Jeez, just give us the option to change the bonus location once per month, and set it back it to 1+8 S2 L6 cells. It would just benefit the community in far flung places across the globe. Manually resetting bonus locations like this just seems like a lot of uncessary work for everyone!
While at it, you could make the strange home location to an additional bonus location as well.
Unfortunately the community is already trying to figure out how to resolve issues related to players in a region teaming up to either get invalid but beneficial POI accepted or to push to reject submissions that benefit other players. I believe that allowing frequent changing of bonus location would allow bad actors to pull in reviewing support from other regions and make abuse situations worse. I believe the primary intent is to let you provide a region outside of where you are currently playing, or where you are originally from, that you have enough knowledge of to be a significant contributor. Making the bonus location easily changeable would make it so that the members of the local community would have less influence over the points in their community that have cultural significance that would likely be missed by people not familiar with the region, even if they have a pure and strong desire to help with the wayfinding in that area.
Well, as it stands now, the only ones who can act that way are the spoofers. That is a cat that has been out of the bag since the beginning, and I hardly belive that it will ever end. Meanwhile, non-cheating reviewers are stuck with one-year bonus locations.
As for reviewers teaming up, it is very easy to do that among local reviewers. More so than with bonus location reviewers, which in this respect will have a beneficial effect rather a detrimental. This is a good way to help out in low density regions, where there are no portals or stops, so they have no reviewers, and maybe only one person to submit things. The solution to the problems you are mentioning is rather to put in more (good) honeypot nominations in order to weed out bad reviewers. Not to restrict reviewers who just want to help, keeping within the rules.
The home location is just strange. I moved away from my hometown 20 years ago, and things have changed there. I'm not better equipped to review there than anywhere else now. There might have been sound reasoning behind it way back when the very first portals were created, but that time has since long passed.
Don't restrict good things, just because there are bad things out there. The bad will never follow the rules anyway.
Please make many pokestops and gyms near me because there are so many players who plays here and many of them are not able to play because of problems facing like pokestops and gyms so please make many gyms and pokestops near me all the players will start playing after this.
I have the option available to place India as a bonus location to participate in the event and I would like to know if it is possible to activate the bonus on March 15, which would be 1 day before the event and then the location bonus can be reset Once the event ends on March 26, I await a favorable response to help the Indian community in the creation of new Wayposts.
Well, if the opportunity is there, I'd like to have my bonus location, which I set for the Poland Wayfarer Challenge, reset, so I can participate in the India one as well :D
There are quite a few members of my community who want to help and are interested, but they don't really want to have to post here. They would like to see some landmarks in India instead of the children and couch attempts littered across Sydney.
Seeing as this might end up becoming untenable (this post will probably get spammed with countless requests), isn't there just a way to signify our intention within the Wayfarer site?
I'm still tossing up as to whether I want to update my bonus location.
I'd also like to participate; the portals I submitted in India took forever to review and I'd like to pay back the community there who were so nice to me when I visited.
Hello ... I would like to reset my bonus location to participate in India Challenge and also to be enabled to reset my bonus location after the event ends. Thank you.
I have suggestion, to make it simple, please enable participants to change their bonus location at March 27, 2021.
Personally, when the event ends, I want to review a little bit longer and leave when I find other interesting location.
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Jeez, just give us the option to change the bonus location once per month, and set it back it to 1+8 S2 L6 cells. It would just benefit the community in far flung places across the globe. Manually resetting bonus locations like this just seems like a lot of uncessary work for everyone!
While at it, you could make the strange home location to an additional bonus location as well.
Unfortunately the community is already trying to figure out how to resolve issues related to players in a region teaming up to either get invalid but beneficial POI accepted or to push to reject submissions that benefit other players. I believe that allowing frequent changing of bonus location would allow bad actors to pull in reviewing support from other regions and make abuse situations worse. I believe the primary intent is to let you provide a region outside of where you are currently playing, or where you are originally from, that you have enough knowledge of to be a significant contributor. Making the bonus location easily changeable would make it so that the members of the local community would have less influence over the points in their community that have cultural significance that would likely be missed by people not familiar with the region, even if they have a pure and strong desire to help with the wayfinding in that area.
I like to reset my location to the event please
Hello @NianticCasey-ING ,
I would like my bonus location reset for this challenge but ideally I won't then be locked in to India for a whole year. Thank you in advance!
Well, as it stands now, the only ones who can act that way are the spoofers. That is a cat that has been out of the bag since the beginning, and I hardly belive that it will ever end. Meanwhile, non-cheating reviewers are stuck with one-year bonus locations.
As for reviewers teaming up, it is very easy to do that among local reviewers. More so than with bonus location reviewers, which in this respect will have a beneficial effect rather a detrimental. This is a good way to help out in low density regions, where there are no portals or stops, so they have no reviewers, and maybe only one person to submit things. The solution to the problems you are mentioning is rather to put in more (good) honeypot nominations in order to weed out bad reviewers. Not to restrict reviewers who just want to help, keeping within the rules.
The home location is just strange. I moved away from my hometown 20 years ago, and things have changed there. I'm not better equipped to review there than anywhere else now. There might have been sound reasoning behind it way back when the very first portals were created, but that time has since long passed.
Don't restrict good things, just because there are bad things out there. The bad will never follow the rules anyway.
I would like my bonus location reset for this challenge but ideally I won't then be locked in to India for a whole year.
Could the cooldown time for changing bonus location be lowered to 3 or 6 months?
Please make many pokestops and gyms near me because there are so many players who plays here and many of them are not able to play because of problems facing like pokestops and gyms so please make many gyms and pokestops near me all the players will start playing after this.
@NianticCasey-ING
I have the option available to place India as a bonus location to participate in the event and I would like to know if it is possible to activate the bonus on March 15, which would be 1 day before the event and then the location bonus can be reset Once the event ends on March 26, I await a favorable response to help the Indian community in the creation of new Wayposts.
I currently don't have a bonus location set. I'd still like my bonus location reset after the challenge. Thank you in advance!
Well, if the opportunity is there, I'd like to have my bonus location, which I set for the Poland Wayfarer Challenge, reset, so I can participate in the India one as well :D
@NianticCasey-ING
I'd like to participate and help as well. So please consider to reset mine as well.
Thx in advance
Hi @NianticCasey-ING I can modify my bonus location right now, but I want to be reseted in the end of the event. Shall you do it?
I would also like to have my bonus location reset for the duration of this event
Thanks in advance @NianticCasey-ING
Hi @NianticCasey-ING I would like my bonus location reset for the event please. Thanks!
@NianticCasey-ING I would like to reset my bonus location. Thanks
@NianticCasey-ING I hereby apply for my bonus location to be reset
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Can you post always actual list with names, which can change bonus location? im afraid you forget me
Lot of thx
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@NianticCasey-ING ich kann meinen Bonus Standort ändern, aber nach dem Event würde ich gern wieder den alten Bonus Standort verwenden.
I am interested
@NianticCasey-ING I want to reset the bonus position during the event period.
There are quite a few members of my community who want to help and are interested, but they don't really want to have to post here. They would like to see some landmarks in India instead of the children and couch attempts littered across Sydney.
Seeing as this might end up becoming untenable (this post will probably get spammed with countless requests), isn't there just a way to signify our intention within the Wayfarer site?
I'm still tossing up as to whether I want to update my bonus location.
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Please reset my bonus location for the duration of the event. @NianticCasey-ING
I'd also like to participate; the portals I submitted in India took forever to review and I'd like to pay back the community there who were so nice to me when I visited.
Please reset my bonus location permanently.
@NianticCasey-ING i would like to request a bonus location reset to participate in the India challenge. Thank you!
I would also like to participate so please reset my bonus location. Ideally Indont want to be stuck with India for a whole year though
Hi @NianticCasey-ING , can I have my bonus location reset for the challenge please. Also to be re-reset following its conclusion. Thanks
Hello ... I would like to reset my bonus location to participate in India Challenge and also to be enabled to reset my bonus location after the event ends. Thank you.
I have suggestion, to make it simple, please enable participants to change their bonus location at March 27, 2021.
Personally, when the event ends, I want to review a little bit longer and leave when I find other interesting location.
Thank you.
@NianticCasey-ING I would like my bonus location to be reset so I could participate in the India Wayfarer challenge.