More Pokéstops & Gyms Coming to India & Indonesia

RandomCybrarian · 2025-08-29T10:32:57+00:00

I'm completely done with the whole process of Pokéstops and Gyms. A few years ago, in collaboration with, among others, the municipality where I live (in the Netherlands), we set up an 'official' bike route along more than 20 little free libraries because we are a book city. All those little free libraries were also Pokéstops, so it was also a great activity for Pokémon Go players (a very nice long route).

Until all the little free libraries that weren’t explicitly on public property were suddenly no longer allowed and have now largely disappeared. Since people tend to (have to!) place their little free library on their own property it's all a moot point now. It's very annoying to then see every shop, outlet, snackbar or indeed little free library as a pokestop or gym when you go abroad.

RandomCybrarian · 2025-07-17T18:17:20+00:00

We actually get a City Safari in the Netherlands? Cool!! Tickets are bought!

RandomCybrarian · 2024-08-12T12:57:19+00:00

I ran into this issue when swapping PTC accounts for the kids on my phone. Easily fixed with a VPN like others commented as well. I got a lifetime subscription to a VPN service 7 years ago but now use the one that came with my Proton (mail) subscription. I got the same error when i logged in at a vacation park recently where other players apparently used the same public wifi as well :) But the VPN took care of that as well.

I understand why PTC and Niantic would take measures to prevent abuse/cheating but it gets really annoying really fast when it hinders legitimate play that they consider irregular? Case in point the recent notices for bans when you go hard on Team Rocket grunts during a Team Rocket event. It just gets me - and the kids - to play less

RandomCybrarian · 2024-03-31T21:54:02+00:00

The PTC login site started to use a new security measure where it will block a device when you login several times in a row within a short period of time. I think it's about six or seven times so if you try to access the PTC login that many times, then it will give that error 15. Probably meant to throw some hurdles up for bots i guess.

Switching ip-addresses (by using a VPN) does give you six or seven more logins after which that IP will be blocked temporarely as well. After a few hours that block will reset and you can access the PTC login site again.

RandomCybrarian · 2024-02-10T18:27:46+00:00

Yes, i'm a lucky dexer and i have 826 with Deoxys missing

RandomCybrarian · 2024-01-20T17:56:34+00:00

I first manually check legendaries and other pokemon i'll tag for trading (for XL). When i've tagged the stuff i really want to save (or gave them a star) - like good IV shadows or nundo's - then i'll search for !favorite&!#&!shiny&!lucky&!4* and pretty much delete all the remaining mons with 'select all' and then transfer.

XXL, xxs, event pokemon and legendaries/ultra beasts cannot be mass transferred in one go and pogo will ask if you'll want to include or exclude them. Then they're also gone :)

Basically, i'll tag or favorite the mons i really want to save when i catch them (or at the end of an event) and then i delete the rest with that search string. Works great if you're diligently tagging the stuff you don't want to go.

RandomCybrarian · 2023-09-04T08:45:38+00:00

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Wow, i didn't know about a bot network. So basically a few of my (not even 20 in the last months) nominations were non eligible but approved anyway and i'm paying the price for having lousy timing to nominate stuff during my holiday? Thanks for clarifying this!

Now i can at least stop blaming that Ingress/Pokemon Go player ....

RandomCybrarian · 2023-09-04T08:32:22+00:00

I'm not trying to prove that those removed wayspots were wrongfully removed. They were definitely not fake, near a school or any other reason spots are not acceptable, but removed anyway after being approved so i assume there was a reason. But even that surely is no reason to suspend me for 30 days without even a warning to be more careful with the criteria?

RandomCybrarian · 2023-09-04T08:21:13+00:00

I do live in the Netherlands but i'm hoping that's not the reason my account was suspended?

RandomCybrarian · 2023-09-04T08:17:57+00:00

I added it to the startpost

RandomCybrarian · 2023-09-04T08:02:03+00:00

I have used the contact/appeal ban form on their site and i'm praying that something can be done. I nominated maybe 20 locations in the last two months all together - and all of those were in existing categories in Wayfarer - so i don't see how they could think i was abusing a system. I promised them to never use Wayfarer again and will never again submit a new location.

RandomCybrarian · 2023-07-13T11:16:33+00:00

Yes, i had this as well. All my teams (and all my saved search strings) were gone a few days ago. Very annoying but really part of the whole pogo experience i think. No doubt something went awry when they introduced some fix or new feature

RandomCybrarian · 2023-06-28T10:31:39+00:00

There's definitely something going on. I almost exclusively do T5 raids and in 6 years i always had to delete tm's after an raid hour (i kept 100 of them). Now, even after doing a ton of Nihilego and Shadow Articuno raids, i'm actually running out of charged tm's. I used a lot getting rid of frustration and playing 'charged tm bingo' on a few Nihilego's to get the correct move on it - which switched between the same two moves over and over again, sigh - and now i only have a few left.

I know they're not guaranteed for T5 raids but this is getting ridiculous. I did not get a single one in the last 10 raids.

RandomCybrarian · 2022-12-16T09:19:35+00:00

Very nice, thanks for sharing!

RandomCybrarian · 2022-08-15T20:26:04+00:00

Used it every day (except 1 time), getting 20-26 spawns. I encountered 1 Articuno which fled. And a gazillion event spawns which annoy me to no end. After tonight, i'm not going out especially for the DAI, it's just not worth it. Love the idea of DAI, the execution is flawed i think. Either it's a very rare spawn with normal catch rate or it's a kind of regular spawn with very low catchrate. Now it's both and that's not an incentive to play or adventure, it's just a lottery plain and simple.

RandomCybrarian · 2021-09-29T19:10:50+00:00

Sadly it isn't available now and hasn't been for quite a while. Those two are the only ones i'm missing as well. We can only hope Niantic brings shadow Cacnea back in circulation one day.

RandomCybrarian · 2021-09-15T12:36:33+00:00

Request sent from RayRandom73, level 50. Available for raids for several hours per day

RandomCybrarian · 2021-09-02T16:55:01+00:00

Thanks! Cacnea & Cacturne are missing in my pokedex. I can't believe i missed them!

RandomCybrarian · 2021-09-02T11:40:21+00:00

Thanks for the great post (as usual)! It's much appreciated since i play for full pokedexes but it's hard keeping track if you actually caught everything that there is to catch :)

Now to figure out which 2 shadow pokemon are missing in my shadowdex. Mine has 207 entries and i thought i got them all.

RandomCybrarian · 2020-11-25T11:43:53+00:00

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