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Pokémon Go |OT 3| "No Officer, I'm a Passenger"

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BowieZ

Banned
Creamium said:
Can anyone clarify (or post a link) on how spawns work and how the pokemon variation from them is determined? Think I read here that player activity doesn't influnece spawns, but I have noticed something at my work place. In the early weeks of the game a rare Pokémon would occassionally spawn. There was a Wartortle and even a Muk once. The last few weeks though the variation has decreased. I'm usually surrounded by birds, rats, bats and caterpillars now. What sucks is that there are a bunch of spawn points in this short range, but only crap spawns. It's weird because it used to be different. Is this because they change the algorithms sometimes, like when the nests reset? I have no clue how this works, but I'd welcome the variety I got when the game launched.
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I think it's more that they periodically raise the odds of rare spawns to attract waning players.

In fact, I think it happens most often after a new update. I think their logic is that they hope an update reminds people to try playing again and that they have a great experiencing catching a rare as soon as they do.
 
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Replicant

Member
BowieZ said:
I think it's more that they periodically raise the odds of rare spawns to attract waning players.

In fact, I think it happens most often after a new update. I think their logic is that they hope an update reminds people to try playing again and that they have a great experiencing catching a rare as soon as they do.
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A Wild Snorlax! :)

..... with 0 Att / 6 Def / 4 Sta. >:[
 
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Vipu

Banned
zulux21 said:
I still don't have a charmander :/

I saw 2 on sightings when in vegas, but couldn't find them :(

at least I got some growlithes and now have a nice arcanine... well sort of nice it's a 2150 at level 24, but it's got garbage moves >.>
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125km walked with charmander, 40 candy to go still.
 
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dreamlongdead

Member
Creamium said:
Can anyone clarify (or post a link) on how spawns work and how the pokemon variation from them is determined? Think I read here that player activity doesn't influnece spawns, but I have noticed something at my work place. In the early weeks of the game a rare Pokémon would occassionally spawn. There was a Wartortle and even a Muk once. The last few weeks though the variation has decreased. I'm usually surrounded by birds, rats, bats and caterpillars now. What sucks is that there are a bunch of spawn points in this short range, but only crap spawns. It's weird because it used to be different. Is this because they change the algorithms sometimes, like when the nests reset? I have no clue how this works, but I'd welcome the variety I got when the game launched.
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You know, I really do think that player activity (or just cellphone use) affects the spawns. Spawns have somehow been even worse, and I have had to rely on eggs more than usual.

I'm mainly just farming Machop and Dratini at this point. I'm 31 Candy away from Machamp and 51 away from Dragonite. I've already caught Machoke and Dragonair, and evolving those would reduce the needed candies by 25. I don't want to evolve Stage 2's with crappy stats, though.

I got screwed with the move lottery today. I was unsatisfied with the movesets of my first Nidoking and Nidoqueen, so I finally had enough candy to get a second one of each. I really just want them to be attackers, because we all know they are horrible defenders. The only thing I really want on both of them is Poison Jab. The charge move doesn't matter to me.

My first Nidoking had Fury Cutter and Megahorn, and the second one gets...Fury Cutter and Megahorn. My first Nidoqueen had Bite and Stone Edge, and the second one thankfully gets Poison Jab and Stone Edge. The second Nidoqueen turned out amazing, but the Nidoking result is disappointing because I got trolled.

I finally tried getting a good Dewgong. I had already caught 32 Seels and 5 Dewgongs by this point, but I had apparently never hatched a Seel until today (it only took 320 eggs!). I just wanted Blizzard, but I got Icy Wind. I will just have to wait until I get a few more with good stats. Wild ones never gave me good stats, so it will be a while.

The biggest upset was the second Gyarados. I had a 100% IV Magikarp. It only had modest CP, but my plan was to invest all future Magikarp Candy into the Gyarados if it had Hydro Pump or Dragon Pulse. Dragon Pulse was preferable, because I already have an offensive Gyarados. After another grueling round of getting Magikarp Candy, I evolve the perfect Magikarp and get Twister. It sucks hard, but I can live. I can't even image how crushing it is for those who got more than one Twister, because these things take forever to get.
 
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rc213

Member
Geezus RNGesus is brutal all of a sudden 4 of the last 5 10KM eggs have hatched Lapras... I shouldn't complain and go back to Pinsir madness.
 
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clearacell

Member
rc213 said:
Geezus RNGesus is brutal all of a sudden 4 of the last 5 10KM eggs have hatched Lapras... I shouldn't complain and go back to Pinsir madness.
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what I would do with that candy...sigh... currently have 2 2300 Lapras but if I could get one to 2700 I would be very happy
 
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Memles

Member
dreamlongdead said:
The biggest upset was the second Gyarados. I had a 100% IV Magikarp. It only had modest CP, but my plan was to invest all future Magikarp Candy into the Gyarados if it had Hydro Pump or Dragon Pulse. Dragon Pulse was preferable, because I already have an offensive Gyarados. After another grueling round of getting Magikarp Candy, I evolve the perfect Magikarp and get Twister. It sucks hard, but I can live. I can't even image how crushing it is for those who got more than one Twister, because these things take forever to get.
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I've got a Magikarp spawn point by my office, and they spawn like crazy at the most active spot in the city, so I now have 7 Gyarados. And so it does take forever, and it WAS demoralizing to get three in a row with Twister early on, but if you're in a position to get more than one, you move onto the next pretty quickly.

(My total count: One Dragon Breath/Twister pre-nerf, Three Bite/Twister, one Bite/Dragon Pulse, Two Bite/Hydro Pump)
 
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rc213

Member
clearacell said:
what I would do with that candy...sigh... currently have 2 2300 Lapras but if I could get one to 2700 I would be very happy
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I've got 72 candy but I'm not sure which one to our it into. Also not sure i have enough stardust to use it all.

I really need to get to Santa Monica Pier to catch something other than the normal stuff i get now on my commute to work. Been dragging on adding new Pokemon's to the Pokédex.
 
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sam777

Member
Is there some kind of bug that shows more 'seen pokemon' than I have actually saw? As apparantley I have seen a Dragonite, Gyrados and a few others when I haven't.
Thanks
 
deanote666

deanote666

Member
Here I am at 4am, taking out the trash, when I see that there's a (rare) ryhorn at the end of my road. Still getting a lot of light from the moon, I decide to go. I catch it and some fodder and head home. Yay!

Then an egg starts hatching when I get home and get another eevee as I realize that was my 10k hatching. That joy from the ryhorn instantly turned to anger.

2nd eevee in a row. One before it was my 3ed scyther...

The grind for a chansey and aerodactyl is real... I still need a porygon and my sis gets 2 in a row from eggs...

Pokedex is at 131/132.
 
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zulux21

Member
deanote666 said:
Here I am at 4am, taking out the trash, when I see that there's a (rare) ryhorn at the end of my road. Still getting a lot of light from the moon, I decide to go. I catch it and some fodder and head home. Yay!

Then an egg starts hatching when I get home and get another eevee as I realize that was my 10k hatching. That joy from the ryhorn instantly turned to anger.

2nd eevee in a row. One before it was my 3ed scyther...

The grind for a chansey and aerodactyl is real... I still need a porygon and my sis gets 2 in a row from eggs...

Pokedex is at 131/132.
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I'd take eevee over
onyx, hitmonlee, hitmonchan, electrabuzz, magmar, pincer

I can't recall if i have a scyther but if so over that too.

Eevee at least is a usable pokemon in gyms.

though i am hoping for either a snorelax of ominyte.
 
deanote666

deanote666

Member
zulux21 said:
I'd take eevee over
onyx, hitmonlee, hitmonchan, electrabuzz, magmar, pincer

I can't recall if i have a scyther but if so over that too.

Eevee at least is a usable pokemon in gyms.

though i am hoping for either a snorelax of ominyte.
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Not when the eevee's are "trending towards the positive" IV's and I now have about 200 eevee candy with several of each evolution already... I turned the 2 from eggs into candy.

The other day, I took down 4 gyms using only 1 vaporeon and no other pokemon... Vaporeon kind of ruins the balance in the game. I'm not going to place my fire, ground, and rock pokemon in gyms since they will instantly be taken out by vaporeons.

The omanyte nests in my area seem to like country clubs and golf courses so that doesn't help me out...

I went to a kabuto nest yesterday and got 4. 7 candy to go!

If nothing else, you can collect candy for steelix with onyx hatches.

I've gotten some wild snorlax but none from eggs.
 
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JavyOO7

Member
You know, I imagine the next update being Pokestops. Maybe an item that lets you build your own Pokestop for 30 minutes? Or the Pokestops that we already have give us new items? I dunno. Its fun to speculate though. =p
 
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Creamium

shut uuuuuuuuuuuuuuup
After my Vileplume and Victreebel turned out to be failures move-wise, I had all hopes set on my first Exeggutor. Zen headbutt and... Seed bomb.

I tried out Vile/Victree against a Vaporeon earlier anyway, and without proper moves they feel useless.
 
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LucidMomentum

Member
Creamium said:
After my Vileplume and Victreebel turned out to be failures move-wise, I had all hopes set on my first Exeggutor. Zen headbutt and... Seed bomb.

I tried out Vile/Victree against a Vaporeon earlier anyway, and without proper moves they feel useless.
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I'm still working on a dedicated grass type for gyms and that's my biggest worry.
 
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Replicant

Member
I feel like I need a better naming convention for my Pokemon. But I hate adding long-ass names after their name so I've been using + for a Pokemon with good IV and perfect attacking movesets and * for Pokemon with good IV and perfect defensive movesets. So I can figure out which ones to power up. I don't power up the ones without the extra characters.

Usually that works....until today. Maybe I'm tired, maybe it's morning but I ended up powering the lesser Cloyster below:

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That's 2000 wasted Stardust. God damn it.
 
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jariw

Member
Here's a tip that I have just started to apply and it works great:

Every spawn point triggers exactly once an hour (what happens with the Pokemon during that hour differ though). Find out the exact timing for the spawn points around your house, and you'll know where to go when something interesting spawns.
 
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Dishwalla

Banned
Another 10km egg, another damn Eevee. It's not like I'm in a fucking Eevee drought, currently sitting on 149 candies. Come the fuck on Niantic.
 
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hydragonwarrior

Member
Man, they need to even up gym teams. It's dumb that you it's a war of "who has the most players on a team." For instance, if your area is dominated by Mystic, and few on Valor and Instinct, the teams should balance.

Otherwise there's no incentive to go after gym's anymore, especially since it's so easy to raise a Gym's defense now.
 
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Icyflamez96

Member
Dishwalla said:
Another 10km egg, another damn Eevee. It's not like I'm in a fucking Eevee drought, currently sitting on 149 candies. Come the fuck on Niantic.
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I'm on 371 candies... I almost wish I would just hatch one. Haven't had a high level Eevee with good IVs ever.

At least I'm close to Eeveedos.
 
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Replicant

Member
Icyflamez96 said:
At least I'm close to Eeveedos.
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Moar like Eevestation. At least that's what my area is like these days. It'd have been fine if they have good IVs but they usually are trash. Even the ones that come from the eggs these days only have "very strong" stat OR "best of the best" stat but with a defect in one of the stats (1 med, 2 high stats instead of all 3 high stats).

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M

MANUELF

Banned
Yesterday I came back from one of the biggest cities in my country and they are infested with Growlithes, Meowths and Ekans, caught my first arcanine, persian and magnemite while there
Also stocked pretty nicely in pokeballs and finally choose a team, now Im team Mystic
 
deanote666

deanote666

Member
Icyflamez96 said:
I'm on 371 candies... I almost wish I would just hatch one. Haven't had a high level Eevee with good IVs ever.

At least I'm close to Eeveedos.
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Someone with my sense of humor! I mentioned a rattadose earlier in the the thread but no one said anything!

Don't hope for eevees from eggs. I got 2 in a row and both had terrible IV's.
 
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border

Member
When and why did they change how you level up a gym? It's really boring that you have to build it up the same way you attack other teams' gyms. I liked having to take down as many as possible with a single Pokémon.
 
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dreamlongdead

Member
Dishwalla said:
Another 10km egg, another damn Eevee. It's not like I'm in a fucking Eevee drought, currently sitting on 149 candies. Come the fuck on Niantic.
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I've hatched 20 of the 10km eggs, and 8 out of those were Eevees. That's a 40% rate for me compared to the supposed 17.7% which is still way too high.. Niantic is evil for making such a punishing Pokemon distribution among the egg groups. I don't know if I'll ever get Hitmonchan and Aerodactyl.

2kms just refuse to give me good stuff. The last Charmander I got was on October 1. I've walked this thing for 142 km, and I'm still only at 91 Candy. I obtained 6 total Charmander (3 from eggs, 2 from wild, 1 as starter). Bulbasaur will be a huge grind, too.

I might as well play until all of my Coins are exhausted. These last few days have not been good, so I need some good luck to restore my faith.
 
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clearacell

Member
border said:
When and why did they change how you level up a gym? It's really boring that you have to build it up the same way you attach other teams' gyms. I liked having to take down as many as possible with a single Pokémon.
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you can still do that, make the single attacker you want to use then pick 5 more with less cp then flee the gym when your guy dies.it would be the same prestige as before
 
deanote666

deanote666

Member
What niantic needs to release is the Pokemon Go Antenna. The kabuto nest I went to yesterday had REALLY bad mobile internet coverage.

With the Pokemon Go Antenna, then you can really GO anywhere! lol Seriously though, why did they remove them from cell phones?


Really missing the scanners. There was a (very rare) dratini in my nearby earlier today and couldn't track it down.
 
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border

Member
clearacell said:
you can still do that, make the single attacker you want to use then pick 5 more with less cp then flee the gym when your guy dies.it would be the same prestige as before
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So you still get a reputation bonus from taking down Pokemon that are a higher CP? You just have to make sure that the entire team has a lower CP?
 
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Creamium

shut uuuuuuuuuuuuuuup
Bedameister said:
Man I got lucky. both my 5km eggs hatched Cubone. Got exactly 50 candy. Evolved him and now I'm at 132 at the Pokedex.
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Jealous. Didn't have a Cubone hatch once. There has to be some location variable in the eggs, because both Cubone and Machop aren't usually found here, and they are the only ones I've never gotten out of a 5k egg besides Grimer.

Unless both Cubone and Machop are rare hatches overall, like Grimer seems to be.
 
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CassSept

Member
Creamium said:
Jealous. Didn't have a Cubone hatch once. There has to be some location variable in the eggs, because both Cubone and Machop aren't usually found here, and they are the only ones I've never gotten out of a 5k egg besides Grimer.

Unless both Cubone and Machop are rare hatches overall, like Grimer seems to be.
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RNG, confirmation bias yadda yadda.

I'm getting frigging Psyducks from hatches all the time. I need one Abra, one Mankey, anything, the last two mons from 5km eggs I still need to evolve but I'm getting a combination of Psyducks and everything else. Last 20 eggs or so I've gotten at least 5 Psyducks.

Same with how my 2km eggs out of all starters most often hatch into Squirtles (beyond usual pidgey/zubat/bugs trash), which are fairly common compared to other starters.
 
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Firemind

Member
What the fuck nobody wants to train around here

I'm the current gym leader one street from my home, train it to lvl. 8 and it gets taken by low levels. So I leave 300 prestige off lvl. 9 and I see people from the same team take down gyms half a mile away and put 2000cp Lapras and 2500cp Dragonites in it. What the actual fuck
 
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GulAtiCa

Member
It's interesting on what gyms people will go to.

Also, now 17 candies to go till my Charizard. Currently expecting to have it by end of next week most likely.
 
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JavyOO7

Member
According to r/thesilphroad, spawn points have been removed/added as of a while ago. Dammit. I hope I didn't lose spawns at home...
 
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clearacell

Member
JavyOO7 said:
According to r/thesilphroad, spawn points have been removed/added as of a while ago. Dammit. I hope I didn't lose spawns at home...
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I've only seen an increase in spawn points around me and a new gym pop up.

and there is an area where I play where they won't take down gyms but they will prestige them if I go around taking the enemy gyma first. it's really weird.
 
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GulAtiCa

Member
Yeah, new spawn points (keep in mind, doesn't effect spawn rates, just new locations for Pokemon to appear) and apparently some new gyms. No new gyms where I am, but already had a bunch anyways.
 
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