Last week I finally upgraded from a Samsung Galaxy S3 (!!!) to an S5. Now I actually have a phone that meets the minimum requirements of the gameso the app isn't constantly crashing anytime there's anything RAM-heavy going on. The struggle was real, but it's finally over...
Over the weekend I headed back to campus for a football game. The drive is over an hour each way, so I figured I should use an Incense while I'm driving along bored on the highway (stable traffic, no big deal). In 30 minutes, I saw 29 mons (which is the most that can practically spawn), but caught... none!Obviously plenty were rats and birds, but even still, I'd say I tapped on close to half of the mons that spawned. But, when I'd try to catch them, all of them broke out after 1 or 2 shakes, and instantly ran. I never got a chance to throw another ball at any of them. And the first one I even used a berry on, but decided not to waste them after that.
So, I wanna know: do long distances traveled past original spawn point cause a mon to auto-run? In the past day or two since then, maybe 10-20% have run in the city, as opposed to 100% when I was driving at highway speed, so it's definitely not my catching technique.
Different subject, but I've also noticed that switching from wifi over to 4G only when you drive out of wifi range is one thing that causes the dreaded "Error" message (and randomly disappearing mon). Hate it when that happens... >:
Last week I finally upgraded from a Samsung Galaxy S3 (!!!) to an S5. Now I actually have a phone that meets the minimum requirements of the game
Over the weekend I headed back to campus for a football game. The drive is over an hour each way, so I figured I should use an Incense while I'm driving along bored on the highway (stable traffic, no big deal). In 30 minutes, I saw 29 mons (which is the most that can practically spawn), but caught... none!
So, I wanna know: do long distances traveled past original spawn point cause a mon to auto-run? In the past day or two since then, maybe 10-20% have run in the city, as opposed to 100% when I was driving at highway speed, so it's definitely not my catching technique.
Different subject, but I've also noticed that switching from wifi over to 4G only when you drive out of wifi range is one thing that causes the dreaded "Error" message (and randomly disappearing mon). Hate it when that happens... >:
I think it may be as simple as this:
I don't think it was a soft ban, I think it is just a speed limit Niantic has engrained in the game, especially on incense-spawned pokemon. There are several Reddit discussions on it that I've found since my original post. There didn't seem to be any effect on my account besides 100% of those mons fleeing when I was driving at 70+ mph. #neveragain
With that in mind, Incense and Lures are such a waste for me. I'm never in a good position to use them. Wish I could sell them for coins in the shop
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map scanners will be back up by the weekend supposedly.
Kind of liking this new +points for catch rate. I notice fewer mons bouncing.
Don't like this new team level up gym system. This only welcomes more level 10 gyms and really kills the gameplay. They should give more of a reward for taking down gyms.
weezing will be my 131st entry, need 2 more candies, have walked 40km so far
