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Solution to sniping

Just stop displaying the battle animation on top of gyms during prestiging.

Asked by GobblesAmerica8 years 4 months ago

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They've already done something about it.
Now the winner has 30 seconds to put his pokemon before anyone else.

That only covers when one team takes down an enemy gym.

The much worse form of sniping is taking a spot after someone else has built the gym up 2,000 to 8,000 prestige. The current priorty system for gym placement does absolutely nothing for that.

This only prevents rival sniping. It does not prevent friendly sniping when prestiging

Not for prestiging.

I don't generally go to attack gyms that are already being prestiged, or prestige gyms that are under attack. If the battle animation was removed, I wouldn't know if these were happening, and would end up unintentionally doing it more. I also would probably end up prestiging a gym that's already being prestiged.

Bad idea. People will not be able to collaborate or defend a gym. Sniping does not happen that frequently, it's just that it is so imflammatory when it happens.

It happens all the time near me. I swear people see the animation on top of a level 8-9 tower and run out like vultures.

If people are at/near a gym together, the animation is kinda superfluous, as you would be able to just see / talk to the other person ... the pros of removing the animation seem potentially huge, whereas any cons would be minimal and purely aesthetic.

Not in a major city. It's really hard to tell who else is playing that you can actually see, and who is playing that you can't see (in a building, across the street, etc).

I'm fine with the animation, I actually like it.
Niantic, please give the 30 seconds for prestiging.
That is all I need.
I'm all about prestiging, and it is a super drag to get sniped.

This is the most logical solution to the problem that is being described...although it needs to be more like 60 to 90 seconds, because you may still be in battle for a while after the gym reaches enough prestige.

This is actually an incredible idea, and it's a simple solution that would probably eliminate 90+ % of all sniping.

Yeah, show the animation for battling, don't show it for prestiging. Seems like a simple solution.

I agree, good idea.

Then it wouldn't be possible to see somebody is prestiging and help him, which happens often here and is the best part of the game IMO

I vote for giving the original prestige person time to put his player in. Just like after taking down a gym. I got sniped twice today. Both after building up a gym to level 10.

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