pokemon-go
I have found ~3 Pokémon out in the wild I have wanted to catch but when I try to tap them on the map but it doesn't do anything. They eventually run away/disappear after a certain period of time.
When I do manage to click on them to start the battle, I can throw the Pokéball just fine. It just sometimes won't load off the map and onto where I catch them I guess.
I do have my location on and have Wifi! I need help to Catch 'Em All!
When you encounter a pokémon, one of the icons that appears will be labelled AR. AR stands for Augmented Reality. Simply select this toggle to turn it on or off.
This took me a while to notice, but when in its 'off' state, pokémon go plays in a pre-rendered scene, as opposed to using the camera and gyro.
In laymans terms, the pokémon will always be straight in front of you. You do not have to move the phone around sporadically in order to keep the pokémon on screen, and can play pokémon go as if it was a typical phone game.
In addition to the +100 XP for catching a Pokemon, there are three throw bonuses in the game:
Nice Throw - 10 XP
You must hit the Pokemon anywhere inside the shrinking circle to be eligible for this reward.
Great Throw - 50 XP
You must hit the Pokemon within the shrinking circle when the diameter of the circle is no more than 70% the diameter of the white outer ring.
Excellent Throw - 100 XP
You must hit the Pokemon within the shrinking circle when the diameter of the circle is no more than 30% of the diameter of the white outer ring.
Throw bonuses do not stack, and you are only given credit for the last one you are eligible for in this list (For example, a Great Throw will give you the Great Throw bonus, but not the Nice Throw bonus).
These throw bonuses will grant a catch bonus as determined by the size of the circle. The equation for this is catchBonus = 2 - circleRadius, where 0 is the circle at its smallest possible point, and 1 is the white maxiumum radius.
In addition, there are three (stacking) bonuses that may be granted:
Curve Ball - 10 XP
These require you to throw a curveball and hit the Pokemon anywhere. There is a how-to available on this site. A curveball will increase your catch rate by x1.7 for every successful throw.
Bonus - 100 XP
This bonus is conferred on every 100th catch of a specific type of Pokemon. This bonus may be repeated. [Source, line 258]
New Pokemon - 500 XP
This bonus is conferred upon the first catch of any Pokemon, and is only given once per species.
First Throw - 50 XP
This bonus is conferred upon catching a Pokemon with the first Pokeball thrown. Berries do not negate one's ability to get this bonus.
Additionally, throw bonuses will confer a boost to the base catch rate for that Pokemon for that throw and all future throws.
There are also now catch streak bonuses that are applied upon the first catch of every day in a row:
Note that the streak will automatically reset after the seventh day. In other words, the eighth day of the streak will only confer a 500 XP bonus. The streak counter is also (obviously) reset if a day is missed. This reward can only be gotten once per day, and seems to reset at midnight in a player's local time zone.
Best Answer
As of v0.29.0, this is a known bug. Objects on the map will become unresponsive to taps.
The best bet here is to simply close the app (i.e. shut it down, don't just minimize it), and restart the game.
Additional info: This bug is known to occur more frequently after making use of the "battery saver" where by the screen goes dark when the device is held upside-down. Waking up the screen again will often cause this bug.
0.29.2 update - The bug still exists, but seems rarer. Due to high server load, you will simply not receive data from it, and the game will lag, or stop working.