"There should be a way to mark raids before they start, which would let all nearby players know someone is planing to try for the raid. Would make it easier in more rural areas to gather groups to take on higher tier raids"

#PokemonGO: I live in a smaller city, and although I know there are a number of active players of the game in the area (based on Gyms), I am not in the contact with any of them, nor do I know who they are. They live their life, and I live my life. However, since there are not that many people playing in comparison to bigger cities, and everything is a bit of a walk to gets to. Whenever there's a high star raid, there are never anyone there to take it on with. I'm assuming this comes mostly from the other players having had the same experience as me (getting to a raid, seeing no one else there, trying to start the raid, but no one joining), so they've all slowly given up on trying for higher star raids. This gets a bit frustrating for me, as I have never won any raids higher than 3 stars, and every time I've been on my own. At this rate it's a low chance I'll get to beat a higher tier raid ever, and not get any legendaries from it.I think, that if there was a feature, where you could mark a gym as 'going for it' or something like that, and under the 'nearby raids' it would say something like 'a player is planing to go for this raid' for other players. It would help people who aren't friends, gather together to take on more difficult raids. Perhaps also, when you see this notification, you get the option to click that you're also planning to join. This way you can gather a whole team of players to take on big raids, before the room opens, so you don't end up wasting a pass just to have no one else join. I feel like it wouldn't be too much trouble, it'd just be a small extra addition, that would make a big difference for players in situations like mine. Perhaps you could also toggle an option to get push for notifications on your phone, about when someone just tagged a raid. So you don't miss it if you're out of the app when it happens. I know they announced plans to have a new feature where you can fight raids from home recently. Which is might eliminate the problem I'm talking about. But we don't know how long it'll take before we get it, or if it will stay past the corona times. This would be a small adjustment that would make things a lot easier for people in the smaller town to gather for raids. via /r/pokemongo https://ift.tt/3dQFHjT