I really like the new gym system, its something fresh and nice and smart and all of those things, but at the same time i hate it so much.
Im in super minority here. We, as instinct, never ever had here stagnant gym due to multiple mystic noobs around and most importantly organised valor team, playing as a whole around here. Back then there were some turnover gyms, in between those red stagnants, i could grab on the way home and get 40-60 coins a day. Well its not posible for me, at least not now.
Taking a gym takes so much more time than it used to, lvl3 could be brought down in about 2mins, now most of them are max (without the "annoying" prestiging) and even if there is only one or 2, it still takes 5 battles with every mon, if they are not fed. That means, at least for me, 5 times more time since i never took solo 10lvls (time/gain profit).
And the shit never lasts, at least not now and i doubt they will be lazier since they all played hard until now.
And the feeding s***, i just dont get it properly or something. I took a gym down 4 times down, whole squad. And everytime i started again they were all maxed.
When i tried to feed mons during battle today, i could do 20% only once and then it rised near to nothing and after 10 berries i couldnt feed anymore.
This update and rework is awesome for teamplay, but when u are alone (or with very few companions), u cant earn s***
I think people will stop attacking honestly...when someone takes over and it instantly becomes a level 10 gym without prestiging (skill/work), it sucks...
Add in people adding crap WHILE you are attacking and I just give up honestly...Tried to clear a gym today and while I was attacking, 2 more mons poped up and everything was healed again...
Better to wait for gyms to be your team, drive by, put mon in, maybe feed a berry, collect (hoping) no one attacks it...
Yes, I have just spent almost 45 mins to take down a valor gym, it is even worst than the previous level 10 ones without any doubt, even with the limit species their CP goes down so slowly that you have to fight them many times, making it not worth it at all, and of course when you take down them 2 or 3 times you see someone passing, feeding, and you have to repeat the hole process, tedious, boring and not rewarding.
At least before you made sure you get 10 coins and 500 dust, but for 1 or 2 coins and no dust at all? No thank you, won't battle any more enemy gyms at all until they give some rewards to do it.
I gotta think the drive by, add berries, add more mons is a bug...This makes people camping at gyms simply impossible to take down...
What annoyed me today is I was about to take out the last Blissey in a gym and someone added 2 more and berried them all up even after I attacked and won 1 or 2 battles...
This makes it a total waste of time and annoying as hell.
