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What do the pokestops with the hearts flowing around them mean?
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CenturionB
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And I thought it was just such animation.
touringhaggis
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DroidRage123
Newbie
Enough time for me to catch a PIKACHU last week !
A coffee shop near my house is also listed as a pokestop. So they repeatedly use lures - now the place is full of Pokehunters sipping on espresso haha
Noremon
Member
Oh, I know it can be useful even if it only lasts a short while! (I am very rural so it's really my only chance of catching much besides Pidgey, Rattata, & Weedles. Despite that I live along water and right next to a transformer terminal thing for a power company.)
I work at a museum that is also a PokéStop, and I set Lures over the day. But it really hasn't generated any extra business. I even posted about that I do it in a local "Pokémon GO" Facebook Group :-(
I work at a museum that is also a PokéStop, and I set Lures over the day. But it really hasn't generated any extra business. I even posted about that I do it in a local "Pokémon GO" Facebook Group :-(
DroidRage123
Newbie
What kind of museum is it? Maybe the clientele aren't Pokemon fans. Cool idea though - keep it up, you can always catch for yourself whatever you lure
Noremon
Member
It's a railway museum. I noticed since the recent update very little unordinary Pokémon appear with Lures or Incense. I set 4 over the day Thursday and it was all Pidgey, Weedles, Rattata, a Bellsprout, and a Venonat :-/ Really depressing especially with the problems for rural areas anyway.
Probably it's not a sponsored location. The railway museum is NOT paying $$$ to Niantic Corp. and The Pokémon (USA) Co. Ltd. Try a McDonald's or Taco Bell or something instead.
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Don't expect places like the Holocaust Museum or Arlington Cemetery to be sponsored. Even if you use incense.
Of course I'm not in the US, and have only read about these things.
Of course I'm not in the US, and have only read about these things.
Noremon
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I'm not in America either. I think my issue is just from how borked they have been with rural areas. Like I spent the day at a waterfront park and only encountered 1 water type. And I live jext to a transformer power terminal station thing and the only electric types I have seen were when travelling. Hopefully Niantic sorts it. The egg hatching not tracking actual walking distance ia pants too!
I'm not in America either. I think my issue is just from how borked they have been with rural areas. Like I spent the day at a waterfront park and only encountered 1 water type. And I live jext to a transformer power terminal station thing and the only electric types I have seen were when travelling. Hopefully Niantic sorts it. The egg hatching not tracking actual walking distance ia pants too!
If it's power substations affecting it, try a tin-foil hat.
Something else I read in questions with this game, "Bag is full", which apparently means you got to do an in-app purchase, $$$.
If walking can't get the eggs to hatch, try Uber or Lyft instead...drive quite slowly. Look on Craigslist for "Pokémon Go drivers" as well, especially in NYC, $25 an hour.
Something else I read in questions with this game, "Bag is full", which apparently means you got to do an in-app purchase, $$$.
If walking can't get the eggs to hatch, try Uber or Lyft instead...drive quite slowly. Look on Craigslist for "Pokémon Go drivers" as well, especially in NYC, $25 an hour.
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Noremon
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No, you misread. I mean it's supposed to be one of the factors in what type spawns. Like around water for water types. The problem is just that rurally a lot of the spawn effecting locals do nothing.
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Even though you are trolling, there is a video explaining the research being done to confirm locals for type spawns.
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Even though you are trolling, there is a video explaining the research being done to confirm locals for type spawns.
I'm not trolling, I'm just posting everything I've read about this game from this site, BBC, NBC, Fox News, Xinhua, etc.
FYI I've never played it myself, as it's not available here, and I'm NOT prepared to root and hack my phone just to play it. But I find it interesting and trying to understand how it works, and what you might expect by playing it, and how Niantic Corp and The Pokémon Co. Ltd. is monetizing it, i.e. dollar revenue.
FYI I've never played it myself, as it's not available here, and I'm NOT prepared to root and hack my phone just to play it. But I find it interesting and trying to understand how it works, and what you might expect by playing it, and how Niantic Corp and The Pokémon Co. Ltd. is monetizing it, i.e. dollar revenue.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-36842259
Play it in sponsored safe places, like McDonald's, which presumably are the Pokéstops where the hearts are flowing round.
Play it in sponsored safe places, like McDonald's, which presumably are the Pokéstops where the hearts are flowing round.
Noremon
Member
The floating hearts/petals mean nothing except someone has placed a Lure on it. And Lures are player owned and controlled items. Lures are used to attract Pokémon to one place. Sponsorship has nothing to do with it.
And it doesn't require any rooting to play. Hell, it even plays on Bluestacks 2 or such.
But I'm not the one bringing-up tinfoil hats or the Holocaust memorial. If you really wish to learn more about the game there are many ways to do so. The group from that video I linked are the most extensive, but even just make a Reddit post asking for information. Please don't just twist what little you do know as fact. Especially like it is some conspiracy theory. Even the news article you linked only has that sponsored places might be in Japan and Japan only. But in a trolling nature you portray that as all PokéStops and that something established earlier in this topic means something else.
The game can be played totally free. The "bag is full" is only a full inventory. Yes, the in-game shop has an inventory size increase. But items can be tossed too to make space without buying anything. Also a player gets in-game money from capturing Gyms so by doing so can buy things from the Shop anyway. Most of the items that can be purchased in the Shop can also be received at PokéStops or by levelling up. Even things like extra incubators for eggs (eggs drop at PokéStops and require certain distances to be walked to hatch with a random Pokémon in them) & Lures/Incense can be obtained that way. The only items that won't drop are inventory and Pokémon storage increases. Which is reasonable since everything is stored on the Niantic servers instead of your device (the game takes around 115MB actually), so paying around $2.00 to be able to store more is alright. But again, it is very easy to stay in the free storage limits. The free Pokémon storage is 250, which is 100 more than all the available Pokémon species, so unless someone never transfers duplicates or such they shouldn't have a problem.
And it doesn't require any rooting to play. Hell, it even plays on Bluestacks 2 or such.
But I'm not the one bringing-up tinfoil hats or the Holocaust memorial. If you really wish to learn more about the game there are many ways to do so. The group from that video I linked are the most extensive, but even just make a Reddit post asking for information. Please don't just twist what little you do know as fact. Especially like it is some conspiracy theory. Even the news article you linked only has that sponsored places might be in Japan and Japan only. But in a trolling nature you portray that as all PokéStops and that something established earlier in this topic means something else.
The game can be played totally free. The "bag is full" is only a full inventory. Yes, the in-game shop has an inventory size increase. But items can be tossed too to make space without buying anything. Also a player gets in-game money from capturing Gyms so by doing so can buy things from the Shop anyway. Most of the items that can be purchased in the Shop can also be received at PokéStops or by levelling up. Even things like extra incubators for eggs (eggs drop at PokéStops and require certain distances to be walked to hatch with a random Pokémon in them) & Lures/Incense can be obtained that way. The only items that won't drop are inventory and Pokémon storage increases. Which is reasonable since everything is stored on the Niantic servers instead of your device (the game takes around 115MB actually), so paying around $2.00 to be able to store more is alright. But again, it is very easy to stay in the free storage limits. The free Pokémon storage is 250, which is 100 more than all the available Pokémon species, so unless someone never transfers duplicates or such they shouldn't have a problem.