"Pokéstop halo doesn’t regenerate due to any game design choice. It’s a byproduct of how portals work in Ingress"

#PokemonGO: There was a post on the frontpage asking if portals can become unique again after some time.There was some confusion in the comments from people claiming this happened to them and it wasn’t one of the reasons:When the new gym system arrived there was a client side update which added rings to pokéstops. They wouldn’t do anything and would reappear after 5m. Once they added proper server side support, they started giving extra experience and ring wouldn’t come back. So, people got confused and are mixing the past with the present.There are new pokéstops being added by OPR in Ingress. The area you think should be 100% clear might have gotten new stops which break the visual pattern.You forgot you didn’t spin some pokéstop yet while claiming you did. Or you spun it but there was a server error and the pokéstop turned purple but you didn’t get any items and server didn’t register your spin.Turns out there can be one more reason and was presented by /u/HokTomten:Also some stops who change name or info gets the White ring back. I had a stop Downtown which I spun very very often and one day it was White again. Had no idea why until I clicked it. The info on it before was "Some Dude" and a old statue (funny). Now it was named "Nature Guardian" with the same pic. So obviously somebody corrected it in ingress and thus it got the White ring back because it updated.I also know from personal experience that simply changing the photo doesn’t restore the ring.So there you have it. Pokéstops don’t regenerate their halo. But the game can regenerate the pokéstop if its name is changed in Ingress.There isn’t any timed loop so if you visit some foreign country and spin a pokéstop, that pokéstop will stop showing a unique ring forever. Unless the pokéstop itself is remade whole caused by an Ingress review, changing its name. There isn’t any game design element which makes old pokéstops regenerate their halo for the benefit of the player, full stop.Which is weird and might be the reason why we still don’t have a similar medal in Pokémon GO like our Ingress friends.Also remember that Ingress is designed to store tens if not hundreds of thousands of unique portals per player because of the onix black level of their medal, requiring 30,000 unique portal hacks (spins in our terminology). The whole backend is designed to do the right thing so there is no cap or limit. via /r/TheSilphRoad http://ift.tt/2ziHrxe