Tuesday Tips: Tracking via the New Sightings Feature

[inkstone]

I posted this in the comments of cyphomandra's post about the latest update, but then I realized it'd be more helpful to post it directly to the community so everyone would see it!

TL;DR - Niantic has begun work on the tracker. It is not in its final form. Some people are in a beta. Everyone should be seeing a faster refresh rate with no phantom pokémon lingering around despite having despawned or fallen out of range.

For those of us who remember the original functional tracker, no, it doesn't have pawprints. But with the accurate refresh rate (~15 sec IIRC), you can actually track pokémon now. If a pokémon shows up in your Sightings tab, you're within its 200m radius. Watching the pokémon appear and disappear from your Sightings tab will allow you to triangulate.

This post on Reddit breaks down the process: https://www.reddit.com/r/pokemongo/comments/4wvmgv/tracking_pokemon_using_sightings/

Happy hunting!

New update!!!

[cyphomandra]

The battery saver's back and apparently they've fixed the capture bug? Also, new tracking window! I am not going to be able to get outside to try it out until tomorrow, but looks interesting...

Rrrrrr

[randomling]

I really like the collection aspects of this game, but I'm out of Pokeballs, which is partly because my hand-eye coordination is ridiculously bad and so I'm wasting many balls on most Pokemon I catch. I refuse to spend real money on more balls, mostly because my funds are pretty limited, but this is stupidly annoying.

Compounding this is the fact that I'm disabled and my ability to walk around the place visiting Pokestops is relatively limited.

I don't really want to be like "this is not the game for me" but it's getting annoying.

(Sorry for the whine, I wanted to grumble somewhere people might be sympathetic.)