Lets whine about GO. (Rant thread)

[Afterglow Ampharos]

TL;DR: I hate Niantic because Niantic hated me first for not living in a city.

Ugh I feel for you man. I'm really sorry you're getting shafted like this. {D:}-_-
You see, Niantic decided to just copy the portal locations from the Ingress game into Pokemon Go, since making all new global data would be too expensive, and they already have this resource they can borrow from. But Ingress was never marketed for people outside the city.

Ingress has a feature where players can suggest new portal locations to Niantic, but Pokemon Go doesn't, and that makes it inaccessible to non-city folk, or even suburb folk.

Starting to get annoyed at the stupid tracking capabilities in this game, or lack thereof. I understand why there's no tracker right now and I know everyone is having the same problem but I've lost out on 4 or 5 awesome new Pokémon over the last week just because there's no way to track them. It's really making the game feel a lot worse to play, hoping like crazy that they manage to fix this soon :p

I'm actually able to find more Pokemon with Sightings than I was able to with 3-step-glitch Nearby and no-footprints Nearby.

Granted, I have to restart the app pretty frequently to refresh the spawns and the Sightings when they go blank (must be a bug), but as long as you're in your home turf where you have a good idea of where the grassy spawns are, you can visit those places when you notice a Sighting. The only clue you have is that it is currently within 200m, but that's a hell of a lot better than the only clue being "this pokemon might have despawned or gone out of range by now tbh, tough luck"

Sightings isn't perfect but it's an improvement from my perspective, since the footprints were broken and the list of 9 kept listing Pokemon that were no longer around.

 

[Squirrel]

more[/B] Pokemon with Sightings than I was able to with 3-step-glitch Nearby and no-footprints Nearby.

Granted, I have to restart the app pretty frequently to refresh the spawns and the Sightings when they go blank (must be a bug), but as long as you're in your home turf where you have a good idea of where the grassy spawns are, you can visit those places when you notice a Sighting. The only clue you have is that it is currently within 200m, but that's a hell of a lot better than the only clue being "this pokemon might have despawned or gone out of range by now tbh, tough luck"

Sightings isn't perfect but it's an improvement from my perspective, since the footprints were broken and the list of 9 kept listing Pokemon that were no longer around.

Sorry, what do you mean by "grassy spawns" here? Do you mean the weird shaking grass on the map?

 

[Afterglow Ampharos]

Sorry, what do you mean by "grassy spawns" here? Do you mean the weird shaking grass on the map?

Precisely. It's my interpretation that the grass symbols in Sightings mean that these are Pokemon in those locations.

However, ever since the update I haven't seen any of those grass/leaves poof up on the map itself. Anyone else?

 

[Maserati777]

Well I "Whined" about this in another thread about the new update but there's a couple new features I hate.


The grass behind the Pokémon in the nearby menu is messy and takes away from the Pokémon. Also not a huge fan of the new silhouettes, they are darker then the ones before and I think they clash.


Also the worst of the update, a screen come up if your avatar is moving faster then a walk, ie if youre in a car, or if your avatar froze then sped up to catch you. It appears every 10 minutes.


When I travel to work in a car that travels by interstate for about 30-45 minutes straight without stopping. I usually only have a couple seconds to tap the Pokémon before it disappears. And usually Pokémon spawn that don't spawn in walking distance. It'd be one thing if it appeared once, everytime the car started moving. But every 10 minutes if excessive and too much.


There's a button that says I'm a passenger, but the game forgets you said that and asks again after 10 minutes. I shudder to think if this appeared at the same time an Electabuzz or Snorlax spawned....


In case it's not clear I don't drive.

 

[Afterglow Ampharos]

I'm actually able to find more Pokemon with Sightings than I was able to with 3-step-glitch Nearby and no-footprints Nearby.

Sightings isn't perfect but it's an improvement from my perspective, since the footprints were broken and the list of 9 kept listing Pokemon that were no longer around.

Adding onto this:

Yup, Sightings has definitely improved my experience. Today I caught four Pokemon I didn't have before (on four different walks), all thanks to Sightings and already having some knowledge of where Pokemon spawn in my neighbourhood thanks to Pokevision (memories of it, not current use).

 

[Squirrel]

Precisely. It's my interpretation that the grass symbols in Sightings mean that these are Pokemon in those locations.

However, ever since the update I haven't seen any of those grass/leaves poof up on the map itself. Anyone else?

Hmm ok that sounds plausible - have you seen any evidence for or against this? Does anyone else talk about htis being the case or have any info here?

 

[Phoenixstarz]

The grass moving on the map are spawn points not nessesarily that a Pokemon is there now.

 

[Afterglow Ampharos]

Hmm ok that sounds plausible - have you seen any evidence for or against this? Does anyone else talk about htis being the case or have any info here?

Well my only evidence is that when I find a Pokemon via Sightings, it's located in a spot where I had seen grassy/leafy poofs on the map prior to the update.

It would be nice if those poofs were still around, but I think they've been removed??