I’ve been hitting this wall myself after cracking level 20. I ran out of Pokeballs for the first time ever the other day (I work at a Pokestop, so it’s usually not a problem) because every Pokemon over CP 50 breaks out of their first catch unless you use a great ball.

Explanation for those who do not live near rural areas: (and for clarification rural means

I sure do enjoy seeing my first *insert Pokémon* appear on the nearby list and walking around aimlessly to no avail only to have him vanish after the fifteen minute counter. if that’s fun, then I’ll have no part of it.

Heaven forbid that some people actually don’t want to grind through a thousand random Pokémon and actually go for a team they’re interested in because they don’t live in a big city spammed with lures and Pokéstops.

Except the “randomness” was not by design. The “randomness” is the result of a glitch that Niantic doesn’t seem keen on acknowledging or resolving.

In all of the games your describing sites like serebii.net which still work as well as guides would say these SPECIFIC pokemon can be found in these areas or in cases of rares they were only available in one specific pixel point location that everyone went to the same spot and you seem to like that but when a…

This is a bad take

Thanks to PokeVison, I found out that there are basically no pokemon in my 15 block by 5 block section of neighborhood. I could walk miles without finding a Pokemon. I can only imagine it is worse for people who are more rural and not located anywhere near a city.

I think you are comparing apples to oranges, or at the very least, navel oranges to mandarin ones. Yes the Game Boy and DS titles did not show you where Pokemon are, but they were different games. Besides the fact that Pokemon spawned so often that there were items to keep them AWAY from you, the key focus was…

My situation too. Traveling to another city by car or train to go walk around and catch random monsters is dumb for such a game.

Which one looks more like a forced waste of time? Hmm? I love how many people are defending the Devs as some holy force that knows better... They are a business that released a half cooked game that is banking on content recognition, whose regressions and incompleteness has caused fans to create said missing…

Even in the single player games, it tells you where you COULD find them.

How is the third party stuff cheating. The audience has created services because of missing or broken features in the game... To make it fun.

Some of us don’t live in an area were anything more then a pidgy or a rat will spawn. I have to make a 15 min trip, by car, to get to a area were anything good COULD spawn. I like the randomness of it, but nothing spawns in my area. I don’t want to waste gas on a trip to hunt if nothing is spawning but birds and rats.…

If everything else about the game worked flawlessly, we wouldn’t be having this conversation. Having zero way to find a pokemon that’s on your nearby list, other than to wander aimlessly, is the height of idiocy.

A part of the problem is that tracking used to be useful in-game, then broke and finally virtually removed. A feature that was particularly useful in my area. Basically, a QoL feature was removed.

“Pokevision made the game fun”

Even in a mid-sized city I seem to get nothing but Pidgeys and Rattatas. With the tracker bugged, it took so long to find any all-too-rare critters that they’d be gone before I could narrow it down. I basically had to drive to ANOTHER city just to walk around and find anything interesting - and how dumb is that for a…

You have to understand that not all the places have a pokemon spawning every 2 steps you make, like in my place i have to walk like 2-3km just to get one pokemon and almost of the times is a zubat,ratata or pidjey.... so is not easy has you think for many outside of “location to win USA”

Yes, we all want to walk around aimlessly, much like the Pokémon trainers of old. I mean, Red surely didn’t have a way of finding where Pokémon lived after having seen them once, right?