I know now why so many people skipped and/or hated this game haha! (Just got back from Disney). It was fun, but deleted now. ¯_ (ツ)_/¯
It makes so much sense that the most dense urban areas have the most wild Pokémon.
Pokemon Go at home vs POKÉMON GO
Submitted 11 months ago by Ecksell@lemmy.one to games@lemmy.world
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Crow@lemmy.world 11 months ago
tuckerm@supermeter.social 11 months ago
I always thought it would have been cool if Pokemon were only found in environments that were "realistic" to that type. Like, if you had to go to a river to find water Pokemon, or if Geodude was only in the mountains. Seems like they didn't do that, though.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Gotta break into a power plant to get that magnemite and voltorb.
echodot@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I did think that was going to be the original idea. To encourage you to actually explore your environment and to actually go outside the city.
Doing that would require some fairly robust and sophisticated trading mechanics though so I actually could get a sand type even if I didn’t live near a desert, in exchange they could have a grass type that I had captured on open more land in Northern England.
It would have been cool if they’ve managed to get the market density required to pull it off
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This system is in the game. You can look up info for Pokemon biomes. TL;DR is that open street maps lists zones related to terrain, and Pokemon GO has always had separate spawn pools related to these. The major ones are forest, mountain, waterside, and urban.
As of several years ago, this distinction was heavily reduced, and it largely flattened the spawn pools worldwide.
But in 2016-2017 I’d specifically seek out rivers to find Magikarp and lakes to find Poliwag.
SeekPie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Where I live magicarps only spwan near the river (I think, have never seen them anywhere else)
FunnyUsername@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s cuz kids would have died
kratoz29@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I feel you bro, and the saddest thing is that I don’t even feel comfortable playing it when on vacation because it drains the battery as crazy lol, and I don’t enjoy using powerbanks.
MamboGator@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I played it for a little while, but I’m pretty reclusive so I mostly just caught the few things that showed up in my apartment. After catching a bunch of random birds I finally caught a Rattata and named it “Pikachu” and then quit.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What were you doing playing pokemans at disney when you coulda been waiting in line dude
Ecksell@lemmy.one 11 months ago
Ah dang it! What was I thinking?!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 11 months ago
you better have named one hlookup or your banned from excel club
Lionel@endlesstalk.org 11 months ago
This game was such a letdown
Phen@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
Because it wasn’t a game, it was a gamified data collection app. If someone actually wanted to make a game with this concept, it could turn out well, but that was never Niantic’s intention.
lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I had a ton of fun playing Ingress in highschool/college – exploring parts of my city I had never been to before, walking around a ton, meeting new people and making friends.
But yeah, it’s a data collection service for Google Maps.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Honestly thought they abandoned the game already.
Ecksell@lemmy.one 11 months ago
I did too, I was surprised to see it recommended on an App Store front page.
Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de 11 months ago
You have roads? Sad, but I wish I could’ve enjoyed even from a rural place.
electrogamerman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Pallet town vs Celadon city.
that’s why ash a pikachu
sour@kbin.social 11 months ago
also requests data
FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was emulating this on bluestacks, cause it was way too hot out. Got banned on that phone plus the emulator. Stopped playing since then. Besides I’m not gonna keep spending money on space for inventory.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
It’s only good in urban areas. Suburbs and rural areas are worse
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 11 months ago
It’s doable. It’s just a different game. You get to know usernames who take or join gyms, you can to recognise people on the rare occasion you party up for a raid.
A friend of mine GPS spoofs the game and it’s a completely different game though. I’m having to use external tools to remote raid for cool mons as an organised party, but they just tip up to any major city centre raid location and do whatever they need to do whenever they want. That said, gyms turn over within minutes, so getting free coins is a pain in the ass whereas a lot of rural folk repsect the 8hr rule to maximise coins.
If I’m honest, I’m just a guy who let his youngster sign up for an account, so that my boy could play the game while I banged in the buddy miles daily when out running, but I’ve quite enjoyed it too being out in the sticks.
NumbersCanBeFun@kbin.social 11 months ago
That’s so much work for something the developers should just have enabled by default. Has anyone stopped to think about the kid in the wheelchair that wanted to play this game?
Cheers@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
…while I banged in the buddy miles daily when out running…
What is this phrase? Fucking your buddy daily when running?
Murais@lemmy.one 11 months ago
In Asia, it’s a nightmare.
The PokeStops and events are plentiful and raids are easy to win and great.
But gyms, man. They don’t change because of the smurf accounts. I stopped being able to get free coins because people would walk around my city with corkboards with 6-8 phones, and any time I knocked out a Pokémon at a gym, a new one was immediately in its place.
No more free coins, so I quit entirely.
sour@kbin.social 11 months ago
is only good in olden days