11 about to hit 12. I've been farming Pidgeys, Caterpie and Weedle as they all evolve at 12 candy. i evolve them once for the xp and then transfer them.
By doing this you level up fasted and i think the higher level you are the higher level pokemon you encounter
I get shitloads of Pidgeys and Rattatas, quite a few Weedle, and like no Caterpies. I have over 70 pidgey candies and over 75 rattata candies. I have a TON of ratticates now, and I'm not too sure what to do with the pidgey candies. Tbh I don't think it's worth it to waste them all on evolving pidgey to pidgeotto then release, because you can actually get an insanely strong pidgeot if evolved correctly. For example, at level 9 I caught a CP 173 pidgey, which would probably evolve into a CP 300-350 pidgeotto, which would then evolve into a CP 500-600+ pidgeot, which would do for quite a strong and easy to acquire pokemon on your team. You can then use that pidgeot as a pretty decent gym placeholder since most people just starting the game are getting normal or bug type pokemon.
I just reached level 10 so I'm going to go searching tomorrow, hopefully catch a 200-300 pidgey then evolve that to a pidgeot.
I used to have an app that fakes the location of my phone and I could set it to whatever I want. So I could see people doing this to catch pokemon at the white house for example. But it is really detectable so people would probably get banned for doing it.
I'm still not sure how that would work since you need to be actively walking to specific locations in order to catch certain pokemon, since the pokemon in every location are seeable by everyone else at that location.
But yeah, if it's detectable don't risk it. Just wait for the international release when it's all bug free and the servers work properly. It's not like we're having the time of our lives here in the U.S, as the glitches can be quite unbearable sometimes.
Any word on it being released in EU? People here have been dying to get their hands on the game but no success so far, including me.
Let's put it this way, it isn't even released in Japan yet...