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Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Turns out the highest mountain in the British Isles has both a pokestop and a gym at the top of it. Of course I took over the gym.

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Froist
Jun 6, 2004

Noxville posted:

Turns out the highest mountain in the British Isles has both a pokestop and a gym at the top of it. Of course I took over the gym.

I was on holiday in France last week and found a gym up a mountain that had been held for 375 days straight. Of course that was prime time to have connectivity issues, and then the iOS bug that required reinstalling the game. So he’s still holding that drat gym :(

DizzyBum
Apr 16, 2007


Speaking of EX raids, our local group had a strange bug happen on the gym we were targeting for passes this past week. We had over 30 accounts that had raided there so we were almost guaranteed to get passes on Saturday... but then on Friday, someone reported that a level 1 raid egg on that gym hatched into nothing. When they clicked on the gym, they got a message stating that the gym was closed for an EX raid and would reopen shortly. We know there couldn't have been an actual EX raid; we tried to trigger that gym the week prior and got clock-blocked by a raid at the last minute so nobody got passes. Now there hasn't been a single raid at the gym since that bugged raid appeared. Then EX passes went out on Saturday and we didn't get any, so we're pretty sure the gym bugged out and wiped everyone's progress.

So now we've gotten screwed on Mewtwos three weeks in a row thanks to weird game bugs (two clock-blocks and this empty EX raid). Most of us already have Mewtwos, but it's just frustrating trying to trigger more raids for our newer players only to keep getting shut out by glitches.

Noxville
Dec 7, 2003

Froist posted:

I was on holiday in France last week and found a gym up a mountain that had been held for 375 days straight. Of course that was prime time to have connectivity issues, and then the iOS bug that required reinstalling the game. So he’s still holding that drat gym :(

This one has clearly been held less than a couple of days since the sole thing in it was a shiny wingull. I headed off after 15 minutes and by that point two other people had put stuff in already. It is a well-trafficked peak.

tangy yet delightful
Sep 13, 2005



Duckman2008 posted:

This reminds me: to the nice Nashville goon who was holding a Mr. Mime for me, I sadly probably won’t be by Nashville for a year or so. So trade away.

That's a 10-4 good buddy.

Siets
Sep 19, 2006

by FactsAreUseless
A park in a neighboring suburb showed up on the Silph Road Global Atlas as a verified charmander nest at the turn of the last migration. Wife and I made a few trips to said park and pinap’d everything we could. This was my result:



Extremely good IVs and the best moveset he can get. Won’t require much dust to max out either. Crossed an item off my Pokemon Go bucket list with this one. :keke:

tangy yet delightful
Sep 13, 2005



Very nice Charizard. I haven't sought out any nests but I just checked and I'm at 2735 caught pokemon and I just saw my second Charmander today and caught it for the first time. Already caught a Charmeleon a while back and recently traded for a Charizard but the little guy had eluded me until today.

bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy

The New York Times posted:

Next time I find a Tauros I’ll use a new trading account, then hopefully one of you will take it and replace it with a nice Kangaskhan :getin:
I could do this

Valicious
Aug 16, 2010
I didn’t get a shiny wingull, not for lack of trying though. I did get my first Entei this morning though. 91% with best moveset.

Psion
Dec 13, 2002

eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS

Valicious posted:

I didn’t get a shiny wingull, not for lack of trying though. I did get my first Entei this morning though. 91% with best moveset.

I felt moderately bad when I pulled two shiny wingulls in a row at the same intersection walking with someone who's gone zero for however many. not bad enough to stay silent about it though I guess :v:

LionArcher
Mar 29, 2010


Finished my original 151. Thank god for local trainers that have a ton of money and travel a lot. And also other players who are spoofers to just get regionals for the rest of the local scene. :rms:

Froist
Jun 6, 2004

The New York Times posted:

Next time I find a Tauros I’ll use a new trading account, then hopefully one of you will take it and replace it with a nice Kangaskhan :getin:

I realised the reason this isn’t a bigger thing: the throwaway account still needs to have 20k stardust per trade (unless you friend it a month in advance) to trade away a new dex entry, which turns into a fair bit of grinding for an account you don’t care about.

Vegastar
Jan 2, 2005

Tigers will do anything for a tuna sandwich.


Froist posted:

I realised the reason this isn’t a bigger thing: the throwaway account still needs to have 20k stardust per trade (unless you friend it a month in advance) to trade away a new dex entry, which turns into a fair bit of grinding for an account you don’t care about.

That just means the time is now, with triple dust running this week.

I'll gladly make a handful of burner accounts and pre load them with dust and tauros to exchange for kanga, trophius and relicanth.

FistEnergy
Nov 3, 2000

DAY CREW: WORKING HARD

Fun Shoe
I never see Charmanders anywhere, ever. I'm still sitting on 20 total candy with an annoying gap in my Dex.

Grizzled Patriarch
Mar 27, 2014

These dentures won't stop me from tearing out jugulars in Thunderdome.



Same but Totodiles.

tangy yet delightful
Sep 13, 2005



Remember folks that each Pokemon can only be traded once across all accounts. So a new account catching one regional and trading for another will just end up with a trade locked regional on it. Your main account will never see it and will die alone and unloved.

Butterfly Valley
Apr 19, 2007

I am a spectacularly bad poster and everyone in the Schadenfreude thread hates my guts.

tangy yet delightful posted:

Remember folks that each Pokemon can only be traded once across all accounts. So a new account catching one regional and trading for another will just end up with a trade locked regional on it. Your main account will never see it and will die alone and unloved.

That's not what they were suggesting. For example the account would be operated by someone in the USA for a while and catch a bunch of Tauros, then the log in details passed over to some Europeans who would trade themselves the Tauroses but also catch Mr Mimes, and so on and on until everyone has everything.

It's a smart idea but would take a lot of stardust grinding and also for me if you're doing all that you might as well just spoof yourself round the world.

mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin

Siets posted:

A park in a neighboring suburb showed up on the Silph Road Global Atlas as a verified charmander nest at the turn of the last migration. Wife and I made a few trips to said park and pinap’d everything we could. This was my result:



Extremely good IVs and the best moveset he can get. Won’t require much dust to max out either. Crossed an item off my Pokemon Go bucket list with this one. :keke:

Hell yeah dude. Silph road nests are fantastic and the best way to spend time in the game

Grizzled Patriarch
Mar 27, 2014

These dentures won't stop me from tearing out jugulars in Thunderdome.



Wouldn't that strategy also require having a spare smartphone laying around?

edit: or a friend I guess to log in but lets be real here

Emalde
May 3, 2007

Just a cage of bones, there's nothing inside.

Butterfly Valley posted:

if you're doing all that you might as well just spoof yourself round the world.

Spoofing still requires some wildly specific setting up which is potentially more work, especially in the US (read: carrier phones) :v:

Butterfly Valley
Apr 19, 2007

I am a spectacularly bad poster and everyone in the Schadenfreude thread hates my guts.

Grizzled Patriarch posted:

Wouldn't that strategy also require having a spare smartphone laying around?

edit: or a friend I guess to log in but lets be real here

If you're motivated enough to post about this game on an internet forum I'm sure you could rustle up a spare phone or tablet for purposes like these :v:

PathAsc
Nov 15, 2011

Hail SS-18 Satan may he cleanse us with nuclear fire

PISS TAPE IS REAL

Just lol if you haven't given a tweaker a sad handy for his burner phone to put an alt account on it

Louisgod
Sep 25, 2003

Always Stupid
Bread Liar

PathAsc posted:

Just lol if you haven't given a tweaker a sad handy for his burner phone to put an alt account on it

Not only did they give me the phone but they gave me their alt account as a tip

PathAsc
Nov 15, 2011

Hail SS-18 Satan may he cleanse us with nuclear fire

PISS TAPE IS REAL

Louisgod posted:

Not only did they give me the phone but they gave me their alt account as a tip

Must be west coast, the Midwest ones are pissed they lost the crown back in 2010 of Highest Use Area

Big McHuge
Feb 5, 2014

You wait for the war to happen like vultures.
If you want to help, prevent the war.
Don't save the remnants.

Save them all.
If anyone is in the Southeast Michigan area, I have mimes, volbeats, zangeese, and sol-rocks up for trade.

OgreNoah
Nov 18, 2003

Are you in the A2Ypsi Discord? It's a pretty good local discord. I've already got those, but I'm sure other people in there want them for stuff.

Big McHuge
Feb 5, 2014

You wait for the war to happen like vultures.
If you want to help, prevent the war.
Don't save the remnants.

Save them all.

OgreNoah posted:

Are you in the A2Ypsi Discord? It's a pretty good local discord. I've already got those, but I'm sure other people in there want them for stuff.

I suppose I should join it, I'm not usually around that area though. The Farmington discord is pretty decent though.

bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy
they should bring out a berry that increases catch dust

Edward Mass
Sep 14, 2011

𝅘𝅥𝅮 I wanna go home with the armadillo
Good country music from Amarillo and Abilene
Friendliest people and the prettiest women you've ever seen
𝅘𝅥𝅮

bowmore posted:

they should bring out a berry that increases catch dust

They have Stardust.

Bobulus
Jan 28, 2007

Got Celebi today. But it forced AR mode and my phone was near useless. Closed everything else, and was still getting such a low framerate that I couldn't throw the ball nine times out of ten. Took ten minutes of waiting for Celeb to move close and then basically dropping the ball on it to catch.

Is my phone just a piece of poo poo, or is this a known bug? Are there any other special Pokemon that force AR? I got my first ex raid pass and now I'm worried mewtoo will be like that...

Away all Goats
Jul 5, 2005

Goose's rebellion

Bobulus posted:

Got Celebi today. But it forced AR mode and my phone was near useless. Closed everything else, and was still getting such a low framerate that I couldn't throw the ball nine times out of ten. Took ten minutes of waiting for Celeb to move close and then basically dropping the ball on it to catch.

Is my phone just a piece of poo poo, or is this a known bug? Are there any other special Pokemon that force AR? I got my first ex raid pass and now I'm worried mewtoo will be like that...

I think only the mythical pokemon force AR mode, so Mew and Celebi. Is there another device you could try catching it on?

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.
It's just mythical Pokemon, try closing the app and revoking it's camera permissions, don't accept when it asks for them back. If anything AR mode depends on fails it'll fall back to the regular no-camera catch screen.

Psion
Dec 13, 2002

eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS
Mewtwo, specifically, does not require AR so you're fine on that.

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!


Got my Celebi today, so now what? Any rumor on the next Mythical quest?

slave to my cravings
Mar 1, 2007

Got my mind on doritos and doritos on my mind.
Gonna be like 6 months before a new mythical quest line

Rich Uncle Chet
Jan 20, 2005


The Law? Law is a Human Institution.


The first wave of Gen 4 will probably come out before we get the next quest

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!


I was afraid of that

Willsun
Dec 9, 2006

I willed too hard again...
Jirachi should be the next mythical and it's gen 3 too. Mew was introduced in March, Celebi in August, so see you next year.

Cory Lidle
Oct 12, 2006
PVP needs to be launched with zero to minimal bugs, so I don't want to see goofy stuff like mythical pokemon until they've knocked that completely out of the park.

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Prop Wash
Jun 12, 2010



I hope the Lake Triplets end up as special research. Raiding for them does not sound fun.

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