"[Discussion]What Pokémon Go needs most is not trading or PvP, but some serious fixes"

#PokemonGO: In this subreddit and other places I often see people asking Niantic when trading and PvP will be implemented in the game. In my opinion, trading would ruin the game. Everyone could get a full Pokédex and a strong team in a couple of days, so there wouldn't be anything left to play for. I don't think PvP would be bad, but I just don't see what it would add to the game besides a a way to waste items. Even though everyone keeps talking about these things, I don't think they are what the game needs most now. Instead, I would suggest that fixing some current issues is way more important for enhancing gameplay.BugsUnfortunatelly, bugs are part of almost every game. However, in Pokémon Go bugs are so abundant that they have a significant impact on the game. Dodging is a vital part of gym battles, but for over half a year it doesn't work properly. Often it is better not to dodge to save time. This is a well known bug, but it still isn't fixed.Another example is the bug which causes the app to crash on iPhones. This started in December and has increased in frequency since then. Before the gym rework, the app crashed every 2 gymbattles. This means that you could fight at most 19 Pokémon before restarting te app. After the gym rework, this has become even worse.With the recent gym rework, a new bug appeared. When you defeated a gym and want to place a Pokémon in, you have to do it carefully. Otherwise, you exclude some teammembers for 10 minutes. Even if you get in the gym, you often still get a 'Network Error', so you have to restart the app. This is just one of the possible ways to get a (network) error, but sometimes the app crashes or freezes when playing the game. I haven't even talked about login issues, server problems, lag and so on.I'm not saying all bugs have to be fixed. I'm not expecting a perfect game, but at some point it's just too much. The game gets increasingly buggy, which demotivates people to play the game.SpoofersAnother big source of irritation is the existence of spoofers. Since the beginning of the game, spoofers and botters have poisoned the game. They make some gyms completely unplayable by retaking them in a couple of minutes without actually going there. Almost everyone in the local community knows them by name, and has reported them. However, Niantic has never used these reports to ban spoofers. Recently they have slashed Pokémon from botters and snipers, but these people already have over 10 Blisseys. Hence they can still continue to screw real players.In my opinion, Niantic is not putting nearly enough priority on combattnig spoofers and botters as they should.I've often heard that it is impossible to determine of someone really is a spoofer or not. I completely disagree, and I think Niantic should be able to distinguish the spoofers from the real players.The local community knows who the spoofers are. They can provide evidence in the form of pictures, whitnesses, etc. One spoofer can say he lives in a house near one gym and works next to another, but if he got caught at 6 different gyms there is just no excuse. In addition to that, some gyms are lacated in open fields, which directly proves someone is spoofing.With the gym rework, you can see how long someone is defending a gym. Since spoofers can transport way faster than real players, this could help to find them. If someone gets into a gym 5 minutes after he has gotten into another one, and it takes 10 minutes to travel between those gyms, then that player must be a spoofer. Also if someone gets in a gym at a time he isn't allowed to be there (for example in a zoo or in a theme park) that player must be a spoofer. Even the staff has to leave at a certain time.Niantic has collected a whole library of GPS data from players. They can use that to find spoofers. Normal players will give the signal of a walking person, a biking person or someone sitting in a car, together with some GPS drift. This means that the player will travel parallel to streets, if not on streets. Spoofers go right through buildings in a straight line, and will pass through streets at all angles. This difference is detectable.TL;DR The bugs in Pokémon Go have increased to a point where they significantly impact normal gameplay. Spoofers and botters are ruining the game. Fixing these issues should have a higher priority, since solving them would hugely improve the game. via /r/pokemongo http://ift.tt/2uYmmWB