Does having a team work together to control a gym give you any added bonuses? That kind of means blue would be the better option.
Point of clarification: That’s once every 21 hours total so, if you think you can get three defenders into gyms, do that and then cash out your 30 coins. If you do it after your first gym, you’re essentially forfeiting the other 20 coins.
Of course, this depends heavily on how contested your local gyms are. I work in a small town environment so I can hit three or even four gyms in a short time and still have the first held by the time I finish the last one. Then I cash out and wait for the next day to do it again.
When you’re close to a Pokestop, it changes on your map from a blue cube to a blue disc. Tap that and you get a larger version, Swipe your screen and the disc will (usually) spin and you’ll see some goodies drop out: Pokeballs, potions, razz berries, etc. You can either tap those to pick them up or tap the “x” and they’ll be added to your inventory anyway.
You can’t swipe a disc if you get too far away from it and sometimes the flaky servers act up and you get a “try Again Later” or the disc just ‘locks’ and refuses to spin. That’s just the game being worth what you paid for it, not anything you’re doing wrong.
Sort of. The 21 hour delay in collecting free coins means that if you can hold on to a gym for that long, you can collect your coins without having to retake the gym and use Pokemon. Working together to increase the prestige of a gym decreases the likelihood that you’ll lose it, so the advantage is there. However, none of the gyms around here can be held for that long. They change leaders every day I drive by and its difficult to hold when people are willing to sit there and drop your gym’s prestige down repeatedly. The highest gym I’ve seen is level 5
That’s good to know, thanks. So take over the gym, train it up to level 3, then put in 3 Pokemon and cash out?
I don’t know if you can put more than one of your own Pokemon into a gym. I don’t think so. But if you think you can put three Pokemon into separate gyms, do that before cashing out your coins. Worst case scenario is that the other two get knocked out as you’re off installing the third and you’re back to your original ten coins.
Nope. No Trainer may add more than one Pokémon to a Gym.
Hit level 8 yesterday and suddenly started seeing high CP creatures (like 100-300), some of which would break out of the pokeballs 10 times before I gave up.
Is there some special approach I should be trying? Razzberries didn’t seem to help.
Razz berries and then (when you get them) Great Balls, really. If you can improve your accuracy, Nice & Great hits supposedly increase your chances of holding your catch. Think Curve balls do as well although I’m no good at curve balls so I’m more likely to fling my sphere off into space than to hit the thing.
Curve balls are when you hold your finger on the ball and spin it in little circles until stars appear around it and then let go. My son can hit with them most of the time; I just send it out wildly and miss.
I saw a 3d printed template you can put over your phone that lets you guide your finger direct to the pokemon and shoot the ball right at it, but that would sort of preclude curve balls.
Time your throw for the Pokéball to hit when the catch circle has reached its smallest radius. Note that a green circle indicates an easier catch, and as the color progress from green towards yellow and then orange into red, the catch becomes more difficult.
Tried curve balls. Curve balls SUCK.
I think Niantic may have pushed an update, since I haven’t seen this in the past few days. I mean larger CP monsters should be harder to catch, but not like 15 balls harder.
Yeah I’m thinking they definitely changed something with most recent update. I’m level 22 and more often than not it takes at least a couple balls to catch a stupid sub-100 CP pigeon or rat.
Yet there are times where I can catch a 1000+CP rare-ish one with a single regular ball.
From what I hear, Niantic has a backlog of data to go through from last September when they opened up requests for additions/removals, hence the closure right now, so they can work on them. I presume they finally got around to removing that one. On their website right now there is no way to contact them other than to email their business inquiries email which doesn’t look promising. Maybe if a Village/Town/City/State government contacted them that way about a dangerous stop through that they would add it to their workload right away anyway, but I haven’t seen any normal people get changes.
Niantic, after much internet outrage and badgering, has been more communicative as of late. They said that they’re still working on the 3 step bug, they banned trackers like Pokevision because of server strain so they can release the game in more countries, and the higher rate of Pokemon breaking out of balls is a glitch that they are working on. So there’s that at least.
So, “It’s broken”, “We broke it”, and “It’s broken”.
Top notch work, guys :rolleyes:
Well, that’s better than not responding at all, which was their previous default.
My game was updated yesterday, and I experienced more breakouts and escapes, and the “quick throw” no longer worked
Tonight, there are fewer breaks and escapes, and the quick throw seems to be working again, I wonder if Niantic made a soft update to the capture algorithms on the server side
Anyone know if the capture AI/subroutines are in the game code in the app, or sent from the P-GO servers
Driving around, I can confirm that this sign about a rare Pokemon to be found in that business’ VIP lounge is a real one.
Yes, that is a strip club. 
No, I did not go in to check that, I’m only saying that the sign is real, but I do wonder if getting into that hobbie of seeing strippers is much cheaper than getting into serious Pokemon gaming.
Pokehermons…
Better than a lap dance from a Cacnea… 