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Snoot Nov 2020 8:33am, 16 Nov 2020 711 posts	Quote Pin Snoot Is it me or do bugs tend to spawn in similar places? Keep ending up with them by the river and it’s getting very waterlogged and muddy! Might have to resort to the X-talons!!
Bright Strider Nov 2020 8:48am, 16 Nov 2020 169 posts	Quote Pin Bright Strider Fetch might demur, but my wife's bugs and mine seem to fall in different places. Judging by the circle described by a nearby Fetchie's bugs, he lives nearby, but again, the pattern of his bugs is different. Where our bugs fall might well be affected by activity patterns. So far as accessibility goes, winter does make some areas less accessible.
CumbriAndy Nov 2020 9:10am, 16 Nov 2020 2,122 posts	Quote Pin CumbriAndy Snoot - unsurprisingly, this has come up before. Fetch assures us the game has no memory as to where markers have been placed before but there's plenty of anecdotal reporting of bugs appearing in inconvenient places - in my case, it often seems to be 'where I ran yesterday'
Fizz :-) Nov 2020 9:12am, 16 Nov 2020 4,706 posts	Quote Pin Fizz :-) Somebody had a theory that this is because where you have just run is the place most likely to have free spots to plant new bugs in.
fetcheveryone Nov 2020 9:27am, 16 Nov 2020 24,950 posts	Quote Pin fetcheveryone You'll be telling me that the bugs are caused by 5G phone masts next
CumbriAndy Nov 2020 9:34am, 16 Nov 2020 2,123 posts	Quote Pin CumbriAndy Forgot to mention the effect of our internal confirmation biases - we tend only to notice/remember the location of the inconvenient bugs
Bright Strider Nov 2020 9:38am, 16 Nov 2020 170 posts	Quote Pin Bright Strider Also, the unrun-out bugs definitely reflect the non-running out pattern of the player.
Velociraptor Nov 2020 9:41am, 16 Nov 2020 49,813 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor I'm sure my current bug was caused by the one traffic light on my patch that is owned by someone else
Snoot Nov 2020 10:41am, 16 Nov 2020 715 posts	Quote Pin Snoot Probably the confirmation bias CA as it’s the muddy ones I tend to remember most. Definitely not a 5G conspiracy Fetch - this is West Cumbria we won’t get 5G masts this decade!! 🤣🤣
Flatlander Nov 2020 12:00pm, 16 Nov 2020 1,817 posts	Quote Pin Flatlander Bright Strider, I agree that where someone's bugs fall might well be affected by activity patterns. I think that two of the Fetchies in your area are registered for Fetchpoint but don't actively play, hence their uncleared bugs. One trains intermittently, the other does most of their training outside of their home circle (starting from my village ), so in your area they appear as not being active, hence different patterns of bugs to yours.