Pokemon GO: Hoenn the hell still plays this game?

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Mustached Demon: Nov 12, 2016

Away all Goats posted:

I restart the game at least twice a day because the network stopped responding and all the buttons disappeared, most commonly when trying to load a gym

Servers been making GBS threads itself all drat day.

# ? Jul 13, 2018 02:29

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JUST MAKING CHILI: Feb 14, 2008

Couldn�t take this gym down, it was too cool.

# ? Jul 13, 2018 02:44

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.

JUST MAKING CHILI posted:

Couldn’t take this gym down, it was too cool.

That gym is cooler than I will ever be.

# ? Jul 13, 2018 02:48

Pez: Feb 28, 2002; Thanks to CoX, my stairs will be protected forever!

That gym is amazing. But speaking of connection issues every time I try to claim research that results in an encounter my game locks up and I have to restart

# ? Jul 13, 2018 02:50

slave to my cravings: Mar 1, 2007; Got my mind on doritos and doritos on my mind.

Kinda disappointed a Rhydon wasn�t in there

# ? Jul 13, 2018 02:53

Fly with me: Aug 19, 2006; Single-handedly repopulating the Earth.

https://twitter.com/PokemonGoApp/status/1017604553645142018
Niantic thought they could sneak it by us.

# ? Jul 13, 2018 04:15

Kheldarn: Feb 17, 2011

New thread title: Pok�mon GO: I Sinnoh What You Did Last Summer

# ? Jul 13, 2018 04:21

Crosspeice: Aug 9, 2013

It's a Sinnoh one plays this game.

# ? Jul 13, 2018 04:32

Beachcomber: May 21, 2007; Another day in paradise.; Slippery Tilde

Fly with me posted:

https://twitter.com/PokemonGoApp/status/1017604553645142018
Niantic thought they could sneak it by us.

They also tried to pull a Switch on us.

I knew Absol deserved all the cuddles.

# ? Jul 13, 2018 04:35

CROWS EVERYWHERE: Dec 17, 2012; CAW CAW CAW; Dinosaur Gum

Fly with me posted:

https://twitter.com/PokemonGoApp/status/1017604553645142018
Niantic thought they could sneak it by us.

Blanche, pondering deeply: what is egg? we just don't know

# ? Jul 13, 2018 04:47

Edward Mass: Sep 14, 2011; 𝅘𝅥𝅮 I wanna go home with the armadillo
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Pok�mon GO: Finding a Castform in the Sinnoh is a bitch

# ? Jul 13, 2018 05:05

bowmore: Oct 6, 2008; Lipstick Apathy

Should I be just dusting all these pokemon I catch (apart from Pidgee) until I find one that is worth evolving?

# ? Jul 13, 2018 06:12

bobjr: Oct 16, 2012; Roose is loose.
🐓🐓🐓✊🪧

I can't tell if that Shroomish is having fun or if that's just a thing that Shroomish just look annoyed all the time.

# ? Jul 13, 2018 06:26

Psion: Dec 13, 2002; eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS

bobjr posted:

I can't tell if that Shroomish is having fun or if that's just a thing that Shroomish just look annoyed all the time.

that second one

shroomish own

# ? Jul 13, 2018 06:28

Beachcomber: May 21, 2007; Another day in paradise.; Slippery Tilde

Psion posted:

that second one

shroomish own

Breloom makes up for it.

# ? Jul 13, 2018 06:37

Furnaceface: Oct 21, 2004

Beachcomber posted:

Breloom makes up for it.

My neighbours house is currently a Shroomish nest. I am extremely happy right now.

# ? Jul 13, 2018 06:41

Dirt Road Junglist: Oct 8, 2010; We will be cruel
And through our cruelty
They will know who we are

If I were to tag myself, I'm definitely that Shroomish, grumping in the shade.

I caught a wild Breloom the other day and, despite hating mushrooms IRL, I love my big weird fungal goat-son.

# ? Jul 13, 2018 07:19

Beachcomber: May 21, 2007; Another day in paradise.; Slippery Tilde

Before everything was online I remember being super surprised that my megadrain friend could suddenly learn mach punch.

# ? Jul 13, 2018 07:24

pod6isjerks: Feb 17, 2005; Nap Ghost

Two of my research tasks award a Dratini for 'Win a level 3 or higher raid' and the other one awards a Dratini for 'Catch a Dragon-type Pokemon" which I can get from the other two research tasks.

I just need to find an Aerodactyl (or Machamp) to solo! Not having a group to raid with is tough.

# ? Jul 13, 2018 07:45

DeadlyHalibut: May 31, 2008

doingitwrong posted:

I�m sure this is something you Go veterans have already come to terms with but:

For a game made by a company whose whole deal is location aware networked apps, this softhware is incredibly janky. It sometimes struggles to stay connected which, ok, fine this is a normal thing that phones deal with, but the game just hangs while waiting to hear from the network. So if you tap on a costume option in a low connection environment, it starts to load the asset but if it can�t pull it down, the game just sits on a screen with no buttons or way to cancel out until it finished loading the model.

And it seems like similar things happen when I�m walking around with spinning stops and a few other things.

Who makes a mobile game that becomes unresponsive when the network gets weak?

At least the part where it absolutely requires gps location is fairly new and done for anti-cheat purposes. Earlier you could do some exploits by toggling the location services and/or airplane mode on and off at certain points (for example the powerup pokemon past the level cap exploit).

Now the game just locks down until it gets the connection back.

It's still fairly horribly done but hey.

# ? Jul 13, 2018 08:17

Bear Retrieval Unit: Nov 5, 2009; Mudslide Experiment

JUST MAKING CHILI posted:

Couldn�t take this gym down, it was too cool.

No Rhydon 9/10

# ? Jul 13, 2018 09:35

Zombie Dachshund: Feb 26, 2016

Bear Retrieval Unit posted:

No Rhydon 9/10

A rhydon with shades would be just impossibly cool; it would break the game

# ? Jul 13, 2018 10:47

LumpyGumby: Feb 22, 2012; "Here's the world famous hockey player sitting in the penalty box for slashing..."
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106gp - 317PIMS

I set up an Alolan themed gym, someone has a longboi executer in there, so I threw in Muk. Someone else threw in aSandslash, a Vulpix, and a Raticate.

The last one was a Slaking.

# ? Jul 13, 2018 14:24

oddium: Feb 21, 2006; end of the 4.5 tatami age

LumpyGumby posted:

I set up an Alolan themed gym, someone has a longboi executer in there, so I threw in Muk. Someone else threw in aSandslash, a Vulpix, and a Raticate.

The last one was a Slaking.

braddah iz..... rest in peace .....

# ? Jul 13, 2018 14:40

CROWS EVERYWHERE: Dec 17, 2012; CAW CAW CAW; Dinosaur Gum

Every gym should have a L O N G E G G in it imho

# ? Jul 13, 2018 15:00

JUST MAKING CHILI: Feb 14, 2008

Dirt Road Junglist posted:

If I were to tag myself, I'm definitely that Shroomish, grumping in the shade.

I caught a wild Breloom the other day and, despite hating mushrooms IRL, I love my big weird fungal goat-son.

When I caught my first Breloom MY WIFE said "does that goat have boobs?"

# ? Jul 13, 2018 15:09

Bobby Cox: Nov 3, 2006; College Slice

JUST MAKING CHILI posted:

gym's a cop

# ? Jul 13, 2018 15:42

Rich Uncle Chet: Jan 20, 2005; The Law? Law is a Human Institution.

They're going to eventually need to release a few more pokemon with shades

# ? Jul 13, 2018 15:44

seiferguy: Jun 9, 2005; FLAWED
INTUITION; Toilet Rascal

Natu and Aipom trying to be cool.

They will never be cool.

# ? Jul 13, 2018 16:37

seiferguy: Jun 9, 2005; FLAWED
INTUITION; Toilet Rascal

Double post but someone said they found alolan geodude out in the wild. I didn't even catch one of those in Sun because of its goddamn self destruct.

# ? Jul 13, 2018 16:44

Crosspeice: Aug 9, 2013

The Go Fest spawns start at midnight in your area (America/Europe/Asia), so don't go exploring just yet until it's the 14th. Timezones!

# ? Jul 13, 2018 16:54

OneMoreTime: Feb 20, 2011; *quack*

Rich Uncle Chet posted:

They're going to eventually need to release a few more pokemon with shades

Dat goddamn Wooper

# ? Jul 13, 2018 17:05

Dirt Road Junglist: Oct 8, 2010; We will be cruel
And through our cruelty
They will know who we are

DeadlyHalibut posted:

At least the part where it absolutely requires gps location is fairly new and done for anti-cheat purposes. Earlier you could do some exploits by toggling the location services and/or airplane mode on and off at certain points (for example the powerup pokemon past the level cap exploit).

Now the game just locks down until it gets the connection back.

It's still fairly horribly done but hey.

The worst is when my phone thinks it found a good wifi access point, tries to connect, decides it can't because it's not actually a good WAP, and the game sits and spins while the phone works through its issues. And since it's iOS, turning off wifi makes it whine at me. I did at least figure out that I have to leave the Xfinity generic connection off or it'll constantly gently caress with my PoGoing.

...why do I suddenly want a Sudowoodo with shades?

# ? Jul 13, 2018 17:25