Niantic Issues Walking and Catching Stats on Pokémon GO

Eh... maybe still less than 10 Pokemons for Pokemon GO.
To be honest, 3DS Pokemon games caught my attention. But not so high as ACNL Welcome Amiibo.

...and knowing most people, about 30% of the "walked" distance was probably driven.

Not saying that's a bad thing, just misleading.

Probably would be more accurate if whatever counts your distance walked was more accurate. I walk a 5k trail near my house all the time and can get anywhere from 1k-3k on my eggs from that 5k trail.

Even at their furthest points apart (which hasn't happened sunce Pluto's discovery), the distance between Earth and Pluto is 7.5 billion kilometers apart...

The amount of kilometers Pokémon GO players have put in would allow us to, at an average distance apart, walk to Pluto and back and still have ~1 billion miles left.

@Jayronauron Don't forget the ceiling fan method for hatching eggs, lol

I still play everyday for the bonuses but it is usually only 1 Pidgey or Rattata and trying for that Christmas Pikachu at the minute without any joy. The distance travelled is still nonsense on this app. I can walk to and from local chip shop giving 0.6km when it is barely 200m round trip and when I walk round the block I get about 1k when it is nearer 2k. Inconsistent is best way to describe that feature.

I'm proud to say I caught absolutely nothing!

@H_Hunter You and me both!

That's the same distance as walking to the sun and back 29 times and still having enough left to walk to the moon and around it a few times for the craic.

I caught 2,464 Pokemon and have walked 303.6 kilometers since starting on July 6th.

I wonder how many of those km and Pokemon were just from Misha, since he plays that game every day, from what I heard

Well, I'm putting in my work, with 621 km walked and 6,368 Pokemon caught. Kinda wish they gave out something neat as a reward, but ah well.

How many kilograms were lost?

1494.3 KM walked
4553 Pokémon caught!!
Just need an Aerodactyl and I'm done with the 1st wave (minus legendaries and regionals)
Just got an Elekid out of a 10K egg though, and for some reason instantly transferred it....
No idea why....

I work on the 7th floor of an office building and at work the GPS messes up and the guy in my Pokemon go slowly moves around the immediate area. This is how I've 'walked' so much with it.

To all the people complaining about the accuracy of the walked distance... it's probably not the app itself that is to blame... it's more likely the GPS and/or internet connection... if the app loses connection to either it'll be unable to track your distance until it reconnects, and interference with the GPS can make it think you're moving when you're not.

Personally, I'm up to 618km walked and 7067 Pokemon caught, and aside from evolutions of a few Pokemon that are rare in my area (slowly working through them with the buddy system), the only gen 1 Pokemon I've been unable to find has been Tangela.

I wonder how many of those have beheartlessly blended into candy and fed to their kin

I caught 3504 Pokémon
I walked 590 kilometers

I finished the gen 1 in August!

@DragonEleven Yeah, when I can't get cellular data or GPS my phone connects to Wifi and that is used for location. Since it intermittently switches points making my avatar walk back and forth a bit. Over time Pokémon GO has become much more sensitive to odd shifts in movement and waits a bit for things to settle down before recording distance so starting and stopping and going slow while driving doesn't register anything anymore and it does a pretty good job of keeping anyone over 20 mph from flicking a pokéstop now.

All of that is fine and mostly how it should be. The part that bothers me about how it records distance is that I can't get distance by mowing the lawn or clearing the driveway. That would be the perfect application for this game!

I can't play it (I'm cheap and I have a crap cell phone plan) but I love that this game is getting people out of the house and walking around.

@Jayronauron I suspect higher than that... if they're anything like me!
Remember kids, don't pokemon go and drive! ...Get a hands free!

@Joeynator3000 the distance is taken from gps positions that the app reads every so often. The ceiling fan method doesn't work at all as the distance is nowhere near great enough and as it takes the the reading intermittently the phone could be back in the same spot by the time it checks anyway. That's the reason a lot of people complain their walks don't register as long as they actually are. The nature of it taking points and measuring the distance between means it can literally cut corners. But it has to do it this way to avoid spamming the servers with too many requests and causing the app to grind to a halt and loose connection.

Also the speed limiter means driving doesn't work either.