Yes, it gives me something to play with while my gf is shopping.
I’m not (servers have been unreachable every time I’ve tried to connect), but apparently there was a Pikachu in the iRoom* this morning.
It seems like it can be a good way to get some walking done when the weather isn’t as deadly hot as these last few days. The area around my house has wide sidewalks, several parks, but outside of school hours human beings concentrate within the multiple supermarkets. Good area to walk around, albeit with a boredom factor of about 10000.
- That room has several teams, but one happens to make i-stuff apps. So it’s the iRoom, because everybody knows what iStuff is but people aren’t so clear on ATM software.
What! It’s over 9000?
Level 22, Team Blue
I really enjoy the gym fighting, so I’ve been working on building a reasonably balanced team rather than putting too many resources into a single fighter.
Right now, I have a Starmie (1370), Flareon(1334), Jolteon (1328), and a Pinsir (1302). I just evolved my best Pidgey into a Pidgeot with 1148, so I’m pretty happy with that.
Ran into a half-dozen players sitting by a pond at one of the nearby stops, and stopped to hang out with them. Since there were a bunch of us, I dropped a freebie lure I’d gotten, and we were promptly swamped with magikarp–ten in a row, before a psyduck popped up to break the chain. It was kind of funny to see people excited about catching magikarp, the original joke pokemon, but, as one of the guys pointed out, that was 10% of a gyarados in a half hour.
So, we “fished” and chatted about games until the lure ran out.
Yep! Level 12, Team Mystic.
At the risk of sounding like a pretentious, contrarian threadshitting douche: no.
So I’m happy to say I finally made it work, I deleted the game and reinstalled it and it worked now. I have a handful of Pokémon just caught between yesterday and today. I don’t intend to walk around with it and run into people, but I’ll play it now and then.
I am not, but I think I might be the only one in my entire neighborhood.
There’s a small park near my house - nothing fancy, just a street corner with a small fountain, some benches, a basketball court. In the past, there might be two or three people hanging out there, maybe half a dozen on Saturday evening. And then Pokemon GO came out, and it’s packed. It turns out there are like four pokestops in the park, all within easy range of anyone sitting there. And now there are dozens of people at the park, all day, every day. At first they look normal - just folks sitting around in groups and talking quietly. And then you notice that every single one of them is staring at their phone all the time.
It’s… odd.
In my experience, they’re still talking to one another since just staring at your phone gets dull (it vibrates/chimes when anything appears anyway) and Pokemon GO doesn’t play well in the background so you can’t even really text or read Twitter, etc while it’s up. If anything, they’re probably being more “real-life” social than most people on their phones.
But, yeah, places with multiple Pokestops in range are golden and people drop Lures there (increases everyone’s catch rate by the stop) and so you wind up with a crowd just sharing the wealth and hanging out.
I got an email from the local zoo (Brookfield, near Chicago) announcing its fifty (!) Pokestops and safe, traffic-free grounds for you to hunt Pokemon in. Just stay out of the lion habitat, kids!