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Cathan

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I'm pretty damn good at curve balls now but throwing at shit like Golbat that flies and is really far away can still be tough. Curve balls on them are a mofo.

Early on if I needed to throw long range at a zubat or some shit I'd stand facing dead on the pokemon, tilt the screen down flat, touch the ball and slide my finger fast as I could from the bottom of the screen to the top. Generally that hit them.

Later I figured out how to lob the balls just sliding my finger from bottom to top of the screen quickly and straight at the pokemon. It's more or less that simple.

Throwing curves at stuff far away... I throw my curves out to the right and they curve back left. I spin the ball clockwise til it's going real fast, I put the pokemon toward the left side so I can use more of the right side of the screen throwing the ball further out to the right then letting it come back left at the pokemon. For far away mobs vs up close stuff it's just how far UP the screen I release the ball. For pidgeys up close I release the ball nearer the bottom of the screen. For Golbat I'll release it up real high.

If you can't hit something with a curve ball, go back to swiping straight up.

When I find a pokemon I really want but know I'm going to struggle with, I try to use a raspberry every throw and use the highest balls I can plus I try to time the throw right after the pokemon evades or attacks. I threw 37 ultra balls at a Blastoise the other day though so there's no gaurantees...
 

Quineloe

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I fucking hate, hate, hate when your own team holds a gym and the lowest CP pokemon is some fucking 850 CP Lapras. Don't put that shit in there. How are we supposed to train that gym if you put a powerhouse pokemon in the first spot?

Put something in there with nice, low hitpoints that is easily countered by a common pokemon, because the enemy team sure as fuck won't mind walking over your 850cp Lapras with a 2k pokemon anyways.
 

Cathan

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Combat system as a whole needs a major rework. I could go on for an hour about improvements needed and others that would be really nice. I'd love to be able to battle other players directly. I fought like 7 gyms and put a guy in them and ended up collecting rewards from 5 before they started being taken over Sunday morning.

The first couple weeks of Pokémon I watched gyms go from being held by 300 and 400 CP up to 2600 CP Snorlax. It was fun leveling up and still being competitive. I really think the gyms need to be usable by players as they level up by having player level ranges and/or CP ranges for pokemon to fight in. Girl I was dating was playing casually but she quickly saw gyms were a waste of time for her because she'd never have a pokemon that could compete there. That's demotivating...

I'm level 30 now and watching Weedles break out of 10 balls is old also. I get that as I increase level I see more high cp/ high level pokemon and they're harder to catch but it's a GD Weedle already... No point in burning 11 balls and 3 minutes trying to catch it when I need 500k xp to level up. If that IS how it's going to be, then experience/stardust for catching a level 28 Weedle should be MUCH greater than catching a level 5 Weedle that takes 1 ball... Hell about anything that would help me generate more stardust would be WONDERFUL.

I have basically nothing to do but evolve high IV pokemon and power them up. Candies I can deal with but stardust is holding me waaaaaaay back on this quest from figuring out if anything other than a handful of pokemon are ever worth fighting with.
 
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Quineloe

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Did my last lucky egg mass evolve just now, got to 25 so got another free egg for the next run. Managed to squeeze out 61k exp from it.

highlights:

444 pidgey evolved into a 1394 cp with wing attack / hurricane monster. First hurricane I've ever gotten from a Pidgeot (8 so far)
1451 golduck (appraises as utter shit) with water gun and hydro pump. Never, ever found a psyduck that appraised as Caught attention. Most as shit, rest are "good". But it's good enough I guess.
Got a cloyster with 1231 cp, ice shard and blizzard. Curious what I'll use this for.

Evolved my first Persian (called Snob cat in German), with Scratch and Night Slash - and they said twister was bad? That one seems even worse

I now have ten Hypnos. Ten. What the shit. And not one of them today was actually better than the one I got from the last mass evolve.

Evolved the third Seaking. Does this guy even have any water moves at all?

got 17 Raticates now, 8 with hyper beam (but two of them less than 600 cp)
 

Thregin

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gz on 25

Was there an update today? Because, atleast in my neighborhood, where there used to be 1 spawn point, theyve added a 2nd very close by (pretty much on top of it), maybe a 3d at some points.

thx cathan...basically dont have any problems hitting zubats just dont curve them like you say. The dragonite was something else though and i basically couldnt figure out what i was doing differently between throws to make em go short or far.
After i ran out of ultraballs though i wasnt as afraid of losing greatballs so i got more adventurous and started screwing them and it was actually easier to get my screwballs far enough to hit the dragonite. Was weird and frustrating ;/
 

Kovaks

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gz on 25

Was there an update today? Because, atleast in my neighborhood, where there used to be 1 spawn point, theyve added a 2nd very close by (pretty much on top of it), maybe a 3d at some points.

thx cathan...basically dont have any problems hitting zubats just dont curve them like you say. The dragonite was something else though and i basically couldnt figure out what i was doing differently between throws to make em go short or far.
After i ran out of ultraballs though i wasnt as afraid of losing greatballs so i got more adventurous and started screwing them and it was actually easier to get my screwballs far enough to hit the dragonite. Was weird and frustrating ;/

I'm seeing a lot more spawns, 2-3 I can get from my house where I couldn't reach anything before, on the other hand things seem to be fighting harder and it seems harder to play while driving. So good and bad.
 

Quineloe

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Pokemon Bicycle is very much amazing. It's pretty easy not to trigger the speed limit, yet still go a lot faster than jogging.
 

Chysamere

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Lot of nests changed here. Got Clefairy and Charmander nests near me. Also this. Jesus, Electabuzz much?

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Cathan

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LOL those German names are funny. I'm curious what the spawn changes are around here. They seriously need to release more pokemon. I'm bored out of my gd mind without more pokemon to catch or evolve...
 

Chysamere

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They definitely futzed with the spawn rate around here. Tons of pokemon are spawning around my house that aren't Pidgey and Ratatta and the Snorlax spawns are pretty nuts.

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No the red dot isn't me, it misses my house by several blocks for some reason.
 

Angelwatch

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It does seem like they added some additional spawns to the map. My neighborhood's density doubled and I'm seeing a lot more uncommon things (2 Scythers, a Likitung and a ton of Glooms). It also sounds like a bunch of nests migrated.

With that said the game is definitely slowing down in my area. I can see two gyms from my house and they don't change hands nearly as often as they used to. In fact last week both stayed under the same control for like 5 days.
 

Cathan

Silver Knight of the Realm
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Game's definitely slowing down. First 2 weeks there were 60 to 100 people at the park right outside the base here. Now, there's 1 or 2 there. Central Park had hundreds of people, now it's like 1/3 of that.

I think the problem is the game's just too simplistic to hold people's attention. Catch pokemon endlessly is the basis of the game... Can only catch so many new ones... Can't fight and interact with other players in the game at all. So unless you talk to the other players there's little to no interaction.

The game still has lots of potential. I hope future GO type games learn from what this game is lacking if Niantic doesn't figure it out quickly.
 

Quineloe

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They definitely futzed with the spawn rate around here. Tons of pokemon are spawning around my house that aren't Pidgey and Ratatta and the Snorlax spawns are pretty nuts.

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No the red dot isn't me, it misses my house by several blocks for some reason.


What a fucking joke. I understand why high density areas have MORE spawns because of their XM stuff, but why do they also have better spawns?

I noticed one extra spawn on my block, but it was a Krabby.

And yeah the game is slowing down hard. Most people I talk to are fed up here with playing Pidgeymon Go. 22% if all spawns here are pidgeys. 22%.
 

Chysamere

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What a fucking joke. I understand why high density areas have MORE spawns because of their XM stuff, but why do they also have better spawns?

I noticed one extra spawn on my block, but it was a Krabby.

And yeah the game is slowing down hard. Most people I talk to are fed up here with playing Pidgeymon Go. 22% if all spawns here are pidgeys. 22%.

Well I am hiding about 120 pokemon on that. It's only showing the good ones.
 

Kovaks

Mr. Poopybutthole
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Yeah I don't know how much longer I have, as a father with small kids, now that they have taken away my ability to joystick, I can pretty much only play while driving or walking the dog, means I'll almost never see the really good stuff and am maxed at everything I do see.
 

fris

Blackwing Lair Raider
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nests cycled last day or so. seems dratini's small a lot less frequently now. have a few more trash spawns in range of my house now.
 

Cathan

Silver Knight of the Realm
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I've noticed a LOT more uncommon and rare mobs spawning over here in Brooklyn area since the update. It was very frustrating that Manhattan had more spawns and much larger quantities of rares compared to elsewhere but I suppose I understand it. The more spawns the more chances for rares to pop...

In general it seems like spawn counts are up. I drove down 4th avenue and it seemed like 2 or 3x as many spawns popped up than what it was. I used to drive down 4th just to spin the pokestops and stock up on consumables. I can't catch anything unless I hit a stop light but if I see a nice rare I'll stop for it.

Last night I saw way more grimers, an arcanine, exeggutor and some other nice uncommons/rares that I wasn't seeing previously. Personally I wish they'd release about 700 new Pokemons so I could just go crazy catching new stuff and enjoy the game anywhere again. As it is, nowhere is really useful except CP for farming tons of pokemon for stardust...