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Looks like major changes coming to Pokemon GO's tracking system...
- Thread starter adamy
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As someone with only 2 pokestop around him at best, people were right.
Doctor West
Member
That looks fantastic.
Niantic finaly woke up!!Quick gif I made to demonstrate
YAY!
Edit: just to clarify
San Fansisco players have been invited to test the new tracker feature, at the moment majority of players only have the grass.
I'm impressed. May get me to check the game out again when this is live.
Not to mention they did nothing with them anyway. I never saw any variation in the number of Pokestops while I was playing. I requested more local ones to try and make the game worth playing in our local area, but nothing changed.
I really doubt it, pretty sure the "steps" were always as the crow flies, not walking distances.
Eh. I kinda suspect a reason they're only letting you pinpoint pokemon near stops is because they don't want people going through private property or dangerous areas while pursuing something on their radar. That might get them in trouble.
I read about this on the biggest Dutch news site...and guess what...NeoGAF was actually mentioned (and linked to) in the article.
Nu.nl
NU.nl ain't big son... I'll show you somet...
No. Sorry. Got carried away.
It's good that Niantec is doing something with the tracking function. I feel like most of us, who aren't living in big cities will be forgotten
No Nearby for me, just Sightings. Hope they roll this out properly soon, it looks cool.
If this is their system going forward and it's so heavily reliant on Pokestops, they really need to sort out rural areas though. It's fine for me - I live in a city, but I can see how people out in the sticks would be frustrated.
If this is their system going forward and it's so heavily reliant on Pokestops, they really need to sort out rural areas though. It's fine for me - I live in a city, but I can see how people out in the sticks would be frustrated.
Possumowner
Member
Well colour me impressed.Positive changes,which it pretty much needed
RoadHazard
Gold Member
This looks great! Finally I can actually find some Pokemon (that aren't just from randomly walking around). There are Pokestops everyfuckingwhere where I live (Gothenburg, Sweden), so this should be good for me. Not live yet, right?
Seems like a terrible idea, finding Pokemon "in the wild" was the best (only decent) part of the app. Walking in a circle around a Pokestop doesnt really compare.
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Deleted member 231381
Unconfirmed Member
This is still worse than the state the game actually launched on for rural players. I have one Pokestop within a 10 minute walk; the ability to find things within the radius of Pokestop is not useful to me compared to the 3 footstep system.
Fox Mulder
Member
We'll see.
I deleted the game due to no tracking and everything popping out of balls and running away.
The game just isn't built for rural people.
It's only available for a few beta testers in america at the moment, also something people must keep in mind the gif in the OP is ONLY for nearby pokemons so pokemon near pokespots.
Pokemons in Sighting will need to be hunted like before but yet the tracker has been improuved. Now it scan every 10 sec in a radius of 200 m. Not sure if it's around you or in front of you.
Ravensmash
Member
Interesting...!
So this means that existing spawn points will disappear and it'll instead be tied down to pokestops only?
So this means that existing spawn points will disappear and it'll instead be tied down to pokestops only?
I'm not sure, people didn't tested it futher than that.
Here's a live video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=7CFPxzfKYrc
Quick gif I made to demonstrate
Cool thank you.
However this is kind of a terrible feature the way it's implemented. It actually gives the location of pokemon who are way out of the radius, so it's a double perk to people swimming in pokestops as they get better directions and a bigger radius than people who don't.
And did they swap the names? Calling stops so far away nearby and things close to you as sightings is really weird.
So you're saying Niantic isn't doing anything to improve the game? Although it clearly can be seen that they do improve the game for majority of users. Sorry that you happen to live in a place where there's so few Pokéstops, but that doesn't change the fact that Niantic is indeed improving the app.
QFT. I don't have a single Pokestop nor gym in the village I live in and suggestion form is offline
Nobody is saying that this isn't a most welcome addition to the game, only that a lot of players won't be helped by it.
Let's not get on the "Niantic did nothing wrong !" train yet. This is reintroducing a basic feature from the game that should've been working since the beginning. Them not doing this would've been nothing less than outrageous. Not gonna feel grateful for them basically repairing a basic feature.
And like others have said, it's still far from perfect, especially for rural players, and there's a plethora of other basic problems which makes the game far from being what it was initially advertised.
Sammy Samusu
Member
Really cool.
SchrodingerC
Member
So for Pokemon that have been "sighted" in your area tracking still doesn't give you an approximation where said Pokemon are? How fun.
Though they're greatly improving the tracking system, Niantic is still kinda screwing over anyone in the burbs and rural areas.
Will wait for future updates.
Though they're greatly improving the tracking system, Niantic is still kinda screwing over anyone in the burbs and rural areas.
Will wait for future updates.
Conkerkid11
Member
Why are there so many ignorant statements like this being posted? Do you know what you're responding to? Did you read the thread title and immediately come charging in to defend the game without understanding what's being changed?
We're getting a gimped version of a feature we had at launch that wasn't even as good as the feature we had in beta.
The game is getting slightly better than it was three weeks ago when they made it worse than it was at launch.
Toadthemushroom
Member
Not sure what to think of this. It looks like a really cool, slick feature, but the emphasis on leading people to Pokéstops and only classifying "Nearby" Pokémon as those at Pokéstops is probably going to change how people play the game.
The old system didn't make that distinction, and saw you effectively triangulate where a Pokémon might be from the footprints. That's not coming back now, and it's clear the emphasis is on "Nearby" rather than "Sighted".
It's a cool feature and one that changes how everyone plays the game, but I do wonder if existing partners (like McDonalds) have had some sort of input into it. It makes sense to drive players to Pokéstops for more things if it increases Niantic and TPC's chances of getting another deal like the one in Japan.
The old system didn't make that distinction, and saw you effectively triangulate where a Pokémon might be from the footprints. That's not coming back now, and it's clear the emphasis is on "Nearby" rather than "Sighted".
It's a cool feature and one that changes how everyone plays the game, but I do wonder if existing partners (like McDonalds) have had some sort of input into it. It makes sense to drive players to Pokéstops for more things if it increases Niantic and TPC's chances of getting another deal like the one in Japan.
J
Jpop
Unconfirmed Member
Boom. That's way better than the previous step method.
Sammy Samusu
Member
NeoGAF will tell you a lot of lies. You have to filter what you read in mega threads.
I think it's also to cut down on tresspassing, with the old system you could find dead bodies, get shot for stepping on someones private property or fall off a cliff, at least with the new system you can control where the stampede will go by adding or removing pokestops.
Moff
Member
that makes a lot of sense
tiebreaker
Member
Cool. Will use the apps again whenever I'm going out.
At some point you just have to admit that nothing Niantic does will make you happy. What ends up happening ever will never be up to your expectations.
You and some others just keep moving to find new things to get agitated about. First it was communication, then the trackers, and now that they've delivered on their word lo and behold suddenly it's bad because it doesn't solve a completely separate lack-of-Pokestop problem in rural areas and was apparently the best not in the first week anymore, but in bloody beta?
