[SparX]

Has anyone seen the new info on gen 2 coming out soon and that we may be able to breed our pokemon?
also day and night will be in more effect then it is now pokemon wise

[Lawtan]

Nope. Last I heard, if it comes out, it will be after they fix the current issues.

[Tiva]

Originally Posted by hyjin

I lost my life to pokemon go... Tiva can vouch that all we do now as a group of frinds is play pokemon go...

I can vouch for this…. though you did miss the 3 electabuzzes in the park the other day because you were adulting.

[Coda]

I'm fairly certain that Gen 2 is nothing more than a rumor. It's way too soon for them to be messing with game balance like that. I KNOW they intend to get trading and PvP running (they said so in an interview), so that's probably the next priority after bugfixes.

[Poggio]

So I finally caved and installed this game on my phone. Its hella funny that manager is very psyched to play and even made stickers for the staff that were on his team, and that one of my coworkers always complains that her pokemon run away.

And yet all I do is sit in a park and people watch and I am level 15. My phone is so glitchy and cheap, and overheats, that I happen to reload and boom there's a 700 cp magmar magically? idk these things happen. Its really fun to watch the amount of people playing it in droves.

I think thats the fun part for me. Watching people in their business suits walking around pretending to text, until you see their fingers do the flick and they exclaim how excited they are to catch a bulbasaur.

[Lawtan]

Unless I'm at my university, no one around me plays. (university is about 20-25 miles from home)

Actually, sort of the opposite in my immediate vicinity - if people mention it, it is as a bad thing. ._.

[hyjin]

@tiva- Thats cool. I got a snorlax and a 967 pincer

[RinLin]

Well, I think stabilizing the servers are their main prio before adding more content.

[Coda]

Yeah, adding more content BEFORE the server load issues are resolved will just make matters worse by increasing the amount of load ON them.

Sadly, I suspect that the server issues are a matter of "needs a lot more money for more hardware because the code is already solid."

[SparX]

more of a forum with speculation then article buuuut
I remember reading something online about they don't have enough people to handle everything also

[Coda]

I doubt that manpower is the issue. Niantic is a Google spinoff, and having worked for Google (in fact, in the same building as Niantic for a while) I'm reasonably certain that it's run like a Google team. 20-30 people is actually quite a lot when you consider that they only have two projects and they don't have to have employees to handle things like marketing (Nintendo does that for Go and they don't advertise Ingress except for the occasional event) or system administration (they use Google App Engine so the ugly parts are taken care of for them).

As a developer, if I got to work with 30 people on a single team I'd be feeling a little overwhelmed by there being TOO many people involved. There's a book called "The Mythical Man-Month" that talks about how throwing more developers at a late project only makes it later -- software development can only be split up so far before you start losing efficiency by having to coordinate too many potentially-conflicting sources of input.

To be completely honest, Pokemon Go is actually a RIDICULOUSLY simple game, code-wise. Since release, no one has ever seen a bug in the actual core mechanics. The issues have all been with the interface or the network, with two known exceptions (the rangefinder "bug" that was actually intentionally put in there to try to reduce some of the server load, and the bug that sometimes gets expiration times backwards leaving despawned Pokemon visible in the radar). 5-10 people on the game client, if you've got a couple iOS-specific specialists and a couple Android-specific specialists, and 4-6 people on the server intuitively feels like about the right level of stuff now that the game is functionally complete.

They even have the advantage that they don't even need artists; I imagine The Pokemon Company gave them everything they needed in advance.

[ml1201]

I'm finally rank 14! :D (add finally found this thread). I was at a park with some friends yesterday and I got a 700+ Rapidash. XD I'm super happy. owo

[Lawtan]

ml1201, I am about there myself (had to take a few days away from it)

My best at the moment is a 887 Flareon...followed by a 764 Snorlax.

Found a diglett!

[ml1201]

I don't think I have one yet. o.o;

[SparX]

I just got level 13 XD
When I go to get serg from work,Lee and I will be waiting at the college collecting stuff from the pokestops again XD

[ml1201]

Nice. XD My brother was nice enough to try and get the pokestops for me when I was taking him out to dinner yesterday. There were a bunch up and down the street the place was on. XD