SGPokeMap not working?
Not showing any spawns. Also zero raids or eggs.
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I was in a rural area from Monday to Friday of the last week of the Wind event...I had no clue what the few gyms there were doing...I only did Magikarp, Electabuzz, Exeggutor--all I saw...I had 40 premium passes and 45 lucky eggs (from 2 ultra boxes) I was going to use those to at least get to 19 mil XP...probably be at 19 mil by this Monday since there are hundreds of gyms in a 5 mile radius.
As I understand it, Niantic changed their hashing algorithm so the way that all scanners were able to access information previously is no longer valid. At least one map in my area confirmed that they won't be back up for community day, which is unfortunate. It's going to be a lot harder to raid in the coming days.
I'm not sure if this is a deliberate attempt on Niantic's part to thwart scanners, spoofers, or both, but I'm not a fan. If they actually had a better in-game function for finding Pokemon, that'd be one thing, but that doesn't seem to be a part of their 'vision' for this game, whatever that is.
As others have said, the latest update seems to have come with some major changes that have messed with scanners' ability to do their thing. I know there's a lot of love/hate for scanners. But without any form of them, trying to coordinate raids for large groups is a royal pain. If Niantic never changes their in-game tracking features for catching wild Mons, that's fine. But there really should be a better way to track raids in a larger area in-game. There's no reason not to.
My prediction: raid pass sales and overall raid attendance will plummet during the outage. Hopefully Niantic takes note of this and considers working towards a better way of tracking raids (on a much larger scale) in-game. Just my two cents.
Scanners make a huge difference when it comes to raid coordination, as people are able to see which gyms have legendary raid eggs at them over a large area, and how much time til they hatch. This allows groups to easily coordinate which locations to hit, and the order in which to do them. Most non-urban areas without a high density of gyms more or less rely on maps/scanners in order to more reliably coordinate, especially for raid trains.
If you mean areas where no trainers live within gym visibility range, than yes, it sucks.
I rather have a problem that nobody want to raid, not lack of information about raids. Normally somebody submits information about raid but not enough people sign up for it. So without op I'll not even notice anything.
While I use scanners for hunting rare 100% Pokemon, I really don't mind that being lost to me. However, the raid scanning is a necessity as I can't be arsed to wait 45 minutes at a Lugia/Tyranitar just to have no one show up because they didn't know it spawned. Secondly, I can only see 9 gyms from where I am located out of the 54 gyms in our small town (traversed within 15 minutes by bike), which means that there won't be many Lugia raids I can see anyway and therefore could miss a raid I would have loved to do.
I get people not liking scanners for tracking pokemon (I don't use them for that) as that's not really in the spirit of the game, but it will be incredibly difficult to do Tier 4 and 5 raids with it being necessary to coordinate with at least 6 other people to do one and our range for seeing gyms being just a square mile (or whatever it is). I personally don't want to have to spend 2 hours driving around hoping to find a raid that other people also happen to be waiting at.
I usually avoid GoHub because it started as a click-bait website, but someone on Discord linked to this article and it explains pretty well:
https://pokemongohub.net/post/news/pokemon-go-maps-and-trackers-go-down-after-a-forced-0-95-3-api-update/
Forced update. New API and security system has to be reverse engineered again. Could maybe be 3-5 weeks based on past outages.
I don't need a scanner to scan for pokemon. Many people do, and that leads to an unfair advantage. When I joined the local discord last summer, and I discovered that there was a tracker. I was blown away seeing local players in my small town with pages of snorlax and hundreds of candies.
However, scanning for raid eggs is the lifeblood of my small town and I'm sure many others like ours. We have a small player base (10-15 dedicated players, up to 20-25 at the start of a new legendary). It isn't realistic for all gyms to be watched at all times (even if there are only 9 lol). When the scanner has gone down in the past, raiding activity has dipped because we just simply don't know where the raids are happening. If there are no scanners, we'll adjust, but it's a pain. Niantic really needs to implement a better raid scanning system in game.
