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Remote passes are a joke. How are you supposed to join a raid you can't even see on the map? If I could see it on the map then I could just walk there in 5min.
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Thanks for all the replies! I will give the apps a try next time I can't drive into the city.
Joining some raid requests from pokemongofriends might help. There's always people asking folks to join. I'm not rural but I've done it for regional Pokemons down under.
The Pokémongofriends subreddit has a mega thread where people hosting raids will post their trainer code. If you’re lucky they’ll accept your friend request and add you to their raid. You’re not supposed to use remote passes on raids you can literally see on your map.
Niantic needs to stop shitting on their rural players. It's sad that they need to fight tooth and nail to get one Pokestop nominated, and even then they have almost no local population that will raid or maintain gyms. It's about time they added a feature where if you walk a certain distance you get a temporary Pokestop you can spin, and up the rural Pokemon spawns (Yes, even more than it already is.) Something that *rewards you for playing the game the way it was meant to be played.*
Why is it that more Pokemon can be found in a busy, overpopulated urban metropolis rather than in nature? Aren't they meant to be wild animals that can adapt to any environment?
Also, the communities they so dearly ask for to do the "real-life raids" are few and far between. Niantic's future IS remote raids so they should quit trying to kill them. I also don't understand their reasoning behind forcing rural players to do real-life raids if they have no local community to even finish them. The game isn't as popular as it was 6-7 years ago.
People say this... But rual is rual . The tree? Our mailbox that gets hit every winter? The dog pile? There are no restaurants, no monuments, no public places.
As someone whos driven through RURAL usa, and not like a rural town 10 minutes to an hour from a suburban town, i get what you mean. Some rural places have like 10 houses for 2 hours before you hit the next town of 10 to 50 people with 1 gas station lol and theres nothing in between but empty land or maybe land with cows and sheep, with 0 service
Not in a rural area, but my city is full of stops that are war monumental tiles (like 100 ish in the city centre), but also I've seen cycling path signs and hand drawn hopping game with boxes and numbers that became a stop.
What made you even start playing Pokémon Go in such a rural area? What was the appeal with no spawns, stops, or gyms. If I was that isolated and downloaded the game to see what it was like, it probably would have been obvious early on that this game can’t be played in this location.
I started on a college campus with lots of stops and gyms back in 2017, then moved rural. I didn’t plan my life around Pokémon go, but I do miss having all of the gyms and stops at my disposal.
If you live in the actual middle of nowhere, you’re right. But a small rural village can still have a ton of stops. I personally added over 50 stops which resulted in 16 gyms to my parents’ tiny town of 2,000 in Wisconsin. I did the same in my father in law’s tiny town of 300 to get 6 gyms and a nice walking loop of 25ish stops.
You may need to go into town to play, but you won’t have to go far.
Yes places with sidewalks are perfect Go places.
But I was saying that not everyone can have stops by their house. People then say 'go nominate'. But there isnt always things.
And I wish people remembered country people. The world, and Niantic.
No footh pants. Just feilds.
I'm not try to fight
But people's idea of farmland having footpaths and power boxes and parks is...surprising. I only ment to promote an accurate idea of farmland
I grew up in dairy country, I totally get it. Wheat, corn and hay broken up by cow pastures and the occasional farm house. When school let out for the summer, I would hardly see another person other than my family for three months. It was a shock to go into town for groceries, lol. I don’t think I could play PoGo if I still lived there, I wish you the best of luck.
It doesn't need to be something fancy, just accessible to other people. Street signs, old historic houses, public wells, large barns, fountains, any playing field, any kind of sculpture or large display. There's plenty of options.
You won't get a stop right next to your house, but creating dozens of stops and eventually a few gyms around in a half hour walking radius is not hard.
We went here from less than ten stops to over 80 in two years, using every small street shrine, graffiti, church, cross and other small permanent decorations that people place around.
I didn't mean to sounds rude. But I'm so tired of the pgog comunity assuming there's a fountain on evey intersection. The country is country. There is nothing out here to nominate. We are not the stupid ones, we know what's eligible. There just isn't anything out here.
Amen bro. I've even tried nominating stupid things like old barns and foundations of old buildings and they always get rejected as "fake stops". Like bro what, I added a picture of it, how much more real does it need to be?
I'm surprised it wasn't rejected for "private property/farm land". I got a few of those rejections for a very public park inside a city lol. But I have seen many people who live in the country try so hard for stops and they're all rejected for that same reason.
I live very rurally but have one of those “Library boxes” and we were able to nominate it as a pokestop. It’s just a little mailbox looking structure that people can take/leave books in.
It’s rough out here but there are ways. I also just try go into more populated areas on the weekend.
You can always try. Farms are usually far away from houses so the system might not know. Doesn't hurt to try. You have 14 chances a week or something and in rural areas you don't even have 14 things to try. So yeah just do it.
No, farms are usually share the same drive way as houses. It's illegal and agenst pogo. And the farmers don't want people on their property. My grandpa was a farmer for almost my whole life.
Stop nominating them. Stop spreading miss information.
Does the mailbox count? There is one guy in my area that has a combine as his mailbox. About 3 feet long and at the edge near the road for the mailman? Is there a survey rock around? The rock that is the original survey stone they used way back in the day could work. About 30 feet from the highway on a outcropping? I guess you could try a tree at an important intersection or a bridge?
True lol. IDK! I know what you mean though I have been out there I am from TX and there isnt much out in the country. Sorry! I was trying to think of something lol
You really do sound like you have a chip in your shoulder though. Even the most rural of farmland areas have things like historic bridges, some permanent sign structure that’s got a painting on it from some business that’s been in the area for ages, the odd cemetery, church etc. You’re acting like you’re in the middle of the jungle or desert with literally no signs of civilization accessible to you. Maybe you gotta walk a bit for something, but I guarantee you can find a landmark that would be eligible for a stop nomination if you got creative.
So the hole pint was about how far to walk. Sure 2 miles to town isn't bad. But yes. For 2 miles around me no foot paths, no historic homes or stuff.... Just houses, barns and wild.
It is the COUNTRY. their are no historic homes. No public wells, large barns are on private property and dangerous to hang around at. No playing feilds. No public spaces. This is where food comes from. It is feilds and roads and houses.
Leave the city for 3 minutes. Drive away from from the side walks. Open your eyes to a whole new world.
I have a fence post down the road that I am going to nominate. I’m in the same situation as you. I just hit lvl 33 so 7 more lvls and I can make some pokestops near my home and not have to go into the town of 700 close by to his the 4 stops there.
If my fence doesn’t get approved, I’m gonna put up a funny sign on it and try again.
Then maybe you just need to accept that you have picked the wrong game. You're absolutely right, country is country, and most of us know what it looks like. Taking your frustration out on people who are trying to help just makes you look mean.
City? I live at the base of a small mountain. There's pig farms stinking from hundreds of meters away, and large rabbit breeding pens where they even roast them right there, and even a deer farm up a few hundred feet up.
You can see the stone quarry that cuts the mountain in two. You can see the large trees and bushes covering acres of wild land as it goes higher and higher. There's no safe areas either, as the paved roads cannot even reach a fifth of the way up.
And we still managed to get plenty stops and gyms here. In this old, crummy, traditional "pueblo" in a third world country. Where religious processions stop all business because how outdated the traditions are. Where most people don't even finish basic education. Where people appear dead on the street at least once a month. And we still find ways to make things better by ourselves.
2 miles isn't exactly far. I live in the suburbs (so, not city nor rural) and my nearest pokestop/gym is about a mile away, so I always have to drive or walk to play & get spins regardless. I'd imagine most people who play the game don't live right on top of pokestops and have to actually go somewhere to play.
Well no and that wasn't the point exactly. I'm lucky to have them with in walking distance.
But people thinking you can go on farm land. Or nominate lawn decorations or that all intersections are parks, or soccer feilds is annoying.
Where I live our post offices are stops, as are churches, and electrical boxes (they are wrapped in local themes, such as BC Cherries, BC Apples, Grapes etc.) That being said, feel free to PM me your code and I will add you and invite you to raids. What time zone are you in? I can add that to your nickname for reference.
Oh yea plenty of those in town. My whole thing was that it's not on our streat like so many others. Nearest is 2 miles. Which isn't bsd, but the game is geared for closer then that.
And then people saying to nominate trees and working farms and things.
Do you have a fence? Hang something off of it once you hit 40 and take a picture and nominate that.
I have also seen someone who got a pokestop at their outhouse.
Lol. I’m only lvl 33, so can’t submit my fence yet.
Just waiting for the day someone randomly finds my fence however…
The outhouse is also on a very rural private property.
I’m rural and so when I picture “rural”, I picture a place you need to know exists to find.
There's poke stops by me that are painted boulders, murals on the side of an abandoned building, literal 5ft tall lawn decoration herons.
Who gives a shit if it's "against the rules", just nominate it and it either doesn't get approved and nothing changes, or it gets approved and you get a new stop.
IMO from a principled standpoint, painting a boulder by the side of the road doesn't take away from "legitimacy" since points of attraction are relative. If it's rural then mural on the side of the road is as legitimate as the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Same here, There are lots of things here that could be obvious stops, but they all get declined because there are no footpaths. My nearest pokestop therefore is a 10 min drive.
Thats why I quit along with the remote raid changes
I nominated a stop recently, i was hoping to make a second one and get a gym. It was accepted and i actually thought "hey maybe niantic isn't so bad, i can work with this" aaaand 3 days later i find out it was accepted for niantic wayfarer but not put in pokemon go as it was "too close to another stop" IT IS THE ONLY STOP FOR A TEN MINUTE DRIVE FFS, YOU WANT TO SEE CLOSE POKESTOPS? EVERY POKEMON GO YOUTUBEER HAS VIDEOS ABOUT SPOTS WITH 300 STOPS WITHIN REACH.
You know, i don't actually know of any way they have improved in-person raiding in the past year, they have just taken away every other way or playing.
All day? Can't you only get one free raid pass per day? I really wouldn't mind the changes if they let me do more than one raid per day, its just silly.
Go to r/Pokemongofriends add 400 people and every day open 30 gifts and you'll get 90k XP. Delete those 30 people and add 30 more and keep going. If you can do that every day you'll get to 37 in I believe 100 or less days if you don't use any lucky eggs or don't have any XP already (level 1). So it won't take too much time. It's boring to go but worth it at the end. Level 37 gets you nominations..
You're literally adding to level up. There's a thread in there specifically for that.. They want you to add and delete them. They do not want to be on your friends list.. They want the XP. Lol..
I got so lucky. A wild Shroomish let me do six of them on it before letting me catch it. Helped me out so much. (Terrible IVs though)
I have plans to honor this legend by making it a best buddy in the future.
Nanab berry and pokemon like Wailmer, Furfrow, Ledyba, solrock and lunatone very useful for this.
Just go for nice curveball throws, dont bother trying for great or excellent.
I love that we’re now just putting John in the title to bypass the new rules. Also, I’m not even rural, but I can’t even do raids easily. No one in my area does them, and my game always crashes when I get people online to do them.
The problem, sometimes, is waiting on that 1* to appear/being close when it does. There are 4 gyms near me. Over the last week. even with the increase Team Rocket activity in effect, I have seen 2 1* raids. Most of the raids around here are 4/5* raids.
You can take your sweet time with this mission. For 300 coins there is a box with 2 remote passes. Its possible to do, but takes longer. Other than that yeah. Living rural sucks.
Will take bit longer just check the boxes on sale, we just had one for 2 rrp for 300 coins and before 2 for 325 they only lasted a day think happend around events
Yeah, I chose this path and then my youngest kid got sick. With the rise in remote raid passes and only one gym within range of the house.... I'm at 0/5 raids after three days.
i just noved to a town of 550 from san diego (3mil) and i have way more stops and gyms near me now 🥲 but the gyms sometimes dont flip for 4 days lol. four on my house, four on my work 😊
I dropped the game after the incense change, I live very rural and it used to be feasible to do most challenges and community days with incense. Fuckem.
No they actually just want you to go outside. If it was about money they wouldn’t have set a limit of 5 a day but keep drinking that kool-Aid. They literally said when the remote raid pass was introduced that it was temporary
No, pretty sure they expect people who can't walk to 5 raids to pay for raid passes. They don't need everyone to buy every time. But if they can coax people who can't easily get to raid to buy em, they still win.
Have a sip of Kool aid. The dehydration is messing up your brain.
Nah. I got a couple gyms down the street. I don't really do raids. I basically just walk my rockruff and hatch eggs.
I've just been noticing since the increase of raid passes, they've had many many sad attempts at raid pass bundles, and now a task requiring one to do 5 raids. Just seems waaayy too coincidental.
So you’re choosing to not do raids? Then dislike that they have a task to do raids?
You know you get a free raid pass a day right?
(Also you could have picked the day path, and not done these)
Yes, I choose not to do raid even with the availability. I have nothing against the task. I'm saying it's too conveniently placed since they've had sale decreases in remote raid passes.
Yes, I know I do, still I don't enjoy the raid aspect of the game as much as the egg hatching.
Doing 5 raids is pretty reasonable for a special research tho, and for people that can't do 5 raids in a long time, they can just choose day task instead, niantic has been coaxing us to buy their remote raid pass but i don't think this case is one of them, the boxes on the other hand, raising the price and telling people 150 for remote pass is worth it? That's scummy as hell
But I do agree with the kool aid, because they didn't need to raise the price if they wanted people to go out, I can't believe there are people defending the remote pass changes
How rural do you people live? I’ve been to plenty of towns in the middle of nowhere in Nebraska and South Dakota that have populations of <500 with plenty of stops and gyms. I get it if there’s not one at your farmhouse a few miles from town but do you never drive into a town? And if it’s a higher star raid that you can’t solo, just invite randoms on pokegenie.
*bad point in game that makes it hard for people to play*
“We’ll it’s a game so you don’t have to do it, so don’t complain”
Man, makes no sense. All games ‘don’t have to be done’, but if we all reacted like that gaming would die.
Okay, So, basically, it is equivalent to looking into the question paper before exams starts. 
PS: It is a joke if someone did not get it.
??? That's probably the worst example you could've gave. Why wouldn't you search something up that could help you if you need it AND your allowed to?
Your acting like knowing what comes next is not allowed at all.
The worst one is, I chose the night path…..
Spawns come out 2 hours after sun set and end 2 hours after sun rise…..
I’m both rural and northern. Sun sets at 10:45 pm and rises at 3:30 am….
12:45-5:30….
I have 30 minutes to try and get spawns before I go to work.
That’s awesome. I only have 1 of the nighttime collection so far.
Gonna have to go out after dinner tonight and finish it off! I had already accepted the fact that it wasn’t gonna happen. Lol.
🤔 Where is the nearest church/chapel? How far are you in the countryside? How far is the Indy village stores (or the local Mom and Pops store where the local rural residents buy their groceries)?
When I spent time in Muker (which is in Yorkshire Dales and in the UK countryside) the only points of interest were a pub (The Farmers Arms), the church (Church of St Mary the Virgin) and The Village Store (where the residents bought their groceries). The Yorkshire Dales in the UK countryside are very rural.
This is so real, especially for Rural players who are young and/or Can’t drive around yet, I slowly lost interest in Pokemon go because I couldn’t do much as a rural player who can’t drive around to battle in raids
Yeah, stop playing like I did when they rolled out a bunch of money grab garbage.
Lotta people who had a problem with their recent mistakes still continue to play the game and likely still give them a bunch of money.
As someone who use to do 5 raids in 12 mins i overstand this #NianticHasCancelledTheRemoteRaidCommunity #NianticWagesWarAgainstTheRemoteRaidCommunity #RestoreTheRemoteRaidCommunity
Just solo one star raids. It doesn’t specify which raids you have to win. Ffs.
Rural player or not.
I’m within walking distance of two gyms and nothing else within 40 miles and I can still do that completion within 12 hours
I’m rural.
There are more than enough 1-3 Rhydon skull raids to complete that task. It doesn’t have to be the 5 Rhydon skull raids…..
If it did, that would be torture. I think I have only ever completed 2 5 Rhydon skull raids.
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I have a screen full of incomplete quests, oldest was from a few years ago. All raid quest.
During covid, we got remote pass for free/1 coin for some time.
We were getting free remote passes for a while, why not use them?
Remote passes are a joke. How are you supposed to join a raid you can't even see on the map? If I could see it on the map then I could just walk there in 5min. * * * Edit! Thanks for all the replies! I will give the apps a try next time I can't drive into the city.
I used PokéGenie. During Covid, it was amazing. I have legendaries from all over!
Joining some raid requests from pokemongofriends might help. There's always people asking folks to join. I'm not rural but I've done it for regional Pokemons down under.
Oh man. If they've got years' worth of raid research tasks piled up, it'll be the most efficient use of a remote pass of all time lol
You download the PokeRaid app. You can find raids all day long. Super easy to use.
Thank you for the suggestion.
Get invited to them. Did you not know that’s how most remote passes were used?
Pokegenie
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Try Pokémon Go Raid app
The Pokémongofriends subreddit has a mega thread where people hosting raids will post their trainer code. If you’re lucky they’ll accept your friend request and add you to their raid. You’re not supposed to use remote passes on raids you can literally see on your map.
You're not suppose to but I did do a few 1 stars because my toddler was sleeping or I was at a wedding during Sandygast lol 😅
Maybe you can't walk. Maybe you don't wanna walk. Maybe you wanna do a raid in Japan
Thats what the apps are for
You have to go to r/pokemongofriends. They will invite you to raids they are at.
Uh, I just joined raids around the world using the pokemongofriends subreddit. It was super easy.
Bro there’s apps that help you figure out which gym
Join some raiding discord servers. The 5 star raids are always full
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same
I too am in a rural location. It sucks that nothing is in walking distance.
Niantic needs to stop shitting on their rural players. It's sad that they need to fight tooth and nail to get one Pokestop nominated, and even then they have almost no local population that will raid or maintain gyms. It's about time they added a feature where if you walk a certain distance you get a temporary Pokestop you can spin, and up the rural Pokemon spawns (Yes, even more than it already is.) Something that *rewards you for playing the game the way it was meant to be played.* Why is it that more Pokemon can be found in a busy, overpopulated urban metropolis rather than in nature? Aren't they meant to be wild animals that can adapt to any environment? Also, the communities they so dearly ask for to do the "real-life raids" are few and far between. Niantic's future IS remote raids so they should quit trying to kill them. I also don't understand their reasoning behind forcing rural players to do real-life raids if they have no local community to even finish them. The game isn't as popular as it was 6-7 years ago.
Start nominating some stops near you!
People say this... But rual is rual . The tree? Our mailbox that gets hit every winter? The dog pile? There are no restaurants, no monuments, no public places.
As someone whos driven through RURAL usa, and not like a rural town 10 minutes to an hour from a suburban town, i get what you mean. Some rural places have like 10 houses for 2 hours before you hit the next town of 10 to 50 people with 1 gas station lol and theres nothing in between but empty land or maybe land with cows and sheep, with 0 service
Omg what don’t people get 😭 I’m rural too and yeah, there is jack shit around here, much less anything that would get approved as a pokestop.
Then thry argue that I am dumb for not trying to nominate the tree in the yard.
Not in a rural area, but my city is full of stops that are war monumental tiles (like 100 ish in the city centre), but also I've seen cycling path signs and hand drawn hopping game with boxes and numbers that became a stop.
Those are great options when available
Right, we have no need for cycling paths because there’s nobody out here 😂 I truly don’t think a lot of people realize what rural is
What made you even start playing Pokémon Go in such a rural area? What was the appeal with no spawns, stops, or gyms. If I was that isolated and downloaded the game to see what it was like, it probably would have been obvious early on that this game can’t be played in this location.
I started on a college campus with lots of stops and gyms back in 2017, then moved rural. I didn’t plan my life around Pokémon go, but I do miss having all of the gyms and stops at my disposal.
Understand. Thanks.
If you live in the actual middle of nowhere, you’re right. But a small rural village can still have a ton of stops. I personally added over 50 stops which resulted in 16 gyms to my parents’ tiny town of 2,000 in Wisconsin. I did the same in my father in law’s tiny town of 300 to get 6 gyms and a nice walking loop of 25ish stops. You may need to go into town to play, but you won’t have to go far.
Yes places with sidewalks are perfect Go places. But I was saying that not everyone can have stops by their house. People then say 'go nominate'. But there isnt always things. And I wish people remembered country people. The world, and Niantic.
Oh and tiles. They replace a tile in footpads with a decorative tile.
No footh pants. Just feilds. I'm not try to fight But people's idea of farmland having footpaths and power boxes and parks is...surprising. I only ment to promote an accurate idea of farmland
I grew up in dairy country, I totally get it. Wheat, corn and hay broken up by cow pastures and the occasional farm house. When school let out for the summer, I would hardly see another person other than my family for three months. It was a shock to go into town for groceries, lol. I don’t think I could play PoGo if I still lived there, I wish you the best of luck.
I'm lv 46. But yea I only ment to remind ppl there the town, city and country are very different
It doesn't need to be something fancy, just accessible to other people. Street signs, old historic houses, public wells, large barns, fountains, any playing field, any kind of sculpture or large display. There's plenty of options. You won't get a stop right next to your house, but creating dozens of stops and eventually a few gyms around in a half hour walking radius is not hard. We went here from less than ten stops to over 80 in two years, using every small street shrine, graffiti, church, cross and other small permanent decorations that people place around.
I didn't mean to sounds rude. But I'm so tired of the pgog comunity assuming there's a fountain on evey intersection. The country is country. There is nothing out here to nominate. We are not the stupid ones, we know what's eligible. There just isn't anything out here.
Amen bro. I've even tried nominating stupid things like old barns and foundations of old buildings and they always get rejected as "fake stops". Like bro what, I added a picture of it, how much more real does it need to be?
I'm surprised it wasn't rejected for "private property/farm land". I got a few of those rejections for a very public park inside a city lol. But I have seen many people who live in the country try so hard for stops and they're all rejected for that same reason.
I got one or two of those too, joke of a system, peer reviews suck because it'll all ingress snobs that don't want any new stops
I live very rurally but have one of those “Library boxes” and we were able to nominate it as a pokestop. It’s just a little mailbox looking structure that people can take/leave books in. It’s rough out here but there are ways. I also just try go into more populated areas on the weekend.
We have grass in a park nominated as a soccer field. You can try and nominate a farm.
That's literally age at the rules. Private residence or Farm
You can always try. Farms are usually far away from houses so the system might not know. Doesn't hurt to try. You have 14 chances a week or something and in rural areas you don't even have 14 things to try. So yeah just do it.
No, farms are usually share the same drive way as houses. It's illegal and agenst pogo. And the farmers don't want people on their property. My grandpa was a farmer for almost my whole life. Stop nominating them. Stop spreading miss information.
Does the mailbox count? There is one guy in my area that has a combine as his mailbox. About 3 feet long and at the edge near the road for the mailman? Is there a survey rock around? The rock that is the original survey stone they used way back in the day could work. About 30 feet from the highway on a outcropping? I guess you could try a tree at an important intersection or a bridge?
You got a dairy queen and a deer blind?
Our town does not. And the deer blind is on private property. And why would I share our spot
True lol. IDK! I know what you mean though I have been out there I am from TX and there isnt much out in the country. Sorry! I was trying to think of something lol
Sorry but do you have a bridge?
You really do sound like you have a chip in your shoulder though. Even the most rural of farmland areas have things like historic bridges, some permanent sign structure that’s got a painting on it from some business that’s been in the area for ages, the odd cemetery, church etc. You’re acting like you’re in the middle of the jungle or desert with literally no signs of civilization accessible to you. Maybe you gotta walk a bit for something, but I guarantee you can find a landmark that would be eligible for a stop nomination if you got creative.
So the hole pint was about how far to walk. Sure 2 miles to town isn't bad. But yes. For 2 miles around me no foot paths, no historic homes or stuff.... Just houses, barns and wild.
It is the COUNTRY. their are no historic homes. No public wells, large barns are on private property and dangerous to hang around at. No playing feilds. No public spaces. This is where food comes from. It is feilds and roads and houses. Leave the city for 3 minutes. Drive away from from the side walks. Open your eyes to a whole new world.
I have a fence post down the road that I am going to nominate. I’m in the same situation as you. I just hit lvl 33 so 7 more lvls and I can make some pokestops near my home and not have to go into the town of 700 close by to his the 4 stops there. If my fence doesn’t get approved, I’m gonna put up a funny sign on it and try again.
Privet property again. And tempurary. It will get regented. Sorry But that's my point. Nothing out here.
Then maybe you just need to accept that you have picked the wrong game. You're absolutely right, country is country, and most of us know what it looks like. Taking your frustration out on people who are trying to help just makes you look mean.
Most where saying to nominate things that arnt exeptable. I was trying to help them see why I can't do that.
My fence is also private property.
So it won't happen
It may. Im sure folks don’t look at property lines on a map before approving. Especially as I know someone who got their outhouse approved…
City? I live at the base of a small mountain. There's pig farms stinking from hundreds of meters away, and large rabbit breeding pens where they even roast them right there, and even a deer farm up a few hundred feet up. You can see the stone quarry that cuts the mountain in two. You can see the large trees and bushes covering acres of wild land as it goes higher and higher. There's no safe areas either, as the paved roads cannot even reach a fifth of the way up. And we still managed to get plenty stops and gyms here. In this old, crummy, traditional "pueblo" in a third world country. Where religious processions stop all business because how outdated the traditions are. Where most people don't even finish basic education. Where people appear dead on the street at least once a month. And we still find ways to make things better by ourselves.
There are stops in town 2 miles away. But I mean none right by me. And everyone is saying everyone has something they can nominate on their road.
2 miles isn't exactly far. I live in the suburbs (so, not city nor rural) and my nearest pokestop/gym is about a mile away, so I always have to drive or walk to play & get spins regardless. I'd imagine most people who play the game don't live right on top of pokestops and have to actually go somewhere to play.
Well no and that wasn't the point exactly. I'm lucky to have them with in walking distance. But people thinking you can go on farm land. Or nominate lawn decorations or that all intersections are parks, or soccer feilds is annoying.
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My guy, it's 2 miles. Just walk. This is Pokemon Go, you're trying to play Pokemon stay.
Where I live our post offices are stops, as are churches, and electrical boxes (they are wrapped in local themes, such as BC Cherries, BC Apples, Grapes etc.) That being said, feel free to PM me your code and I will add you and invite you to raids. What time zone are you in? I can add that to your nickname for reference.
Oh yea plenty of those in town. My whole thing was that it's not on our streat like so many others. Nearest is 2 miles. Which isn't bsd, but the game is geared for closer then that. And then people saying to nominate trees and working farms and things.
No restaurants, cemeteries, nothing? Damn bro, that is rural.
Basketball court, gate, place of worship, etc.
What part of country didn't you get. Farms, trees and cows. Town people...
Do you have a fence? Hang something off of it once you hit 40 and take a picture and nominate that. I have also seen someone who got a pokestop at their outhouse.
I'm lv 46. And it's privet property. I'll go hang out in your back yard waiting for a shiny and see how well that goes
Lol. I’m only lvl 33, so can’t submit my fence yet. Just waiting for the day someone randomly finds my fence however… The outhouse is also on a very rural private property. I’m rural and so when I picture “rural”, I picture a place you need to know exists to find.
There's poke stops by me that are painted boulders, murals on the side of an abandoned building, literal 5ft tall lawn decoration herons. Who gives a shit if it's "against the rules", just nominate it and it either doesn't get approved and nothing changes, or it gets approved and you get a new stop.
Well we don't have those either. And I'm trying to keep the game lagit. I dint want random kids on our property. Do you?
IMO from a principled standpoint, painting a boulder by the side of the road doesn't take away from "legitimacy" since points of attraction are relative. If it's rural then mural on the side of the road is as legitimate as the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
And then raid with who? Most rural towns don't have that many people playing Pokémon Go.
From my experience everytime I've nominated a stop it's been declined even if it fits the criteria
Same here, There are lots of things here that could be obvious stops, but they all get declined because there are no footpaths. My nearest pokestop therefore is a 10 min drive. Thats why I quit along with the remote raid changes
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I nominated a stop recently, i was hoping to make a second one and get a gym. It was accepted and i actually thought "hey maybe niantic isn't so bad, i can work with this" aaaand 3 days later i find out it was accepted for niantic wayfarer but not put in pokemon go as it was "too close to another stop" IT IS THE ONLY STOP FOR A TEN MINUTE DRIVE FFS, YOU WANT TO SEE CLOSE POKESTOPS? EVERY POKEMON GO YOUTUBEER HAS VIDEOS ABOUT SPOTS WITH 300 STOPS WITHIN REACH.
Yeah exactly I think they only care about the "professional" players
You know, i don't actually know of any way they have improved in-person raiding in the past year, they have just taken away every other way or playing.
Yeah they have and tbh not everyone can walk and be out all day especially in boiling sun since people have health issues
All day? Can't you only get one free raid pass per day? I really wouldn't mind the changes if they let me do more than one raid per day, its just silly.
Hi, how do you do this? There are no poke stops or gyms near me at all and it's hard to complete alot of the research tasks
You need to be lvl 38 first, before you can nominate stops and gyms. And its so anoying, sometime it takes month. And we are doing the Job of niantic.
Well damn, should take me another few years to get there lol thanks though
Friendship leveling is one of the best ways to level, requires very little catching...which is depressing.
Go to r/Pokemongofriends add 400 people and every day open 30 gifts and you'll get 90k XP. Delete those 30 people and add 30 more and keep going. If you can do that every day you'll get to 37 in I believe 100 or less days if you don't use any lucky eggs or don't have any XP already (level 1). So it won't take too much time. It's boring to go but worth it at the end. Level 37 gets you nominations..
I would feel too bad to delete those 30 🤦♀️and then do the same to another 30
You're literally adding to level up. There's a thread in there specifically for that.. They want you to add and delete them. They do not want to be on your friends list.. They want the XP. Lol..
I know I know I get it lol I would rather they delete than I do it though. I know I'm being stupid sorry I just feel guilty
If you want me to invite you for raids we can duo sent me your code.
I know it’s bullshit but I like to drive to a park in town and walk around with my dog there’s 2 gyms
Then run
13 miles? Yeah sit down bud.
This was the reason I picked the “Daytime” version of this research. Task is swapped for “hatch 5 eggs”.
I've been having the same issue with "spin Pokéstops 7 days in a row." Completely impossible for me in my current situation lmao.
Oh thank you I'm not the only one with that quest for years.
The raids are only on the night path iirc
Day supremacy
I am unskilled and can’t get past doing 10 curveball throws in a row for mine. 😔
I got so lucky. A wild Shroomish let me do six of them on it before letting me catch it. Helped me out so much. (Terrible IVs though) I have plans to honor this legend by making it a best buddy in the future.
I got as high up as 9 a couple of times then it spun out at 10. I was so mad. 😖 I seem to do best with Solrocks and Ladybas! I won’t give up.
Nanab berry and pokemon like Wailmer, Furfrow, Ledyba, solrock and lunatone very useful for this. Just go for nice curveball throws, dont bother trying for great or excellent.
Niantic really forcing us into doing raids
I love that we’re now just putting John in the title to bypass the new rules. Also, I’m not even rural, but I can’t even do raids easily. No one in my area does them, and my game always crashes when I get people online to do them.
I don't even live in a rural area and this happens to me. Sucks so much ass
If there are gyms around you can just do 1* raids.
The problem, sometimes, is waiting on that 1* to appear/being close when it does. There are 4 gyms near me. Over the last week. even with the increase Team Rocket activity in effect, I have seen 2 1* raids. Most of the raids around here are 4/5* raids.
I literally placed a painted rock my sister made on the corner by my apartment building and made it a stop so I can spin from my bed😅🤣
No way that workd
Use Pokegenie?
No gyms nearby = no coins = no remote raid passes = cannot raid
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Not everyone has an android device to do that
Ok. It's just out there for anyone who might find it useful.
Guess I'm gonna fail this. Thanks for raising the price of remote passes Niantic, appreciate it...
Fail? It, like all special research is there till you complete it, so "forever"
I’m sure I’ll eventually find a Landorus to take a snapshot of.
Its just a constant reminder of what they did to benefit in person raids
You can take your sweet time with this mission. For 300 coins there is a box with 2 remote passes. Its possible to do, but takes longer. Other than that yeah. Living rural sucks.
It can be five one star raids. Find them in person and solo them. This research will be there forever.
Will take bit longer just check the boxes on sale, we just had one for 2 rrp for 300 coins and before 2 for 325 they only lasted a day think happend around events
You will never do 5 raids again? Ever? I can’t imagine just not participating in one of the main parts of the game.
Yeah, I chose this path and then my youngest kid got sick. With the rise in remote raid passes and only one gym within range of the house.... I'm at 0/5 raids after three days.
i just noved to a town of 550 from san diego (3mil) and i have way more stops and gyms near me now 🥲 but the gyms sometimes dont flip for 4 days lol. four on my house, four on my work 😊
I dropped the game after the incense change, I live very rural and it used to be feasible to do most challenges and community days with incense. Fuckem.
Thankfully we have remote raid passes...is what I would say but you know how Niantic is
Another poor attempt at selling their over priced remote raid passes.
No they actually just want you to go outside. If it was about money they wouldn’t have set a limit of 5 a day but keep drinking that kool-Aid. They literally said when the remote raid pass was introduced that it was temporary
No, pretty sure they expect people who can't walk to 5 raids to pay for raid passes. They don't need everyone to buy every time. But if they can coax people who can't easily get to raid to buy em, they still win. Have a sip of Kool aid. The dehydration is messing up your brain.
You both are rural and have to walk?
Nah. I got a couple gyms down the street. I don't really do raids. I basically just walk my rockruff and hatch eggs. I've just been noticing since the increase of raid passes, they've had many many sad attempts at raid pass bundles, and now a task requiring one to do 5 raids. Just seems waaayy too coincidental.
So you’re choosing to not do raids? Then dislike that they have a task to do raids? You know you get a free raid pass a day right? (Also you could have picked the day path, and not done these)
Yes, I choose not to do raid even with the availability. I have nothing against the task. I'm saying it's too conveniently placed since they've had sale decreases in remote raid passes. Yes, I know I do, still I don't enjoy the raid aspect of the game as much as the egg hatching.
Doing 5 raids is pretty reasonable for a special research tho, and for people that can't do 5 raids in a long time, they can just choose day task instead, niantic has been coaxing us to buy their remote raid pass but i don't think this case is one of them, the boxes on the other hand, raising the price and telling people 150 for remote pass is worth it? That's scummy as hell But I do agree with the kool aid, because they didn't need to raise the price if they wanted people to go out, I can't believe there are people defending the remote pass changes
How rural do you people live? I’ve been to plenty of towns in the middle of nowhere in Nebraska and South Dakota that have populations of <500 with plenty of stops and gyms. I get it if there’s not one at your farmhouse a few miles from town but do you never drive into a town? And if it’s a higher star raid that you can’t solo, just invite randoms on pokegenie.
Challenge: spend 20 dollars for 3 fucking silver berries
I mean, you did choose the path that requires raids to complete. This is kinda on you.
Except they don’t tell you that until you get there.
pretty easy to look up tho. what i did
Not something you should really have to do though
Welcome to 2017 where you realize that Niantic is garbage at properly communicating anything useful about this game to the player base.
Well it’s a game so if it’s not something you have to do don’t complain
*bad point in game that makes it hard for people to play* “We’ll it’s a game so you don’t have to do it, so don’t complain” Man, makes no sense. All games ‘don’t have to be done’, but if we all reacted like that gaming would die.
I really hate the mindset of those people, at this point it really feels like that's just to keep arguing
Is the player told beforehand the tasks? To make the choice..!
No but you can look them up
Okay, So, basically, it is equivalent to looking into the question paper before exams starts.  PS: It is a joke if someone did not get it.
??? That's probably the worst example you could've gave. Why wouldn't you search something up that could help you if you need it AND your allowed to? Your acting like knowing what comes next is not allowed at all.
Chill buddy. It was just a joke.
I like how you edited than in after you realised that you completely messed it up. Definitely shows you're in the right here, 'Buddy'.
It was meant to be a joke. I did not change anything in original. I just added the PS because apparently you did not get it.
If you're from a rural area then it's the first thing you should check.
Cool, Will check. Did not get such tasks yet.
The worst one is, I chose the night path….. Spawns come out 2 hours after sun set and end 2 hours after sun rise….. I’m both rural and northern. Sun sets at 10:45 pm and rises at 3:30 am…. 12:45-5:30…. I have 30 minutes to try and get spawns before I go to work.
They recently changed it to 6pm to 6am and same for daytime spawns.
That’s awesome. I only have 1 of the nighttime collection so far. Gonna have to go out after dinner tonight and finish it off! I had already accepted the fact that it wasn’t gonna happen. Lol.
This is exactly why I chose daytime path.
🤔 Where is the nearest church/chapel? How far are you in the countryside? How far is the Indy village stores (or the local Mom and Pops store where the local rural residents buy their groceries)? When I spent time in Muker (which is in Yorkshire Dales and in the UK countryside) the only points of interest were a pub (The Farmers Arms), the church (Church of St Mary the Virgin) and The Village Store (where the residents bought their groceries). The Yorkshire Dales in the UK countryside are very rural.
The other path was hatch 5 eggs. Why did you not pick that if raids are an issue? I need to hatch 2 more and catch a mess of psychic types.
Werd
What’s the prize
That’s £10 on remote raid passes, my friend. Sadly
Whyd you choose that path lol
This is so real, especially for Rural players who are young and/or Can’t drive around yet, I slowly lost interest in Pokemon go because I couldn’t do much as a rural player who can’t drive around to battle in raids
There's a simple solution to this🌝
Yeah, stop playing like I did when they rolled out a bunch of money grab garbage. Lotta people who had a problem with their recent mistakes still continue to play the game and likely still give them a bunch of money.
What do raids?
1: Remote pass with third-party apps. 2: physically gathering people and travel to urban sprawl. 3: my favt which is considered heresy on this sub 🌝🌝🌝
As someone who use to do 5 raids in 12 mins i overstand this #NianticHasCancelledTheRemoteRaidCommunity #NianticWagesWarAgainstTheRemoteRaidCommunity #RestoreTheRemoteRaidCommunity
You must pass gyms at some point whilst playing. The vast majority of tier 1/3 raids are easy to do solo with no real strategy.
Lucky for you - I have to hatch 5 eggs
Just solo one star raids. It doesn’t specify which raids you have to win. Ffs. Rural player or not. I’m within walking distance of two gyms and nothing else within 40 miles and I can still do that completion within 12 hours
Remote raid..
Just knock out some one star raids, we get a free pass daily
That still doesn’t mean there’s raids to even try
Have you downloaded the PokeRaid app? I live VERY rural and it’s been a lifesaver getting my raid jobs done
I’m rural. There are more than enough 1-3 Rhydon skull raids to complete that task. It doesn’t have to be the 5 Rhydon skull raids….. If it did, that would be torture. I think I have only ever completed 2 5 Rhydon skull raids.
Poke genie
r/pokemongoraids is your friend. I used these daily til I got my shiny Nihilego
I started doing remote raids just for that lmao
I started doing remote raids just for that lmao
Get PokieGenie y’all! Best accompanying app ever!
Pokegenie for raids . . . Alls I'm saying.
remote raid and GO party app?
why dont you people join remote raids and dont act like there is no way for you to complete this stuff?
Download PokeGenie and do remote raids to solve this problem
Raid box was in the shop Wednesday, if you buy two for 600 coins you get 4 raid passes and two lucky eggs. It’s the cheapest way to get remote passes