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.


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[inkstone]

I had a terrible week last week and I fell off my PokeGo game, but I was able resume my morning PokeWalks this week, so that was nice. I reached level 20 and after a string of jolteons, I finally got a vaporeon. And I caught a machop for the first time!

In less amazing news, I hatched two rattatas and a weedle. Great. Thanks.

[elfin]

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.

[harpers_child]

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.

[inkstone]

Seriously, this glitch is cramping my style. I couldn't even catch 100-200 CP pidgeys this morning.

[yhlee]

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...

[recessional]

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.

[kshandra]

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.

[meganbmoore]

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.

[meganbmoore]

Part of why I barely played this week is that I don't have enough pokeballs for these guys to keep escaping me.

[senmut]

Oh dear. So disappointing.

[senmut]

Awesome hatch!

[senmut]

I'm having the problem of LOW levels being the break out and runs! I need caterpies and weedles currently, and they keep escaping.

[senmut]

The Zubats in my area hate daylight and come out around dusk, if that helps.

[senmut]

Awesome! I'm still not going anywhere near gyms and battles, but it's the collecting that's entertaining me.

[senmut]

Too very hot! I agree.

[ephemera]

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 ...

[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.

[healingmirth]

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 ;)

[healingmirth]

Ha! I feel you on the battles. There's no doubt a world of strategy behind the scenes somewhere, but I don't seem to have room for it in my brain yet.

[ephemera]

I love the bat critters - I tend to see more of them if I'm out and about late afternoon or dusk.

[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!

[lurkingcat]

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.

[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]

It wouldn't have been so bad if their CP were high, but I've caught ones that were stronger. What's the point??

[inkstone]

An aerodactyl, wow!