We now have the location and date for go fest Copenhagen and does anyone know if Niantic will prioritize the nominations in the area of Copenhagen or will it just be as normal -because I could emagine that they want as many pokestops as they can fit inside an in-person go fest
I don’t believe that Wayfarer has control over whether there will be more stops/gyms during GO Fest, as this, I believe, is up to the PoGo team to decide. Being that these events are about 6 months away, we may have to wait awhile before more info is provided.
BTW, the news post says more info will come out in March and the spring.
For in person events, they “bring” their own. The play area will be appropriately populated during the event and the added wayspots will disappear when it’s over. All in the hands of the PGo team.
Aside what has already been said… what type of “priority” would you even expect? Turn around times are already days to a few weeks… theres plenty of time to get a bunch of stuff accepted from now until then.
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I want to clarify that PGO only “brings” Stops and Gyms (and Powerspots?) to the specific event space/park.
For the rest of the city where you will do your city play experience (assuming it works the same way as the last few years), you will use the natural stops within the city.
Wayfarer has never prioritized reviewing in an event city before. If Wayfinders in Copenhagen (or the other cities) think there are holes to fill in the PGO map, they are welcome to get active between now and then to try to enhance the city play experience for everyone who will be coming.
But I’m fairly confident that wayspot density in the surrounding city has already been evaluated as adequate when Copenhagen was chosen.
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This can reasonably be assumed for Copenhagen. What is not possible is to assume that when Niantic pick a location, they have checked it properly first. There is a famous instance within Ingress years ago when Niantic selected a town in South Africa that had almost no portals, few players and no decent access from anywhere. Although not related to Pokemon Go events, this was run by Niantic which is the same company that runs PG events.
I don’t think we need to go back in history for another game.
I have attended the last 3 London, Madrid and Paris and the game play at the site and in each city was very good no lack of sites.
I also attended Doncaster 1 of the handful of global locations for special Go wild - and it was rammed with pokestops and gyms well laid out ( still found stuff to submit )
So I actually have every faith that these choices are good ones from that perspective.
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Completely unrelated, different, game, different teams. Apples and oranges.
It could be a fun Wayfarer submission/review challenge.
I’m not sure if there is the scale to make it a global challenge. It would take a lot of prep and education to really do it right, even on a local scale. They really haven’t done a good campaign to increase Wayfarer & Wayspot density that I’m aware of. Maybe the Brazil campaign was successful? Hopefully not another import!
I do believe they usually sprinkle “sponsored” style GO Fest Stops & Gyms around town besides the natural ones. But that’s very likely outside the scope of anything Wayfarer would have an affect on.
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Agree. And Tokyo and Chicago are also both large cities, so I’d expect a high-density of stop/gyms there. I do get nominations to review from time to time in Chicago and the surrounding area, so there are still Wayspots to be found and added before the in-person events next year.
Now i have created more wayspots and the proces goed way faster, including the other submitters. Normally it took 2-3 weeks for a nomination but now it takes 3 days.
There might not be an official change but something changed over the last weeks of nomination - it goes way faster to get them thru.
That’s been experienced globally trending faster since before your post as i shared above.