"As a rural player, this increased spawn rate is amazing. They should seriously consider leaving it on for low-density areas."

#PokemonGO: I live just outside a small rural farming town in the Midwest. We have a small main street with a post office and a library. We also have a couple of parks and a ton of churches in the extended 2 mile by 2 mile square that really makes up the town. All told there are maybe 5 gyms and 15 pokestops in the four square mile footprint. I know I have it FAR better than people who live in the middle of nowhere, but except for a small cluster of stops along mainstreet, most of them aren't really close together or walkable. Two at a park here, drive a quarter mile and turn down a side street and there's one at a church, etc.This last 24 hours, with the increased spawn rate at stops, the game feels so much better. Even if I'm still seeing mostly common pokemon, I'm seeing so many more. And I have seen some uncommons that would normally be a big deal like a Rhydon. Slowly driving through the main stretch of town where the kids and I can spin 4 or 5 stops in about a half mile I saw maybe 20 pokemon instead of the normal 8-10. It was almost like being in a busy commercial area or city where the combination of so many pokestops and higher spawn rate means you need to pick which pokemon to try to catch. It was so much better. It should always be this way.I'm sure it would take them forever and be buggy at first, but I really hope Niantic considers permanently increasing the spawn rate for stops in low-density areas or that don't have another stop with a certain distance. It couldn't be that hard a logic string to write and implement. Maybe increase the number of items those stops return too. The biggest problem for rural players is we have few stops to spin and don't see a lot of pokemon that aren't common or wild spawns. I can't see a downside to giving pokestops with say, less than 2 other stops within a quarter mile, a boost to items and spawns.Edit - I think this would handle half the issue for rural players. The other half would have to be "on demand" spawns. If you're actively playing the game but there's less than 1 pokestop within X distance from you you effectively have a lure on that spawns some wilds around you. Going for a walk along a country road would mean you spawn a pokemon every 3-5min. Nothing major, but enough to make it worth while. via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2uqp8oE