I swear to God, if one more idiot walks in front of me,because they're hunting a 'Pokemon' I'll...

[Cuchilo]

I caught my first pokewotsit the other day, it was in my car so I didn't have to actually go outside to chase it, maybe I'll try for another in a month or two when I'm bored

I caught my pokewotsit in my zip when i was little . You only do that once i can tell you

 

[John the Monkey]

Could be, but you can do the same trick with Caterpie & Weedle.

...which are also less frequently found (at least for me) recently.

 

[AndyRM]

...which are also less frequently found (at least for me) recently.

I've been finding more of those guys, but have been changing where I play to include more parks and green spaces.

There's a definite difference in what you find depending on your environment.

 

[PhilDawson8270]

Still it means he has had his bike out more times in the last week or two than he has in the last 4 years put together!!! So what's to complain about that... and sometimes I go with him for a ride (ok a slow stopping one but good to be both out on the bike!)

For all the negative press about this game, this is the stuff that needs to be highlighted and praised. Our weekend days out around the local lake with the dog used to be full of joggers, and that's pretty much it. Ok, My better half is also playing this, and is also out catching them when we go these days. But since this game came out, the places is full of kids again, running around, joking.

I know lots of people out walking, or cycling, that otherwise sit at home.

Strangers randomly talking to each other while they play, Some stuff it has achieved is actually quite social, far more social than "social media".

 

[summerdays]

I wonder? I thought that the developer might have been trying to stop people Pidgey stacking as an easy route to levelling up.

What is pidgey stacking? Collecting lots of them?

 

[John the Monkey]

What is pidgey stacking? Collecting lots of them?

Yup.

Basically, there are some species in the game that can be evolved "cheaply", e.g. for 12 candies (e.g. Pidgey, Caterpie, Weedle) rather than 25 (e.g. Ratatta) or 50 (e.g. Drowzee).

As each evolution is worth 500 experience points, players can "stack" the cheap species and evolve them in one sitting (ideally using a lucky egg, which doubles the experience points you receive for the 30 minutes it is active). So as a f'rinstance, 120 candies can evolve 10 pidgeys, netting the player 5000 (or 10,000 with a lucky egg) points, enough to move one level up in the early stages of the game.

 

[AndyRM]

Found this the other day which gives you an idea of what you get when you evolve - http://pogotoolkit.com/

Based on what I've done it seems pretty accurate.

 

[AndyRM]

@Racing roadkill has struck!

 

[Shut Up Legs]

Celebrity? No.
Cute little fluffy sea-animal of some kind? Nope.
Snorlax? Yep.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/h...h-of-the-elusive-snorlax-20160814-gqsg5t.html

 

[AndyRM]

If I caught Snorlax the first thing I'd do would be beat it soundly with a Poke Flute. That fat bastard caused me hours of grief as a kid.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

 

[AndyRM]

 

[Dave the Smeghead]

Whilst anything that gets couch potatoes out and about is to be encouraged this pokemon thing still seems ridiculous to me.
I had a 30 something man walk into me near Bank Station earlier this week (I was walking too) because he was chasing something on the game. I may have been a little unfair when I snatched his phone out of his hands and told him, in no uncertain terms to grow up before passing his phone back. However, in mitigation he had just caused me to miss beating my top score on Tetris......