Of course, so far it’s just Numel and Slugma, but there’s more! Yesterday, Niantic posted a note on his blog on how to get better appearance rates on Pokémon GO, and it turns out that this has fulfilled his promises: a quick transfer to the app at home shows a constant rate of appearance of about four Pokémon where I would have 1 or 2, max, before. Other Forbes contributors verify that they also see more Pokémon outside their homes.
According to Niantic, recent improvements were an attempt to balance the game so that other outdoors in historically dense spaces would not have such an advantage. It’s appealing to note that the article also stated that it had a bit of nervousness in the positions that won a ton of Pokémon earlier:
“To ensure that all Trainers around the world enjoy exciting pleasure and advanced access to the game, Trainers can now find Pokémon on more occasions than ever before. There were also parts of the world where Pokémon were perhaps more densely populated. Positions, Pokémon will now be more scattered. This Pokémon migration has almost doubled the number of locations where Pokémon can be discovered in the wild around the world.
I’ve never run out of Pokémon in the relatively dense Pokéstop community of South Philadelphia, however, I’d be curious to stop by Times Square, Santa Monica Pier or other classic high-density places to see if they can see. less Pokémon than normal. But clearly, the maximum vital effect of this substitution will be in rural areas with little or no spawning before.
That’s why we’re waiting for the word to see how those players who have struggled with appearances in the past adapt. This has been a constant balancing act on the Niantic component since the game’s launch: dense spaces get more Pokémon and Pokéstops, and some players in the suburbs and rural spaces end up with a necessarily unplayable game. This is the first time Niantic has made a replacement like this that I’ve noticed at home and, for now, I can probably play this game without leaving home. Which is good, up to a point. We’ll see.
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