Pokemon Go

[i_amtrunks]

I think they upgraded the servers to a point earlier this week where I was not having anywhere near as a many issues, but then they added the UK and Germany and the servers couldn't handle it again.

Not a very smart decision there.

[Zippo]

I got technical this afternoon and started using the Ingress XM locations outside of the CBD to try and find spawn locations for Pokemon. It was very telling around home as to why I do not find anything - almost no XM around my town at all.

Did lead me to some good finds so hopefully I can start tracking down more locations.

The only issue that that the zoom out function of the map in Ingress is small, so I have to keep on stopping to check things out.

[Firestorm]

Finally took on a gym
This high CP Seaking absolutely destroyed my team
And I wasn't really sure what I was doing so that didn't help
On the plus side I caught a very powerful Pinsir in the same Lek as where that gym was. So it wasn't a total failure
With my new Pinsir I may stand a better chance next time
Also it's crazy how different being in the CBD is to being in my hometown. Just walking down the street from Flinder Street Station to Big W I managed to FILL MY BAG
Whereas for the last few days while I've been at home I have been struggling to even get any items
And thanks to all the people using Lure Modules there are SO many Pokemon there that I couldn't catch back Home
Just walking around the CBD I caught a Vulpix, Horsea, Slowpoke, Machop and Cubone as well as several Rattata and Pidgey
Here all I ever find are Rattata Pidgey Caterpie Weedle Paras and the occasional Bulbasaur (that last one is kinda neet at least)

Will definitely need to start going on more excursions to other locations

[i_amtrunks]

Just went up to the blue mountains to a park with 7 poke stops in a nice walking loop, had to keep emptying my bag from all the extraneous revives and potions!

Caught a meowth and a ryhorn, hadn't ever seen them before, as well as some more eevee and clefairy, getting close to evolving them now.

On the way back we spotted a gym about 2km from home with a lowly raticate guarding it at 315CP. My 345 Scyther took it out and so I finally ran a gym.
By the time we got home 5 minutes later I was no longer the leader, but I got 10 coins and 500 stardust which was a nice bonus.

[Raider]

So we had our first bit of Pokemon espionage today. We have a Team Blue FB group for our local area and users had been tracking where all the pokemon have been sighted. A yellow team member joined our group, under guise of being in blue team, and then stole the information off our spreadsheet, posted that we were dumb and then went back to his own group bragging about how he stole it.

Geez if they had have just asked we would have shared...

[G1Optimal]

Stampede apparantly in new york central park over a Vaporeon
http://comicbook.com/2016/07/16/vapo...-central-park/

[Paulbot]

I left a Venonat at a gym on the Daintree River. Wonder how long it'll last there. Also pulled from the river my most powerful Pokemon so far a CP646 Golduck.