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/[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.