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V ([personal profile] inkstone) wrote in [community profile] pokestop2016-08-06 07:39 am
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Weekend Free-for-All!

Welcome to the inaugural weekend free-for-all here at [community profile] pokestop!

PokeStop Free-for-all featuring Snorlax!

How was your week in PokeGo?

Did you level up? Did you finally get the eeveelution of your dreams? Did you catch snorlax? Let's celebrate!

Did you lose tauros? Did they remove the only PokeStop in your town? Did your 2km egg hatch a rattata with middling CP? Let's commiserate!

Your triumphs, your trials, your frustrations, and your excitement--it all goes here.


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senmut: Wooded Stream (Scenic: Mississippi Stream)

[personal profile] senmut 2016-08-06 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh dear. So disappointing.
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[personal profile] elfin 2016-08-06 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
It was so hot here last week that I barely played at all. The only "playing" I did was walking from my car to my house or office. I did hatch a 10k egg and got an Aerodactyl with amazing CP, so that was pretty awesome.

It's cooled off now, though, so maybe I'll get back to playing.

ETA: and now we have torrential rain, so I guess nature doesn't want me pokeplaying.
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[personal profile] senmut 2016-08-06 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Awesome hatch!
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[personal profile] harpers_child 2016-08-06 01:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Yesterday a 761 Ivysaur broke out of 6 great balls in a row even with being fed candy for each one. It ran away. I will be so happy when that glitch is fixed.

One of the local parks is infested with Rhyhorn. I'm halfway to evolving.

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yhlee: Alto clef and whole note (middle C). (Sandman raven (credit: rilina))

[personal profile] yhlee 2016-08-06 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I caved and downloaded the app yesterday since everyone seemed to be having so much fun. I went for my first walk around my super-in-the-middle-of-nowhere edge-of-town suburban neighborhood and still caught a bunch of Pokemon! *_____* The great thing about being low-level (?) is that almost everything is new! I'm sure this too will pass.

Have not spotted any of those bat-things, though...
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[personal profile] recessional 2016-08-06 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
My experience is that about the time that catching everything is New and Shiny it becomes actually shiny to do things like focus on levelling up, or poking at gyms, or finding evolves/hatching eggs. So that's nice.

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[personal profile] kshandra 2016-08-06 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
I got my "won 10 gym battles" badge this week - which impressed me because I have NO FREAKING CLUE what I'm doing. And there were four PokeStops at the minor-league baseball park I went to last night, three of which I could hit from our seats; I came home with a 695cp Arbok and a full backpack.
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[personal profile] senmut 2016-08-06 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Awesome! I'm still not going anywhere near gyms and battles, but it's the collecting that's entertaining me.

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[personal profile] meganbmoore 2016-08-06 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I played very little this week, sadly, because I had few opportunities to visit pokestops to get pokeballs. It's been 100-105f every day this week, and it's so dry that even if you're dripping sweat, it dries and turns your skin gross and sticky within minutes, so I was only able to visit a couple on my way too and from work that I could just pull over to without getting out of my car.
senmut: modern style black canary on right in front of modern style deathstroke (Actor: David's Torso)

[personal profile] senmut 2016-08-06 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Too very hot! I agree.
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[personal profile] ephemera 2016-08-06 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I hatched a Ponyta this week, which is pretty excite, and caught my first dratini today, and after a mid-afternoon spent in an area where others were generous with the lures, I think I might be ready for a lucky-egg mass-evolve frenzy soon ...

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[personal profile] serpentine 2016-08-06 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I reached level 21, had a very adventuresome day yesterday. At work I caught a Tauros unexpectedly and on my lunch break, took over the gym across the street for Team Mystic and somehow my Vaporeon is still there over 24 hours later. It's in a pretty isolated location that isn't visited much on the weekend, so that might be why.

And last night, I discovered the best place to farm for Magikarp and other water Pokemon in the city. Managed to capture enough Psyduck and Staryu to evolve them and made headway on Magikarp candies. There were a lot of lures set on the Pokestops there, which was why it was so productive and it was a gathering spot for a lot of other players. I will probably return next weekend.

Also finally hatched a Doduo and a Hitmonlee.
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[personal profile] ephemera 2016-08-06 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
woot! Go team you (and Team Mystic) - all the gym's I've found turn over *so* fast - I think you're the first person I've heard of who's managed to hold one for 24 hours! Enjoy your reward coins!

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[personal profile] healingmirth 2016-08-06 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
I had a pretty good week! I hatched a Magmar that was high enough CP to max power up for my level with a few candies left over, which was a first for one of my Pokémon, and parked on three gyms at once one day - it might've been four but I couldn't quite win a friendly battle to level up a fourth with what I had left.

I also finally (!) caught a freakin' squirtle, and a slightly less terrible Moewth than the 10 cp one I've been carrying around for lols, and discovered that the area around the mall I hadn't yet been to this summer is crazily dense with pokestops. That's nice to know if I get frustrated running low on items again, if maybe dangerous for my shopping habits ;)
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[personal profile] lurkingcat 2016-08-06 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I was glad to learn that the ever-escaping Pokémon problem that I've been having is a glitch rather than a thing that just happens at my level. It's been a very frustrating week on that score but I did manage to find and catch my first ever Sandshrew. They're awfully cute :)

I've been too exhausted to go out and play today but I've been thoroughly amused by the shenanigans at our local gyms. I can see three from home and they've been mostly Team Instinct this week. One of them was a level 9 gym but Valor took it down last night and all three gyms have cycled through all three teams at various points today.
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[personal profile] yuuago 2016-08-06 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I managed to go downtown today, which meant it was a great day for PokeGo.

Results:

-Jumped two levels, up to 16
-Booted Valor out of two gyms
-Stocked up on pokeballs (always need more, though. ALWAYS)
-Caught an Omanyte
-Hatched a Vulpix!!
-FINALLY managed to catch enough Eevees to evolve one into my beloved Vaporeon. ...Jolteon probably would have been a more strategic choice, since electric pokemon are scarce around here, but ehhhh oh well.

A good day, a good day indeed.

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[personal profile] dickgrayson 2016-08-06 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Slow week but good. I am level 19 finally. Which I am happier for as today I wanted to spend my morning Pokemon hunting in a hot spot but it is raining. The day before yesterday however I was able to get three new Pokemon!

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[personal profile] cyphomandra 2016-08-06 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I opened two 10K eggs about a week ago and got a Lapras and a Scyther (yay!) but haven't managed to get any more 10K ones since then, and my 2/5K ones have been unexciting (my first ever 5K egg gave me Porygon, tho', so I can't complain). I have walked 65.3K since start date

My mission for this week is to fight some more gym battles. Currently i have fought about six times, trained once, won once, and have no idea what I'm doing at all times! Tips welcome as all I know is that I tap frantically at the screen and every so often hold something for longer.

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yhlee: Alto clef and whole note (middle C). (hxx Cheris Jedao)

[personal profile] yhlee 2016-08-06 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Still level 4, but my daughter caught us our very first Eevee. *_____*
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[personal profile] yhlee 2016-08-07 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
We caught a second Eevee just standing around in our house.

And then we went for a walk this evening and caught one new-to-us Pokemon, but still no Zubats. :p

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[personal profile] lizbee 2016-08-06 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been going for walks in local parks and recreation areas, which for some reason are teeming with magikarp, even though not all are close to water. But no complaints, I'm determined to evolve that sucker.

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[personal profile] playswithworms 2016-08-07 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Got to the mall - I visit once or twice a year, not my favorite place, but got a Duduo and a Kabuto, which were new to me and pretty nifty, and two pairs of pants on sale that almost fit! Thanks, Pokemon, for making clothes shopping a lot more fun :D
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[personal profile] lilacsigil 2016-08-07 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
I got a long-overdue new phone this week, which has made playing a lot easier! Hatched my first egg, which was a Magikarp. No, I was excited! My sister-in-law has two Gyarados just from the Magikarp she catches on her lunchbreak (she works near a river) and around here it's all grass/poison/bug types! So getting a Magikarp was cool!
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[personal profile] monanotlisa 2016-08-07 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
I still don't have a Snorlax, and I feel personally insulted by the universe. Or possibly Niantic. Both! Both is good.
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[personal profile] lilacsigil 2016-08-07 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
I don't have a Snorlax either, but the only gym in my town is dominated by an Instinct Snorlax, so there must be some around somewhere! I want one!

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[personal profile] surpassingly 2016-08-07 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
HELLOOOOOOOO /waves cheerfully at comm

I walked over 6+ km today! This was from our house to the beach (one of the beaches, anyway) and back. There's a pier + kind of like a little overlook on the beach, two pokestops, and a gym! :D And the cafe beside one of the pokestops has it pretty much perpetually lured. So it's a great place to just sit, admire the ocean, and catch water-type pokemon!

I also did a lot of gym battling today. Took down a level 5 gym by my lonesome (I may be unreasonably impressed with myself as a way of self-soothing because that was SO MUCH TAPPING) and defended the beach gym from hordes of Instinct and Mystic players. Mwahaha!

All in all, a pretty good day, even though my most notable catch was a Squirtle :D
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[personal profile] monanotlisa 2016-08-07 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Team Valor ftw! <3
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[personal profile] storme 2016-08-07 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
Yesterday we walked a few kilometers to a park on the other side of town -- on a tip-off -- just to catch a Scyther (and succeeded). :D And then wandered around the big town centre park and caught a bunch of fairly common things. I also caught a rare and exciting Poliwrath that was CP 1418, which escaped from TWELVE ultra balls before it would stay in one *sob*.

I also hatched a Hitmonchan and two Pikachus in a row, so yesterday was a very, very good day for me. I am exhausted from all the walking today, though. :D
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[personal profile] monanotlisa 2016-08-07 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
TWELVE ULTRA BALLS.

Well, at least the Glitch didn't getcha. I am pretty grumpy about the insane escape rate these days; I have caught big-time Pokémon only to have them escape.

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yhlee: Alto clef and whole note (middle C). (hxx Cheris Jedao)

[personal profile] yhlee 2016-08-07 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay, by going out at the crack of dawn, I caught my first Zubat. No luck with Eevees this morning, though. :p
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[personal profile] troisroyaumes 2016-08-07 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
A slow week... Admittedly I played less than usual due to being sick. I haven't caught anything new lately so I have been focusing on evolving to gain exp.
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[personal profile] gorgeousnerd 2016-08-07 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I played at Disneyland this past week, and it was ridiculous amounts of fun. I could only recharge my phone a little, so I couldn't play too intensely, but there were so many stops that I had over 100 regular/great Pokeballs by the time I left. It's a Small World had stops on the ride. So many stops had lures on them at all times. I used a lucky egg in line at one point to do evolutions (have 2/3 of the evolved eevees now!), and the lures meant I could take breaks to catch Pokemon, too!

Best new-to-me Pokemon I got at Disney: Seaking. I also made a dent in my Magikarp collections (still some 350 candy to go, though. Sigh).

This happened the week before, but I got a defender bonus from a gym in a random California rest stop two days in a row. This is really different from the gyms in high-traffic areas (like Disneyland or the Monterey Bay Aquarium), where the gyms are so contested that colors are constantly shifting. A lot of the more powerful gyms I've seen are the ones in random small towns. (Also, so many gyms I've seen have Snorlaxes, and I'm intensely jealous.)
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[personal profile] untonuggan 2016-08-09 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
i had to take a break from playing because i wasn't feeling well, but am hoping to do more this week. ^_^