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HookShot
Dec 26, 2005

Bobulus posted:

Got the three regionals I needed, so now I'm trying to decide if I should keep farming 7km eggs for future tradables or go back to regular eggs to try and get aerodactyl, which is one of like 3 kanto pokemon I'm missing.

You can always just wait for it to come back to raids, it's one of the easier 3-stars to solo.

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MY PALE GOTH SKIN
Nov 28, 2006


meow

GTJustin posted:

Make sure the go-tcha has everything checked including Pokemon and stops. Just tap the button and cycle through everything.

My favorite go-tcha thing to do is to go to the nearby 2 stop plus gym and turn off locations on my Android phone. Go home and it'll usually spin for another hour 90% of the time for more items. Haven't figured out how to do this on an iPhone yet.

This is genius and I'm gonna try it

Henrik Zetterberg posted:

It seems my Gotcha stopped automatically spinning stops in the past couple days. I just bought it last week, and it worked great until like Saturday or Sunday, and it's refused to spin stops since. I've tried toggling the settings on the Gotcha itself and also in the Gotcha app, but nothing.

The "notifications" in the Pogo app are both checked on.

By "notifications" you mean this, right?



Since Gotchas are knockoff Chinese Fitbits with third party code, sometimes they get weird. Try all of this poo poo, alone or in conbination

Unpairing and re-pairing in Bluetooth

Same but in the game

close the game out completely and run the Gotcha app (this one fixes everything on my phone, for now)

Unpairing the gotcha in the actual gotcha menu (the 5th item when you cycle through, the one that shows C-shaped waves going to a little rectangle meant to repent a phone) (this one use to fix a lot of poo poo on my phone)

Letting the gotcha battery drain dead

If it doesn't start working, just exchange it.

Bobulus
Jan 28, 2007

Oh, hey, a question I keep forgetting to ask: Is there any point to the 'baby' pokemon that got introduced later? Pichu, Cleffa, etc? I know in the main games they can different movesets than the normal form, but in this game, are they of any use other than free candy?

Epi Lepi
Oct 29, 2009

You can hear the voice
Telling you to Love
It's the voice of MK Ultra
And you're doing what it wants

Henrik Zetterberg posted:

Hmm, it seems that it doesn't want to spin stops if there's pokes around with no balls. If I manually spin the stops, and it gets enough balls to catch the pokes around, then it will start spinning stops once they're all gone. That seems to be an awful bug, unless that's oddly intended behavior. It should just spin stops until hit has balls to catch.

If you have both notifications in the PoGo app on it will prioritize catching mons over spinning stops. If you want it to just spin then you need to turn the nearby pokemon alert off in PoGo. In my opinion you always want the auto spin and auto catch on on the gotcha. Turn on and off the notification for nearby pokemon in the PoGo app depending on whether you want to catch mons or spin stops primarily.

NZAmoeba
Feb 14, 2005

It turns out it's MAN!
Hair Elf
WHAT’S NEW
- PokéStop nominations will be available to level 40 players in Brazil and South Korea
- You can now remove Pokémon from your Favorites while in the trade interface
- You can now share an Exclusive Raid Pass with one friend
- You can now swipe to dismiss in-app notifications

- Various bug fixes and performance updates

Game Good

Duckman2008
Jan 6, 2010

TFW you see Flyers goaltending.
Grimey Drawer

NZAmoeba posted:

WHAT’S NEW
- PokéStop nominations will be available to level 40 players in Brazil and South Korea
- You can now remove Pokémon from your Favorites while in the trade interface
- You can now share an Exclusive Raid Pass with one friend
- You can now swipe to dismiss in-app notifications

- Various bug fixes and performance updates

Game Good

Thank god for swipe to dismiss.

DizzyBum
Apr 16, 2007


First batch of 7kms just hatched:

2 Kangaskhan (!!!)
1 Porygon
1 Grimer
1 Vulpix
1 Diglett
1 Sandshrew

I'll take it. :cool:

Got a batch of 8 more cooking now. Just need a single Mr. Mime to finish Kanto!

omnibobb
Dec 3, 2005
Title text'd

omnibobb posted:

First round of eggs sucked. Should hatch the 2nd tonight or tomorrow morning. Only need one Mr. Mime!

7 eggs hatched - 1 diglett, 5 meowth, 1 mr. mime

We did it guys! We caught 'em all.

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal
As expected, Meganiums evolved during community day will have frenzy plant, woo :geno:

DEEP STATE PLOT
Aug 13, 2008

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



at least it's a new shiny :shrug:

now watch me catch a shiny chikorita with really really good ivs since all my other shinies are total junk save for one 14/14/14 jolteon.

FistEnergy
Nov 3, 2000

DAY CREW: WORKING HARD

Fun Shoe
0/6 on my next batch of eggs

but I stumbled across a Fire Chicken raid and I was looking at how pretty it is and all of a sudden 6 spoofers started a raid even though there was no one in sight and so now I have my own crispy chicken and first legendary birb

:waycool:

seiferguy
Jun 9, 2005

FLAWED
INTUITION



Toilet Rascal

DEEP STATE PLOT posted:

at least it's a new shiny :shrug:

now watch me catch a shiny chikorita with really really good ivs since all my other shinies are total junk save for one 14/14/14 jolteon.

Oh yeah I'm still doing it regardless for the shiny but man I wish it was useful.

tangy yet delightful
Sep 13, 2005



Finally got ghost pokemon #10 for the Mew quest. Spawned at my own house too thanks to the new gen 1 spawn event. 25 candies to go for evolving Magikarp and looks like I'll need to hit some Mewtwo raids for the 10 raids. Next month looking good.

dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord
3/3 - 2x Kanga, 1x Farfetch'd.

I had a farfetch'd but cool anyway.

doingitwrong
Jul 27, 2013
My go-tcha occasionally stops spinning stops automatically. No idea why. Sometimes it seems to forget other settings too.

I find that if I plug it back into the computer, use the iPhone app and turn off all the switches wait a sec then turn them back on, it starts behaving again.

Henrik Zetterberg
Dec 7, 2007

Epi Lepi posted:

If you have both notifications in the PoGo app on it will prioritize catching mons over spinning stops. If you want it to just spin then you need to turn the nearby pokemon alert off in PoGo. In my opinion you always want the auto spin and auto catch on on the gotcha. Turn on and off the notification for nearby pokemon in the PoGo app depending on whether you want to catch mons or spin stops primarily.

Ahh, ok this makes sense. I assume the actual notification is what the Gotcha/Go+ use as a signal to do something? And turning off the poke notification means it'll never tell the Gotcha/Go+ that there is one available?

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.
For some reason the game still prioritizes Pokemon over stops even if you have no balls, it's pretty dumb and it effectively prevents you from collecting exactly what you need most at the time.

I usually leave all auto catch and spin features on and only ever change the in-game setting for catching Pokemon. On when I want to harvest trash for dust, Off when I need it to grab balls for me.

Ballz
Dec 16, 2003

it's mario time

So far in the regional hunt, I’ve gotten a Mr. Mime and four (!!!!) Kangas.

I wouldn’t mind a farfetch’d or two since all the ones I caught from that mini event have garbage stats, but this is still good.

MY PALE GOTH SKIN
Nov 28, 2006


meow

Bobulus posted:

Oh, hey, a question I keep forgetting to ask: Is there any point to the 'baby' pokemon that got introduced later? Pichu, Cleffa, etc? I know in the main games they can different movesets than the normal form, but in this game, are they of any use other than free candy?

They can be shiny, and hatching neans they have the base 10 stats. No move differences. Also, if you're a completionist or living dex type, you can't get 'em anywhere else.


Henrik Zetterberg posted:

Ahh, ok this makes sense. I assume the actual notification is what the Gotcha/Go+ use as a signal to do something? And turning off the poke notification means it'll never tell the Gotcha/Go+ that there is one available?

The way you guys are using "notification" is confusing the hell out of me.

It works like this:

"Catch pokemon" box is checked, the game recognizes the plus or gotcha. It alerts when there are Pokemon, does the little pink arrow and notification (ohhh) up top.

Without that box checked, it will not look for pokemon. Same for stops and the stop checkbox.

If you have either box checked, but the Gotcha is set to manual catch, it will alert you to one Pokemon or stop, but never spin or catch unless you tap the static button.

Make sense?

pubic works project
Jan 28, 2005

No Decepticon in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.

Ballz posted:

So far in the regional hunt, I’ve gotten a Mr. Mime and four (!!!!) Kangas.

I wouldn’t mind a farfetch’d or two since all the ones I caught from that mini event have garbage stats, but this is still good.

Yeah I just hatched my second Kanga. Still need that Mime. Also gotta do the Articuno and Zapdos raids.

Beastyfella
Mar 5, 2008

I have lost all powers of reading comprehension and counting ability hours ago
If only someone on here was going to be in South Korea for the Tropius event, we'd be all set.

Henrik Zetterberg
Dec 7, 2007

MY PALE GOTH SKIN posted:

They can be shiny, and hatching neans they have the base 10 stats. No move differences. Also, if you're a completionist or living dex type, you can't get 'em anywhere else.


The way you guys are using "notification" is confusing the hell out of me.

It works like this:

"Catch pokemon" box is checked, the game recognizes the plus or gotcha. It alerts when there are Pokemon, does the little pink arrow and notification (ohhh) up top.

Without that box checked, it will not look for pokemon. Same for stops and the stop checkbox.

If you have either box checked, but the Gotcha is set to manual catch, it will alert you to one Pokemon or stop, but never spin or catch unless you tap the static button.

Make sense?

Yup, makes sense now, thanks!

I’ve gotten nothing but alolan garbage from probably 12 yellow eggs. This event sucks butt.

Why cookie Rocket
Dec 2, 2003

Lemme tell ya 'bout your blood bamboo kid.
It ain't Coca-Cola, it's rice.

Henrik Zetterberg posted:

Yup, makes sense now, thanks!

I’ve gotten nothing but alolan garbage from probably 12 yellow eggs. This event sucks butt.

I didn’t start getting regionals until 21, and I’ve gotten 5 more between 22 and 35. I swear the chance has gone up the more I’ve hatched.

Fake James
Aug 18, 2005

Y'all got any more of that plastic?
Buglord
Hatched a 100% Kanga today :woop:

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
Eggs are until the 20th or 30th? I've read both dates from a few different sources.

TicalStal
Apr 23, 2004
I promised America to the Fuhrer!
Sometimes my gotcha will turn auto spin / catch off so I check it every so often. I also have the ranger version so it stays in my pocket so I wonder if it switches modes because it rubs on my pants

Chekans 3 16
Jan 2, 2012

No Resetti.
No Continues.



Grimey Drawer
Got a Kangaskhan and the only regional I needed: Mr. Mime. Feel like I lucked out on this one. Now just need Mewtwo later this month and that's Kanto done.

Away all Goats
Jul 5, 2005

Goose's rebellion

TicalStal posted:

Sometimes my gotcha will turn auto spin / catch off so I check it every so often. I also have the ranger version so it stays in my pocket so I wonder if it switches modes because it rubs on my pants

Rubbing my pants would definitely get me to switch modes

BGrifter
Mar 16, 2007

Winner of Something Awful PS5 thread's Posting Excellence Award June 2022

Congratulations!
Helllllllllll yes!

Soulex
Apr 1, 2009


Cacati in mano e pigliati a schiaffi!

Gotcha stuff has been clarified and works! Thanks so much!

slicing up eyeballs
Oct 19, 2005

I got me two olives and a couple of limes


Has there been confirmation about when the eggs are decided/rolled for this regional hatch event? Like at gift opening vs receipt? If I get farfetch'd I'm going to make it my buddy and consider the game beaten

Prop Wash
Jun 12, 2010



Yay, 100% Alolan Diglett! And I got it in a trade too :toot:

DEEP STATE PLOT
Aug 13, 2008

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



slicing up eyeballs posted:

Has there been confirmation about when the eggs are decided/rolled for this regional hatch event? Like at gift opening vs receipt? If I get farfetch'd I'm going to make it my buddy and consider the game beaten

it's when you get the egg from the gift, not when you get the gift.

birdstrike
Oct 30, 2008

i;m gay
thanks for the farfetch’d egg bowmore

pubic works project
Jan 28, 2005

No Decepticon in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.
gently caress this poo poo. 4 more eggs hatched. 3 was Alolan trash and then ANOTHER Kanga. I need Mr. Mime dammit.

bowmore
Oct 6, 2008



Lipstick Apathy

Birdstrike posted:

thanks for the farfetch’d egg bowmore
cool beans

dwarf74
Sep 2, 2012



Buglord
Yeah I am at 4/4 regionals so far. But no Mime - 2 kangas, 2 leekbirds

Hamhandler
Aug 9, 2008

[I want to] shit in your fucking mouth. [I'm going to] slap your fucking mouth. [I'm going to] slap your real mother across the face [laughter]. Fuck you, you're still a rookie. I'll kill you.
Do Magikarp come in higher IV versions? I'm getting pretty close to 400 candies and I think the best one that I've collected is one that Calcy IV has narrowed down to like 69-80%.

pubic works project
Jan 28, 2005

No Decepticon in history, and I say this with great surety, has been treated worse or more unfairly.

Catfish Noodlin posted:

Do Magikarp come in higher IV versions? I'm getting pretty close to 400 candies and I think the best one that I've collected is one that Calcy IV has narrowed down to like 69-80%.

I've got a Gyarados that's 87 and a Magikarp that's 86. So yeah.

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mastershakeman
Oct 28, 2008

by vyelkin
Were a lot of you not playing during the farfetchd event last year?

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