I turned off the "AR" catching long time ago. Catching Pokemons without AR is much easier.
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New 'Pokemon Go' Update Adds Driving Warning, Changes 'Nearby' Into 'Sightings'
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I turned off the "AR" catching long time ago. Catching Pokemons without AR is much easier.
There is another aspect. This game does not reward players enough. Gym is too hard to defend (I have never met one who could keep their mon for 21 hours), fighting gives so little reward, medals are absolutely useless (whats the point? ), eggs are not that easy to hatch (who keeps the app on every time they walk?), very little pokemon sitings in smaller cities...way too many rats and pidgies (i once had five rats appearing at the same time!), poor and rather convoluted interaction mechanism with other players online and i could go on and on and on... loved this game. but i lost interest and i know many around me has already ditched it. this got to be the biggest ef up in game industry if they cant turn this around. for the award and social interaction, they could learn a thing or two from clash of clans and could easily crush them. shame this game had a wonderful wonderful idea!
This. I dont even understand why people care about those fights and WP of their Pokemon so much. Its pointless in its current form. I never held a Gym for more than 5 minutes. I gabe up on those fights and simply want to fill my Pokedex
This is also my problem now. I got 98 Pokemon and I am mostly missing 3rd evolutions which is a PAIN IN THE ASS and no fun at all
New tracking system is still pants in rural areas because there simply aren't enough pokemon spawning. I understand the logic behind the algorithms taking into account population densities etc but virtually the whole of the South West of the UK is classed as rural! The hot/cold system (paws) in the original version worked a lot better. A guy above posted complaining that 5 rattatas appeared at once. When pokevision was active and I scanned where I live there were barely 5 rattatas in the whole town!
I don't play it... but I know from my sister that is possibile to search Pokemons without looking the phone, it will warn you with a vibration.
Remote gyms are easy. Friday night, I took over 5 gyms. By Saturday night, I still had two of them. On Sunday when the shop counter hit "collection time," I still had one. They were two that were "off the beaten path." Where the gym in the 'town square' in downtown I couldn't even hold for more than 10 minutes. It also helps if you have a group on the same team making a concerted effort to take a gym, then immediately train it up a few levels and reinforce it. There are two gyms right next to each other about a mile from my house (a church and the bus stop next to it.). There is obviously a group of "yellow team" players who live nearby and reinforce it en masse. Both are always level 9, full. I have never seen them anything except level 9 yellow.
Taking 5 gyms mean spending over 1 hour. I have seen students (i live in a small uni centric city in uk) cycling from one gym to another to put troops. It is not really helpful for casual gamers who will, after a difficult office day, go out and find gyms
I see that you can team up with friends. But that again, will be limited to only kids and teenagers. If they cant cater for everyone, pokemon is going to struggle.
Well, if they are going to be spying in me no matter what, at least let me get some enjoyment out of it.
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Bats are easy if you spin the ball. Or maybe I had a lot of practice since they always pop up around me.Except for when trying to catch the bats
The user base of any app will fluctuate. Pokemon Go has had a lot of ups and downs and changes in its short life. The app is already the most popular app on the planet.
There is only so much to do with the app and certain areas (cities/towns) are wastelands that would make this a very boring game. My grandmother lives in a small town where the app is only slightly popular in its historic downtown area (5 city blocks).
Me and my family still play. although the daily traffic of players has slowed down, the weekends are always packed with players. Even on the slow days I'll find plenty of lures laid about.
I don't think this game is anywhere near over its fad. With Niantic frantically working on improvements, it's likely to have another boost at some point. Where players come back and new players are added because of updates.
People upset about the tracking should chill out. If you're not the one implementing how this game works and you don't want to work for the developer, the **** and live with it. Or quit the game and forget it. It's just a game and not that important. I might be more upset if I cared about Gym battles, but I don't do many battles. Mostly because the Gyms, once taken over by high level players, are no longer worth any time for lower level players. Low level players have to either work their way up (time, time, time) or find a Gym that hasn't been taken over by high level trainers (good luck!).
There is only so much to do with the app and certain areas (cities/towns) are wastelands that would make this a very boring game. My grandmother lives in a small town where the app is only slightly popular in its historic downtown area (5 city blocks).
Me and my family still play. although the daily traffic of players has slowed down, the weekends are always packed with players. Even on the slow days I'll find plenty of lures laid about.
I don't think this game is anywhere near over its fad. With Niantic frantically working on improvements, it's likely to have another boost at some point. Where players come back and new players are added because of updates.
People upset about the tracking should chill out. If you're not the one implementing how this game works and you don't want to work for the developer, the **** and live with it. Or quit the game and forget it. It's just a game and not that important. I might be more upset if I cared about Gym battles, but I don't do many battles. Mostly because the Gyms, once taken over by high level players, are no longer worth any time for lower level players. Low level players have to either work their way up (time, time, time) or find a Gym that hasn't been taken over by high level trainers (good luck!).
Nope, plenty of players of all ages started day one.
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Yep. In totally unrelated news, Apple is DOOOOOMED!!1!
Millions of other people like something, but they don't, so clearly it's pretty much circling the drain, totally about to die.
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There's clearly a button in that picture that says "I'm a passenger", just like Waze and other navigation apps.
In copying data from Wilipedia, you seem to have glossed over this bit about Keyhole: "Defunct 2004". You're using present tense, but Keyhole no longer exists. Google picked up Keyhole for mapping technology, which they made substantial use of. Some of the former employees of Keyhole, at Google, spun up Niantic to do Ingress, their game before Pokémon Go. All the all the Ingress players figured Google was collecting location data, since there weren't even any IAPs for the first couple years (not location in terms of where citizen X is located - they've already got that because you carry a cellphone - but, at a minimum, all the landmark/location data for Ingress portals, which have now become PokéStops and Gyms, or, at the evil genius end of the scale, if you overlay all the paths taken by every player playing the game, you could do a detailed map of the entire world showing how easy/hard it is to pass through any arbitrary area - what paths people primarily choose to take through the area - making your overall map data that much more valuable to well-funded agencies). And, it turns out, Niantic collected all that data and with it were able to sell Nintendo(?) on the idea of a real-world location-based game, that does have a good method for collecting boatloads of money. They're clearly good at playing the long game.
Indeed, you're using a network designed and built by DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), in order to keep communications between military bases up and running during a nuclear war, when parts of the network would have been destroyed and the system would need to automatically route around the damage. So you better shut off your laptop, desktop, tablet and phone right now and never use them again. Your phone, and possibly your car, are getting your location using GPS, a system built by the military, for the military, to allow troops, vehicles, and planes to be able to navigate accurately anywhere in the world. Better not drive any more.
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Actually, it's was quite purposefully "vague". If it said, "turn 35 degrees right and walk 40 meters forward, and a 250 CP Pikachu will appear directly in front of you", it'd take most of the adventure out of the game. And difficult-to-understand is relative, depending on how well people can work out how to use the data. The game didn't give much insight on how to best use the information. It remains to be seen how the replacement works, once they finish implementing it.
Anyone else note that the article says, tapping on a singular Pokémon does focus on just one? Should say doesn't.
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You're right, it's been over six months since the last update - oh wait, the game has only been out 35 days and has had six updates. Patience. It'll get better.
Okay. And? Those augmented reality features of the game were advertised from the very beginning.
So, just to be clear, you know that you don't need to hold a gym for more than a few seconds to collect the bonus, right? The timer is 3 hours less than a day so that you can go out the next day and do it all over again. Plan it a bit, wait until your timer is clear, then grab one or several gyms and immediately collect your bonus. Gyms in my area tend to turn over anywhere between every minute and every hour, but I still manage to get a one, or sometimes two, gym defender bonus every night (I go for a walk every night, and have been playing PoGo along the way - the walk is the goal, PoGo is the in-flight entertainment).
Yeah, I know, I was just commenting that without going back out, I held a gym when the counter hit '0' again (21 hours later) so I could collect from 2 of the 5 I had placed the day before. And 1 of those held for ANOTHER 21 hours.
It sounds like most other reasons than actual security reasons are really often behind things like that.
A bit sad that it was necessary to add such a warning to the game, but for liability reasons I can see why. Distracted driving is too prevalent now and in my 2 miles commute I almost always see someone using their phone while driving (and not actually on the telephone).