"[Discussion] Necessary Quality of Life Updates"

#PokemonGO: Let me preface this post by saying that not all of these ideas I came up with, some I saw here on the subreddit, but I merely wanted to compile them all into one location so that if we are blessed by a Niantic employee actually reading this everything is in one centralized location. Feel free to criticize or praise any ideas or even reply with your own. These suggestions are in no particular order.I have created an image album of some of the suggestions to help better visualize what I am saying: http://ift.tt/2iahMQY on Capture Screen Ever since Pinap berries were introduced nearly a year ago, people have been asking for some way to know if they should use one or not on a certain pokemon. One solution would be to know how many candies you have when you go to catch it. The only ways to know as of now are to either guess, try to remember, or look in your pokemon storage and see how many candies you have(if you currently have one in that family). An easier solution would be to have the candy count displayed at the start of the capture sequence much like how the types are. This would be very useful to know when you are going to catch a Pokemon, and would prevent any cases where the player would exit, check their candy count, and then return to the map to have had the Pokemon despawn.Critical Capture bonus Right now, the only way to know if you caught a Pokemon with a critical capture(or critical catch, whichever terminology is preferred) is to be actively looking at the screen. If you are in a group, which is one of the intentions of Pokemon GO, you probably won't be looking at your screen every second so you may miss it and not know if you critical'd a Pokemon or merely just caught it. A small XP bonus would be nice as well, because although critical captures are seemingly random, it still feels nice to be rewarded for it even with something so small. The whole game is based on random chance anyway.Gym Badge Progress Currently there is no way to know how close you are to getting that silver or gold gym badge without estimating. It would definitely be more helpful to know how close we are exactly so we know how many more times we should interact with the gym to reach the next badge level.Improved Tracking UI Now when I say "Tracking UI" I mean the way that a Pokemon being tracked is displayed, not the Nearby or Sightings list. Currently when tracking a Pokemon, it just appears first on your Nearby/Sightings list in the corner of your screen. If there are 9 other Pokemon closer however, the Pokemon you are tracking will actually disappear from the Nearby/Sightings list itself, but not from the corner of your screen on the map. This can be quite irritating because if you decide to stop tracking it, there's nothing you can do to stop it from appearing in the bottom corner of your screen unless you start tracking another Pokemon and then stop tracking that one. What I suggest is that the Pokemon you are tracking will always be in the Nearby/Sightings list so that you may stop tracking it at any point. This would remove 3 slots from your nearby/sightings list, but would also prevent this issue. Additionally, the Pokemon being tracked would be removed from the 6 Pokemon being listed, as to free up a space for another Pokemon that is close by. To add onto this, adding a timer to tracked Pokemon would be a great addition as it would let trainers know if they will make it in time to the Pokemon they are tracking. Currently, you can track a Pokemon all you want, but if the "Pokemon has fled" UI pops up and you're still walking towards it, there's a good chance it disappears before you get there and you just wasted your time. Also, reintroducing the footprints for tracked Pokemon would be really helpful in addition to the ability to track Pokemon in the Sightings list again.Ditto Ran Away Currently if you are trying to catch a Pidgey or Rattata, are having a tough time, and then it suddenly flees, there is no way to know if you just had bad luck or if it was in fact a Ditto. To fix this, adding a "Ditto ran away" journal entry to replace "Pidgey ran away" would be really helpful in knowing this. Also when the Pokemon runs, changing it to say "The wild Ditto has fled" would be quite useful. This would also be a good time to make these sightings listed as "Ditto seen" in the Pokedex rather than adding to the rattata, pidgey, etc total.Lure Timers Lures currently run for half an hour and expire and the only way to know how long is left on one is to know when it was placed. Adding a simple timer to the Pokestop UI would be quite helpful so that trainers know how much longer a lure lasts. incense and lucky eggs have a timer on the side of the screen even though the trainer could easily look at the time to know when they end, so why doesn't a lure have a timer at all?Rare Candy Adding This has been asked for repeatedly, so I am surprised it has not been added or even considered by Niantic. Currently to use a rare candy, you have to do it one at a time so if you are trying to give your Mewtwo 100 rare candies, you have to tap your screen 200 times and this can take several minutes. Why not save us the time and add plus/minus buttons like there are for discarding items?Trainer Stats As of now, the only way to view your trainer stats are to click on yourself in a raid lobby or go through your many medals. An easier approach would be to add a "Stats" button to the trainer profile and allow the same stats page that is displayed in a raid lobby to be displayed on the screen. This would make it easier to view your trainer statistics.Search With String Compared This is a little more technical than the other suggestions. In the C coding languages, there is a function called string compare. What this does is determine if a string of characters is in another string of characters. What this could be used for is searching "100" in the Pokemon storage and displaying any Pokemon whose name contains "100." This could be "100%," "Dragonite100," etc. The way Pokemon GO currently searches without a specific term(such as "evolve" or "electric") is to display anything whose name starts with the search term. This could be improved to also list anything that contains the search term so that a trainer could pull up all of their 100% Pokemon at once rather than change the name of every 100% Pokemon to "100" plus the name.Please feel free to criticize, discuss, or suggest. I know there is much more I could have listed, but I only wanted to include things that already exist in the game and would not need much work in order to implement. via /r/pokemongo http://ift.tt/2zEXUgs