Still no working tracker, but only commons here anyway
App still crashes in background, negating much of the Go Pluss utility.
While the single week of water Pokémon spawns was nice, all Ive otherwise seen since Gen 2 came out are Gen 1 and 2 commons-- before Gen 2 Id at least see a few rares. This is boring.
The continued lack of a viable tracker makes a game with already little to play for (no end game) even worse. Nearby is just ad space for sponsored pokestops and it kills any chance of tracking with Sightings, which was already bad to begin with. Going back to 9 Pokémon Sightings tab would still be bad and involve too much triangulation. A small compass / hint with each Pokémon, added to that, would be good so people can hunt for Pokémon that are not at pokestops (which had been a large part of the fun). A viable in game tracker would make the use of 3rd party scanning apps drop and thus take a load off their servers, so I dont see why Niantic doesnt want to actually fix the tracker. If theyd test things outside of San Francisco where there isnt a pokestop literally at every block, theyd understand how bad things are.
Spawns are not diverse at all. Im Pretty much only seeing commons, even with gen 2 out. Thats boring.
The gym system is stale and needs a complete overhaul to remove the incentive for cheating / spoofing. Cheaters are killing the game and theyll always find ways around technical roadblocks-- the actual incentives / ways you get coins needs to completely be changed.
A tiered gym system needs to be implemented. My kids no longer want to battle because they cant keep up with the CP arms race.
Many simple improvements are still missing, such as being able to automatically choose the last Pokémon you battled with.
Gen 2 has watered down any chance of getting the Gen 1s you want. The best way to address that would be to add a binoculars button so that you can scan for whichever generation you want to hunt for. The same potential spawn points could still be used that way.
ftlum about Pokémon GO, v1.29.1
