Pokemon Go!

[davidmage]

If anyone have wondered why I suddenly stopped making videos, or posting here in general, it is because I have not been spending any time at my computer.
Since the release of Pokemon Go in my country I've been playing it most of my free gaming time.

I wouldn't say the that the greatness of the game corresponds to how popular it has become. It has many flaws, as in some geographical areas just having huge advantages over other. Compare New york to a very small town out in nowhere where there may be no pokemon or "pokestops" at all, making the game unplayable. I live in a city where there is a fair amount of things and the game is playable, but have I lived in new york I have no doubt I would have been of the first to catch them all.

And then we have the GPS spoofers (cheaters) who can travel anywhere in the world instantly, having an understandable huge advantage. Niantic seem to have started dealing out some permanent bans for these cheaters, but I still daily see accounts who clearly are or have been using GPS-spoofing. And all that is of course in violation of the terms.

Beside from those things I think the game is fun. I'ts very nostalgic for me, I used to play the games and collect the cards when I was younger.
The game mechanic with the integration with the real world, google maps, gps etc, and even the pokestops is all pretty much taken from Niantics previous game "Ingress" where the pokestops instead are "portals", which has been submitted by players in the earlier stages of that game. I also played that game and enjoyed it. Ingress is in fact in my opinion a much superior game compared to pokemon Go, but hey, there is no Pokemon.

Living in my smaller city I have now reached level 28, filled my pokedex with 133 pokemons (a few pending evolutions available). So with the pokemon available in my country without traveling abroad for the region specific ones, I'm not missing many.
I've walked 380km (in the pokemon app) which would correspond to more likely over 500km real distance because of the simplified way pokemon go measures distance. It measures your position every 4 mins or so, and draws a straight line. So walk in a circle over a 4 minute time and you track 0.
The most actual distance I've walked in a day (tracked with samsung S) is 37km. People are saying I'm looking thinner, and having a tan like I've never had before.

Anyone else who have done like many others and started playing Pokemon Go?