Pokemon Go #3 The Cubone's connected to your...

Omg my first Ditto has 100% IVs!!

I've been Much More Ill Than Usual the last few weeks, but I've managed to get my Pokédex up to 131 & have reached Level 26.

I want to go to town tomorrow to get some badges from Girlguiding HQ for my Brownies & if I can manage it will go to the IWM to hunt for more Bulbasaur. A couple of stints there (one VERY brief, at the end of a spawn, The Day I Did Not Go To Hospital But The Nice Paramedics Took Me To The Shops So I Could Get A Powerpack For My Phone Instead...) have got me a good way towards the 125 candy I need...

I only need to catch one more Squirtle & then I can evolve one of my Wartortles. The park at the top of my road's had a few Wartortles spawn recently, so I'm hoping I might manage to catch one with a higher CP to evolve...

The loss of the Blackheath Charmanders is a source of Woe to me. It wasn't BRILLIANT, but it got me enough over several sessions to evolve a Charizard.

Am thinking of maybe paying a trip to Crystal Palace once I'm better (well, as well as I get during the winter...) to try to hunt for some Machops. And see if I have any luck with Destiny/Dragonair - apparently they show up there quite often...

I'm buddying one of my Kabuto at the moment as both hatched, never seen one anywhere - I need 10 candies though & they're a 5km/candy monster, so it will be a LONG walk. And Sod's Law says I'll get to 40.99km & hatch another with 10 candy, of course...

don't have it all on one page?

Oooh - interesting thought QueenLiz. I have to evolve at the weekend so will see.

QueenLizIII, I hatched a Caterpie from a 2k today too. Finally got enough candies for my Alakazam after catching a few Abras this week, I just need to bide my time for an Abra worth evolving. Now buddying Seel as I only need 16 candies.

Managed to get myself back into my two local gyms this morning in time to get my coins. Will leave it until tomorrow afternoon to try and get back in again - no doubt they'll both change hands overnight - and then I can claim my coins straight away. :)

also does anyone know if a lucky egg will boost the first catch bonuses?

do an evolve session at a first catch.

Never got this lucky before. I buddied mankey yesterday with 35 candies. today i hatch a mankey and now have enough candies to evolve

I haven't found anything work like fastpoke..

I was planning to do an evolve soon however with next Generation coming not sure what candy to hold onto.

No slowking yet just Slowbro - great gym defenders. I have a few!

Since Fastpokemap went down there's not been any effective tracking. I did use it a bit (got my onyx, porygon and Wild lapras that way) but not missing it too much as I am now down to buddying for all but a Chansey.

Think I'll do my evolve tonight.

I don't normally use any tracking things. I don't think most of them are working anyway.

I'm also not sure if I can be bothered to carry on playing until second gen comes out and then start obsessing about not having more stuff! Hard work.

What maps or radars do you guys use?

I'm only 2 candies away from a slowbro. Is there a slowking, like in the movies?

I don't have an Onix either.

Im still missing an Onix. Seen a shadow a few times. I got a caterpie from a 2k egg.

I like the change about gym prestige rules too. Most of the gyms arounf here were level 10 and impossible to take down. Should be different now.

I rename mine where the gym is, helps me keep track. Still lost one from before I started that!

10k egg for a bloody Onix. Gutted

I'm team mystic. There are now level 10 gyms which dont get taken down as they are in quieter areas, and I just got in one by chance. The other one I've stayed in is on a main road so who knows.

The rest had been red or yellow for a long time. Every time I got the bus to town, I took one look at the horizon and I knew it was pointless and now I can take out a gym easily again.

We have a good balance here, maybe that is unusual! I'm also Team Mystic, which is an advantage I suspect.

Exactly the gyms in town here were all red and had been for weeks. Not so anymore.

I think it's a good thing that it's easier to take over gyms now. Means one team can't control all of the gyms all the time, like they do here.

I didn't have a problem tearing down high level gyms before. But really I think all they needed to do was balance it so the same effort was needed to take up and take down?

But as you say, it's just a game and the game masters can do with it as they will. I'm sure it will be tweaked again.

Im not that excited about the 2nd generation as I still have 20 to catch from first gen.

With the gym thing, it does get a bit serious. Talk of facebook groups to alert people to go out and defend gyms which are being attacked, etc it is afterall only a game.

I am quite glad the local gyms were taken out they were level 10 for weeks and couldnt get near them and now they change all the time again. People will just stop playing if they cant get a gym anymore which is not what niantic want.

Why not rename your Pokemon with the gym name? No one but you can see that anyway.

The other downside to the prestiging changes is that there is less incentive to gain stardust and gather a top defending and prestiging team (the latter at a range of CP). If I'm only going to hold a gym for a short time and my teammates won't be able to boost it up before I lose it then why bother investing in a good defender - I might as well chuck a Rattata in there and save on revives.

They've made it easier to attack and harder to prestige back up (halved the points you get for training battles). If I take someone's high level gym down it will take me a fraction of the time it will take them to rebuild.

There has been a Blue-Yellow war of attrition round here for weeks with a few gyms left untouched but 5 or 6 that swap hands. There is possibly now an unspoken pact to leave well alone! I don't want to take out their towers and risk retaliation, because I rather like my regular coin stream and don't have time to retake gyms daily.