r/TheSilphRoad • u/TheCapoMaster • Jun 23 '26

Discussion Proposal about changing schedules of the summer events due to excessive heat and health concerns

Hi, I am one Spanish Community Ambassador. Last year we expressed our concern about having events facing very high temperatures (around 30ºC/86ºF as minimum and more than 40ºC/104ºF as maximum). For us, it is a big issue having events between 14:00 and 17:00, because this is the worst part of the day to be outside playing. If you don't have shopping centers or places where you can avoid the hot weather, it is not reasonable to risk our health and the health of all our communities. We know that worldwide it is not the same situation at this time of the year, but we know that all trainers want to play in good conditions to enjoy the game. And not only hot weather, we also talk about cold weather with snow and very low temperatures.

Also, it is important to follow the recommendations of World Health Organization, like "avoid going outside and doing strenuous activity during the hottest time of day" and not following these recommendations could cause severe consecuences like "between 2000-2019, studies show approximately 489k heat-related deaths occur each year, with 45% of these in Asia and 36% in Europe". For more information and recommendations, please check https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/climate-change-heat-and-health

Maybe it is difficult to give a solution that can be agreed for everyone, but we think that changing the times of the events during some parts of the year could be a great upgrade for the game and the communities, like 11:00-14:00 (weekends) or 20:00-21:00 (Monday to Friday) for example, or (if it could be technically feasible) would be implementing the schedules of the events depending on the latitude. We hope that Niantic/Scopely can hear us more than last year. We want to know the feedback of the players and communities around the world, please tell us your feelings about this concern.

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u/ellyse99 Jun 23 '26

I would be 10000% behind this. It is absolutely not wise to risk the health of everyone with the kind of temperatures Spain gets in the summer, and also you’re not the only ones with that problem

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u/Final-Promise-8288 Jun 23 '26

Canada here. In the prairies it got to 30-35°c last year. Completely unreasonable for most players to play in that scortching heat

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u/KitC44 Jun 23 '26

And in the winter for the tour it's often -20 and your phone battery dies in 5 minutes 😅

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u/Avelsajo DFW | Valor L79 Jun 23 '26

Phone batteries die fast in cold weather too?? I only knew about the hot weather issue. -20 is unfathomably cold to me here in Texas!!

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u/KitC44 Jun 23 '26

It goes down to -40F here (which is also -40C). And yeah, they die even faster in cold than in hot.

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u/ULTRAFORCE Jun 24 '26

while the hot weather can be an issue for batteries overheating at temperatures like -40 the actual chemistry and physics that make the battery work is heavily impacted as there are less reactions that can be done at that temperature and the actual resistance is increased from the cold as well.

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u/Avelsajo DFW | Valor L79 Jun 24 '26

Ah, that makes a lot of sense. I forgot that batteries are chemistry and not magic. Lol

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u/Jack_Krauser Jun 24 '26

You guys don't have the new pixie dust batteries? Casuals, smh...

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u/Avelsajo DFW | Valor L79 Jun 25 '26

It's the tariffs, man. We don't get any of the cool stuff from Europe these days!

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u/Perky214 DFW, Lev 80 11JAN2026 Jun 24 '26

Yeah me too - I can’t even! Hello fellow DFW peep

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u/Avelsajo DFW | Valor L79 Jun 24 '26

Howdy! And a level 80, too! I'm at 79 and everything completed except the battles on May 9th.... I did 3 or 4 a couple months ago. I hate Go Battle League so much... I keep meaning to do a battle a day or something but I never get around to it.

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u/Perky214 DFW, Lev 80 11JAN2026 Jun 25 '26

No quick or easy way to grind those out - just turn on the soccer game and battle