Server Side Updates

[inkstone]

This is not an update to the app. It is an update from the servers. The currently known changes are:

• new movesets for some pokémon (list of changes*)


• spawn rates of regional exclusive pokémon have skyrocketed (I've seen 3 Tauros so far today!)**


• spawn rates of rarer pokémon have also increased


• more potions are being dropped at PokeStops

Again, these are server side updates.


* That link includes a mention of the dodging change. This change actually happened a couple weeks ago. It's now only a max 75% damage reduction. (Which is still significant, but as someone who dodges a lot, I noticed the change immediately and had originally wondered if my dodging had just gotten worse due to the amount of damage I was taking.)

** There is some speculation that this in preparation for the trading feature.

Comments

[such_heights]

Ahhh, I thought I was seeing rarer pokemon more! That's good to know, thanks for sharing.

[inkstone]

Sure thing!

[owl]

I'm already throwing out all but hyper potions to make room for pokeballs, sigh.

[gorgeousnerd]

Same. I don't need more potions!

[malnpudl]

Ditto, me too, and likewise. Do not want.

[mara]

Wow, I'm in desperate need of potions and I don't even do that much battling. How strange!

[malnpudl]

So that's where all the Tauros (Tauroses?) came from! I'd only ever seen two before today, and today I've seen maybe half a dozen, and caught three or four.

I wondered what was going on. Good to know. Thanks.

[sky_queen3]

All this and I still have only seen one Kangaskhan. :( (And that was before this and it ran away. :'()

[ephemera]

Does anyone know if the way the pokegym rewards coins work has changed as well? I could just have miss-understood how they worked in the first place, but I had understood "hold the gym for 20+ hours = reward", but the last two days I've been given goins for "had a Pokemon defending a gym at particular moment in time", with a countdown (at least after the first time - I wasn't in the store section so didn't notice until I had some coins to claim the first time)

[inkstone]

That's how it's always worked. You can claim them immediately, but there's a cooldown period of 21 hours before you can claim them again (if you can hold a gym that long).

It's why I tend to take over 2-3 gyms and then claim my coins because I know I won't hold them long enough to reach the full 10 before they start being taken down.

[raisedbymoogles]

Ugh, there is no possible way I could hold one gym long enough to take over a second. Maybe if I went out at like 2 AM or something. Living in a city is great for catching a lot of Pokemon, but it's frustrating for getting into battling.

[serpentine]

I wonder if the increase in Potions and stuff is a preparation for an event to come soon?? Though they might be still trying to roll out the game as to as many countries as they can before they do anything like that.