Another method for Niantic to help rural players do T3/4/5 raids, without the need to water down the difficulty or anything, is by linking gyms to eachother. Say, there’s these 3 or 4 villages, which all have a gym, but which get visited by very few unique players on a daily basis. Link those gyms together, so people from all those villages form a single group. A bit like what Activision did years ago in WoW, with the cross-server raidgroups. For WoW, it was a disaster which totally ruined the game for me. But I imagine it could actually work out well for PoGo.
Some things to consider though:
Gyms should only be eligible for cross-gym raids if no more than 1 raid above Tier 3 have been done there for a month.
There should be no gym within a kilometer that fails the above criterium (might be 2 or 3 km, something like that)
Gyms should only be eligible for cross-gym raids, if at least one Tier 1 or Tier 2 raid has been done there during the past month.
Players should be able to find out what gyms are linked to theirs, so they can try to contact players from the other town to organise their raidgroup, see when players are available in whatever group chat they use, etc. Possibly even meet up at times for a barbeque or whatever.
Should a gym drop off the cross-gym raid, for example, because the players attended multiple T3+ raids there during their anual cross-gym-barbeque-party, then on re-connection to the cross-gym system later, it should join the same group of gyms it was in before.
Gyms connected to eachother should not be too distant from one another. Pokemon Go already makes extensive use of so called S2 cells, so I’d suggest using level 7 or level 8 cells for that purpose: just pool the gyms within a level 8 cell, and connect the ones that get raided frequently, but suffer from low raid attendency. (so frequent raids by very few people). This should make communication much easier (also considering people speaking different languages, you don’t want to know how many people in Europe actually can’t speak proper English. People living in border regions usually do speak the language from the other side of the border though. This should also ensure #5, of making sure that gyms dropping out of the cross-gym system will always re-connect to the same pool.
Yes, I understand that. But the whole point of the raid system is to get people to battle together. That is what Niatic set out to do, and that is what’s happened for the majority of players.
Now that Legendaries have been added to quests, does your argument feel real flat? Raids are perfectly designed. And quests are beautiful and keep me running around. In short, Niantic disagrees with you and so do I. Trust your Instincts ; ) and have faith in Niantic
I mean personally for me if I can’t do a t5 raid I know that I’ll be able to get it on wed with my raiding group. And even before I joined the raiding group I’d wait around popular high traffic areas for a group to show, hence how I got both kyogre and Groudon. So I don’t think they should mess with the timer and CP just so a some people can solo a t5 raid, especially since they just added quests with moltres as a reward.
i’ll never have faith in Niantic. They have yet to help rurals. Also my point is still valid. Go to any raid late and your shit out of luck. Questing for a legendary bird is completely different.
All my real life trainers agree with pretty much all my ideas.
Some people cant communicate with other trainers, what cant you understand?
If you go a location any raid location few minutes late, you can be shit outta luck for that raid. Anything can cause that. Traffic, emergency, life, just not arriving on time.
That is a ridiculous arguement for a solo option. Be on time or communicate with the other trainers. If there is a set start time then you are obviously using something to organize the raid so why not ask for an extra couple minutes if life has slowed you down.
As for solo options in general, Niantic has incentivized you to socialize in the game using lvl 4 & 5 Raids. I personally think the feature is something that saved this game.
As for rural players, the entire quest system was Niantic answering the get Rural players legendaries. There is still a ton of work that needs to be done but they have taken steps to help rural play (Pokestop submissions will be huge).
My gf dad aint gonna go on a discoord or talk to anyone… he just gonna go to the raid location and hope people there if he few mins late(2 minutes) everyone could be done and leaving…has happened to me countless times. Both of you must of never been late to anything ever. Or just have so many raids around you that you do no care. t5 impossible for any solo. If you have everything else you only want t5. even on forum there people who say they dont got any legendaries. Quest doesnt switch untill a whole month.
I’ve been late to raids countless times, there’s always other raids. And if someone chooses not to get discord/join Fb group or messenger to see raid times it’s their choice, so they shouldn’t be mad if they just go to a raid and everyone is leaving. That happened to me multiple times so I decided to join a group so I could find out what time raids were happening.
