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The joys of mobile gaming

July 13, 2016 by Alan Stainer

The joys of mobile gaming

There is one problem with Pokemon Go and Ingress that I struggle with every time I step outside my house.

No flipping mobile signal! It makes playing the game really quite difficult.

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  1. Francis Anderson says

    July 13, 2016 at 8:30 am

    You’d think they would cache some locality info incase. I guess the challenge is, what if that data is updated while you’re offline.

    You could get around it by informing the player that offline activities need to be verified before acceptance, although that would be limited to user server activity and not user user activity

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  2. Francis Anderson says

    July 13, 2016 at 8:30 am

    You’d think they would cache some locality info incase. I guess the challenge is, what if that data is updated while you’re offline.

    You could get around it by informing the player that offline activities need to be verified before acceptance, although that would be limited to user server activity and not user user activity

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  3. Francis Anderson says

    July 13, 2016 at 8:30 am

    You’d think they would cache some locality info incase. I guess the challenge is, what if that data is updated while you’re offline.

    You could get around it by informing the player that offline activities need to be verified before acceptance, although that would be limited to user server activity and not user user activity

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  4. Francis Anderson says

    July 13, 2016 at 8:30 am

    You’d think they would cache some locality info incase. I guess the challenge is, what if that data is updated while you’re offline.

    You could get around it by informing the player that offline activities need to be verified before acceptance, although that would be limited to user server activity and not user user activity

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  5. Alan Stainer says

    July 13, 2016 at 8:38 am

    Francis Anderson my preference would be for the mobile networks to get their act together. Then it wouldn’t be an issue. I mean, this is 2016 with self driving cars around the corner, hoverboards (the real sort) and bikes, electric vehicles setting new records, AI that can beat world champions at a game far more complex than chess, spookily clever search engines that seem to know what you are thinking…

    …and yet I still can’t make a phone call on something that has been on the planet for many many years already.

    Bah. Mobile phone rant over now. ;)

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  6. Alan Stainer says

    July 13, 2016 at 8:38 am

    Francis Anderson my preference would be for the mobile networks to get their act together. Then it wouldn’t be an issue. I mean, this is 2016 with self driving cars around the corner, hoverboards (the real sort) and bikes, electric vehicles setting new records, AI that can beat world champions at a game far more complex than chess, spookily clever search engines that seem to know what you are thinking…

    …and yet I still can’t make a phone call on something that has been on the planet for many many years already.

    Bah. Mobile phone rant over now. ;)

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  7. Alan Stainer says

    July 13, 2016 at 8:38 am

    Francis Anderson my preference would be for the mobile networks to get their act together. Then it wouldn’t be an issue. I mean, this is 2016 with self driving cars around the corner, hoverboards (the real sort) and bikes, electric vehicles setting new records, AI that can beat world champions at a game far more complex than chess, spookily clever search engines that seem to know what you are thinking…

    …and yet I still can’t make a phone call on something that has been on the planet for many many years already.

    Bah. Mobile phone rant over now. ;)

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  8. Alan Stainer says

    July 13, 2016 at 8:38 am

    Francis Anderson my preference would be for the mobile networks to get their act together. Then it wouldn’t be an issue. I mean, this is 2016 with self driving cars around the corner, hoverboards (the real sort) and bikes, electric vehicles setting new records, AI that can beat world champions at a game far more complex than chess, spookily clever search engines that seem to know what you are thinking…

    …and yet I still can’t make a phone call on something that has been on the planet for many many years already.

    Bah. Mobile phone rant over now. ;)

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  9. Francis Anderson says

    July 13, 2016 at 8:40 am

    Ahh, feel your pain. Even here in Birmingham there are areas where a mobile signal is impossible to get, never mind more rural areas.

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  10. Francis Anderson says

    July 13, 2016 at 8:40 am

    Ahh, feel your pain. Even here in Birmingham there are areas where a mobile signal is impossible to get, never mind more rural areas.

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  11. Francis Anderson says

    July 13, 2016 at 8:40 am

    Ahh, feel your pain. Even here in Birmingham there are areas where a mobile signal is impossible to get, never mind more rural areas.

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  12. Francis Anderson says

    July 13, 2016 at 8:40 am

    Ahh, feel your pain. Even here in Birmingham there are areas where a mobile signal is impossible to get, never mind more rural areas.

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  13. Dave Webster says

    July 14, 2016 at 7:59 am

    Do you think it might be a bandwidth problem? This game is getting so much online airplay at the moment….Don’t know wherre people get the time to play games.

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  14. Dave Webster says

    July 14, 2016 at 7:59 am

    Do you think it might be a bandwidth problem? This game is getting so much online airplay at the moment….Don’t know wherre people get the time to play games.

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  15. Dave Webster says

    July 14, 2016 at 7:59 am

    Do you think it might be a bandwidth problem? This game is getting so much online airplay at the moment….Don’t know wherre people get the time to play games.

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  16. Dave Webster says

    July 14, 2016 at 7:59 am

    Do you think it might be a bandwidth problem? This game is getting so much online airplay at the moment….Don’t know wherre people get the time to play games.

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  17. Alan Stainer says

    July 14, 2016 at 9:32 am

    It was a lack of network coverage that was the problem.

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  18. Alan Stainer says

    July 14, 2016 at 9:32 am

    It was a lack of network coverage that was the problem.

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  19. Alan Stainer says

    July 14, 2016 at 9:32 am

    It was a lack of network coverage that was the problem.

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    July 14, 2016 at 9:32 am

    It was a lack of network coverage that was the problem.

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