so sad...
The old gym system with
-some free spots
-prestiging it up to strengthen it and open more spots
-getting rewards for holding gyms
COMBINED WITH
-the new first-in-first-out placement
-only one mon of a type
-mons becoming weaker over time (reversible with berries or not)
That would have been a really fun game, so sad it won't happen.
And against shaving they could just block that free spot for some random time, could be hours. That would do the trick.
I espescially miss the prestiging, it was such a brillant idea to make so many mons useful.
People put some work into the gym and then could place their variety of really strong defenders.
Not only trying to overtrump their team mates with some higher CP gyarados.
And not dropping a pidgey en passant, hoping it's back in 8 hours.
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I actually prefer to not sit for 30 mins prestiging.
I think this new system has so many fixes but in fixing so many problems they have created new problems.
Preferrably if they fixed problems one at a time they could of prototyped solutions more and found better solutions to each individual problem.
Now it will be hard to fix all the new problems. Even raids are a problem as the spawn rate of 4 star is quite high making those monsters far less rare.
30 mins? More like 5-10 if you can prestige fast...The old system benefited those who knew how to dodge, had ideal prestigers and was probably the only "skill" in the game...
Yes, Blissey takes long, but most regular defenders not named Blissey or Snorlax was very fast...if your team was smart, they stick 3 of the same thing in a row like 3 Garys or 3 Rhydons...go to town and clear all 3 a couple times +2, 8k prestige...
I was one who enjoyed the challenge of prestiging. And no way would it take 30 minutes. I had a massive prestige team and was exceptionally efficient at it.
I'd laugh when I would see a gym slowing raising in prestige, thinking man that poor soul has no idea how to prestige a gym.
I could raise a gym 8k to the next level in no time, even with blisseys once I figured it out. That was an actual time when I had to really think and tons of trial and error to maximize prestige without timing out. Was a fine line I figured out.
Back in the day when there was a challenge.
Now everything is handed to these kids.
I knew every man and his dog would say "nlah blah im pro at prestiging, takes only 8 mins to get 8k". You all have no sense of time whatsoever.
When you have to prestige vs a blissey it was a massive time waste. Often there are 2-3 Blissey in a row at the bottom and you fight a 2800 Blissey with a 2500 executor and get 600 exp per battle... I am sorry but that just takes forever. You have to fight 14 blisseys to get 8k exp. Then you also have to either revive/heal or switch out your prestige team for new ones.
All you people who say you were pro at it either faced dragonites (which are piss easy) or you have no understanding of the time you waste at a gym.
And I am not even mentioning network errors or glitch death.
