Hello,
I know it’s near impossible to do it but I really want to try.
In this S14 cell, there is 3 gyms (red dots) :
As you can see, two of them are very close : “Panoramagique” et “Le ballon sur l’eau” which are near the Disney Village, a crowed place where a gym make sense.
The third one is around the Sequoia Lodge hotel, where a gym make sense too.
But in this cell, there is the New York hotel, where a gym would make sense.
So here my proposition, can you transform “Le ballon sur l’eau” as a stop and put a gym around the New York hotel ?
In the picture below I put in blue 3 stops that could be a gym in place of the “Le ballon sur l’eau”.
I think it would be “fairer” between the 3 major crowed places in this cell.
Thanks for your help.
In summary, no this is not possible.
Gyms are selected effectively at random, as this is the fairest way for all players. If some players were allowed to choose gyms, this would not be fair for other players who want it somewhere else.
Once a pokestop has been upgraded to a gym, this cannot be switched to another pokestop without removing the gym wayspot from wayfarer.
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That’s sad… but I understand.
It could be interresting to make a new random choice once per year, no ?
That would renew players habits and take in consideration the potentials new stops ^^
It’s an interesting idea for gyms to move around occasionally. A much easier thing that wouldn’t cause complaints would be if showcases moved, which would also solve the problem of a showcase wayspot being removed, as the showcase never gets replaced. Niantic have done either of those and I doubt they will.
Ironically, a lot of people would complain if gyms were moved because older gyms were often selected (using an Ingress-related mechanic), so some parks have gym clusters because this is what the majority of players wanted. The use of this Ingress feature to pick Pokemon Go gyms a annoyed Ingress players, since it had a slight impact on Ingress as well.
Moving away from that feature was a good thing.
I have also mentioned that “Rotating” Gyms and even switching wayspots in multi occupied cells could bring some “randomness” to the game.
Problem is that it would likely be a negative with how I play. I have mobility issues, I can get around but not quickly. For Raids I visit the town park and I get to a spot can reach 3 Gyms. I then wait for “the community” to walk past and jump in to the 3 raids. I then wait as they walk on to others until they return where I can do another 3.
