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Originally Posted by TheSutterDynasty
Is there a correlation with rare pokemon spawns and population of an area?
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I think it's just a correlation of how many pokemon spawn in an area and how many people are playing in an area.
From a game resources point of view they'd have to do it that way, 99% of the land area of Canada isn't usually going to have players on it so no reason to spawn Pokemon there. And if the spawn rate was fixed then my neighbourhood would be a gold mine rather than a wasteland.
I tried testing it a few times, sometimes I'd check Pokevision and there wouldn't be anything within a 15 block radius. I'd boot up the game for a few minutes, and then there'd be 2 or 3 within that same radius. I only tried that 3 or 4 times so it's not proof, but scaling an area in response to the number of players just makes sense IMO.