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A story about defending a gym overnight (and why you shouldn’t try it if possible)

This afternoon, I took 3 gyms in Hougang, Singapore. One gym went down in late afternoon. Of the other 2, one was untouched, and the other was heavily defended by a 6-account yellow player. My Blissey was fed 129 berries in total!

Then at about 8pm, the untouched gym was still surprisingly intact. I decided to defend it for tomorrow’s coins.

While defending “extra” gyms overnight is common where I live, it was apparently frowned upon in Hougang. My gym was under attack non-stop from 8pm all the way to 11pm. I had the GRBs to keep defending, but not the time. I used about 80 GRBs total on two accounts. The attack was quite slow at first, but because much faster at 10pm.

That’s when I decided to cheat a little.
I set my time zone to Tokyo time, 1 hour ahead of Singapore time. (It was 23:06 SG time) Then I caught and spun a stop on both accounts, and let go of the gym. Thankfully, I did get 50 coins.

As for why you should avoid taking gyms to defend overnight, it’s because of how stressful it is when your gym gets attacked endlessly for whatever reason. If your pokemon comes out, you don’t get any coins. While for same-day gyms, you still get some, and can still slot back in if you’re near enough to the gym.

Asked by DragoniteSlayer6 years 11 months ago

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Lol... if your gym was defended by a six-account Yellow player, how would you have been inside it? All the six slots would be occupied by that one person, right?

Unless... it's you yourself who is that six-account player? So you occupied three entire gyms all by yourself?

There's a guy in Singapore known for having 6 accounts. That doesn't mean that he was in that gym with all of his accounts.

People with four or more accounts are a dime a dozen here. Anyway, there's no way to know how many accounts a particular individual has unless you know him or her personally.

Makes sense with how fanatical Singaporeans are in everything they do. I just see people here refer to "that one Instinct player with 6 accounts from Singapore" often, don't have any personal experience with him/other Singaporeans.

While it's true that you can't know for certain, you can make quite an educated guess whether a player has multiple accounts to his/her name.

The 6 account player took the remaining 4 slots after I took down the gym and placed 2 pokemon.

Now this is why I dislike players with multiple accounts. Creating an unfair advantage over single-account players.

Welcome to Singapore, where this sort of shit (along with spoofing) is tolerated and even welcomed in some areas.

nobody cares about Singapore, except people who live in Singapore.

what seems shady is changing the time on your phone to collect coins.

Well, I don't think PoGo players in any other country willingly accept rulebreakers the way we do.

Before raids were introduced and the gym rework, having multiple accounts was far less common and spoofers were far less welcome. High gym turnover ensured that there were always enough spots to prestige, so shaving was rare. I enjoyed targeting yellow gyms with suspicious usernames, as they could not feed golden razzberries back then.

Yeah, if I were in your shoes I'd do the same.

I wish that were still possible. At the very least, make subsequent GRBs heal less.

Don’t forget “sgpokemap” being the top Google search in SG last year

I personally don't see trackers as cheating. As long as you make the effort to travel to the spawn point itself, you're playing legit, as far as I'm concerned.

(I know a lot of people will disagree with me)

If you don't like it, then git gud.

Well, the attacker had 3 phones and 3 blue accounts. I know his accounts’ usernames, and he slotted the first 3

My town is only low to medium turn-over, so I can easily take a gym to hold overnight. No stress whatsoever, only costs me 1 revive. PoGo life is good here (also relatively high stop and gym density, cool rare spawns, such as Dragonite or Tyranitar, occur once in a short while, good community, etc.)

I guess this is the one positive to playing Go in a rural area. I can't remember the last time I got less than 50 coins

> I set my time zone to Tokyo time, 1 hour ahead of Singapore time. (It was 23:06 SG time) Then I caught and spun a stop on both accounts, and let go of the gym. Thankfully, I did get 50 coins.

Wow, I was not aware it works like that. I thought in game time determined by gps location.

It calculates based on the time zone in your phone's date and time settings. It can only go as far forward or back based on the current actual time zones available IRL. Once you go forward and spin/catch/whatever, you can't go back to claim any rewards you might have missed.