ephemera: Pokeball on a cartoon gold star (Pokemon_Go)
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Thing the first: we're nearly three weeks into the new "Adventure Sync" feature, and - how's it working out for you?

Thing the second: New research! (spoilers in link) What do you think? How are you doing?
Date: 2018-11-18 08:57 pm (UTC)

kirin: Kirin Esper from Final Fantasy VI (Default)
From: [personal profile] kirin
Adventure Sync has been treating me quite well, in that last week I got my first Riolu from it, which is pretty much the best thing available! Got up to 50k again this week so we'll see what tomorrow brings. It's succeeding in its goal of getting me walking though... according to my phone's health app history, my average distance since the beginning of summer was much closer to 25k/wk.

As for the new research... well, some stuff went on in my personal life that's made me want to avoid just sitting at home with my feelings so I went out and dove in to it a *little* obsessively; I'll probably finish it tonight, heh.
Date: 2018-11-18 09:01 pm (UTC)

ayebydan: (mv: natasha romanov)
From: [personal profile] ayebydan
I have so many research tasks on the go. Things are just not working in my favour to get the last of each thing done. :(
Date: 2018-11-18 09:16 pm (UTC)

melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)
From: [personal profile] melannen
I got the "evolve a magikarp" task literally two days after I evolved my first magikarp, and it took me two years to get the candy for that one. So I guess that research track is going to stall for awhile!
Date: 2018-11-18 09:42 pm (UTC)

ayebydan: by <user name="pureimagination"> (misc: pink car)
From: [personal profile] ayebydan
Mate. The magicarp one sucks. I live next to a canal and they still hardly ever spawn. Still trying to get wailmers ffs. And I don't want to make magicarp my candy as I am trying to evolve chancy but given I am disabled I don't walk that often and my commute is often above 20mph fml
Date: 2018-11-18 09:49 pm (UTC)

melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)
From: [personal profile] melannen
The good thing is that magikarp only take 2k per candy, so I usually had it as my default buddy (except not right now, because I'm still trying to get the other research track that needed 20k with Evee). And even then, I made no significant progress except when it showed up for festivals. (I haven't even seen a Wailmer since the water festival.)
Date: 2018-11-18 09:15 pm (UTC)

melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)
From: [personal profile] melannen
I was hoping that Adventure Sync would track distance based only on gps and not need a data connection (which is the #1 thing I keep waiting for them to do...) but it doesn't seem to.

I haven't had much luck with it even when I do have data; I'm not getting the full distance I'm walking unless I have the game up, anyway. I don't know if it's settings or my phone or just that the distances I've walked so far haven't been long enough, but so far not a lot of joy.
Date: 2018-11-18 09:18 pm (UTC)

recessional: a photo image of feet in sparkly red shoes (Default)
From: [personal profile] recessional
....huh. Adventure sync for me tracks via the iPhone pedometer? Which is not dependant on data.
Date: 2018-11-18 09:32 pm (UTC)

melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)
From: [personal profile] melannen
I'm on Android, and it's entirely possible my pedometer's screwed up (or doesn't work on my phone); I've never used it for anything before. I'll have to mess with it more now that I know it does work that way for other people.
Date: 2018-11-18 09:36 pm (UTC)

recessional: a photo image of feet in sparkly red shoes (Default)
From: [personal profile] recessional

thumbs up

Yeah as long as I'm carrying the phone it tracks my steps - you have to make sure that option's on in settings (the privacy section, on iPhone, obvi I have no idea on Android!), but then it just tracks steps and distance and feeds that via Health to PokeGo.

Fitbit tends to think I take a few more steps than Health does but over the last week the counts for when I've been carrying the phone have been within fifty steps of each other. When I do treadmill later I'll turn off data and wifi both just to double check.

Date: 2018-11-18 09:55 pm (UTC)

melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)
From: [personal profile] melannen
It really annoys me that it doesn't actually need data to track distance (my little guy still navigates the map just fine, the app still runs, the phone knows exactly where I am, it'll even spawn pokemon if it already knows they're there, and if I walk between two wifi sources that are less than .25 km apart, it assumes it's just the connection glitching and counts it, but any longs and it doesn't) but it insists on having data to count the distance anyway just because, I guess?

Having poked around some more, it looks like my phone does not have the capability to do step tracking (I do have an iPhone too, but it's just old enough that it can't update to iOS 11, so pokego stopped working on it last winter). Oh well, another thing that in theory would have been really great but in practice just points up that pokego is really only designing for a certain subset of people.
Edited Date: 2018-11-18 10:00 pm (UTC)
Date: 2018-11-18 09:44 pm (UTC)

ayebydan: (misc: politics)
From: [personal profile] ayebydan
I am like you. It is hardly noting any distance at all outside the active game and I am on android. I mean, release something that works for all or don't release it. The game still glitches like hell for me anyway and this is just insulting lol.
Date: 2018-11-18 09:57 pm (UTC)

melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)
From: [personal profile] melannen
If it's using the pedometer to track, it'll only work if you're walking, not if you're on wheels (and it may not even read walking right, if your gait is too different from the kind of gait it expects.) So if you don't walk much, it's probably that.

Or you're like me and your phone can't actually do the pedometer. Or it's just glitchy. Lots of fun choices!
Date: 2018-11-19 02:43 am (UTC)

lilacsigil: 12 Apostles rocks, text "Rock On" (12 Apostles)
From: [personal profile] lilacsigil
I'm on an iphone but in a rural area and it's astonishingly inaccurate for me as well. It's never been great on the active game but it gives me almost nothing outside it (3.6km in the game, 3.7km outside it).
Date: 2018-11-18 10:57 pm (UTC)

upanddisappear: (only want to catch you)
From: [personal profile] upanddisappear
i love getting credit for all the walking i do at work!

i'm on 3. got my ditto from the field research and won 2 gym battles, just waiting for two tier 1 or 2 raids.
Date: 2018-11-18 11:50 pm (UTC)

soc_puppet: Deep sea fish wearing a monocle (Monocle Fish)
From: [personal profile] soc_puppet
I am completely baffled by Adventure Sync. My main stalling point is that my steps count for distance walked for eggs and buddy candy, but not for distance prizes? For example, I've been walking my Luxray since just before Adventure Sync launched. This week, I've earned 3 Shinx candy at 5k each through walking/taking steps, but Adventure Sync says I've only walked 3.7km this week. Baffled, I say. Why do I get distance for my steps on eggs and candy, but not the prizes?

For the record: Android, no other linked devices (my Go Plus was acting super wonky since before I switched phones, and now won't connect unless I jump through half a dozen hoops); I've found it counts steps best when I have another app running constantly (most commonly Audible), even if the phone is otherwise sleeping.
Edited Date: 2018-11-18 11:50 pm (UTC)
Date: 2018-11-18 11:57 pm (UTC)

soc_puppet: Computer drawingo of a strawberry dipped half-way in white chocolate, with a dark chocolate line along the middle, so the whole thing looks like a Pokeball (Poke-strawberry)
From: [personal profile] soc_puppet
Oh, I'm also one of many people waiting impatiently for more Pokemon storage space. It's difficult to believe that 1500 spots aren't enough, and yet, here I am.
Date: 2018-11-19 05:52 pm (UTC)

melannen: Commander Valentine of Alpha Squad Seven, a red-haired female Nick Fury in space, smoking contemplatively (Default)
From: [personal profile] melannen
They really need to give out more storage space every time they roll out a new set of pokemon - I can't imagine what it's like to start the game now with the default bag space and so many different pokemon.
Date: 2018-11-19 10:37 pm (UTC)

cesy: "Cesy" - An old-fashioned quill and ink (Default)
From: [personal profile] cesy
Yes, they really do.
Date: 2018-11-19 10:38 pm (UTC)

cesy: "Cesy" - An old-fashioned quill and ink (Default)
From: [personal profile] cesy
I added a sync app that copies my Fitbit into Google Fit so I can get it into Pokémon, and that seems to work.

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