Oh dear.

[jennaria]

LAST NIGHT

Wizards Unite: YOU'RE GOING TOO FAST! Do not drive while using Harry Potter Wizards Unite. [OK] [I'm a passenger]

Me: ...I literally have not moved off my couch for the past fifteen minutes.

(The GPS got momentarily confused, and thought I was somewhere else in the apartment complex, then fixed itself. Either that or this is some kind of Computer Plot, where my little blue witch proxy is off having fun without me, and has to rush back to Equivalent Spot when I open the game. Tron/Harry Potter crossover/fusion?)

Comments

[jenett]

I get that.

I peer at my phone and say "I am sitting on the end of my bed, avatar. What do you think you're doing."

[jennaria]

Apparently it is off partying without me. I mean, there are times when I'll be moving and it won't be, so I suppose it averages out?

[adrianners]

Yyyyep, Pokemon Go does this all the time too. I can sit at the bar for an hour and watch my lil' avatar go roaming all over the block. It's good for getting extra items, just so long as the GPS takes a few seconds to realize you're actually a hundred feet away!

[jennaria]

:laugh: It's those critical few seconds - how long does it take to figure out you're not /actually/ close enough? Is it long enough to snag the item? (I am not super-speedy, so the answer is generally 'no.')

[the_rck]

Some buildings really confuse the GPS tracking for Niantic games. The local hospital does; the circle within which I can do Ingress things hops around and drifts. It also catches up with my movement abruptly after I've been moving for a while. I was in a waiting room in an office building on Monday, and my in-game location was jumping around by blocks. Walking under a concrete bridge or into a narrow alley can also confuse the GPS.

While I'm out and walking around, I'll sometimes stop and stand still to see if GPS drift will move my radius just enough that I can reach something just beyond the current perimeter.

[jennaria]

My office is in a marble building, so I'm just happy I get enough signal for the GPS to figure out where I am at all!

[enchanted_jae]

That's bizarre!

[jennaria]

Fucking GPS, how does it work? Apparently. :wry:

[rebeccama]

I have heard a number of stories about avatars going off without their physical human.

[jennaria]

Fiction or fact? (I'd believe either!)