bilvyy:

Feedback & Suggestions for Pokemon Go

just things i’ve thought of while playing

• Link PG to the Apple Health app to track your walking distance when PG is not open, so you can still work towards hatching eggs even if your phone is getting low on battery etc.
• Have more text on screen explaining the start up process!! I’ve had to read several articles about the difficulty meter, how the nearby distance works, and heaps of other basic features, and it took me a long time to figure out how to throw a pokeball (I just kept tapping on the pokemon, confused when nothing happened) and I’ve also had to explain the game to a poor mother on the train who wanted to show her kid how to use it. More text will not hurt the game’s UI if it’s just in the tutorial phase. Make the game easier to learn
• A feature where people can add their own pokestops? To avoid spamming, a pokestop will require multiple votes from other players in order to become a new pokestop.
• Put the transfer button above the map for the love of god please let me live
• Maybe a short line of text beneath the transfer button that says “Send this pokemon back to the professor” or change the transfer button to say “Release”, because i had no idea what Transfer meant until i read an article, and I’m scared to press random buttons for fear of there not being an “are you sure” screen
• Allow players to change their gym once, so people like me who didn’t understand what they were picking can fix their decision after they’re better informed
• It would be so nice if the journal recorded when you put a pokemon in a gym and when it’s been defeated!
• On that note, a notification pop up when your pokemon has been defeated/returned from a gym
• A static map feature? Where you can open up a map that’s a static birds eye view, which shows where all the pokestops and gyms are within a 50km radius or something
• Obvious bug fixes