Weekend Free-for-All

[inkstone]

Posting this early because I'll be out and about this weekend, so I'll be short on time.

ICYMI: As healingmirth pointed out in the comments of the last free chat, nests have migrated once again! In addition, the new Nearby tracker has rolled out to the rest of the continental US and large sections of Europe.

With the nest migration, I suspect a game update won't be too far behind. I wonder what'll be included?



With the new CP rebalancing, I figured we should feature this guy since he got a boost.

How was your week in PokeGo, trainers?

Comments

[havocthecat]

I...have no idea how the new tracker is supposed to work. Especially if you don't live near a huge pile of pokestops. I live near one, and that's stretching the meaning of "near."

[tyger]

My week's been pretty good! :D

I went into town today, so I hit a bunch of stops! And I caught a jigglypuff, which is a first for me! I also caught a lickitung earlier in the week, so apparently it's the week for pink pokémon in my area, hahaha.

I also hatched a pretty damn strong krabby (for me), so hopefully that'll help with gym fighting for the next little while.

Kinda should do an evolve party followed by spending all my starlight on the strongest ones, but I'm hanging out for the next double XP event, since I managed to miss the last one by like. A day. (I should really procrastinate less.)

I levelled up again, too! Am now level 17, whee~~

[havocthecat]

Does anyone know when/what the next event will be?

[yuuago]

Joy: Hatched a Dratini. Yay!

Also joy: I went out to buy some touchscreen gloves so that I could play this game in our ridiculous weather. I regret nothing.

re: the new tracker, I am Not A Fan. With the nearest pokestop 20 minutes away, I might as well not have a tracker at all. I never used it much to begin with, but at least with the previous version, it did work as intended.

[zhelana]

I did half of lvl 19 and 3/4ths of lvl 20 just by evolving mon with a lucky egg during the double xp event! So that was exciting!

[ephemera]

I'm going to buck the trend, and say I'm really liking the new tracker so far - with the caveat that I've mostly got to play with it in areas with relatively abundant pokestops! I have found the triangulation sightings tool profoundly frustrating to the point of just never wanting to open it - with this, I can see that the precious Eevee is at the Pokestop behind me, and decide whether or not I care enough to turn around and walk back for it or not, but the rest of my game play is unaffected. It's also giving me a glimpse of what the nest re-jig has done for my local park (which is my nearest play area, but the opposite direction from my house than my route to work) so - that's my plan for tomorrow's walk, then! (Growlithes!)

[st_aurafina]

The tracker is basically no use to me - one pokestop in town nowhere near me. But I am enjoying the seven day bonuses, and all the extra spawns around the pokestops, even if I can't be as strategic in hunting.

Looking forward to whatever the Christmas event is going to be - I enjoyed the last couple of events.

[healingmirth]

Not A Fan of the new tracker, especially once I realized that the "third closest" poke stop it's pulling in near my home is the one across the river, not the one up the street. I've hit two other areas than the one around my house to see if it got any more useful with a higher density of stops, but hard to say.

I did discover today that in addition to old sightings coming back when you're not in range of a stop, at all, old sightings also come back if you clear out everything at the stops that are in range. Not likely to be of any use to me unless I'm spending a lot of time at that one shopping center, but eh.

Other than that, I'm mostly treading water in game. I've been lucky enough between eggs and travel so far that I only need one 5k hatch, one 10k hatch, and two more evolutions to finish my regional pokedex, so I'm just gonna let those happen in their own sweet time.

It's cold here, basically. If I'm still playing next spring/summer, I'll be more excited about gym battling to rack up coins and incubators faster, but for the time being I'm content to crawl through XP for a few months and hit up 2-3 gyms a day, if that. I do really like the battling, just not enough to sniffle while doing it.

[lilacsigil]

Evolved my first Nidoqueen and my first Nidoking in the same week! I'm still having the bug where the Pokemon will appear in my list of Pokemon before actually hatching, which meant that I got to use my first Aerodactyl in a fight before I technically had one!

[healingmirth]

Woo! they un-nerfed prestiging so that you can get 1k/battle on a half-cp attacker again. I just leveled up a local gym to four open spots after dropping mine in, in celebration.

Still cold out, though. Oof.