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They shouldn't have added so many gyms in big cities like mine. Rural areas needed more gyms and pokestops.

My city now has people no longer stressing over occupying territory. They already have enough gyms to split among themselves, why should they fight over them? This, coupled with the lack of incentive to attack due to recent changes and coin reduction, has made receiving your mons back near impossible. Even worse, people just won't stop feeding them! Your own team can be keeping them hostage, exactly as I feared.

They should have made it so that you can only feed berries for 1 day and then when motivation hits 0 the mon returns or at least can be recalled by the owner.

I would agree that in larger cities (1 million and above) the new system works Well. Just got back my blissey and egg from a Church and a esplanade; 30 and 30 (-10) coins

Don't be so sure this will keep up for you, some players are learning fast and eother don't care about the coin limit or are trying to max out their defender badge quickly. I did what you did on friday night and it wored because it started pouring rain out shortly after I did this around 11 PM. Last night I encountered two trainers who were set on taking every single easy-pickings gym with either free slots or only 2 enemy defenders at most, because as son as I took the same single gym as before, they walked up and took it. I waited about 2 minutes for them to have left and been gone for a while before retaking it, then waited around for about 15 minutes to see if they'd come back so I could ask if they'd leave me in a single gym overnight (they were in 6 I could see from where I was). They didn't show up, so I went home, and shortly after I got home my pokemon was back.

These gyms are in the middle of a university campus, not a high traffic area, so I'm fairly certain I'm going to end up competing with a lot of people to hold a single gym overnight.