So, about this Pokemon GO thing...

[Tev]

I saw a picture of Zapdos on someone's radar at Disney World circulating this week.

Originally Posted by Mauve Mage

I'm tempted to give it a try, but we'll see. Does the app still give the company access to all your contacts, data and web search history?

It never really did that to begin with. That was mostly hype and faulty reporting. Niantic is a spin-off subsidiary of Google. It's why you can log in with Google's infrastructure. It sees as much of your email account as any other thing that let's you use Google's single sign-on.

[Arcanum]

I've been playing it a bit, but since the game has recently been bugged to show all pokemon as being 3 paw-prints away (i.e. the max distance) I haven't had the motivation to play. Also when I tried leaving the app open to hatch eggs, after two or so minutes the app would just stop registering my inputs but still track my location. However when I reset it to fix the input thing it loses my egg progress, so that's super disappointing.

Originally Posted by Tev

It never really did that to begin with. That was mostly hype and faulty reporting. Niantic is a spin-off subsidiary of Google. It's why you can log in with Google's infrastructure. It sees as much of your email account as any other thing that let's you use Google's single sign-on.

Actually if you signed into the app on an iphone using your google account then the app would get full permissions for your account, which did include all sorts of information as well as the ability to send and receive emails on your behalf.

Obviously nothing was done with these permissions, as the app was never designed to utilize those things in the first place, and the most important part is that that bug/oversight has since been patched out.

So you've got nothing to worry about Mauve, give it a go.


Also if anyone is interested, you can force your Eevees to evolve into a specific evolution instead of relying on RNG. Just name your Eevee one of these three names:

Sparky = Jolteon
Rainer = Vaporeon
Pyro = Flareon

The names are from the Eevee Brothers in the Pokemon anime.

[Bard The 5th LW]

I've heard the Evee thing is a rumor but for what it's worth, I DID name my Evee Sparky and DID get Jolteon. So, nothing to lose in trying it.

[Arcanum]

Originally Posted by Bard The 5th LW

I've heard the Evee thing is a rumor but for what it's worth, I DID name my Evee Sparky and DID get Jolteon. So, nothing to lose in trying it.

There's a hefty reddit thread (3000 comments) with people supporting the claim throughout it. Obviously not all 3k comments are confirming it but you can find them. To add to it, my brother named his Rainer and got a Vaporeon (I already evolved an Eevee before hearing about this and don't have enough candies to evolve another).

The people claiming it didn't work might not have had the name go through to the server, which is entirely possible given the amount of server issues the game has.

If anyone wants to attempt this then restart your app after renaming your eevee and make sure the name was saved before evolving.

[mauve]

I've heard the game is kinda tough on battery life, but how's it work in terms of data use?

[Revising Ocelot]

IGN Wiki claims the game consumes 4-8mb of data per hour when it's active.

So around my neighbourhood, there's two pokestops (one pub, the cricket club) and two gyms (the other pub, the church). It's only Pidgeys, Rattatas, Spearows and Weedles here, and not that frequently either. I did see a Drowzee once. That's about it. Not even enough for some power-catching and evolving. But I'm only trainer level 3... may check out town sometime and see if there's something exciting like, I dunno, Magikarp.

[Terex4]

There are some variances within one spot as well. Where I usually hunt, its almost all grass/poison/bug/normal/flying types, but a couple of nights ago, I managed to snag an Abra and had a Pikachu escape from me. I'll also find the occasional water type.

[Aerozord]

there are ALOT of false rumors, I was telling some friends earlier one of the disillusioning things about pokemon go is the more we learn about the mechanics the more you find out those viral stories are total BS. The eevee evolution thing appears to be legit but I also heard you can only do it once for each evolution.

Originally Posted by Mauve Mage

I've heard the game is kinda tough on battery life, but how's it work in terms of data use?

T-mobile I believe, does not count pokemon go for your data limit. If you have it

[Nikose Tyris]

Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

A kid threw a massive temper tantrum outside that it was "his gym and nobody else could have it" and now it's locked down with a bunch of CP 2000's from team Mystic.

Also tantrum kid was like 15 and Team Instinct.

So what I didn't mention was that a bunch of kids were throwing insults at me too for sitting on my porch and playing, and the younger kids on scooters told a bunch of the older kids that had met me too; so the gym got totally locked down, and I got some door knocks from friendly players who wanted to make sure that the little shits hadn't upset me too badly. Which was really nice of them!

I really like the sense of community around here. We used Pokevision and ran around tracking pokemon tonight for the last 2+ hours.

[mauve]

Installed it, spent forever trying to get a username that wasn't already taken, was told to find a PokeStop... aaaand the app can't determine my location. For a while it insisted I was standing in the middle of the ocean. Played with my phone's Location settings and now it sees the street I'm on, but it still can't find any pokemon or pokestops anywhere in the city. Hmm.

Any ideas, gang?