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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,684 ✭✭✭Wolverine359


    Saw my first Kangaskhan today in a gym. I actually want to see them all lol. Just need to find a Farfetch'd to make it 145 seen. :)


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,305 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    delly wrote: »
    I have to say +1 to Niantic, this seems like a nice little promo.
    This is the type of ingame promo that the games needs to keep players interested. Expect another one at Christmas. A little more notice might be nice however.

    I did a lucky egg run on Friday night, would have held off if I had off known due to the number of transfers I was doing. Not a big loss really.


    On an unrelated note got myself an Aerodactyl yesterday. Completely random spawn. Wasnt on sightings at all. Came out of a shop and opened phone, had a little "whats that on the screen?" moment before going "hold this bag quick!" to my mate. 8 Ultra's, 6 Razzies, he broke free 5 times, I was getting very nervous but he stayed in the 6th time.
    Sightings is obviously unreliable, there was a pokestop outside the building but no lure on it, he literally just popped up out of no-where. I had been waiting for my order in the shop for 15 mins and had been looking at PoGo on my phone while sitting there. Saw some common pokemon 9n Sightings but definitely not this guy, he appeared on pavement outside the shop. Think Ive seen 2 or 3 in gyms before, never spotted any on sightings before.

    So now, apart from Lapras, everything else needed on the pokedex is walkable. So that spooky bonus will be a nice boost.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 9,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭mayordenis


    have about 650km left to walk to complete the dex, we can divide that by 4 for the event so it's like 160km, going to try walk about 25k a day and see if I can get through it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,223 ✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    mayordenis wrote: »
    have about 650km left to walk to complete the dex, we can divide that by 4 for the event so it's like 160km, going to try walk about 25k a day and see if I can get through it.

    4325km to walk and 10 left to hatch along with the three region exclusives. I think I'll never finish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭Walter H Price


    Caught an Omastar this morning up at cassidys hotel/the garden of rememberance definitly my rarest catch so far have only had 2 Omanyte so far out on bull island so thats saved a fkin tonne of walking

    990CP and a good attacking move set too


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  • Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 17,005 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    Hatched a Staryu out of my 5k egg last night which gave me enough to evolve my first Starmie. It's got Tackle and Hydro Pump as its moves, so I'm pretty happy with that. Looking forward to trying it out in a gym.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,684 ✭✭✭Wolverine359


    Do you get xp now for failed captures? Fumbled while trying to get a rattata this morning and he escaped, but I got 25xp.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,684 ✭✭✭Wolverine359


    Do you get xp now for failed captures? Fumbled while trying to get a rattata this morning and he escaped, but I got 25xp.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭mighty magpie


    vulpix 49
    ponyta 47
    cubone 46
    diglett 46
    kabuto 44

    that's my candy count after I do a few double transfers tomorrow. 66km in normal circumstances and 16.5km with that 4x bonus if my calculations are correct. So i'll be switching my buddy a few times over the next few days.

    6 Incubators bought too.

    Should bring me up to 127 caught.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 106 ✭✭Barraldo


    I am currently hatching a ten km egg. The egg itself has purple spots on it. Is this an indication to what is in the egg or just snazzy graphics?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,223 ✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    Barraldo wrote: »
    I am currently hatching a ten km egg. The egg itself has purple spots on it. Is this an indication to what is in the egg or just snazzy graphics?

    They just changed the colours of the eggs in the last update. Nothing more than aesthetics.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 82 ✭✭FaceCake


    The extra candy will be great, but who are they kidding trying to get this region of the world excited with extra drowzee, zubat and gastly spawns? That might be nice in California or wherever drowzee is rare but I'm sick of the guy. I hope they do more events that bump up the ones that are rare here sometime. Christmas event with lapras! :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭mighty magpie


    Barraldo wrote: »
    I am currently hatching a ten km egg. The egg itself has purple spots on it. Is this an indication to what is in the egg or just snazzy graphics?

    Purple means it's a Jynx. :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,684 ✭✭✭Wolverine359


    Noticed an issue since the latest update on iPhone, for me at least: if using Spotify, the volume lowers quite a bit when Pokemon go is on screen. Kinda annoying when you want to walk about while listening to music, hope they fix it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭Diemos


    FaceCake wrote: »
    who are they kidding trying to get this region of the world excited with extra drowzee, zubat and gastly spawns?

    That's funny cos it's true :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,223 ✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    Halloween would be the perfect time to introduce Ditto. He'd be 'dressed up' as another Pokemon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,839 ✭✭✭Walter H Price


    Anybody know if you can see how many battles a pokemon has won when defending a gym ?

    Just got my Blastoise back after 4 days in one level 8 gym , its comfortably the longest i've ever had one in Gym in Dublin most only last at most a few hours or minutes in some places.

    Would just be interested to know how many if any battles it won in that time


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 106 ✭✭Barraldo


    Purple means it's a Jynx. :D

    You best be messing!! I'd rather another vaporeon yoke!!

    I've stuck the Pikachu fella on as a walking buddy just so I can get that Raichu. I've only ever gotten one Pikachu. In Garden of Remembrance. So I'm gonna evolve the f**k out of it!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 106 ✭✭Barraldo


    Anybody know if you can see how many battles a pokemon has won when defending a gym ?

    Just got my Blastoise back after 4 days in one level 8 gym , its comfortably the longest i've ever had one in Gym in Dublin most only last at most a few hours or minutes in some places.

    Would just be interested to know how many if any battles it won in that time

    Well done! 4 days! I had a vaporeon in a country gym for three days before. Easiest 30 credits made.

    I've given up on gym battles completely now. Most of the gyms are filled with super strong Pokemon that I couldn't think of beating so I am now just gonna try and catch em all :)


  • Posts: 0 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Some small changes I'd like to see..


    Add some very small item bonuses for every 5th level:
    Every 10 is cool and all, but after lv 20, you're going to be waiting a very long time to get anything free ever again, understand that they want people to use micro transactions, but just a little carrot to dangle wouldn't hurt them much, and would improve player morale.

    Slightly increase interaction sphere, especially on gyms:
    I get that they want people to explore the world and whatnot, but sometimes it can be very difficult to reach certain pokestops, or gyms or mons, I'm constantly just a shred away from reaching stuff, at the end of the day they need to balance realism with fun.

    Increase xp for defenders training team gyms.
    Gains are negligible at the minute, and I don't really see why.

    Give a stardust/xp bonus for defeating enemy gyms.
    They definitely need to make taking on those big ol' lv 10 gyms more desirable, maybe give a scaling massive exp bonus if you manage to clear every Pokemon out of a gym above lv 8, or stardust, something anyway, at the minute most people just ignore the lv10 towers, unless there's a group of people playing together, and lets face it, that's not how most people will play the game.

    Add an option in the menu to remove the damn warning messages:
    I get it, I'm traveling too fast and I shouldn't play while on fire at gun point..

    Improve loading times/Add some sort of graphics options:
    Some peoples phones can't handle the game properly, my own one struggles with gyms, maybe have some sort of paired down graphical display for people who aren't running the newest and shiniest phones.

    More candy for transfer of stronger mons
    Under 999 = 1 candy
    1,000-1,499 = 2 candy
    1,500-1,999 = 3 candy
    etc
    etc.



    Ps: a working tracker :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,331 ✭✭✭AMGer


    Grimer and Muk look like perfect Halloween Pokemon to me. Let's hope they get an increased spawn rate aswell. Or least increase the chances of Grimer in an egg - I'm up to 823 egg hatches now and still no Grimer from one :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 5,864 ✭✭✭jd


    Dunno if anyone mentioned it but FastPokeMap
    ( https://www.fastpokemap.se/ )
    is back, but doesn't always work


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 465 ✭✭Yoghurt87


    I'm still waiting on a Gengar and an Alakazam, so hopefully will get enough Ghastly and Abra candy to evolve them over the next week if they don't make an appearance themselves. I've also done up a list with high, medium, and low priority walking buddies and I'm doing a mass evolve tomorrow, wrecking my head trying to recalculate the candies and transfers :D.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭Diemos


    Anybody know if you can see how many battles a pokemon has won when defending a gym ?

    Just got my Blastoise back after 4 days in one level 8 gym , its comfortably the longest i've ever had one in Gym in Dublin most only last at most a few hours or minutes in some places.

    Would just be interested to know how many if any battles it won in that time

    pogobag used to show these stats.

    You can put it in a new gym and it will tell you but I don't think it shows you any other way. It seems like a wonky stat anyway.

    From what I can see there are very very gyms left in Dublin with that kind of turn over. There are gyms that have been level 10 for weeks now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 688 ✭✭✭Irishbrick


    AMGer wrote: »
    Grimer and Muk look like perfect Halloween Pokemon to me. Let's hope they get an increased spawn rate aswell. Or least increase the chances of Grimer in an egg - I'm up to 823 egg hatches now and still no Grimer from one :(

    Really no grimer, I hatched one yesterday or the day before, honestly didn't notice because if the double jynx hatched!
    Must calculate how far I've to walk this weekend to complete the available dex!
    OK, 518k to go, so this weekend 130, roughly 32k a day! Charmander (need 41 as I don't like my charmeleon) is getting dumped in favour of either Machoke(58 candies required) or grimer (21 candies)
    Tis gonna be a long weekend! (literally hahaha)


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 10,305 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tenger


    17th 10km egg just hatched........ got myself a 3rd Chansey.
    Oh well, better than a Jynx!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 826 ✭✭✭DublinCJM


    Diemos wrote: »
    There are gyms that have been level 10 for weeks now.

    I took a gym last week. Popped in a 2,500 odd CP Lapras. It's went to level 7 for a few days, and now it's Level 10, 52,000 prestige and I'm still sitting on the top!

    Say my Lapras won't be coming home very soon.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,223 ✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    Diemos wrote: »
    pogobag used to show these stats.

    You can put it in a new gym and it will tell you but I don't think it shows you any other way. It seems like a wonky stat anyway.

    From what I can see there are very very gyms left in Dublin with that kind of turn over. There are gyms that have been level 10 for weeks now.

    I just checked out pogobag and my Lapras which has been in a gym for about two weeks now hasn't won a single battle yet. Definitely a reluctance by people to take on the high level gyms unless they're in a convenient location. I know the gym down the road from me is beside a bunch of shops and a bar and regularly changes hands but the gym at the hospital I have my Lapras in probably doesn't get challenged often.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,417 ✭✭✭Diemos


    Is pogobag working for you? :o


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 981 ✭✭✭mighty magpie


    vulpix 49
    ponyta 47
    cubone 46
    diglett 46
    kabuto 44

    that's my candy count after I do a few double transfers tomorrow. 66km in normal circumstances and 16.5km with that 4x bonus if my calculations are correct. So i'll be switching my buddy a few times over the next few days.

    6 Incubators bought too.

    Should bring me up to 127 caught.

    Just hatched a diglett, dunno whether to laugh or cry


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