Really? Wayfarer

Recent post on pokemongohub states that L40 players are geting random invites to wayfarer seems to be nothing else is needed then a L40. I bust my balls in Ingress for that 8.4 mill ap six gold and seven silver badges and a stressful intake try out to get into Opr (wayfarer). Do you know how easy it is to reach L40 in pokemon go, I did it twice in short time. Is L40 the only requirement??

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  • Well in pogo you just grind and grind, follow the raid groups and buy alot of pokecoins. Ingress how ever you could grind and grind for the ap but those badges you had to use strategy and teammates. So I agree with you.

  • harkonnnenharkonnnen ✭✭✭✭

    Pogo you can pay-to-grind with lucky eggs, raid passes and incubators.

    Grinding AP in ingress is pretty easy depending on your area but a big factor is if the other faction has active players around your area. Badges on the other hand take some time and some serious effort

  • But the main factor is does the pogo players earn it or get it hand out?

  • Pogo to reach L40:


    Get a lot of friends, not a difficult task, and grind a lot of raid$ and in a month you can reach L40 with no problem.

  • Did you not have any fun playing Ingress? I got to play both and have tons of fun. I also got to add portals/pokestops/gyms to my area long before those who just sat around waiting for nominations to come to pogo.

  • Lots of funn and ton of expiriance, would not have missed it. But I am sad that this privilage I see as wayfarer is should be given to accounts in pokemon who have not done simular work like Ingress demanded. I would like to see more demands on pogo accounts then just L40. Like L40 and full pokedex, or 10 gold badges some thing other then just L40

  • Yeah I agree that it needs to be harder for pogo players to review and nominate.


    I'm in a pogo group and even though I have showed and listed what is acceptable as portals/stops/gyms I get a ton of people sending me to locations that would never get though review.


    So much rubbish will be submitted and will slow down a slow review system even more. Here in uk we really do not need pogo nominates.

  • Um, no. I grinded to L12 in 3 months.

    OPR was accessible to all L12 agents when it came out, why make it even more difficult for PoGo players just because it is available to them later?

    I thought they should have some requirements (gold badges) to prove they play the game, but all of those I suggested were ones that most L40 would have attained by the time they reach there. Yeah, there are those that will pay their way to 40 but it's expensive and Niantic is not going to penalise people who give them money to work for them, lol.

  • I got 12 in 3 months of playing my usual line of travel, only going out 2 or 3 times just for Ingress plans (MU medal). Way easier than 40 in PoGo if you can microfield.

  • GearGliderGearGlider ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's a lot harder to get to lvl 40 in Pokemon GO than lvl 10/12 in Ingress.

    There should be more requirements to getting Pokestop Nominations/Reviewing than just lvl 40 in PoGO because of how many players there are and how many lvl 40 bots and alt accounts there are compared to Ingress. Especially since Niantic has not been as stringent with punishing these actions as they have with ingress.

    Having a medals requirement like we do in Ingress would be ideal.

    Pokestop Submitting/Reviewing for PoGO players is technically in "Beta" but all that has meant so far is a fancy term for early release for some or many people before it's rolled out the same way it is now.

  • AgentB0ssAgentB0ss ✭✭✭✭✭

    Even with Lucky eggs doubling XP, AP per hour in Ingress Micro Fielding is much higher than EXP per hour in Pokemon Go.

    When I grinded AP in Ingress I could easily net 250k AP an hour in my grind spots.

    In Pokemon Go unless you can Wafu Raid (takes coordination, skill, and a very big city) you are not getting that much EXP per hour even with lucky eggs.

    Now friendship in Pokemon GO has made it very easy to get EXP, however a best friend takes 90 days, Lets say you did 20 friends to best in those 90 days (pretty impressive unless using a friend group), with lucky eggs each friend nets 326k EXP (with lucky eggs), thats still only 6.5m EXP in 90 days from friends alone.

    Do I think PoGo EXP is easier than Ingress AP yes, but its slower.

  • yeah, took me about 3-4 months to hit lv 12 on Ingress, took 9 months to hit lv 40 on pokemon. Lot easier on Ingress, and Pokemon only gives 7 nominations while Ingress gives 14.

  • ZaltysZaltys ✭✭✭
    edited October 2019

    Took me 6 months to hit L12 in Ingress. But I'm still L35 in PoGo, and I've been playing for 1.5 years. So yes, Ingress was considerably faster and easier.

    This is rural, though. No raiding whatsoever. Gyms are few and far between, and active players even fewer. Even getting EXP through friendship is slow, because the distance to the nearest stops limits the access to gifts.

  • harkonnnenharkonnnen ✭✭✭✭

    Exactly AP in Ingress CAN be gotten alot fast however there are more factors that can affect that than in pogo. No matter how quick or much AP you can get from an area if the opposing faction doesn't have an active presence then that area will become useless for the next 7days and you will have to keep traveling around all over (big cities not usually a problem). Also you could end up stuck under a BAF for X amount of time which kills AP momentum. Regardless getting to level 10 is far easier.

    Level 12 on the other hand is alot harder. The 6 Gold badges you need is what slows that progress down alot

  • AgentB0ssAgentB0ss ✭✭✭✭✭

    Exactly.

    For me the other faction is null in my area. I used 3 separate grind spots roughly once a week each to grind my AP in Ingress.

    6 golds was tough for sure and had to go out of my way to get a couple.

  • ZeroZeroZieteZeroZeroZiete ✭✭
    edited October 2019

    i dont see anything wrong with it, lvl40 pogo unless you pay for a lot for those xp boosters and that thing of pass for do raids PLUS you will need to be in a place where there is a lot of raids constantly, probably it will bring you to lvl 40 fast but i am not pretty sure in how much time, but for any normal user lvl 40 in pogo is a lot of grind in xp especially if you dont live in a place with high ammount of portals around or wtv, however they shoudlve introduced medal lvling too but i guess the pokemon company (that is how is called?) didnt want to implement that into that game or niantic didnt

    for the lvl 12 it took me 2 months and was mainly because i had to use sojourner medal for one of my six, it was easy task without even needing ap boosters or anything like that, and my town has like 5 active users perhaps, 3 greens and 2 blues, and we sorft of have places with high density of portals but not everywhere

    in the end everything depends too in how much time you play every single day

  • harkonnnenharkonnnen ✭✭✭✭

    The 1 concern is though that you have 1 ingress account...that's it. But with pogo you could create any number of accounts and level them up at the same time. Would just depend on phones. Which would mean in the time it takes to hit 40 you be be atleasr half way to 40 on 1-4 other accounts.

    Now with how Wayfarer review areas are being handled (it seems) that shouldn't be an issue as you rarely see to many local submissions.

  • Nowadays with all the handout XP that niantic provides, it doesn't take much at all to get to lv40.

  • Not only that but you can always buy your way to lvl40 faster with raid passes, lures, pokeballs, bag / pokemon storage which hand out lots more xp than you can receive from anything in ingress.

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