Pokemon Go

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

Second, in my experience when I walked around at home to catch pokemon and hatch eggs, the game would lock up as soon as I left a wifi zone and when on 4G.  That was bad enough, but when I closed out and tried to re-open the app the login would fail and I wouldn't be able to get back in until I was back on wifi.

FWIW, this problem has mostly gone away. It was the byproduct of the game being WAY more popular than expected.

[SweetOne69]

 

FWIW, this problem has mostly gone away. It was the byproduct of the game being WAY more popular than expected.

 

It was still happening to me on Sunday Morning.

[Brock Beauchamp]

 

It was still happening to me on Sunday Morning.

There was a huge outage on Sunday morning. I believe Niantic was doing a bunch of server work that morning.

 

My point is that things have been improving by the day. The issues will exist, they just diminish by the day. When I first downloaded the game 10-ish days ago, it was unusable from 5pm-9pm every day. Now it only occasionally hiccups.

[SweetOne69]

 

There was a huge outage on Sunday morning. I believe Niantic was doing a bunch of server work that morning.

 

My point is that things have been improving by the day. The issues will exist, they just diminish by the day. When I first downloaded the game 10-ish days ago, it was unusable from 5pm-9pm every day. Now it only occasionally hiccups.

Thanks for the inormation

[Pardon My Dinger]

I leave the country for a week and when I come home, everyone is hunting for monsters. 

 

I have no words. 

[DaveW]

 

There was a huge outage on Sunday morning. I believe Niantic was doing a bunch of server work that morning.

 

My point is that things have been improving by the day. The issues will exist, they just diminish by the day. When I first downloaded the game 10-ish days ago, it was unusable from 5pm-9pm every day. Now it only occasionally hiccups.

They actually got hacked Saturday morning.

[Vanimal46]

Is this still a thing? Or is it dying off now? 

[Mike Sixel]

Still a thing.....

[Brock Beauchamp]

Is this still a thing? Or is it dying off now?

This is going to be a profitable game for at least three years, probably longer. It still hasn't released in a large portion of the industrialized world (including where I've been for the past week, Canada).

[Craig Arko]

[Squirrel]

 

Hahahaha ... that's hilarious. The best was the first guy, though ... getting knocked into the fountain. Lol.

 

Brock better be careful.

[Craig Arko]

 

Hahahaha ... that's hilarious. The best was the first guy, though ... getting knocked into the fountain. Lol.

 

Brock better be careful.

Gotta catch 'em all.

[kab21]

It just came to Taiwan last weekend and things are insane here.  I haven't played yet but I will sometime. I have other things to do though. Like a business and launching a second business in the next 6 months.

 

[kab21]

I play some here in Taiwan and enjoy the walking part. The rest of Taiwan is absolutely crazy for this game. Disclaimer - I have seen nothing like this in Taiwan's second city of Kaohsiung (1+M pop).

 

This is in Taipei (the link and video is in Chinese but you can understand what is going on)

 

http://m.appledaily.com.tw/realtimenews/article/new/20160821/933224/

 

 

[Doomtints]

"The size of your Weedle is colossal!"

--Pokemon Go

[Doomtints]

If you played Pokemon Go at the beginning, but quit because there wasn't much to do, here's what's been added:

 

- More Pokestops
- The PvP/raid system is completely different

- Boss battles

- You can see what the neighborhood Pokemon are and where to find them

- Pokemon spawn more often

- It's easier to acquire higher level Pokemon

- There are missions and rewards

- You can make friends, send gifts, and trade

I live in Chicago and it's a good game here ... but once you get into the suburbs there still aren't many Pokestops.  My building being a Pokestop has always made it easier for me to get gear.

 

I played at the beginning but got bored. I came back a few months ago and it's been a nice diversion during my day....

[glunn]

 

If you played Pokemon Go at the beginning, but quit because there wasn't much to do, here's what's been added:

 

- More Pokestops
- The PvP/raid system is completely different

- Boss battles

- You can see what the neighborhood Pokemon are and where to find them

- Pokemon spawn more often

- It's easier to acquire higher level Pokemon

- There are missions and rewards

- You can make friends, send gifts, and trade

I live in Chicago and it's a good game here ... but once you get into the suburbs there still aren't many Pokestops.  My building being a Pokestop has always made it easier for me to get gear.

 

I played at the beginning but got bored. I came back a few months ago and it's been a nice diversion during my day....

I never wanted a smartphone, but had to get one for work. My son installed Pokemon Go on my phone. I am now level 40.

[ashbury]

I never wanted a smartphone, but had to get one for work. My son installed Pokemon Go on my phone. I am now level 40.

How many levels have you lost at work?

[USMCTwin]

 

I never wanted a smartphone, but had to get one for work. My son installed Pokemon Go on my phone. I am now level 40.

 

I recently wanted to ask about this, but also didn't want to bump a really old thread, but I am glad someone else did. How old is your son or rather how old do you think a kid should be to really grasp this? Very recently my 6 year old has become just pokemon crazed and he doesn't realize this app is a thing that exists quite yet, but I wasn't sure if it's something that I should introduce or hold off on.

[Squirrel]

I recently wanted to ask about this, but also didn't want to bump a really old thread, but I am glad someone else did. How old is your son or rather how old do you think a kid should be to really grasp this? Very recently my 6 year old has become just pokemon crazed and he doesn't realize this app is a thing that exists quite yet, but I wasn't sure if it's something that I should introduce or hold off on.

I’m just going to LOL here, in advance of glunn telling you how old his son is.

[glunn]

 

I recently wanted to ask about this, but also didn't want to bump a really old thread, but I am glad someone else did. How old is your son or rather how old do you think a kid should be to really grasp this? Very recently my 6 year old has become just pokemon crazed and he doesn't realize this app is a thing that exists quite yet, but I wasn't sure if it's something that I should introduce or hold off on.

My youngest son is 32. I think that age 6 might be a but young.

[D. Hocking]

 

My youngest son is 32. I think that age 6 might be a but young.

 

I am not sure if it is too young for Pokemon Go, but I hope you are not allowing your six year old to read Twins Daily.

[USMCTwin]

I figured it may be a tad too young, but after getting him involved in the celebrity death pool here, he is always looking for more games.

[ashbury]

I am not sure if it is too young for Pokemon Go, but I hope you are not allowing your six year old to read Twins Daily.

 

Read? He's been banned twice.

[PseudoSABR]

We need more old people discussing modern technology (etc.) threads. 

[D. Hocking]

 

We need more old people discussing modern technology (etc.) threads. 

 

Someone told me these new portal devices called Walkmans have better sound than my transistor radio, but I am skeptical.  Can anyone confirm this?.  Look at how small my radio is and I can get WCCO almost anywhere - (if the weather does not cause too much static).

 

[Vanimal46]

We need more old people discussing modern technology (etc.) threads.

You're being too modest. We all know your insta game is lit!

[Mike Sixel]

My sister actually interviewed at Pokeman US....and asked her nephew about the games before hand.....didn't get it though.

[Squirrel]

We need more old people discussing modern technology (etc.) threads. 

Anyone 40 and older qualifies as ‘old people,’ just so you know.

[Craig Arko]

We need more old people discussing modern technology (etc.) threads. 

What would you like to learn about?