Harvesting gym rewards
This night, i put my alarm clock to harvest my gym reward at 3:30 am. I have to do so once a week; Yesterday i coud harvest at 6:30 (normal get-up-time), tonight i can harvest at 0:30 am, just before going to bed.
It is this one time per week, 3:30 that bothers me a bit.
I wondered, what other players do. Do you just harvest same time every day?
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I started to to so during last event, to get double stardust. Stardust is as important as poke-coins for me - pokecoins can be transformed into stardust via incubators, thats the way i think.
My avatar is walking at night thanks to gps-error, and so i get some eggs hatched. Last night (3:30) i could put a new egg into my incubator and this morning, it was hatched 4,1km already. So it was a little bit more usefull than just one additional harvest of 8-10 pokecoins per week.
I never wake up to collect my coins hahah. As some said I just get out every morning and on my way to work collect 4-7 gyms (depending on how is the turnover rate that morning).
I will never stop sleeping or doing other activity for a game, if I had to do that it would stop being a hobby, I love this game and I play for fun, I play every day but not even close to that point of setting an alarm to woke up :D
I'm a team Instinct member and live in a city hugely dominated by Mystic. I usually collect my coins at 2AM just before I go to bed, because that's the only time I'll be able to reliably hold a gym for more than 15 minutes. Usually I'm able to take down all 4 neighbourhood Mystic gyms before I claim my 40 coins. Sometimes I'm still holding all 4 when I wake up, but I'm usually gymless again by the time I arrive at work.
I tried doing this run at midnight, but failed horribly. Most of the time, the two first gyms were already taken over before I had a chance to claim, and I ended up either running back and forth until all Mystic players were asleep, or regretfully claiming some hard earned 20 coins.
Safe to say, this lifestyle has shifted my sleeping cycle a good few hours. It's not that bad, but sometimes I imagine what my life would be like if I'd chosen a different team back when I started playing.
No fricken way I'm getting up at 3am for pokecoins.
I'm level 31 but I usually collect my coins at lunch. The odd time I'm busy at lunch I have to do it after work. But many other people are hitting gyms on the way home too.
I have a route I drive to work in the morning and I try to grab 2-3 gyms and hopefully hold them until lunch. Then grab 2-3 more gyms at lunch. More if time and the gyms allow it.
I try to get at least 5 gyms each day. We have a TON of turnover in our city and all 3 teams are fairly represented. Even level 10 gyms in our city don't last long.
So, some perspective: 100 pokecoins are worth $1; each 10 coins you get from a gym is worth 10 cents. When I first started playing I was anxious about getting coins from as many gyms as possible - I'd go so far as to run between the 5 or so by my office on my lunch break trying to control them all for at least a couple minutes (the turnover rate here is very high). I've since decided that all of that anxiety and stress wasn't worth it - so what if I only get 30 coins instead of 50? My life is stressful enough without adding any from PoGo, and my peace of mind is worth more than 20 cents a day. :P
That said, do whatever's fun for you! :)
I've set alarm few times to collect coins and dust ?! I used to wake up early in the morning and takeover 10 gyms. Now I dont have to do it anymore. Instict rules here and gyms last. Nowadays I take down gyms just for fun. Its been about for months that I've been holding at least 10 gyms continously.
