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From what I've been told, the stops are a copy and paste from Ingress. Hence the photos where taken by Ingress players years ago.Yurt wrote:I've had a look at it and am amazed at the amount of data to put it together. I just mean the Poke-stops - all the memorials, sporting fields and churches (are mosques and temples included?) with photos included. Did someone go out and take photos of all the objects? I thought originally it may have been shots taken from Google StreetView but there are a couple out in the bush on the Great North Walk near me. You can see they've been taken with a flash at night.
I wonder who is the oldest player out there...
I've complained about it a lot, this whole new approach from Groundspeak on how to deal with newbies and limiting them to only see certain sizes pissed me off because it will harm the game for newbies. See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/geocaching/com ... _wrong_to/CraigRat wrote:Interestingly this week I was privvy to a conversation re: Pokemon Go/Ingress/Geocaching (the people did not know of my involvement in geocaching)... and sadly the 3 people had all tried it but we of the opinion that is was about finding 'thumb sized'objects hidden around the place and that it gets old quicklyWife had a similar conversation with a co-worker of hers too... Part of me dies when I hear this, but I cannot refute it based on the caches here in Launnie now....
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Does the GC free app only allow certain sizes now or something?
I don't believe for a second that this is the case. The only reason their opinion gets asked if because journalists will go from "Hold on, didn't we already have a GPS based game, wasn't that something like geoscratching?" and figure out that the name was actually geocaching.CraigRat wrote: GC are saying they are having a record amount of signups, but as we have seen statistically, signups does not equal more active players.
You've got some fair points there, but we've already seen first hand the crossover affect.MavEtJu wrote:I don't believe for a second that this is the case. The only reason their opinion gets asked if because journalists will go from "Hold on, didn't we already have a GPS based game, wasn't that something like geoscratching?" and figure out that the name was actually geocaching.CraigRat wrote: GC are saying they are having a record amount of signups, but as we have seen statistically, signups does not equal more active players.
The only two things these games have in common is that they use the GPS system to determine the location of you, for the rest they have nothing in common:
- Accuracy: I can catch a pokemon when I'm on the train, I don't see me doing that for a container.
- Problem solving: All you need to do come close to it, you don't need to find something hidden.
- Replay: You have to capture the gym over and over and over and over again. Just like yesterday and the day before, and tomorrow and the day after. (Don't start me on how easy it is to bring down a level 6 gym, and how bloody difficult it is on build one)
- User contribution: It's a different game's database they use and you cannot add anything. I would be so much more happy if some of the "this is a park" signs got replaced by some of the art/building features inside the park.
- Community building: I honestly don't see the need for a PokemonNSW association or a local facebook group on it.
So, tell me, how much do geocaching and pokemon have in common *besides* the GPS system to determine the location of you?
And then Groundspeak going from "We were here first and everybody should give it a try (but we have a crap app so please don't really please please don't)" really makes me go from "You were here first and dropped the ball on non-container based caches, with a crappy app and now you are being taken over left and right by people who can do things better. You lose."
Anyway, dinner time.
Please don't tell me you picked Instinct? You are no longer a friend of mineCraigRat wrote:Anyhoo, I'm now level 7 and on the orange team, whatever that means.... Can't say it grabs me like Ingress or caching did, but I can see why it's got that mass appeal!
If that's the orange one, then yep.caughtatwork wrote:Please don't tell me you picked Instinct? You are no longer a friend of mineCraigRat wrote:Anyhoo, I'm now level 7 and on the orange team, whatever that means.... Can't say it grabs me like Ingress or caching did, but I can see why it's got that mass appeal!GO TEAM VALOR!
I think the main similarity is the fact that you have to go outside and explore in order to play - you can't do it at home from your computer.MavEtJu wrote:So, tell me, how much do geocaching and pokemon have in common *besides* the GPS system to determine the location of you?
To be contrary, of course you can. You can "cheat" at both games and do them both from your computer.Laighside Legends wrote:I think the main similarity is the fact that you have to go outside and explore in order to play - you can't do it at home from your computer.MavEtJu wrote:So, tell me, how much do geocaching and pokemon have in common *besides* the GPS system to determine the location of you?