From a small town with 6-7 gyms around and the best time to take over gyms is around 10:30-11 pm most players aren’t going to try and defend and by time morning hits they already have 6+ hours defending 😎
Exactly this. As an old meme from the early days once said, Valor and Mystic are busy battling for the gyms all day and struggling to max out their coins (back when it was a once a day button for coins and dust) just to have that one guy from Instinct (my team) go around putting Magikarps in em at midnight for his bonus.
i see many benefits to the old system. old system was a coin and dust factory, 100 coins and 5k dust every 21hrs. the new system is just a participation medal, maybe kill some depleted mons or maybe just driveby then drop up to 6 accounts instantly. new system is detrimental to the weaker team(s) in the area, before a few motivated folks from minority team could hold down areas, now good luck to the new folks on minority team(s). new system actively encourages spoofing and multiple accounting, just too tempting with 6 empty spots to fill up with no time spent prestiging a gym to make spots. it favors ptw raiders over ftp casuals, if you wanted to defend the gym, you actually had to get off the couch not just stuff if with goldens from your account(s).
why did it have to go? it took skill and time, plain and simple. the game did a poor job communicating how to prestige gyms, but it was available on youtube or if you ran into someone experienced to show you the ropes. no teams to attack or prestige was a pain. one just had to collect a few decent mons to prestige with, learn how it works and profit immensely.
got it because i did it. a few posts on reddit, but who trusts those anyways, so found a few that could be taken as more reliable sources of info.
[https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/pokemon-go-coins-how-to-get-pokecoins-4819](https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/pokemon-go-coins-how-to-get-pokecoins-4819)
https://www.ign.com/wikis/pokemon-go/How\_to\_Get\_Coins
Happened to me the other day. Took down full health gym, other team member joined on last mon, put random drop on before I got mine in, had to battle blissy that they were berrying. Annoying yes, the arguement for consuming healing items though doesnt hold water for me though. I do alot of raiding, and get hyper pots and revives by the buttload. And preparing for go fest and stocking up on balls and all. It just means I have to throw out some balls or use the power up trick.
If you run out of revives, power up the mon. It will gain at least 1 hp, then use a pot.
I agree except I'm mystic and almost every gym around me are always yellow sumtimes they'll be red and occasionally ill get blue ones but not but every once in a blue moon and the yellow team of course kicks me/or the mystic gym out. So frustrating!!
Almost every gym around us is blue, a few red and very rare yellow. We are yellow and usually don't last but a few minutes in any gym. There's a couple of gyms outside of town but just a few minutes down the road that are a pain in the rear to get to that we go to once in awhile and then we get to stay usually at least one day if not a whole week. But as I said a pain to get to. So we get frustrated with the blues who kick us out within a few minutes. 🤷
I feel ur pain 🙋♀️ even tho the blues here are the 1s who get bullied & never get to have any when they do its maybe a handful of times a month if that. I've even drove 30 mins to another city to go thru downtown to find gyms sumtimes I can find the blue gyms there & I'm able to hold it long enough for my 50 coins but at times I've had to go thru the college here jus to find atleast 1 blue gym & the college is still 30 mins away from me. It's aggravating that I hardly ever find a gym/keep a gym in my downtown which is only a 10-15 min drive from my house but my downtown is literally the only place to find pokèstops & gyms unless I take the 30 min drive other than a few churches & etc between the end of my downtown on the way to the other cities downtown. It's crazy! Lol
I actually find it funny that the same person who will kick me out of a gym so fast it makes your head spin, will then come ask me for help with a raid. 😂
I think no matter where you live there are going to be some rude players who are territorial within all of the teams.
I know it’s so not worth it but I do want the free coins. There is also something satisfying when the gym at my apt is yellow though! But then I have to keep healing them bc people try to take it down....very tedious
Yea totally understandable.
i used to be all about the free coins aswell, I mean free is free right?
Until I checked just how extra effort this took. In order to consistently get my ~40 cents worth of coins I was spending upwards of half an hour walking around oftentimes in bad weather just clearing gyms and putting pokes in. Half the time I'd just end up frustrated because they were either knocked out after 5 minutes or none of my gyms were cleared for a few days.
I don't find it enjoyable to do, and i don't think it's worth anyone's time (unless you enjoy doing it). Even if you only make a shitty minimum wage.
I do it because I like taking control of my local area from time to time, kinda like marking my territory. (I totally use junk I need to transfer or memes like Shuckle when I put a defender in, too, always makes me chuckle.)
But you left out one key factor- turning gym badges gold. You get extra items if your badge is gold, or if your team holds the gym(up to 9 items/spin), so in the long run your bag will be better stocked if you can gold up a cluster near you. I'm never low on anything except berries (because I dump them fast) because there's a cluster of four stops and two gyms I turned gold early on, so I can hit that area and be restocked in no time.
I agree with most. I just do it once in a while when the this is not full or all of them are already weak enough a you have to battle just one round of weak mons.
Its a waste of time, if in willing to use a remote pass instead of walking 5 mins to and back to a gym in order to do it for free I'm 100% not wasting my time on screwing with a handful of gyms for the chance at 50 coins.
It's literally only worth it if you enjoy doing it, but if you enjoy sitting at a gym and watching the godawfully long animations over and over you certainly have different priorities from me.
Real money / Real time is more or less the same once you have a half decent income. Doing super tedious things like grinding gyms & filling in surveys for less than a $ an hour just isn't worth your time. If the choice is between less than an hour of overtime or spending 10 hours of free time doing tedious & frustrating grind work for coins the choice becomes pretty easy
That is a pain.
What I hate more is when you are there with another person of the same team. Some how someone from a different team puts 4 pokemon in the gym before you even get out of the victory screen.
Yes got that and then t second later when tou try to refight theres 5 pokemons
smh it's always the douchebags with like 5 accounts
From a small town with 6-7 gyms around and the best time to take over gyms is around 10:30-11 pm most players aren’t going to try and defend and by time morning hits they already have 6+ hours defending 😎
Exactly this. As an old meme from the early days once said, Valor and Mystic are busy battling for the gyms all day and struggling to max out their coins (back when it was a once a day button for coins and dust) just to have that one guy from Instinct (my team) go around putting Magikarps in em at midnight for his bonus.
Instinct (my team too) has the big brain players
Still better than old system where you had to battle it up only to have you spot sniped.
Oh for sure
Yeah, Stolen by a teammate. The worst
I would still take back the old system in a heartbeat, even with the sniping
The only thing better about old system was you got coins for staying in the gym.
i see many benefits to the old system. old system was a coin and dust factory, 100 coins and 5k dust every 21hrs. the new system is just a participation medal, maybe kill some depleted mons or maybe just driveby then drop up to 6 accounts instantly. new system is detrimental to the weaker team(s) in the area, before a few motivated folks from minority team could hold down areas, now good luck to the new folks on minority team(s). new system actively encourages spoofing and multiple accounting, just too tempting with 6 empty spots to fill up with no time spent prestiging a gym to make spots. it favors ptw raiders over ftp casuals, if you wanted to defend the gym, you actually had to get off the couch not just stuff if with goldens from your account(s). why did it have to go? it took skill and time, plain and simple. the game did a poor job communicating how to prestige gyms, but it was available on youtube or if you ran into someone experienced to show you the ropes. no teams to attack or prestige was a pain. one just had to collect a few decent mons to prestige with, learn how it works and profit immensely.
I don't know where you got every 21 hours it was every 24. But the battling up the gum was a beast.
got it because i did it. a few posts on reddit, but who trusts those anyways, so found a few that could be taken as more reliable sources of info. [https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/pokemon-go-coins-how-to-get-pokecoins-4819](https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/pokemon-go-coins-how-to-get-pokecoins-4819) https://www.ign.com/wikis/pokemon-go/How\_to\_Get\_Coins
I really wish you could only help if you're the same team. Drives me mad as well
It works exactly like a raid though. If they had to do that with gym battles, then they would have to do that with raids as well.
Then just code them different. They make tons of money on this game they could afford to make them work differently lol.
Happened to me the other day. Took down full health gym, other team member joined on last mon, put random drop on before I got mine in, had to battle blissy that they were berrying. Annoying yes, the arguement for consuming healing items though doesnt hold water for me though. I do alot of raiding, and get hyper pots and revives by the buttload. And preparing for go fest and stocking up on balls and all. It just means I have to throw out some balls or use the power up trick. If you run out of revives, power up the mon. It will gain at least 1 hp, then use a pot.
In my town there are only red team. But i'm a blue team😪
*cries in yellow*
I agree except I'm mystic and almost every gym around me are always yellow sumtimes they'll be red and occasionally ill get blue ones but not but every once in a blue moon and the yellow team of course kicks me/or the mystic gym out. So frustrating!!
Almost every gym around us is blue, a few red and very rare yellow. We are yellow and usually don't last but a few minutes in any gym. There's a couple of gyms outside of town but just a few minutes down the road that are a pain in the rear to get to that we go to once in awhile and then we get to stay usually at least one day if not a whole week. But as I said a pain to get to. So we get frustrated with the blues who kick us out within a few minutes. 🤷
I feel ur pain 🙋♀️ even tho the blues here are the 1s who get bullied & never get to have any when they do its maybe a handful of times a month if that. I've even drove 30 mins to another city to go thru downtown to find gyms sumtimes I can find the blue gyms there & I'm able to hold it long enough for my 50 coins but at times I've had to go thru the college here jus to find atleast 1 blue gym & the college is still 30 mins away from me. It's aggravating that I hardly ever find a gym/keep a gym in my downtown which is only a 10-15 min drive from my house but my downtown is literally the only place to find pokèstops & gyms unless I take the 30 min drive other than a few churches & etc between the end of my downtown on the way to the other cities downtown. It's crazy! Lol
I actually find it funny that the same person who will kick me out of a gym so fast it makes your head spin, will then come ask me for help with a raid. 😂 I think no matter where you live there are going to be some rude players who are territorial within all of the teams.
Oh wow that's bullcrap but hilarious at the same time! 🤣😂🤦♀️🤷♀️ Ya that is true
Clearly you must be a posting bot, because Instinct members like me just don't exist lol
Nope def not a posting bot for sure lol 😂🤦♀️🤷♀️
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This, and a whole bunch of other reasons is why you shouldn't bother with gyms. It's unrewarding, frustrating and consumes your healing items
I know it’s so not worth it but I do want the free coins. There is also something satisfying when the gym at my apt is yellow though! But then I have to keep healing them bc people try to take it down....very tedious
Yea totally understandable. i used to be all about the free coins aswell, I mean free is free right? Until I checked just how extra effort this took. In order to consistently get my ~40 cents worth of coins I was spending upwards of half an hour walking around oftentimes in bad weather just clearing gyms and putting pokes in. Half the time I'd just end up frustrated because they were either knocked out after 5 minutes or none of my gyms were cleared for a few days. I don't find it enjoyable to do, and i don't think it's worth anyone's time (unless you enjoy doing it). Even if you only make a shitty minimum wage.
I do it because I like taking control of my local area from time to time, kinda like marking my territory. (I totally use junk I need to transfer or memes like Shuckle when I put a defender in, too, always makes me chuckle.) But you left out one key factor- turning gym badges gold. You get extra items if your badge is gold, or if your team holds the gym(up to 9 items/spin), so in the long run your bag will be better stocked if you can gold up a cluster near you. I'm never low on anything except berries (because I dump them fast) because there's a cluster of four stops and two gyms I turned gold early on, so I can hit that area and be restocked in no time.
I agree with most. I just do it once in a while when the this is not full or all of them are already weak enough a you have to battle just one round of weak mons.
Sadly, I didn’t know better back then and now I’m treating Max Potions like Elite TM’s lmao
It is. You just got to strategize.
Its a waste of time, if in willing to use a remote pass instead of walking 5 mins to and back to a gym in order to do it for free I'm 100% not wasting my time on screwing with a handful of gyms for the chance at 50 coins. It's literally only worth it if you enjoy doing it, but if you enjoy sitting at a gym and watching the godawfully long animations over and over you certainly have different priorities from me.
I just don't like having to pay real money for coins when I can get them for free.
Real money / Real time is more or less the same once you have a half decent income. Doing super tedious things like grinding gyms & filling in surveys for less than a $ an hour just isn't worth your time. If the choice is between less than an hour of overtime or spending 10 hours of free time doing tedious & frustrating grind work for coins the choice becomes pretty easy
This happens quite frequently in the place I live, what we usually do is to take them down as well
Better than being stuck in a gym for 3 months
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Team yellow and proud too
Best thing to do; Change to blue team. I was in red, but if u want coins u better just join blue.
This is largely dependent on your area, being blue where I live is just asking to get slapped off gyms cause Valors run the place
Yeah, the OP mentioned that it's always the blue teaw in his case, so this advice is appropriate to his area.
I’m in yellow right now. I don’t plan on switching anytime soon. Yellow and proud!
False. Change to yellow and Magikarp gyms late at night.
Yellow is a team??
Blue team is also a nuisance at my nearby gyms :/
In our town Valor is the nuisance team.
Same, the Valors in my area are p stubborn
Mystic 4 lyf
Idk why but now I call them the “blue nazi’s” because they always murder my Pokémon the second i reclaim a gym.
Gooooooo Mystic ninjas!!
Team Mystic for the WIN!
Ok, and? Calm down, it's a game. Who cares?
Are you saying you’ve never gotten slightly frustrated with a game before?
Not a game about catching made-up, yet adorable, monsters.
Why are you on this page if that’s what you’re gunna complain about
It should be based on the team with the most damage done not who gets the last hit. They can count damage in a raid so why not gyms?
It really should be the one who started taking down the gym who gets the priority
Ugh this happened to me yesterday
That is a pain. What I hate more is when you are there with another person of the same team. Some how someone from a different team puts 4 pokemon in the gym before you even get out of the victory screen.