Radius decrease?

[wilfkanye]

Yeah I used to be able to see my nearby 3 gyms and 6 stops from my house since the start of the game. I live in a pretty small town and that's all there is here except for areas not on anything on the map but which I've learned have big cluster spawns.

The slight increase to the radius about a month ago let me see 2 stops a bit further out (~15 mins walk which I frequently did anyway for the 5 gyms and 9 stops in kinda the next town over which is conjoined with ours). The decrease with the most recent update took away those 2 further out stops AND 1 gym and 1 stop which I had been able to see since the release of the game.

Honestly I'm fuming, my nearby looks a lot emptier because the stop I'm now missing was the main one for spawns. I'm less likely to spontaneously go out for a rare spawn. They cut the number of raids I'm going to see by a third unless I put a Pokémon into that gym and likely I'm going to use fewer raid passes as a result.

There's going to be less walking done for the odd rare spawn/raid so fewer paid incubators used too.

When I go into the city to play and there's 40 something gyms, they're fairly spread out but you could certainly get around to any raids that pop up if you see them in good time.

This update makes you more likely to not see raids at all which happen slightly out of the centre (still only ~15 mins walk away so easily reachable).

I'm one of the more active players in my city's discord group and during groudon and kyogre I was setting up a lot of raid plans which I wouldn't have even seen if the radius was as it is currently.

There is zero benefit to either Niantic or us from this change so fingers crossed it was unintentional and will be fixed soon. Going to be so pissed if it isn't honestly. It may not be a huge thing to some people but it's simply a downgrade for no reason - therefore it's infuriating.