This Week in Pokémon Go News + Free-for-All

[inkstone]

Hello trainers! As you've no doubt noticed by now, the Halloween event has come to an end. I hope you enjoyed it and had a great time catching the event pokémon. :D

Niantic has announced a few updates for us. It's not quite clear when these changes will go live (or if they already have). Reports are conflicting at the moment.

• Look alive! Nests have migrated.

• Along those lines, spawning diversity has increased and you won't be seeing as many pidgeys, rattatas, and zubats as before. (source)

• As healingmirth pointed out in last week's post, eevees will now hatch from 5km eggs while pidgeys and rattatas will no longer hatch from 2km eggs. Oh no! But I'm still trying to evolve that good IV pidgeot with wing attack/hurricane!! (source)

• And finally, we will be getting daily bonuses for doing certain in-game activities everyday! More details here. This change will hopefully be included in the next game update, which if the schedule holds up, will start rolling out next week.

Any interesting bits of news from your neck of the woods? How do you feel about these upcoming changes?

For that matter...



How was your week in PokeGo?

Comments

[inkstone]

I started a new day job this week, so the PokeGo playing has been severely curtailed. Because it's been a week of settling in and obtaining credentials, I'm not even sure what my routine will be!

With the event ending, I switched my buddy from dratini to mankey. I'm planning to take a couple walks this weekend to get back into the PokeGo groove. It's been weird not playing much these past few days! (Though I did ride the bus a couple days this past week and got to play, "Spin the pokestop in time!")

[malnpudl]

I love the news of bonus stardust! I wasted SO MUCH stardust on unwise powering up before I knew what I was doing or how to evaluate the worth of my Mons. So the prospect of earning extra stardust is very exciting. There's no such thing as enough!

And I'm also grateful to hear that I won't be getting Eevees out of 10K eggs any more. Eevees are a dime a dozen here, and it made for a huge disappointment when that's all I got from a 10K egg... especially since egg CPs stop scaling at a level much lower than my current 30, so I wasn't even getting anything worth keeping.

As always, thank you so very much for the updates! I have learned so much from your posts, as well as from other people's input here. I am very grateful.

[ghost_lingering]

Has anyone suddenly had any additional sightings show up in their pokedex? Today I got a bunch of extra sightings of things I've never actually encountered: Venusaur, Blastoise, Snorlax, and Dragonite. I'd DEFINITELY have noticed them if I'd run across any of them!

[playswithworms]

Loving the spawning diversity! I've even been catching a few things at my home - there were zero Pokemon when I first started playing, and then a few weeks ago started seeing the occasional rattata or pidgey, but in the last week I've caught Tauros and Goldeen and Exeggcute!

[healingmirth]

So many things!

I was traveling for work over a big chunk of the event, so mostly I walked a *lot* of eggs in the evening and going from one building to the next. City folk have much higher CP defenders than I do, and the good news/bad news was most of the gyms were stacked full of my team, because they were all arcanine towers with like one snorlax in the middle. I'm guessing, had the event not been in effect, the ground would have been crawling with growlithes.

Also, thanks to the Halloween event going on for-freaking-ever, I made it out to a pretty sweet exegcute nest before double candy ended. Around here, a couple silph road travelers are claiming that our one worthwhile nest has migrated to...caterpies? I'm skeptical and a little O.o that it could even be a thing, but I made a bunch of notes when I was there last week, so I'm going to check out what's up this weekend.

I hatched a grimer to match the one I finally caught a few days before, and a terrible koffing but thank you for the candy. Walked my lonely diglet for a bit, caught some geodudes, and then walked my bulbasaur some more to make up for having evolved two ivysaurs rather than a venusaur like I meant to, whoops. So! As of today's mass evolve, I've added golem, dugtrio, venusaur, muk, and weezing to my pokedex, hurrah! And it looks like I'm going to make it to level 30 before we all need to hibernate for the winter.

Ooh, and a new spawn point in my driveway that I noticed just now when I went to check my pokedex. I've got full sightings right now, and I never have full sightings from inside my house, so I'll need to take some laps around tomorrow and see what's changed.

[yuuago]

It's starting to get too cold and dark to play it up here. Walking eggs isn't so bad when I'm already on my way to somewhere, but extra walking, not to mention catching and battling... brrrr.

Those upcoming bonuses sound great, though.

[lilacsigil]

I've only ever hatched Eevees from 10k eggs, so I'm excited to see what happens next! I have one 10k nearly ready and another one waiting.

[vass]

Thanks to the Halloween event, got enough candy to evolve my Pikachu to Raichu. Hatched a Charmander.

Local friend I have dinner with regularly who does not play Pokemon (but lives near enough a Pokestop that you can access it from her living room couch) keeps making strange faces when I say things like "I have no balls at all" or "I wanted to catch this Pokemon, but I don't have the balls." I can't think why.

[ephemera]

The daily bonuses sound like they could be a good way of keeping people hooked as the weather changes - I'm certainly up for extra stardust!

More Eevee eggs is certainly a good thing in my book, but I can see why people who live in Eevee rich environments might be disappointed by getting them in 10k eggs...