Pokémon Go

[Trixsie Vixen]

Love it or hate it, if you want to talk about Pokémon Go, this is the thread!


Any tips, please share them.


For example: I heard if you ignore the first 5 Pokémon Pickachu appears.  Can anyone confirm or deny?


GO!!

[Ventus Fall]

I think this would be the only reason for me to ever get one of those 'Smart' phones
I don't have one, and don't plan on having one. But if I would, I woudl get Pokémon Go a.s.a.p. 
So other than that, I can't really give an honest opinion on how it works or the like, but I understood it's for free?

[Sigcutio]

I can't confirm what you've heard Trixsie, but that sounds really cool! I believe if you have a pokemon trainer club account you get a pikachu, but I'm not entirely sure.


I've been having fun with this game and I just wish I had better service in the area I lived so I could play the game while going for a jog. So far one of the best tips for leveling I've heard is to hoard a bunch of low level pokemon and get all the candy you need to evolve them after obtaining a lucky egg. Supposedly gives you a boatload of exp

[Trixsie Vixen]

Yes Ventus, it is free!  I don't play myself, but my boycub is hooked!  So I'm like a co-pilot or something


As for smart phones, I resisted for ages too until I wanted to make an Instagram account, then the madness began...

[Ventus Fall]

That is awesome, nice initiative. That it's free, I mean ^^
boycub? Co-Pilot? xD You gotta explain

[Trixsie Vixen]

Lol, I refer to my children as cubs on TFF.  Since I have boy/girl twins I refer to them as my boycub and girlcub.


Co-pilot = unlucky assistant/driver/wi-fi hotspot.

[Farewell]

It's a pretty nice game although my whole house hold got it which is annoying as hell. It was better when it was just me and my brother...

Also I don't like that's some people who are getting hurt are blaming the app when they're the ones not paying attention in the first place.

[Alistair]

I love playing pokemon go, it gets me out of the house and exercises that bad ankle I broke in late 2015. In truth I feel bad for the team right now because they have about fifty people or less trying to deal with all the server downtime/bugs/glitches. Makes my blood boil a bit when people get frustrated over the lack of functionality even in knowing they have such a small team to work with.


There hasn't been any injuries in my town yet, but I fully expect there to be some sooner or later. Glad to live in a spot in which people come to late at night to throw down lures, all I have to do is go downstairs and walk a few feet. Growlithe by far is one of my favorite to have, unfortunately they are a little hard to catch for me.

[Ventus Fall]

To Trixsie: Oooh, didn't know you had twins. That's pretty cool!
But that makes a lot of sense to me then what you wrote x3 Cool!

[Sigcutio]

Ughhhh I think the pokemon go servers are down after they opened up in most of Europe x_X

[Trixsie Vixen]

I've got friends who are playing it and they basically never play games (well maybe a little Candy Crush).  I'm really amazed how huge it has gotten so quickly!


It seems to bring people together. 

[Farewell]

Definitely. I went to a meet up on Friday and yesterday, it was really packed I saw some furries too (wore tails or ears).
I got some Valor stickers and pins. I might get a shirt this week (as they said they would have more designs next time), but I'm not sure.
Plus I leveled up, and got higher CP Pokemon which was cool.

[Cheza]

If it wasn't for the fact that I made the enormous mistake of getting a Windows phone, I'd probably be running all over the place to try and catch'em all by now.


On a possibly more related note, there was an article related to Pokémon Go in the local newspaper not too long ago.
Apparently people kept littering all over the place while playing, so someone made and placed a Pokémon-themed trash can by one of the stops.
And that was somehow extremely newsworthy.

[Raymond Volkogonov]

It feels bad that people need a "Pokemon" motivation to go out of their house. And still they do look mostly in their phones, not paying attention to anything around them (saw one of them fall down after hitting a car stopper. Fell like a puppet). Also, I guess everyone saw this video where people drop cars on the road to catch rare pokemon in the New York central park (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDsiJCQSmvk). What a brave new world.

[Midnight Madness]

Yes, how awful that a large group of people flocked to an area to achieve a similar goal despite competition between teams and whatnot. Not like that doesn't happen with concerts or other social events. How awful it must be that at the very least more people are going outside, even if it is due to motivation from an app. I'm sure nobody is gaining valuable social experiences based on this phenomenon.

As for people not paying attention, there really should be a disclaimer at the very least. Maybe people will read that. Clearly the app doesn't try its best to sway people from playing and not paying attention every single time the app is turned on.

I'm sure one day Niantic and Pokemon will release a notation of the dos and donts while playing. Just a hunch though.