The latest build supports ride destinations and directions, and allows you to share your own rides with the community!
We went through all our suggested rides and gave them destinations, in some cases adjusting their start point to provide the longest fun route. We also added 3 rides new for this month: the Yukon in Alaska, Corsica in France, and Cape Town in South Africa.
You'll see the distance of each ride on the overview screen, but don't feel you have to finish them in one go--the build now remembers where you were on each ride and percent complete, which you can resume any time. You can also start any ride in reverse, which feels like a complete new ride.
You can still go anywhere you see dots, but they are now yellow and white, where white dots take you along Google's suggested path between start and destination.
When you go through a gate to complete a ride, you'll get a "Completed Ride" in your Explorer stats, and will increment the Rides number for everyone to see on shared and suggested rides.
Please make and share rides you love, from the places you know best!
The rides you make are autonamed like "<player>'s <region> Ride <num>" so they are unique for sharing and avoid the need to moderate.
Under Find Rides, "New" will list shared rides in their order of creation, and "Popular" will list rides by the total spins people have put on them over the last 30 days.
Our process to make rides begins on the Google maps website where we zoom in to locations, and then enter their "lat, lon" into the game in Create Rides. But you really have to ride the result because the pictures and tracking from Google can vary. That is why you can only share rides that you've completed at least one time yourself.
We could make the process easier or more powerful in future builds, but want to see how people use the current system and hear what they want most. Some ideas we've had are to allow building rides faster with custom directions on our website, finding start and destinations from a Google map in our game, allow custom names, and allow creation of personalized "stories" you could tell in pictures or words or voice along each ride.
We went through all our suggested rides and gave them destinations, in some cases adjusting their start point to provide the longest fun route. We also added 3 rides new for this month: the Yukon in Alaska, Corsica in France, and Cape Town in South Africa.
You'll see the distance of each ride on the overview screen, but don't feel you have to finish them in one go--the build now remembers where you were on each ride and percent complete, which you can resume any time. You can also start any ride in reverse, which feels like a complete new ride.
You can still go anywhere you see dots, but they are now yellow and white, where white dots take you along Google's suggested path between start and destination.
When you go through a gate to complete a ride, you'll get a "Completed Ride" in your Explorer stats, and will increment the Rides number for everyone to see on shared and suggested rides.
Please make and share rides you love, from the places you know best!
The rides you make are autonamed like "<player>'s <region> Ride <num>" so they are unique for sharing and avoid the need to moderate.
Under Find Rides, "New" will list shared rides in their order of creation, and "Popular" will list rides by the total spins people have put on them over the last 30 days.
Our process to make rides begins on the Google maps website where we zoom in to locations, and then enter their "lat, lon" into the game in Create Rides. But you really have to ride the result because the pictures and tracking from Google can vary. That is why you can only share rides that you've completed at least one time yourself.
We could make the process easier or more powerful in future builds, but want to see how people use the current system and hear what they want most. Some ideas we've had are to allow building rides faster with custom directions on our website, finding start and destinations from a Google map in our game, allow custom names, and allow creation of personalized "stories" you could tell in pictures or words or voice along each ride.