How to Use Wayfarer in Pokémon Go & What is It

The game Pokémon Go received a new tool named Wayfarer. This new tool allows players who are available to review and nominate the submissions to the Pokéstops and Portals. Right now, it is available for the players who are at level 40 in the game Pokémon Go and level 10 or more in the game Ingress. So are you on the lucky side, or are you on the verge of getting lucky who will able to help improve and stabilize Niantic games? If yes, then you should know about these things.

Wayfarer: Introduction

Before Niantic created a higher bar for the AR games in Pokémon Go and Ingress, this company had launched the first app naming “Field Trip.” This app was designed all around the basic thinking that all the local customers could help them to create a better experience for them and others regarding the significant local places all around them.

In that app, a user was able to submit a place of social and cultural significance. They can inform you about the site with photos, some description, and some additional details explaining the reasons regarding the importance of the place. So, when users visit any new place, they were able to discover those places through this app. Among these places, some were government buildings, administrative structures, ancient structures, churches, and art installments. At last, all these mentioned places finally became the real world ground for the games like Pokémon Go, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, and Ingress.

After some time, the Field Trip method was revoked, and it has taken place by a tool that is used from the high-level players of the Ingress, named Operation Portal Recon. After some time, this method also replaced with the new tool. This tool can use by both Pokémon Go and Ingress. It is a Wayfarer.

Unlike the previous two, Wayfarer gives the players an extra ability under which the public has the opportunity to review and rate submissions. From this method of crowd-sourcing the information, the creator has modernized the means for getting new Pokéstops, Portals, and Gyms.

Eligibility of Players to Get Wayfarer

Right now, Wayfarer is available for the players who are at level 40 in the game Pokémon Go and level 10 or more in the game Ingress. There are no signs that these level standards will come down.

Signing Up

Firstly, you have login the Wayfarer through either Facebook or Google account, which is directly linked to your game profile Pokémon and Ingress. The Log-In page will take you to a page where it will be mentioned whether you’re eligible or not. You are also able to access it from inside of any of the games.

Submitting a location

Once you are eligible for the Wayfarer, the biggest question is, “How can we submit the location?”

After successfully signing up for the Wayfarer, you have to follow these steps:

1. Log-In to the gaming account Ingress or Pokémon Go.
2. Reach out to the settings.
3. In this section, you can see a key to provide a Wayspot to the app, which can be a new Pokéstop in the game.

This can fail very badly if there is no control. So there is a counter for that, and it is the limiting the amount to submit the Pokéstop. As per the limits, players can provide 7 spots in two weeks, which can be changed as per Niantic consider fit.

Pokespot: Basic Requirement

You have to know the essential qualities and qualifications of the Pokéstop before you select any spot for the consideration. It should have some amount of artistic significance, historical, or cultural. It could be some historical statue, an art exhibit, or place of worship, etc., but any local Pizza Hut or McDonald’s is not the perfect Pokéstop; still, a big wall painted of a building can be.

So, you are going to submit the information regarding the spot. At least, your mentioned stop has a name, some description with some location. Here, you do not require to submit a ten-page extended essay having the explanation for your stop. So you have to keep this in mind that some other players are reviewing and rating your submissions. Providing the details about that spot and compelling the description will increase the probability of the place.

If the selected spot has cultural significance or historical, then Pokéstops should be publicly accessible and should be safe. Such as if any crucial historic structure is suggested to be a stop, but it’s near a highway without proper safety measures, there are chances it will not be a good Pokéstop.

Similarly, we also wish that we could access a Pokéstop from near or house or bedroom, but having Pokéstop at the front yard of your home is also wrong. You also have to make sure that the location is not temporary and a place that can affect any other government or personal work.

Always remember that at last, it is a game, and so be attentive peoples, try to avoid any injury or interference to some necessary real-life actions, because it will be going to reflect poorly on everyone other who is playing this game.

The Perfect Picture

As spots should have qualities, the photos presenting your location should have some requirements too. When you are submitting any pictures, make sure it is clear (doesn’t requires a professional level of photography). Your photo should be sufficiently highlighted and contains points that are interesting as well. There will be no people or animals in that photo; avoid the selfies (yes, this could be fun but don’t do that). Try to send your photos, not the pictures clicked by some other person (because of the copyrights, so you should not give any Google images).

Only to increase your place for Pokéstop try to use the excellent picture of close up shot, alongside with some wider shot which explains the surrounding arena. If the suggested spot is selected, then these wider shots will be going to help other players in the task of finding the spot, so your spot gets excellent ratings and reviews. Ultimately, it will be going to help Niantic to show that the spot is sufficiently safe.

Conclusion

If you are here, then you know all about Wayfarer. At last always remember, you should choose a place which is easy to find, accessible to everyone, and a place which can’t be dangerous. After these are fulfilled, you can be creative too, which will make your submission shine among the crowd. You also can attach the exact map location of your spot.

Blair Lennon is a Internet Security expert and has been working in the technology industry since 2002. As a technical expert, she has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as norton.com/setup.

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