PokemonGo #15. We're gonna rock down to Electrike Avenue

I struggle with stiff/bendy joints depending on how the wind is blowing so always found a well timed flick so much easier.

Funnily, the big circles do help, but I seem to find plusle and minun really easy to hit.

Took the boys for a walk from Tynemouth to North Shields, yesterday, a completed several flying type tasks with wingull! More likely to be catching Surskit in my kitchen, today. It's foul out there.

Apparently there will be Unown in London again this Saturday.

It's funny the way every has learned their throws differently.

From the very beginning when unnoticed curve throws got you more XP I just did them for everything, so I learned them as I learned he game and now always do curve throws for everything. I always aim for a great throw on everything too, because great is easy to get regularly for me. So that's where I've 'settled' the curve excellent I was a little worried about, I get excellent throws fairly often but never on purpose (just throw slightly late for a great size circle and end up sneaking into the excellent size). I made a list of Pokemon who have big throw circles so would be easiest to target for excellent throws. (Mr.Mime, Slowpoke, Ursaring etc.) Lugia would have been perfect because her circle was SO enormous I got excellents all the time. In then end I was practicing timing and got my curve,excellent on a pidgey.

Funnily though I can't throw straight. The other day in the rain my damp fingers/screen meant everything was playing up. So I decided to just do straight throws and because I never do them I was absolutely shit. I swear to god if the task had been throw a STRAIGHT excellent throw. I'd still be stuck on it next month.

I also instinctively spin my balls anti-clockwise so my throws curve to the left, but most of my PoGo friends seem to do clockwise/curve right.

A week and yes, unfortunately!

I've had something in a rural gym since Saturday morning but my highest cp Blissey has been dusted down and patched up 5 times since then. She gets around a bit, she does.

I've been practicing my curve ball throws. Getting better. Many first throws and several great throws, this afternoon, though I usually have to revert to straight throws after a glass of wine! I can't do them in sight of ds1 because my rather slow learning curve enrages him. He won't even attempt them so I suspect I'll be having to make 2 excellent curve ball throws, when the time comes.

And yes, I do take his phone out with me, when he's at school.

I put a couple in at gyms at a living museum over Easter... they lasted 5-6 days! At least I'll get plenty of goodies next time I visit.

I wasn't surprised when one lasted that long on some random peninsular in the far west of Ireland.

And will it only come back when someone else knocks it out of there?

bettytaghetti Yes, it will only come back when someone knocks it out.

What's the longest anyone's stayed in a gym? And will it only come back when someone else knocks it out of there?
I made the mistake of putting a Blissey in a gym at a church next to a very rural pub in Norfolk and it's been more than a month! I've even gone gold at that gym despite not having to battle etc. Clearly church attendance must be down! I want my Blissey back!

RueDeWakening, yes, DD and I are both Mystic, so if I take down a gym if I have time I'll log in as her and put one of her 'mon in as well, partly for coins for her but mainly as a buffer for me so I stand a chance of staying in long enough for a decent amount of coins. Lonely pokemon don't stay in gyms long around here.

Yeah there's a guy near me who spoofs periodically, he has at least 6 accounts, when he takes a gym he fills it with his own accounts. It's not even subtle - we have Lapis1, Lapis2 etc etc.

Ours WhatsApp group is good though, if he spoofs into a raid then we use a private group, same if there's someone in the lobby who we cant' identify and doesn't make themselves known before we start. We had a massive problem with spoofers once we'd unlocked all our ex raid gyms, but it's calmed down a bit now.

I started a second account when I'd finished gen 2 and was waiting for gen 3. I know what you mean with regards to people with accounts of each colour.

That wouldn't bother me really Rue, but most of the multiple accounters where I am aren't ones who play for their kids, just people who have two/three/four (and more!) for themselves. There's a bit of a correlation with spoofing too, ime.

I use two handsets quite often - if I'm out and about during the school day I'll use my own account and one of either DD's or DS1's as well. It takes a bit of practise but isn't too tricky. When it comes to catching a raid boss, I alternate which phone - concentrate on throwing one ball then switch to throw the next until one/both of us has caught it.

And if I take a gym, I do usually then log in as the kids and add them too, since we're all Mystic. Otherwise they'd only get to play at weekends and basically never get any coins.

but it's even more annoying when they clearly are using different coloured accounts to shave people out of gyms in order to add one of theirs.

yes yes yes to this.

We have local players with multiple accounts, it can be quite annoying when they all descend on a gym but it's even more annoying when they clearly are using different coloured accounts to shave people out of gyms in order to add one of theirs.

We have a local player who manages to raid with 4 devices. He lines them up horizontally and plays them like a piano.

What's the secret to finding shiny Pokémon?

ApplesTheHare There isn’t one. Outside of events, they’re exceptionally rare, and they’re independent to each person. It really is just luck; just click on each Pokemon that has a possibility to be shiny to see if it is.

On community days, the chance of the Pokemon featured on the day being shiny is significantly increased for those three hours, so they’re pretty easy to get then (I got 7 shiny Bulbasaurs during the last community day).

*rural Yorkshire, even

Morning all

What's the secret to finding shiny Pokémon? I haven't seen a single one in ritual Yorkshire! The highlight of my week has been catching Moltres as a result of a research breakthrough this morning

They don't tend to clutter up the gym spaces

I definitely wouldn't have the coordination to manage two handsets I struggle to catch the raid bosses. 3 fails so far on Latia. 5 fails on Kyogre.

I had to win 5 battles for a challenge earlier... two rounds on a Valour for takeover. Took two and one round on my friend's recent Instinct place, but deliberately left her in so she could get a chance of coins later.

Welcome edwinbear! What team are you on?

Urgent and Muddling Yeah generally players around here dislike people multi-accounting or playing on multiple phones (belonging to wife, husband, kids etc.) but only in the case of battling gyms. It's very annoying if you spot a gym a little way away that's been taken by a member of your team and has 5 spaces. Then 2 mins later you get there and discover it's been filled by Bob1, Bob2, Bob's Wife, Bob's Daughter and Bob's son. which really does affect the gaming experience for all members of that team.

However, while it's frowned upon, it doesn't actually contravene the Niantic Ts&Cs so it's not explicitly banned in our group just discouraged.

It doesn't so much bother people when it comes to raids, and is actually sort of encouraged in Ex-Raids in terms of people bringing other people's phones if they couldn't make it.

Welcome Edwin! I’ve just joined myself. I’m level 29. Level 38 is very impressive!

Hey all, please may I join? I've been lurking for a while and would love to chat about all things Pokémon. I'm a level 38 London based FTP trainer, loving reading about all your adventures.

UrgentScurryfunge, yes, we have occasions when players bring family member's phones to raids so there are enough people. I've only tried it once with a DC's phone when we were short - but it turns out I really struggle to battle on two simultaneously.

There's umteen chats around town. I'm more active in the local neighbourhood specific chats than the larger ones more focused on town. Spoofers definitely not welcomed here. Some tread a narrow line with utilising their children's accounts and bringing extra phones to raids, but most of the play is clean and not to the detriment of others.