Pokemans and how to catch them with your phone - friend codes in OP
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Gavinmad
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Diglett is the only pokemon in the game (aside from magikarp) that can be powered up to level 1.5 while still being at 10cp
Ukerric
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I have three "high" level Snorlaxes, all caught legitimately. The sight of 100 people cramming thru a small bridge trying to get to the Snorlax that's currently up is a sight to behold.
(I forgot to take a picture, but the common rush to Vaporeon in Central Park vid is peanuts compared to that one. Trust me)
PS: I also got a lower level Snorlax, which was instantly converted to candy to power up my highest one, but I'm still slipping slowly in relative levels...
Gavinmad
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Maybe in a big city, but Champaign-Urbana is college town of like 100k, plus the transient student population. Also, I've yet to find a single communal map like pokeradar that CU residents use. Pokeradar looks like it's absolutely insane in a high pop area like Navy Pier, Santa Monica, or Central Park. So in a much smaller, much less densely populated area, without easy access to spawn maps, where if you happen to find out about a Snorlax you actually have to be both free to run after it and it has to be close enough for you to catch, someone with multiple 2k+ Snorlaxes is cheating their ass off.
Koushirou
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Gavinmad
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Assuming eggs don't have their own internal rarity (and I suspect they do), you have a 1/17 chance of getting a Snorlax from a 10K egg. A perfect freshly hatched Snorlax has 1778 CP, which is a long way from 2k+ seeing as how that perfect Snorlax has to be powered up 5 times just to hit 2001 CP and 8 times to get over 2100 CP. An 80% Snorlax needs 7 powerups to hit 2k and 9 powerups to hit 2100. So going with 80% instead of perfect, it takes 25 candy to get your Snorlax up to 2100.
Someone with 3 Snorlaxes over 2100 living in a town of ~100k is either luckier than a powerball winner, spending hundreds of dollars on incubators, or cheating their ass off.
Chris
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Well just saying that I have 2 ultra rares at good CP so it's not impossible. Town size is irrelevant, eggs are optimal for getting them and getting them at that IV level plus power up candy.
How are hackers getting them? Even auto walking that's 1 egg at a time and they need to clear out 5ks too. Are they spoofing to Snorlax nests?
How are hackers getting them? Even auto walking that's 1 egg at a time and they need to clear out 5ks too. Are they spoofing to Snorlax nests?
Gavinmad
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I don't think there is such a thing as a Snorlax nest, but if you use a communal map and live in a major city (or spoof to one) you can just check the map every so often for Snorlax (or Vaporeon, Lapras, Exeggutor, or Dragonite, etc). I assume GPS spoofing is just manually typing in the lat/long you want to go to just like the map scanner app I use, so as long as you never move between places fast enough to trigger softbans, I would assume your account will never draw attention to itself.
I imagine Tokyo, NY, and LA would be the best places in the world to spoof to. I loaded up Ueno Park in my map scanner after Chysamere posted about it and it was pretty ridiculous. I'm sure there are plenty of other absurd spots in Tokyo. With LA obviously Santa Monica Pier is huge, and I'm pretty sure La Brea is too. NY has Central Park as well as miles upon miles of coastline for Dratini. Navy Pier and Adler Planetarium in Chicago are supposed to be really good too.
Meanwhile I'm gonna sit here and accumulate the largest stockpile of Pidgey candy the world has ever seen.
I imagine Tokyo, NY, and LA would be the best places in the world to spoof to. I loaded up Ueno Park in my map scanner after Chysamere posted about it and it was pretty ridiculous. I'm sure there are plenty of other absurd spots in Tokyo. With LA obviously Santa Monica Pier is huge, and I'm pretty sure La Brea is too. NY has Central Park as well as miles upon miles of coastline for Dratini. Navy Pier and Adler Planetarium in Chicago are supposed to be really good too.
Meanwhile I'm gonna sit here and accumulate the largest stockpile of Pidgey candy the world has ever seen.
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Djay
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I went to Vegas last week and it was pretty cool collecting a bunch of Growlithes, Mankeys, and Meowths that are all rare to find around me normally. Also hatched a Lampas with all my walking.
Looks like the initial fervor has died down, but I'm still enjoying myself.
Looks like the initial fervor has died down, but I'm still enjoying myself.
Ukerric
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The parks area around here are still overcrowded with people nose on their phone.
Heck, even the homeless guys say "any good pokemon?" when you pass next to them...
By the way, did they rotate nests again last Friday? The small park where I used to get Electabuzz all the time (4 spots, rotating on the usual hourly schedule) seem to have Hypnos now, and the park next to home seems to have regular Mr Mimes now, which I never saw anywhere before...
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Just because you never leave your town does not mean nobody else does.
Take it from someone that got banned, Niantic is cleaning up the game and it's very hard to continue cheating without getting caught.
So yeah, find another excuse for why other people are better at the game than you
Ukerric
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Did check two other parks, one that was a Vulpix hotspot, and still has them, and one that was an Eevee hotspot who seems to have Kabutos all over.
So, some rotation happened. The previous one was 3 or 4 weeks ago?
Ukerric
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Colleague at work just go ban. He used a pokeadvisor-type app to access the pokedex, tag his mon by IV, and drop the low-level ones. No botting, just deck manager. Still banned.