"Why do trackers exists [answer inside]"

#PokemonGO: Hi. I play from day 1 and i really love PokemonGo and how its growing day by day.Thanks to this game i made new friends and i'm still in contact with them, i explored places i usually forgot about and i had a lot of fun making groups and fighting for my city Gyms. The game had a feeling of incomplete but still funny.Then the speedlock happened. I was used to catch my daily 2-3 pokemon while going to work using the Go+ (yeah, bought it on day1). My game-time was reduced only to weekend.My friends started to lose interest but i still organized party and gym raids in order to continue to play.We reached a sort of balance and started to play daily again, even for only just 30 minutes. Then the new tracker happened. That was pretty hard to handle.Our city have lots of pokestop, but we live rural and cannot go to our pokestop populated area daily. We felt blind. In my area i have 5 pokestop, but 2 are on the other side of a river i cannot travel by foot. The other 3 are pretty far, even if the tracker revelead something interesting i still have to take my car to reach it. I was confused, the speedlock means i should play by feet, the tracker means i should play by car. Its a lost-lost situation.My friends loses interest about the game, gyms become stagnant (because of the low player number) and i just logged on daily to get gyms money.Months passed and gen2 happened. That was cool, i started playing again, but my friends just don't have any reason to play, so i got alone.You know, this game is fun if played with others, but everytime i open the game its just me in an empty map, with far pokestop and a complete blindness of what pokemon are around me.So.. i decided to use my inner-nerd-side to solve this. I found the famous mapping engine that lets you scan a fixed area for pokemon. I uses lot of my spare time to understand how to made it work, buying a VPS with unbanned ip, started making accounts and completed this with a Telegram for automatic segnalation of interesting spawns.I used a free-dns to have a regoular url and started spamming to friends and local groups. It was a slow start, but then it started.Lot of user joined the telegram group, tons of daily session on the site. After some weeks we had to create a second telegram group only for chatting, because we have always more players joining. We made a great group of friends from all the 3 teams.The first time a magikarp 100%IV spawned it was the panic. Everyone wanted it and they started meeting each other for the first time, sharing cars and reaching the loved pokemon. It was really fun, we felt the game as a group.Everytime a rare spawn appeared someone got it and told us the CP, we made a strong community with more than 70 users (its a lot here, my city is pretty small) and we chat daily, organize sushi dinner, get in rage because of the yellow team taking our red gyms and.. yeah, having fun. Yeah, there was some spoofer along us, and they were banned from the telegram group. We all like to play and have fun, but spoofer kills our game destroying gyms too fast.After seeing this community working well some other players from near citys started calling me for setting up a tracker on their city (they were not nerd enough), and we made other strong communities thanks to this.I want to say this: i never asked for money. Never asked for donation, never added ads on my site. I only accepted beers as form of payment and only when we hang together.And now, the new shadowbanning systemThis is big. I really have no idea if the tracker maintainers will be able to find a workaround to this. I'm pretty sad that this is not affecting spoofers, our real problem.I hope our community will survive, but without a reason to stay in contact i fear the same old story will happen again.So this: trackers to exists because they compensate for the game missing mechanics, and give us a reason to play. But ehy, i'm not making this wall to text to beg our trackers back, i want to point out that they was needed to enjoy the game and to create communities of active players.So.. what we can do now?I fear we can have nothing to do, but Niantic can. They can fill the game with the feature we need:A in-game easy way to get in touch with other playersA reason to get in touch with other playersA way to not feel blind with a fair trackerThis is no easy task and lot of thinking and coding is required to do this. I could suggest a few (valid) ways, but thats out of this topic. If this post will not die in the downvotes hell i will try to made it.Right now we have a delicate situation. We are still killed from speedlock, a total blindness about nearby pokemon and about other players, and we lost the only tool to help us enjoy the game.But.. we have a thing. Yeah, a great thing that not lot of game-community can be proud about: we have a strong, dedicated, organized, third party developer community. Just think about it: If Niantic give us a way to interact with the game in some other ways.. the open-source community can make this game great again! (oh god, sorry for the cit)I dream a world (yeah, another cit) where third party devs can access to game's API and make legal tool to analize IVs, organize pokemon, get in touch with other players, share information about found pokemon, all in a legal way without have to fight with Niantic!What about a tracker? I admit it, its just too easy with it. The game should give us something we have to fight for it. If gyms works as.. pokemon radar? the greater the gym level the greater the radar range, but visible only to its team. Everyone will be fighting to get it, so we can have a tracker system and a reason to play with only one change!Ok yeah i told to not spam ideas for how to fix the game but i couldn't resist to that one.I just hope someone in Niantc will read this and give us some hope about the future of the game we love :)Just a last clarification: why i created a new user to post this? Because my reddit user have the same in-game username and.. well, since i admitted what i did i wouldn't like a in-game impact eheh via /r/pokemongo http://ift.tt/2qMOtZD