Pokemon Go (Mobile July 2016)

[DrClout]

Sounds useless for me at least. I don't have the app open for more than 20 minutes at a time.

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[Lebzile]

Yeah it's a pretty worthless system and apparently something that transferred over from the old Ingress code they used to make this.

[Gulkeeva]

Niantic actually added a really shitty "banning" system where you have a "bubble" around your character and if you move fast enough out of that bubble, the game thinks you're GPS spoofing and causes a soft ban. Which makes all pokemon impossible to catch, impossible to use stop and can't do gym battles. Usually lasts anywhere from 15mins to 3hours, depending on how fast and far you traveled out of the bubble. Or at least that's how I understand the system.

Didn't do anything to me as my character seemingly looked like he ran really fast, while playing the game on the train haha

[Shenrien]

Dunno if it's been posted, not going back a bunch of pages.

The games been datamined, bunch of neat info.

https://pokemonfortress.com/blogs/news/big-news

[Xno Kappa]

Interesting bit about the legendaries having no capture rate.

[Katlan]

Ok this game after lv 20 goes full on retarded. It's the only game where you literally get weaker as you level up. At lv 20 even sub 100CP Pokemon are showing up orange and taking massive amounts of resources to catch, if you don't even blow tons of resources just to have them bail.

It may be the F2P design, but with them not selling berries and only first tier balls it's really doesn't even solve the problem. Game just went full stupid

[Silenka]

It's meant to present a challenge, it's a game, games need challenges...

But I mostly agree, you should at least be able to catch the low CP stuff near on 100% of the time. However, if there was no escape rate to keep you on your toes I imagine the game would get monotonous even faster.

Well, that data mine at least confirms that curveballs and nice/great/excellent help with capture rate, so you're supposed to be aiming for getting it inside the ring, I suppose. Not that I've anecdotally seen it help very much despite almost always fulfilling those conditions.

[Kirbyprime]

Yeah, I down to only ultra balls now since I have issues catching pidgies ( for exp fodder ) using regular / great balls =/ I'm about to just run away from anything over 200cp now since they're rarely worth the resources to catch.

[Mertron]

I guess I'm lucky my work is a pokestop, i have no problem throwing my balls all over these pokemans faces.

[Salodin]

My worst escapes are when I land way outside the colored circle. I guess I should make more of an effort...

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[Xno Kappa]

Wish they'd give you more balls overall at stops.

[DrClout]

Should I feel some type of way when a Magicarp breaks free and escapes after 1 ball?

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[Karbuncle]

Should I feel some type of way when a Magicarp breaks free and escapes after 1 ball?

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Yes, rage, much like I feel every time some shit tier pidgey or Ratatta decides its time to flee after one ball. As someone mentioned above I really shouldn't need to Use a Berry + Ultra Ball on a 82CP Bulbasaur just for it to break and run away after one attempt. I've had Pokemon i've Berried, Ultra'd, and Curve-Excellented flee after a 1-shake break and that shit is beyond thunderdome frustrating and retarded.

My wishlist for items in the future

1) An Item that prevents a Pokemon from fleeing for ~5 Throws (Miss or land)
2) More Pokeballs, the good ones. I.E
-- Dusk Ball (Awesome at Night)
-- Nest Ball (100% Capture rate on >~150?CP Pokemon)
3) Changing how capturing works so that as you level up, lower CP Pokemon become significantly easier to capture where as the progressively higher CP cap means Pokemon at higher caps become more difficult, making it so where leveling up makes you feel like you're progressing as a trainer as it fucking should.

[Boyiee]

I was gonna egg and evolve 20 things today since I'm only level 13 but hearing about these issues I might wait till I'm closer to 20 and have a ton of shit saved up. Poke balls are a bitch for me to get lol.

[Tokitoki]

Niantic actually added a really shitty "banning" system where you have a "bubble" around your character and if you move fast enough out of that bubble, the game thinks you're GPS spoofing and causes a soft ban. Which makes all pokemon impossible to catch, impossible to use stop and can't do gym battles. Usually lasts anywhere from 15mins to 3hours, depending on how fast and far you traveled out of the bubble. Or at least that's how I understand the system.

That's ridiculous. This game is perfect for the car and doing this basically ruins that.

[Lebzile]

That's ridiculous. This game is perfect for the car and doing this basically ruins that.

Well, after looking into a bit more it seems to only effect you if you have spotty GPS signal. As long as you don't lose GPS and drop outside that bubble and reappear elsewhere, you'll be fine. Still a mediocre as fuck way of combating GPS spoofing.

[Melena]

So silver legacy in Reno appears to be a ponyta breeding ground. No joke astylla and I have caught over thirty combined in a about an hour

[bori]

So have people tried spamming pokeball throw before the zoom out animation goes? I get it to land 100% of the time, it's stupid lol.

[Not Kuno]

So have people tried spamming pokeball throw before the zoom out animation goes? I get it to land 100% of the time, it's stupid lol.

When I do it, it glitches out. Like a super growing shadow appears and I cant do anything or some shit.

[bori]

When I do it, it glitches out. Like a super growing shadow appears and I cant do anything or some shit.

For some reason that only happens to me on Weedles, not sure why.