Weekend Free-for-All!

[inkstone]

Welcome to the inaugural weekend free-for-all here at pokestop!


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.


Mod note: Like many people who use Gmail as their provider, my comment notifications have been delayed. In fact, I'm not sure I've received any since yesterday. I am still getting inbox notifications here on DW, but obviously I'm not on DW all the time. So if there's a pressing issue that needs to be addressed immediately, hit up my Tumblr askbox. It's open to anons, so you don't need a Tumblr account. I imagine it might take a while before Gmail decides DW isn't a source of spam and clears us again. If it's not so urgent, a regular PM is fine since I check DW regularly.

Comments

[serpentine]

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.

[ephemera]

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!

[serpentine]

Yeah, most gyms do turn over fast. This one actually had turned over from Instinct to Valor to Instinct in the morning and I pretty much was like "I am taking this one down" at lunch and by the time I left work, two other Team Mystic pokemon had been dropped off.

I really wish there was a way to check Pokemon Gyms long distance and see what's going on with them because I'm terribly curious about what's going on there.

[inkstone]

That's so impressive that you've been able to hold a gym for 24 hours! That rarely happens here unless you're those two Team Mystic players that are level 34 with 3000+ CP dragonites. Honestly, I have a suspicion they're bots/spoofers. No one else in the area has anything that strong. Aside from those two, the strong players are in the high 20s with mid-2000 CP mon.

[serpentine]

Well, my Vaporeon is back from her day long adventure. She got lots of pets and a hyper potion for her valiant effort. If I wasn't saving up candies to evolve another Eevee, I'd level up her CP.

[monanotlisa]

Do you live in San Francisco? I went to the Embarcadero on my new Pokéfriend advice (met him at my work gym) and was racking up Magicarp like this:



That doesn't even capture all of them -- there's another row or so. And oh, yeah; that's about 1 hour's wandering, not more.

Also, SO many Psyducks and Staryus there! Also evolved those later.