Have you found any final evo - stage Pokemon yet? One thing that really put me off was the idea of finding Lv.4 Charizards flying round your garden

Also, tell us how they're doing Gym Leaders when you find out please, I'm really curious how!!

BUT HOW DO I SIGN UP

It's too late to sign up now lmao.

x.x

Evolution is weird. The only Final Evo I have found in the wild is a Pidgeot, but that asshat was too hard to catch.

The normal way to evolve is by catching a bunch of the same type of pokemon. There is a feature called transfer in which you transfer a pokemon to the professor permanently, and the professor gives you a candy.

Ex If you transfer a charmander, you get a charmander candy etc

When you catch a pokemon you get a candy as well. The candy is used for two things, power up and evolve. I have only evolved three pokemon so far, the Raticate, Magneton and Caterpie. They both had about a 15 candy evolve requirement. So you need a certain amount of candies to evolve.

The Caterpie only cost 5 candies to evolve to metapod. From metapod to butterfree it cost 12 candies. Some of the rarer pokemon cost more candies to evolve.

Ex my Ryhorn cost 20 candies to evolve, and so far I've only come across one. Growlith cost 20 as well.

Powering up uses candies, but only 1 or 2 (that I have found so far) but it also uses another currency called stardust which you get from catching any pokemon

Hey, can you go on a train for me and test it out, thx

Nice

Sorry if this has been mentioned already but, any indications about IAPs? Hope its not p2w/too much p2p

I am pretty sure there will be IAP for pokecoins (currency used to buy pokeballs, egg incubators, incesnse and bag/pokemon storage upgrades)

Sounds like a moneymaking con. :|

Gyms are also weird. Did a few today, essentially you can join one of three teams (Red, Blue and Yellow). Once you come across a gym that is owned by a member of another team, you can take it over for your team. Whoever is defending the gym leaves on of their pokemon at the gym to defend it, the attacker selects his pokemon to attack and its basically a tap, swipe, hold type deal to attack and defeat the pokemon the owner left behind.
You can also battle at a gym of your own team to level the gym up or something.

I tried driving and playing, the gps is really ****ed if youre going fast (dont know if because beta and ****, or how its supposed to be because youre supposed to walk and play not drive) but I did manage to catch a gastly and pidgey while driving so theres that

maybe, I'm keeping in mind that this is a beta and anything I see is subject to change, however I am certain there will be IAP in some form

Pokémon Go released in Japan, Australia, and New Zealand today!

I got it in NA. https://youtu.be/WUIK5XUrIM4

I hate how the game is based on catching pokemon, not battling

same, i created a fake australian apple id and downloaded the game. i do agree the evolution system is lame but it is still fun. it literally made me ride my bike down the block to catch a magikarp.

i would've walked wtf

ew walking