Pokemon Go #1 - the one where we've discovered the gaming board

So. I read an article which basically said incense is best used in areas where there are no Pokemon at all, and whilst moving. You get one every 5 mins if you keep still, one every minute if you're moving.

The idea is that if you're somewhere which already spawns Pokemon (in this country likely to be weedles, pidgeys, spearows, Rattata and drowzees) then the incense just increases the spawn rate. If you're somewhere with no Pokemon at all, it will fire 'random' Pokemon at you instead. This seems to correlate with my experience of it too.

Frog or anyone else - what's your views on incense?
Whenever I used it I just got the usual crap so I'm not bothering.
Used coins to buy extra Pokemon storage and am now tempted to increase bag storage as well. And incubators. After the eggs of course.
Can you see I'm getting carried away with the fact that I've 3 Pokemon in level 9 gyms?

Evolved an Electabuzz from a 10k egg today, pleased with that, also am only 2 candies away and 3.4km walking away from evolving My LittlePonyta into a beautiful Rapidash.

Re registering km walked, mine has pretty much registered my main walks today into town and out (3k each way or thereabouts) but not so much of my bimbling around town :/

I had a bit of a disappointment today. I was nearly up on the 'mon limit so I had a massive clear out yesterday. I shovelled out Polliwags and Magikarp by the dozen. I thought I'd been so careful about it but when I sat down this morning to chose between my two wonderful specimens of karp it turned out that the two I'd kept were average. I know I had at least two breathtaking wonders but I don't now. Ah well, you know what they say, "plenty more fish on the cycle path" (It runs on the path of the former railway and that runs on the path of the former canal)

I now have 426 Magikarp candy but no Magikarp worth all the effort.

Hatched 2 5k eggs. a Staryu and a Venonat.

Mega boring shit. Have loads of those already.

My most exciting catches today were two nidorans. Still need lots of candy but they are cute. And now need 3 more gastly so as I can have a gengar.
Oh and pikachu is now on my shoulder. I'm on 14k with him so will carry on collecting!

Frog have you done the egg then? I've no more eggs and next free ones are at level 30 so one years time hence my urge to buy some.

user1471 please get a name! You can be JynxLooksLikeBeyonce or something!

I have also been on Level 21 since God was a boy.

I got my first Grimer today...Was very excited..Hatched a shelter from a 5k egg..

Sick of been on level 21..I have been on it about 2 weeks and only 40 thousand so another 35 thousands to go.

I think whoever said about schools going back is right, getting coins from 3 different gyms now !

Got my first Magmar today - also picked up my first 10k egg in a while. Worth buying an incubator I think.

I hatched a Snorlax from a 10 know egg today - my highest one yet, 1868

Success with a 10k egg in a new location, yay. Wanted lapras though....

Ooo cool!

Not caught up yet, just dropping this for natsku

Bubblestrat explained

It's something about a particular move (bubble) being able to take out higher cp Pokemon, so if you have that move on a 10cp Pokemon and beat the higher one, you get shit loads of prestige and also xp. That link explains it much better but it's something like that anyway :) quite clever really.

rue actually that makes sense. I've noticed that the closer I am to the town centre the more accurate it seems, but the further out near my house then the worse it gets. Of course town centre has lots of pokestops and there are barely any further out.

Re distance travelled, it seems to be more accurate if you're checking in at Pokestops along the way - I guess it knows the position of each stop, so can measure distance between them better. Maybe :o

Cooroo you can always have it as a pet.

I picked up my phone to see if I was still sitting in a gym and caught a bulbasaur from the settee. I've been playing two months and I've only ever seen one and that was miles away. Things must have changed today, I'm now wondering what else is out there in Weedle land.

Wandered out from work for 30 mins expecting usual Rats and Pigeons, and caught me a Wigglytuft, which at CP 915 is my highest CP so far (sad...). However when I asked the trainer to appraise it, she positively sneered. It might as well have been a 10CP Weedle!

So should I hang on to it? I love it and am delighted to have it, but honestly what is the point if it would be crap in battle, has feeble stats and is tiny?

Knitting your explanation now makes so much sense! I've just been to Edgware and I've never seen a place with so many level 8/9/10 gyms - and they all have loads of weak ones! Clever really. Luckily I've managed to add my own to 3 of them and I'm now hoping they will stay for a while.
Up to 470 coins and want to buy 8 eggs for 500.

My GPS is messed up lately.

In the evenings I leave the app open and my avatar walks to the end of the road and back frequently. Over the course of few hours, Pikachu found a candy or two and my egg with 600m to go hatched. It hadnt moved form the sofa.

wow. This game is so addictive. My kids are fond of it. Unfortunately, I don't have time for it now. Sometimes we also play small flash pokemon games, such as Pokemon Catch Journey at www.friv4online.com/. It's quite entertaining and don't take so much time to play.

ok, have tried powering up a couple of pokemon (before evolving). It's added a grand total of CP15 to their values so doesnt really seem worth the candies.

knitting thanks for explaining the low level cp pokemon in gyms. I had been wondering why I'd started seeing more of them this weekend. DS and I did exactly that last night. Trained up a friendly gym enough to pop our pokemon in too.