Pokemon go

Dantes_Legacy · 14-07-2016 10:41AM

hullaballoo wrote: »

Anyone figured out at what speed the app decides you're driving? Think I might hold up some traffic on the way home today...

I'm not sure. I think Ingress was set to 35kph. I'm sure I have read that somewhere. I've been using the app on the Luas. You still seem to get pokemon spawning no matter how slow/fast you are going (just my observation, I could be wrong) but it definitely stops counting steps/distance traveled once the Luas picks up speed. So if I go from St. Stephen's Green to Sandyford on the Luas, I might get less than 1km counted towards the distance traveled for the eggs. That's with the app open the whole time.

I could have walked/ran a longer distance in the time it took me to do that trip so I don't think it is worth it.

FunLover18 · 14-07-2016 10:51AM

Is it live in the North?

irish_goat · 14-07-2016 10:59AM

FunLover18 wrote: »

Is it live in the North?

Aye. Heaps of Pokestops in Derry city centre. The Bogside has loads as well because of all the murals.

VinLieger · 14-07-2016 11:03AM

FunLover18 wrote: »

Is it live in the North?

Probably its live for all UK accounts so depends on what people are using up there

Kimbot · 14-07-2016 11:04AM

VinLieger wrote: »

Ive only seen guesses but around 10-12kmph+ seems to be the consensus, basically rush hour is now your firend

For the craic I drove around the town here a few days ago at 10kmph and I didnt register any of it as walking towards my egg

VinLieger · 14-07-2016 11:10AM

jonnycivic wrote: »

For the craic I drove around the town here a few days ago at 10kmph and I didnt register any of it as walking towards my egg

I get the Luas everyday and for the slower parts around the city centre it is deffinitely registering it no idea what speed it goes at though

irish_goat · 14-07-2016 11:10AM

I had mines on in the car the other day, I was able to get 1km "walked" from a 4 km drive. Part of it was driving through the estate so probably wasn't doing great speeds.

quad_red · 14-07-2016 11:13AM

Does it matter which faction you pick when you let to level 5?

Angron · 14-07-2016 11:15AM

quad_red wrote: »

Does it matter which faction you pick when you let to level 5?

Generally speaking, not really. However, you can work with people on your team to battle gyms apparently, so if you have some friends playing too, it could be worth coordinating to get on the same team.

quad_red · 14-07-2016 11:16AM

Angron wrote: »

Generally speaking, not really. However, you can work with people on your team to battle gyms apparently, so if you have some friends playing too, it could be worth coordinating to get on the same team.

Aha.

Can you change teams?

Angron · 14-07-2016 11:18AM

Not that I'm aware of, though the game tells you so little that it nearly wouldn't surprise me if you could change somehow.

quad_red · 14-07-2016 11:22AM

Is there consensus on here about factions?

Angron · 14-07-2016 11:24AM

I don't think so. From what I've seen online though, most people are going either Red or Blue (possibly cause they were the original two outside of Japan), and comparatively little love going round for Yellow. I know in Galway, pretty much every gym I've seen has been controlled by either Red or Blue.

Kimbot · 14-07-2016 11:26AM

Angron wrote: »

I don't think so. From what I've seen online though, most people are going either Red or Blue (possibly cause they were the original two outside of Japan), and comparatively little love going round for Yellow. I know in Galway, pretty much every gym I've seen has been controlled by either Red or Blue.

Theres a yellow in portlaoise so I went Red just to take his gym over eventually haha

Angron · 14-07-2016 11:27AM

jonnycivic wrote: »

Theres a yellow in portlaoise so I went Red just to take his gym over eventually haha

Yeah, I briefly saw a gym going from Blue to Yellow here, only to shift to Red in about half an hour.

Kimbot · 14-07-2016 11:29AM

Angron wrote: »

Yeah, I briefly saw a gym going from Blue to Yellow here, only to shift to Red in about half an hour.

Also a few over the longford direction were yellow on tuesday :P

Angron · 14-07-2016 11:33AM

jonnycivic wrote: »

Also a few over the longford direction were yellow on tuesday :P

I only had a brief stopover in Longford that day, so I didn't get to see much of that :P

One thing I found funny was one of the pokéstops in Longford was listed as "Giant Lego". Dunno who thought that's what they looked like, they were just big grey concrete blocks used to block cars off :pac:

craic_dealer · 14-07-2016 11:39AM

You get more XP from taking over a gym than you do from training a gym of your own colour.

I picked yellow, so now there's more gyms for me to take over

Kimbot · 14-07-2016 11:42AM

Angron wrote: »

I only had a brief stopover in Longford that day, so I didn't get to see much of that :P

One thing I found funny was one of the pokéstops in Longford was listed as "Giant Lego". Dunno who thought that's what they looked like, they were just big grey concrete blocks used to block cars off :pac:

Which pokestop was that? I never noticed it I just click in swipe and leggit haha

Angron · 14-07-2016 11:46AM

jonnycivic wrote: »

Which pokestop was that? I never noticed it I just click in swipe and leggit haha

It was in between Durkin's and the Specsavers in town, a little down from Market Square. The blocks aren't even really visible from the road tbh, and cause there's nothing really of note about them it just feels odd that they were made into a spot :P

craic_dealer · 14-07-2016 11:47AM

There's an app available that allows you to chat with other PoGo players in your area within a radius of 30km, which you can make smaller if you want. Can share locations where you caught stuff.

Link below if it appeals to anyone...

Messenger For Pokemon Go

Oh and it doesn't close Pokemon Go when you use it, so you can still catch something if it pops up

selastich2 · 14-07-2016 11:59AM

Angron wrote: »

It was in between Durkin's and the Specsavers in town, a little down from Market Square. The blocks aren't even really visible from the road tbh, and cause there's nothing really of note about them it just feels odd that they were made into a spot :P

desperate ingress players with wild imaginations :pac:

Shlippery · 14-07-2016 12:00PM

Is it just me or is Dublin inundated with Drowzees, they're everywhere.

Got an Onix out of a 10k egg, delighted, but only cp. So not really sure how to get him in anyway to a respectable CP.

Lucky Eggs seem to be the business too. I got one for levelling up. Double XP for 30 mins. Quick way to level if there's a few new uncaught pokemon around ye.

selastich2 · 14-07-2016 12:03PM

inscenseI set off 3 so far.

first one worked

second time: servers kept freezig everytime I caught one

third time: servers locked me out immediately after placing it, eventually got signed back in with 1 min to go

hang on to them until the servers improve would be my advice that's what I'm doinng with my magic eggs too for the moment

hullaballoo · 14-07-2016 12:08PM

My workplace is a Pokéstop so having only started this morning, I'm racking up the Pokéballs and egg things. I have no idea where to find the eggs in the menu?

keane2097 · 14-07-2016 12:09PM

hullaballoo wrote: »

My workplace is a Pokéstop so having only started this morning, I'm racking up the Pokéballs and egg things. I have no idea where to find the eggs in the menu?

Go to your list of captured Pokemon and swipe right.

DuffleBag · 14-07-2016 12:10PM

Shlippery wrote: »

Is it just me or is Dublin inundated with Drowzees, they're everywhere.

Got an Onix out of a 10k egg, delighted, but only cp. So not really sure how to get him in anyway to a respectable CP.

Lucky Eggs seem to be the business too. I got one for levelling up. Double XP for 30 mins. Quick way to level if there's a few new uncaught pokemon around ye.

I think that applies to the real world in dublin too

selastich2 · 14-07-2016 12:10PM

hullaballoo wrote: »

My workplace is a Pokéstop so having only started this morning, I'm racking up the Pokéballs and egg things. I have no idea where to find the eggs in the menu?

pokeball-pokemon-there's a tab in the top right for eggs.

Angron · 14-07-2016 12:10PM

hullaballoo wrote: »

My workplace is a Pokéstop so having only started this morning, I'm racking up the Pokéballs and egg things. I have no idea where to find the eggs in the menu?

in the section where you look at the pokemon you've caught, there's a tab that'll say eggs, with a number out of 9.

hullaballoo · 14-07-2016 12:14PM

Thanks! And what does the Transfer button do when viewing a captured Pokemon?

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