Pokemon: GO

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ran into easily 30+ people downtown tonight playing, including a huge group at a park where someone dropped a Lure. took the Raleigh Capitol Building from Team Red with the help of another Blue after it glitched out on us for about 15 minutes, and then a Yellow snatched it by the time I got a block or two away and was wrapping up for the night so I didn't bother walking back. also there's a Gym right behind my apartment (on a jogging/biking trail) that I hadn't gotten to go near yet bc server issues, so a few minutes ago I walked over; some Reds had set up shop with three <100cp Pokemon. so I slapped them down and tossed a Lv500 Pidgeot in there. and then I found a 145cp Squirtle on my way back

this is actually more fun than I was expecting it to be

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No, but most games rent server space from companies like Amazon that rent out their servers when not using them.

funny you should say that

maybe/probably nothing changes but

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"man there's like three Lures downtown but I'm kinda tired after all the walking yesterday, should I walk around for a bit or just Uber home"
*wind kicks up, bending trees, lightning bolts, starts tsunami raining everywhere*
"but there's a Tangela around here somewhere ;_;"

[pedit] yeah, you get one candy per Poke you transfer. even evolved ones only give one candy. and obv 3 for catching. I have 3 Pidgeot and 4 Raticate from the sheer amount of pre-evos I've gotten. At least they're good basic gym fodder for already established gyms.

oh and I don't think it matters if you level up before evolving, because I think the white bar that denotes your CP still stays in that position after evolving (so basically just: the higher initial CP, the less Stardust you spend), but I'm not 100% sure how this works.

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caught a Dratini and a Golduck today, took over two gyms (coulda gotten ~3 more but they keep glitching out on me), hatched an Omanyte, and caught a 330cp Eevee which gave me exactly enough candy to evolve it immediately into a 869cp Vaporeon.

today was a good day.

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marquee

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went downtown for Pokemons and servers went down and stayed down for the entire ~hour I was there

boo

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oh

yeah okay that seems reasonable to fix

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It's rumored that Pokemon Go is releasing in Japan tomorrow. Just a heads up to anyone who was planning any long walks tomorrow, since the servers will probably crash again if it does release.

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Worked for me with Flareon, worked for Reck and Grimm for a few as well

some people on reddit think it either only works once for each Eeveelution, or it's just a much higher chance than a guaranteed thing

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I found a Machop near the local CrossFit.

Also I hope they fix this damn 3 Steps bug soon.

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got home to find an Arcanine in front of my house

and I caught it

and it's 40cp

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It's real easy to gps spoof and get easy Dragonite Snorlax Lapras etc and take over whatever gyms. Not sure exactly how but I'm sure it's easy to find via Google. Luckily no one near me has taken over gyms this way, the ones in downtown Raleigh are hard enough to battle as is.

Also I think if you really wanna min max with Lucky Eggs, you either buy a bunch and use them early for the new Pokemon bonus, or if you don't, then save them til post 20 (as leveling becomes slower AND it becomes harder to catch Pidgey Weedle Caterpie etc). It probably doesn't matter too much, especially if you're in an area with tons of Stops, gyms, Pokemon spawns, etc

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after an afternoon in the blistering heat of downtown Raleigh Sunday, I got myself about ~100k Stardust, over 200k experience, and even hatched a Chansey for 60(!) more candy. evolved my 93iv one, now I just need about ~17 more to max my second Blissey woo.

attempted a Lugia raid with a bunch of other people. no Lugia for me, but I got a Charge TM... really really need Quick ones* but I guess my new ZHeadbutt/HBeam Blissey is a good use for now?

oh btw, the event's extended for ~72 hours.

* 98.7iv Golem with Ground/Rock attacks, 98.7iv TTar with Iron Head/Crunch, two Rhydon with Rock Smash/Stone Edge (91 and 95 ivs I think?), rolled my second Dragonite (93iv) and got Steel Wing/Outrage... sigh.