Pokemon go

hdl wrote: »

Lol. My 495 Pikachu is now a 1213 Raichu and he's my highest IV Pokemon! I currently have a 485cp and 471cp Pikachu, so I'm one behind on all of yours

He'll take down a 2000 cp water mon no problem.

still not seeing anything with scans though, he mentioned he is still working on it, the disabled mgs still shows

hdl wrote: »

How is everyone else finding the new gym system? I find I'm not battling as much anymore because all the gyms I come across are at least level 6 or 7 and I'm don't usually have the time to spend trying to take them down. I'm in 7 gyms at the moment, most of them for over a week now. I know it's not a bad complaint really, collecting the few coins every day.

I really don't like it.
It is causing most gyms to become completely stagnant.
I'm in 14 gyms right now, so I'm benefitting frpm the change, but I'm battling less than ever. It's not difficult to bring down a level 10 just boring to solo it (Mrs Deimos rarely battles, will happily take an open spot though) .

South city centre is just Mystic and it's just boring.

pickarooney wrote: »

New update with just three completely useless announced changes. And obviously some unannounced ones to mess things up for more players.

Is the server down?

No I can login

AMGer wrote: »

Wish I had known FPM was back up a half hour ago, just missed out on another Grimer

They say 1 in 10 requests are working, I've tried about 50 so far and not got one to work, so it probably wouldn't have helped.

JamboMac wrote: »

Really I can be top of 30,000 gym and can still find myself ousted somehow. Some gyms are still very active botanic gardens st Anne park and a few.

That's easy, the difficult bit is when you get a 10 with a 2200+ at the bottom, then it's difficult to beat all of them with just 6. But 30K gym has 8 and they can be easily solo'ed with 6 attackers, gaining an extra 1500, making it a 5500 prestige drop for every battle. 20 mins and you can flip a 30,000 gym.

delly wrote: »

I was thinking more on this and while the new rules do give a benefit for raising prestige, I can see a simple fix to stop stagnation, simply put a time limit of say 10 days for a team to continuously own a gym. 10 days after a gym was first claimed, simply kick everybody out and leave it free.

That is is an idea, but I've read other good ones too.
I've read about people suggesting a prestige decay. Or that after 7 / 10 days you get a defender bonus but get booted from the gym and the gym drops a level.

They might work but I think the best and easiest option is to better reward attackers. In the current meta it's just not worth my time or effort to solo a level 10 enemy gym (and it's too easy to level a gym up). And my bag is full with revives and max potions, it's literally now worth my time. Plus I'm a gym bunny, it is my favourite part of the game.
But I get much higher returns from leveling my own team gyms and putting one of my guys in there.

If I see enemy 2 gyms within walking distance, one is level 10 and the other level 8, I'll attack the 8 every time. Unless the 10 is stacked with weak mons.

So next time just make sure something useful is in front of you before hatching :pac:

Diemos wrote: »

They might work but I think the best and easiest option is to better reward attackers. In the current meta it's just not worth my time or effort to solo a level 10 enemy gym (and it's too easy to level a gym up). And my bag is full with revives and max potions, it's literally now worth my time. Plus I'm a gym bunny, it is my favourite part of the game.
But I get much higher returns from leveling my own team gyms and putting one of my guys in there.

Yeah I think the simplest and best idea put forward is to offer stardust for attacking gyms.

Just evolved Raichu for number 99. I'm only 3km away from a Wigglytuff for number 100 and then I can concentrate on the long slog of 363km for my Charmander to Charizard. Still haven't seen one in the wild or hatched one so fully expect to have to walk that whole distance.

Diemos wrote: »

I'm 17KM into my Char, only 289Km to go..........
I'd to do the same for my bulbasaur, went quicker than I thought.

Wigglytuff is a beast. Great for training.

Definitely not going to be quick for me. I've only done 190km in the 3 months since it launched. I'm looking at end of April til I'm done at the same rate.

"Only" 305km to go for a Dragonite here! Then 309 for Venosaur, and I haven't got a Charmander worth evolving

AMGer wrote: »

There's actually a Charizard on Bull Island right now, never seen one before!

That was where I caught mine a few weeks ago, from a picture somebody posted on Facebook it looks to be in nearly the exact same place.

Finally caught an Ekans in Merrion square the other day. I walked out of the square and my 5k then hatched another Ekans. Oh well.

Went to Marlay Park yesterday with the sole purpose of catching Eevees, as I don't have an evolved one yet despite having over 50 candies. Despite Eevee always being on the map, I only caught one with crappy CP. Got lots of Magnemites though.