Weekend Free-for-All!

[inkstone]

Some of us have already bid 2016 adieu. Some of us are still waiting to welcome 2017.

It's been almost 6 months since I started this community. The game has had its ups and it's had its downs, but we are still here, catching these little pocket monsters!

How are y'all doing? Enjoying the event? Braving the cold? Desperately chasing after starter 'mon? Let's chat!

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[brightknightie]

I've had the excellent luck (via holiday hikes) to hatch one each of all the available babies! Event success achieved! :-D

I was interested to see The Silph Road's research that the babies' evolved forms (and the regional exclusives) are no longer hatching, because I was sure that I hatched an Electabuzz from an egg spun the day after the event began. But I guess either I was mistaken, or Niantic removed the evolved forms from the eggs a little later than adding the babies.

And this week's migration turned the park nearest my home into a clefairy nest, after two migrations of pokemon so locally common that it was difficult to determine which one had become more common with the migration. That's a renewal of excitement!

[inkstone]

I'm slowly but surely filling my pokedex. I've hatched a pichu, togepi, cleffa & igglybuff so far. 10Ks are a little tough for me to get but we'll see if the one I have hatches one of the remaining 3 babies. I've also evolved a ninetails, rhyhorn & kabutops! And I just caught a charmeleon. I'd love to be able to catch enough charmanders to evolve a charizard. I have a charmander with great IVs that's just waiting.

The latest migration kind of turned my favorite hunting spots into garbage (weedles, pinsirs???) so I'm out for the next couple weeks. Just as well since I doubt I'll have time to hit them up before the next migration anyway.

[schneefink]

I caught a charizard today! Took me an embarrassing amount of balls, but I did it :)
I got none of the babies so far :(

[serpentine]

So far I have a Pichu, two Magby (one of which I evolved to a Magmar) and a Elekid. The Pokestop outside my apartment likes to give me 10km eggs. I might need to go out for a walk to finally hatch the two 2km eggs I have. I haven't really had any luck with those. The Pichu came from a 5km egg actually and was from prior to the event.

I would've hatched them when I was out earlier, but I got it into my head to take down a level 8 gym and during that, my battery ran out, so the walk back wasn't counted on my game.

Also two Ekans nests have established themselves in the park I walk in, so I finally have the last of the Pokemon I needed that aren't hatched from 10km eggs or region specific. :D

Aaaand, I caught a Venusaur!

[lilacsigil]

Not one of the baby Pokemon! And it's been busy at work so I've been walking like crazy and hatching eggs (three yesterday alone) but nope, no baby Pokemon at all. :(

[healingmirth]

I finally trust my new gloves enough to play with them on - good! - but they're really only sufficient for about an hour or 40F - bad! - so I think it's back to the drawing board for any serious winter pokehunting, but the new boots I got for Christmas are A+. I'll just have to trade off putting my hands in my pockets if I spend much time out the rest of the holiday event ;)

I'm real hopeful to find a few more bulbasaurs. They're so rare here, even well inland.

I hatched a second poor, rubbish Lapras that's almost a twin of my original poor, rubbish Lapras, so at least they're not lonely anymore, I guess! Also finally evolved an Alakazam and an Omastar and a Kabutops, so only Chansey continues to evade me.

Oh! And a dragonite! I was lucky enough to catch one a month or two ago, but now I've evolved one with decent IVs, though I haven't been able to see how it does in action in a gym yet.

Soooorta wish I'd planned to tag along with my dad to Australia or New Zealand this year and engineer some layovers in convenient regional locations on my way back, but I also acknowledge that I don't actually want to have done that :) Tempted to have gifted him a level ten account, maybe ;) I mostly need to not read other people's ridiculous video game travel adventures when I can't be bothered to renew my passport.


I found three separate stories of Pokemon go players rescuing kittens after one was linked on the Silph road reddit this morning, so that was great!

Happy New Year, y'all!

[lurkingcat]

The combination of cold weather and traditional British rain means that I've not been out and about as much as I'd like to have been. Maybe this will be the year that I finally find some touchscreen gloves that work with my small stubby fingers and thick enough to deal with my Raynauds problem.

But I've caught a couple of Charmanders over the last few days having previously never seen any in the wild at all, so that made me very happy. I've hatched an Igglybuff and a Cleffa too!

[tyger]

Am very slowly keeping on keeping on! I caught a wartortle, which was pretty great! :D Still not strong enough to camp out in a gym long enough to get coins, but oh well, will get there eventually probably.

I did catch an eevee with top-appraisal-level stats, though, which is pretty exciting! :x Gotta get more candies to evolve it, though. Oh, and I finally hatched an onix! Haven't hatched any baby pokemon yet though. :(

[ephemera]

I got to go for an epic poke-walk with one of my oldest friends, who I don't see very often, which was a lovely way to spend 6 hours. We happily play on the same team, so were able to level a gym up to level 10 together, which was fun (even if we did get sniped *twice* while doing it - we ended up with one pokemon each on said gym, so - worth it!) . I've never had the collaborative gym experience before. We had a lure-party, too, and generally enjoyed ourselves.

The weather's been decent enough that I've managed several good long walks this week, so am hatching things at a decent rate. The sudden proliferation of starters has completely wiped out my ball collection, though! Between that, and a serious gym run (I managed to take 7, and be holding 5 simultaneous to cash out, which is a record for me) my supplies are at a low ebb.

I've had pretty good luck hatching babies - I'm only missing a Smoochum (which - I sideeye the character design here, as for Jynx, so if I was going to be mising one, I'm ok that it's this one) but I do have three Togepi, which means that when I retire my Festive Picachu buddy, I should be walking distance from an evolve, even if I don't hatch another.