Weekend Free-for-All!

[inkstone]

Just kidding! The new PokeGo update is now available in all app stores!

The official patch notes:

• Capture location: The location where a Pokémon was caught will now be displayed on their information screen.


• Pokémon GO Plus and Incense: Trainers can attempt to capture Pokémon they encounter from using Incense with the Pokémon GO Plus accessory.


• Fixed a bug that caused some users to get stuck on the loading screen, even after restarting the app.


• Fixed a bug where the camera sometimes moved at slow speeds during battle.


• Minor bug fixes

Something they did not mention specifically but probably falls under the category of "bug fixes" is that gym battles have slightly changed. You can now queue one move beyond the one you're currently executing. So for example, if you tap the screen twice, your mon will launch two attacks. If you're used to spam attacking, this is a change because the game now registers your taps and will lock you in place until it's executed all of the moves queued up. If you're used to dodging (as I am), this changes the attack rhythm a little so you will need to adjust. Otherwise, you're going to mess up your dodge timing. It does, however, make the charge attacks easier to launch. If all this doesn't make sense (and it's kind of hard to explain without demonstration), you will see what I mean the next time you battle a gym.

In short: The update penalizes spam attacking and rewards people who attack strategically.



Anyway! How was your week in PokeGo, trainers?

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[inkstone]

The steady march to filling my pokedex continues.

New evolutions:
Arcanine (garbage moveset)
Hypno (not really relevant in my local gym meta so I didn't even look at the moveset)

New hatches:
Voltorb (exciting! Electric mon are so rare here so I was thrilled)

I've adjusted my gym strategy. I now specifically look for friendly gyms to level up and leave a mon, preferably in a high position. This gives me enough time to hit up as many gyms as possible before collecting my daily bonus. With the kids having gone back to college, this is more possible than before. (No more getting kicked out a gym 10 minutes later.) I'm also scoping out gyms that tend not to turn over as quickly for whatever reason -- GPS issues, not as much foot traffic -- and getting familiar with gyms at the local parks in preparation for the coming winter, haha.

[healingmirth]

I definitely walked out to a new gym in the middle of the woods today to scout (and also because it had a fire defender I could train past in 45 seconds once I got there.)

I can envision some gym training sprees the day before snowstorms here this winter - we haven't had much rain this summer, but the last day it rained, all my defenders stuck for like 36 hours.

[yhlee]

We evolved our first Jolteon! And reached level 10. Life is good. =)

[healingmirth]

I caught a perfect magikarp! (It's like level 10, and will probably have a garbage moveset, but I will continue to be excited about it until I catch the 4 more karps I need to evolve it.)

I don't think I've caught or evolved anything new, but I did catch two dratinis within a half km of my house this week - enormously exciting! I may have to hang out at the dunkin donuts by the river this winter, to be in sighting range of the spawn points.

Local gym traffic continues to be dominated by teams other than mine, but I may have found a slightly less local spot that I can train my way into, so we shall see how that works out. I'm pretty okay with only getting a handful of coins per day, especially since I'm still light on high CP defenders, but I still get jealous of everyone who has a snorlax :( I've been trying to keep an eye out for teammates at gyms I can see from here, but I keep being away from home when they flip, lately.

Yesterday, part of my haul was training past the horde of small children who had taken over the beach gyms. Those times, I felt less guilty about parking a 1300cp pinsir.

Haven't been back to my local nest since the IV fix, so I'm also looking forward to finding a few less garbage-y specimens to evolve, tomorrow.

[nanslice]

I finally caught a Psyduck! And a Clefairy! The Clefairy's around here are brutal; they absolutely refuse to stay in balls.

Finally managed to evolve an Arbok. :3

Hatched another Pikachu out of a 2k egg. That makes three!

I already have a Nidoking but I caught my first male Nidorina recently. Same with a Koffing and Slowpoke.

The gyms on campus are constantly being battled for and my team (instinct!) does a pretty good job holding our own! :D

[brightknightie]

A 10K egg hatched out my very first dratini! Haven't yet seen one in the wild.

[lilacsigil]

Yay! Dratini is adorable! I finally saw and caught my first one this week.

[jack]

On Thursday I caught my first Vulpix, and since then I've hatched two more. Is that just confirmation bias, or are you more likely to hatch things you've caught, or is there some common element in spawn rate/egg hatch?

[soc_puppet]

I think I read something about the places you get the eggs being related to what hatches out of them? For example, Snorlax show up more often in eggs from college/university Pokestops, and water Pokemon show up more often in eggs from lakes/ponds/fountains/etc. Verification welcome!

[ephemera]

I was wondering about Buddy species and likely-hood of catching things - tricky to tease out confirmation bias from the many variables involved. I've definitely heard people say that where you pick up eggs affects what hatches, so it might be logical that you might catch a Vulpix and pick up a Vulpix-containing egg in the same area, but I don't know if that's truth or myth! (I would like to believe that my Lampras came from the egg I picked up at the Natural History Museum, so I want it to be true!)

[tyger]

I caught a cubone! And a pinser IN MY HOUSE, which, what even. :3

Other than that, pretty quiet for me. Super close to levelling up, though, which is exciting.

[gorgeousnerd]

I did some Pokemon playing in new ways in the last couple weeks: an organized Pokemon Go bar crawl in my local area (lots of people in costume!), and on the Strip in Las Vegas. (Caught a ridiculous amount of Pidgeys, but also my first Grimer!) I also hatched a Jynx...a week after I caught one in the wild. But hey, choices!

[soc_puppet]

I'm somewhat weirded out by the location thing. Mostly because I didn't even know there was a West Lucas in Iowa, let alone that it's basically the same exact town where I live (which is known as something completely different, for the record). Maybe they were once two towns and merged long ago, like Slowpoke and Shellder become Slowbro?*

I haven't really been doing as much hunting downtown since I was catcalled for the first time in my life while playing a couple of weeks ago. I instantly missed being invisible, I'll tell you that much. Anyway, now I'm somewhat more wary of going alone, and I don't really have anyone to go with most of the time, so I mostly sit around at home and hope something good shows up in the neighborhood - not entirely unlikely; there's an Eevee nest somewhere around here, and two Frequent Spawn Areas that turn up the most random (yet awesome) stuff. I caught a Venusaur at one of them not too long ago, and I've seen an Exeggutor silhouette more than once as well (though I've yet to get it). Lest you think it's all grass, there's also been Charmander and Vulpix at those same spots, as well as Squirtle and Dewgong. Weirdest thing, that I am in no way complaining about.


* I'm aware that the thing on Slowbro's tail looks nothing like a Shellder. Nevertheless, that is what game lore claims it is. I was hoping it would turn out to be a special form in the upcoming core games, but no sign of that yet.

[ephemera]

I had a very Pokemon-Go focussed mini break, visiting my 8y/o nephew at the other end of the country, which was fruitful for new-to-me Pokemon for both of us - he had promised me Eevees, and the area didn't disappoint (not quite enough for a new evolve, but enough to really power up my Jolteon + a couple of good Eevees to work up to evolving) - and having an extra adult in the rotation to keep going for walks helped him catch his first Growlith (and we *saw* a Blastoise, but couldn't find it in time). I also got to show him how to use power moves in gyms, so when I left he had defenders on 4, which beats my record! (Sadly we're on different teams and didn't find any third-faction gyms we could team up to attack together.) I hatched a couple of 10k eggs, and have added a Chansey and a Lickitongue (now called Alickxander, short for AlickxanderTheGreat which wouldn't fit!)to my pokedex, and hit level 26 somewhere in the whole thing!