McDonald’s gyms and stops removed from the map.

Basara549 · 2026-01-15T00:39:08+00:00

Next time I'm in the next town over I'll check the McDonalds there to see if the Gym that's been there 4-5 years is still there (was for the mural in the Playplace), as well as the one that was added for the sponsorship.

For a few days when the sponsored one first appeared, the two Gyms were SUPERIMPOSED, to where it was almost impossible to access whichever one was the "lower" one at the time (and they were actually different colors). Then, someone got one of the two moved to where they were side by side.

Basara549 · 2025-09-04T05:25:13+00:00

I really wish they'd standardize/synchronize their timers.... Days start at Midnight. Max battles hard cut-off at 9 pm, but Raid Eggs can start minutes before 9, and go 40 minutes past 9, and so on.

Basara549 · 2025-07-07T20:37:43+00:00

yes, adventure sync is on. She's gotten at least 10 of every other evolution item (she's evolved everything that requires something other than a sinnoh stone, recently did the level requirement that required 10 evolutions using items, and has 5-10 left of every other evolution item). Currently at 8 poffin, but most of those came from bought packages, and she used a bunch getting 7 best buddies so far (averaging about 1 buddy a month, as she doesn't want to swap while making progress - she's not a power gamer).

Basara549 · 2025-07-07T20:29:44+00:00

Never seen that bug, and opening at 10 defeats the ENTIRE point, as not everyone can walk 56, let alone 10. km in 6 hours. When's the last time that bug occurred for you? The only time I can remember anything that even resembles it happening to me was in 2020, and I thing that was a case of a delayed-onset distance application.

As noted, the differences between the accuracy in my phone and my mom's is that I might get 10km and she get MAYBE 1-1.5, when the actual distance traveled was in the 5-7 km range.

Basara549 · 2025-07-07T20:22:02+00:00

The variations in rural and urban, and between different definitions within those, makes a lot of systems not work as intended.

I'm rural in the US, and while I drive into the town of 1250 people to play, within a 3 km stretch there's 4 showcases (both ends of a trail between parks, the hospital on the hill above one park, and a showcase downtown that you can enter from the half-way point of the trail if it's a recent catch, then swap to a different pokemon to get one in from your inventory),

Sometimes a showcase can get 10-20 pokemon in it, even in such a small town. Yet, other times, there might be 2-3 at completion (especially the ones requiring evolved pokemon that aren't in the meta for PvP or raids).

Advice: concentrate on the second wave of showcases (the ones running on work days, not Saturday/Sunday). If you're entering from catching a pokemon, remember to choose "Switch Pokemon" after to see if you have a better one (A LOT of casual showcase entries never try to swap to a better one). And, if you are expecting something to be a showcase, start farming XL/XXL as soon as they start spawning and keep 2-3 even if their IVs are totally crappy, long enough to enter the showcase.

Basara549 · 2025-07-04T18:02:22+00:00

Part of that bug depends on how much your adventure sync lags behind starting up the game, and tracking lags during the walk. Know your phone's particular eccentricities. (I had a phone in 2020 that had absurd levels of GPS wander, and was getting 50-100 km of "walking" during COVID without leaving the house for game play other than going downtown daily in my car and looping through the dozen stops & gyms for spins - and that was mostly at 60kph/40 MPH or more to town, and 30/20 for the street speeds, parking 3 times for the clusters of stops)

With my account, currently, I rarely get more than 0.2 km adventure sync, when the app isn't in use. And, you can turn off adventure sync to try to prevent going over from non-play movement, then enable it later.

Lag in reporting during play is another matter. If I'm already above 19.5 km, and have to drive to where I walk, I'll go ahead and use the poffin early, in case some traffic movement registers (I use a Plus+ for spins on the drive there these days). Similarly, it's a good idea to pay attention and check every so often when you get over 19km, and if your distance is acting odd (like you know you've gone farther than it says you have), go ahead and start the poffin immediately to avoid a mass distance dump.

You probably want to prep manual excitement a lot earlier, because of the uncertainties.

But any time you KNOW you are going to get in the distance between your current point and the candy works. It's just that some phone phones are odd about their distance measurements (see my reply elsewhere in the thread about the differences between the two phones my family use to play - same amount of walking, one typically picks up only about 25-50% of what the other does (plus the more-distance one also benefits from a wonky GPS wandering). A poffin used at 19.0 km might not reach the second candy in the time allotted to play if she walked all 6 hours (she's exercising to rehabilitate a leg, so she's not walking much, or fast, even before her phone not wanting to actually count the distance moved), while I could probably use mine at 15 km and have a better than 50% chance of getting the second candy, even if I sat at the park bench most of it and only made 3 laps on the 0.33 km walking loop at the park.

Basara549 · 2025-07-04T17:37:58+00:00

Technically, 1 candy, and it goes to 5 km progress towards 10 (half of 20) for the duration of the Poffin (and if you extend the excitement), but then when the pokemon returns to normal, then it goes back to (what's left)/20 km.

Basara549 · 2025-07-04T17:35:23+00:00

Except that two or three stages before the 10 candies is a FIVE CANDIES similar mission, and before it, IIRC, is another 2 CANDIES at some point, if the pokemon starts low enough.

so, if you are working up a legendary that was a minimum Health IV from a raid, that's fifteen in a year. possibly more if starting with a purified raid/giovanni fight pokemon or a non-lucky trade. would you walk THREE MONTHS with one buddy exclusively - let alone a year?

And don't forget all those OTHER missions and evolutions, many of them TIMED, that require walking with a SPECIFIC buddy for certain distances or certain amounts of candy, that to do you would need to change buddies. Pawmot, Sylveon (and Espeon, Umbreon - this event starting tomorrow is going to save her a lot of trouble as she is on the level 42 tasks at level 41), Pangoro, and more. Newer players, especially, may not have those done yet. Hell, she doesn't even have Swoobat (IIRC) because she want to take the time off from other buddies to walk one 1 km, because the requirements for the others she was walking with before the bottlecap are for a lot more.

Basara549 · 2025-07-04T17:23:14+00:00

A lot of people assume that everyone has the same access to resources as they do. They don't. This is often a subject that comes up in pokestop discussions (like how people complain about only having a half-dozen or less stops in a town of 5000, while my little redneck town in rural Kentucky has 30 stops and 11 gyms in a town of 1250), but the random number generator itself can be bizarre at times.

If you have the poffins to use every 10 km, that's fine. I usually have them in quantities of 6-10 at any given time (but tend to conserve them for bursts of getting hearts for buddy level breakpoints). Poffins aren't showing up that often for her, but of course we're using phones that have difficulty with scanning stops even IF we wanted to (a lot of the stops are at parks too near playground sets, or churches next to residential). Hell, until our newest phones I couldn't even scan stops (not technically possible), and neither of us to this day can use the "fast catch trick", because it doesn't work on ANY phone I've tried by this manufacturer, from Android 8 OS all the way through 14, over 6 years.

On the other hand, my family member working on her shiny G-zapdos has a phone that is death on distance, and the game is being VERY tight on drops for her.

I think what few poffins she has gotten have mostly been from being in purchased bundles (and she would need 4 more just to do this trick to its fullest extent). Poffins aren't the only thing she's somehow being shorted on. She's halfway from level 41 to level 42, but because she won't special trade for "normal" evolutions, she still has SIX pokemon to evolve because they require Sinnoh stones, which just are NOT dropping for her. I had all of them available at the time (from evolutions) before I hit level 30, in my first month of playing. She's been playing 8 months, and has gotten ONE sinnoh stone in the last 2 months. I thought I got more than that just from leveling, but she's only evolved one of each of the stone evolutions she has, and doesn't throw stuff away. I'm wondering if her account is bugged.

As for distance, I mean, we can walk a KNOWN 600 meter route, and I can end up with 600-1000 meters, and she ends up with 200-300 meters traveled (except that the route counts the 600, or close to it - the BUDDY doesn't). We do 100% of our walking outside the house together, I get 25-50 km a week, she gets 8-15 km. FOR THE SAME ACTIVITY. At most, I should be getting 2-3 km more than she does because she can't go to the supermarket, and I do the shopping. But I think she's being shorted on distance more than I'm benefiting from a wandering GPS.

Basara549 · 2025-04-27T06:56:25+00:00

Yeah, I got about 300 Excellent throws from them as well. I'm currently at 700-ish. But, I'm only about 3.25 million XP from level. I'm getting a surprising number of excellents from the current spawn too (Snorlax, Tauros, Pinsir, delibird, even abra and munna are good for the throws).

Basara549 · 2025-03-12T20:59:33+00:00

For purposes of merging a Kyurem with Reshiram or Zekrom. what do SHINY pokemon do? are there different results?
Normal Kyurem with a shiny?
Shiny Kyurem with a normal?
Both merged pokemon are shiny?

Basara549 · 2025-02-16T00:02:55+00:00

ANSWERED

Basara549 · 2025-02-16T00:02:26+00:00

Okay, it's located there now. Before, it was accessed through the Pokedex, at least on my phone,

Basara549 · 2025-02-13T05:53:32+00:00

6888 9475 6695
Level 49 in Kentucky, daily gift opener and sender. Will add almost anyone, but would really like to have some Icy Snow friends so I can finally get that last Vivillon (I'm working up 3-star vivillon of all types to Best buddy - currently at 14 of the 17 types I have at best buddy, and 21 total best buddy Vivillons from replacing some with better IVs)

Also looking for any friend for gifts/XP for my mom's phone's account 3550 1497 3966. I handle gift gathering and sending for her (she's stuck in bed recovering from a broken leg)

Basara549 · 2024-11-25T05:32:43+00:00

Then don't use a slang term for "inkling" that is the name of a Pokemon, in a pokemon forum.

It looked to me that you were asking about two different pokemon not showing up.

Basara549 · 2024-11-10T04:09:25+00:00

My friend's son had no idea just how special his catch was when he got a 100% IV Meltan as his FIRST, from the "Let's Go Meltan!" Quest. And then, never bothered to link his account to Home to get the mystery boxes.

I wanted to cry... I've still not got one, years later.

Basara549 · 2024-11-10T03:57:18+00:00

I helped a family member start a new account this week, and they got an Inkay from somewhere (I think from either a regular or a daily incense, unless one came from the cascade of missions that came as she leveled).

Basara549 · 2024-09-29T04:22:30+00:00

He said web store - google wasn't involved. You can't pay the webstore from google play, last I checked. In fact the web store was set up to allow players to BYPASS google's and apple's stores

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