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Pokeghost town.

Posted by Evil Empryss
Wyrm
member, 622 posts
Sat 9 Jul 2016
at 04:11
  • msg #7

Pokeghost town

On the plus side, I am now more inclined to explore this place called Canada
This message was last edited by the user at 03:39, Sun 10 July 2016.
Merevel
member, 1038 posts
Gaming :-)
Very unlucky
Sun 10 Jul 2016
at 17:24
  • msg #8

Pokeghost town

I like my cheap phone bill. So no Pokemon go for me. Most of my friends on fb are a different story.

Welp, might smash through Pokemon Yellow again.
Agent 0013
member, 74 posts
Wed 13 Jul 2016
at 18:22
  • msg #9

Pokeghost town

Pogo will probably have staying power. I play Niantic's original augmented reality game, Ingress, and it has quite a large following still. Personally I've logged over 1000km of walking and many thousands of KM driving for that game in just over a year. It's addictive enough that it's cut into my main gaming addiction, Warcraft.

Pogo has many similar gameplay elements to Ingress such as walking and exploring with the added fanaticism of Pokémon fans to keep them interested. It won't be going anywhere fast!

I personally haven't tried it, though. I'm not a fan of the franchise.
Cloudy
member, 69 posts
It's nice to be important
It's important to be nice
Wed 13 Jul 2016
at 19:07
  • msg #10

Pokeghost town

That's where everyone has been lately! I was starting to think aliens might have been involved or something.
Evil Empryss
member, 1494 posts
Try tasting your words
before spitting them out
Wed 13 Jul 2016
at 19:09
  • msg #11

Pokeghost town

I admit it's addicting, and gets me out of the house, and I've seen places around town I've never seen before, but I still want to game!
Nerwen
member, 1850 posts
seek to understand before
you seek to be understood
Wed 13 Jul 2016
at 21:24
  • msg #12

Pokeghost town

I couldn't really not try it, because basically everyone in the local Ingress community has started playing it, and some days it's all they talk about. Mostly I just wish I could get the game to load more than 1/4th of the time.
facemaker329
member, 6809 posts
Gaming for over 30
years, and counting!
Thu 14 Jul 2016
at 05:39
  • msg #13

Pokeghost town

Never got into Pokemon in the first place, so it's got a pretty limited appeal, to me.  I have an occasional bout of curiosity when everyone I work with is going ape-shnitzel thirty seconds before the show starts because someone saw a charmander was somewhere in the vicinity...

But I get over it pretty quickly.
Waffles
member, 172 posts
Fri 15 Jul 2016
at 13:32
  • msg #14

Pokeghost town

I didn't know anything about Pokemon until this game came out. My work is a poke stop. I'm now addicted to it but still do my gaming because I can only walk around so much before I want to die on the sidewalk. Even my dog is like 'do we really have to go on another walk?'
ShadoPrism
member, 999 posts
OCGD-Obsessive-Compulsive
Gamer-Disorder
Fri 15 Jul 2016
at 13:37
  • msg #15

Pokeghost town

I grew up with pokemon. I remember when McDonalds was giving away toys and these paper tray separators with pokemon themes. I think I was 7 or 8 then. I am 50 now, gives you some idea the true age of Ash Catchem when you think about it.
Utsukushi
member, 1372 posts
I should really stay out
of this, I know...but...
Fri 15 Jul 2016
at 16:10
  • msg #16

Pokeghost town

Our phones won't support it, alas... I would love to get our son into it.  Or just off of his bed, generally, for pretty much any reason.

Am considering unleashing some fire ants.  But Pokemon Go sounded... friendlier?
Agent 0013
member, 75 posts
Fri 15 Jul 2016
at 17:25
  • msg #17

Pokeghost town

In reply to Utsukushi (msg # 16):

The game isn't released on all platforms in all countries yet, so that could be affecting you. If that isn't the cause, get him to try Ingress. Lots of walking to be done there! :) (And make sure he picks Enlightened!)
Nerwen
member, 1851 posts
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Fri 15 Jul 2016
at 20:41
  • msg #18

Pokeghost town

Lots of gas expenditure, more like. Also, blue is better. Go Resistance!

Pokemon Go makes you have to actually walk more because you have to move slowly for it to count for egg hatching purposes. In Ingress, there's a badge for moving at slow speeds (allegedly walking or biking... >.>), but you don't really get anything game-advancing out of it. On the other hand, the Ingress servers are more stable and it's more likely to load on older phones.
Sittingbull
member, 231 posts
Don't you give me a link.
I use 24K dial-up.
Fri 15 Jul 2016
at 21:28
  • msg #19

Pokeghost town

I have seen other games I am in slow some, just on RPOL though.
ShadoPrism
member, 1000 posts
OCGD-Obsessive-Compulsive
Gamer-Disorder
Fri 15 Jul 2016
at 22:52
  • msg #20

Pokeghost town

never get me to play either of those. Between the arthritis in my legs and my bad heart I never get very far.
Agent 0013
member, 76 posts
Sun 17 Jul 2016
at 05:12
  • msg #21

Pokeghost town

In reply to Nerwen (msg # 18):

I know what you mean. I've pretty much stopped BAFing due to fuel costs.

Not sure the speed threshold for Trekker, but biking tends to be too fast, I find. It's my preferred method of play right now.

If you think RES are better, all I have to say to you is 22-7. :P
bigbadron
moderator, 15123 posts
He's big, he's bad,
but mostly he's Ron.
Sun 17 Jul 2016
at 07:10

Pokeghost town

In reply to Nerwen (msg # 18):

There have also been complaints about players trespassing on private property, damaging gardens, scaring residents, etc...

Don't think it'll be long before somebody gets arrested (or shot) for wandering across somebody else's lawn.
ShadoPrism
member, 1001 posts
OCGD-Obsessive-Compulsive
Gamer-Disorder
Sun 17 Jul 2016
at 15:40
  • msg #23

Pokeghost town

2 guys were arrested here just yesterday, trespassing on private (read Condemned) property 'looking for pokemon'. Had 3 police cars surrounding the property and them in cuff's when I saw them. As it was close to where I was going I stopped and asked what was going on, as I have seen allot of new people wandering over the same area over the last few days. (The place has been for sale for about 5 years now, so I did not think about it much till I saw the cops.)
Turns out they were likely playing that game and the owners of the property did not want them searching the land there. (Place has an 8ft high fence around it and no trespassing signs next to the for sale signs.)
Merevel
member, 1040 posts
Gaming :-)
Very unlucky
Mon 18 Jul 2016
at 12:36
  • msg #24

Pokeghost town

In that case either those guys were incredibly dull in the head, or were trying to get out of an arrest or hide the reason they were there.

On the bright side, I saw a news article claiming some of the armed robberies were a hoax.

Edit: For clarity
This message was last edited by the user at 12:40, Mon 18 July 2016.
fireflights
member, 262 posts
playing with Fire
always burns
Mon 18 Jul 2016
at 12:37
  • msg #25

Pokeghost town

Not the ones in Baltimore...there were a few in a park near me that actually were robbed at gun point in the park while hunting pokemon.
ShadoPrism
member, 1002 posts
OCGD-Obsessive-Compulsive
Gamer-Disorder
Mon 18 Jul 2016
at 13:10
  • msg #26

Pokeghost town

Read on the BBC site that a girl, looking for a water pokemon, found a dead body. Looked like the fellow fell in the river and drowned (ruled an Accident). In that case it was lucky she found him, well for his family. I imagine she did not feel very lucky at the time.
Nerwen
member, 1852 posts
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you seek to be understood
Mon 18 Jul 2016
at 16:13
  • msg #27

Re: Pokeghost town

Agent 0013:
If you think RES are better, all I have to say to you is 22-7. :P

So we've had a bit of a downturn in the last anomaly.. or two... or several... >.> but we were great before that! And we shall be again!

bigbadron:
There have also been complaints about players trespassing on private property, damaging gardens, scaring residents, etc...

Don't think it'll be long before somebody gets arrested (or shot) for wandering across somebody else's lawn.

Ingress has been running for years without any of these issues (all of the pokestops and gyms are Ingress portals, and there are more Ingress portals that aren't in PoGo). Its players are generally older though, and probably more aware of how to be respectful of private property. Hopefully the PoGo community will develop some standards of behavior soon.
Utsukushi
member, 1373 posts
I should really stay out
of this, I know...but...
Mon 18 Jul 2016
at 16:19
  • msg #28

Re: Pokeghost town

Merevel:
In that case either those guys were incredibly dull in the head, or were trying to get out of an arrest or hide the reason they were there.


No -- just people.  People sneak into abandoned buildings all the time for all kinds of reasons; looking for shelter, getting cool pictures, on a dare, to make out... whatever.  It's one of those things everyone knows is illegal but generally seems harmless.  Now, falling off cliffs and walking across highways...

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/new...on-Go-386743551.html

http://time.com/4405221/pokemon-go-teen-hit-by-car/

I don't think the abandoned house really rates.  But in all of the cases, I think it's ridiculous to blame the game.  These are all people, with their own functioning brains, making the decisions to go wherever they go.  It's like when "Killer" had its.. I think two year boom of popularity, and people would get in trouble for leaving post-it bombs in hotel elevators and other things that involved the general non-playing public.  The game may well be an awesome game, but you still have to have some common sense.

...We're looking at paying to have one of our phones work as a mobile hotspot; then our son's tablet could run it.  My plan is to say we'll only do it if he agrees to play only with his sister, taking turns, with one of them holding the tablet and hunting Pokemon, and the other one carrying the phone and watching the real world.  If they don't both agree to that, I don't think we'll let them do it anyway.


Though I admit, I'm curious about that Ingress one myself!  If it will work on our phones.. well, um, it's not as though I couldn't use the exercise, and it looks... cool.  Thanks, Agent 0013!  Which is kind of fun to say all by itself. grin  I'm afraid a lot of the difference between the two, though, has to be popularity.  I'd never heard of Ingress until now, and even that came... because of Pokemon.  Just sheer numbers of people playing is going to make a big difference in getting the occasional, "And today one of them did something stupid" stat.
ShadoPrism
member, 1003 posts
OCGD-Obsessive-Compulsive
Gamer-Disorder
Mon 18 Jul 2016
at 19:04
  • msg #29

Re: Pokeghost town

Killer was a spin off of T.A.G. (The Assassination Game), in which we used smoke bombs and water pistols to play. Did it at the Dragon Con 2, got in to so much trouble with the hotel people, but we did not care as it was fun.
Evil Empryss
member, 1496 posts
Try tasting your words
before spitting them out
Mon 18 Jul 2016
at 20:50
  • msg #30

Re: Pokeghost town

In reply to Utsukushi (msg # 28):

From my experience with mobile hotspots, you may find yourself running out of data very quickly. So quickly that it may be cheaper to just get a new phone line with an unlimited data plan on it (or a separate data plan for the tablet, if it is capable). It's nice to play with the bigger screen on a tablet, but it might not be cost effective just to play a game, especially as it is still crashing on a daily (sometimes hourly) basis. You should ask your provider about the cost differences, and if you qualify for a free upgrade or such. The last time I added a line to my account, it wound up costing me less in the long run because I could get a family plan with the number of lines and data amounts I was looking for.

You (data) mileage may vary, of course. ^_^
logns
member, 20 posts
Mon 18 Jul 2016
at 21:11
  • msg #31

Re: Pokeghost town

Or, if you have T-Mobile, they've started giving out free data for the PoGo ap.

https://newsroom.t-mobile.com/...ogs/free-pokemon.htm

http://time.com/money/4407757/...on-go-t-mobile-data/

I've heard rumors of other carriers doing the same, but T-Mobile is the only one I've actually seen articles about.
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