Raid Times
Ok i know it has been said many times on many different platforms but, the raid times are an issue(at least for me). as a standard 9-5 i go to work passing 4 zapdos and a lugia. that was this morning. On the usual, and i am willing to bet that when i head home at best i will see one zapdos. So blah blah blah, does anyone else notice that more spawns occur early morning than in the evening? (More pop up at 8am than 6pm)
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In my town (9 gyms) the only raid that was going after 5:15 was a Flareon. I work a 9-5 (actually 7:30-4:00) and this morning before 9:30 there were 2 Zapdos, 1 Lugia, and 2 Machamps. Plus an Exeggutor that started at 6:00. I've gotten exactly 1 chance to catch a Zapdos (it ran) so I'm legitimately frightened that I won't be able to catch one.
I work from 6 am to 6 pm and I can't get out during my breaks, I had one day off since zapdos launch and it didn't apeared it in our 6 gyms town that day, but there's at least one zapdos raid everyday I work :'( it is killing me, it's my favorite legendary all gen put together.
Even on regular non-legendary days, I often have 0 raids when I get out of work resultuing in the loss of a free pass when it happens two days in a row.
Although I can get free for a few minutes when I want to raid, I really feel for folks with this issue and hope it gets fixed. Tuesday and Wednesday I tried to take my 6 year old girl out to catch a Zap....and not one came open in the window we had after 6:15. She was pretty upset.
I think the fix (if they do not want to change times) is for raid boss hatches from 6-7 should be only 4* plus. There will still be low level hatches available for the few that do them or can't do good raids. But the places where they need a few folks free to even get a shot at a good boss do not want to see a weezing at the only time they may have numbers.
I'm one of the few but I agree with you. I work in the city and play there some as well. It is frustrating when the only park where you are guaranteed to have a large enough PoGo crowd to take on any raid the single gym has no tier 4/5 raids when most people play. Why can't Niantic correlate tier 4/5 raids with locations that have large numbers of players (I know this is possible, they just don't). On the other hand, I can always find a legendary raid in a remote wildlife refuge where I may be the only one who knows that the gym even exists :(