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Pokemon Go #6: Where pokemon babies are abandoned in gyms at freezing temperatures

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CartwheelGirl · 28/12/2016 19:47

Well, saw this little one left overnight in a gym. Sad, really... Where are his parents? What were they thinking? Do they work night shifts too?

So many questions...

Pokemon Go #6: Where pokemon babies are abandoned in gyms at freezing temperatures
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AbbeyRoadCrossing · 23/01/2017 15:20

Hi all
Quite a few babies here as I do a lot of walking and eggs. I don't really understand the point of them though. They are cute so have kept them though Grin

Still not understanding the gym thing. Never seen one with space or near to levelling up. The rival gyms are such high levels I've got no chance. Wondering if I'm missing something?

Soubriquet · 23/01/2017 15:14

Nearly hatched my 3 eggs (two 5's and a 10)

But I did manage to evolve my seel today finally! Now have a dugong

NamelessEnsign · 23/01/2017 15:10

It's under 'wifi assist' in Mobile Data.

NamelessEnsign · 23/01/2017 15:10

Louey most likely you need to turn off the data-boost when mobile coonection is poor. Apple changed a few months ago and I had the same thing until I toggled it off!

Loueytb3 · 23/01/2017 10:21

Still playing, up to level 30 but getting bored. I now have enough dratini candy (finally) to get my dragonite and apart from a togepi, my UK pokadex is finished. I think we need a new event, or gen 2 soon.

Can anyone help with a data usage problem? On iphone 6, the past few months, I have exceeded my data limit for the month (3gb). I finally downloaded a tracker app to see what was causing the high usage, thinking it might be PoGo. This seems to show that I use all my data under "other" and then v small amounts on other things (facebook, safari). PoGo isn't listed at all, but when I look at the time of high usage, it corresponds to times I know I had it open. For example, on Saturday, I apparently used 581mb under "other" during 9-11am when I was out pokemon hunting. I know it shouldn’t use all this data. What can I do?

CantstandmLMs · 23/01/2017 08:15

I've got someone on a mission in Australia to get me a Kanga (Thanks pidgey) it may seem wrong having someone catch the regionals for you but I'm never going there anytime soon and this is quite exciting during this boring period of the game!

...am missing being logged in though!

Dillite2 · 23/01/2017 00:21

186 eggs hatched here. I'm surprised there are that many!

Dillite2 · 23/01/2017 00:17

Well, I haven't hatched that many eggs and I have hatched 4 babies now- two wigglytuffs and two pichus. Second one was hatched yesterday.

We went to Whitstable yesterday and it was full of electrodes and magnemites. Dd was catching one after another. We also took down a level 10 gym- my army of canon fodder came in handy but did take bloody ages to get through.

Have they changed how much xp you get for leveling up a gym? I use half cp or less and yet only seem to get 800-ish cp per each battle won. Usually it's around 500xp per winning session.

ironmanslady · 23/01/2017 00:14

I'm not sure the egg theory is correct. I've only hatched 54 eggs in all and have 4 babies. Sorry Grin

MuddlingMackem · 22/01/2017 23:31

Hmm, piknmixer, you could be on to something. I've hatched 10 babies from eggs, DH and the kids none. Even though they started playing before me (DH July, the kids Aug, me Oct) they've hatched fewer eggs than me as they've done less walking than me - they only play occasionally and I use it as a walking app.

piknmixer · 22/01/2017 20:10

I have a theory about my lack of babies in eggs.

I stopped hatching eggs for a good few months as I just couldn't be bothered with the disappointment as everything I ever got from them was rubbish.

I wonder if you can only hatch babies if you've hatched so many eggs? So only people who have already hatched 400 eggs, for example, since the start of the game, will get babies?

It's the only thing I can think of. I've hatched three 2ks in the past three days and each one was a Spearow. The 5ks have been Magicarp, Machop and Sandshrew. I've given up on eggs again Grin

MuddlingMackem · 22/01/2017 19:35

Well done, Icouldbeknitting. :)

Icouldbeknitting · 22/01/2017 19:18

It was a good day today, I got the 1000km golden shoes by walking to the shops. I now have 1,001 km because at 6.45 I was just sitting down with a cup of tea when I opened the game to see if I was still holding a gym. There was a big gloopy shadow at the second closest Pokestop so it was shoes, hat, gloves and coat and out of the house leaving my cup of tea on the table. The trainer was very sniffy about it but I now have my first Grimer and as it's the only one I've ever seen I don't care if it's a wimp.

PidgeyfinderGeneral · 22/01/2017 17:27

CantstandmLMs YHM.

jennielou75 · 22/01/2017 16:34

I will give it another check. I am sure the sign that used to come up isn't but I will check the amount.

MuddlingMackem · 22/01/2017 16:18

jennielou75, I made a point of checking this morning, and I am definitely still getting 25XP for fleeing pokemon. Are you sure your 25xp isn't being added to the xp for a previously caught one?

LongtimeLurkerNowPokemonHunter · 22/01/2017 13:52

Having a geeky break doing pokemon admin

Have recorded most of my hatches since the babies came out (only eggs since the babies came out) and tallied hatches. I've missed quite a few out, I'm sure.

In total, I've hatched 127 eggs of 47 different types of pokemon.

I've had:
abra x4; bellsprout x2;caterpie x7;chansey x1; Charmander x1; digletx1; dratinix1; drowseex1; duodox1; eggscute x1; elekid x4; gastlyx4; geodudex 1; goldeenx2; horseax3; igglybuff x2; kabuto x1; krabby x3; laprasx1; magbyx4; magikarpx2; magnemitex1; meowthx1; nidoran x12; oddishx4; omanytex1; onix x1;parasx2; pichu x6; pinsir x4; poliwagx4; ponytax3; porygon x3; psyduckx4; sandshrewx4; scytherx1; seelx1; shellderx1 ;slowpokex1; spearowx6; squirtlex1; staryux3; tentacoolx2; venonatx3; voltorb x1;weedlex2; zubatx8

Still no togepi, cleffa or smoochum.

Rage

LongtimeLurkerNowPokemonHunter · 22/01/2017 13:15

hatches yesterday
poliwag
tentacool
paras
sandshrew
abra
slowpoke
caterpie
nidoran
nidoran
horsea

Argh. Hugely frustrating since the babies are avoiding me!

FeralBeryl · 22/01/2017 12:48

Nameless although Pokémon didn't exist then I was in NYC a year ago and the 4G was non existent too. 3G was patchy and my battery drained super fast each day too. I d have needed a battery in a wheelbarrow if I'd gone whist pokemoning Grin

jennielou75 · 22/01/2017 12:30

How frustrating!

NamelessEnsign · 22/01/2017 12:00

Jennylou, yes, work pays for my data bundle so I tried every combination of data on/off, wifi on/off, mobile at 3G/4G - tried everything I could think of that my phone would do! It wasn't just NY which is very built up - NJ too.

jennielou75 · 22/01/2017 11:44

Did you turn data on? I went to krakow and was really annoyed that I was dependent on the hotel wifi. I then found out on the last day that I hadn't turned data on.....!

NamelessEnsign · 22/01/2017 11:26

Well I have had an expectedly disappointing week of Pokemoning on my US trip. My phone went to T-Mobile and I have only ever had 3G and my GPS flakes out constantly. The phone is only a week old so I don't think it is hardware. So anything I have caught I have seen while on wifi, and I have missed out on hundreds of stops, and yesterday I walked 25,000 steps but my egg has registered 0.3k.

I did however catch 6 Tauros!

Still no Snorlax, Lapras, Lickitung, Dragonite, Onix, and who knows what else.

Pokemon Go #6: Where pokemon babies are abandoned in gyms at freezing temperatures
PickAChew · 21/01/2017 22:56

I got 25 xp for escaping pokemon before it became announced when they escaped.

I've had more xp than expected for quite a few pokemon, today.

Actually ended up taking the bus down to Barnard Castle, today, for a Pokewander. DS1 is reduced to using DH's spare phone, which is only an improvement on his/my old phone in terms of having a non knackered battery, but it only cost £29 and only has 1GB RAM, so PoGo freezes on buses and in built up areas. I encounraged him to escape Darlo, which was his choice of outing, today, to a smaller town. Caught nothing exciting, there, but plenty of Pokestops and lots to catch, so great for the Grind. The castle and park around it, while it's never appeared on Silph Road, appears to be a Paras nest, at the moment. I feel a Reddit signup coming on. I've seen a few nests finally flagged up on there after mentioning them elsewhere.

DoctorTwo · 21/01/2017 19:02

My two eggs today hatched as Psyduck and Eevee. How fucking disappointing. Angry