Initial impressions of PokƩmon GO.
Note: I am aĀ player of Goās sister game IngressĀ of 2.5 years, expect hopefully-not-needless parallels between both games.
Stops are where IngressĀ portals are located, gyms are where IngressĀ mission portals are located. Not every portal is a stop.
I happen to live near a cluster of stops, so farming PokƩ Balls is ezpz for me.
A lot of people playing, compared to Ingress. Youāre lucky if you run into another IngressĀ player by chance, but parks and other places filled with stops are booming with players, as many as 7-10 players visible at once. Even past midnight, there are people goiig at it.
Sometimes stop data takes a while to load, or just straight up fails to give me items. Hopefully this smoothens out over the coming weeks.
Like IngressĀ the app eats batteries, due to needing to constantly use GPS, 3D rendering, and data. Bring a portable charger or youāll be scrambling for a car or wall outlet in <2 hours.
No team chat. Ah well, IngressĀ team comm turned into a spam nest anyway and Goās chat would fall victim to the same route.
No linking gyms or stops or whatever, so I donāt have to worry about people throwing up pointless long links that disrupt operations.
AR is cool but I may consider shutting it off since it seems to be crashing the app sometimes.
I wonder what will be the primary communication platform for GoĀ players in the South Bay? Itāll probably be Facebook; I wouldnāt mind that too much, if Facebookās staff wasnāt offended by people not using legal names. Lots of IngressĀ communities around NorCal use Google Hangouts, Slack, and Telegram, but none of them are particularly popular with PokĆ©mon fans (Telegram is a crapshoot in the US, Slack is tailored towards professionals, and everyone else would rather die of mad cow disease than use anything related to G+).
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