Pokemon Go ARG by Niantic (a Google company)

Yonder wrote:

Just hatched a Lapras and a Porygon! Neither of which are strong enough for me to use for serious battle, but I still like having them, and that's three candy each for later ones.

I left the Porygon at a Gym. At 226 he can't help much, but I wanted to show him off.

Holy crap, I didn't realize that eggs give you so much more candy than caught pokemon. I have 10 Porygon candy, 29 Lapras candy, and 21 Mankey candy. I have all three of those solely from a single egg hatching.

Not to be a buzz kill but I have experienced it. I cannot run due to my stroke and I tired easily but I have fun nonetheless. Keep that in mind when you see a trainer with a limp or a person in a wheelchair. Offer them encouragement or ask them if they need help.
Pokémon Go with Disabilities

ukickmydog wrote:
Edwin wrote:

If you want more stops and gyms near you, download the ingress app and submit new ones.

http://ingressportal.com/research/po...

According to this: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_te..., suggesting portals hasnt been a thing since last September.

I can vouch that this article is accurate. I should post a screenshot of the barren pokemon landscape that's around my house. I suppose it's possible there's a few stops somewhere around, but since you can't scroll the map around, I wouldn't know. I did happen to start it up last night in my house, and there was a pidgey or something. So I've now caught a grand total of 3 pokemans. Am I the very best now?

Try emailing Niantic with your location and a request for help.

For reference, this is where I catch the bus into Boston, in the most built up area I go to regularly:

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I did wind up running the app on my walk from when the bus gets into the city to my office, and I got probably 8 or so mons and a bunch of stops. So all isn't lost, except that as soon as my wife gives birth, I won't be in the city for about three weeks, so I won't be able to play.

How to play Pokemon Go from your PC

Warning: Against Terms of Service and will likely get you banned, so don't blame me.

Chaz wrote:

So I've now caught a grand total of 3 pokemans. Am I the very best now?

Well, it took Ash, like, five episodes to catch himself his third? Maybe more? So yeah, you're totally a master.

Robear wrote:

Try emailing Niantic with your location and a request for help.

This is their support site. You could submitting the lack of anything near you as a bug, or possibly submit a suggested location be made into something through the "Report an issue with a Gym or PokeStop" option.

Problem: Pokestops missing.

On the plus side, I'm willing to bet I could take over gyms up by my house (if I can find one) way easier than I could in downtown Boston.

Dude says he approached a stranger at 1 am while walking to a store to get chips and beer (playing Pokemon Go on the way), and that guy stabbed him in the shoulder (sounds like an odd place to stab someone) but didn't try to rob him (he still had his phone to play the game and his money continue to the store and get the chips and beer he was after originally). He didn't call the cops or go to a hospital, but says he got medical treatment much later, where he got 8 stitches. The original news article says the police wouldn't comment on the suspect, but it did sound like they'd been notified, but that was probably done much later too, because I highly doubt the an ambulance wouldn't have been there too if the cops were responding to a call about someone getting stabbed. During the interview he's saying things like "Its been too long, too long. Gotta be the first one to catch them all," " I guess he wanted to battle because he came up at me with a knife", and "No, it's important to me. I gotta basically catch them all." It sounds a lot like he's trolling the news.

Yup. I would have called satire, but AJC is legit. I totally think they got trolled.

Police have not made any arrest, and right now said they can't release any information about the suspect.

If he is trolling the news, it certainly sounds like he he filed a false report to the police to do so. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the "suspect" he described to the cops was a black.

Daily Beast did an article on the guy who has trolled many news organizations on Pokemon Go and I think other topics. (He claims it's accidental, but...).

sometimesdee wrote:

Yup. I would have called satire, but AJC is legit. I totally think they got trolled.

Here's the police log (last item on page)

It certainly sounds like someone at least had a knife wound and that the police were called.

tanstaafl wrote:
sometimesdee wrote:

Yup. I would have called satire, but AJC is legit. I totally think they got trolled.

Here's the police log (last item on page)

It certainly sounds like someone at least had a knife wound and that the police were called.

• A caller reported that a man, who had come inside a local convenience store, was suffering from a stab wound he received earlier while walking and playing Pokémon Go on his phone. Officers responded to the store, where the 22-year-old man had come in to buy chips and beer, as well as find a Pokémon. The man was able to give a description of his attacker, who allegedly stabbed the victim as they passed each other near 19th Avenue and Filbert Street. The victim refused medical treatment and continued his Pokémon hunt. The incident is under investigation.

So someone else called the cops, and he actively refused medical treatment instead of just decided not to go to the hospital. He's either a masterful troll, or so dumb it's a wonder he's stayed alive this long.

My coworker made an interesting discovery. He was maxing a pokemon and when he hit the end of the arch he did not get a "That pokemon is as strong as it can get" message. Instead he got "Your trainer level isn't high enough to power up that pokemon." He leveled up and, sure enough, he could Power it Up again.

Yonder wrote:

My coworker made an interesting discovery. He was maxing a pokemon and when he hit the end of the arch he did not get a "That pokemon is as strong as it can get" message. Instead he got "Your trainer level isn't high enough to power up that pokemon." He leveled up and, sure enough, he could Power it Up again.

Can confirm. I've done the same thing

That's cool.. so that means I don't have to abandon my pokemon caught at level X when I reach level X+1? My wife feels bad every time I send Pokemon to the glue factory.

Carlbear95 wrote:

That's cool.. so that means I don't have to abandon my pokemon caught at level X when I reach level X+1? My wife feels bad every time I send Pokemon to the glue factory.

"No, no, sweetie, we're just sending Pidgey to live on Professor Grandma's farm."

I've decided not to play this on the bus anymore, to preserve its worth as an incentive to be active. I'm tempted to hatch a bunch of eggs that way, but I know I'll lose motivation to go for a walk if I cross that line.

Until we get a wonder trade feature in the game, they're all getting turned to candy.

Stengah wrote:
tanstaafl wrote:
sometimesdee wrote:

Yup. I would have called satire, but AJC is legit. I totally think they got trolled.

Here's the police log (last item on page)

It certainly sounds like someone at least had a knife wound and that the police were called.

• A caller reported that a man, who had come inside a local convenience store, was suffering from a stab wound he received earlier while walking and playing Pokémon Go on his phone. Officers responded to the store, where the 22-year-old man had come in to buy chips and beer, as well as find a Pokémon. The man was able to give a description of his attacker, who allegedly stabbed the victim as they passed each other near 19th Avenue and Filbert Street. The victim refused medical treatment and continued his Pokémon hunt. The incident is under investigation.

So someone else called the cops, and he actively refused medical treatment instead of just decided not to go to the hospital. He's either a masterful troll, or so dumb it's a wonder he's stayed alive this long.

Any time someone refuses an ambulance and doesn't report something like this my first instinct tell me he was doing something shady... or they're really dumb.

* My good taste meter kicked in and I am removing this image.

I took over the gym right across from the White House with this guy
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From a "catch 'em all" perspective the game is starting to feel like a slot machine. I wonder how long my interest will last. The distribution and rarity of Pokemon feels wonky. I felt motivated to search and find Pokemon for the first week, but now that I'm level 15 and have about 60 Pokemon in the Pokedex, it's getting to be significantly less rewarding... "Another Pidgey?"

In my local area I'm almost exclusively seeing things I've already got. I feel like I really need to work to get more, either by driving to some new areas that may or may not have Pokemon I can use, or to talk to lots of people to figure out where particular types of Pokemon drop. I could see myself doing this occasionally, but the appeal for me has been to grab the dog, drive 5-10 minutes to load up on Pokeballs, then take a walk finding cool Pokemon. But pretty much everything that spawns locally is either something I've got already or something that is useful only for grinding an upgrade that will take a long time.

I think it would have been easier to keep my attention if fewer new Pokemon dropped for me over the first week, and more dropped now. If they spread the novelty out I think it would hook people longer. As it is, novelty feels like it falls off a cliff.

I'm still playing, but it's starting to feel like work to check the app. That's never a good sign for me.