The new gym shaving?
The closest gym to my house is 2.3 miles away. Since I am Blue in a predominantly Red area, I learned a long time ago to leave this gym alone. I can't hold it for more than a few minutes. But, this week I have driven up there in the evenings just in hopes of catching a raid.
Each night, around 8:30 PM, I have noticed a car with 3 or 4 people in it. The gym gets battled, a single Yellow mon gets put in, and 10 minutes later it gets booted and the gym turns Red again. They get their 50 coins a day!
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I think multi-accounters will go up with this new gym system...
I would think most "smart" people would stop attacking gyms to prevent people on a dominant rival team from claiming their coins so the gym becomes dead weight to everyone...
If you are on the minority team, you can boot them out, but with an instant 6 slots, you kick 6 folks out and they get their 50...You put yours in, you get 5-10 max...then get booted.
As bad as things were before, you can actually prevent the towers from being built up in your area since they would have to prestige and that took work, time, potions, revives...you can also knock them out before 21 hours and block them as well...
Even as a minority player, that was possible, but now, it's open season to max a gym instantly and another 18 BORING fights...
Also, gyms are FULL a LOT now (with only 6 spots) and I can't find a spot in a lot of my old gyms...some gyms are also never attacked so you need to find high turnover, car parkable locations...or work with a rival team member (is that what Niantic means by playing collaboratively?) to knock you out and you return the favor...
In my area it seems like Mystic (my team) is dominating, although before that it used to be Valor everywhere, with Instinct being the minority. I prefer to help them get their mons out, and in return they also let me stay for a while.
2 days ago I found 2 gyms next to each other and fought them with someone else who was around somewhere, not sure if spoofer or was sitting somewhere nearby. Then we took both of those gyms. Next day, someone came, kicked me only out of 1 gym. Today someone kicked me out of the other too.
