It takes 20 POI to get a 3rd gym. You can get more gyms if AFTER the 3rd natural gym is added, a sponsor comes along and pays for one in the same L14 cell. Unfortunately, if you hit 3 gyms with a sponsored gym, let's say when you're at 19 POI, adding that last POI won't flip a natural 3rd gym. I know because this happened to me. I was less than a week away from getting the 20th POI approved in a public park which would have given me another EX gym but a dumb sponsor bought a gym in a parking lot so no more public park gyms for us!
Having said that, I've got another L14 cell in my area where the sponsored gym didn't factor into the calculation for flipping a gym. As soon as I added 2 natural POI, I got a natural gym. But now that I've increased the count to 6 natural POI, I can't get a 2nd natural gym. NOW that sponsored gym counts. None of it makes sense.
No, this keeps happening. Almost 2 months ago I requested a wayspot to be moved to its right location and it got accepted, wayspot got moved into another cell and both gyms remained inside the same S17 Cell. Same thing happened not so long ago when I reported these wayspots that were misplaced on purpose to show in game and when they got moved to their right location there ended up being 4 wayspots inside the same S17 cell, 3 pokestops and 1 gym, thankfully they merged 3 of them but still inside that cell remain 1 pokestop and 1 gym to this day.
I believe these "exceptions" have not been changed.
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It takes 20 POI to get a 3rd gym. You can get more gyms if AFTER the 3rd natural gym is added, a sponsor comes along and pays for one in the same L14 cell. Unfortunately, if you hit 3 gyms with a sponsored gym, let's say when you're at 19 POI, adding that last POI won't flip a natural 3rd gym. I know because this happened to me. I was less than a week away from getting the 20th POI approved in a public park which would have given me another EX gym but a dumb sponsor bought a gym in a parking lot so no more public park gyms for us!
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Unless it's Niantic the ones that perform the moves. That still allows to skip the rules.
Having said that, I've got another L14 cell in my area where the sponsored gym didn't factor into the calculation for flipping a gym. As soon as I added 2 natural POI, I got a natural gym. But now that I've increased the count to 6 natural POI, I can't get a 2nd natural gym. NOW that sponsored gym counts. None of it makes sense.
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No, this keeps happening. Almost 2 months ago I requested a wayspot to be moved to its right location and it got accepted, wayspot got moved into another cell and both gyms remained inside the same S17 Cell. Same thing happened not so long ago when I reported these wayspots that were misplaced on purpose to show in game and when they got moved to their right location there ended up being 4 wayspots inside the same S17 cell, 3 pokestops and 1 gym, thankfully they merged 3 of them but still inside that cell remain 1 pokestop and 1 gym to this day.
I believe these "exceptions" have not been changed.