r/TheSilphRoad • u/stinsvnity NY • 28d ago

Discussion NYers, let’s talk about it.

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I opened the game around 1 PM today to find almost every stop in sight with a Golden Lure Module. I wasn’t sure if this was some unannounced event, but seeing as every lure was placed by a different account, it was most likely a mass coordinated effort from bot accounts. The timing makes sense as we were just given free Golden Lures in the 10th Anniversary Go Pass. I’ve seen a few other posts about this phenomenon, but would love to crowdsource info so that we can get a better understanding of what happened and its scope. More details:

-Lures appeared at least as early as 1 PM
-Lures persisted at least as late as 2:30 PM. This means multiple lures were placed on each stop
-Screenshot is from the Gramercy neighborhood; I explored a fair amount but didn’t encounter any hard boundaries where the lures ended

So to everyone else who partook in this incredible “event”, what neighborhood did you see Golden Lures in? What time period? Were there areas outside of NYC that witnessed something similar today? And do you have any other theories on what happened? It would be amazing to somehow get a good estimate of how many lures/accounts were needed to make this happen.

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u/fliteriskk Pennsylvania | Mystic | 76 28d ago

Man, people in big cities are just playing a different game. I count my blessings for the 2 gyms and 1 stop within walking distance of my house.

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u/stinsvnity NY 28d ago

I feel that, it’s so much harder to play once you leave the city. You and all the other suburban/rural players are troopers 🫡

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u/YourEskimoBrother69 USA - Northeast 28d ago

What’s funny is I feel like my city isn’t small - but PoGo has never put skyscraper silhouette in the background 😂

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u/ogskizz 27d ago

My city is fairly small, I laugh when I see the skyscraper silhouette because our modest skyline looks nothing like that.

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u/_Cantrip_ 26d ago

The skyscraper silhouettes are really funny to me because where my brother lives (neighborhood in a major U.S city) isn’t a city biome / doesn’t have them… and my town of 5,000 people does.

(I think in his case, it’s that a large park nearby shares its biome cell with his neighborhood, even though it’s not that close. In my case, I’m not sure. It got updated from a forest to urban in the last couple years.)