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

Loving soups ds right now for the name change!

Wrt the km travelled, I'm not sure it is quite as simple as going straight and when it refreshes the list. We have a large straight section of road which quite often earns no travelling. Even if you stop for a while on it, or catch a Pokemon. The list will refresh itself at least twice on that road but the distance often doesn't.

I did wonder if it was a time thing so maybe it didn't give you an update automatically so have left my game whilst I'd not really been walking, and it didn't catch itself up despite the list having refreshed itself.

Or maybe i walk too fast so it reckons I'm driving

ah... That sounds familiar, thanks :)

Jynx

What is the Nikki Minaj Pokemon actually called? DS2 caught it and changed the name so I never saw the proper name. It's one of the most disturbing Pokemon I've seen!

I finally got a snorlax 😄😄😄😄😄 went on Facebook last night at about 11.30 to see a post saying there was one about 3 minutes walk down the road. Rushed out with mine and ds's phone but it had already de spawned.... Ex who was here thought I was bonkers and he rarely plays it now, but logged in and lo behold had a shadow of a snorlax! A quick look on a poke map and it had respawned just 30 seconds away!!!! Mine was was only 320cp - but I got one! And ds was amazed when he woke up this morning and I told him to have a look!

A low level pokemon holding a gym makes it easier for players to train and level it up quickly. Sticking in a 2.5k Gyrados means no opportunity for low level players to train. Caterpie first, Gyrados second means everyone can play.

My tracker seems to count bus journeys as well as train journeys, which I am not complaining about as it means I get more candy/ eggs evolved.

Yesterdays we caught a 500-something cp Lapras, so that's somethi new for us. The rest were Nicky Minaj, ratatas, podgeys, spearows, zubats, hyphos, abras, and so on. I am halfway to level 22 and have no lucky eggs or incense or lures. This will take ages to complete!

Nutella - I'm away for the weekend at the coast, but there's more Pokemon here than where I work in London! I read somewhere that the tracker checks where you are at intervals and calculates the distance you've travelled. So if you're not walking in a completely straight line it doesn't work out the distance properly.

Duff - we did well in Cambridge this weekend. Good places were along the backs behind Queen's, King's, Clare and Trinity. Also on bridges over the river. Also We have seen pikachu three times on Tennis court road at the Lensfield road end.

That should say you know your walk home from the station is a km!

I also find the amount walked really random. It's very frustrating when you know your walk home from the station and you have 0.5km to go to hatch an egg, and the bloody thing won't hatch!

Hi all,
Lost you for a while.

Not sure if this has previously been covered but how are people finding the km compared to the distance they actually travel? I'm finding it really random. I know I walk just over 5m as a minimum on an average day (sad but I've tracked some normal journeys for the sake of making sure my fitness tracker is working!). I probably get a straight walk 5m earn 5km over a day. But I can walk to the kids school and get a different amount to doing the return journey. It's insane!

Over halfway to level 25 now, caught 112 seen 113. Managed to hold a gym for 6 days recently too.

Queen on my last session I evolved 67 including 2 new ones so got 69k xp.
If you have 22 I'd carry on catching for a little while before you use the egg.

Hello, I am new to the thread, but have lurked about a month. I play with ds 5. We are off to Cambridge next weekend. Can anyone tip us off on any hotspots there?

I have one new one to evolve. Just sodding one!

I'll catch some more vermin tomorrow for more pidgeys to evolve to make up more numbers.

You can evolve about 60 or 70 Pokemon in one lucky egg session. If you are really quick. If you are evolving new Pokemon you will not be able to evolve quite as many. I make all the ones I want to evolve a 'favourite' and once I've evolved them I Unfavourite - this way you don't have to search around for hat to evolve. The other thing I do is set a timer of I know how long I have left.

How many Pokemon can you get done in one evolve session?

I have 22 to do so far.

Bunch, do you mind explaining that again? I don't follow at all but have seen a few gyms around here with very low CP Pokemon in there & often wonder why.

Apparently all the Pikachus are in Ealing, was there tonight and was reliably informed.

Those tiny cp poke in may actually be brilliant for gyms.

Bubblestrat is something I've recently read on reddit, it's something about the tiny cp Pokemon with bubble as a move fighting other types and gives a lot of xp and prestige and using the Bubblestrat system you can get enough prestige to have a gym at level 10 in less than 10 minutes and makes it very difficult for it to be taken down while you're defending as you earn loads of prestige.

I'll try find a link but it's made me no bin the tiny cp Pokemon so hastily.

Oh no frog, why? What went wrong?

Eek where do you live? Can I come round?

Oh and hatched my 10k egg today. Another bloody Magmar.

I've had a fab day today. Caught a Lapras and a Snorlax! Also got DP hunting and battling, so I'm hoping he'll get the game when he gets his new phone. I'm now level 23, seen/caught 108, 6 bingo lines.

I hatched a Machop today from a 5k. Had one already but needed the candy.

2k egg gave a Zubat

I have 4 bingo lines.