107 in my Dex. After Dragonite, Eggsecutor, Blatoise and Venusaur, I cba. I have all the mad strong God Tiers and 90% of the Pokémon.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4vcyra/pokémon_go_0310_update_changelog/
New update for PoGo. Not out on Android yet =/
Am i the only person annoyed with how prevalent cheating is in this game? Like almost all of the twitch streamers are cheating
How are they cheating?
In what way? How could they possibly be cheatin in a way that affects you, other than concerning gyms?
“Removed footprints of nearby Pokémon”
LOL. They can’t fix the fucking thing, so they’re just going to straight up remove it. Looks like I’ll be installing a Pokevision app then.
My nigga caught a pinsir while taking a dump, now he’s trying to find pikachu hahahahaha
Shitachu?
When you spend hella time making your character look good instead of catching pokemon =/
At least I got a Hitmonchan out of a 10k Egg
for real though I would love some shit like this to happen in pokemon go
Tier list bruh. He’s top tier. I’ve got every top tier above 2k atm except Lapras, no candy.
Its not really about fixing, but it shows how incompetent they are…
All the pokemon locations are calculated server side, but what happened was that for each users heartbeat request, when it passed back a list of all the pokemon within 100m near them, the server took each location and calculated how far the pokemon is in footsteps. This means taking the location of the user, and the location of the pokemon, then running some sort of mathmatical calculation figuring the distance between the two points, and then transforming that into a footstep count. Pretty easy, not particulary heavy in calculations likely. But the problem is, it has to do it for EVERY pokemon for EVERY client for EVERY heartbeat check (which is like 15-30 seconds or so). That adds up FAST.
They disabled the feature (by returning 3 feet always) to make sure their servers were not crashing. Like, they figured the most strain on their whole server was these calculations, and it was the biggest bottleneck, so they removed it, which was a fine emergency band aid fix. But not a long term fix.
The easiest solution, which makes the most sense, is to move that calulcation to the client. The app should get back the location of the pokemon, like it already does, and then it can run those calculations locally, figuring out how many footprints to show. This shifts the load from the server, to being distributed across each player. In fact, some players hacked the game to do just this to fix the 3 step bug, by intercepting the traffic, then changing the value in the packets to the accurate step values.
But instead of doing this, Niantic decided to just remove the step count all together. Its just kind of, wow. Like, I don’t really understand this change. My fear is that they plan to add a new Premium item to the game, that increases the range that you see pokemon on the map, so that instead of needing footprints, you can just use “Lucky Binoculars” and have your pokemon vision radius increased to like 70m so that all pokemon “nearby” are plain visible on the map.
Also, to help thrwart trackers, the range of pokemon returned from you is down to 70m from 100m. Which seems like just a 30% decrease, but when you’re talking about circle area, thats a huge decrease, meaning the poke tracker sights have a harder time working because they have to do more scans. In addition… they were messing with the APIs so they have to be reverse engineered again, which is why many of the tracker sites aren’t even working right now.
I just wish I understood what their ultimate vision is, besides trading. Wild battles, trainer battles, etc. Hopefully they’re too busy creating features to take the time to go back and fix the server optimization problems they have.
At least with the new update, its WAY more stable. Where previously you’d get schrodingers ball syndrome when it froze and you had to force restart, it now recovers from these situations and works seamlessly, which is amazing.
They took down Poke vision 
WTF? Pokevision made the game more fun.
I just got back watching clips of Pokemon XY and Z and it’s pretty good. I’m digging Ash’s Greninja and I hope the writers allow him to form his ultimate team for the Kalos League. I think Pikachu, Charizard, Sceptile, Greninja, and the other two is a toss up is a hot ass team.
Does anyone else wish they’d dump the current battle system in favor of the traditional style? Keep the animations, but dump the clicking in favor of traditional raising and teaching 4 moves.
I kinda like it. This is a mobile game after all, which is more for fast-finger tapping shit and there has to be a distinction between this and the main staple games.
RIP Pokevision
RIP Vaporeon
RIP Pokemon Go(?)
I preferred the old style, but I also have a DS so I know what to play.
The only thing that annoyed me so I purposely waited to hunt Dragonite Growlithe this weekend, that went flying out the window. I had about 11 Dragonairs. Even though I have 2k cp Pokémon, I wanna tier whore.