Pokémon Go and the rails.

[J-2739]

Mind you, SWT were very generous with their offer of two Jinx in one day. Both snapped up at SWT stations thank you very much. The Poke Stops at Waterloo station were also particularly generous with the old great balls. So I'm gonna have to hang out at railway stations more often!

In all seriousness though, its a freaking game. If people are gonna act like d*cks and try and catch stuff by climbing over fences and jumping on to lines then that's not the game manufacturers fault. You can see 'around you' on the game, so even if a Pokemon was to crop up on Platform 1 at Clapham Junction, you could be safely outside the station on the Platform 17 side and still catch it. No different to games such as GTA. Majority of people know its a game, but if some people are going to interpret it literally and shoot random people, well thats hardly Rockstars fault.

As it goes, I'm loving Pokemon Go.

Well said! It's come to the point that people are blaming every other death/car crash/issue on Niantic and Nintendo when what they should do is look themselves and see if what they are doing is right. You can't just quickly blame the other person if you was practically asking to be hurt.

 

[D6975]

Mind you, SWT were very generous with their offer of two Jinx in one day. Both snapped up at SWT stations thank you very much. The Poke Stops at Waterloo station were also particularly generous with the old great balls. So I'm gonna have to hang out at railway stations more often!

In all seriousness though, its a freaking game. If people are gonna act like d*cks and try and catch stuff by climbing over fences and jumping on to lines then that's not the game manufacturers fault. You can see 'around you' on the game, so even if a Pokemon was to crop up on Platform 1 at Clapham Junction, you could be safely outside the station on the Platform 17 side and still catch it. No different to games such as GTA. Majority of people know its a game, but if some people are going to interpret it literally and shoot random people, well thats hardly Rockstars fault.

As it goes, I'm loving Pokemon Go.

I've been playing it to collect the pokeballs so my son has a plentiful supply. What I quickly realised is that most of the time you don't need to be looking at the screen at all. While you are on the move you just need to be holding the phone in your hand. If anything turns up, the phone vibrates so you stop and take a look. There really is no excuse for walking around not paying attention to your surroundings.

The GPS accuracy is somewhat suspect, so the notion of no-go areas being programmed in is a bit of a non starter I suspect.. As an example, yesterday I was actually sitting on the Pokestop shown on the screen and got a 'too far away' message when I tried to spin it.

 

[Class 170101]

Technically the Pokemon on the tracks can be collected safely. Just board a train and 'run over' it whilst sitting on the train.

 

[Scotty]

Technically the Pokemon on the tracks can be collected safely. Just board a train and 'run over' it whilst sitting on the train.

You don't need to be that close... as has been said many times in the thread already.

 

[herschell]

I play it and you don't need to be looking at your screen all the time as your phone vibrates when one spawns and as long as your in a safe location I.e. a pavement you don't need to be anywhere near the platform or the tracks.

 

[Busaholic]

Nice cartoon in current issue of 'Private Eye' with old hippie saying to young person 'in my day if we wanted to see mythical creatures we just took acid.'