Who's up to do a Double T-Tar at 6 in the morning..
FuCk YeAh BoI!
Honestly, I'm sick of it too. I hate waking up and seeing 7+ raids before work that I don't have time for, only to come home and see maybe 3 before the evening curfew hits. I can't imagine having raids that early makes up a large enough part of raid traffic to warrant it, nor do I understand why there isn't an extra wave in the evening, extending the curfew to 8:30 or something. Different parts of the world gets this luxury, why not us?
Remember when they forgot to do this when the clocks went back an hour and for about a week raids were non-existent after 6PM? I sure do.
The thing that gets me about the curfew is that it IS later in different parts of the world. I've seen it firsthand, in Amsterdam I could still find a raid to do at 8PM. Here in the states? I'm lucky to find one at 6:45 without someone calling one out.
I suspect this has something to do with grouping regions on a single schedule for things like Community Days. We on the US east coast are constantly faced with raids starting before we get up and ending just when we're ready to do some serious playing. I suspect the schedule is great for the people on the US west coast, raids from about 9 AM to 9 PM (or maybe even 10 PM).
How much difficulty would it create for the people right on the borders of time zones if they had to go west after a certain hour for one more hour of raids? Not much, and it's a very small sample size.
Wish Niantic could fix this - it's an easy change. I don't mind raids ending earlier for winter, that's a safety issue. But having NY and SF on the same schedule, ignoring the time difference, is silly.
For real it's crazy how they set the raids to. 6 AM WHOLE BUNCH OF RAIDS HAPPENING. Calms down between 730 - 9. ThEN ANOTHER BATCH OF A CRAP LOAD OF RAIDS.
So then i try to find a raid on my lunch break but between 11-1pm it's dead again and than after 1pm ANOTHER BATCH OF RAIDS OMG!!! then dead when i get off work...
Since ive heard that the US has certain laws against parks being open so late, and Niantic makes it so NO raids spawn after 7, I guess they make it up to us by them being too early to raid? I think we should have a way to make a raid spawn ourselves. As long as it’s within a certain time frame, we should be able to choose a gym, and the mon we want to spawn. That way no waiting on a group, you would have them ready, and you could only do certain ones during each week.
Having until recently lived in Europe (UK), eggs go as follows: Raid eggs show up pre-7 (I think they start hatching at 6:30ish?) and the last one hatches about 8:40. Here, they begin at approximately the same time (only one gym within view, so smaller sample size), with a much earlier end.
Also, I've done a number of pre-8 AM raids - there's one floated in my UK location most days depending on work schedules. I think we had 6 for a 6:50 Absol raid the first week, and with new legendaries debuting at the very end of the raid day, the first half-dozen possible raids on the first weekend (7 AM or earlier) get numbers easily.
I don't mind early raids because I am usually on my way to work between 615 and 7am. My bigger issue is the lack of raids past 8. They need to figure out times of the year and usable sunlight. Got lucky last night with a tier 3 raid at 6pm but nothing else spawned amd that was from 530 on amd I have 4 local gyms and another 3 I can see on my map but are far from my house.
Not sure what daylight got to do with it really, if it's a safety issue for youngsters then I'm sure we as parents can police that one. My 'free' time is usually 9pm onwards & I'd quite happily go raiding late into the night. As for the early raids, why don't they keep em to tiers 1 to 3? I'm sure afew will be around to do these but tier 5? C'mon, it's hard enough getting a group together during the week in normal hours. Abit of common sense needs to be applied here, and stop giving out Mewtwo passes for 2.00pm on a work day, wtf is that all about??
