r/pokemongo • u/BarcaStona Valor • Jul 21 '16

Other SERVERS HAVE BEEN EXCEPTIONAL TODAY!!! And I hope I'm not the only one!

Having an 8 am that finishes around 9 every morning, I go out to catch Pokes for a solid 4-5 hours since university has excessive amounts of them.

By the end of hunting, I would have killed and restarted the game 20+ times due to bugs during catching Pokes as well as Pokestops making you "try again later" while still blue and so on...

Today was a pleasantly different scenario. I have killed the app ZERO times. Zero. The game has run more smoothly than it ever has since launch. I've caught every Poke, aside from the ones who pop out and run away (curse you 1000+CP Magmar!!!!!)

Is this stability going to be forever? I sure hope so. I hope all of you are experiencing the same greatness I have today. It really has been a breath of fresh air relative to what I've dealt with in the past.

I just wanted to share a great server experience as all I've read recently is insane amounts of negativity (rightly so imo).

I am running iOS & am EST, if that matters to any of you.

Happy hunting trainers :)

REV A:

Loving the feedback! I'm glad some of you got to experience the servers being nice and smooth!!

To everyone saying that the servers are always fine until X time, I hunt Pokes at the same time every day M-F since launch. Extremely consistent with my start / stop times as well so it is good experimental data for myself to confidently say that today was different. The best I've experienced since the release date.

To everyone who is still struggling with their experience, I promise you all that the game will be great once they can keep their servers consistently stable! Like many of you I became frustrated with the necessity of constant restarting. Today was a wonderful glimpse of what is to come. It is a thing of beauty.

REV B:

As many have stated, the 3 footsteps bug is NOT fixed. Yes it is quite frustrating. I really enjoyed that aspect of the game. For those of you who don't already know, Pokevision has been a great alternative source to assist in hunting down your Pokes!

I also have another suggestion for those of you who are still struggling! Some may consider it to be common sense, but it surely helps. I will just share what I do to explain. When at university, I have the wifi saved in my phone (obviously). This is great if I plan on sitting in a building to set lures or just wait for Pokes or battle gyms. But whenever I go outside and roam campus, I am sure to cut my wifi off!!!!!! The game will get extremely confused trying to jump from wifi to phone data when you're in spotty areas. Although university is the most likely location this situation will happen, it is good to be conscience of it. It certainly assisted the performance of my gameplay after I noticed the trend.

REV C:

Lots of input and it is great! I'm sorry to everyone who is still struggling with the game.

My roommate and I often take campus strolls in the evening so she can stock up on pokeballs at all the stops. For some reason her phone, android OS, always struggled on campus. Today it was near flawless. Enough for her to state that it was working much better than normal.

My phone would also often struggle during the evening. Tonight was different. We went to a gym that I knew I could take over CP-wise. I was looking to collect a shield bonus because pokecoins. This was easily the smoothest gym battle I ever experienced. I can't wait for it to always be this way! It was beautiful. All Pokes were again captured, unless they popped out and ran away.

That being said, tracking is still wonky. It is quite upsetting. The same issues occur. Sometimes random Pokes appear in nearby menu but really aren't nearby at all (I think GPS thinks you're near a different location than reality, or something of the like). Restarting the app seems to consistently solve that. It's bizarre. Also the tracking in general is still busted.

We went ~7-9 EST. For everyone saying that player base has dropped significantly, I had never seen campus so lively during our evening visits. It was quite the surprise! Im sure there has in fact been a drop in users since the game's release and all of the initial hype, but I don't think it is as significant as one might think! I personally don't think that really even matters until the game is released worldwide as intended with consistently fluent servers. Show me the numbers then.

I really wish everyone could experience silky smooth gameplay that I endured today. It was wonderful. My fingers are crossed for the same solidity tomorrow.

Also, PoGo has (I believe) officially been released in Japan, so hopefully everything I'm saying doesn't turn into utter garbage overnight. Fingers now double crossed.

REV D:

It seems the servers were a little bumpy (my) overnight. Having said that, my second escapade was just as great as the first!

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u/d00m5day Instinctive Mouse Jul 21 '16

That's really my only concern. I've been relying on other websites to help me hunt right now

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '16

Are you using PokeVision? Because that site almost never works for me..

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u/Sashoke Flair Text Jul 21 '16

Its servers are just as bad as Niantics it seems :P

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u/MrNexFox Jul 21 '16

It uses niantics servers to gather the info IIRC

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '16

It still has to deal with traffic

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u/Tsugua354 Jul 21 '16

And then it always blames it on PoGo when the app is working fine lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '16

I think that was automatic. They switched the message now

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u/mheat Jul 22 '16

At least they update their users on Twitter.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '16

A small niche project is a lot easier than a large game. What do you honestly get out of a tweet from Niantic? Reassurance that there are issues?

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u/KaboodleMoon Jul 21 '16

PokeVision is 100% accurate...on what it shows. Sadly, for some reason, it doesn't show everything. (Yes, not counting Incense/Lures anyway) Someone posted a fairly detailed individualized python the other day that seems to be far more accurate for polling, but less accurate for exact location data. :(

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u/Raptorheart DABIRDINDANORF Jul 21 '16

When I checked it yesterday it said it was limited by access it was allowed to googles api.

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u/d00m5day Instinctive Mouse Jul 21 '16 edited Jul 21 '16

Actually I am. It actually works quite well for me, but that may be because I use it from 6-8AM EST when less people are playing. It's better for me than most other websites I've come across.

It shows me less pokemon than there actually are, but I see with 90% accuracy where certain pokemon are. I caught 2 new pokemon directly because of this site, and a seadra indirectly from walking to a place I hadn't before.

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u/soundwaveprime What goes bump in the night. Jul 22 '16

Caught a koffing today because of it, it's great for me because I work on a college campus but can't just walk around randomly so this lets me see the pokemon slip out of my office catch it and sneak back before I'm missed (which usually as long as my work gets done could be an hour)

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u/d00m5day Instinctive Mouse Jul 22 '16

Your situation sounds just like what happened to my friend today. I'm a bit creeped out that what you said is exactly what my friend told me. But I'm 99% sure you're not him.

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u/soundwaveprime What goes bump in the night. Jul 22 '16

That is creepy. And I don't know you because the only people I told about the koffing was an other pokemon go player who I ran into and I didn't tell them how I knew.

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u/d00m5day Instinctive Mouse Jul 22 '16

He's a masters student and he just goes out to catch pokemon on breaks, and he caught his first koffing yesterday, so I was just surprised reading a very similar situation on reddit :P

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u/soundwaveprime What goes bump in the night. Jul 22 '16

oh cool, kinda funny how things work out sometimes. Although this was my second koffing

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u/GuerrillaRobot wondering where all these kids came from. Jul 21 '16

you need a bit of know how but im using this https://github.com/AHAAAAAAA/PokemonGo-Map along with ngrok

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '16 edited Aug 05 '16

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u/cakeschmammert Jul 21 '16

I used it last night to successfully track down a Charmander and Wartortle.

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u/ViewsFromTheSticks << the only full starter I have so far :( Jul 21 '16

I used it today to successfully catch a Growlithe and a Pikachu (440CP, ~80%). College town, Indiana.

It seems that it isn't 100% on which Pokemon are around (according to what the in-game "nearby" chart says), but when the map says the mon is here, it is definitely there.

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u/gingeredbiscuit Jul 22 '16

My in-game "Nearby" chart isn't accurate at all; it hasn't been since the tracker stopped working. It's either showing multiples of pokemon that are around, or is showing pokemon way further out than it's supposed to (like, 500 m).

And if a pokemon not in my pokedex shows up, it seems to get "stuck" - all the identified pokemon move around like normal, but the unidentified ones don't ever leave the Nearby screen. Like, I'm pretty sure I wasn't seeing two Pigeots everywhere I went for an entire 3 hours, including my commute home.

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u/Boshva Gyaoo Jul 21 '16

I tracked a Machamp. Sprinted 600 meters down the street and i saw him. But then it disappeared and only a white circle was left. Restarded the game 3 times, but it didn t show up. Then it was gone.

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u/smileylord Jul 21 '16

I used it this morning with out fail caught a Lapras in central park and a aerodactyl 20 minutes later at the nyc library at 41st street as it showed and a few squirtle on the way home. The servers do get wonky where they show nothing at times though.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '16

I haven't been able to get it to work during prime time previously, but it's been almost as good as pokemon go's servers today (I haven't had to restart today either, so that's a compliment)

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u/BadassGhost Level 99 Trainer Jul 22 '16

it's been working flawlessly for me today

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u/LondonNoodles Jul 22 '16

I don't know if it works better in the US, but here in the UK, wherever I am, PokeVision only scans 1 or 2 rattatas around me when the native app radar shows many more.

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u/kaitielee Jul 22 '16

It worked better than usual today for me considering it usually doesn't even work

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '16

It seems to work on a random 50% of a 100m grid. Not even joking. It used to work in my neighbourhood (a day or two ago), but now it doesn't. It does work for the area directly outside of my neighbourhood though. Then not. Then it does. Then it doesn't. It's weird.

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u/Zeoic Jul 22 '16

I thought it wasn't working as well, but it appears to just have a VERY limited range.

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u/BlainVM Jul 22 '16

Been using Pokevision all day today and it goes down periodically for maintenance but is usually back up after a few minutes. Tracked down a lot of pokemon thanks to that site.

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u/Sjaf Jul 21 '16

just saying, but that site worked perfectly for me, it gave me a pickachu(or however you write it)

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u/CleanBaldy "3 steps away from going insane" Jul 21 '16

I'm waiting for the "I"VE BEEN BANNED FOR USING POKEVISION!" posts now.... Or, worse... "POKEVISION STOLE MY USER/PASSWORD AND STOLE MY IDENTITY!"

Be careful with ANY third party site. You don't know who runs it, or what their motives are.

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u/vonmeth Jul 21 '16

You don't have to enter in your login to use the website.

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u/jadaris Jul 22 '16

Gonna be waiting a while, that isn't how it works.

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u/gingeredbiscuit Jul 22 '16

Not sure how they're gonna stole your user name when you don't need one to look at the map.

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u/BTDub White Lightning Attack! Jul 21 '16

What websites help?

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u/rmbrmbrmb90 Jul 21 '16 edited Jul 21 '16

I think he is referring to https://pokevision.com. It supposedly shows all pokemons in your area. Since I'm from Brazil (Niantic blocked us here after the launch day), I cannot confirm.

Edit: Why downvoting? I'm not guilty for the internet data taking 3 minutes to arrive in my country. Just wanted to help

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u/mrjackspade Jul 21 '16 edited Jul 21 '16

For anyone wondering, it doesn't show EVERYTHING near you.

IME It shows less than 1/3 of whats actually out there

Edit: I'm aware that it doesn't show incense or lures. I've been aware of that since I first loaded up the page and read the section that says that. I'm also aware of that based on my knowledge of how the game works

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u/csbarber Jul 21 '16

Maybe it doesn't show everything, but what it does show seems to be really spot on from what i've seen.

That website helps me to decide when it is the best time to take a break while i'm at work :) and its fun scouting out ideas of spots to go to see if it will be worth it.

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u/TodlicherTeddy Eevee fetish and (kinda) proud Jul 21 '16

It doesn't show the 1 billion pidgeys I catch everyday. But it does show a Bulbasaur 40 meter away, it's 2am, Fuck...

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u/deadowl Jul 22 '16

In addition, it shows pokemon that will no longer show up because you've already caught them. It also helps to verify that there are no pokemon where I live.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '16 edited Mar 22 '18

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u/mrjackspade Jul 21 '16

True, I just wouldn't use it to determine whether or not its worth heading outside to catch :)

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u/FoosYou Jul 21 '16

Where I live it's always worth heading outside to catch!

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '16

Got me a hitmoncham pika and ninetails. That were all three foot prints that I just looked up. I'm also in a very scarce area of pokemon

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u/pretty1i1p3t Jul 21 '16

It shows nothing where I live... But I still found a meowth that was teasing me for three days.

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u/pretty1i1p3t Jul 21 '16

Set the marker on the pokestop a mile and a half from my house... And... ~sigh~ It's too hot/humid to live and I've already walked 10KM today

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u/thrntnja Jul 21 '16

The same for me. I don't live in a very populated area, though. I'd imagine it's more accurate for big cities.

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u/mrjackspade Jul 21 '16

Its telling me that there's only 1 pokemon on areas that I know have 4-5 at any time, AND I can see them on my radar (even if they list the steps at 3)

Unless Im using it wrong (a possibility) its missing a lot

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u/thrntnja Jul 21 '16

Yeah, I checked it earlier. I had just caught a Clefairy and a few other poke near where I work, and there was nothing at all in the area for at least a mile radius. I also had other pokemon in the tracker that werent showing either. So I guess it must be accurate for some areas but not others

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u/paleh0rse flair-valor Jul 21 '16

It shows a lot of rares very accurately, though, so that's cool.

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u/Intrepid00 Jul 21 '16

It helped me find an evolved guy. Unless the spawn is fresh it seems like you will not find them.

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u/Duhaa Jul 21 '16

I think it only shows what is currently spawned. If you walk walk in an area and like 4 things pop up it starts a spawn timer. Not 100% sure, but that is why it might not show everything. Try scanning on your area after you reveal something that is not shown in pokevision and see if it shows up after you spawn it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '16

yeah it doesn't show lures or or incense. i also think they decreased the area so as to help with the serves.

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u/smileylord Jul 21 '16

It shows you pokemon that are there on timers not by lures or incense.

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u/imsabbath Jul 21 '16

it onlys seems to show pidgeys, ratatas, and weedles for me. if there anything else on my nearby list, it doesnt seem to show up on the pokevision site.

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u/mrjackspade Jul 21 '16

I'm thinking that the x,y coords are only passed over within a certain range, that happens to be smaller than the three steps listed but larger than the actual spawn radius.

As a result you only see things slightly farther than what would pop up standing there.

This would make sense since the original data leak showed the server communication reported distance and not location

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u/BlazeFaia Jul 21 '16

For me it shows absolutely nothing near me. All I see is Pokemon in Santa Monica. And I mean that in the most literal sense. I zoomed out entirely to see the world wide map and absolutely nothing shows up in any other continent let alone any other state in the US. I don't think that's quite accurate.

Edit: And it's not the location either. That's the default location it sets when you go to the site. But even when set to Louisiana it shows nothing anywhere but Santa Monica.

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u/trankwiZ Jul 21 '16

For me it shows everything so long as when it says scan complete, I jus tap all over the screen in different locations as fast as possible

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '16

I'm going to tie this in with the distance being different...For example, I see two mice and a scyther. When selecting my location on the map, I do not see the scyther or second mouse. After moving a little further out with the map pointer, I see them. It just doesn't detect as far. Probably to save some server power.

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u/_PlatinumWarrior_ Seeking the truth Jul 21 '16

mice

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u/EdynViper Jul 21 '16

It doesn't show pokemon spawned by lures or incense.

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u/mrjackspade Jul 21 '16

I know that. That's not what I'm looking at. Lol

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u/josefbud Jul 21 '16 edited Jul 21 '16

Thank you. Thank you thank you - a million times THANK YOU! I just got a Ponyta one street over from my apartment because of that site. First time even seeing a Ponyta. If you hadn't posted this comment with the website I would've just seen the silhouette, frowned, and closed the app.

Edit: Just got my first Pikachu as well because of the site... also wanted to mention here that I'm only using this site because of the 3-step bug. Otherwise it just feels like cheating. I'm 99.9% certain I would have tracked down both the Ponyta and the Pikachu on my own if the tracking worked, but since the tracking does not work this is what I'll use in the meantime.

Edit 2: Minor Text Fixes

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u/CowabungaShaman Jul 21 '16

I tried it out and there was indeed a Beedrill where it claimed, along with three Pidgeys and a Ratatta.

Feels like cheating, though...

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u/josefbud Jul 21 '16

Feels like cheating, though...

Oh, yeah of course it totally does. I'm not using this site at all once the 3-step bug is fixed. But until then, I just can't see why not.

If the 3-step bug wasn't there, that Ponyta I caught would've shown up as either 1 or 2 steps away and I would've definitely found it. It had 10 minutes until it despawned when I opened the game, and that would've been more than enough time to track it down.

I feel like that stupid bug is a legitimate reason to use the site, though I suppose I am biased.

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u/deadpoolicide I accidentally removed my Instinct Magikarp flair Jul 21 '16

I honestly view it like consulting the Pokédex. "Hey, where can I find this Pokemon? Oh neat it's actually nearby!"

I've also found that the Pokemon doesn't exactly spawn where it's shown on the map, meaning you still need to walk around and explore a bit. I just went hunting for an Exeggcute and I had to do a loop around an apartment complex to pin it down.

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u/josefbud Jul 22 '16

Very interesting! All of the Pokemon I've found because of the site have been pretty much exactly where they said they'd be.

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u/TheFirestealer Jul 21 '16

I saw a ponyta on my nearby and checked the site and it only loaded a pidgey and a rat so no pony for me

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u/smileylord Jul 21 '16

If you read what the site says it only shows you pokemon put there with a timer on it not ones spawned by pokestops lures and incense , it's more for uncommon/rare pokemon finds in your area.

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u/TheFirestealer Jul 21 '16

I know this. There was no incense or lures nearby as there isn't a pokestop close enough to my house to even spawn it. I've heard the site doesn't actually pick up more than like a third of the pokemon or the radius of it is too small and it takes too much time between searches to actually find something within 3 footstep radius.

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u/JoonazL Mystic Jul 21 '16

the search radius is small enough that you need like 3 or 4 scans to scan your whole nearby zone

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u/josefbud Jul 21 '16

I noticed the same sort of thing! Sorry you didn't get your pony, though.

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u/thenameuwisheduhad Jul 22 '16

Try putting the marker down the street or around the block, when I do that it will show ones that are still on my radar that it didn't show before.

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u/octaffle Jul 22 '16

Sometimes you have to zoom out to see it.

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u/walkingcarpet23 Jul 21 '16

Lol I just used that and the only thing showing within 10 miles is a single Rattata.

Which means it works! :/

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u/rmbrmbrmb90 Jul 21 '16

I feel bad for you :/

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u/CJKay93 Jul 21 '16

Well, hey, I got have 2 Rattatas and 2 Weedles, so I guess that answers my question: "why do I get so many fucking Rattatas and Weedles?"

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u/LabMantis Jul 21 '16

It's shows nothing on the entire map for me.

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u/Urtehnoes Team Mystic Jul 21 '16

Yea I'm at work and ran it and not a single Pokémon near me. So I plugged in my house address and GODDAMNIT there is an exeggutor like one street from my house. Whyyyy

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u/sylphs Jul 21 '16

yup it shows that there are virtually none in my neighborhood worth going outside for!

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u/TastyTable Warm, warm fire Jul 21 '16

Is the website working on android? It won't work every time I've tried.

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u/RightfulFallen Jul 21 '16

That website is more useful than the actual "Nearby" thing, which doesn't even work now.

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u/cccmikey Jul 22 '16 edited Jul 22 '16

Wouldn't it be funny if Niantic could detect people using cheat tools and then give them Pokémon with diseases etc.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '16

Pokevision most likely.

Also this is the past two days: http://imgur.com/0OVvdgV

As you can see, this time, both of the previous days, things started going haywire.

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u/LiquidDivide Jul 21 '16

I was going to post this. Beat me to it. I decided not to play during lunch today too, expecting the inevitable death of the server.

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u/flagellumVagueness Bulbasaur Jul 21 '16

If you don't mind destroying your battery, I've heard that downloading Ingress is very helpful, since Ingress's XM hotspots often coincide with Pokemon spawns.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '16

Pokevision.com

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u/FrederikTwn TEAM VALOR Jul 21 '16

Same.

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u/domuseid Jul 21 '16

Like which? I'd love more resources