Bamboo 竹
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Crap then sorry, we are screwed. Niantic help us.
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Looks like major changes coming to Pokemon GO's tracking system...
- Thread starter adamy
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Poimandres
Member
They didn't really help their own cause by not communicating at all about the issue for several weeks. Of course people were going to jump to conclusions!
A simple "we are working on an improved tracking system" would have calmed a lot of people. I know they eventually did say something to that effect, but that was weeks after the 3 step bug.
people were just upset cuz they were hyped and wanted to justify their PokeVision usage. and they couldn't find a way of externalizing how bored they were getting. it was always obviously going to be fixed. it's hilarious thinking about how broken this game was at launch - having to hard restart the game every minute on some days - and people mostly ignored the problems. during all this it went on to become the number one mobile game of all time. then when all those problems were finally fixed and the game was playable that the criticism finally reached an overwhelming mass
Thank god I stopped playing. There are no Pokestops where I live at all.
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
God this kind of snarky post is annoying
And_Gignac
Member
The original tracking was still way better. This is definitely a downgraded "solution".
SinCityAssassin
Member
I dunno, giving you the direct general area of where to find a pokemon is better than pinpointing yourself in every direction.
They're still going to have to do something for wild Pokemon, though. I imagine they'll try something similar to this after rolling out the Poke Stop version out to everyone.
Well, I was concerned with how long they would take to fix the issue. I saw on Twitter how bad things were going once the tracker and 3rd party trackers were shut down.
Of course that wasn't for me playing the game since I don't. It was moreso for my predictions and the worst case scenario for me is if Pachter would be right when I need this thing to succeed... For reasons as mentioned for my predictions but that's written on another site.
Conkerkid11
Member
But there's no way of knowing where Pokemon who aren't right on top of Pokestops are.
The actual hunting was part of the fun in my opinion. Seeing something on your radar and then tracking it successfully was really satisfying.
And_Gignac
Member
Nah. This narrows exploration to spaces with dense numbers of pokestops. It is a cute addition, but certainly not a fix to the original problem.
Omg lol. I don't even live in a city. I said in the past that if you're super rural you might just have to suck it up, because all location-based games don't work very well in areas with a low population count at all. No amount of whining will really change that. Niantic can't magic the problem away.
Then why do people who live rurally cry and scream so much if this isn't a problem like you're making it out to be?
Pokemon spawn in higher concerntration near or between stops. That's just how it is.
wow, this is actually a pretty nice change-
I still don't have the update, it isn't rolling out for everyone?
I personally had way too much time wasted looking for a pokemon I never found, so I really wanted the new tracking to at least have general direction.
I still don't have the update, it isn't rolling out for everyone?
I personally had way too much time wasted looking for a pokemon I never found, so I really wanted the new tracking to at least have general direction.
The old system didn't tell you when Pokemom despawned, and could get stuck with despawned Pokemom.
I think their Google roots is causing them problems. they're probably trying to calculate distances using Google maps walking distance (which is probably more accurate to use since it takes a lot more things into account - like inaccessible areas. in cities with lots of buildings), but it likely involved too much work server-side with how fast their user base scaled up.
they could do a simple solution and calculate it all on the client, but it involves a lot of moving backwards rather than fixing the problems and moving forwards. this solution ATM is a great middle ground that buys them some more time to fix the original tracking system.
Dion Blaster
Member
To clarify, when you click on the Pokemon to track it the tracker directs to the pokestop? And then it tells you whether it's one/two steps from the stop?
Conkerkid11
Member
They didn't. This is better than nothing, but significantly worse than what we had at launch.
why would you live there?
plentyofmilhouse
Member
Niantic, yes! This is a pretty major overhaul!
Infinitely better than what we had here at launch. The only thing we had was 3 steps for every Pokémon, and even then the game has been tons of fun
Seven4sses
Member
Definitely makes up for the broken tracker. Hope this rolls out soon.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Bamboo 竹;212948268 said:
They stopped accepting suggestions of any kind some years ago when Ingress suggestion volume because too big for them to handle. They never resumed accepting suggestions after that.
charlequin
Banned
Credit where credit's due: this is a much more extensive set of improvements than I expected and if this does wind up rolling out to the general player base it'll pretty much solve my problems straight-up. Definitely at least tentatively impressed here.
legendaryskitch
Member
I actually like the new tracking system, it's not too bad. I am confused though, I had a 5km egg that was about to hatch that was 4.5/5.0 which went down to 3.6/5.0 after the patch. That's weird. I'm pretty sure it was 4.5 at least. Anyone else notice anything like this?
not true
they've been accepting, reviewing, and implementing removal suggestions
i've literally witnessed the removal process firsthand
Gunslinger
Member
Wow these changes are amazing.
BudokaiMR2
Member
Yeah I feel the same way. I expected something much more bare bones.
I know there were a lot of people were frothing at the mouth when Pokevision and such went down, but it seemed like such an obvious stop gap solution. And I really do believe that those services were probably contributing to their network/server issues. Seems pretty obvious since they seemed to work by spoofing a client and probably borderline DDOS blasting the servers.
Looking forward to trying this in my neighborhood once it is updated.
PeakPointMatrix
Member
Exactly, removals
Not additions. The location additions are what take months and months. If they do it at all.
"MEWTWO IS AT LIBRARY MEWTWO IS AT THE FUCKING LIBRARY."
The amount of people that would flock...
Yeah all things considered, this is a pretty brilliant update to the tracker considering this game's real strength is socialization. Hit the nail on the head. Can't wait for this in Atlanta.
CountAntonius
Member
Game. Changer.
Endorphineforeverybody
Member
Wow, did not expected this. Great. Udpate hopefully soon.
Edit: And im happy that i still have all my stardust. Maybe i wait for the trading update.
Edit: And im happy that i still have all my stardust. Maybe i wait for the trading update.
andrerobot
Member
based niantic I never doubted you, not like these other people
Unknown Soldier
Member
Sorry, I meant addition suggestions.
You are correct, not only are they removing Pokestops, they are more or less doing it without even checking the validity of the request. The Pokemon Go subreddit is up in arms because people are literally trolling each other by getting Pokestops removed, like students at one college purposely submitted removal requests for all the Pokestops at their rival school to be assholes to them.
Niantic sure knows how to manage this game.
Lee Chaolan
Member
They really need to hire some more people to handle adding new Pokestops as there's so many good spots for them, and it sounds like people are losing a lot of them too. (Even if in bad spots.)
makingmusic476
Member
Well, this thread has me stoked.
bbkkristian
Member
because some people dont like the baggage that comes with living in a city.
It's seems like a great solution for tracking in the middle of cities, if they just combine it with a footsteps system for the 'sightings' it's pretty much perfect imo.