Pokemon Go #7. Is it Take A Chansey On Me or Hitmonlee With Your Rhythm Stick? You decide.

[DoctorTwo]

Off out in a bit to hand in my timesheet, hope I get another Aerodactyl!

Still haven't got any special items, not even on the 7 day streak drop

I do leave my phone on so my character can have a wander too around my house. I'm assuming thats ok

I've not even seen a sniff of a party hat pikachu, totally different to the Christmas event.

What's the crack with Murkows? Are they the new Scyther? They are everywhere but they don't evolve into anything

DS1 reckons they're the new Mr Mime. Only they're less scary and have cool hats.

Only saw our first partychu, this afternoon, at the pokestop only across a couple of fields from DS2's school, but a mile walk each way! Stuck with getting a screen shot for DS1. I'm guessing they haven't upped the spawn frequency like they did with santachu.

I was reading a news article, earlier, suggesting that Ingress portal recommendations were going to be relaunched, which would mean new pokestops. With 3 churches, a memorial, a post office, library and village centre, plus 3 stone carvings, one of which is a pokestop but at the other end of the village, a mile away, I'm sure I could suggest a few!

Save your candies?

pokemongopocket.com/niantic-told-players-to-save-your-candies-double-xp-event-or-new-feature/

Also, from various hints (there's a game maker's conference on - DICE awards) trading is going to involve physically being with someone rather than swapping a tauros with a Mr Mime across the Atlantic. There's hints from the conference that Niantic want to trigger some big meets of players, so I'm wondering if that's how trading will happen. Or maybe those meets will be to catch localised very rare pokemon?

If you're short of Snorlax, you might want to get to the Kumamoto region of Japan, next week, as they'll be spawning pretty freely there, in an attempt to increase tourism there, after recent earthquakes.

As much as I would love another Snorlax, I don't think that I can justify a trip to Japan to get it.

I'd agree that Murkcrow are the Gen 2 Mr Mime. I've used them when battling a friendly gym. I've a few around 1000Cp that have been alright, useful when you need something half the value for max XP.

Spoofing is mad - but I suppose it's about what you want from the game. I'm not interested in dominating the gyms. If I can pop a pokemon in a gym where it stays for 2 minutes as long as I can get the 10 coins that's fine with me. I'm more interested in collecting all the Pokemon.

I never said i wanted to dominate gyms. Its hard to find one now. Down the road has 3 blisseys. Ones in town are level 10s. I cant often get in one at all.

I've a few around 1000Cp that have been alright, useful when you need something half the value for max do.

I've given up trying the half HP statergy when powering up. It was too conplicated and took me too long to work out what was going to work. Now I just fight with some of my more powerful 'Mon and power through. I try to keep the max CP of my biggest attacker below the max CP of the biggest defender but I don't even always do that. I power up a lot of gyms.

Maybe I should revisit the half CP power up thing though because it's great when it works.

At the moment I'm holding 7 gyms and around five are fairly safe. Two I've been in for months....gym stagnation at its worst/finest

I like to get into the local gyms to collect some coins for incubators. I don't tend to bother further afield.

It was November when the rules changed to allow training with 6 pokemon before I could get into them. I was around level 20 ish around then. I've played since July, but with young children, struggled to really get going until September, and at that point the gyms were maxed out with CP3000 pokemon and stayed static for months. I can click on the gyms from home, so it's easy to follow what's happening (or not!) I think most of those players are holiday/ weekenders, and they only seem to pop up during events now. They seem to be bored of regular play.

I'd like it if there was a cap on how long you can keep a pokemon in a gym. It would reduce level 10 stagnation and open it up more. TBH, as a solo player, I find training in a gym too much bother after level 8. I can't justify over half an hour standing around in the woods going nowhere!

My pokemongo plus thing has arrived. do i need the app open? can it be open in the background while I'm on mums net?!

Walked 10 km today. One new Pokémon - Octillery. Apart from that, just got achey feet.

I actually got a party hat pika today! I caught a Ms mime yesterday I wonder if they'll introduce breeding for Easter.

The thought of having a Mr. And Mrs. Mime produce eggs together is putting me right off my coffee.

There is certainly something weird going on with Mr Mime.

How is it we got the creepiest crappiest regional?

Hello, been lurking for ages but need to get a few things off my chest, mostly that I have not had a single special evolution thingy, nor a chancy, nor loads of the new ones and I am sick of those mint-humbug swinubs everywhere. Apparently there are people who have only seen one. Would they like mine?

Nice to meet you all..

My pokemongo plus thing has arrived. do i need the app open? can it be open in the background while I'm on mums net?

You can have it on in the background which is grwt as you can Mumsnet while you play and also great for the battery.

I heard on the radio that it's not ok to use Pokémon go plus while you are driving which is understandable but a complete bummer! I've got to level 35 without any cheating at all and I've only spent £11 ...... but using Pokémon plus whilst I'm driving get me loads of CP and items.

My phone is in the back of the car 🚗

My 10k eggs keep hatching effing Mantines! Gah! In other news, I caught a turtle, which made me inordinately happy. Even though it was only 10 CP. Oh, and party pikachus up the wazoo here.

I use the Pokemon go whilst driving I hold it it in the hand I steer with with the wrist strap over my knuckles and I can press the button without looking or interrupting my driving at all

I caught a sudowudo and then immediately hatched one out of a 10k
New one for me today was a Skarmory.
Still hatching crap.

Sudowodo is in 10K eggs! You're kidding me! Why, they are quite common, I've caught about 6.

Still no sign of a partychu, not a sniff plus no one I kniw in RL has one either

I use the Pokemon go whilst driving I hold it it in the hand I steer with with the wrist strap over my knuckles and I can press the button without looking or interrupting

That's what I do. It doesn't feel like it could possibly be distracting...... 🤔