I'm not too competitive and my hope was I would be able to complete my pokedex and catch pokemon all across the world when I am travelling, so I hope it's really fixed before I start.

I am sort of lucky in the sense that my town has 3 memorials nearby so 2 connect as stops and everyone drops lures but I still get the same 3-5 pokemon, I meet a lot of cool people and even went on a few dates here(she picked Team Valor, I'm Mystic so hoping things work out) since it's near water so that's probably the only thing I enjoy about it so far, had around 20 people here tonight and even a few police officers.

Also hope they fix walking/eggs, hate having my phone open and draining battery, buying the wristband for it so hopefully that connects in some way and I won't need my phone on anymore.  

you probably didnt knew there was a smoking hut near your house without pokemon go  

Posted by Colin

I'm not too competitive and my hope was I would be able to complete my pokedex and catch pokemon all across the world when I am travelling, so I hope it's really fixed before I start.

I am sort of lucky in the sense that my town has 3 memorials nearby so 2 connect as stops and everyone drops lures but I still get the same 3-5 pokemon, I meet a lot of cool people and even went on a few dates here(she picked Team Valor, I'm Mystic so hoping things work out) since it's near water so that's probably the only thing I enjoy about it so far, had around 20 people here tonight and even a few police officers.

Also hope they fix walking/eggs, hate having my phone open and draining battery, buying the wristband for it so hopefully that connects in some way and I won't need my phone on anymore.

so u went out with a random person who played pokemon go?  

I live in a farm 30mins from the city and there is nothing  

Been collecting a lot of Karps. So close but so far.

The Texas Rangers Ballpack Stadium is 5mins from me and it has 5 lures together. And it is near the water.
So it is great
Once I finish the Karps. I will move onto the growlithe. Which I heard they spawn in a park next to my city.
 

Posted by Santa Claus

Been collecting a lot of Karps. So close but so far.

The Texas Rangers Ballpack Stadium is 5mins from me and it has 5 lures together. And it is near the water.
So it is great
Once I finish the Karps. I will move onto the growlithe. Which I heard they spawn in a park next to my city.

I am so glad I caught a gyrados without having to evolve my Karps sweet tapdancing Christ  

Posted by Ivy

I am so glad I caught a gyrados without having to evolve my Karps sweet tapdancing Christ

eh, evolving is the name of the game until you get your levels high enough. the pokemon themselves dont matter imo  

Ingress was better.  

Posted by Crono

eh, evolving is the name of the game until you get your levels high enough. the pokemon themselves dont matter imo

Yeah but why invest in powering up and evolving pokemon if you're just going to find stronger ones in the wild anyways?

That's another problem I have with the game. In the actual Pokemon games pokemon that are caught at low levels and raised will always be stronger than wild pokemon of the same level. They didn't translate this to Pokemon Go at all, there seems to be very little reason to actually invest in your Pokemon.  

Posted by Dusty

Yeah but why invest in powering up and evolving pokemon if you're just going to find stronger ones in the wild anyways?

That's another problem I have with the game. In the actual Pokemon games pokemon that are caught at low levels and raised will always be stronger than wild pokemon of the same level. They didn't translate this to Pokemon Go at all, there seems to be very little reason to actually invest in your Pokemon.

evolve for exp and then continue to transfer as usual imo. ur not really gonna use the candy for anything else.

i dunno, after i found out how the combat is in this game i kind of lost interest. they had a good chance to make this into something better  

http://imgur.com/uoIJjdz

For "CP per powerup efficiency tier list"  

Yeah can practically take any gym since you can just dodge every attack, not really a combat system IMO

so far investing stardust into my starter Squirtle hasn't been too bad, just wish I could catch more of them because they rarely spawn here, I've seen players who live near nests where 3 starters spawn at once with 1 of them being fully evolved, life isn't fair

I don't care for gyms but I do want to complete all my badges, you need 1000 gym battle wins and to train 1000 times for the gold badges so I will probably get a friend on the opposite team and just go back/forth with them to get the count up

List of achievements and how to accomplish them:

Jogger Walk 10 km Walk 100 km Walk 1,000 km
Kanto Register 5 Pokémon in the Pokédex Register 50 Pokémon in the Pokédex Register 100 Pokémon in the Pokédex
Collector Catch 30 Pokémon Catch 500 Pokémon Catch 2,000 Pokémon
Scientist Evolve 3 Pokémon Evolve 20 Pokémon Evolve 200 Pokémon
Breeder Hatch 10 Eggs Hatch 100 Eggs Hatch 1,000 Eggs
Backpacker Visit 100 PokéStops Visit 1,000 PokéStops Visit 2,000 PokéStops
Fisherman Catch 3 Magikarp with XL weight Catch 50 Magikarp with XL weight
Battle Girl Win 10 Gym battles Win 100 Gym battles Win 1,000 Gym battles
Ace Trainer Train 10 times at a friendly Gym Train 100 times Train 1,000 times
Schoolkid Catch 10 Normal-type Pokémon Catch 50 Normal-type Pokémon Catch 200 Normal-type Pokémon
Black Belt Catch 10 Fighting-type Pokémon Catch 50 Fighting-type Pokémon Catch 200 Fighting-type Pokémon
Bird Keeper Catch 10 Flying-type Pokémon Catch 50 Flying-type Pokémon Catch 200 Flying-type Pokémon
Punk Girl Catch 10 Poison-type Pokémon Catch 50 Poison-type Pokémon Catch 200 Poison-type Pokémon
Hiker Catch 10 Rock-type Pokémon Catch 50 Rock-type Pokémon Catch 200 Rock-type Pokémon
Ruin Maniac Catch 10 Ground-type Pokémon Catch 50 Ground-type Pokémon Catch 200 Ground-type Pokémon
Bug Catcher Catch 10 Bug-type Pokémon Catch 50 Bug-type Pokémon Catch 200 Bug-type Pokémon
Hex Maniac Catch 10 Ghost-type Pokémon Catch 50 Ghost-type Pokémon Catch 200 Ghost-type Pokémon
Depot Agent Catch 10 Steel-type Pokémon Catch 50 Steel-type Pokémon Catch 200 Steel-type Pokémon
Kindler Catch 10 Fire-type Pokémon Catch 50 Fire-type Pokémon Catch 200 Fire-type Pokémon
Swimmer Catch 10 Water-type Pokémon Catch 50 Water-type Pokémon Catch 200 Water-type Pokémon
Gardener Catch 10 Grass-type Pokémon Catch 50 Grass-type Pokémon Catch 200 Grass-type Pokémon
Rocker Catch 10 Electric-type Pokémon Catch 50 Electric-type Pokémon Catch 200 Electric-type Pokémon
Psychic Catch 10 Psychic-type Pokémon Catch 50 Psychic-type Pokémon Catch 200 Psychic-type Pokémon
Skier Catch 10 Ice-type Pokémon Catch 50 Ice-type Pokémon Catch 200 Ice-type Pokémon
Dragon Tamer Catch 10 Dragon-type Pokémon Catch 50 Dragon-type Pokémon Catch 200 Dragon-type Pokémon
Fairy Tale Girl Catch 10 Fairy-type Pokémon Catch 50 Fairy-type Pokémon Catch 200 Fairy-type Pokémon
Youngster Catch 3 Rattata with XS weight Catch 50 Rattata with XS weight
Pikachu Fan Catch 3 Pikachu Catch 50 Pikachu  

im legit wondering why they went with this combat system  

Gyms are too easy to take.  

Posted by Crono

im legit wondering why they went with this combat system

Yeah looks pretty lame.

I feel they want the battle system to more fast paced but its looks really boring.