Hi all, I was a HUGE fan of the DS game, and am looking forward to the new Switch version.

That being said, I am very concerned about what they are going to do with what I shall call the "Friend Leveling" pins. In the DS game there were a handful of pins that you could only level up by "encountering friends" which was a decent mechanic for the DS...IF YOU LIVE IN A POPULATED AREA. These pins required actually running into people that had their DS up and running to trigger an an encounter that could level up the pins....And for those of us NOT living in a HUGELY populated area, it left us with very little option other than leaving the DS on overnight, in the hopes of getting a couple "Ghost" encounters.

And while I understand this was an OK mechanic to have on the DS, IN Japan...I feel it was a TOTAL FAILURE in the US.

So I guess I am asking....how did they handle this mechanic this time around.

I apologize if this has been addressed in another thread, but I had no idea what to search for.

Thank you,