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

[CartwheelGirl]

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...

Really enjoyed the egg event. I got all the babies except Magby and Smoochum. Also hatched a really good Aerodactyl and a Dratini with loads of candy. This week I finally got enough candy to evolve a Charizard, then caught another one almost straight away! I'm hoping to go to a pub by the river tomorrow to see what I can get with a lure. If I'm lucky I'll get enough candy to finally evolve a Dragonite.

Today's rubbish hatched Spearow, Staryu,Oddish, Lapras and eggscute. Lapras helped me beef my old one up.

Wow, thought I had another wild Ivysaur in the living room then...

Welcome kitty!

Not sure I'll get my last charmander candy today, woke up with an awful cold so taking DD for a walk doesn't appeal that much! I think I'll hide under a blanket and subject myself to peppa pig all day

Can anyone remember when the startetime event is supposed to end?

STARTER event

My dh is over the moon

After months of trying to get bulbasaur, we manage to get bulbasaur, ivysaur and venusaur all within 12 hours!!

TallulahBetty, as I understand it, the starter event is due to finish sometime on Monday.

Soubriquet, nice one!

I'm four Magikarp away from a Gyarados and out this morning I saw an unexpected Magikarp, nowhere near water except maybe puddles. Thrilled to catch it and mentally counting down to my Gyarados - the damn thing was only another bloody Ditto! That's my eighth one, and DH still hasn't caught one. Bah! So, still need four Magikarp.

Thanks Mackem. Why don't you just walk your magikarp for the last few candies? Will only be 4km

Muddling Magikarp are one candy per 1k so achievable!

I'm not walking Magikarp because I know they're around, and I will catch them within a couple of weeks probably. I'm currently walking my Kabuto as I've barely seen them. When I started I needed 33 candies - however, 6 down only 17 (and another 85km) to go.

Oh, and I would need to walk 16km for my Magikarp candies, I need four Magikarp, not just four candies. :)

I caught a wild ivysaur today but cp is something like 200. I only have 80 candies so don't know whether to evolve this slightly shit one to save 25 candies or evolve a 500cp bulbasaur but then I will never have a venosaur. Obi I need another 20 candies for the first option but am going to spend tomorrow pokehunting.

It's interesting how different the range of critters is for the UK vs the US.

I get tons of kabutos, sandshrews, doduos, magikarps up the wazoo -- lots of the ones that people here are reporting as rare. Meanwhile I've never even seen a ditto!

Is a ditto like ... a trick? Like, you think you're getting a pidgey but then when you catch it, it turns out to be a ditto?

Yes Galen. You won't see a wild Ditto. You think you're catching a Pidgey and then it evolves.

I've got one ditto. I took over a gym yesterday and put it in there for a laugh. It turns into the first pokemon it comes up against which was quite entertaining for training for some extra CP.

I did a mass evolution on a lucky egg last night adding about 50,000 xp. Now 3/4 through level 26. It's nearly 4 weeks since I levelled up as I've been in a lot with being poorly and Christmas.

I got some new pokemon yesterday, caught a wild Ivysaur. (I have the candy for that but would rather stash 125 for the full stages of evolution). Also evolved a Sandslash, Raichu and Arbok. It'll be a while before I can evolve anything new.

Still on 214 magikarp candies. I think he's going to be my next buddy now ekans has done his job. No one else is nearly ready to evolve.

In a gym does a ditto keep its own cp or take the cp of what it's battling? Because if it keeps its own mine wouldn't last five secs!

A ditto keeps its own CP in a gym so they get wiped out pretty quickly.

I have been walking my grimer and was getting pretty sick of the purple monster following me around like Donald Trump pursuing Hilary Clinton around the stage. Managed to catch another one last night and was finally able to evolve it. Now walking an abra so I can get an alakazam.

I got a smoochum, yay!

I also managed to get my third evolution of all three starter Pokémon today. I evolved higher level Venusaur and Charizard, and have enough for a Blastoise but I'm vacillating about it. My Wartortle is not a very high level one so I'm hedging my bets and hoping for two more squirtles before the event finishes so I can do a double evolve of a cp500ish squirtle instead of doing my cp600 wartortle.

Good description Pidgey- my Grimer is my buddy too!

Haven't done any pokemonning today- DH took my phone and the dog for a walk and despite my phone saying he'd walked over 5k, my egg was at 0.7!

Thought I'd missed out on any more of the babies, then walking home from the supermarket my 5k egg hatched my first Pichu. Yay!

Only missing out on Magby and Togepi, so not bad going. :)

Has the babies eggs finished? I thought it was just the startermon which were finishing?Today wasn't a great day in terms of Pokemon hunting, just a few Bulbasaurs and Squirtles and 2.5k of 5k egg. Vulpix is currently my buddy but might need to switch it out to evolve some of the pokemon i have closer to evolving. Only just hit the 100 candies of Magikarp and like muddling got excited to catch one the other day as hadn't seen one in a while for it to be ditto! So frustrating

pidgey Thank you for making me snort with laughter! Best description of a Grimer/Trump ever.

Has the game been really really crashy for anyone else today? I don't know if it's just my phone, but I gave up on it after about five restarts because my character wasn't walking.

I think I need a new phone, actually. Any recommendations for not-hideously-expensive Android phones that run the game well? Mine is a Samsung Galaxy Core Prime but it's agonisingly slow at even loading the game and it doesn't do the AR (which I wouldn't bother much with anyway but it would be good for the occasional photo).

I thought the babies in the eggs were only as long as the free incubators, which finished a few days ago, but I'm very happy to be corrected if they're still out there. Crossing fingers for the other two now.

Got a 2k egg at some point today from a pokestop, so I'm hoping for a Magikarp. LOL!

Sooo....you might all hate me for this, but I have caught them all. Apart from the ones overseas, obviously.
And it's really deflating! I thought it would feel better than this!
Now what??? Do I need a new obsession?
(Cleaning might be a good one to start with! )