Gym disappeared

General Discussion
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PMG gyms on the bigger cells are triggered at 2, 6, 20

So in theory, if there were 3-5 or 7-19, when the Gym Disappeared one of the others went from a stop to a Gym and then when it was restored (either by new submission, or someone monitoring this thread) the cell was full so it became a stop.

Now if there was 2 or 6. It might have triggered the random and something else became one.

Now, the worst case is if there was 2 back in day that triggered the Gym, then the other stop was already removed, Gyms donā€™t downgrade when you go back to 1ā€¦ BUT if the other one was already removed, and then this one put back its now the first/only POI in cell so a Stop.

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Thank you for your reply! There were 2 in the cell when this was put up so I guess when it was removed a random became gym instead. Suppose we need to find another POI and keep fingers crossed that becomea a gym because I guess there is no chance getting our gym back? Or could there?

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If there is 2 already, then yes one of them became the Gym.

If your returned spot is 3rd, youā€™d need 3 more in same cell to trigger a gym. Then youā€™d if it is truly random = 1/5 chance of becoming a Gym.

((Though I think thereā€™s a tilted chance toward older stops personally from what I have seen. I have seen more older stops become the gym then newer in a way that would be an outlier if they had equal chance. However, my own personal sample size is small enough that it could just be an outlier with stops being all equal. Without knowing Niantics code OR large large sample size to confirm it would be hard to tellā€¦ Once upon a time, the stop with the most upvotes in Ingress would become the Gym, but that code is gone))