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

I went to my mother's an hour early today, I went to the local park and walked for an hour. I can do a loop of six pokestops in just over five minutes, they turn blue as I walk up to them. That should see me good for eggs until Monday.

I'm running out of eggs. With DD back at school I'm easily clearing a 5k egg a day doing the school run, but we only pass one pokestop. I've currently got one in my incubator and one waiting to go in. I think I need to go into town to try to stock up.

I still can't get on unless I'm using (strong) WiFi. I may have travelled 2 stops further on the WiFi enabled bus this afternoon.

I hope it settles down soon

jb007 don't be frightened of gyms, you're not fighting a peer to peer battle, you're fighting AI. If you get your arse handed to you on a plate the only person who will ever know is you. Also there's no skill to fighting, it's mostly just tap the screen and hope for the best.

Yeah it was more of an experiment and as I said the first 10 I found by stumbling into them as I dropped the circle on. Total overkill I know!!

Do you think you are perhaps taking it a little too seriously...? :o

After soupdragon mentioned a Pokemon is within 200m if it's on your sightings I started messing around on google maps.

Most of the time I found my Pokemon without any bother but I caught an electabuzz using google maps that I might have missed.

So what I tried was dropped a 200m radius on top of Google maps when a Pokemon appeared in the sightings then a second circle if it disappeared with each circle narrowing down the area it could be.

Brilliant name choice Every!

And today, after using the buddy for a couple of days, this happened :

Level 21. 96 seen and caught. Still not been brave enough to go in a gym. Had a good day recently on the Isle of Wight ferry. Caught a few new things.

Caught my first machoke in blackfriars

Oooohh. I look forward to hearing what Plus is like.

I was going to wait until I'd read a few reviews and then maybe buy one for myself dd, I was hoping you'd not need the game open on phone, but what I've read so far hints that you do, so if I still have to keep tapping my phone every ten mins so it doesn't go to sleep, then I may as well play on the phone, also, if the watch connects to the phone via Bluetooth (I don't know if it does yet) then it might add more drain to the battery and it'll last even less. I'll be happy to do it, if the watch adds to the experience. Can't wait to hear what you think of it mrs

After 10 minutes of charging around the streets and a further 5 minutes of shouting GIVE IT A RASPBERRY! NO DS USE AN ULTRABALL! All while fighting the urge to snatch my phone from my child and catch it myself........

I'd have snatched it back the second I heard Snorlax :)
I bet he was really chuffed with himself. My dd has this smug type of face she does when she catches something new or something that I've missed. Dh says she gets it from me, that I have a way of saying 'THATS HOW YOU DO IT, IN YOUR FACE LOSER' without opening my mouth, while appearing to be all modest and nice so he can't tell me to fuck off. Ha!

My Pokemon GO Plus arrived today. Can't test it out yet as I live in a Pokemon desert.

Anybody else getting one?

Just checked. It has been done automatically! Now have jigglypuff as my buddy.

Just checked and I have no update available yet :(

Hatched a third aerodactyl from a 10 k egg. Just got another one, hope it's a lapras!

I wish it was easier to track them down! There was a Lickitung (?) on sightings but it was too hot to go wandering round the streets. It's gone now :(

DD and I did track down a Seadra from sightings once.

I had what can only be described as an explosion of Pokemon yesterday. I was walking around the corner and my phone buzzed. Stopped, looked at it - two Rattata, a nidoran, an Eevie, a slowpoke, a shellder and a Mr Mime had all appeared in a cluster on my screen!

So that was good. I've got a Cloyster now too as that was the last shellder I needed.

(I googled it myself. 200m apparently and they arent in any order)

Does anyone know roughly how close the closest Pokemon on the sightings list is meant to be?

I have a nice phone sized bag that I use to carry my phone around with all day as I go about my normal business purely so I can hatch eggs and get candy :o

It's surprising how far I walk just around the house and garden..

I'd love an update that condensed the evolving sequence. Ffs sake, it's another Pidgey I'm only evolving for the points, I don't need to see all the flappy nonsense!

Sad that I have to wait to try to double evolve my Nidorans now. I'm not patient! Considering a 6 mile walk to and from a restaurant tonight so my buddy gets exercise!