fast move until you get it powered back up.

Gym battling is really more like a fighting game than an RPG. You have to watch for tells and predict your opponent's actions, defending when they attack and attacking when they leave an opening.

Finally, lvl 32. >.< Played my booty off.

Quiet - Some people use the dodge trick to win gym battles like the pokemon will give a hint of when it will attack so you swipe to the left or right to dodge then attack then wait for their attack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aflKgUWuIvQ

this video shows what it looks like before the pokemon attacks so you can get ready to swipe/dodge ovo

i've seen folks at the library doing this just to beat the 1000+CP pokemons.

That explains a lot. I only last up to 3 pokemons before mine die at gyms T.T

O.O
Thirty-two?
...I am just at 15... .-.

Anyway, caught a scyther, hatched a Ponyta, and overheated while doing the 10K egg. xD

I hatched a Scyther the oither day, which was awesome. XD I tried a battle but I was outside when it was really bright so I couldn't really see it, and no shady area for me. =( Though a Snorlax doing Earthquake, can that even be dodged?