"My sdcc update thread"

#PokemonGO: I'm in hall h and currently waiting for fx panel, after that is pokemon go. As of now there is PLENTY of room inside. Not sure if there is still a line outside that has yet to enter the room.Edit: panel is starting, still lots of room available.Edit: there was a wedding proposal during supernatural... That was kinda fun.Edit: 24 legacy up next. Prison break is over.Edit: still some open seats but I see a lot of people coming in with phones connected to batteries.Edit 1:30pm: fox panel over. Niantic is next! Final panel of the day as well. Chris Hardwick is moderating. Here's been making pokemon jokes every panel I've seen him moderate this year so he should know what he's talking about!Edit 1:39pm: I think I see a questions line already forming! I was going to try and ask about communication but there's already more people lined up than most panels/time will allow.Edit 1:44pm: room is really filling up now!Edit 1:48pm: it's happening.gif!!!Edit 1:49pm: Chris volunteered to moderate when he heard about it. And he's team mystic. And he's level 18 as of today. Edit 1:51pm: John hanke here. He's the only person on panel so far. He serves his thanks to the fans.Edit 1:52pm: he's talking about the history of niantic and his work with Google and Google earth.Edit 1:53: niantic is a codeword. Chris asked what the banner means. No one was supposed to know what it means. It's a whaling ship that came to San Fransisco during gold rush. They dragged it ashore when it was blocked in and used it for various purposes.Edit 1:55: AR vs VR. John likes VR but is scared about being closed off completely vs going outside and meeting people. Enhancing life rather than faking it essentially.Edit 1:57: personal responsibility? Standard response about being happy and meeting people. Chris says it's important to look people in the eye when speaking to them.Edit 1:58pm: talking about ingress now. Bigger than ever says John.Edit 1:59pm: still talking about old games on computers being exclusive versus mobile which is more inclusive. Chris remembers dialup. Edit 2pm: was ingress the base for pokemon all along? John says ingress was very experimental. Was used to see what works and proof the technology. Ingress worked well, how do we bring more people in? That lead to po go. Chris hiked an observatory for first time in his life because of this game. Found a bunch of other players of all ages. Chris doesn't see any zubats in his area!!!! What!?Edit 2:04pm: John confirms there are a lot of things behind the scenes that determine location s and areas that pokemon spawn. Only have magikarp as example.Edit 2:05pm: John talks about him going to Japan for event and the servers got bombarded. Spoke about Google cloud helping. Surreal for him to watch it happening from Japan. Chris touches on frustration about servers but acknowledges that the popularity couldn't have been predicted. John's local park was flooded and it was amazing to see. The game is just an excuse to go outside for John. Chris saw a "hard dude" at a diner and was playing pogo he told Chris where the good ones are and they bonded. Chris postponed rehearsing this panel to catch a Pikachu for 10 minutes.Edit 2:09pm: still talking about getting outside. Health benefits, news publicity.Edit 2:12: video about pogo being used in children's hospital.Periscope link from comments http://ift.tt/2abjTSc 2:14: John welcomes tweets about good experiences. The world is crazy right now so he encourages that.Edit 2:15: Chris asked about Easter eggs. John: there's a lot of pokemon. Some are available in region specific places. There's rare ones that have bit yet shown. Trading is an interest, they are working on bringing it in. Servers are a priority before that though. Working on gyms and stops. He sees lures everywhere, wants to explore items that change the stops more. Ability to customize stops? They see pogo as an MMO. Will continue to invest with new capabilities.Edit 2:18pm: Chris had nothing in his neighborhood. Itd be cool to have a home gym he creates for practice or something.Edit 2:19pm: talking about the pedestrian culture of LA or lack thereof. John feels like it's starting to transform itself.Edit 2:21pm: Chris mentions that he learned the game mechanics from other people rather than the internet. Asked about eevee name hack. John confirms the eevee Easter egg as if it's still working but I'm not sure it is?Reddit you are failing me. Why can't I update anymore.Questions:. Breeding? Maybe in future.Do move sets dictate evolved move sets? Yes.John cannot summon a pokemon here at the panel but maybe in the future.Lost some stuff, Reddit wouldn't let me update... Nothing big was lost.Asking about poaching gyms. It's opened up and someone steals it. John says to be nice and don't do that haha. He acknowledges that as an issue for the future. Chris reiterates there game is still very new.3 step bug being yelled by crowd!John says "we're aware of that one" lol. Blanche is gym leader of team mystic!!! Blonde. Instinct will be .... Spark. Brown hair guy.Valor is Candela. Dark hair dark skin girl. Looks like casca from berserk.Always spin, use the lucky eggs, get exercise and have fun with friends. That's John's farewell message.Panel over! Thanks to all from Chris and John.Hope this was helpful for folks that couldn't be here. I'll read as many comments as I can on the drive home. Thanks for gold too!Edit: some people asked what it's like in game at sdcc.... https://youtu.be/FddlCSna9cs.Adding some info from comments:. I was also there and would add a few comments, some might be redundant with your OP:-John suggested that in addition to the Eevee naming Easter egg, there may be more similar ones out there.-John likes the idea of being able to breed eggs from your Pokemon, based on his response I inferred his team has already been discussing it as a feature that would go alongside trading.-Any paranoia about the game being nefarious evil tracking stuff seems totally unfounded after hearing him talk about it, he's a really nice sincere guy and he's happy with the effect the product has had on his own three children-John wants to add more modules besides Lures, that type of player interactivity is his thing.Thanks /u/_apostate_ via /r/pokemongo http://ift.tt/29YjAGZ