Pokemon GO! Pokemon GO! GO Pokemon, GO!!!

[Maple Leafs]

Originally Posted by Warhammer

It's the same as any game. Why replay Civilization 50 times? Why play any MOBA more than once?

No, I get that, but Civilization builds toward an ending. I don't know what MOBA is, but you can play Skyrim for 100 hours and it's going to keep throwing new stuff at you. This game seems to reach a point fairly early on where it's just the same thing over and over, with bigger gaps between levels.

I was just wondering if I was missing something.

[Honolulu_Blue]

I am late to this game.

My girlfriend and her kids love it, so I decided to join them.

I work in this large complex (the Renassiance Center) that has a hotel, office buildings, restaurants, shops, a gym, etc, etc.

It's probably the best Poke hunting place in Detroit.

I started playing yesterday morning and in one day I caught 363 pokemon. Hit 203 pokestops. Caught 70 unique pokemon and hit 14th level.

Apparently, the building is some kind of spawning ground for Voltords and magnetmites, because they are everywhere. Lots of electric and water types, which makes sense given the location.

That's primarily from just sitting at my desk and keeping an eye on things.

We had dinner here last night and walked around inside the building. This place is usually desolate at night, but there were a fair number of people, 95% of which were playing the game.

I'm really amazed at just how diverse the player base for this game is.

[Thomkal]

363? That's a crazy number. And you have too much time on your hands

[Edward64]

I'm at level 15. Tauros with 700 cp is the biggest I've caught so far. I've also got a Flareon I evolved to 1085.

Haven't done the gyn/training thing yet. Just started experimenting on hatching eggs.

[Honolulu_Blue]

Originally Posted by Thomkal

363? That's a crazy number. And you have too much time on your hands

Heh!

Yes. I will admit that yesterday was not my most productive day workwise.

[JonInMiddleGA]

In one day, you essentially matched my career production in the game.

[murrayyyyy]

So is anyone still playing? They dropped about 80 new characters yesterday so it looks like I'll be back to park walking again since my kid is hyped over this addition.

[CrimsonFox]

oh yeah. I remember this.

It kept clogging up my phone and the updates were killing me.

[Warhammer]

Originally Posted by murrayyyyy

So is anyone still playing? They dropped about 80 new characters yesterday so it looks like I'll be back to park walking again since my kid is hyped over this addition.

I stopped when it got cold. I may start up again when it gets nice, I am not one for just walking/running, I have to be doing it for a purpose which this serves.

[Julio Riddols]

I'm still bitter over how badly Niantic fucked this up.

[CrimsonFox]

Originally Posted by Julio Riddols

I'm still bitter over how badly Niantic fucked this up.

fucked what up?

[Julio Riddols]

The early success of the game was killed by their desire to take away what fans liked, namely things like the ability to track what Pokemon showed up where and other helpful things. The number of players just fell right off after Niantic started shutting down fan sites, etc. Now they continue to try to retain and bring back the original player base, but a lot of people like me just have a bad taste in their mouths over the way they squandered all the excitement for the game right out of the gate.

Also I went on a beach trip to Wilmington last August and expected to find water pokemon there around the ocean. I didn't, just the same shit I found back home in the mountains. That was the last time I opened the game.

[CrimsonFox]

I stopped playing because every time I booted up it would tell me to update. But when I would try my phone was too full to do that.

I don't really mind game companies trying to squash cheating and such. Although...hmmm.... Just posting where you saw an exciting pokemon meh I guess that's on the cusp. Your right. It does make people want to get it. Does having too many people get a rare pokemon imbalance the game?

The fact that the gyms are indeed player vs player kinda indicates yes. I didn't do gyms much mainly because I rarely had the pokemon/power to take one. Was exciting when I did tho. I'm just in it for the girls myself. (almost said chicks but what with Pidgey everywhere,...)

They really need MORE pokemon in less poopulated areas.

[JonInMiddleGA]

when they nerfed the ease of playing from the car, that was pretty much the end of it for me.

[dubb93]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

when they nerfed the ease of playing from the car, that was pretty much the end of it for me.

That is the week my family quit playing too. It was just too convienient for the passengers to catch Pokemon and living in a small town it was basically the only way to really see much of anything. We would take two hour long walks through the town and see 1/3 the number of Pokémon we could round up in a 15 minute drive.

[Honolulu_Blue]

I work in the Renaissance Center in Detroit. It's one of the local hot spots for Pokemon Go. It's large complex that has multiple Pokestops inside the building and all around. Back in the hey day of last summer/fall, the place was swarming with players on weekdays and weekends.

It died down a lot, but there has definitely been an uptick in players since the most recent update. Just walking around the building I've spotted a lot more people playing over the last few days.

I fire it up every once in a while from my desk. I can hit 3-5 pokestops from my desk and catch a lot of pokemon. I do it when I'm bored or want a quick distraction. I've never done any gym battles and have no idea how people get Pokemons with such high CPs and the like.