[ Neko Atsume is the perfect comparison for an ideal style of casual gameplay. If I could just open the app every few hours and check to see if anything is new, that would be perfect. If the game insists on taking place in public spaces, it would be nice to be able to put out a lure module and sit at a café. If it really wants to insist on mobility, I should be able to take a nice 1km walk around my neighborhood and feel like I accomplished something.

The way the game works, however, is that you attract more pokémon the farther you walk (the minimum seems to be 2km), and you attract rarer pokémon the farther away you get from your starting location (the minimum is around 3km). Traveling above a certain speed (no one can agree on what this is) doesn't count toward your "walking" total, so you can't drive, and the sudden stops required by the game make biking impractical. What this means is that the game isn't going to reward you if you're just walking in a circle around your block or your neighborhood. ]

^ This is what I wrote in response two days ago. When I went to fact check it yesterday morning, things had changed. When I went to fact check it again this morning, things had changed again. It may be that Nyantech Niantic is adjusting the gameplay, or that the server errors have been causing fluctuations, or that the data players have gathered hasn't been accurately processed yet. Who knows?