Pokemon Go!

BigBear said:
Struggled with Razzberrys and all my pokeballs to catch a Bulbasaur 260CP ran out eventually
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See my post above, Niantic changed stuff or made a mistake, we will either see a new update again or they will change something server side.
 
Soul Assassin said:
Honest mistake or Niantic wanting to make more money?

Explanation of the terrible catch rate the last couple of days:

They changed the game so how you throw the ball has no effect on your chance of catching a Pokemon. This is why it's so much harder to catch pokemon since the last update.

In earlier versions of the app, the reticle size (moving ring) was measured from 1.0 to 2.0. Catching the pokemon at 1.0 meant the reticle was full size (worst possible throw). >1.2 was nice throw, >1.4 was great throw and >1.7 was excellent.

After the new update Niantic changed the App to only send values between 0.0 and 1.0. However, they didn't change the values required to receive a nice, great, and excellent bonus. So it's impossible to throw above 1.0 or 1.3 or 1.7. This means, no matter how well you throw, it's always under 1.0 so it's always a terrible throw.
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So basically like drug dealers - get you hooked on the good stuff for cheap and then start charging you for crap.
 
Hamster said:
So basically like drug dealers - get you hooked on the good stuff for cheap and then start charging you for crap.
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Imagine it like this, you enter a poker tournament and get all the way to the quarter finals at which point they remove two of each card, you might still get a good hand but much less likely and they offer you the opportunity to buy back in to make it to the finals if you run out of chips.
 
Had a lady behind me in the voting queue trying to catch a machop, was listening to her get more and more frustrated. First used all het berries and on ball 32 it fled
 
Soul Assassin said:
Imagine it like this, you enter a poker tournament and get all the way to the quarter finals at which point they remove two of each card, you might still get a good hand but much less likely and they offer you the opportunity to buy back in to make it to the finals if you run out of chips.
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I prefer the drug dealer comparison, because if the novelty of the game hasn't worn off yet then you are hooked.
 
Soul Assassin said:
See my post above, Niantic changed stuff or made a mistake, we will either see a new update again or they will change something server side.
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Seems like it..

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I did not update and stayed on 0.29 specially for all the **** in the new update, but now they force you to update, can't play it on 0.29 anymore :(
 
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Same here. How do I update the apk? If i install the newer apk will it not overwrite my current progress??
 
My 1600cp Vileplume depopulates the local gym easily enough, but since no one else is playing team yellow here the gym is lost almost immediately.
 
I find this update more reliable in terms of catching. A 10cp pokemon is now caught with 1 pokeball, but a higher one is caught with a greatball easier. I still get the odd escape, but generally its improved. Also, I dont have 95% Zubats at my house now, the variety has increased a bunch.
 
BradleyKZN said:
I find this update more reliable in terms of catching. A 10cp pokemon is now caught with 1 pokeball, but a higher one is caught with a greatball easier. I still get the odd escape, but generally its improved. Also, I dont have 95% Zubats at my house now, the variety has increased a bunch.
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I'm getting more variety at work and home - but the majority is still zubats.

****ing zubats.
 
BradleyKZN said:
I find this update more reliable in terms of catching. A 10cp pokemon is now caught with 1 pokeball, but a higher one is caught with a greatball easier. I still get the odd escape, but generally its improved. Also, I dont have 95% Zubats at my house now, the variety has increased a bunch.
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Which update?
 
110cp weedle escaped 2 red balls with rasberry's - escaped a blue ball with rasberry, finally caught on the last attempt with blue ball and rasberry.

ridiculous - not even worth the balls but i need xp and stardust so have to keep catching what i get if i want to level up i suppose
 
I am also finding the same.

from what we have learned from people unpacking the code in the app they have made the odds of catching pokemon greatly lower

a green circle now means you have a 35% chance to get it.
then it goes down to 30% for yellow
28% for orange
and 25% for red.

I personally think this is a bug in the code, those were supposed to be individual values for some pokemon and got applied to all, leading to us going though more balls, and pokemon running more often.

I dont mind the 3 step bug being worked on, there are some nice rumours of what they are doing and it looks good.
I dont mind that pokevision is closed down, when the new nearby list comes into effect we wont need it.

what I do mind is the catch rate change. it has completely changed the state of the game.
google has already disabled refunding, and I see apple will follow suit.

for me, I am giving the guys at Niantic a week to fix this issue, or Communicate time lines about it to us (somehow communicating feels less hopeful than a fix...)
if there is nothing by next week wednesday and catch rate is still messed up I will uninstall and try again in a few months maybe.
 
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