More POI's in rural areas please!
Endris
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I know that you guys use the POI data from Ingress for both Pokemon Go and Wizards Unite. I live in a very rural area and have to travel several miles to a neighboring town to play. Because of this I only play Ingress when I travel and I gave up Pokemon Go altogether.
I'm almost level 9 in Ingress. If I can get to level 10 and submit nearby POI's in Ingress will those populate in Wizards Unite as well?
Of these three games I love this one the most and I'd rather not give it up for having to travel so far to play. Or when can we expect the ability to add POI's in Wizards Unite?
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Do traces and pick-up items only spawn around POI's? Maybe you could change it so that they will randomly spawn near where the players are logged in instead of just around POI's?
Traces do spawn next to the player.
POI turn into inns, greenhouses and fortresses... Which he kinda needs to play the game.
They added the ability to propose pokestops to some level 40 players only recently, so, if we're going by that, I'd expect to see the ability to submit locations natively via WU... in a couple years.
So far, it looks like almost all Ingress portals are brought into WU except when the property owner has asked not to have them included. (For example, there are some church graveyeards and fire houses near me that have Ingress portals but do not have corresponding locations in PoGo or WU.) I will note that it's not a real-time update. Since game launch, I think we've seen one mass update that pulled in new locations from Ingress. So do not expect that a portal you get accepted will immediately appear as a location in Wizards Unite. It seems to be done in periodic batches.
I'd also like to note that while you may be able to get some more locations near you, rural areas are just never going to be as densely filled as urban areas. You will probably still do best finding local parks or downtown areas for when you want to play.
Recommendation to our rural folks on getting your locations approved! Generally rural areas have wildlife refuges, specialty farms, historical markers and generally old structures or old stories referencing a location.
1.) Clear photos - these photos don't change, if the photo looks poorly done or doesn't clearly show the location so someone else can find it its unlikely to be accepted.
2.) Research - When I first started on Ingress me and my wife used it to explore areas and find cool spots we otherwise would have never seen. We found some of the coolest things within 30min of our home by clicking on the portal, reading the info and going to check it out. Do your research and write up your info as if you're a tour guide highlighting the most interesting facts.
3.) Don't fake it - to this day one of my favorite portals is a carved animal that on Niantic is displayed as over 6ft tall and 10ft long. Needless to say I was quite confused on my third pass when I couldn't find it only to discover it was a mailbox... I don't know this for certain but pretty sure if you tried to do one of these now you'd be flagged making it more difficult for you moving forward to get other approvals.
4.) Precision - If I pull up google maps and drop to street view on your coordinates I should be able to see your portal. If instead you've got it mistakenly tagged 100 yards down the road because your phones GPS lagged it probably won't pass.
These were the pieces of advice passed to me by my Ingress mentors when I began. I never messed with it to much as my area was already heavily catalogued but hopefully it might be of some help to someone here.
@Caeleon
"Traces do spawn next to the player.
POI turn into inns, greenhouses and fortresses... Which he kinda needs to play the game."
I don't know that that's true unless it is super rare. I've opened the game at home and have yet to see anything spawn near me while I'm home.
If the player happens to be near a POI, even if not in current use by WU, I've noticed this. I live near several Ingress hotspots and even though they haven't pulled over the sites into WU yet they always have a heavy grouping of traces at them.