Pokémon Go: There Is Double The Stardust In Gyms Now

Hey all, it seems amongst all the Ditto hype there has been something many Pokémon Go trainers have accidentally missed, and that’s all the extra stardust received from gyms.

A great deal of Pokémon Go trainers have gone about their day without noticing the increase in stardust collected, but there has been a few trainers who have noticed.

According to The Silph Road on Reddit, a number of Pokémon Go trainers are getting double the stardust from gyms.

Level Rewards and Unlockable Items in pokemon go

Every level your trainer gains in Pokemon GO will result in Level Rewards and Unlockable Items that change based on the trainer's current level. This page is used to track which items you receive, and the level they unlock.

Note that certain levels also unlock specific Items that will then become obtainable at PokéStops, including Razz Berries, higher tiers of Poké Balls, and Potions.

More States & Countries Added To Pokemon Tracker Testing

Trainers,

After reviewing your feedback, we have made some changes to the Nearby feature we were originally testing in San Francisco, California. We have changed the feature to only show the Nearby feature if a PokéStop is close to your location. In addition, we have also made changes to the way Sightings now works.

We will be expanding the ability for Trainers to test this updated version of the features and provide us with feedback. Starting today, Trainers in the following areas will now be able to use the new Nearby and Sightings functionality:
- United States of America: All states west of the Mississippi River (except Hawaii and Alaska)
- Canada: British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and the western half of Ontario.
- Australia: All states and territories

Pokemon Go Hatching Chart

Pokemon hatch at the same level as your trainer when you first acquire them, up to trainer level 20.
For example:

• Obtaining an egg when your trainer is level 10, the egg will hatch into a level 10 Pokemon even if you leveled up.
• Due to the level cap, even if you found the egg at trainer level 30, the egg will hatch into a level 20 Pokemon.

THE CURVEBALL BONUS IN POKEMON GO

The 10 XP bonus for landing a CURVEBALL has led some travelers to adopt the throwing style. But the question has long remained: does throwing CURVEBALLS increase my odds of capturing a wild encounter?

Anecdotal reports have been conflicting, with many travelers swearing by the throw method and others claiming capture rates are only affected by otherfactors. Statistically meaningful results had not previously been gathered to confirm.

THE NEW "NEARBY" TRACKER ROLLOUT (FINALLY) EXPANDS!

It had been almost 3 months since August 9th when, around 3am UTC, a new Pokemon tracker began appearing for users in San Francisco, CA.

The 'tracker' (named the NEARBY scanner) was geo-fenced to San Francisco, excluding other parts of the bay area like nearby Oakland - and the rest of the world! For months Niantic seemingly doubled down on infrastructure changes, and feature rollouts appeared to be largely put on hold. Alongside them, the experimental scanner. The geofence was not expanded.

But today, Niantic has finally announced that the geo-fenced boundaries of the NEARBY scanner are expanding! Areas included in the first wave are:

DOES ANYTHING INFLUENCE YOUR POKEMON'S EVOLUTION MOVESET?

"Is there ANYTHING I can do to influence a Pokemon's moveset?"

When a Pokemon evolves, its quick and charge move are re-rolled according to unknown odds. Conventional wisdom has settled on the idea that the moves are chosen randomly from those available to that Pokemon species. Unfortunately, no study has seriously examined evolution moveset factors, and due to a lack of this data, myths and rumors have perpetuated.

Fortunately, the Silph Research group has taken a look!

When a Pokemon evolves, its quick and charge move are re-rolled according to unknown odds. Silph researchers began recording various attributes of their Pokemon before evolution, including their moves, appraisals, STARDUST, and their evolved movesets. Over 10,000 evolutions were captured over the course of the study.

DITTO NOW HAS ITS SIGNATURE MOVE: TRANSFORM. LET THE HUNT BEGIN!

v0.47.1 of Pokemon GO brought several client-side changes, which we explored in our data mine a few days ago. Ditto received some necessary animations and interactions therein, but one thing was missing: Ditto's signature move TRANSFORM had not been assigned to it on the server side.

A short while ago, however, the Silph Research group discovered that Ditto has now been officially assigned the TRANSFORM move in the brand new server-side game settings.

That means, travelers, that the hunt is officially on!

DITTO IS COMING (VERY) SOON

New code for Ditto has been added in spades. Code showing the following has now appeared:

Ditto appears to be able to be 'encounterable' in the wild. It is not clear whether this is enabled yet, or whether it will appear as Ditto before capture, but the species is almost certainly 'capturable' (as opposed to acquirable only through non-wild-encounter)
Ditto appears to be able to be used in battle
Sounds for different Ditto effects have appeared (not included, so as not to spoil the effect!)
A background graphic for Ditto has appeared (dark purple)
A small 'spotlight' graphic has appeared for ditto that may indicate a different appearance either on the map, or elsewhere
It is possible that Ditto is now in the game. We are unable to confirm either way, but this update appears to have given the client everything it needs to handle Ditto interactions. Keep it together, travelers.

2. THREE NEW 'SPONSORS' HAVE APPEARED... BUT THEY'RE UNUSUAL

To add to the known sponsor list (MCDONALDS, POKEMON_STORE, TOHOSOFTBANK, and GLOBE), three new 'sponsors' have appeared:

SPATULA
THERMOMETER
KNIFE
This could possibly be placeholder names/icons for sponsored retail/restaurant locations that will play host during a promotion. Or, they could be used for a future event in other ways. Notably, no new graphics have been added client-side for the three items, so it is unclear whether they are simply icons to appear in PokeStop photo-discs, or have other purposes.

3. TWEAKS TO THE NEW NEARBY TRACKER

New code now appears to show that the NEARBY tracker (currently being tested in San Francisco, Arizona, and Seattle) will hide the SIGHTINGS radar when a minimum number of NEARBY Pokemon are detected. The minimum number is unclear, but anecdotally, it may currently be a single one. The code appears to be able to adjust this parameter - perhaps indicating Niantic is continuing to refine the feature.

Logic has also appeared that informs the client whether or not to show the NEARBY Pokemon tracker at all, possibly referencing the geofence, or if there are no POKESTOPS with spawns in range.

PURE SPECULATION AHEAD!
4. SOMETHING ...SHINY...

We don't want to get ahead of ourselves, as we're working with crumbs, travelers. But for the first time, the phrases SHINY and RARE have appeared in the APK.

There is a new audio file that plays when a wild Pokemon is captured that is deemed RARE by the game (it's a little more enthusiastic than the normal 'you did it' music after a capture).

Finally, there is a decent amount of new code segregating Pokemons' materials into "default" and "shiny" materials. Materials, for those unfamiliar with game development, are specifications for how surfaces appear, reflect light, are colored/tinted, etc.

If it's true that a SHINY material has been introduced, it is possible that tinted versions of Pokemon may begin appearing.

However.

There are currently no new Pokemon sprites for the Pokedex/Sightings/Nearby tracker, nor elsewhere in the game. We might have expected to see alternate SHINY sprites in this update if "shinies" were truly going to become part of the collecting game.

Take this one with a big grain of salt, travelers. But we'll be keeping an eye out for traction on this front.

5. COMBAT TWEAK?

We have seen no change to the move DPS or species CP values, but a small amount of new code referencing moves/attackers has appeared. This currently remains unexplained, but may point towards future changes to the combat system.

PARTING WORDS
So, travelers, a little more than meets the eye with this update! Whether or not SHINY Pokemon will be appearing in the game, we are confident that Ditto is nearing it's appearance. It may already be enabled in the game! So keep a sharp eye.

Niantic's VP of Product recently shared that very large things will be heading to the game before the end of the year. In our mind, these signs point towards some awesome things to come.

The Hunt For Ditto In Pokemon GO Is Finally On!

Ditto has long been rumored to arrive in Pokemon GO, but it was only recently that everything about it seems to make sense. Following a recent update to the game, data miners on social media sites were able to gather information about the Pokemon's supposed arrival and abilities. This is definitely something that players must look forward to.
According to The Silph Road -- a popular Reddit community dedicated to Niantic's hit mobile game -- the signature move of Ditto has been discovered in the title. This is thanks to a new patch (v0.47.1) unleashed by the studio lately. The said update reportedly brought various client-side changes, all of which have been data mined a couple of days ago.
While there have been several Pokemon Easter eggs pointing to the Pokemon GO creature's existence in the last few weeks, nothing seems to highlight its ability. Well, actually, it's already a thing in the past. The aforementioned community was able to confirm that the developers have finally assigned -- officially -- the Transform ability to the specie. As of this writing, it's already been placed in the game's newly released server-side settings.
So what does this mean for the fans of Niantic's title? It's simple -- the hunt is on! Yes, that's right. The highly anticipated Pokemon is already available in the game. Players can now head straight to the wild and look for the popular monster.
The said Pokemon GO creature is equipped with the ability to transform into any other species. For instance, it can copy Dragonite. And through it, it's also able to mimic or utilize the same skills. This one here is really going to be a real game changer in gym battles.
As previously reported here at iTech Post, the monster was first rumored to arrive sometime in December. The month is believed to be the release window of Gen 2 update, something fans have also been anticipating for. Hence its arrival is a bit of a surprise to many fans.
What are your thoughts on Ditto finally arriving to Pokemon GO? Have you started your journey to catching this creature already? What are your expectations? Tell us what you think at the comment section below!

Top 11 CP-Pokemon after rebalance!

11th: Alakazam
Status: BuffedStamina: 110, Attack: 271, Defense: 194
Stats: +85 Attack; +42 Defense
Percentage CP Change: +64.57%
Maximum CP: 2887

Many of us older Pokemon fans are extremely excited to see Alakazam’s CP buff. He was fun using in the original Pokemon games and many of us were shocked seeing how useless he was in Pokemon Go. I specifically made this a top-11 analysis to squeeze him in. Although he ranks at 11th, he received a huge CP change and outpaced Gengar.

Something Strange Happened To Pokemon Go GYMS Yesterday, they all went grey!

Since last update Niantic made some changes in Pokemon Go Gyms and Gyms are now a lot easier and changed for good but a user reported that during yesterday night all Gyms turned grey,He also said that usually Gyms are always changing between teams but yesterday all turned into grey for certain time duration.

He also mentioned that he took a quick walk to see other Gyms in the area and checked that they all were grey as well and one of was level 7 Valor Gym but that turned grey as well.

This discussion took place on reddit and there were few other pokemon trainers who backed him up that this same issue happened to them as well in their area!

What do you think is it possible that spoofers are going around beating Gym and turning them into grey? or Could it be that Niantic is updating Gyms and adding some certain features?

Pokemon Go Permanently Locking Out Players Because Of Offensive Names And Bug?

According to some trainers Pokemon Go app is permanently locking them out of the game.

So what happens is your name could be flagged if it’s offensive and some users reported that their name got flagged even though it wasn’t offensive,one of the user’s nickname was WMDraongslayer, so when his name got flagged, he was still logged in the game and he noticed that his name was changed into some number strings and later he changed his nickname to SnorlaxSlayerWM.

Afterward he went home, and next day he noticed there was an email from Niantic in his inbox, he opened it, which is below:

“Trainer,

We have reset your nickname because it has been identified as offensive to other players. The next time you login you will be asked to select a new nickname.

-NianticOps”

He ignored the email as he already changed his nickname, but next day he was asked to log in again, and as soon as he logged in, He immediately met by the professor Willow. He says, “Hi Trainer! What should I call you, again?”

When you tap on the screen, it takes you to another screen that says, “Enter the nickname that other Trainers will use for you.”

Now this is where the main issue begins! The trainer tried to change name multiple time, he even used some random numbers but it didn’t work out! Every time he hit submit button, it immediately says “Server Error. When you click “OK”, it takes right back to the renaming screen. You get stuck in an infinite loop.

You can’t even log out or go to any other screen. [ My Tip: In case you wanna log out you can always re-install the game and if not, just go to settings, my applications and clear cache/data for Pokemon Go app, and you will need to re-login]

There are about 20-30 players on reddit who reported similar issue since last 3 months, not much but still this issue needs to resolve!

What you can do is Report this issue as a bug here: Pokemon Go Bug Report that way it will be resolved faster and for better!

Dragon Ball Super- Trunks’ Spirit Sword Bomb- Explained

Dragon Ball Super Episode 67 is the most action packed episode of Super we have seen till now. Future Trunks did things no one saw coming. With his Spirit Sword Bomb, he annihilated the physical body of Zamasu. He repaired his broken Sword by charging it up with his ki, which is quite acceptable because we have seen him unleashing ki blasts using the sword before. Besides, just the simple fact that he carries and uses a Sword as a weapon tells us that he has great control over it and the Sword is certainly special. Later, he went on to gather energy from everyone and the entire planet to form a Spirit Bomb. He first absorbed the Spirit Bomb and then charged his Sword up with its power just like he did with his usual ki earlier on. With all the powers directed in the sword, it became powerful enough to damage Zamasu whose immortality got nullified after the fusion. Also, he was exhausted having just fought Vegito. If Vegito’s fusion stayed a bit longer he would probably end up destroying Zamasu. Trunks made sure to take advantage of that too.

Pokemon Go: Promoting physical activity but sponsoring Mcdonalds? Research.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a minimum of 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous activity is recommended per week. Many, nearly 1/4 adults worldwide and 4/5 adolescents, fail to reach this standard. Physical inactivity also tends to lead to sedentary behavior, or sitting too much, and physical inactivity and sedentary behavior are NOT the same. You can theoretically reach WHO guidelines while still leading a sedentary lifestyle, such as chronic TV-watching, video game consumption, working desk jobs, etc. Both  increase mortality for 5 of the major non-communicable diseases.

AVGs have been studied to see if they garner enough metabolic equivalents (METs) or heart rate (HR) to meet the aforementioned standards. For the most part, the research is mixed, but much of it support AVGs — especially since it replaces sedentary video game consumption at a minimum.

Fast forward.

Pokemon Go is an augmented-reality game; although it is an AVG, it is unique of its own. Researchers, including myself, are testing various aspects of Pokemon Go and the implications of physical activity. As of now, I have high hopes for Pokemon Go.

But the advertising is a variable I have never considered. Niantic has boasted about the positive effects of Pokemon Go, but what is unique to Pokemon Go (as opposed to Wii Sports Boxing for example) is the advertising of unhealthy places such as Mcdonalds. In Japan, Mcdonalds was a sponsor even before launch.

I believe Niantic does not have the right to play both worlds. Advertising is a strong tool; it absolutely contributes to their generous marketplace prices, but to advocate physical activity and healthy lifestyles while simultaneously allowing one of the unhealthiest fast food venues as a sponsor lies a certain paradox.

Pokémon Go: Players Are Having Problems On their 7th Day Streaks

Hey all, now with this “day streak” feature still being fairly new, it comes to no surprise that there are some glitches, mainly in the seventh day streaks.

In some forums and on social media, Pokémon Go trainers are expressing their problems with the seventh day streak, with a variety of different concerns.

Most of the concerns are about the seventh day streak not appearing in the journal, despite receiving the streak notification.

However there are some others who are experiencing other difficulties, with trainers receiving the notification with the amount of items earned but when they check their items list, it’s a completely different amount of items compared to what the notification said.

An example of this is when a player stated on Reddits forum The Sliph Road “When I spun the stop I saw 20+ items, check journal and it showed 3 items, check inventory and I only received the 3 items. My Poke-balls went from 72 to 74 despite seeming almost 10 Poke-balls when I spun the 7 streak stop”.

The most common problem amongst these trainers seems to be that ,when they receive the notification about the seventh day streak with all the items listed below, but instead only receive three items.

The most unusual part is that it seems to always been three items received instead of the expected amount, and according to forums this problem is occurring on both iOS and Android, so it effects all players.

Hopefully Niantic sees these complaints and works on fixing the problem soon, as it looks as if this problem is spreading rapidly.

So for those who are a day or two away from your seventh day streaks, you may be getting a little nervous but I assume Niantic will be quick to fix this bug.

Have you all experienced this glitch? Are you close to your seventh day streaks? Please let us know in the comments below.

Pokémon GO Changed PokéStops Again!

It seems that the people down at Niantic have changed how PokéStops work once again. Now it seems that when you spin a stop you no longer get the experience if your bag is full. This might not seem like a big deal to many players since stops only give out fifty experience points, but there are many players who are a very high level and rely on grinding to get up levels quickly. It also gives players who are passengers in vehicles less to do while riding around. However, this might convince some players to stop spinning and driving.

What do you think of this PokéStops change? Let us know in the comments below!

How to evolve Specific Pokemon in Sun And Moon

You can evolve most Pokemon by achieving certain level but there are other Pokemon that has special requirement that’s not specified in Pokemon Sun And Moon, but worry not we got you covered!
Pikachu: You can evolve Pikachu into Alola Raichi with a Thunder Stone, which can be purchased on Akala Island.

Cubone: You can evolve Cubone into Alola Marowak at level 28, during the night time.

Yungoos: You can evolve Yungoos into Gumshoos at level 20, during the day.

Rattata: You can evolve Rattata into Alola Raticate  at Level 20, during night time!

Meowth: You can evolve Meowth into Alola Persian with high happiness! You will need to use a luxury ball to capture Meowth, it’ll instantly raise it’s happiness level by a bit, you can increase happiness giving it a massage in Konikoni city, or by winning battles or feeding it vitamins and giving it soothe bell will increase how much happiness it gains.  You can check Pokemon’s happiness in Konikoni city.

Here is the infamous Exeggcute’s Alola Evoltuion, and how to do it!

Exeggcute: You can evolve Exeggcute into Alola Exeggcutor with a Leaf Stone, you can buy one at Akala Island!

Sandshrew: You can evolve Sandshrew into Alola Sandslash with an Ice Stone, You can find one in Ula’ula Island’s Po Town.

Graveler: You can evolve Graveler into Alola Golem through trading.

Vulpix: You can evolve Vulpix into Alola Ninetails with an Ice Stone, You can find one in Ula’ula Island’s Po Town.

Typenull: You can evolve Type: Null into Silvally with high happiness. You can increase happiness giving it a massage in Konikoni city, or by winning battles or feeding it vitamins and giving it soothe bell will increase how much happiness it gains.  You can check Pokemon’s happiness in Konikoni city.

Let us know if we have missed anything! Are you playing Pokemon Sun And Moon?

Trainer Walks 100km With Golbat To See If Crobat Is Secretly Available

Hey all, according to The Sliph Road on Reddit a Pokémon Go player under the name of Kami_Ouija, has walked 100km with his/her Golbat buddy Pokémon just to see if Crowbat was secretly available.

First of all don’t get too excited because as expected nothing happened, but Kami had to still try it despite generation two not yet being available officially.

For those who don’t understand why Kami had this theory, well it is because in the generation two Pokémon games of the past, Golbat would only complete its evolution into Crowbat when it has obtained the maximum level of happiness.

While happiness itself could only be obtained and increased by levelling up and most importantly for this theory, walking more with a specific Pokémon in the first slot.

So because of this Kami felt that if Golbat was to walk alongside him/her until it reaches its maximum level, then it may evolve further if Crowbat was hidden in the gameUltimately this was proven by none other than Kmai him/herself that this is currently impossible.

Also one would argue that it all was a pointless experiment in the first place as if Crowbat was available and simply just hidden inside the game somewhere, then someone would have already stumbled upon files within the game containing Crowbat by now as well.

But it may not have beena complete waste of time, as when generation two does come out Kami would already have a maxed out a Golbat and in theory be able to make it evolve immediately into Crowbat.

So for those who want Crowbat badly then its sadly still a little early and so, I don’t suggest walking 100km with Golbat as there are a number of other Pokémon out there you can do that with, and get more value out of your time.

Pokémon Go: Player Celebrates After 100 Day Rein Over A Gym

Now there have been many stories of Pokémon Go trainers who have been able to take over a gym and stay there for weeks on end, but this one case beats them all.

According to The Sliph Road on Reddit, Pokémon Go player under the Reddit name of Earx has accomplished what many others could not, and that’s rein supreme over a gym for 100 days consecutively.

This feat is equally as incredible as it ridiculous, because it means no other team has been able to take down this gym since the early days of Pokémon Go. If you go back 100 days you will find that Earx has managed to keep his Pokémon in that gym since the 13th of August.

During this time Pokémon Go was still fairly new and had an even larger following than what it does now, with everyone talking about and playing Niantic’s game.

Therefore this player has managed to survive the Pokémon Go hype and then keep his/her spot until now, but that would also mean Earx must have had a pretty strong Pokémon since the early days and so I cant even imagine what they have now.

According to Earx the gym is located close to city but there is no mention of which city this is in, so don’t take this as a challenge because we have no idea where this gym is.

However, we do know that the gym has been level 10 for most of the time but it has been constantly taken down to level 6 or 7, before being trained back up to level 10 again.

Most players may assume that Earx must live in a pretty unbalanced area with minimal opposing challengers, which does make sense but according to Earx that’s untrue.

Earx has stated that it’s actually a very balanced area with unlike other areas,not having  gyms being dominated by mostly by team Mystic and Valour, and instead also have a lot of team Instinct as well.

So there you have it, someone out there has managed to hold their spot in a gym for 100 days and therefore showing us that anything is possible.

How long have you ever held a gym for? Has anyone beaten this 100 day streak? Please let us know in the comments below.

Pokemon Go: Some people’s market prices have increased

We are unsure if this is a glitch or if Pokemon Go is experimenting with regional pricing, but altered marketplace prices are definitely happening. To be clear, this is about gold purchasing and not purchasing of items (i.e., how much it costs to purchase coins has increased). Multiple people have supplied screenshots and some parts of Reddit are exploding with rage (aka they’re acting like normal Reddit-users) — although, in this case we will cut them slack because they have a right to be upset since Niantic has boasted about how their market strategy extends generous marketplace prices.

Reddit user Rosemary505 began a discussion about an increase in their local market prices and supplemented it with a picture (1US$=7,05HRK):

Reddit user Bert0ld0, from Italy, also supplied the following screenshot:

Reddit user Markislav provided a potential explanation:


“Coins cost that much in Australian dollars, looks like a bug causing you guys from other countries to see our prices for some reason.”

As of now, we do not know whether Niantic is truly playing with regional pricing or if this related to glitches from the recent update that was released. Either way, I reside in America and do not see a difference in my personal marketplace.