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New EX raid wave just in small towns?

We got lot of reports from small towns in my area about EX raid invitation, but not a single report from the city I live in (200k people, more than 100 gyms).
What is happening?

Asked by devun7 years 7 months ago

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I got one in my small town, which unfortunately I can't attend. The neighboring town (15 min drive away) also got one. That is a much bigger town, but it is not a major city.

Same thing is happening in my city/region. One player got invited to her hometown and another two got invite to the city in mountains located about 400km from where I live further south (this feels like true legendary raid xD).

I'm just glad I didn't do any raids outside of my city.

did someone from a major city get an invitation?

Here where I live city is major but no one got an invite to the in-city raid which is weird for me because some players here are doing raids like crazy.

Don't know how you define a major city but raid passes for this weekend are handed out in the 2nd biggest city in Sweden, 500 000 people.

Luckily I didn't get one, I'm away all weekend...

I'm in a major city and got an invite. This will be my second ex raid. It's downtown but at a lower traffic gym that's surrounded by construction. I'm the only one on my entire discord and my fb raid groups that got one.

In my town which has roughly 70 gyms and 150K people, there's been one reported EX raid so far. Unfortunately for me, at a gym I've never raided at. :(

Have another one in a neighbouring town as well, much smaller with around 8K people.

I live near a city with a population of about 260K people, we've been a part of the first two field tests at Sprint/Starbucks locations. This morning we found out that people in town got Ex-raid passes to a gym tucked away in the back corner of the Botanical Gardens on a college campus. It's easily the least trafficked gym in the gardens. I last raided a Lugia there in August (but did not receive a pass). Their passes still say "field testing", so as someone pointed out they might be testing capabilities for non-wifi locations.

Interesting side note, they sent the passes out on a Tuesday night for a Saturday afternoon raid. Which is much longer notice that the last two times. Wonder if they really are trying to cater to rural players.

Maybe extra early to give rural players a chance to raid at that gym and still get a pass up to two days before the raid?

I was thinking more along the lines of coordination, ie, adjusting schedules, finding baby sitter, etc. Reduces the chance that only 2 people show up. In a city, that's not a problem.

I also wonder if choosing low traffic gyms was a way to test system capabilities while simultaneously reducing risk of absolutely crashing their system. Maybe it was only coincidence that low traffic gyms are rural as we are seeing "in-city" gyms getting invites too.