Niantic rolls out suggestion system for new Pokémon Go locations

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For over two years now, Poki(C)mon Go's in-game Poki(C)stops and Gyms have been placed in real-world locations derived from Niantic's previous GPS-based game, Ingress. Now, the developer is slowly rolling out the ability for Poki(C)mon Go players to nominate their own places of interest to be integrated into the game.

The suggestion system is currently only available to players in Brazil and South Korea who have played enough to reach level 40 (no easy feat), and it is limited to seven suggestions per person per week. For those users, suggesting a new in-game location is as simple as taking a picture, writing a brief description, and uploading your location to Niantic.

It seems inevitable that the suggestion system will eventually roll out to the rest of the game's playerbase, which has been seeing a significant uptick during the warmer summer months. In the meantime, Niantic has posted a couple of FAQs detailing what makes for a good Poki(C)stop suggestion.

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