Something Big Is About To Happen To Pokémon GO's Gyms

Gyms now are impossible to take down- most now go 10 deep with the most powerful Pokémon. If you were able to tag team with a friend to take a gym down, that would change everything

And yes, I still play while jogging or walking my dog. Nothings changed, it's still a fun game to play that involves you're surroundings. Seems like it's trendy to say it's a dead game

@FatAlbert1 It is very trendy to say its a dead game when it really isn't. It still have something like six million active daily players, which is a number many other app games would kill to have.

@FatAlbert1 Like the main series itself, Go has fallen from being ubiquitous to being "merely" very popular.

This should have had more connectivity from the start.

People still cheat, and it kinda breaks the game. I HATE dishonest people.

Dang it, I have gyms all over the place, including 200+ miles away. Bummer. I'm going to have to start from scratch. Ugh.

Really hope the annoying glitches in the gyms where your 'mons constantly die and revive endlessly until you lose the match is fixed. Kind of unacceptable that the main part of the game everyone works towards being able to participate in is riddled with game-breaking bugs.

Of course... now that I've finally managed to get one of my 'mons into a gym, it's coming back out.

To me, gyms aren't really the main problem. (They are flawed and need fixing, but...) what this game really lacks is ways to heal your Pokémon after taking on those gyms. You can't buy potions with Poké Coins. The only way to get them is to get lucky on a Pokéstop spin.

If they could just add in Pokémon Centers... even a one-time daily full heal of your team would be great. (You could even sell additional heals via microtransactions, because hey, it's 2017 and we've all been conditioned to that by now...)

The local mystic gang I see speculating that gyms will be set up on a first come first served basis - eliminating the need for really powerful Pokémon to occupy the gyms.

I hope this is the case because the most powerful aren't necessarily my favourite

Still no way to submit new Stops, still don't care about the game.

I still play daily so this is good news.

@FatAlbert1 you can't tag team with a friend anymore? You used to be able to if you attacked at the same time, I thought.

@Joeynator3000 While that is partially true, earlier this week (or late last week) their portal submission program on Ingress (which btw has already helped add many new pokestops as well, especially in certain rural locations) was recently expanded to allow lvl 15 ingress players to also make submissions.

Now granted, Pokemon Go players would much rather have the submissions on their end instead of Ingress, but they're clearly trying to gradually ease open the gate to minimize the inevitable flood of entries that would follow. Ingress players have been around playing for a lot longer on a somewhat similar game, and while I know we all have a list of locations that could use a stop or gym (or multiple), the highest leveled ingress players would (on average) have a lot more experience to say where areas could really use portals/stops.

That said, I do hope they open this program up to the highest leveled PoGo players at some point in the near future.

Yeah, I'm just tired of having to pay money for some Pokeballs only to lose all of them in 1 day. :c

Looking forward to this.
Shame my half a dozen settled pokes will be kicked out of gyms but worth it to spice everything up and kick out the bots for a few days.

I barely did any of the gyms stuffs. Finding and capturing Pokemon was the most interesting part of the game for me.

What, are they going to change gyms so they're fun?

@DarkKirby Gyms aren't that bad now in the area I live. I can at level 29 single-handedly take down level 6 gyms that have five or six level 3K pokemon. Occasionally I will come across a gym with several Blissey that I can't fight. The mechanic of seeing a gym is being battled is nice, but you currently can't see if a gym is being trained at to level it up. I'm not opposed to changing the mechanic to make it more involved such as battling other human players at gyms.

I hope something changes with gyms. My 4 year old son is so sad when I have to keep telling him we can't take that gym on because the "easiest" Pokemon in the gym is at 2700+ CP.

This was announced around a week ago... this message is mre of a reminder.

Gyms needed to be sorted out to deal with spoofers... it's too easy for them to dominate all the gyms in an area
We've been fighting back against them in my area and have basically just had to outlast them... they eventually get bored and move on, but do return every so often.
Without them causing problems, gyms aren't too bad... even those full of 3000+CP Pokémon can be taken down with strategy and patience, but most people are happy with the status quo, so just weaken them a bit rather than taking them down completely.
Adding more of a PVP aspect would be great as well... Ingress has a remote recharge feature which makes it a little more PVP-like by allowing you to respond to attackers, and this would help to counteract the spoofers.

@DarkKirby
Bingo.

I know there are people heard that will preach to me about how guns are blah blah blah, I played since day one, often times hours a day. Traveled with work to several diff states and made sure to take out the phone on down time to see what diff pokemon were in the new areas. It was huge fun.

The gyms? No. I played a gym once, had 4 monsters that I had to just keep playing to beat. No real strategy, no fun, and no point. And no I don't care about getting coins, I always said anything you can buy you can get by playing. I played a hour or so a day while walking and had plenty of balls from stops. Lucky eggs? To do what? Experience doesn't make anything better, the higher you get the harder to actually catch low level stuff.

As it is, the guns are an ego trip that leads to bots and cheating galore. Give me more stops, more Pokémon to catch, and actual player to player interaction over a gym improves or otherwise.

What the game needs is a way to battle other trainers that you pass, no silly coins, both players can gain experience, more for the winner, and winner gets stardust. Much better than whatever they intend to do with the gyms.

@FatAlbert1 @Roam85 Yes you can still tag-team with multiple friends to take down a gym, even if your friend is of the other enemy team. I tried it last week.

A succesful team attack should show you the friendly Pokémon animating in the background.

@XCWarrior You can take down 2700CP Pokémon with someone much much lower levelled pretty easily. I have an 1800 Cloyster that I will sometimes use to tear through 2 or 3 3000CP Dragonites at a time.

@crimsontadpoles I don't do any gym activity. Matter of fact, I'm at level 28 and I've yet to pick a team.

@Indielink I guess I"ll have to try that, thanks.

@XCWarrior Type advantage trumps CP difference in a lot of cases, just need to experimet a little bit. There is definitely still some fun to be had for you and the little one.

They need to fix the gyms before most people just stop playing or drop down to a casual level where they make no money off the coining aspects of the title.

Face facts as it is now, those who got in early, or pay weekly/monthly in drops of real cash for coin in the game have nearly zero chance to ever see the inside of a gym. It has been a problem since months into the game going live and only has progressively gotten worse with squatters, clubs, and locals who setup spots near offices (etc) who can just sit there all day, pay some real money, and hold the things permanently like guard dogs racking up some steep real in game coin at the cost of a vast majority of players fun with the game.e

My wife quit on it maybe 5-6months into it going live because she never could get into a gym but rarely. I've got the same problem and I'm a little over 1/2 into Lv29 currently. I haven't seen the inside of a gym in probably 3-4 months and it all lasted of just less than one coin cycle. The gym aspect needs some serious overhaul so more people can benefit from the wide offerings of the game that supposedly are all there for those to enjoy. Had it not been for these monthly events of non-regional(usually) pokemon and other XP perks I'd have quit too. I love collecting but as it stands now my area doesn't get much of any fire, ice, a few dark, nearly nothing metal or electric...I have to leave the state to find stuff, and even then some things don't happen. Just days ago I got my first Jynx and Lapras, two weeks earlier an Electabuzz and I started when the game went live. I still have yet to get a shot at a Porygon and around 10% of the others in the game that aren't country specific which is infuriating.

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