In Pokemon GO only one waypoint in a certain cell can be a pokestop, while all the surrounding waypoints stay hidden. You can see those hidden waypoints in certain situations (for example in a small radius around you, while submitting a new nomination) but otherwise there is no way to interact with them in the game.
In my opinion it would be a huge improvement to allow for adding/liking photos (or upvoting them in another way) of those hidden waypoints. This would allow the most proper thing in each cell to become be a pokestop. Unlike in the current system where we are stuck interacting with something unamusing when it could be something wonderful.
Another solution to this would be to have an option to simply downvote a pokestop. This would allow another existing waypoint to become a pokestop of that cell.
Good example of this is in my area is a 7 year old pokestop of an information sign. Itâs boring, itâs a semi-duplicate (the thing that it refers to is a pokestop in a neighbouring cell) and I donât like it but it was there first. Over the years in that cell appeared other cool waypoints that could provide nice postcards and better experience.
Am I missing something? Any thoughts? Iâm sure in many places around the world people have some nice piece of art blocked by generic playgrounds or information signs.
Here itâs a remote rural area and we have only a few pokestops so Iâm determined to find a solution. Perhaps a level 10 Ingress account could add/like a picture to a portal of an invisible âpokestopâ, which would then overpower the existing one (either immediately or during a gym creation).
So while I agree that your game should have quality wayspots, that should be true for all the games. And unfortunately that is not a Wayfarer decision.
If everyone used it correctly, it could be a good feature, but if the constant Ingress Faction wars that weâve seen on this and the previous wayfarer forums are anything to go by, I suspect it would get abused by players.
I agree with you @hankwolfman based on the current setup. But I do have some (silly?, random) ideas how the community could judge âawesomenessâ of wayspots.
I do think Niantic is already considering nuance in eligibility with their new voting scheme. They are asking for how large a crowd is reasonable at a spot that pegs as Social.
That said Iâm thinking on a Lightship scale. The individual games would need to do things to disambiguate if that wasnât done.
There are way too many Pokemon Go things tied to specific Pokestops for me to get on board with changing them with a thumbâs up. If the stops they are tied to get removed, routes are unusable, and when showcase stops are removed, they donât get replaced. We already see upvoting battles over changing the disc photo, so I can only imagine what would happen with people changing around a couchie pokestop. When I tell my group thereâs a Kecleon at âBig Bend Boardwalkâ then people know where that is. If it is constantly changing, they wonât.
I agree with you @cyndiepooh, we canât go by thumbs up/down. That just gets us to heated debates on singular wayspots.
You are a trusted member of the community, so I want to ask what your recommendations are to asses the Lightship database for implementation in the various games?
Iâm a bit of a rebel (but still wholeheartedly want to follow guidelines) so Iâd like to analyze Lightship database and score each item. Then Iâd like each game to come in with a clean slate and pick quality items based on their inclusion rules.
Cherry on top is if the games would coordinate and not use all the same spots.
Definitely not overstepping. It is frustrating to know there are so many great Wayspots that the games I play - Pokemon Go and Ingress - will never see. But I am not an ideas person.
That said, for Pokemon Go at least, I think there could be a lot of ways to use these other Wayspots that arenât Pokethings. Maybe this new Dynamax thing I am hearing about could use them instead of existing Pokestops. Maybe non-PoGo Wayspots could be hidden surprises to find like hidden Pokeballs with items in the main games. Maybe non-PoGo Wayspots could be where trainer battles pop up instead of blocking Pokestops like they have done a couple of times. There has to be a lot of other ways these other Wayspots could be used without rotating of established Poke-architecture.
I feel like a lot of them translate to Pikmin Bloom mushroom battles or Monster Hunter Now encounters!
Maybe popups for Ingress? That would be fun.
Sadly I canât think of something for Peridot⊠itâs so cozy, Iâm sure someone has an idea?
More thought still needs to be put in to the quality of the Lightship database choices. I advocate for items meeting eligibility going to the database. My concern is older items in said databaseâŠ
Iâm sure we can all find S2 level 17 cells with multiple objects in the lightship database ( there is no proximity rule in adding to the database.) a lot of what you describe is down to personal bias as to what an individual thinks is wayspot worthy. There is no set answer. In many ways what we have is totally random. The percentage of S2L17 that have this perceived issue is tiny.
I am also very much in favor of shakeups for games and of a dynamic gameboard Ă la Catan (didnât make it into the game? it probably will in a few weeks) which would really minimize the game-related biases that Wayfarer constantly suffers and that we keep talking about on here (no more incentive to misplace that wayspot pin), but I hear people get VERY particular about their gym gold medals (routes, anchors, missions, showcases, uhhh monsters).
As a field tester. We were told that the ingress portals that did not show up in pokemon go would be mysterious pokemon spawn area in pokemon go. I.e. more pokemon appearing.
Field tester is what niantic used instead of beta tester. We made sure that the money system worked and then it went awayâŠ
until my app updated and then I saw 20 people walking around the Chinese gardens in Portland Oregon.
My coworkers knew I had the pokemon game. And then everyone went nuts.
We got no credit or even a badge.
Thank you! I have been looking for the source of the reports that ingress only portals could make spawns in pokemon go. No wonder I canât find that if it was to the original field testers.
Every time I see a Powerspot that is an ingress only portal, it has a spawn at its base and I wonder if this is still true.
And Wafarerâs official site needs to be changed to make it easier to see information related to Wasypot.
No official site will tell you how to use IITC or how to use S2L17 so that anyone can easily find it.
That is why I am informing Korean users of what they need to know when applying for Wayspot.
At the very least, Iâm informing you about how to use IITC and how S2L17 and Wayspot are changed to gyms, etc.
Itâs good for users to come forward and let them know, but I think Wayfarer team should share it so that anyone can easily see it on the official site.
Itâs something that no one can easily find anywhere on Wayfarerâs official website.
Thatâs why you have to learn from your countryâs internet search.
Similarly, IITC is based on Ingress, so PokemonGOâs sponsor Wayspot does not appear.
If you donât learn these parts on your own, youâll end up with overlapping Wayspots.
Niantic has less game options for their wayspot network that they kept along with their ingress. Game that has the original submission protocols built in. They didnât work well, but it is property of Niantic. Still.
I believe Niantic is going into AI for their map products. An example would be the following regarding access to locations or property.
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