New tracker officially sucks, right?
I have heard this so many times "dead game" but i never agreed, but now we can say this game sucks.
I live near 4 pokestops and 1 gym and there can be more than 10 pokemons outside on same time and old tracker keeped me updated what i had in close range.
New tracker doesnt show all nearby pokemons anymore, it shows few pokemons from each pokestop, even from pokestops that are much further away that i didnt normally see.
Also its lame that when i walk from location to location, it still shows just pokemons near pokestops even the pokestop arent close to me at that time.
I know lot of my casual friends who stopped playing this game long time ago and im only playing cus i feel im good and its worth to continue (level 33), but this new tracker seriously makes game so much worst.
Anyone agree?
Edited: I never believed to say this, but this new tracker is so bad that it encourages even me to use tracking sites.
Because it would only way to see my old pokemons (near my location)
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You are quite right it makes the game unplayable - without using a tracking site. Certainly in a rural / semi-rural location (UK) like myself. I don't want to see 6 pidgeys 500/1km metres away. I want to know what's 200 yards away ... isn't that the whole idea of the game - to search, and not just too look for multiple of the same type - something that was removed a while ago I might add. I don't know whether I can carry on with this regards of the updates that are coming it makes no sense now!
Well it's not 100% better. I live in an urban area, and though I still have to try it out in a more varied / denser area, all I see are Rattatas and Pidgeys, while Jigglytuff and Eevee often spwan nearby (not close enough to Pokestops to be shown)...
The stuff that isn't near a Pokestop is fully hidden from me... And there are a lot of spawns that aren't that close to Pokestops... I feel that by going down town, it will just be worse...
Also I am now afraid to miss anything that doesn't spawn close to Pokestops... Caught a Lapras in the neighbourhood a few months ago, nowhere near a Pokestop...
For me (smallish rural town) it's a big improvement on the old one. With the old one I couldn't tell whether a Pokémon that was 'nearby' was physically reachable within a few minutes or whether it was on the other side of the creek.
To be honest though there's so little genuinely useful wild Pokes out there that exploring likely terrain and asking other players is probably the most useful thing to do once you're in the mid 20's level.
Agreed.
They shouldn't have removed Sightings at all. Sightings should have stayed where it was, then allow us to click on a Pokémon in the Sightings window for the Nearby location.
Also, does this even show any Pokémon in rural areas?
So, now instead of a list of various Pokémon near me, I now have 3 pidgeys that are near 3 Pokestops. Who cares about that sh!t?
TBH I really like the new tracker - while maybe not the ideal fix, it's nice to know more or less exactly where to head to find a specific pokemon.
The problem with the old system is that I never knew how nearby the "nearby" pokemon truly were. I play PoGo on my way to/from work, while running errands, or while otherwise going from point A to point B, so I don't really want to go wandering off in a random direction. If a Dratini showed up on my nearby scanner in the past, I probably wouldn't go after it; for all I know I could waste 15 minutes walking in a circle and never come across it. The new system allows for a more targeted approach.
That all said, I think Niantic should do something like implement two trackers: one showing pokemon close to specific pokestops and one, like the old system, showing pokemon in like a 250m radius (but without any little pokestop pictures next to them).
Where I disagree with you: as bad as "Sightings" was, there was a distance limit. From my house, I knew the six or seven major spawning points by heart and could cover all of them within ten minutes of walking. While I was home and awake for six hours, at least two or three things I needed would appear, and I would find them.
Now, I have now idea what is around me. But I do know that Venonats, Spearows, Pidgeys and Rattatas like to hang out at Pokestops a half mile away. :(
I too live in a small valley with 1 pokestop. I have to walk for 10 minutes to see what's near that pokestop. All our spawn locations are on side streets that are way uphill. There's no point trecking up them if I don't know what's up there.
It makes me sad; this game was so amazing and everyone played. Yeah, the hype has been lost, but for those who still play, they're making it worse and I feel they don't put much thought into their updates.
The sightings system is perfect for anyone with a little bit of patience. It only shows pokemon that are in a 200 meters radius from you, so with basic geometry and some empirical research, it is completely easy to imagine the 200 meteres radius circle of the pokemon and find it center (the pokemon location). With some training, nowadays I'm totally able to find any pokemon that appears on the sightings within five minutes (running). I've never used a tracker and already got 134 of the 142 available pokemon in my country.
The Nearby tracker wasn't implemented in my country yet, but I really hope that Niantic will let us swap between viewing the sightings or the nearby whenever we want.
They show city players exactly where to walk to. Tell rural players "good luck"
Do the tracking sites work? I gave them them hundreds of dollars. They took gyms, they took step tracking, they took sightings, reduced spawns in rural areas. Then they increase spawns around pokestops, increase balls from pokestops, they make tracking focus on pokestops. I'm getting tired of getting screwed on every update.
It's half of what tracking needs to be. And don't get me wrong, it's FANTASTIC for going directly to something and feels solid for that. The Nearby and Sightings panes (the old way) needs to be something you can switch between. As it is, if you aren't surround by pokestops on all sides, or standing on one, it's WORSE at tracking stuff 20 yards away from you than before. I don't really care to know a magikarp is at a pokestop 2 miles away from my house, I'd really just prefer to know what's next door so I can walk outside and catch it.
Well, I still believe they already had the best scanner when the game came out, with the one, two or three steps symbols showing how far away the mon is.
Don't know why they didn't leave it that way.
Works for rural players and in cities, and it was a good balance between no information where the mon is (in the last months) and guiding one directly to the target (now).
If I was a rural player, this would definately have been the last nail in the coffin for me. Spent last night in a rural area and while I know there are some good spawnpoints around that place, the only thing it kept showing me were pokemons around the pokestop all the way on the other side of the railroad tracks.
Luckily I live in a big city with lots of pokestops, so this might even be an improvement to me. Niantic has made it pretty clear with the last updates that they're not interrested in the money coming from rural players who even have to spend money on pokecoins just to be able to have enough pokeballs at any time.
Niantic is making so much money, simply because they created the first augmented reality game that was based on an already extremely popular game. So many gamers suffer their terrible mistakes because pokemon is fun and an AR pokemon is even more fun. But they sure suck at design and development. They really suck. Don't they test this SHIT out before deploying it? There are SOOO many ways to have the best of both worlds in this case. Create a toggle switch to switch between stops and nearby on the sightings page. Create an extra page for the same reason, one page for nearby, one for stops. Only show nearby on this page and show stop pokemon on the actual game screen, again triggered by a toggle switch.
WTF NIANTIC???? WHY DO YOU KEEP MAKING THINGS WORSE?
