AITA for creating a route in pokemone go?
bit of backstory: the community ambassador in the local area had issues with me taking his gyms and i stepped away from his gyms asides from raids at them. he told me he lived around those gyms. i stopped attacking his gyms until he went overseas to where i took them for the time he was overseas. he came back and kept taking my gyms not long after i placed pokemon in them, so i did the same back to his gyms because i thought the "don’t attack my gym" rule went out of the way. he spoke to me with two others, who i have a strong suspicion were stalking my in game activity, and then i stopped doing gyms all together for a while and then went back to gyms that weren’t near him. no issues there and we were good.
then all of a sudden today the community ambassador gets the vibe that "im tracking him/visiting him uninvited" when i had created a route from one small park to another small park, not even thinking. i take a wrong turn around a roundabout making the route and then i stopped to fix my GPS to the pokestop i wanted to end the route at and followed it, set the end point of the route to a pokestop at another small local park in the game.
i didn’t see any issues, i mean nobody was going to walk the 2.8KM that the route was and it is super hilly anyway.
I then get a message today from him saying I’ve been kicked from the local community group because apparently i was tracking him which i never was, this is due to the route going around where he lives apparently and when i stopped to reset my gps and enter the end point of the route, apparently i stopped directly outside his house. prior to this i was only told he lived near his gyms, and looking the route barely goes to the gyms we had issues with, i assumed it was one of the houses closer to the gyms. i didn’t even think as i made the wrong turn where i was going until i had reset my GPS for the end point.
now he has also made the other local community group ban me as well so i can’t play pokemon go anymore in a community. this is complete isolation of the game in my eyes and unfair treatment.
i just want to know if i am the asshole in this situation.
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It’s a thing. They’re appointed by the debs to increase local activity and sponsor events. They receive codes to give out and some other things.
NTA but lol at this even being a thing
NTA dude is power tripping over a game. It’s actually better to let people knock you out of gyms because you don’t get coins until you’re knocked out and they cap at 50. The only reason you would have a problem with this would be to hoard them which is childish
Which I never did, but from what I’ve seen he kinda does
If it is near their house, it’s even faster to make it gold with interactions too. OP and the Amba would’ve had a mutually beneficial gym etiquette.
INFO: What kind of vehicle were you using when you recorded the route?
Why would that matter? It’s a Kia hatchback
You were playing a mobile phone game while driving so YTA.
Its fucking pokemon, walk where u want. I have no doubt everyone here is way to old to be acting like this.
Yes the community ambassador is, I assume, in his 30’s so yes he is.
You are not introduced to PoGO drama yet.