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Bus ride this morning was very successful, even though the app is still crashing occasionally. Level 3 to level 5 in one commute (plus a little desk time... I'm in range of two pokestops at my desk and people seem to be setting off lures constantly. This is not going to be good for my productivity today.)

@delight: I feel like it worked the first 2 or 3 days that I played, but no longer does.

This game is so dangerous. As I said, I can reach 3 poke stops from my desk, and people kept dropping lures today. I also took a long walk to get to the bank at lunch. I took over a gym (for like, 3 seconds) and leveled from 9 to 13. I...didn't get much work done...

Here's what I've got. Not much water around, so I'm not surprised about many I haven't found.

I'm still yet to figure out gyms.

Here are mine so far:

I don't understand how lures or gyms work... I visit pokestops and collect things and pokemen but that's it.

ETA: Or eggs. And is there any point to catching multiple of the same animal thing or no?

@jaguar: See that's all foreign to me - transferring and candies and whatnot! I'm lost!

Look at your Pokemon. Look next to the word 'evolve.' You will see a number- it is the amount of candy you need to evolve to a new similar breed of Pokemon on steroids. Since you only get 3 candy (I think) each time you catch a creature, it will take a lot of catching of the same breed to evolve. To get even more candy added to your candy collection, trade in Pokemon by clicking 'transfer' and you get 1 more baby step (1 candy) closer to evolving. But you lose that Pokemon. So you get 4 candy per Pokemon- 3 for catching and 1 for transferring. Don't transfer your best one. That's the one you want to evolve.

@jaguar: Ahh! The ghastly was the ONEWHOGOTAWAY for us. Good job! I'm running out of pokeballs! Not enough stops and too many creatures. Anyone else have that problem? I don't have the best aim. LO has to catch almost all of them for me. She usually gets them on the first try.

@LindsayInNY: You can save your duplicates for leveling. If you have a lucky egg (sparkly one you get at level 9), it gives you double XP for 30 mins. If you evolve all your common duplicates that require little candy to evolve, you can quickly level your character.

@LindsayInNY: Usually the one with the highest CPs.

@LindsayInNY: If you are not sure, just keep both. I usually keep the highest CP or if one has a special power that just sounds cool (like hyperbeam). I'm sure there is some research out there-lol- but I don't care at this point bc I don't want to battle. Also, Transferring is fine, because you are getting candy. JUst don't evolve yet until you get a lucky egg at level 9. Evolving is where you get the extra XP.
@jaguar: wah! I have never seen ghastly again. Look for Clefairy at night. I think it was dusk when I found her. Hopefully she will turn up again.
@SugarplumsMom: I totally saved my egg for that precise moment when I leveled up to 9 and was standing in the big hot spot that everyone gathers at bc of all the creatures and poke stops that are right next to each other. I went to nearly 10 in 15 minutes. Ran out of pokeballs though.

@SugarplumsMom: I haven't used any lures yet. Maybe I will do that near the water. There is so much action near our town hall everyone gathers there at night. In fact we are having a play date with another poke-family tonight. It just happens to be LOs best friend who was strangely obsessed with Pokemon before this craze even happened.
My main goal is to NOT spend money playing this game. Hehe!

I lost out on a Kadabra and a Dugtrio yesterday--I caught them both and the servers went down at that moment (well, those moments)--I was so mad! But I'm close-ish to being able to evolve both anyway.

I have one of my employees testing out an egg theory. I run a carousel and am wondering if riding it will hatch eggs. We have the three poke stops around, and we're going to see if we can figure out how to host an "event' with charging stations, lure drops, etc. We're brainstorming.

I caught on Onix today, and yesterday I evolved Geodude and Mankey, and this morning Eevee into one of the three (I used the trick to choose...I'm excited to catch more Eevee to be able to evolve all three.)

And I'm officially a nerd...

@PawPrints: That sounds right, strategy-wise. That's what I did the other day and jumped a couple levels.

As for the gyms, I was totally intimidated the first time I tried, but I actually won with pretty lame pokemon. You'll find you have much higher CP when you do some of your evolving, too. You get to put a large number of your pokemon up against a small number of the "defender's" usually, so it's not that hard to beat even a really big defender.

This helped (I saw it posted somewhere...not sure if it already has been here.) http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2016/07/15/pokemon-gos-biggest-secret-type-is-way-more-important-than-cp/#ba1b9e418b05

@PawPrints: I'm not entirely sure I understand how/why, but different gyms (or something) have different ratios. So sometimes it's 1 v 1. The gym I played the other day was 6 (me) on 1 (them), but the one I played today was 1 (me) v. 3 (them), so it's definitely not always 1 v. 1. And then knowing that the type means more than the CP was helpful, too, although I don't generally remember which is which.

@Jess1483: what is the Eevee trick? I only have ever caught her once, so I'm FAR from evolving anyway.

Here's a link to a type chart that shows which Pokemon does more damage/weak to another.

http://pokemondb.net/type

@PawPrints: yes, that's what I did. Moved up a level.

@hellocupcake: oh they explains it, I've only been going to friendly gyms.

I made level 10 last night, still haven't used my lucky egg though. And now I got another one from leveling. I wanted to wait and use it when I have more candy. And also there weren't as many lures out at the park last night during my walk .

I did try burning incense for the first time after I was at home. That was great, I got like four I think that popped up in my house. I never get any at home normally.

Does anyone have any tips on getting Jiggly Puff? Day/night time? Residential or business districts? I keep looking for him and all I keep getting are zubats and pidgeys.