OPR and Imbalanced Review Times Based on Geographic Quirks

I qualified for submission on OPR in December 17, then review sometime around February 18. I don't tend to play or submit outside of my home area of Oklahoma City, so I was conditioned to believe that wait time of 6 months, a year or even longer were perfectly normal. Other players in the area tell me of submissions pending going back to early 2017, so it was just accepted. Then there are edits, which never get reviewed ever. Ever.

Then I had a chance to play in New England for a week. I had 3 submissions in Rhode Island and 1 submission in Mass clear OPR in 5 days, 6 days, 3.5 weeks and 6 days respectively. I've thought about it and come to a conclusion that those who are fortunate to be in scoring cells that border other scoring cells with large population areas get their votes pooled in a way that keeps OPR streamlined for them. That's nice for them, but for those who don't get to benefit from that quirk of geography OPR is a drag where you feel like you put in way more than you could ever possibly get out of it.

So my question is, is there any intention from Niantic of resolving this imbalance in affected areas or is Niantic content to maintain the status quo to the point where OPR reviewers in these areas just give up and leave giant swaths of area with an outdated and underdeveloped portal network?

Comments

  • maqifrnswamaqifrnswa ✭✭✭

    If you haven't seen this yet, check out the "Bonus Location Swap Megathread" on r/IngressOPR (the OPR reddit.) I can't post links on this forum yet, but it's easy to Google.

    It's a workaround that hopefully will bring some attention to your city where you can get some people from high population areas reviewing for the less densely populated areas.

  • JosmanuJosmanu ✭✭✭
    edited July 2019

    The main problem is the ammount of people reviewing hence you are right i think a system of queue should always aim to be faster, to have faster responses so waiting months or even a year is just mind blowing and i cant think in any reason of why niantic is fine with that

    1 week answers are perfectly fine as you describe, 1 month at max i even think is too much

    However, Niantic for now doesnt seems to be going to do anything for that, because what it needs is more people in OPR and is very well known for so long time if it wasnt because pokemon go players created accts for lvl into 12 just to do opr (for then quit the game) this would be even worse, but everybody at some point gets bored too or stops or cant or change locations, and since there isnt many this happen in so many places

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