Pokemon drive style
There is a funny species of pokemon go players here: They use gym-hunter and drive to every raid, they used to use gym-hunter to control their 10er towers.
I did not remember having seen any of them walking and grinding except for special events.
Some in my raid-group have posted screenshots -
They are now sitting on tons of level 20 snorlax and tyranitar and their candy, have lots of rainbow-candy, could max out 5 legendarys at once, if they had more then 4000 dust. Well - they do not have this dust.
This is funny for me. I like this subtile way niantic tells us what the "go" part in the games name is supposed to mean. :-)
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If I walked and grinded the way you talk I could reach 1 gym and 2 pokestops on a 6 km walk.
I have kids so we would often go to parks or go to the mountains to do trail walks. Stick pogo on in my backpack lol.
But before this event I would drive home and find routes, that may add 20 minutes to my journey, that I could gain 3 or 4 gyms in a row. There was only 6 gyms in a 10km radius of my home so I would place guys there too.
This is suburban living. Compare this to city living and sure, you go for a walk in a city near me and boom, pokestops and gyms on every corner.
I have 1.2 mil dust though, I never invest in something unless it is for the long term.
What I walk every day would cost me about ten bucks and do maybe 30 - 50 bucks economic damage to the environment with an average car. I really question the sanity of people who do this (US Americans are excused, they don't know any different) and think Niantic should stop this by using the phones motion sensor. Anyway, in my opinion playing PG with a car is just an idiotic way of GPS spoofing, instead of using environmentally friendly software they're using a combustion engine to move their sofa around.
It is not niantic to blaim, its the goverment. They can raise taxes on fuel equal to the enviromental damage.
If Niantic would install a cool down after high speed movement detected, the players would close the app during driving and start it when they have reached their destination.... ok, they could notice last position before game was closed and calculate average speed.... Yes, there are possibilities.
Yah, the game is now Pokemon "Drive"...
The majority of players I see in my area all drive...1 guy walks a lot, but he normally uses 5 accounts to alt-kick himself out of gyms...
The recent changes, as good as raids are (drop rates on raids were majorly nerfed IMO), has just made the "GO" part irrelevant now.
Even hatching eggs, which used to be one of the most funnest/interesting/surprising things has lost their luster due to raids being able to get 3 of the 4 most sought after mons in the game...
The stardust is nice, but I am not planning to burn all my saved Pokecoins on hatching just for stardust...
We gripe a lot, but the whole gym rework/raids has made some of these changes lose meaning for another portion of the game (buddy walking, hatching, high IVs, etc...).
I love using Pokemon Go when I run, but I have to drive into town if I want to run in a place with any Pokestops/Gyms.
However, when I was on vacation last week, I could walk out the door and run in several different directions hitting unique Pokestops/Gyms along the way. Living in the suburbs is a completely different experience playing this game than living in the city.
Or maybe they have better priorities as where to spend dust. I have about 6 snorlax at lvl 20 plus three wild caught that I transferred because the IVs were too low. Two from raids and the rest from eggs. Oh, and two are powered up. Even with the old gym system I didn't want an army of high cp snorlax. It's all about priorities. I have 800 dust. And I spend a ton of dust in my lvl 1 wild caught 87% Dragonite.Why? Well, no dratini in my 1200egg hatches. Wild low IV dratini gave me enough candy to power up that baby to lvl 30. And this baby is an attacker. I never found dragonite a great defender. Why? Because the flip side to that bad luck is I hatched or caught three 90+ iv lapras. I've spent a ton of dust power those babies up. Dragonite went From lvl 1 to 30 in 5 minutes because at the moment I had the dust. Snorlax is almost useless for me. I'm one of those people sitting on a ton of them. But snorlax isn't going to help me catch a legendary. And it certainly doesn't mean I'm not out walking around grinding with the rest of us. Fyi- I catch 100 Pokémon a day walking the dog. Two 5000 power ups a day plus whatever I hatch is enough for me. Just illustrating that everyone has different objective and goals. It's part of why we all still play. I wouldn't be playing still if my only objective was blissey and snorlax to sit in gyms...
