Lol, no shame in liking it as a grown up... I played the Gameboy games growing up and so this is more nostalgia-like and fun because of it.  Actually made a couple friends with people who frequent the place I go to play most of the time which is similar to this site... people gathering and making friends based on a common interest.  Really cool plus it is getting another excuse to get people out of the house and exercising.

I don't play any of the games competitively, but apparently this one has EV data just as the platform games do.

Is someone else playing it?

at this point, barely

did they ever make it so that you can battle strangers on the street?

yes, it's called "assault & battery"

 

 

;-)

Nope,

 

New gym system and very likely that legendaries will be out starting tomorrow. Gen 1 & 2 pokémon in wild and eggs.

Oh, and raids

I still play it sometimes.

I started playing it because I needed to start walking, and we have a pokestop next door to my job. I really just want to collect pokemon and things from the stop, but I am at the backpack limit. I don't really have an interest in battling at the gym, and I don't understand how the raids work. The game loads much more slowly for me after the latest update (the one that changed the log in screen and added raids), so I am losing interest. That, and it is going to take me forever to walk this Onyx enough to get him 50 candies. 

There's some event going on rn that is making it so you walk fourth as much as you usually do for a candy.

Edited July 23, 20179 yr by Nynaeve

I still don't understand the fun of the game mechanics.  You raise Pokemon level by simply by catching more of the same Pokemon? 

Yeah, or by walking them. Either one will get candy. You use candy and stardust (earned with each pokemon caught, regardless of type) to level them up. I play it just because I need to move my fat ass, and it's something to motivate me, however slightly, to do so.

I need to develop my kadabra... :P

Yeah, I wish you could keep going with them, turning them into still greater beasts.

I play it just because I need to move my fat ass, and it's something to motivate me, however slightly, to do so.

Heard. And respect.

 

I remember how everyone was defending the game +(with a bit of guilt) by saying how many people who never exercise will play it and exercise. Their theory held up for approximately two weeks. But I'm glad some people are using it positively.

I don't understand why they wouldn't allow for battling wild pokemon and random passerby. That would be tops.

Yeah, that would be fun.

too bad they don't allow swaps of pokemon between people... cause I could have done some trading with my sister

too bad they don't allow swaps of pokemon between people... cause I could have done some trading with my sister

THAT'S what they really need to allow!

If it were basically an open-world pokemon game then I would never not be playing. Sleep? A thing of the past. A pre-Pokemon Go relic.

can someone explain the concept of those raids?

I haven't participated in any of them yet. 

A raid is where players of any team, or multiple teams, may join together to fight a stronger than normal boss. If you defeat it the raiders get a chance to catch a weaker version of it with special premier balls awarded at the end of the raid.

 

One or two star bosses can generally be soloed but the higher star rating the more players needed to defeat it in the time limit. The legendary bird raids generally take 10-15 players to do though can be done with less. Max people for a raid group is 20.

meh... i don't think i can get that meany people. :/