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EYLive said:
[hijack] what kind of restaurant? will it be open by Labor Day weekend? I'll likely be driving to Visalia from LA that Friday and will need a dinner stop. I'd be open to stopping by... especially if it's got a pokestop :bag:
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Burgers and beer (with full bar too)

 
I've been throwing pokeballs the wrong way for a while now, apparently. Pretty common knowledge that you want to throw the ball when the colored circle is smallest, but I was under the assumption that it only mattered if you actually hit inside that circle. Figured that a successful 'nice' throw would be better than missing a 'great' or 'excellent' throw. Apparently not - a smaller colored circle helps the catch rate regardless. :bag:  Been wasting WAY fewer pokeballs the last couple times I've been out.

 
Those starter Pokemon are hard to catch. My first 247 Pikachu popped up during lunch. I threw a razzberry and hit it on the nose with a great ball. Escaped and ran away. 

I would have tipped my waitress nicely had I caught it. :(

 
Just hit Boston. Holy smokes do people living in cities have it made. 

Lost out on a jinx I couldn't track down

 
bud29 said:
I've been throwing pokeballs the wrong way for a while now, apparently. Pretty common knowledge that you want to throw the ball when the colored circle is smallest, but I was under the assumption that it only mattered if you actually hit inside that circle. Figured that a successful 'nice' throw would be better than missing a 'great' or 'excellent' throw. Apparently not - a smaller colored circle helps the catch rate regardless. :bag:  Been wasting WAY fewer pokeballs the last couple times I've been out.
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I think your previous understanding is the correct one, unless they changed something.  

 
I think they changed the coin collecting as well. I used to be able to collect more than once per 21 hours, now even when my poke gets booted out of a gym, and I put one in a different gym, the 21 hour clock still counts down. :(

 
So my son had a tantrum today. We used our first lucky egg and lure. For the first 25 minutes we caught the usual crap pokemon. Then a bulbasaur popped up which we didn't have. He goes nuts. I throw a razz berry down and catch him but he escapes. Throw another ball and he just jets out of there. My son flips out telling me it's my fault, pushing me, crying at the top of his lungs. The little brat is 7. I pulled him out of the park and banned him from playing for the immediate future. The game kind of sucks now anyway.

 
shadyridr said:
So my son had a tantrum today. We used our first lucky egg and lure. For the first 25 minutes we caught the usual crap pokemon. Then a bulbasaur popped up which we didn't have. He goes nuts. I throw a razz berry down and catch him but he escapes. Throw another ball and he just jets out of there. My son flips out telling me it's my fault, pushing me, crying at the top of his lungs. The little brat is 7. I pulled him out of the park and banned him from playing for the immediate future. The game kind of sucks now anyway.
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Sounds like my lunchtime pikachu encounter... except I only cried on the inside.

 
EYLive said:
Those starter Pokemon are hard to catch. My first 247 Pikachu popped up during lunch. I threw a razzberry and hit it on the nose with a great ball. Escaped and ran away. 

I would have tipped my waitress nicely had I caught it. :(
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Yeah, I ran into a Charmander this morning - took 1 great ball, 5 ultra balls, and 4 razzberries to catch. Can't imagine what it would be like trying to go after a Charmeleon/Charizard.

 
Just had a nidoran and crabby run away after one ball catches. Sweet. 

But I did get that Jinx. Boston has tons of them apparently. 

 
shadyridr said:
So my son had a tantrum today. We used our first lucky egg and lure. For the first 25 minutes we caught the usual crap pokemon. Then a bulbasaur popped up which we didn't have. He goes nuts. I throw a razz berry down and catch him but he escapes. Throw another ball and he just jets out of there. My son flips out telling me it's my fault, pushing me, crying at the top of his lungs. The little brat is 7. I pulled him out of the park and banned him from playing for the immediate future. The game kind of sucks now anyway.
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The ones with jet packs are very hard to catch, unfortunately.

 
AcerFC said:
Nope. But every so often, the gps will glitch and I can get it. 
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Or you can use the "hey, I am walking towards the wall and keep moving feet while at said wall while moving the phone" trick.

If people actually saw into my office and saw me doing this, I would probably be committed.  

 
Courtjester said:
Or you can use the "hey, I am walking towards the wall and keep moving feet while at said wall while moving the phone" trick.

If people actually saw into my office and saw me doing this, I would probably be committed.  
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There's no reason that should actually work, I don't think the gps is so precise that it actually knows that your feet are moving while you are at your wall. Its not like you can trick it to go out further than your phone reaches, when the gps jumps around a little its just part of the nature of gps--its not perfectly exact at all times. 

 
There is a Pokestop in my building that's on the first floor. My office is the 2nd floor and for some reason it is hit or miss from a restroom next to me using this trick?? 

But then again I can get a  restaurant two blocks down from the third floor of my parking garage. 

 
Cp99 rat finally snagged on the 15th catch after 14 (yes 14) breakouts. By 10 I was laughing and buddy And GF were counting out loud with me. 

 
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Cp99 rat finally snagged on the 15th catch after 14 (yes 14) breakouts. By 10 I was laughing and buddy And GF were counting out loud with me. 




 
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You need to practice throwing. I would suggest a couple rounds of cornhole every weekend.

 
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You must be going to Pearl Jam at Fenway if you're in Boston this weekend.... I fly out tomorrow AM :headbang:  
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I wish. Im actually on my way to Seattle right now and then to an alaskan cruise. Left from Boston bc we got free tickets. Too much money in NY 

 
Yeah, the breakouts are just ridiculous right now. Unless you basically live at a pokestop, the amount of balls you need to catch even the most basic stuff is just unsustainable.

5 breakouts from a caterpie CP 66. I mean come on....

 
TLEF316 said:
Yeah, the breakouts are just ridiculous right now. Unless you basically live at a pokestop, the amount of balls you need to catch even the most basic stuff is just unsustainable.

5 breakouts from a caterpie CP 66. I mean come on....
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There's a certain calculus they have to do where they want people to purchase more balls but they don't want too many pokemon escaping to make the game too expensive for casual fans (which I assume is the majority). I thought it worked well before. Now its ridiculous.

 
Others that I notice are breaking out alot:

Jigglypuffs

Clefairys

Zubats

It's gotten to the point where if I see one of those I dont even bother trying.

 
The breakouts since the update are completely silly.

Headed to Pittsburgh this weekend to catch some, then interested to see what Vegas holds in a month.

 
shadyridr said:
So my son had a tantrum today. We used our first lucky egg and lure. For the first 25 minutes we caught the usual crap pokemon. Then a bulbasaur popped up which we didn't have. He goes nuts. I throw a razz berry down and catch him but he escapes. Throw another ball and he just jets out of there. My son flips out telling me it's my fault, pushing me, crying at the top of his lungs. The little brat is 7. I pulled him out of the park and banned him from playing for the immediate future. The game kind of sucks now anyway.
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Yeah, after losing out on a Charmander in similar fashion the other day, I had to remind myself that this is just a game. :coffee:  Can imagine that the runaways are pretty tough on a 7-y.o.

 
It's nice out and I figured I'd take my daughter on a bike ride.  We went to a park that is 7 miles (11km) away.  Left the game open the entire time, to cook a pair of 10km eggs.  Unfortunately it registered less than 2km each way.  There were a few downhill segments, but I wasn't flying like a bullet or anything, as I was towing her on one of these tandem attachments.  For whatever reason, less than 20% of our actual distance counted.

On the bright side, the park we went to is apparently a nest for Pinsirs.  I had never encountered one before, yet we stumbled on three of them in the first 10 minutes there.

 
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Niantic is embarrassing themselves almost daily now.

The last couple of days there was an uproar on social media about someone who had an Articuno.  She claimed Niantic gifted it to her but at first they denied it and she got flamed on Reddit, the haters eventually tracked down her identity.  It was a total crapstorm.  Later they admitted that oops, yes, a Niantic employee did gift her the Articuno, which they took it back.  After they found out about all the abuse she was getting they gave her some lucky eggs and lure modules for her trouble.

http://www.eurogamer.net/amp/2016-08-04-pokemon-go-articuno-ohio-pair-hope-madness-internet-spotlight

 
Anyone else having log in issues

Eta: may have lost my account. I think my daughter signed me out, even though she says she didn't. Now I can't get back on. Just says google play services have stopped

Awesome

 
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Willy said:
Niantic is embarrassing themselves almost daily now.

The last couple of days there was an uproar on social media about someone who had an Articuno.  She claimed Niantic gifted it to her but at first they denied it and she got flamed on Reddit, the haters eventually tracked down her identity.  It was a total crapstorm.  Later they admitted that oops, yes, a Niantic employee did gift her the Articuno, which they took it back.  After they found out about all the abuse she was getting they gave her some lucky eggs and lure modules for her trouble.

http://www.eurogamer.net/amp/2016-08-04-pokemon-go-articuno-ohio-pair-hope-madness-internet-spotlight
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Dumb to give her one in the first place, considering they were planning these grand releases of legendaries - but to take it back and give her some lucky eggs and lures in return? JFC  :lmao:  

 
sartre said:
It's nice out and I figured I'd take my daughter on a bike ride.  We went to a park that is 7 miles (11km) away.  Left the game open the entire time, to cook a pair of 10km eggs.  Unfortunately it registered less than 2km each way.  There were a few downhill segments, but I wasn't flying like a bullet or anything, as I was towing her on one of these tandem attachments.  For whatever reason, less than 20% of our actual distance counted.

On the bright side, the park we went to is apparently a nest for Pinsirs.  I had never encountered one before, yet we stumbled on three of them in the first 10 minutes there.
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I have zero faith in the game's ability to accurately track distances.   I know the exact mileage of several landmarks near my house for running/walking purposes.   PokemonGo never gets them right.  Ive seen them as much as 1/2 K off.

 
Sconch said:
I have zero faith in the game's ability to accurately track distances.   I know the exact mileage of several landmarks near my house for running/walking purposes.   PokemonGo never gets them right.  Ive seen them as much as 1/2 K off.
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And with the change in client checkins from every 5s to 10s they essentially killed using bikes and it tracking anything for the eggs.

 
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