Babies, babies, babies.

After much speculation and anticipation Niantic revealed yesterday that the generation 2 would begin it's initial release in the form of baby Pokemon! 

Also they released a holiday Pikachu to celebrate the festive season.

People are feeling pretty narky about it and calling it a cash grab. But people, it's no rush the babies are here to stay. Also the odds of hatching a baby is not great.
Sadly it looks like they have left in the old evolved forms, which I personally think they should remove, I mean it's not like you can hatch a Blastoise.

Currently you have around a 2:14 chance of getting a Cleffa or an Igglybuff from a 2KM egg, a 2:42/43 (depending on your region) of getting a Togepi or a Pichu from a 5KM egg, and a 3:16/17 (depending on your region) of getting a Elekid, Magby, or a Smoochum from a 10KM egg. Obviously this may not be the case, I am just assuming it is equal odds of getting any of the possible Pokemon from an egg (even though I swear the chances of getting a weedle are definitely stacked).

So upon finding out this information my first matter of business was clearing out my old eggs, and getting walking. Fortunately I only had 7 in my collection although one of them was a 10KM I'd been holding onto in case there was a double candy event. It was super hot and windy but luckily I was going Christmas shopping in a nice air conditioned mall, full of good Pokemon but sadly only 3 Pokestops. 

These are the eggs I hatched throughout the day, when I finally got to the new ones I was so hopeful considering the odds and on the fourth one I was super excited to get my very first baby Pokemon, a Pichu! Now like most people I find it weird that Pichu is hatching from a 5KM egg whereas Pikachu came from a 2KM egg (although his buddy candy takes 3KM which is a 5KM egg thing)... I think they just wanted to balance out the babies but they should reduce the 5KM egg pool a little before adding to it!

I also managed to get my hands on 9 pikachus, unfortunately none with good IVs but my town has a small nest situation which should last for a couple more days if I'm lucky. 

I don't know how I took a screen shot mid throw, but talent!

Today I continued to work on my eggs but the odds weren't in my favour to score me another bub, I did manage to get a grimer and a tangela which I am super happy with. My 10KM egg was a Magmar with low IVs so dissapointing when 10KM eggs are rare! I probably already have a decent enough one I just can't remember off the top of my head if I do or not.

Anyway, I will continue on my merry way hatching eggs and post here if I get anything nice (I did get a 10 KM egg today). I do hope there are more surprises in store as we get closer to Christmas and New Years, I would love a free incubator or double items from Pokestops!
 

Tracker Talk

So technically I'm a rural player, I don't live in the city. I am super lucky though as I have a few spawn points I can reach from my house. I know my local spawn points when things come up on sightings so it's easy enough to find things if I want to.

Now when the new tracking system came out I was blind. I couldn't see anything unless it was on my screen, even the house across the street which is a spawn point wasn't giving me sightings. So when sightings were fixed this weekend I was pretty happy. Luckily, I am 1.1KM from the nearest Pokestop, if I lived one house to the left I would have nearby rather than sightings on my app, so from my house I can see what is around but once I walk to the end of my street I am blind again. It's okay though since I know the spawn points. hopefully they will make it so you can toggle between the two lists or see both because I am not going to be walking to the Pokestop for spawns - well if there was something super rare I would drive there but historically my town doesn't spawn anything super rare (I checked the stats when maps were on and we did get a few things but always in the dead of the night). 

They would have had the same time stamp if I hadn't been distracted by catching the Hitmonchan!