"Pokéstops and Inventory Management"

#PokemonGO: If you're like me, Inventory Management is the least fun aspect of any video game. And I play video games for fun!So, let's delve into the Pokéstop Problem.(Of course, much of this applies to gyms-as-Pokéstops as well).Pokéstops (and Gymstops) provide players with the following:1) XP. A very small amount for spinning a stop, more for spinning a new stop, a bonus for spinning many stops in a small time frame, and occasional huge bonuses for spinning new stops during select events.2) Standard Items. A plethora of items ranging in degrees of usefulness based off your playstyle. Three balls, three berries, four potions, two revivies and a very small likelyhood of five different Gen 2 Evolution items. Unless you want regular Pokéballs though, the odds are not in your favor for getting what you want.3) Eggs. 2, 5 and 10k variety, you want eggs, I want eggs, Niantic wants us to spend money to hatch eggs.4) Gifts. Don't you want to send your friend a postcard from a generic Starbucks?5) Quests. Which, of course, give you more items.6) Team Rocket Battles - giving you some more items at the cost of your precious potions and revivies.7) Your free daily raid pass - Gymstops only, of course.8) Your daily streak - Spinning a first stop of the day awards you with some bonus items and XP - and seven days in a row gives you more bonus!Eight things from such a simple and basic game mechanic. But, let's break down the inventory management side of things.1) XP. You used to be able to spin a stop when your bag was full for XP. They removed this due to the complaints - which, at the time, were valid. But I think it's time we bring this back.2) Standard items. Your bag is full, you can't get items. Not a huge deal. But it'd be nice if I could set limits on how many of each standard item I want to keep. Like, 100 max Pokéballs. Anything more, auto toss 'em.3) Eggs. So, you want to hatch eggs? Well, you can't spin a stop if your bag is full. Empty some items. Okay, spin the stop. Egg! Throw that bad boy on an incubator. What? You're out of incubators? Buy a bundle! Crap. Out of inventory space. Okay, delete some more items. Buy the incubator. Put the egg on. Go get more eggs! Crap, your bag is full. Delete some more items and spin some more stops. Why am I not getting any eggs? Crap, my Pokémon storage is full. Delete some Pokémon, clear some item storage, and do it all over. Fun!4) Gifts. Hey, these don't count against ypur item storage. That's great! But you can only hold ten. Also, you need item storage clear to spin the stop to begin with. Also, found a cool Pokéstop that you want to load up on gifts from to send everyone? Yeah, you can spin Uranus 50 times (clearing bag space every ten spins), but if the game knows you want a gift from that stop, it's prgrammed to ensure it's a rare occurance. But hey, here's another generic Starbucks gift!5) Quests. Again, you need bag space to spin the stop to get the quest. But you also need a free quest slot - and you only have three. Also, I hope you didn't already complete the quest from that stop today. You did? Go find another. Shouldn't be an issue. Unless you're rural. But hey, you can submit stops now. Why am I getting reviews in huge, populated areas with so many overlapping stops instead of more local stuff to review? Hello Pensacola, Florida college campus! Oh, and empty some bag space to get a quest. Quest: Spin 10 Pokéstops. Better empty some more bag space.6) There's a top post about Team Rocket battles, Mysterious Components, Rocket Radars, and Inventory Management. Go read it. tl;dr - too much inventory management required. Sucks. More so for evening and rural players. My handful of local stops doesn't have a boss today. Guess I won't fight any grunts.7) Free raid pass. This is an interesting one. If you don't have a raid pass, you can still spin a gym, even if your bag is full. Like. 300+ items over. Weird. But I like it. It helps...8) Your daily streak! If you use a gym-stop, you can keep your daily streak alive! For three days, until you burned through your saved quests and need to get more quests. Time to throw out all those raid rewards you earned.The long and short of all this is - there's a lot of inventory management required for something as simple as spinning stops. Bag space, Pokemon space, egg storage, quests slots, free raid pass slot, mysterious components, radars...Have Pokéstops become too complicated? I want to catch 'em all, not play Inventory Management Simulator 2019. via /r/TheSilphRoad https://ift.tt/34NmOsW