New Best Gym Defenders
Coming in at #1 is the biggest baddest beast to ever frequent the Pokemon gym scene: the dreaded network error.
And a close #2 is the horrible lag
3 is a tie between ghost charging your special move and trying to use it only to realize its not actually full yet...
But lets be real. The gym update is gonna make most players who are lv 30 + Quit the game. I'm lv 39 and already tired of seeing gyms filled with lv 20 somethings and even many teens. I put my 100% IV Maxed Dnite at 3530 cp in a gym only to watch it lose 20 cp in 3 minutes folks. The previous gym system was weak but the current one is a sad joke. Niantic please do us all a favor and sell all of your rights to Pokemon Go ASAP. Pretty much every update has made the game worse but the gym rework tops them all. Niantic i'm flipping you the bird.
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What Ya mean a joke ... the old system gym you built up as strong as possible so it would last as long as possible and the new gym you want your little dude there for 8 hours then you want someone to maul it so you get paid ....
How could you call a gym system where you want the other team to beat you, a joke! ;p
I think this is pretty much a rerun of last time around, they need to get the bugs out first before making any other improvements.
I don't know why they get so many bugs maybe they are not good programmers or maybe this type of game is hard to develop...
After they get the bugs out the reason question is:-
"What do you want to do?"
If you just want to sit in stacked level 10 gyms all day and collect coins that isn't much of a game.
But I imagine taking down those level 10 gyms is fun for higher level payers, I'm level 28 and I generally don;t have the time / resources to do it.
IMO Niantic need to add in additional challenges for the higher level players.... Raid battles was obviously 1 attempt to do that...
the way forward is to get the bugs out then keep evolving the game, going back to the past versions of the game is a waste of time....
The challenge of higher level players needs to be more than just taking the existing gyms ....
There needs to be a better system of rewards.....
Anyway, I hope they can improve the game to a level that keeps everyone happy, that is difficult
I think they also need other ways to earn coins outside of gyms...maybe some quests where you have to do certain things, throw 10 great throws in a row, spin 20 stops in 10 minutes, catch 10 fire types in a row, attack a gym and clear them all in 1 go, etc...
Maybe even make gyms NPCs like team rocket.
I think the new gym system is crap too, but I am sure Niantic knows that actually and will probably change it...
Needing rivals to kick you out to get coins has got to be the stupidest thing.
Also, if you are in a minority area, it sucks even more since you clear the gym, they all get 50, they come back and knock you out in 30-60 minutes, you get 3-6 coins...Old system, at least you can get 10 coins or 10-30 if you can do a few lower level gyms quickly.
