Pokemans and how to catch them with your phone - friend codes in OP
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I'm not quite sure how you pick up the diversity you need in a small town. I had to travel literally all over Tokyo to find the pokemon in various places I needed. How do people in small towns find enough nests to get everything?
Lures give great XP but they are shit for filling out the pokedex. I do have a lot of pokestops true.
Lures give great XP but they are shit for filling out the pokedex. I do have a lot of pokestops true.
Quineloe
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What about the stuff that only really spawns in specific locations and you need a shitload of them? Like Abra, Machop, Ghastly, Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, Geodude etc.
Pokemon like Bellsprout, Oddish, Nidorans, Poliwags etc you can get anywhere, but the above ones were difficult for me to track down.
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My town isn't even that small and I still have shit all for any kind of variety. Fire, electric and rock Pokemon are non-existent. At level 23 ive seen two Dratinis total in the wild, and no snorlax, scyther, pinsir, hitmonlee/chan, etc. at all. None of the trackers I've tried work around here since pokevision died. Literally the only thing I can do is just pray for decent eggs. I'm only at 84/87 in the pokedex. It's pretty damn discouraging.
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I've done more visiting spots in Tokyo in the last month than I have in the 5 years I lived here before that. Basically each pokemon I needed was a new park or place to explore. Game is diabolical about getting you outdoors.
Lenas
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So you are starting to see the problem. You live in one of the most densely populated cities in the world and you still have trouble. But even with your troubles, the game you are playing is 10x easier than what some of us have.
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I don't think population has anything to do with it. I think the true advantage is that there are a plentiful amount of parks, which makes it easy for Niantic to dedicate this park to this pokemon and that park to that pokemon and they have enough to do everything.
Doesn't answer my question about how rural players like Gavin manage to have all the pokemon but Muk though!
Lenas
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I think you are wrong. Poke spawns seem directly tied to population density and mobile traffic.
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I live in the middle of Tokyo. Cell phone density here is most likely the highest in the world. There are 0 pokemon within 10 blocks of my house other than Pidgey and Ratatta.
Pokemon spawn in Biomes. City (garbage pokemon)/Park/Fresh Water/Salt Water. You need areas of those in order to get pokemon. At least, that's how it works here. I could wark 100km through the streets of downtown Tokyo and find nothing, and walk into a park and suddenly there's a nest.
Gavinmad
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Small town is nowhere near as bad as rural, and the patch where they increased the spawn rate of rares made a profound difference in what shows up on my scanner.
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Here's a detailed map of the pokemon spawns in my area.
Green areas are parks. I might have missed a few
Blue areas are fresh water waterways.
The grey area is "Urban"
The black area is a deadzone because of the imperial palace.
You can clearly see the pattern of pokemon spawns.
I live smack in the middle of one of those urban areas. I literally get jack shit unless I travel 20+ minutes from my house. That's why I make so many expeditions out to parks in Tokyo.
Gavinmad
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Dunno what to say, maybe if a town is too small to have separate biomes, it follows a completely separate set of rules. Would explain how I've seen like 7-8 Snorlaxes in the past few days.
Also, a lot of the rarer stuff either doesn't require an evolution, or requires a single 50 candy evolution. I can't even imagine how long it would take me to evolve a Dragonite based on nothing but 10k hatches and one or two wild spawns a week, so that wild caught Dragonite was a pretty big deal.
Also, a lot of the rarer stuff either doesn't require an evolution, or requires a single 50 candy evolution. I can't even imagine how long it would take me to evolve a Dragonite based on nothing but 10k hatches and one or two wild spawns a week, so that wild caught Dragonite was a pretty big deal.
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At least you all have working public transportation infrastructure over there. Speaking to Houston, 20+ minute drives are essential to take care of every-day activities, never mind this game. 600 square miles of interstates, interstates, and more interstates.
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The spawn quantity/quality IS based off population density via cell usage, you think the parks in Europe are spawning billions of Pincers like Central Park NY was? They spawn fuck all.
The busiest parks in my city spawn a single pikachu, bulbasaur or a ponyta maybe once every 3 hours. I datamined it.
Tokyo is insane because of population buffing the nests to insane numbers. Stop saying it isn't!
Everyone outside of megacities is doing eggs and biomes so yes its possible to get them all still. Biggest problem for me is no fire/fighting/ground and too much water, have to rely 5k eggs.
The busiest parks in my city spawn a single pikachu, bulbasaur or a ponyta maybe once every 3 hours. I datamined it.
Tokyo is insane because of population buffing the nests to insane numbers. Stop saying it isn't!
Everyone outside of megacities is doing eggs and biomes so yes its possible to get them all still. Biggest problem for me is no fire/fighting/ground and too much water, have to rely 5k eggs.
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there's nests, and then there's randoms. the best spawns are randoms. you hit the nests to finish your pokidex
i'm counting magicarp->dratini spawns as random here. find a decent string of spawn points and walk back and forth. the river here is great, i've seen screen shots of 4 dratinis at once in 100 years.
snorlax can spawn anywhere. jigglypuffs, liktons now, starter mons, regional mons, etc., all can spawn anywhere you see a rat or piggy. the main reason people don't think anything spawns near them is they don't look that closely. i work from home a lot and play on the PC at night (shocker i know), so i refresh a web map to see what's in my area. if i have a lot of time to play, i head to a park though because there's more spawn points, stops, and may be a certain spawn i'm after. I'm 127 so far, missing several mons that spawn in nests. Manchops, Geodues, Ghastlys. I can't be bothered to hit up those nests as I rather go to the lake after dratinis or downtown for just lures stops & exp.
i'm counting magicarp->dratini spawns as random here. find a decent string of spawn points and walk back and forth. the river here is great, i've seen screen shots of 4 dratinis at once in 100 years.
snorlax can spawn anywhere. jigglypuffs, liktons now, starter mons, regional mons, etc., all can spawn anywhere you see a rat or piggy. the main reason people don't think anything spawns near them is they don't look that closely. i work from home a lot and play on the PC at night (shocker i know), so i refresh a web map to see what's in my area. if i have a lot of time to play, i head to a park though because there's more spawn points, stops, and may be a certain spawn i'm after. I'm 127 so far, missing several mons that spawn in nests. Manchops, Geodues, Ghastlys. I can't be bothered to hit up those nests as I rather go to the lake after dratinis or downtown for just lures stops & exp.
Gavinmad
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The only webmap I've found is a companion to an app that you put on your phone so whenever you make a capture, it uploads the position and time left to the webmap. Completely useless outside of high population density areas with lots of people using the app.
Lenas
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