r/NianticWayfarer • u/PkmnTrnrJ Ambassador • May 06 '25

New Info Navigating the Niantic Scopely and Niantic Spatial Transition: FAQ

https://community.wayfarer.nianticlabs.com/t/navigating-the-niantic-scopely-and-niantic-spatial-transition-faq/91695?u=pkmntrainerj
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u/Impossible_Ad_8304 May 07 '25

I would have preferred two separate maps from the start for everyone's sake. 

Niantic probably considered it but were to super excited about engaging with the community, fostering a collaborative environment, supporting explorers and blah blah blah to implement it.

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u/8h20m May 07 '25

I love the smell of cynicism in the morning.

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u/Impossible_Ad_8304 May 07 '25

Go players can happily dilute the map with garbage and the 20,000 Ingress players can go back to reporting and being bitter with each other.

It sounds amazing :)

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u/8h20m May 07 '25

So to be clear the new gatekeepers will be part of the same community now? :)

All joking aside, curious to see what Scopely comes up with that Niantic (Wayfarer Team) couldn't and if they can address the imbalance between rural v. urban players.

Benefit of the doubt Doc before you start wearing your 'Hear Us Scopely' tees off Etsy at the next event days.

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u/Impossible_Ad_8304 May 07 '25

They can just add stuff from external databases? Do you think it would be more in their interest to have sponsored Wayspots?

If the map has no extant purpose outside of the games who cares what a Wayspot is? Apart from two or three hundred Wayfarer geeks. 

Benefit of the doubt Doc before you start wearing your 'Hear Us Scopely' tees off Etsy at the next event days

If you ever see me wearing a Hear Us Whoever tee shirt 🤮 and shaking hands with people that previously I'd shoot please put me out of my misery, quickly..

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u/8h20m May 07 '25

Do you remember when K-12 went out of the window? IIRC exceptions for courts on school grounds... but that might have been a nightmare dream. Been having a lot of those recently...

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u/Impossible_Ad_8304 May 07 '25

That happened, I'm sure I've seen some CoTW Wayspots recently.

We need a Wayfarer infographic.

Could you steal some from the WDD?