Pokemon go

Got a 172cp Magikarp today, he'll turn in to a fine big dragony lad.

Been managing to make a bit of coin from gyms lately, had 260 in the bank, so decided I'd downsize from my original 40 quid, that I was considering throwing in to the game, partially as a thanks given the hours I've put in to it, but also to pump a load of eggs in to incubators :P

Threw in 19.99 for the 2.5k coins instead, shall buy myself a heap of lucky eggs, and the rest in to incubators, I'll keep ye updated on whether this was at all worth it, just in case anyone else is on the fence like myself, on whether they want to spend any money or not.

Plan to try and only use the limited incubators on 10k eggs if at all possible, and the unlimited one on the rest, but may do one run of 5k's just to clear the deck, as I currently have 9, and could do with getting a few 2k's and 10k's. Also bought the bag upgrades, because the bag full message is a nuisance.

Just after making all of the purchases, was able to get the bag upgrade, 25 lucky eggs, and 8 incubators, with 110 coins to spare from my original spending pot of 2,760 coins.

Randomfriend wrote: »

Just after making all of the purchases, was able to get the bag upgrade, 25 lucky eggs, and 8 incubators, with 110 coins to spare from my original spending pot of 2,760 coins.

Why did you buy so many lucky eggs? Do you pop one when you're out and about catching pokemon?

I only really use them when I do a mass evolution. If it was me, I would have bought more incubators and less eggs.

Randomfriend wrote: »

No, I only use the eggs for evolving, I'm mid way through lv 26, it is one hell of a grind, 200k+ per level from here on. I've not used a lucky egg since I hit lv 25 last week, so I have a lot of vermin/candy stocked up, so i'll probably go through two/three eggs today. The incubators will last me a good few weeks I reckon, if I save them for 10k's, it would take a lot of luck, walking and time to get 9 10k's at once, so they'll last a while!

Yeah I'm Level 28 now and the grind is indeed real. But I can earn enough coins from gyms to buy 1 lucky egg faster than I can gather enough pokemon for a mass evolve.

I only do a lucky egg run when I have around 60 pokemon to evolve, and that takes me between 3 - 6 days of playing to gather. Whereas I can get the 80 coins needed for a lucky egg in 2 days (4 gyms per day at 10 coins each = 40 coins per day).

So I can easily sustain my lucky egg needs from my daily gym income. If it was me I would have spent it all on incubators, and just use the income from gyms on lucky eggs.

Just got an eevee from a 10k egg. Raging!

Why is there talk of gen 2 mons when still all the legends aren't available.

Also if your missing rhyhorn/rhydon st Anne's park seem to be a nest for rhyhorn.

Even better, you can check the Journal. It now displays the eggs hatched there

Randomfriend wrote: »

No, I only use the eggs for evolving, I'm mid way through lv 26, it is one hell of a grind, 200k+ per level from here on. I've not used a lucky egg since I hit lv 25 last week, so I have a lot of vermin/candy stocked up, so i'll probably go through two/three eggs today. The incubators will last me a good few weeks I reckon, if I save them for 10k's, it would take a lot of luck, walking and time to get 9 10k's at once, so they'll last a while!

I use lucky eggs the same way, got 100,000 xp last night, first time I ever managed that. Over 60 evolves, adding 8 mons to the pokedex and an egg hatch.
I did end up with another 3 Jolteons (I like Jolteons but I now have 7, 3 Flareon and just 1 Vaporeon).

pickarooney wrote: »

I've never managed to close the window after spinning a stop and not get the rewards. I'm not sure how it's possible.

I got an Electabuzz from my 10km to bring me to 101. Another one in the pan now...

It's happened to me, what happens is if you close it before the bubbles start appearing the stop closes and remains blue. When you open it again and spin it, it will say try again, and if you restart it will show up as purple and you'll have to wait for the cooldown period again.

Diemos wrote: »

Finally because I'm impatient sometime after I spin a pokestop I close the window but do so too early, before any rewards and then when I try to spin it again, I just get a try again message for another minute or so.

Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »

It's happened to me, what happens is if you close it before the bubbles start appearing the stop closes and remains blue. When you open it again and spin it, it will say try again, and if you restart it will show up as purple and you'll have to wait for the cooldown period again.

If you check the journal in cases like these you'll generally have received the items anyway. I do that quite regularly and I always get the items even if I don't wait for their animation to show.

pickarooney wrote: »

Someone said Magmar had gone from Merrion square.

I found Muk on my way to work. Number 100 in the Dex

He's almost impossible to hit but he went down first time when I finally caught him.

Has anyone any tips for catching mons that stand way back on the screen? Every ball just bounced in front of him until that one somehow hit.

1km to go on my 10km egg and I have another to replace it. I have 6 still to get from the 10k list so fingers crossed.

I finally evolved a decent Vaporeon this morning too.

pickarooney wrote: »

I don't understand your plan. What happens when you inevitably have 9 5km eggs?

I found a Diglett on the way home, plus a Vulpix and two Kadabras and a Squirtle big enough to make a decent evolve. Pulled the trigger and made. 800CP Warturtle. Five minutes later found a wild 800CP Warturtle. He fled though, which was kind of a relief.

99/100 in the Dex now. Ten km egg on the boil. Maybe it will be lucky number 100.

Ah here, this is taking the píss. I'm at 93 in the dex, the best I caught in the last 3 days was 2 eevees at about 200cp.

Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »

Aerodactyl CP1300 caught in the wild, happy with that. Used quite a few ultraballs, mind.

I read (possibly in this thread) that for the flying ones that are to reach with pokeballs you turn on AR and angle your phone so they're down low.

Michael D Not Higgins wrote: »

I'm getting sick of seeing the game not respond if the app is open in the background too long and then it needs a restart. I hope they roll out a fix that will either keep it logged in right or retry automatically if it has lost the server connection.

Since the start the poxy app pauses music or podcasts when you start it and they haven't fixed that. Really annoying considering the amount of times you need to restart it.