Pokemon Go #12: "It's in the trees! It's coming!" The Houndooms of love are calling me (to join in a raid).

Catching up with thread

Walking my Onyx now, evolved my Bayleef tonight. Just need the last Mareep evolution and I'm done, bar the ever elusive shiny and legendarys.

Congrats @DoctorTwo on the Snorlax. :) Nothing new here and not been out much. Didn't even get my 7 day streak yesterday as the weather was miserable and I just had so much to get on with at home. :(

Congratulations DoctorTwo on a lovely snorlax.
I've just got a low CP and IV wild one but still love it. A hatched one would be very welcome!

Just walking my last few for generation 2. 4 to go! (Of what's available)

Just caught up on the thread, lots of exciting catches and hatches! I'm on 238 for my Dex now, only Hitmontop to go of the ones we can/could get in Europe now!

Congrats DoctorTwo!

Well done DoctorTwo lovely Snorlax indeed- very jealous!

This case sounds like something different but do be careful with empty gyms.
A few months back there were some muggings in London where they'd leave a gym blank knowing someone would come along and get their phone out. There was a warning about it on the Facebook group.

Yeah, if it had been one gym that had been white I wouldn't have thought anything of it but it seems multiple went white simultaneously with no signs of battle across my city and two neighbouring cities, plus where Orecchietti lives.

I battled the gym by my home and won it. I was just choosing my good defender to go in when it was taken over by a raid Pokémon so stayed grey for the hour they were in it. Someone got into it later but I forgot to go back till the next day!

I work out how long it will take me to the next level. not beyond that as it is too dispiriting. I have a mountain of candy and a bag of pidgeys and I hope that there will be some sort of event between now and December where I get x4 xp with a lucky egg because otherwise L35 will be December 12th.

I usually get 50 coins a day from the five local gyms but it failed yesterday because it rained and here were few raids to tempt people out. No-one was about and none of the five turned over. On the other hand there were no raids so I saved the raid pass.

Finally made it up to Level 34 a couple of days ago. Just did the calculator again that we all did months ago. Back then it was saying I'd reach level 40 in May 2019, but I've obviously been slacking off on my daily XP grind because now it's saying February 2010. Might have to have a few lucky egg sessions with Pidgeys and Weedles.

Unlike some though, I'm loving the current coins set up. At the moment I have about 1300, with the old set up I never got to a stash of more than a couple of hundred.

I've left a couple white if i've taken them down while on a bus then moved out of range.

From talking in our raid group, one of the guys was near a gym that went white and says it wasn't being battled, and nobody in those gyms got the X needs a berry notification. Surrounding areas are reporting similar too. So we think it must be Niantic and wondering if it's related to ex raids. Perhaps they're updating the gyms and it wiped them - though it's probably wishful thinking and it's actually just a ban wave!

There is a guy in our group who goes round taking gyms and not putting anything in, leaving them neutral. He just doesn't want the coins as he spends so much on the game that they're irrelevant.

And welcome Orecchietti! :)

The only time I've seen so many before is when Niantic did a massive ban wave and any gyms with spoofers in were automatically emptied

Thank you all for the warm welcome!

Yeah I thought the empty gym might just have been what happened to me a few times back in the early days, when my phone died a death after all the effort of beating the gym and I hadn't yet bought a portable charger! But did think it was strange walking home that I saw several, that's never happened before. They're all back to normal now as far as I can see.

My exciting Pokemon news today is that I hatched a Mareep with enough candy to evolve so am now the proud owner of a Flaafy, and I stumbled upon my first Snubbul too. Having recently moved house from rural to city I'm very much enjoying the increased opportunity to see more than the odd pidgey and caterpie, which is helping get back in the game!

I don't think I have ever seen an empty gym!

orecchietti

Empty gyms (copied from Reddit)

IT could be spoofers not wanting their name reported

IT could be people who dont want some preson seekign revenge and nukign all of their gyms but wants to beat out the other teams

IT could just be a bored person killing time, battle the gym let someone else take it and repeat over and over, its real common on high turnover locations as there is no point putting a Pokemon in if you will get it back 2 min alter and you already got coins for the day

It also could occasionally be a gym error (happened to me) or that the person who has emptied the gym has run out of time and has to run for the train or whatever (also happened to me)

Hello Orecchiette.

Don't worry about the level. I ended up restarting a while ago and am only level 23 at the moment.

Welcome, orecchietti!

And we never, ever have neutral gyms

Or Orecchiette even

Hi Oreochetti ;)

Hello Orecchiette Level 25 is nothing to be ashamed of, that's close to 1,000,000 XP earned! Im only a short way through level 27, so not all of us are in the 30's quite a lot of us are still in the 20's!