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Pokémon Go |OT| Tap those mons!
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I think the only problem people have with duo accounts is "gym blocking," which... I don't really understand, and is it even a thing anymore?
I think it's fine to have a second account. If you're already at close to max level and find yourself mostly bored with Pogo, duoing accounts can make the game fun again. There's so much to do in the early game now compared to 2 years ago. It doesn't really take as long to level up these days either, thanks to friends and raids. I started a second account almost 3 months ago, and it's closing in on level 33.
Having a second account for trading is great during community day. I got 7 lucky trades from the Bagon day. I have more than enough Sinnoh stones thanks to daily PVPs. Having a Ultra friend and eventually a best friend gets you more balls in raids too.
Really the funnest thing has been building teams to duo T4 raids. Once you get your second account high enough to raid, start doing Machamp raids and build a fight squad. Once your fight squad is strong enough, start taking down Tyranitars, and build a dark team to work towards Deoxys and the Lake Trio.
Bug(?) where I "catch" a pokemon and the game freezes has happened two more times. Once while I was sitting at home on my wifi. So I'm not exactly sure what is happening. Could be a phone issue honestly. Anyone else experience something like this?
Shortly after posting this I made my first local lucky friend.
I think we'll go for the shiny community day option.
I was lucky enough to get Shiny Alolan Marowak on my second try, and Shiny Alolan Raichu in my first 5 tries, but still have never seen a shiny Absol or Mawile in 20 attempts between them on my account and another 18 or so on my girlfriend's.
I ended up skipping the Machamps and Tyranitars in that process and went straight to Giratina/Deoxys/Lake Trio thanks to friends and local raid groups. I could really do with some Tyranitars tbh, but I rarely see raids for it. :/
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I'm grabbing three just incase they really keep these guys regional and I ever have the chance to trade.
Yes? You should know given you've been to Japan.
There are only six spots available in a gym. Five or less if you're not the one taking it down. There's nothing more infuriating than some jackass who puts two or more accounts in a gym to hoard coins for himself. It just creates situations where people are incentivized to also create multi accounts to fuck other people over. It's against the spirit of Pokemon.
Caught Azelf on my first try.
Also got a shiny Latias from my research breakthrough. Which is nice since I did 30+ Latias raids without getting a shiny.
Also got a shiny Latias from my research breakthrough. Which is nice since I did 30+ Latias raids without getting a shiny.
Went to a park for a May the 4th event and all the Pokestops there were closed. They were still on the map but I couldn't spin them or interact with them at all. I have never seen that before.
I was kinda bummed because the park was a Scyther nest and I was planning on luring up a couple stops and seeing if I could bag a shiny.
I was kinda bummed because the park was a Scyther nest and I was planning on luring up a couple stops and seeing if I could bag a shiny.
That's a softban in effect. Pokestops can't be interacted with and all Pokemon flee.
No, I caught stuff while I was there and I could see other stops that were open outside of the park. It was like the park asked Niantic to close down their Pokestops only, for some reason.
What time was it at? After the Milwaukee lawsuit, the resolution was Niantic implementing a park closing time system. At 9:00 pm all stops and gyms in Milwaukee county parks close. Other park systems have since had Niantic set up the same system.
Gyms and stops can actually be closed during specific hours. They even say they are. closed
Yes. For spinning stops, it seems to get stuck quite a bit, but very proficient at catching.
I've mostly given up with the local gyms, there's someone on my team that has about 10 different accounts with similar names that fills them, presumably remotely. Even if I was to take the gym, my pokemon gets magically bounced out within a couple of hours and then his or her accounts refill it and hold it for days.
It's so weird. In my Japanese town, players don't really seem to care about that at all. Probably because there are more than enough gyms to go around. (There's over 100 looking at my badge map.) If a gym is taken over, I haven't seen anyone rush in to try and take it back. Some gyms have a pretty high turnover, but those are pretty high trafficked areas with plenty of players stopping by throughout the day. The only real contention is building up to a raid. Some people try to flip it to their team for the extra balls. While others are razzin' Pokemon.
I hadn't heard of anyone boast of gym "ownership" until I went back to my hometown in the US and took over all the gyms in town (maybe 10 gyms?) just to get some badges. I was trying to connect with some of the local players through discord, and one of the guys was all like, "Well, now I'm not going to trade you my Heracross. Just try and take all those gyms back, and I have stack of 200 golden razzes." lol ok.
I think if players in my town just see a full gym, they just move on the next one. :shrugs:
I don't care about gym ownership. I care about selfish players who are ruining the game for others.
Taking over multiple gyms in a neighbourhood is well within the game's rules. It takes up your time for minimal rewards. The issue is when you put multiple accounts in a gym by yourself, thereby blocking people of your own team to possibly get some coins. Sure, they can go to another gym, but people who don't live in big cities often don't have that luxury. It takes time to travel and take down a gym. For a measly 50 cents it isn't quite worth the effort.
Multi accounts also get double the raid rewards, which means more golden razzes to defend with. I'm fine if you use your personal account to defend your gym; you've earned those golden razzes after all. It doesn't feel quite earned though for those who pull out multiple phones during raids. It's a grey area though admittedly. Catching it for someone else for dex completion is different than actually owning multiple accounts for your own benefit. The latter is a much worse offense in my opinion, unless you don't interact with gyms with your alts. People appreciate it if you help them complete raids.
Taking over multiple gyms in a neighbourhood is well within the game's rules. It takes up your time for minimal rewards. The issue is when you put multiple accounts in a gym by yourself, thereby blocking people of your own team to possibly get some coins. Sure, they can go to another gym, but people who don't live in big cities often don't have that luxury. It takes time to travel and take down a gym. For a measly 50 cents it isn't quite worth the effort.
Multi accounts also get double the raid rewards, which means more golden razzes to defend with. I'm fine if you use your personal account to defend your gym; you've earned those golden razzes after all. It doesn't feel quite earned though for those who pull out multiple phones during raids. It's a grey area though admittedly. Catching it for someone else for dex completion is different than actually owning multiple accounts for your own benefit. The latter is a much worse offense in my opinion, unless you don't interact with gyms with your alts. People appreciate it if you help them complete raids.
The dozens of Trapinch I used to hatch in them. At least Sableye can be shiny.
Is there a worse feeling than not having spawns around your house. :(
At least you live in San Francisco. The PoGo community is still huge there right?
Yeah. Very easy to do raids. And have made friends with more people around the neighborhood.
Got a Latias through weekly research, and it took 30 balls to catch him. Reminds me of the raid weekend when I went it took me 8 raids to finally get one.
I still can't catch anything in my house, but the pocket of playable area a couple blocks away just expanded today. Another Pokestop was added today, and one of the existing Pokestops was upgraded to a gym. As far as I can tell, I'm the first person to notice or care - I saw it completely uncontested early this afternoon, and I've been defending it all day without anyone attacking it or joining me in defending it.
Detective Pikachu themed event starting tomorrow. https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/detective-pikachu-sleuths-into-pokemon-go/
Weird, I don't think adventure sync has been working for the past few days
Ended the week with 8.7km walked when I know I walked more than 8k at least 4 days last week
I have a samsung watch and samsung health on my phone
Ended the week with 8.7km walked when I know I walked more than 8k at least 4 days last week
I have a samsung watch and samsung health on my phone
Do you have battery saver on as that stopped my Pokémon go syncing with it too
I think one of the big things we need is a revamp for all of the Encounter Pokemon for Field Research. Do we really need Gastly, Onix and Grimer encounters still? I'd like to see some more with Ditto and some other rarer Pokemon like Porygon, Feebas etc.
I haven't seen a Gastly in the wild since I started playing this game some 30 or so days ago. :(
I still want a shiny Gastly and shiny Grimer, so yes please, lol. I think Onix is for the special research that needs to use a Metal Coat to evolve something.
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