Pay to switch teams?
Maybe once a month or every 6 months allow you to switch teams I'm sure many of us didn't know who are friends were and what team or if they'd keep playing.
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This might be ideal to balance team distribution, but it's not very fair if you consider the single player: suppose I'm mystic and I've had a relatively easy life until now, now I'm able to switch team and get coins, while a e.g. Instinct player who had it tough until now would need to pay coins on top of that. This is rich getting richer and poor getting poorer.
I got your point, i did not think about it deep enough. The poor would have to pay, to get out of poverty.
I would like to have a system to balance out teams better, if change is allowed, because i would expect the most players changing to the biggest team, rendering gym-play even less interesting than now.
Maybe a better idea: Additional gym battling rewards: Extra poke-coins and stardust paid for battling a dominant teams gym?
Now, the least dominant team will not keep the gym for long time, and will get less coins and dust. This could be a compensation. With this compensation, i would like more to be in a underdog-team, and maybe i would change color under these circumstances.
Let's look at it from another angle. Give ppl the ability to switch teams on a monthly period basis (if you switch on Jan 1, the next time u can switch is Jan 31) BUT depending on the team distribution in an area/township/city/region/country, if your team is the majority, occupying a gym doesn't give you 10 coins. And if your team is the minority, you get more than 10 coins.
What do you guys think?