"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: (x-post from /r/pokemongo , where they will likely downvote it til it falls off the sub)I'm sorry I'm not a technical writer. I'm going to do my best in this post because I see so many people having issues with incense optimization:Okay, 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. EDIT: special thanks to /u/omnialord/ , whose screenshot this probably is - but I no longer remember for sure, I'm sorry! Would love to give credit where credit is due!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 around at like 10-15mph you can easily get one pokemon per minute the entire half hour. One cannot walk/jog/run this speed, it will require more (edit - I was wrong, one CAN jog/run this speed. I apologize, and am thankful to those who have corrected me). I'm uncertain if people can bike fast enough to make this work, but hopefully someone can comment and let us know.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". via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2sWkdOI