Pokemon: GO

[Cabd]

Bars are starting to give discounts based on which team owns the bar.


Also Nintendo stock price hit the 25% growth maximum and got trading shut down this morning.


Fucking INSANE. Something like 7 billion dollars in the past four days of growth.

[SleepyKrew]

I'm sure at least for the first year that they'll keep people hooked with new content, such as legendaries/mythicals or pokemon from other regions, etc

[zoraster]

What's the highest CP pokemon everyone's seen? This guy is in the gym next to me:

[Quilford]

Jesus christ on a stick. How can you even have the time?

[zoraster]

I have no idea!

[zoraster]

That same gym has a Snorlax that's 1388, so it's not just him.

[Rhinox]

And here I was thinking the CP75 Tauros I caught must be something special because its in the last slot in my pokedex...

[Sudo_Nym]

Anyone found Mewtwo yet?

[Cabd]

It's really easy to grind levels. Just catch a shitton of weedle/caterpie/pidgey; pop a lucky egg, then evolve a shitton of them in one go; you get 1k experience per evolution with the egg active. You can gain like 3-4 levels in one go.

[Psyche]

evolved a vaporeon last night that was ~1200

[zoraster]

I'm really hoping a pokemon go wiki comes out soon.

[Sudo_Nym]

Came to work today to find a gym had been added in front of my office. The engineering nerds I work with immediately took it over.

[Rhinox]

So there is one pokestop in my neighborhood that is pretty close by so that's nice. There are 2 near my work but sadly not within range of my desk (actually I need to leave the building to get to either). And no Gyms nearby either place which kinda sucks. Not sure what I'm supposed to do about that :/

[Fenchurch]

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From what I understand you can co-operate with someone from your team in a gym battle by fighting at the same time. Supposedly the enemy pokes take damage in real-time. Haven't had a chance to try this out as a lot of the locals are either Mystic or Insight, and I'm Valor.

I don't think this is true... we've attacked a few enemy gyms together and once one person enters battle, it locks anyone else out of the gym until the battle is complete. There isn't any option I've seen for other trainers to join in either before or during.

The one thing you can do with multiple players is take turns; since you generally have to do multiple battles with the gym in order to take it over.

Also, once a player claims a gym, it can immediately hold up to 3 pokemon, even without training to raise the prestige. So one thing you could do if you want some pokecoins but can't battle gyms yourself, is look for a gym that your team controls with less than three pokes, and add to it.

[Psyche]

i dont think that's quite true
ive been to plenty of gyms with a max capacity of 2 or even 1

[implosion]

i dont think that's quite true
ive been to plenty of gyms with a max capacity of 2 or even 1

I thought the default max capacity was 2.

My impression was that gyms at level 1 were the result of people attacking the level-2 gym somewhat but not being able to defeat the strongest poke there.

[Psyche]

maybe, but that's certainly a thing that happens

[Fenchurch]

i dont think that's quite true
ive been to plenty of gyms with a max capacity of 2 or even 1

Are you sure that's the max capacity? I've seen plenty of Level 2 gyms but never a Level 1. Maybe if the prestige has been lowered through a battle, but not wiped out completely? Not sure if that's possible, though.

My experience based on taking over gyms and viewing the gyms around me is this:
As soon as 1st pokemon is placed - Gym Level 2, Prestige 2000/4000
As soon as 2nd pokemon placed - Gym Level 3, prestige 4000/8000
As soon as 3rd pokemon placed - Gym Level 3, prestige 6000/8000
Then:
Prestige must be raised to 8000 by training, to place a 4th pokemon
Prestige must be raised to 12000 by training, to place a 5th pokemon

I've never seen a gym higher than level 5, but I'm guessing level 6 might be the max.

[Psyche]

i've made a gym lvl6 before
not sure what'll happen if it reached 7

[implosion]

I saw a level 8 gym at one point.

I think I read that 10 is the max.

[Psyche]

it had 8 different pokemon to defeat??

[zoraster]

There's a level 7 gym near me, but its pokemon are more reasonable than the ones really near me that are only level 3 or 4. In fact, there's probably something about low level gyms being harder to level if you make is so hard to add prestige.

[Psyche]

gyms here fall really quickly
i had six gyms last night and right now have none
i tend to try timing my gym captures late at night near my 'claim' time so that i can actually profit
even though they're being taken from the the gyms remain pretty easy for me to take down
#TeamMysticForever

[Brandi]

Highest I've seen is around 3000 CP I think. Some people are doing some crazy leveling with what cabd stated earlier.

[Psyche]

yeah that definitely works