Scanning
Over the last few days, Gymhuntr and Pokehunter (for gyms) have been not performing well. It could be partly due to the extra load on the servers with people searching for the new pokemon, searching Aggron and Kyogre raids, etc. But the performance has been noticeably lacking relative to what it used to be.
Are there other alternatives to use from one's desktop machine? As much as I'd love to have a network of observers talking in chat about what's out there, sharing information, and picking and choosing raids, we don't quite have enough people to do that in my community, so we rely on scanning from the computer. Any good options out there?
Answers
I don't pay for scanners. Never would. I just want to know what's around when, so I can use my raiding time efficiently. Like most of us, I have a life, a job, a family, and PoGO is a fun distraction, not something I want to design my life around. So scanners make that all work better for me. And I only scan for raids, not for mon. There could be a 100% Dragonite 5 blocks from me, but I won't know it unless it comes up on the in game scanner.
As far as I know, the TOS do not indicate that using a program to coordinate raids is cheating. Facebook messenger with people all over an area commenting on what raids they see, vs. a program that does the same kind of scanning for an area, not sure how this is cheating. I'm not spoofing, and I don't scan for rare spawns (like some other people in my area). Don't think this is cheating at all.
Now, if that's not the way you want to play, I respect that. But AFAIK, it's not breaking any rules I'm aware of.
