I’ll always remember starting in Pokémon GO first, and then having to start playing Ingres and reach level 12 to be able to request POIs.
Also, when I reached that level, the website wasn’t even Wayfarer, so I don’t quite remember its previous name. To access it, even to request POIs, you had to take a test. If you didn’t pass, you couldn’t rate any POIs, but you could continue playing the game normally.
From there, many of the problems a small group of Pokémon GO players caused began.
The Intel map was useful for us to see which areas of the city, towns, villages, and any place were valid to start making moves. And some of them were located in dangerous areas like roundabouts, or even in hospitals, or you could request them in the middle of the ocean and return them to the site. With that, you would get the POI, and in that park, you would end up with a large number of POIs.
Furthermore, the POI always appeared first in Intel, practically as soon as it was accepted, and in Pokémon, it took 24/48 hours.
With the arrival of the nomination request for Pokémon GO, Ingress began to be used less. And with the appearance of Wayfarer and the rules, many of those moves were blocked or deleted from the game.
All of this is about retelling the entire history of Ingress, which many of us have used to request POIs. I’ve had a good time with Ingress, aside from playing and having our get-togethers for the Onice badges. And we’ve always sought to improve and contribute to the game so that it’s a world to explore the monuments and history of your city and any points of cultural interest.
I hope for a long life for Ingress. And that the maps of the two games, or any others, can be connected. I also hope that one day the POIs seen in Ingress, currently hidden in GO, will be seen in the future. In a hypothetical split, Ingress should have its own separate role, just like Pokémon, for both requesting and rating.
Also, very close friends have recently stopped requesting and rating on Wayfarer, mostly out of fear of losing their game accounts. The reason is that if we request a new POI, or perform a review incorrectly, they find it invalid for whatever reason, especially for not complying with current rules, since they keep changing, and we think that what was valid from X years ago was valid when it isn’t now. Besides, we can all make mistakes, and through dialogue, we can always improve. Previously, the punishment was blocking the nomination option, where you couldn’t request more, or blocking the option to rate POIs, but playing normally. Because we don’t want to lose progress, which is approaching 10 years.
Everything changes, and we have to adapt to new situations. And together, we have to build a bigger community.
P.S. The text was translated by Google from Spanish, and if my comment needs to be in a separate thread, so be it, as I saw this might be the appropriate place to post it. Thank you.
