Octopus Overlords

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: you just collect the pokemon, occasionally evolve them into better versions, and then what? Fight at the gyms?

What benefits do you get for taking over a gym?

And is fighting an active thing or does the best pokemon always win?

Every Pokemon has two attacks if you look at their profile. Their first and weaker attack is what's used if you just tap your Pokemon repeatedly in battle and takes no time to execute (so immediately). The second and stronger move will have a variety of blue bar lengths, and they get built up during battle the more you attack. Once a complete bar is charged up, you can tap and hold with your finger on the screen to execute that stronger move. A somewhat weak 2nd move like Aerial Ace might have four short bars, and only do slightly more damage but is charged up faster. Stronger 2nd moves like Body Slam might have two long bars to charge, and really strong moves like Fire Blast or Hyper Beam will have one extremely long bar to charge.

hentzau wrote:My kids went on a walk around the neighborhood last night at 9:30. My kids. Outside. After dark. Walking around.

Exodor wrote:FWIW, this is what I read on SA

Every Pokemon has two attacks if you look at their profile. Their first and weaker attack is what's used if you just tap your Pokemon repeatedly in battle and takes no time to execute (so immediately). The second and stronger move will have a variety of blue bar lengths, and they get built up during battle the more you attack. Once a complete bar is charged up, you can tap and hold with your finger on the screen to execute that stronger move. A somewhat weak 2nd move like Aerial Ace might have four short bars, and only do slightly more damage but is charged up faster. Stronger 2nd moves like Body Slam might have two long bars to charge, and really strong moves like Fire Blast or Hyper Beam will have one extremely long bar to charge.

Isgrimnur wrote:

hentzau wrote:My kids went on a walk around the neighborhood last night at 9:30. My kids. Outside. After dark. Walking around.

I'm calling DCFS!

coopasonic wrote:

Isgrimnur wrote:

hentzau wrote:My kids went on a walk around the neighborhood last night at 9:30. My kids. Outside. After dark. Walking around.

I'm calling DCFS!

In Chicago? Deathwish much?

Isgrimnur wrote:When's the fall date?

Godzilla Blitz wrote:Also, it doesn't take much to get a Pokemon to Cp400+, and that's enough to start messing with most gyms at the moment.

hentzau wrote:

Isgrimnur wrote:

Blackhawk wrote:I almost want to try it out just to see what the fuss is all about (although I've heard it is hard to play in rural areas.)

Ralph-Wiggum wrote:It reminded me of that ST:TNG episode where everyone got obsessed to with that game except for Wesley Crusher.

Two teens looking for Pokemon were mistaken as thieves looking for a house to rob and ended up getting shot at on Saturday. A man was sleeping in his Palm Coast area home about 1:30 a.m. when a loud noise woke him up. The 37-year-old looked outside and spotted a white car parked in the road outside his Primrose Lane house, said Flagler County Sheriff's Office Jim Troiano. He grabbed his handgun and went outside to investigate. As he came up to the car, he overheard one of the two teens say "did you get anything?" Troiano said. That's when the man stepped in front of the vehicle, thinking they had possibly broken into his home, raised his gun and ordered them not to move, officials said. The vehicle sped towards him and he moved out of its path. He then fired rounds at the vehicle because he said it "was attempting to strike him," Troiano said. Deputies searched the area but couldn't find the vehicle.

The next morning, a mother of one of the teens called authorities to report what had happened. She said her 19-year-old son and his 16-year-old friend were playing Pokemon Go on their smartphones when they were confronted by a man who came out of a home and started shooting at them, authorities said. The mother told deputies the teens did not tell her about the incident until they saw the car had a flat tire and bullet holes in the rear tire, hubcap and fender. Officials talked with the teens who said they were sitting in the car hunting two Pokemon—a Marowak and Tauros. One said "Did you catch him?" and the other responded "Yeah, did you?" That's when the teens said they heard gunfire and sped away, Troiano said. When they got home they checked to see if they were injured or if there was any damage to the vehicle. They didn't see anything and decided not to report it because they thought "it was someone trying to scare them," Troiano said. Officials are continuing to investigate the incident.

New York will bar registered sex offenders on parole from playing Pokemon Go over concerns that the wildly popular virtual reality game could help sexual predators lure young victims, state officials said on Monday.

Governor Andrew Cuomo has directed the New York Department of Corrections and Community Supervision to restrict the state's 3,000 sex offenders on parole from using Pokemon Go and similar games, Cuomo's office said in a statement.

To enforce the rule, the state is requesting Pokemon Go developer Niantic, Inc to cross-reference a list of sex offenders provided by the state with its list of players.

New York is also asking the company to remove locations, identified in the game as places where players can win special points, near offenders' homes. Paroled sex offenders will be instructed by their supervisors that playing Pokemon Go or similar games is in violation of their parole, state officials said.
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A feature of the game that allows users to lure characters or players for a fee to specific locations, appears to have the potential to be abused by predators, Cuomo said.

The game has been blamed for illegal border crossing from Canada to the United States, prompted a U.S. senator to question the game's maker over privacy concerns, and led to a series of robberies and injures.

The game may also pose special risks to children as it encourages players to explore physical locations to win points.

In the lawsuit, Marder says that within the first week of the game's release, "strangers began lingering outside of his home with their phones in hand." At least five gamers also knocked on Marder's door asking for permission to catch Pokemon in the homeowner's backyard.

Marder says in the suit that these Pokemon were placed at his West Orange home by the game's developers without his permission.