Pokemon Go #4. I'm a Pokemon trainer - get Meowth of here!

[DoctorTwo]

Hello you lovely lot. Nowt new today, but at least I caught a couple of Squirtles and have enough candy to get Wartortle, so that's 4 to add to my Pokedex when I do a Lucky Egg mass evolve.

I clearly spend too much time reading the silph road on Reddit!

Good hunting Nutella. I'm in London tomorrow so can refill the bag thank goodness.

Well chuffed. I've managed to catch enough rhyhorn, sandshrew, ekans and geodude on holiday to evolve. I got a few doduo as well which I haven't managed to catch at home at all. And my 5k egg gave me a tangly.

up to (currently) 500 points prestige for the gym if the attacking Pokemon is no more than half the CP of the defender.

Gosh, I didn't realise they had to be half the CP value to get max prestige. I just thought they had to be a lower value. Will have to relook at the ones i use in a friendly gym. Tried out the Raticate (didnt last long unfortunately) but am loving the dewgong when it battles, it spins round!

After 3 weeks in a gym, my Raichu has been kicked out. It was quite a shock not being able to collect my trusty coins this morning. Now I just need to get enough revives and potions to bring all my dead pokemon back to life. Bloody stingy pokestops and their workhouse offerings.

I feel like punching the red team in the face for their aggressive playing.

I thought it was max 1000 prestige. I got 663 ish prestige yesterday each time I defeated the friendly gym when powering it up so it took 4 attempts to get the 2000 I needed to put another pokemon in

YesThisIsMe Even when the bus goes slowly my avatar stays at the bus stop, just standing there!!!! Then she runs past all the stops and if I do manage to get one it tells me to try again later

So frustrated because it has stopped me from playing the game. I go out of my way for 4 pokestops each day but they are so stingy.

I was in 3 gyms last night, record for me, two I just put myself in so was easy as they were level 2

5K Egg was also a sandshrew, still walking vulpix, at 32 candies , I'm going to walk Ekans next as at 40

Well that sucks Princess. Having thought about it, our local speed limit is twenty and I haven't traveled any faster than that since the beginning of half term so that would explain why I've always been able to catch stuff (although I have got the "You're going too fast!" warning a couple of times).

I normally get the You're going to fast when I'm sitting in the local cafe!

too, obviously!

That sucks about the speed limit Lumpy. It makes it really hard for anyone but the hardcore players.

I did the long walk to work today and at last have balls in double figures. Hope the GPS stays in range of my nearest PokeStop all day!

Prestige was 1000 per battle but dropped to 500 at the last update. DementedPixie - were your 663 points from beating more than one Pokemon?

Long-time lurker, first post on this thread. I must confess I am ever so slightly obsessed with PoGo and so are my DH and kids. This thread has been invaluable in picking up tips! I'm up to level 25, 40k off L26 and with a stack of things to evolve which I am going to do tonight with a lucky egg. Up to 122 in the Pokedex. The elusive Pokes for me are snorlax, lapras and lickitung. Everything else I think I've got at least 1 of so can (in theory) buddy up and eventually get enough candy to evolve.

I only discovered FastPokeMap as it was near its end but I must share with you an app that someone posted about in one of the FB groups. I tried it last night and it's brilliant. It only works in your immediate area but is very accurate. The free version really only covers a small radius but you can pay 79p for an ad-free version of it and it goes out wider. As a result, last night, DH and I went out several times having been alerted to bulbasaur, exeggcute and squirtle within a 5 minute walk of our house. But, it only seems to work on my iphone 6, not on DH's iphone 5 or the ipad. It's called poketracker and if you search for that on the app store, it is the one with the purple and white icon on a black background.

In London today so I'm going to see if I can find some of the more unusual pokes using the app and replenishing my stock of pokeballs. Just never have enough any more…

When they tell you to pack the stuff that you need

Yep, the pokeballs are in very short supply.

My 2km was a weedle

I am too getting peeved about the Pokestop speed thing. Being rural we only have a few Pokestops around so even if I go walking I have to walk somewhere else. It's stopping me from playing as I'm saving my balls for something that may pop up that I actually need rather than catching everything. Looks like my next evolve session is going to be a long way off

Well what a morning. Made my way to the imperial war museum and caught 16 bulbassaur!!! I'm really pleased. Another 3 ran off and I've used pretty much all my fruit and black balls. At least the place is full of pokestops so you can fill up as well.
Definitely worth a visit.

Now a question - have any of you read anything further on a thanksgiving event? I'm asking as I now have 16 of them to grind transfer and will hold on to them if the event is happening.

Started the day on 29 candy and am now on 77 so with double candies for transfer I'll be over 100 with no need to buddy up. I will need to buy more storage though as I'm currently holding over 330 (can hold 400)

Thoughts?

Thanks for all the tips picked up here. I just collected 4 coins! Decided to spend some time visiting various gyms and there was a free spot at the first gym I visited yay then one very close to it I turned from yellow to blue and popped my guy in there...then went to the actual gym (lol) for an hour and before I even came out both gyms had turned red ... I then walked into town tried to build up a friendly gym but was taking to long so went to the next friendly, added my guy to that and went back to those precious gyms and took them down with an hour to go until collection time

...I was already placed in a gym at home which I took last night so amazingly managed to collect 4 coins. That's my highest so far. I'll be surprised if any make it until tomorrow, maybe 1!

This was my 10k egg although not a snorlax .. I new one for me .. The ball rate at pokestops is annoying

That's awesome Nutella. I might have a few hours free in London next week so that is a possibility - or omanytes if they haven't moved.

I have restocked my balls over lunch but am drowning in potions. Have a gym to retake on the way home though (or prestige of my team mates grab it back first!). The amount dished out by PokeStops doesn't seems so bad now - I've had a lot of 3s but a few 4s and 5s plus the 10th stop bonuses.

Used a tonnnnee of potions during my gym madness which means I managed to stock up on tonnes of balls. One of the pokestops on my way home gave me about 12/13 items it was like being back at the event but most others it's just 1 or 2.

I'm fed up. I have one ball left. It sucks

I cannot understand why they are doing this, it's stopping people playing. I farm my 4 pokestops on the way to work and that's it, I want to be catching everything for evolve sessions but that's ground to a halt.

I've got a stack of ultra and great balls but I'm saving them for when I go to London, not wasting them on weedles.

I'm also annoyed by this pokestop thing. Today I had my lowest ever number of items (around 80) and luckily had loads in London so managed to stock back up.

I'm seriously not sure I will have much to do soon. I've got enough candies for eggxecute and after today at almost there with bulbassaur. Abra is my buddy and once I do that the remaining 4 are from eggs - which means I will never ever get them. Then I'm not sure what the point will be to play everyday and catch loads of crap for the sake of it.