"Maybe Soon We Can Fight Team Rocket for Control of the Pokemon Universe! Geofencing + NPC Battle (PVP Update) Implications..."

#PokemonGO: Hey Silph Road!With the In-Depth Teardown of v0.129.1 showing that new geofencing support has been added and the introduction of NPC battling in the PVP update against the three team leaders combined with a comment from /u/microplankton : "I am hoping this will also open up events where we can battle, say, AI Team Rocket agents for rewards," I am hopeful that this leads to new interactive mechanics that can very plausibly be added into the game in the future.My favorite concept that popped into my head is that crossing into an area may trigger an event where team rocket thugs spawn within a geofenced area blocking pokemon spawns...Using a nest as an example, here's what could happen:When you cross the geofence you could get a notification from Prof. Willow. "Team Rocket is causing a ruckus! Stop them, player name!" or maybe "Team Rocket is capturing all these pokemon! Save them, player name!"No pokemon spawn while the thugs are in the area and left undefeated. (Or perhaps, the majority of them or players must defeat them until x number have been defeated.)They could spawn near pokestops to keep this more simple, or randomly within the fence if they wanted a more hide-and-seek approach.Defeating the TR members would net you rewards like stardust and/or items.I think this would be a great way to shake up the scene. Keeping in mind some may not want to deal with it so I don't think it should be anything extreme - maybe like defeat 5 members of TR, and multiple could spawn in one spot or re-spawn with a short cooldown so you wouldnt have to spend an hour looking for them in the area. Or they just don't affect the spawns at all but to me it just makes sense lore-wise if they did (like they are trying to cage em all and take em away).[Or sometimes the events could be large scale and harder on purpose? Who knows! Maybe TR leaders could show up blocking raids once in a while and they could give some crazy rewards! Maybe like 4 thugs and a TR leader could spawn right next to a raid boss and you would have to defeat them to be able to get into the raid - possibly giving raid passes (like they were gonna do the raid in the first place to swipe the pokemon but you stop their evildoing!)]I don't know, I'm just excited for reasonable future content that they could add with these new systems in place. Let me know what you think![This is my first post here and I think I'm within guidelines, but by all means throw the post out if not! Really tried to go along with the guideline: "... let's pick apart the mechanics and speculate reasonably."] via /r/TheSilphRoad https://ift.tt/2QxmOJQ