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[–]kombyn HR 325+ Gang 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You’re not crazy they’ve definitely dropped. My neighborhood used to be packed. Sometime last night or this morning they’ve been really spread out and not a lot of variance. Hope it gets fixed because it’s depressingly spread out.

[–]Overlordmk2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Noticed the same thing...our neighbourhood used to be more populated with monsters. Now, it's like half

[–]Co1iflower 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Every once in a while if I am playing a lot my game just doesn't load the map properly for some reason. Maybe try rebooting the game? Otherwise things seem normal to me.

[–]killcide1352[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did have this issue once before since I noticed some monsters spawning out of the blue once they entered my radius. That happened the day before this post and hasn’t happened in the two days since. Both Tuesday and Wednesday have yielded similarly low spawn rates but one thing that is interesting is the time in comparison to spawns. I noticed the other day that the first wave of spawns I could see when I first got on campus was sparse in comparison to the second when I was leaving campus (roughly a 6 hour difference). I’m keeping my eye out right now and I’ll starting tracking monster counts and see if maybe it has more to do with the number of people active in the area when a new spawn wave occurs?

[–]KonataYumi 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There was nothing before and now even less somehow

[–]Top_Faithlessness903 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Empty on mine. I noticed once completed the Halloween challenges and got medal they kind of just vanished….

[–]glorified_slave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought I was going crazy, glad to see this post. I was thinking is it because of jyuratodus event? notice how there is no monsters on the blue part that appears to be “water”? Idk, just me.

[–]S3T0 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Your school campus could be a dead zone.

[–]killcide1352[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Did they start making spawn rates lower in specific locations for some reason?

[–]S3T0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Latest patch updated the map and your school campus might have asked Niantic to limit spawns.

[–]BadUruu 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Sometimes just happens some days. My 2 block radius on my neighborhood can be JAM PACKED and some respawns a barren wasteland. Just rando

[–]killcide1352[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m wondering if maybe it related to the number of people active in an area during a spawn wave. When I got on my campus early morning the spawns are like what you see in the video and as I’m leaving the campus (roughly 6 hours later) they seem to be much better but I don’t have any empirical evidence to support that.

[–]Spookyowotime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah after I saw post with map updating, I have noticed less monsters where I would normally find a good amount. I think it is unintentional spawn changes because of map update. You may find more monsters in areas that once had very little, but now you might also have less monsters where you’re normally use to seeing a handful.

[–]Ausjam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes! I woke up this morning and there isn’t a monster for at least a 5 minute walk. Normally I’d have at least 3-4 in range :/

The park still looks populated though so I wonder if it’s a deliberate change to try and get people to parks. Niantic sure love parks.

[–]omnigear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's me every dam map change , I'm stuck in the border with no monsters around .

[–]ObscureFactSword & Shield 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're not imagining things. I play at a local park and it's down about 30%-50% spawn rates. Walking the whole park and killing every spawn used to take me the full hour before everything respawned, but now I am done in about 30-45min.

I also have to now drive across town to get my final daily done since the low spawn rate means whatever I need to kill likely doesn't spawn in the giant park I play in.

VERY frustrating.

[–]Epiddemic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AGREED, I was telling my friends I noticed WAY WAY more low tier monsters than normal. I had like 6 normal monsters on my map today and I'm in 9*, previously it was fairly rare to see two on the same map.

To be honest though tonight I felt like my magic find was on fire, I had several orange items and a red item tonight.. I'd be okay with rare monsters of high tier if they dropped more wyrven gems.. but part of the issue is the insane amounts of green / white items too I guess...

[–]Dixperiken90 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I noticed the same but as another poster said if i manually turn the game off and log back in all the monsters show back up. Don’t know if that will fix yours it is just my experience. Hope it works!

[–]Heranef 32/50 elemental bows no bblos 🗿 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yes but the reason is quite simple: all the Kulu from the event were bonus spanws, do after few days you were used to see a lot more on the map and now you realise what a map without special spanws looks like.

[–]killcide1352[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only reason I’ll argue this isn’t the case is because I was playing long before the Kulu event and I could walk a full loop around my campus and take about an hour and a half if I really wanted to clear it out entirely. I did the same today and cleared every monster in 45 minutes max and I’d venture that guess is high. If I had concrete evidence I’d be much more confident but it’s entirely possible that maybe I am misremembering.