[Quiet Man Cometh]

So should I hold off on powering up anything? I got a Venomoth at cp 131 a short while ago. I'm impatient a little to see how things go. Do I even want to keep all these cp 10 guys?

Watching my phone here. The gym in the distance has changed groups a couple of times, and someone put a lure down at the stop down the street. This annoys me a titch because I don't want to go walking down there again. I have stuff to do and it's getting dark.

Clefairy!!!

I'm beginning to think that Pokemon just get tossed randomly at inactive phones to make up for people perhaps not being able to move around as much. I can imagine kids in a closed ward or something at a hospital who only have so many rooms to hunt Pokemon in. It would make it fun for them.

[Lawtan]

I doubt it - otherwise, I'd be much further along.
It depends. Evolved pokemon stats are based on the cp a pokemon was when you caught it, so if you plan to evolve it, it will reset all your cp progress on that pokemon.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Caught a Golbat. Not sure it was worth all the ball I lobbed at it (escaped three times and was irritatingly hard to hit) but I can collect more at the stop tomorrow, I guess. Longer walk for me. I may even be high enough level to hit the gym.

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Originally Posted by Lawtan

I doubt it - otherwise, I'd be much further along.
It depends. Evolved pokemon stats are based on the cp a pokemon was when you caught it, so if you plan to evolve it, it will reset all your cp progress on that pokemon.

Are you sure about that one? I'm seeing it said both ways, and that whatever CP your Pokemon had as it's evo point (including power-ups) will be the same once it's evolved.

I don't have the candy to evolve so I'm deciding if I should wait it out, specifically for my Eevee.

[Lawtan]

I tried it twice, and one evolution was the exact same as its raised CP, and the other was lower than the CP I raised it to. (So, I think it is a tad random in relation to how much you improve it before evolution, or more reliant on the CP at capture.)

And yeah...I miss a lot. xD

[PartySkeleton]

I don't know if any of you know this but you can control which eeveelution you get when evolving an eevee. You have to name your eevee before evolving it and the names are:
Rainer: Vaporeon
Sparky: Jolteon
Pyro: Flareon
Hopefully this helps :)

[Awen Moonshine]

Also note that it only works once per name.

I've been rather lucky and have all 3 Eeveelutions that are all quite powerful. Now I'm just collecting Eevees for their candy to boost my Vaporeon as she was my first (through random choice) ^_^;;

I really want to be out in the nice weather searching for pokemon and tagging pokestops, but I have lots of work to do right now... :(

[Lawtan]

Same. ;~;

But, I can give photos!
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30 minutes later (bad Wifi connection)

Fish out of water! Mayday! Mayday! Danger, Will Robinson!

I caught a Red Eevee! (Red Panda)

A Bellsprout! Two!

Oliphant! [insert LotR music here]

I caught the Doctor!

On a normal walk, Yellow Jackets and all...

[SparX]

I was able to catch a squirtle and a bulbasaur at the college the other day. =3

[Demonskid]

Law - that magikarp is seriously lost o3o

[Awen Moonshine]

Awesome pics Law <3 I'm stuck inside sewing :( I did hatch a Magicarp though through my GPS bugging out and sending me for walks around the neighborhood ^_^;;

[Quiet Man Cometh]

I'm going to take a stroll to the pokestop, crummy weather or not. I lobbed some 20+ pokeballs at a golbat the other day and need more.

If you evolve an eevee without naming it, will it be random?

How do you make the camera take an actual picture? I tried it once but just got a regular game shot.

Here are some numbers for people (I told myself I wasn't going to get this involved!)

Just got a drowsy CP 134 with Psychic at 40 (3 bars). My CP 131 Venomoth has Psychic at 55 (two bars). I assume those are attack stats but not sure how they work. How would those two compare? (for people that are more on top of these things than me).

I think I'll walk to the gym in a few and train. Hopefully it won't become non-friendly by the time I get there. I needed this game after I got out of the hospital. I would probably have recovered faster!

[Poggio]

Sadly, my ever evolutions are random. I want a vaporion but got the others instead.

[Lawtan]

Name one Eevee "Rainer" and evolve it, and it should be a Vaporeon.

I switched to the actual camera app...

...Not sure how battle stats work. I'm still neutral at lvl 14. Team Harmony!

[Quiet Man Cometh]

Well that didn't go well. Friendly gym but the pokemon were to tough to train with. Would be nice if you got even a ball or something for the effort, but it looks as though if you aren't tough enough to win, there's little point in doing any gym/training stuff.

Did get another egg though.

[Coda]

Gyms are worth it if you can get through even one Pokemon; you get XP for it. But you probably don't want to try for gyms until you're level 10 or so.

Don't waste your stardust on powering up Pokemon until you're past level 15. As you level up, wild Pokemon will show up with higher CP, and odds are that you're just going to level up and get a new Pokemon with better stats than the one you spent stardust on.

In general, don't bother trying to catch evolved Pokemon right now unless it's something particularly rare that you need for Pokedex completion. With the capture rates being what they are, you're going to waste a lot of balls on them and they're not worth any more candy than the unevolved form. I mean, if you see a Ninetales and you can't even find a Vulpix, then heck yeah catch it, but that's the general idea.

Bluestacks is just an Android emulator. If you want to give it a moving, fake GPS location with the arrow keys, you have to install an app to control that and set it up, because the default configuration doesn't do it.