"PSA: Incense spawns one pokemon per minute if you do it right. If you only get five per incense and want 30 then you probably want to read this."

#PokemonGO: TL;DR - HERE IS A SCREENSHOT OF THE CODE FOR INCENSE. READ IT YOURSELF BEFORE YOU DOWNVOTE THE BEST PSA YOU WILL SEE THIS WEEK. PEOPLE DESERVE TO STOP WASTING THEIR INCENSESOkay, so let me start with a screenshot of the code for incense just to get the "primary source" out of the way - it's the computer code for the game itself. Doesn't get more primary than that.http://ift.tt/2tFsofc so, What this says basically is that incense should pop one pokemon every five minutes for you when you run incenseUNLESSyou move 200 meters or more in one 60 second time period, in which case pop a pokemon at the end of that minute.If you have someone drive you aroudn at like 10-15mph you can easily get one pokemon per minute the entire half hour. In previous comments where this was discussed on other threads, I was informed that one cannot jog/run this speed, however the comments to this thread already suggest this is not strictly accurate - apparently one can run this fast, which is great! I was likewise uncertain if people could bike fast enough to make this work, but the comments have already suggested below that biking will also work fine for this - great news!I do it regularly and have for a full year now.If you go faster, the incense will still spawn pokemon once per minute but when they spawn they get left behind in their little pink/purple ring of smoke. Yes, you can ask your friend to turn around and drive back, and you can still tap on it and catch it. But if you tap and suddenly accelerate you're risking it popping out and running because you've moved too far/too fast from teh spawn point. So I have someone drive me at about 15mph down rural roads and I catch for half an hour, then trade places and they catch for half an hour while I drive.If incense "never works" for you, make sure your phone's date and time are set to "automatic".edit - I've been trying to tell people about this for many many months but my comments always get downvoted to oblivion just like this post has been instantly zeroed out. I'm not sure which of your fellow redditors are trying to force everyone else to keep wasting incense by repeatedly hiding this information, or why. I'm sorry that if you only finally saw me say it today, that it took this long. I have been trying. [insert shruggy ascii dude here, who I do not know how to make, haha]edit 2 - people are asking why I"m sharing "known" information - because many of us are now joining raid groups and finding that a majority of trainers aren't on reddit and many don't watch youtube videos about the game, so we have to tell them about things like this. Instead I've started to refer them to the reddit subs that pertain to the game, and so I figure if I"m doing it then probably others are too. Which suggests that we have had an influx of new users recently and will probably continue to do so. So, I thought this might be something that new users might find useful. For those who are not wanting to see this thread title on their "hot" / front page of this sub, you can click the "hide" button under the thread title/under this opening post and then it won't appear anymore. Sorry for any inconvenience. Just trying to be helpful. via /r/pokemongo http://ift.tt/2u4pLpK