CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Last week, I said I couldn’t access raids at gyms. As of yesterday, I was still having trouble, but I was still happy to discover that Niantic is onto the problem, so I’m hopeful the issues I’m having will be resolved over time. Yesterday’s experiment involved trying to join the raid towards the end of the time period, so I can now safely say that none of the following affect my ability to join raids: Automatic time and date (already set); Staying in range of the Gym; Leaving the Gym, then moving out of the range of the Gym and then back into it, and rejoining the raid; Internet connection; (no problems with this at the time); Version of PokemonGo (the app is up to date); Uninstalling PokemonGo, and reinstalling the game from scratch (and turning off the phone in between); Closing and reopening PokemonGo, either by minimising it, or by turning the application off, and then opening it as a fresh instance; Trying a different raid location; Raiding alone; Raiding with ...

I mentioned not being able to get into gym raids, in yesterday’s progress report. It’s been a bit disappointing, but I figure this glitch will eventually work itself out. So, I tried to enter a raid on the 24th June, but, although the gym accepted the raid pass, and let me into the raid, it wouldn’t let me join the battle. After a dozen or so retries, I gave up in disgust and continued on my walk. I tried, again, on June 25th. Similar results, but, this time I got to see the raid pokemon before being made to try restarting the battle. This happened half a dozen or so time, even with a restart of the game. The walk afterwards was good, in spite of this, and I caught several teddiursa and was able to evolve my first ursaring to compensate. Not a bad day, after all. The last time I tried was on June 26th. This is what happened – again: I got to join the raid battle… and then the error occurred. I left the gym and tried again – with the same results:   ...