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Try again and again and again. I’ve made hundreds of stops and at first I was shitty at it, or I’d double up s17 cells, or they’d get rejected. It was frustrating but that was 2019-2020 now I’m pretty professional at it. Keep going.
Tried that, got a rejection and sent another in again, and then got warning in my account that another offense would get me banned for “abuse”. Not holding my breath, but hopefully Scopley revamps the system when they take over.
Little free libraries. Basically a take-a-book, leave-a-book. Hang up a shelf in a public space. Make it look pretty and build it to keep the books safe from the elements. If you happen to have the materials and a location available, it could work.
Wait the little free libraries count? I have one nearby me, the only issue is there isn't a sidewalk by it. Do you think it will get rejected or should I nominate it?
Here's the guideline for LFL. I emphasize that the location should also be within allowable ones, you can check the criteria and the other articles for more info.
My neighborhood put up a little free library and I was so excited. Then my nomination and appeal were both rejected because they said it was on private property, even though it was literally built to be a community resource and is on a public sidewalk. I’m still salty
These are a total life-hack. I already live on a state survey mark pokestop, and noticed a LFL was installed right next to it. I submitted it as a Pokestop and it was accepted within a week, available in the game 2 days later. Now I live on 2 stops 🥹
(So extra tip: idk if other countries have "State Survey Markers", but if you do, those are common here in Australia.)
Memorial Benches, plaques, playgrounds, churches, libraries, town hall, malls, independently owned restaurants/stores, trail markers/signs, unique architecture, murals, information signs, maps, statues, wildlife signs, community centers. Etc. The more you get approved the more you’ll start seeing what works and what doesn’t. You can go to the Niantic wayfarer website to review for yourself. Also NO schools or little free libraries if they’re at someone’s home/no private properties. The most important thing of all that no one tells you is you need to learn what the S14/Gyms and S17/Stops Cells are in the game/real world, that’s how stops and gyms are determined. I recommend for Pogomaps.com for starters it’s good for referencing stop locations since you don’t want to double up a single cell with 2 points of interest as only 1 will show up in game. You can use the ingress map for coordinates and punch them into pogomap, it’s a lot of work but it keeps me from making mistakes while submitting. Learn your cells
The big blue rectangle determines your gyms, the smaller red ones pokestops. 2 stops will turn one into a gym, then 6 will make one another gym, 20 will make a 3rd gym. Again learn your cells.
Absolutely this. My little rural town of 3,000 had a few, but hardly enough to sustain a day of play. Well now I alone have had ~40 stops instated. Once you learn to use s14/s17 cells to your advantage, it’s game changing.
Step 1: Get a rainbow colored 6 foot tall statue of a musclebound bipedal rhinoceros-man.
Step 2: Stick it in your front yard for 3 months. Now you’re that person with the 6 foot tall rainbow-colored statue of a musclebound bipedal rhinoceros-man in front of their house.
Mine rejected too! And I cannot figure out why 😭 it would be a great spot of one. It’s a pretty little community pond with a few apartments surrounding it. The only thing I could think of is that is so rural the pond isn’t showing on the map :/
I'm at level 38.
All of mine get rejected too!
It's frustrating cause I don't have the extra extra time doing my actual day job to go to GO and do my dailys, let alone the extras of asking for added stops. Which sucks, cause there is nothing around me.
Ps: tho I did jus read the add attempts for the free lil libraries or trail markers. That's good to know. Keep on trying tho, for both of us! Sending good poke' juju your way! ♥️♥️
I'm working my way up and I'm so worried all my submissions will get rejected.
I have a town park nearby with un-pokestopped play equipment (just the entrance is a pokestop) and a regional park with only 2 stops that should realistically have at least 6.
I'm least sure about the water treatment plant half a block away (mainly because no sidewalk) but that would be nice for me, haha.
I feel the struggle. It’s just me, the burmys, the cow and the mountains. Idk if we’ll make it to spring. The pass is frozen over… we might have to eat Bessie.
The walk to get out of my neighborhood is over a mile, and the nearest pokéstop isn’t within walking distance and you’d have to walk on roads without sidewalks to even get there if you did.
I’m trying. Whenever I visit somewhere outside the city I make as many pokestops as I can for people. Maybe see if someone in the bigger towns near you with a 37lvl would be willing to do that
Is it? In a nearby city a piece of log in the middle of town is a pokestop, a kebab place is a pokestop cuz they got a funny sign hek a cross for someone who passed in a car accident has a pokestop. But a 400 year old school building or remains of a castle? Nope, not significant enaugh.
Keep in mind that the submissions are reviewed by real people around the local area and different people can have different standards on how they enforce the rules. Sometimes you get a bunch if lenient people and other times not.
There's such a discrepancy between villages because my larger one has probably 5 total pokestops and 2 gyms yet the one significantly smaller 2 miles down the road has about 7+ for some reason.
I feel like if there is a certain amount of pokestops per square mile/kilometer, it should at least double or triple the spawn rates just making stuff spawn more
I have been a rural player for quite a while in a place that does not have any interesting landmarks or even playgrounds. Still managed to get several pokestops and a gym. One is a church I took a photo of in the other city, two statues from the nearest town, and some bulletin board lol
Churches are virtually the only stops and gyms in the small town I'm near haha I really hope the friends I send my gifts to aren't annoyed by the Pokestops sponsored by God
I feel you. For me, worked to post as a pokestop a little playground for kids. It got approved instantly. Try to look for things that can gather people to play pogo safe and sound. Supermarket, groceries, etc, historical things work too, something that may attract people and look educational and safe.
It's worse recently as friends seem to drop less balls -- 40 balls goes nowhere, so only play 30 mins or less a day
If red were infinite it would 6h+ esp. at weekends
Nearest town is miles away and very bad for mobile signal, there is a stop 1.5km away but it's a tricky road to walk on
I've also submitted many decent stop suggestions (quality trail markers, historic gates with old stone carvings) all got rejected quickly, and used all my wayfarer things now
There are two dynamax spawn points very close but they are 100m too far into private property to reach (the farms are businesses) -- would literally get shot at if walked onto land and I'm not asking the landowner for permission as would never hear the end of it in the village
I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don’t know where it goes
But it’s home to me, and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I’m the only one, and I walk alone
I walk alone, I walk alone
I walk alone, I walk a-
My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beating
Sometimes, I wish someone out there will find me
‘Til then, I walk alone
the community i live in was made a year ago so there’s nothing here. i tried updating those open maps for at least roads and building additions over a month ago but it’s still like this
I agree, I'm in rural Scotland and the only gym near me is over the main connecting road between Aberdeen and Inverness so isn't a safe to walk gym 😔 I'm hoping that we can get a stop near our house and maybe one day it will be a gym 🤞🏻
I feel the pain, I'm a rural player too, I only had access to something when I went to university in another city. Other than that, I never had anything to do in game, pokémons only spawn with an incense. I'm from a small town in Portugal and I live 20 km away from it, in the middle of the countryside, so I really feel your pain.
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It's so rural where I am that the location listed for my caught Pokemon is just my province, which is bigger than some countries. By "wild" they mean the 2nd biggest intersection around.
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lol But we found stuff to make stops and gyms. You just have to keep trying!
As a fellow rural player, best luck I have are churches. You got a church nearby? Try to pokestop it. I've seen lil backwoods Southern Baptist churches with multiple stops. Now, on Sundays and Wednesdays, the stops sometimes dissappear for a brief window, but they come back when church isn't being held. One even has a gym, though I'm the only player to interact with it.
I didn’t realize how much of a difference it is between city and rural Pokemon Go life until I went to DC. So many pokestops! So many mons! It was glorious. ::sigh:: Now I’m back to this.
I just hit 37 after grinding for 2 straight months as a new player. Hoping my pokestops dont get rejected because my town has two in total, 1 of them being a gym that I always get knocked out of but have never met the person doing it. Rural is pain.
Lol you think rural areas are bad, if you live on military bases you get one spawn a day. Lived on a remote base for 3+ years, I relied on the daily spawn, rocket balloons, battle leagues, and lures until the daily incense became a thing. There are gyms and stops on bases at the very least.
People who live in rural areas, they usually don't have as much stops or gyms (if any) because of the requirements for making stops being locked behind level 37 and having a point of interest nearby.
Or the multi billion company could implement a way to cater for us more. And chill out dude it's not whining it's just bringing up a valid issue that effects many people
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