New tracker
Ok, so I along with everyone else just got the new tracker. The closest stop to me is about half a mile away, and there's a few spawn points on my street. I literally woke up this morning and caught a snorlax, only my 2nd one ever, it's only 522 CP, but the candies are good and it's useful for training. Now there's no way I'll know what's up there. How am I supposed to play like this? Do I just need to go take a walk every 20 minutes? If you're not living on top of a pokestop I have no idea how this is helpful. What am I supposed to do about this?
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The way I see it, you go hunting and pickup whatever you see. I have a lot of stops by where I live, last night for ex. I saw an exeggutor at one of the stops (from my house), went there picked it up, then the nearby stops showed bulbs which I need candy for, caught 4. Additionally it showed 4 karps on the nearby list, that's a nest, went back twice caught more than 10 just last night. I'm at a point where I don't care about random mons anymore. In my experience the rare ones are usually by pokestops, I wanna say 85% of the time, so the update really works for me. I understand it being an issue for someone who doesn't have that many stops nearby though.
This tracker (imo) "only" benefit players playing in really crowded cities, or maybe not even them?
I feel the same way as you guys about nearby mons not spawning close to a stop, totally ruins taking trips somewhere else than parks in capitals now. Although I feel kind of awkward complaining about it since a better tracker added to the game is what most people've been moaning about since the launch of the game. Now we've got one and (almost) everybody's raging about it, but yeah they could definitely have made it better...
Hoping to see a change/option in the near future!
Agreed! Not very useful at all. Let us imagine that you have 4 pokestops in range. Each stop has 4 mons nearby. 3 of 4 at each stop are pidgeys and one is something a bit more interesting. One of those four is truly interesting. You can see 9 mons at a time. What are the odds that you get to see an interesting mon and track it to the right pokestop? Meanwhile, you have no idea what is around you.
Now what if you had the old sightings window that showed what is near your current location, and you could also tap a pokestop on your map and get a window of the mons near that specific stop? How hard would that be to implement?
Does complaining here ever make it back to Niantic?
As a counter point I prefer the new tracker - the old tracker worked on 'as the crow flies' 'near by' which was pretty useless when there's a creek in the way - knowing which side of the creek a Dratini is will save me wasted time.
Yes an opportunity to switch between 'nearby' and 'near pokestop' would be more useful, but if it's a straight choice I'd prefer the new one.
In the end the are both pretty crummy, making the new one that solely focuses on stops really leaves a bad taste in the mouths of rural players who have been paying to play for these months though. They haven't thrown us a single bone.
They wonder why their players are leaving, I'm sure a lot of them don't have poke balls to catch anything...
They exist, but rather than cracking down on multi-account cheaters and GPS spoofers, the GENIUSES at Niantic shut them down with captcha and api tweaks.
Weird thing is those map guys would make me want to play MORE, whereas the company's own tracker has me playing LESS. Ergo, I save any money I would normally spend, mainly on incubators, because I'm not walking to a pokestop and back a mile for a cluster spawn of Venonat, all three of which are currently on my tracker.
