This Week in Pokémon Go News

[inkstone]

Happy Friday, trainers!

It's been a slow week in PokeGo news but here are a couple items of note:

• PokeGo has launched in 5 new territories: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macau, Macedonia, and Serbia. Welcome!

• The Go Plus is back in stock. (US only) Get them while you still can! The resellers have been brutal.

• The Dutch government is taking Niantic to court because they feel that the game is endangering its protected beaches. (source) However, some digging into the situation has revealed some similarities to incidents here in the U.S. That is to say: the relevant authorities enjoyed the increased foot traffic brought on by the game (and the money those players happily pumped into the local restaurants & shops) but increased foot traffic means increased trash and the like. Suddenly, the game becomes an issue. We'll see what happens!

What's been going on in your neck of the woods?

Comments

[senmut]

I'm struggling. Most of what's spawning is 300+ cp stuff, and I have NEVER been able to get the hang of the curve ball. Not to do it on purpose. Which means I have drastically dropped my catch rate.

[recessional]

I have never figured out the curve-ball either - do you get a reasonable amount of raspberries? (or however you spell it) my trick has been sometimes repeated applications of them plus great balls when I have them.

Granted a lot of the stuff around here seems disinclined to poof and instead just wants to sit there and eat up my resources, buuuuut.

Alas if that is no help, that is no help. :( Which is sad.

[senmut]

I am a raspberry fiend. Unfortunately, the capture rate yesterday even with those was shockingly low compared to normal. Discouraging to say the least.

[cyphomandra]

...wait, can you use more than one razzberry per ball?

[recessional]

No, but they seem to have a building effect if you give one before each new ball to the same pokemon? to me, anyway.

[cyphomandra]

Oh well, that is still useful even if it doesn't fix my problem of new-to-me Pokemon vanishing in a puff of smoke after just one ultraball and a razzberry... (it's happened three times now! I can actually hear them laughing at me :D)

[recessional]

That's always a pita, and it's always the ones you really WANT that poof even if they're only like weenie fucking cps, and the ones that you sorta would be okay if they poofed who stick around throw after throw. :| :|

And I have serious stubbornness issues so I can end up wasting way too many balls on some stupid Clefairy that just refuses to either stay in the ball OR RUN AWAY. Brats.