Routes are a new feature in Pokémon GO, which is already causing some stir. Many trainers do not understand exactly why their routes are rejected or have to wait a long time for responses. However, a player on Reddit has shown how easily the system can be circumvented.
What are routes? Routes are simply a relatively new feature of Pokémon GO. As players, you can propose and submit paths. Once these are confirmed by Niantic, all fans can play and follow them while earning rewards.
The concept works similarly to PokéStops. You must submit a route, describe and justify it, and then you will soon be notified whether your route made it into the game.
At least that’s the theory. In practice, however, it often does not work very well. Players complain that their routes are rejected for no reason or that they sometimes wait days or weeks for a response.
Why does it take so long? We asked Niantic ourselves why they take so long with the routes. The answer can be boiled down to the fact that they want high-quality routes in their game.
However, the fact that this cannot be 100% true is proven by a player on Reddit, who gets the probably dumbest route into the game in record time.
7 times around the park
What kind of route is that? The player himself describes it as the probably dumbest route that exists in Pokémon GO. He found a small piece of park and then simply walked around in circles 7 times.
He then submitted this route, and not even 2 minutes later, Niantic confirmed it. So now it is an official task in the game to walk in circles 7 times. The creator found it so funny that he shares his absurd achievement on Reddit.
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What do the players say about it? Most users find the route both silly and annoying. Some just laugh, while others are upset that they have been waiting for a response from Niantic for over a month.
However, one player even provides an explanation for why the circle route was approved so quickly, as there might be an automation behind it, at least that’s what Reddit user Ivi-Tora suspects.
He points out that the creator stays within a green area throughout the entire route, does not enter residential areas, and does not cross streets. Therefore, the route might have entered an “automatically approve” cycle.
However, no one is really sure about that. Niantic has not revealed how the system works in detail so far.
What do you think of the circle route? Have you submitted routes yourself? Are you surprised that something like this actually makes it into the game? Or do you perhaps have an explanation as to why the extraordinary Reddit route was approved so quickly? Or do you consider it pure arbitrariness? Feel free to write it to us in the comments here at MeinMMO.
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However, no one is really sure about that. Niantic has not revealed how the system works in detail so far.
What do you think of the circle route? Have you submitted routes yourself? Are you surprised that something like this actually makes it into the game? Or do you perhaps have an explanation as to why the extraordinary Reddit route was approved so quickly? Or do you consider it pure arbitrariness? Feel free to write it to us in the comments here at MeinMMO.
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