According to two closed threads and two mods who commented on them, gym creation is now random and people that try to choose the best place for a gym are now potentially going to be in trouble and could be banned. Looking around this seems to have infuriated a huge number of people in a wide variety of forums. I’ll be interested to see how this will be resolved and what the outcome will be.
my opinion is that random choosing, while somewhat fair, will be problematic. Angering a substantial chunk of the player base is never a good thing. “Fixing” things no one has complained about while not touching things that are being complained about is never a good thing.
to me that suggests something is going to have to be done regarding this decision. What, I don’t know. I’d have to think a bit on something more fair, but no matter what it is; once people figure it out there will be attempts to abuse it.
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It depends on the number of PokeStops in a specific area. What will become the gym is random.
Yes, it is random. Niantic has confirmed that manipulating specific Wayspots to become gyms is classified as abuse.
Thank you! :)
need to check the cells number 14 in a specific area, pokestops appear in cells number 17, so then you cound all the pokestops inside the cell 14
2 pokestops one become gym
6 pokestops there will be 2 gyms
20 pokestops there will be 3 gyms
used to be like this
According to two closed threads and two mods who commented on them, gym creation is now random and people that try to choose the best place for a gym are now potentially going to be in trouble and could be banned. Looking around this seems to have infuriated a huge number of people in a wide variety of forums. I’ll be interested to see how this will be resolved and what the outcome will be.
my opinion is that random choosing, while somewhat fair, will be problematic. Angering a substantial chunk of the player base is never a good thing. “Fixing” things no one has complained about while not touching things that are being complained about is never a good thing.
to me that suggests something is going to have to be done regarding this decision. What, I don’t know. I’d have to think a bit on something more fair, but no matter what it is; once people figure it out there will be attempts to abuse it.
Thank you, can I close this disscusion? I dont know how.