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...

So I'm just waiting for a lapras and muk, and a couple of babies. I am confused slightly about gyms though. Is it right I can collect 10 coins in any 21 hour period regardless of the number of gyms I take?
I'm getting better at fighting. I can even dodge! But I tend to just use the pokemon that the game chooses. Is it better if I choose them?

Yaay Nameless!!! Yes collect millions of them so you can trade with us all if it ever becomes possible please

I'm totally pissed off with playing atm.
Last 3 5k eggs have been fucking BELLSPROUTS
I still need Tangela, Togepi and Lickitung from them but think it's never going to happen. Meh.

I had a voltorb hatch yesterday, A VOLTORB when I'm still short of every single baby except for one pichu.

But I finally caught a Hitmonlee, first time I even saw one. I spotted it at the nearby pokestop and raced out of the office like a mad woman.

Has anyone found that the catch rates gone down in the last week? Even "easy" common ones with low CP and green circles are dodging more than normal. I'm struggling to replace balls even though my main grinding route is through the local pokestop zone, and I did a decent stock up while waiting for DS at a leisure centre/ pokestop yesterday.

His swimming pool for his lessons has become a ponyta nest :-) It often is quite an interesting location. Better than my neighbourhood!

Thanks FeralBeryl and I will keep that in mind! Just wish I could figure out what my phone is doing to the GPS! I only seem to have 3G here so maybe it is the signal.

derektheladyhamster I think you can only collect from 11 gyms at a time. So, up to 110 coins in any 21 hour period. Or maybe it's 20 hours. I don't remember.

Hatched another Hitmonlee from a 10k egg. Still don't have Lapras or Smoochum. Sadface.

Growlithe all over in Durham, this morning!

Funny how variable it can be.

derekhamster You collect coins for however many gyms you are in whenever you hit your 'collect shield' in the shop. Which you can only do once every 21 hours. So if you happen to be in 5 gyms once the countdown stops then you will get 50 pokecoins. If in the intervening period you were in more gyms but got knocked out then that unfortunately is tough luck. I usually only manage to get 10 or 20 coins a go as unfortunately where I live you get knocked out of gyms pretty quickly.

somewhat yes, I have noticed that too more recently. I am now often running out of red balls because some things take so many balls. Depending on my mood I sometimes apply the 3 ball rule now because of it. Or even just 1 ball if I dont have many left. I've found that it tends to be higher CP things that take more, but not always.

Hi all, getting there slowly, still a few to add to the pokedex, some I have never even seen (yep hitmonchan and lickitung, thats you I'm talking about).
Made it more interesting by getting DD8 involved so I can live vicariously through her achievements! I love seeing her baby ones with a couple hundred CP in the gym next to the usual 2-3k bruisers 😄.
Hoping for a new event soon... or some interesting hatches at least.

Also, thoughts on spoofers? There is a player who has openly admitted to spoofing so she can play without leaving the house. She must be in early 30's level and has some beasts at 3k CP, (which annoys me a bit coz it is really hard to level up those gyms!). What would you do? On my team so not rushing to report, but it's a little bit annoying that I've put in all the leg work and she's (presumably) in bed drinking tea and eating biscuits while monopolising the neighbourhood!

She sounds lazy mate and isn't getting out of the game what we are. No idea how she's still interested to play! I look at the health benefits like how many km I've walked and that's real data!

Thanks for the info about the gyms. They change very regularly so I've got used the taking the coins as soon as i win one.

I caught my first wild Starmie today, not new to the 'dex but still nice. I also caught Lickitung, Omanyte, Grimer, Vulpix and another Magikarp which takes me to 260 candy. Nearly there...

I agree Cantstand, the app tells me I've walked 433km since I started at the end of August.

I have now taken to telling people I use it as a walking app to hide my embarrassment at how completely f'ing obsessed I am with it! I did to an extra couple of km today to bag a new gym! Poor doggie. 🐶😴

I should hit 1000km by the end of this week, I haven't had a gold badge for a while so I'm looking forward to it. I get my fourth Gyrados with my next evolution session but I've still not seen a Grimer/Muk. One day, one day.

I totally use it as a walking app and in fact give it full credit for being able to drop a few pounds and keep them off over the winter. For sure if I didn't have critters to chase, I would NOT be making sure to get out and walk two miles every day in this wretched weather!

Also I finally broke down and bought a backup battery pack thing for my phone. I woke up from my afternoon nap, ready to go, and of course I'd forgotten to charge the damn thing. So now I'm sitting here impatiently waiting for it to charge, hoping it will get enough juice in time for me to get out there before it gets dark and/or starts raining again. I do feel marginally better, having just ordered the backup battery, but I'm still peeved.

Where does it show how much I've walked?

This might be of use to gym battlers, here's which monsters I've found most effective against the common defenders round here.
Attacks
Jynx - magnetron
Charizard - vapereon
Rhydon - slowbro
Vapereon - tangela, slowbro
Gyrados - jolteon, raichu, magneton.
Snorlax - hitmonlee rhydon
Flareon - vapereon

They all work really quick and I've been able to use them to knock out my adversary and still retreat without them fainting.

Anyone like to add?

Igneococcus, if you click on your trainer in the bottom left corner it's the badge that looks like a running shoe. If you click on the medal that you are working on it should fly out a circle that shows you how far you've walked and how much you need for the medal.

Thanks to managing to catch a few, I finally had enough Kabuto candies so now have my Kabutops. Only Aerodactyl and Tangela from Gen 1 and Magby from the babies to get. I'm now buddying Togepi as I have two, so I theoretically could evolve one, if I walk 140km first.

TheOtherGalen, I use it as a walking app too. It's much more satisfying to see your efforts hatch an egg, even if something you really don't need :-) , or to generate a candy. I've done a ton of walking I would never have done without this game and, like you, have managed to drop a few pounds. I just need to cut down on the chocolate for it to have more of an effect though, but all of the walking makes me hungry! LOL! Oh, I'm now in the habit of putting my phone and my battery pack on charge each night ready for the next day.

Deffo makes me walk further. Like tonight after I had walked DD to dance I walked a longer way home so I could call by 2 'easier' gyms so I could collect my 20 coins for the day.

Have walked 708 km so far.

snitcheroo I have a really sad list I carry around in my phone case for gym battles. Lots of alternatives so I can try and get a Pokemon of half the CP value for when prestiging friendly gyms.

695.6km since the game first launched, so in 6 months.

I've taken many more steps without it running, but then again, a few steps have been achieved on a crawly bus.

Thanks icouldbeknitting
705.7 k it seems but I know that i sometimes get a lot of walking credited just while the phone sits on my desk, only at work not at home as much. On the other hand I do a ~ 6 km walk a couple of times a week at lunchtime and I only get about 2 km for that, I lose connection for a large junk of it, so it probably balances out.