PokemonGo #9. A journey to hatch a 10km egg starts with a single step.

After doing a lucky egg evolve on all the slugma and geodudes I got during the event today, every time I looked at the game and saw myself surrounded by pidgeys and shelldar and marills, I just thought 'why am I even bothering'.

I am honestly not sure I can be arsed with it for much longer. I never see anything rare, all the egg hatches are shit and having just hit level 32 I now have to get 750,000 points to earn a handful of potions and a few balls when levelling up to 33.

Pokemon fatigue.

I still need 28 candies to evolve totodile twice. I loved getting a candy every 750m now 3km feels so laborious.

I saw another totodile shadow but too far to go after.

I need 125 candies to do both evolutions and am up to 97-98

Go Plus is brilliant for dull candy fodder!

I like walking and running anyway, so playing does give me a bit more motivation to go out, especially over the winter.

I need 19 candys for Tyranitar, which is a real boost from before the event, but it's still going to feel like a slog after the 4 x buddy candy.

However I have a 10k egg from the event that I have high hopes for, I'm sure it has a teeny Larvitar curled up inside with a whole bunch of candy

Yay WhatToDo you got one :D

Dh asked last night when I was going to stop suggesting we go for walks every weekend and then spend the whole time dicking around on my phone. He's got a point. You need a GoPlus Cheesy, then you can just click away at the button and hold a conversation (just don't ever check your journal in case a Dragonite ran away or something ).

I'll probably just GoPlus for a few days, I'm a bit played out from the event, and can't face catchng boring Spinaraks and the rest.

@spiderlight I did similar just now with a lucky egg... transferred three pidgeys when I meant to evolve them. Not as serious but so easily done!

Look who I saw in the street today! I was walking along, thinking 'oh look at all this rubbish' and WAHEY! There's a friggin Lapras in with them!

I've never seen or hatched a Lapras before so it's my first so I'm well chuffed I'll never be able to fight with it, I'm just glad I have it for my dex!

The one thing my DS wishes he'd known from the start - when you transfer something to the Professor, YOU CAN'T GET IT BACK!! He did the trick to get Pikachu as his starter, got to level 5 and then transferred it thinking he was evolving it into a Raichu. There were tears. Lots of tears. In front of his mates. He had to start again to get another Pikachu and he still mutters about it. (He's only 10).

Well I feel silly now

And yep if it works I'll play

How long is everyone planning on playing for?

I'm not ever planning on stopping. As long as the game still works, I'll still be playing!

How long is everyone planning on playing for? I've just got to walk my charms set and finally find a flipping Chansey and I've got gen 1. I can get the rest of gen 2 by walking to Turkey and back.

Dh asked last night when I was going to stop suggesting we go for walks every weekend and then spend the whole time dicking around on my phone. He's got a point. I know if I'm still playing when gen 3 is released I'll keep going for ever!

Those aren't Gen 2 babies, Soubriquet. They're a mix of Gen 3 and Gen 4.

The Gen 2 babies have already been released.

I just googled to see if I had all the babies (I don't, I'm missing elekid and tyrogue) but I did see gen2 babies!!

Wonder if they will be released.

What I wish I'd known at the start.

Hatch eggs. It took me a while to suss out. If you have 3 use incubators, save them for 10k eggs. Use the orange infinite incubator for 2ks. Eggs are managed with a swish to the right of the pokemon screen.

Save Stardust until you reach higher levels. It builds up very slowly. There's no point using it when your max CP is comparatively low.

Gyms are handy for earning 10 coins per gym per day. Using "weak" pokemon is good for XP boosts and raising the level of the gym. It's hard to "catch up" with the high CP pokemon under the current system. I've struggled in the last month as my local gyms have been maxed out on high CP pokemon.

Pidgey is great for evolving for XP. When doing a mass evolution, upgrade the best to Pidgeotto, then Pidgeot and the rest to Pidgeotto and transfer to the professor.

I'm less than 40k off L31 now. I'm getting ripe for a mass evolution on a lucky egg, but would rather get to L31 first, and use some candy to get some good Golems/ Rhydons rather than just evolving it all. Stardust will naturally be a good limiter on this plan! On 75k of that so a useful amount although it doesn't stretch far.

I'm back in a gym now

Aw the events finished

Still need 14 candy for Dragonite, stupid work stopping me going out walking. Got a 10k incubating so just got to pray it's Dratini, Mareep or Larvitar, last one was a Pineco. Hatched another Cleffa from a 2k today, have had 9 now which is slightly ridiculous.

How do I get an egg?!

You get them from poke stops. You can have 9 at a time.

Thanks all

How do I get an egg?!

I love catching all the older pokemon that I had years ago, I caught a Jigglypuff this morning!

I have my Squirtle as my buddy but I've not evolved anything yet, I'm just hoarding

Jeez there are everywhere here!!

Lol weird how it's set up, isn't it?! I can't remember which, but I've seen people here complain of never seeing X Pokemon when I see them everywhere.

I was also very happy I managed to catch my first ever Jynx today

Jeez there are everywhere here!!

I got drunk last night, did a lucky egg and evolved two cyndaquils. Ffs I'm an idiot. On the plus side I caught 5 Aerodactyls and 2 Onyx today. I didn't walk as far as I'd hoped, still got 25 candies left to get my Charizard.

I've managed to get all the Gen 2 starters, and evolved one of them fully (chikorita > bayleef > meganium).

Adore Totodile, but I only have the one and it's not likely to make much headway because I saw it in the wild. So no chance of evolution for it or cyndraquill without lots of walking of being lucky! Good for the dex though.

I was also very happy I managed to catch my first ever Jynx today!

I've never seen a Totodile. I've seen a Feraligator in a gym. A bit lacking in candies for Tyranitar.