Archived Niantic is Taking Requests for New PokeStops and Gyms in Pokemon Go (escapistmagazine.com)
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Archived Niantic is Taking Requests for New PokeStops and Gyms in Pokemon Go (escapistmagazine.com)
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[–] ChillyHellion [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Oh hell yeah. I already requested a gym since there isn't one in my town. I requested another pokestop also, but that's not as big a deal because I did find one; it's just on private property. I hope they tackle the low spawn rate next, but honestly this news is more than I expected from them, so I'm cautiously optimistic.
[–] thrus 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Seems like when you get away from the stops and gyms the spawn rate plummets, I noticed that in my own town.
[–] AnarchoCapsLock ago
I believe spawns are similar to xm in ingress which I've read is distributed based on cell phone activity in a given area.
[–] ChillyHellion [S] ago
Mine too, so successfully requesting more pokestops might fix the issue. The main problem is that everything is done on the server side, so they aim most spawns at populous areas for efficiency's sake. I wonder if it might make more sense to base spawns off of each phone's physical location instead of fixed physical locations, that way each phone's location generates a random nearby encounter whenever it moves more than [X] meters. Then everyone would have equal ground, the heavy lifting would still be done server-side, and they would still avoid populating areas that have no people in them.