The Gaming Thread

Finch wrote:

10K Exp? That's easy bro!

I'm hoping to make my Pidgey evolving video on Thursday, just waiting till my next level.

Easy if you're walking around actually playing the game not just turning your phone on and checking out what's going on so far.

I'm trying to figure out what the perfect socially acceptable level is. According my workmate's reactions, it's lower than level 18 hahahaha.

Some absolute lad has decoded Pokémon Go and it has given us all a better insight into what the higher levels look like and where legendary Pokémon can be found.

It was all put together by at the Matthew Egan and researcher at The Silph Road, which is either the ultimate website for basement dwellers, or the ultimate site for cool Pokémon hunters - depending on where you stand on the app. For the latter, this lad's done you a great favour.

Anyway, here's some of the cool shit the decoder has uncovered:

"- The Trainer Level Cap is 40.

- Egg's cap at Level 20, so if you get an egg at Level 37 it'll still hatch at the same quality as if you were at level 20.

- Wild Pokémon cap at Level 30, meaning after Level 30 everyone will find the same max CP Pokémon and it'll be a matter of spending the candy and stardust to upgrade them to your level's cap based on their CP arc.

- There is an achievement/badge rank above gold.

- Curveballs and Accurate Throws (Nice, Great, etc.) have been confirmed as helping with the capture chance of a Pokéball throw.

- There may be future Incubators that reduce the amount of kilometres needed before they hatch. (There is an incubator called "distance" in the code)

- Moves have an Accuracy and a Critical Hit Rate.

- Each unique Pokémon has its own Capture and Flee rate.

- Move Damage may go up with Trainer Level.

- Pokémon do become harder to catch as you level up.

- Mewtwo, Moltres, Zapdos, Articuno are Legendary.

- Mew is Mythic.

- Farfetch'd is out there... somewhere. As is Ditto.

- The Charge Meter is filled 0.5 for each 1 HP of damage dealt. This means a super-effective move that does more damage will charge the special attack faster. That is actually really important to know.

- Pokemon have a base Attack, Defence and Stamina (HP). Therefore they do not have an Attack and Special Attack stat like in the 3DS games.

- Dragonite has the strongest base attack for non-legends at 250.

- Mewtwo has a base attack of 284.

- Moltres has the highest base attack of the three legendary birds.

- Articuno has the highest base defence of the three.

- Zapdos is almost as high as Moltres in base attack but is likely lower due to Type Advantage.

- Pokémon have an evolution modifier and a HP modifier when they evolve both CP and HP go up a set multiplier.

- Defending Pokémon at a Gym attack every 1.5 seconds.

- The Master Ball is in the game but there is no clue where it is found.

- The Legendary Pokémon do have a spawn rate - BUT - they have no capture rate. Could this mean they require a Master Ball?"

What does this mean? Well, it confirms that legendary Pokémon exist, and are possibly only caught with a Master Ball. Thanks Pokémon Fortress.

I understood the first ten posts and the rest is gobbledegook to me because I don't know pokemon before this game.

Anyway, captured my first big purple blob this morning. Will check it out in a bit.

filthridden wrote:Anyway, captured my first big purple blob this morning. Will check it out in a bit.

He's name's Mr Whippy

Caught a 741 Wartortle and 665 Growlithe on my way to work this morning.

Happy with that.

Got a heap of evolutions to do as well so should get to level 23 by the end of the working week.

Few evos done today...

1441 Poliwrath
1339 Golduck
1249 Pidgeot
1050 Fearow

In my pokedex why do some have a star beside them and why do some have a blue background ? I'm assuming Master 7 has powered them up with candy or something ??

No Worries wrote:In my pokedex why do some have a star beside them and why do some have a blue background ? I'm assuming Master 7 has powered them up with candy or something ??

Means you have favourites, you can click the star next to them to make them favourites. If you don't want them to be favourites you can deselect it.

whats the little blue background mean?

ryno_ wrote:whats the little blue background mean?

Caught in the last 24 hours.

Bren wrote:Few evos done today...

1441 Poliwrath
1339 Golduck
1249 Pidgeot
1050 Fearow

Sweet Poliwrath

In the space of three metres I got a Seel, Dragonair and Lickitung all of which I hadn't caught before

Up to 100 seen, 100 caught.

I caught a 400CP Bulbasaur, is that good?

starting to see a few higher CP dudes in the wild which is nice.

600m off a 10km egg which I've been on since Saturday, I think.

Do you guys spend all your monopoly money on magic eggs or do you mix it up between eggs, lures, incense, anything else?

Honeysett wrote:In the space of three metres I got a Seel, Dragonair and Lickitung all of which I hadn't caught before

Up to 100 seen, 100 caught.

I've got 53 seen, 52 caught... the one I didn't catch was an IvySaur (sp.) that the game glitched out on as I snatched it.

Be interesting to see when they bring the new features to the game and what exactly they are.
Still waiting for more Easter eggs to be discovered besides the Eevee evolution thing too.

filthridden wrote:I caught a 400CP Bulbasaur, is that good?

starting to see a few higher CP dudes in the wild which is nice.

600m off a 10km egg which I've been on since Saturday, I think.

Do you guys spend all your monopoly money on magic eggs or do you mix it up between eggs, lures, incense, anything else?

been spending the coins i scrounge up pretty much solely on incubators, I go through those things so quickly

Saw a youtube video that spun me out today, a guy named 'ali-a' from England has been doing daily PoGo vlogs since the app was first released, he went through his pokedex and showed that he's only ever seen one Doduo and it ran from him... meanwhile I've think I've uttured the words 'ugh, Doduo' at least once every 15 minutes logged into this game.

I think the spread and location of pokes are geographical. For instance I live in Western Sydney and can't get out of bed without copping a double headed doudou. I could get 5 before I got to work if I wanted to go to the effort.

No Worries wrote:I think the spread and location of pokes are geographical. For instance I live in Western Sydney and can't get out of bed without copping a double headed doudou. I could get 5 before I got to work if I wanted to go to the effort.

It's better to be getting two heads rather than one!

surmo13 wrote:
been spending the coins i scrounge up pretty much solely on incubators, I go through those things so quickly

Saw a youtube video that spun me out today, a guy named 'ali-a' from England has been doing daily PoGo vlogs since the app was first released, he went through his pokedex and showed that he's only ever seen one Doduo and it ran from him... meanwhile I've think I've uttured the words 'ugh, Doduo' at least once every 15 minutes logged into this game.

I spend all my PokeCoins on incubators. Like others, go through them so fast though. Kind of wish the eggs were rarer, but kind of not.

I also watch Ali-A, great Youtuber and I'm loving his videos.