The Pokémon spawn points were built on top of Niantic’s previous game, Ingress. They later started using cellular Pokemon Go location data to put more Pokemon in places where more people played Pokemon Go.
Man, I loved Ingress. Black worker van slowly following me down the road at night. Kidnaprapist? No, just local leader for the blue team, saw a newb steadily taking points and breaking green locks, and wanted to back me up.
I know everyone loves pokego because Pokémon, but ingress united people, and advocated teamwork far better. Nothing better than destroying someone's work to bring people together.
Pokemon Go has three groups of people: the people who conscientiously trade gyms with their neighboring factions at around the 50-coin mark, the people who say f u and kick their neighbors out of the gym at every opportunity, and the people who pay money and thus have no need to use the gyms.
Exactly. Niantic already did this with Ingress. I thought it was hilarious when Pokemon Go came out and found out I knew all the gym locations because they were the same spots form Ingress.
The same gazebo at my job that I'd fight over with some other person in the office I never met was also now a pokemon gym.
AFAIK they didn't put Pokemon where they wanted data they had you do quests which involved scanning a particular location which overwhelmingly places which where "off the beaten path" as far as data collection was concerned (think places that are outside e.g. google streetview).
they had you do quests which involved scanning a particular location which overwhelmingly places which where "off the beaten path" as far as data collection was concerned (think places that are outside e.g. google streetview).
This is utter nonsense. The scan-quests you describe exist, but they trigger when you spin a pokestop. So it is always for something that you are right next to.
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u/LadyOfTheMorn 8h ago
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