Remote berry feeding against some Mystic account-sharing bastards who were trying to monopolise the area with blue. My gym was the only yellow in a sea of blue gyms.
I saw them (their usernames in the gym, not in person) just take down a Valor gym down the road, and I already expected the attack coming to my gym next. True enough, the attack came 8 minutes after they took over the Valor gym.
They had 4 accounts, but apparently had bad attacking strategies, sweeping all 6 at once 2 by 2, instead of targeting only the first Blissey, and did not know about the sync attack trick. (That's despite one of them "showing off" a perfect IV maxed legacy SC/SB Gengar in coincidentally the same gym, a few days ago).
I could continuously feed berries for 30 minutes, even 4 on 1, without hitting the berry cap.
It was really fun feeding golden berries against them.
Then a multi-accounter who I know, with 3 accounts in the gym, started feeding too. I had to do other things, so I left the feeding to him.
Another 30 minutes later, the gym was still standing with the same 6 defenders, and with a lot more berries fed than before. And the gym was still under attack!
Blue monopoly? No way.
Also if I could afford the time and healing items, I would have went to attack their first gym to distract them while the multi-accounter was feeding mine.
Edit: My Dragonite just returned from the gym. But the gym is still yellow, and I still received coins for today. That's good enough.
Nice Job defending your gym.
My area has reds trying to monopolize everything and i believe there were spoofers and multiple accounts. Also a few berry bots because of 180+ berries fed to a blissey within 8 hours. Thankfully, not many gyms in the center areas of hong kong withstands more than 12 hours. (If anyone places stuff that survive for more than a day something fishy is going on)
Update: The blues took down the gym after 80 minutes of fighting. But the multi-accounter fought back and targetted only the first Blissey, which thankfully was only 2.8k, used the sync attack on them, but failed as they kept feeding at 2/3 motivation. Apparently he also took advantage of that to make them waste even more berries.
I hope they used enough potions.
Also, that group of blues have even been hated by their own teammates. All blue gyms also means no gyms for other blues to take down!
> They had 4 accounts, but apparently had bad attacking strategies, sweeping all 6 at once 2 by 2, instead of targeting only the first Blissey
Until you know incentives of other people you shouldn't make conclusions, if they want gym points and have surplus of potions/revives then this strategy is better than taking defenders one by one
Congrats! After I've trolled people in my area with gold berry remote feeding, I thought it was overpowered, but seeing posts like these made me realize that it's actually the only defense people have against spooflords. Recently I've had a gym taken from under my nose, but no one seemed to be using a phone at that time nor be close enough to interact with the gym, and there were no buildings or cars in that area, just an open park around a statue. I retook it but the attacker didn't bother to take it back. Missed my chance to put a Lickitung again though, put a Breloom.
There is a level 28 with a name referencing a place across the world that always puts in at 3am to 4am at a popular 24hr park with 4 gyms. He took one gym down, I took it back and they left the rest of them alone. Some spoofers from my color proceeded to put a few into those 4 gyms, 4am...nothing but me, skunks and deer.
I've only been outside up to 11 pm, so I can't even know for sure if there were spoofers or not past that time but I've seen gyms get grounded at 3 am too, as I got a good view of the park from where I live. And yet someone tells me on my group that I'm a spoofer because I take gyms in the evening and none of their members (when actually I have seen at least one of theirs accompanied by another player) is out during the evening, only during the morning/day. I welcome them to come and say hi when they see a gym attacked in the evening, but they're probably not going to bother. At this point I wonder if any of them has witnessed true spoofer activity.
If only that were the case. He lives close to it so he should know. And same with the others, especially the 2 who go at night and I've come across. (In fact all parks in Bucharest are open at night).
This park is very close to my house. It has one of the biggest nests in town, found 3 of my shinies in there (1 being the Dratini on community day), has LOTS of gyms, so plenty of room for everyone... but when there are legendary raids, no one from my group can gather here.
That whole approach to monopolizing gyms is just stupid. The teams need each other to get paid. If Blue, or Red, really wants to take over every gym in a region, let them, and never knock them out. They won't get paid, and while they will get gold in the gyms, it won't mean much.
On the other hand, 12 players can trade off a gym with a 3+ hour time window for error, and have every one of them get full coins every day. Much better use of the gym.
Best thing lately has been defending gyms. Last EX wave we (Instinct) have been able to hold 9 of all 10 Mewtwo raid gyms in our city for over 3 days (including people taking shifts at night). Other teams started accusing us of using "bots" to feed berries, but the most/worst we did were sharing accounts for maximizing berries at night.
The Berry defending is only thing, that making me play less POGO than before. It should be changed, cause it can make some ppl leaves POGO like some of my friends. Having no chance of taking gym vs feeders for few days( Red monopoly in every gym near me) is more than annoying and lame. I never did this an wont do it. Its extremely lame and how this can be fun? Maybe if they allow to feed just once per 30 mins instead of 10 if dont staying near gym it can be balanced.
