Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
 
  • Locked thread
Away all Goats
Jul 5, 2005

Goose's rebellion

Psion posted:

I caught a 100IV Aron.

It’s level 1. :negative:

Maybe evolve it and keep it at level 1 the whole time?

I'd still power it up. Stardust is much easier to come by nowadays, and that's not including the star piece or whatever.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

yo5ty
Jun 12, 2007
Yay! Completed 3 trainer Mewtwo yesterday with 48 seconds left on timer. Got lucky with moveset, Psycho Cut/Shadow Ball and we Ttar'd our way to victory.

Didn't get that coveted 100% Mewtwo, but I did get the more dubious (but equally rare) 10/10/10 :v:

Psion
Dec 13, 2002

eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS

Willsun posted:

Seeing like 98% of names showing off IV percentage is going to be boring as hell. If it does become a thing and people know others can see it, then the pool is going to turn more into profanity or promoting Twitter account names and I'd rather Niantic not waste time on policing through word filters or filing through tons of reports of local drama where Pokemon names are calling other players a bitch or something.

"That 3200cp Blissey at the most used gym downtown is named FuckJman5 please ban him he is using golden razzberries to keep it alive"

Yeah, this is why I don't really want to see names. It would be petty local drama immediately and just be completely terrible vs the potential minor gains of goofy stuff like "this is my level 1 aggron" or "wigglytuff4life"

Dr Tran
Dec 17, 2002

HE'S GOT A PH.D. IN
KICKING YOUR ASS!
My local maps show Pokémon nicknames.

My friend has a Dragonite named EatMyAssVgns

She hates the local vegans, so she drops it in their gyms.

Psion
Dec 13, 2002

eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS
I didn't think that information got transmitted at all? Neat that you can get it for a map.

DEEP STATE PLOT
Aug 13, 2008

Yes...Ha ha ha...YES!



i'm rapidly running out of gen 3 pokedex entries still needing to be filled and have moved on to the gen 3 genderdex.

but still have not got a loving unknown yet. christ almighty why did they make this stupid thing so insanely rare.

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Stupid
Bread Liar

Dr Tran posted:

My local maps show Pokémon nicknames.

My friend has a Dragonite named EatMyAssVgns

She hates the local vegans, so she drops it in their gyms.

Also huge own to virgins

Showing Pokemon names is a terrible idea. All of mine are somehow all named BonerHitler420.

Willsun
Dec 9, 2006

I willed too hard again...
Same on Unown. You'd think they'd make it more common if every letter of the alphabet was collectible.

DEEP STATE PLOT
Aug 13, 2008

Yes...Ha ha ha...YES!



Willsun posted:

Same on Unown. You'd think they'd make it more common if every letter of the alphabet was collectible.

the town i live in is unreasonably active for pokemon go, there's about 30 of us who raid daily, another 20 who are more occasional. some girl pays monthly for pokehuntr so that the whole town is always scanned at all times and several of us, sometimes including myself, keep a close eye on pokehuntr to the point where there's eyes on the site nearly 24/7. any time one is spotted it is announced in the facebook group, the facebook chat and discord.

the last time anyone saw an unown in this town was january 6th. before then was some time in august. it's loving ludicrous.

MorningMoon
Dec 29, 2013

He's been tapping into Aunt May's bank account!
Didn't I kill him with a HELICOPTER?

Dr Tran posted:

My local maps show Pokémon nicknames.

My friend has a Dragonite named EatMyAssVgns

She hates the local vegans, so she drops it in their gyms.

Let her now that I assumed that was "Eat my assvaginas" before reading the next sentence.

Robokomodo
Nov 11, 2009

Dr Tran posted:

My local maps show Pokémon nicknames.

My friend has a Dragonite named EatMyAssVgns

She hates the local vegans, so she drops it in their gyms.

Your town’s vegans claimed a local gym? That’s too many vegans.

Avalerion
Oct 19, 2012

Speaking of profanity, about once every month all pokestops in town get lured at the same time, by accounts screwfico1, screwfico2... (Fico is our pm’s name) up to the hundreths. I asume this is spofers doing some kind of nerdy protest?

DeadlyHalibut
May 31, 2008

Avalerion posted:

Speaking of profanity, about once every month all pokestops in town get lured at the same time, by accounts screwfico1, screwfico2... (Fico is our pm’s name) up to the hundreths. I asume this is spofers doing some kind of nerdy protest?

The people who run trackers get tons of free lures on their lowlvl bot accounts and tend to spam them out before they get banned.

I suppose they're not the biggest fan of Fico.

Sanford
Jun 30, 2007

...and rarely post!


I'm the casualist of casual players. You should try harder.

Sanford fucked around with this message at 18:16 on Feb 5, 2018

kensei
Dec 27, 2007

He has come home, where he belongs. The Ancient Mariner returns to lead his first team to glory, forever and ever. Amen!


Sanford posted:

I'm the casualist of casual players. You should try harder.



Holy poo poo. I have only ever seen and caught one. Nice.

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Stupid
Bread Liar
I unknowingly transferred a 0% Eevee and I'm extremely pissed about it.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Sanford posted:

I'm the casualist of casual players. You should try harder.



Hey you guys I caught 12+ unown without even really playing all that much also I've bought a poo poo ton of storage but honestly I barely even load up the app it's boring really which is why I'm such a casual you guys just suck

DeadlyHalibut
May 31, 2008

kensei posted:

Holy poo poo. I have only ever seen and caught one. Nice.

I mean there's one unique and the rest are the "free" ones from europe unown event

Sanford
Jun 30, 2007

...and rarely post!


sebzilla posted:

Hey you guys I caught 12+ unown without even really playing all that much also I've bought a poo poo ton of storage but honestly I barely even load up the app it's boring really which is why I'm such a casual you guys just suck

Yes this is correct.

For some reason when I was in Vienne in France last year, they were everywhere. Six of those uknowns were caught within a relatively small Roman amphitheatre over about half an hour, and the rest over a couple of days. Only ever seen one aside from that.

If you want to get really annoyed, I was in Brno in Czechia last month and happened to notice a raid starting up in a small park right next to our hotel. One raid, one ball, one 90% Kyogre. I don’t normally bother with raids at all.

Sanford fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Feb 5, 2018

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal
Our discord server used to give out notifications when there was a unown in the area, and I caught 12 that way. They stopped doing it, and I stopped caring at that point.

Chairman Mao
Apr 24, 2004

The Chinese Communist Party is the core of leadership of the whole Chinese people. Without this core, the cause of socialism cannot be victorious.
Our discord server gives out notifications when there is an unown in the area. Well, I'm sure it will if we ever get one.

White Light
Dec 19, 2012

DeadlyHalibut posted:

I mean there's one unique and the rest are the "free" ones from europe unown event

Europe has a WHAT now?

Dammit Niantic, stop giving those smelly Europeans the good poo poo already :argh:

DeadlyHalibut
May 31, 2008

Parrotine posted:

Europe has a WHAT now?

Dammit Niantic, stop giving those smelly Europeans the good poo poo already :argh:

It's from last summer or so, I think there was one in Chigago?

Anyway I got 11 different so far, 5 from EUROP(E) event, 4 from SAF(AR)I and 2 legit.

DizzyBum
Apr 16, 2007


I just realized, I'm gonna have to try to look for a new Discord for my area now that I've moved.

There's a single gym in my visible range, so I guess I found my "home gym". Seems to rotate daily between red and blue, so I should have a steady coin stream before long.

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal

Parrotine posted:

Europe has a WHAT now?

Dammit Niantic, stop giving those smelly Europeans the good poo poo already :argh:

That was the consolidation prize for them canceling Go Fest in Europe.

Darth TNT
Sep 20, 2013

Parrotine posted:

Europe has a WHAT now?

Dammit Niantic, stop giving those smelly Europeans the good poo poo already :argh:

I really hope we get new letters this summer. I need a complete alphabet. :)


According to the die hards in my city, we have had 1 confirmed unown spawn in 2 years. It was the W. And I just missed it.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


0/4

Ugh

Chairman Mao
Apr 24, 2004

The Chinese Communist Party is the core of leadership of the whole Chinese people. Without this core, the cause of socialism cannot be victorious.
I think I got to #6 or #7 before I caught a groudon, and articuno evaded my girlfriend for the longest time. 0/4 is not a particularly unusual ratio for legendaries.

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


True. My buddy is 2/3 though including a 98%. Frustrating.

Also I think the game is down for Android users right now. Right as it starts to snow as well.

kensei
Dec 27, 2007

He has come home, where he belongs. The Ancient Mariner returns to lead his first team to glory, forever and ever. Amen!


sebzilla posted:

True. My buddy is 2/3 though including a 98%. Frustrating.

Also I think the game is down for Android users right now. Right as it starts to snow as well.

Seems to be back up now

TVs Ian
Jun 1, 2000

Such graceful, delicate creatures.
Oh hey, just got my first EX raid pass. I recently found one particular park where some local people were trying to trigger one, so I've been hitting it as often as I can. I guess it paid off.

MY PALE GOTH SKIN
Nov 28, 2006


meow
Lots of people apparently getting EX passes at gyms they've never raided at, or raided months and months ago. One friend knows the only time he raises there was 8/18/17, because that's where he got his first perfect legendary, and his only perfect Articuno. So the date is in the game.

I got one for a gym I've hit frequently overall, but not much lately.

Either Niantic hosed up, or they're trying to relight the hype by getting moee passes out.

"You guys learned to trigger gyms, huh? Well gently caress you, we're changing it."

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal
I love it when a good theme gym comes together (even if the crowning achievent is a bit hidden):

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin
people getting passes for places they raided in july, including washington state, wisconsin, Greece!! etc

lol


edit: and getting passes for just a spin - 0xp on the gym badge

Fritzler
Sep 5, 2007


My GF and I both just got an ex raid pass. To a raid in Florida at a gym we only put pokemon in back in September. She is pissed.

edit: if anyone is near Osprey floriday (LOL I'm pretty sure no one is) and would go for us I would be a huge fan.

Fritzler fucked around with this message at 23:37 on Feb 6, 2018

Cowslips Warren
Oct 29, 2005

What use had they for tricks and cunning, living in the enemy's warren and paying his price?

Grimey Drawer
Isn't today Mewtwo's birthday? Why not pull a typical Niantic move and just have him hatch out of all legendary eggs for the day?

sebzilla
Mar 17, 2009

Kid's blasting everything in sight with that new-fangled musket.


Got one for the next town over in a stop I've only ever spun, and that would have been months back. Could make it but having a tough time convincing my partner that it's a good use of a couple of hours on a Sunday when I could be spending time with her and the kid... I don't think I'm getting a Mewtwo this time.

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Stupid
Bread Liar
aaaaaaaaaahahahahhaa god drat this poo poo owns.

kxZyle
Nov 7, 2012

Pillbug
Oh my loving god finally

"New APK Teardown posted:

New Quest Functionality!

Previously, the daily spin / daily catch bonus was called a 'Quest' in the APK.

With this new update, this entire section has been reworked and a lot has been added. The team has done our best to piece together how this metadata might suggest the mechanics work together in the final product - but this is a hypothesis only at this point!

Nevertheless, here's how it appears to work, travelers. We see two types of Quests appearing:

STORY_QUEST; CHALLENGE_QUEST

Which appear to simply be dependent on the mechanics required to complete the objective!

Quests have been expanded from 2 objectives to 10

The previous two objectives were:

QUEST_FIRST_CATCH_OF_THE_DAY; QUEST_FIRST_POKESTOP_OF_THE_DAY

We now see new objectives for:

QUEST_CATCH_POKEMON; QUEST_SPIN_POKESTOP; QUEST_HATCH_EGG; QUEST_WALK_BUDDY; QUEST_FEED_POKEMON; QUEST_WIN_GYM_BATTLE; QUEST_COMPLETE_RAID_BATTLE; QUEST_LEVELUP_BADGE

And excitingly, a new

QUEST_MULTI_PART

Which should lend well to combined objectives.

Quest Attributes

We see the following attributes of quests:

Creation Timestamp; Completion Timestamp; Rewards; Status (Active / Completed); Multipart; Context; Seed; Goal

Quest Characters?

We see new references to Quest characters, firstly Professor Willow!

They also appear to have Character Expressions, though only two so far: UNSET and HAPPY.

Perhaps you must complete the quest to make the NPC happy!

Quest Pre-Conditions

It appears that some quests may be gated behind pre-conditions. The following appear:

QUEST_PRECONDITION_UNSET; QUEST_PRECONDITION_QUEST; QUEST_PRECONDITION_LEVEL; QUEST_PRECONDITION_MEDAL

So we may be required to earn a medal, achieve a certain Trainer Level, or even have completed a different quest before embarking on a new one.

***

Can you believe it, travelers!? We're looking at the beginnings of an in-game quest system that appears to encapsulate all of the mechanics available in Pokemon GO, even incorporates characters who grant them, and pre-conditions that suggest increasing levels of difficulty and progress.

Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

Darth TNT
Sep 20, 2013
Oh man, this ex raid wave is great. :suspense:

People have been getting passes to tiny towns in bumfuck nowhere 200kms away.

  • Locked thread