Earlier this year, Niantic announced its Wayfarer Tool for Pokmon Go which would finally allow players to have some influence on key points on the games map.The tool's various features have been steadily rolling out to players in limited numbers, however, shortly after launching a Gym and PokStops contributions system, Niantic has been forced to suspend it due to overwhelming response from players.It almost takes you back to those early days of Pokmon Go in 2016, when the games servers couldnt quite keep up with the amount of player demand.
This time, however, Niantic is getting ahead of the issue and acting first by turning off the tool to avoid stability issues.If youve been away from Pokmon Go for a while, or you missed the announcement with all the festive distractions, Niantics Wayfarer Tool is part of Niantics efforts to improve the Pokmon Go experience.The wider idea of the Wayfarer Tool is that it allows players (currently only those over level 40 in Pokmon Go) to nominate and review new locations for PokStops and Gyms as well as make edits to existing ones.
The hope is that allowing community contributions will encourage players to get out and explore while the review and improvements system will keep locations and information accurate and informative.The contributions system which has been disabled allows players over level 40 to make suggestions for changes to current locations.
The changes that can be made include titles, descriptions and photos.Niantic has made it clear that PokStop and Gym contributions wont be offline forever but it hasnt given any indication as to when they'll be back.
The only thing its said is that there will be an update on its social media channels when things are up and running again.In the meantime, Pokmon Go's Holiday event is running from now until the new year, with special festive Pokmon to catch and bonuses to enjoy.