Pokemon Go #10. See ya later Feralligator, in a while Totodile

I got into 3 gyms this morning. One had a slot available, two I knocked out some opposition. I'm on the dominant team, so it's refreshing that they are getting a foothold. Under the previous system, the gyms could get quite stagnant for weeks. Nice if you were in there collecting coins, but frustrating for solo opposition players or not being able to get in because it's trained into maximum.

I did 3 laps of the woods so stocks of items have recovered a bit from the event. I found that the pokestops were being a bit stingy too with far too many purple potions and not enough balls, particularly the blue and yellow.

It's worth bearing in mind that highest CP pokemon will deplete quicker than lower CPs. They're also fought in order of entry, not CP.

I have seen spoofing in action in the past. A few months back the gyms were dominated by a cluster of high level, high CP, rare Valour pokemon, out of keeping with the usual Instinct dominance. I tried taking over a gym, and while I revived my pokemon to put in, 3 invisible men called DishyFella, DishyFella2 and Dishyfella3 () took it back over again. Because the game is fixed on physical opportunities, that has denied legitimate players access to resources to progress. A fortnight frozen out by spoofers is one or two incubators of coins.

Getting a lift to town but now its started raining, bugger

I agree the battles are taking much longer. DS was fighting one flareon and it took about 10 minutes. If that gym had had more than one pokemon, he'd never have been able to take it.

Wondering if someone has had a pop at one of mine. Took ten berries today to get him back up to half cp. he's now dropping again. Think I'll let them knock him out and then pop him back in if there's space, since he will be later in th list for being beaten up! My other one in another gym was first in, but didn't want any berries, so maybe no one has yet had a pop at him.

Namelessensign the three (now two) gyms I can access actually have really good 4G signal (O2) but 6 miles down the road in the little town where there are a few more gyms, I can't access them 95% of the time. The weather makes a difference for me, sounds weird but it really does, on a clear day, rare at the West coast of Scotland, I have a better chance to access the gyms there.

Igneo - our local gym is just the same. Patchy 3G (lots of huge trees) mean the app glitches in and out and you can't see what what you're doing in battles.

Pokémon Go have confirmed on twitter that raids will be available to more players over the next few days.

Even more info on new gyms and raids, from Pokémon Go

Candy and stardust as rewards for feeding Pokémon, apparently. Haven't done it yet but that would be awesome. Can anyone confirm?

Glad the cheaters are getting penalised.

I bet my local gyms have been taken over by the red team already, they always take over the gyms. I like the sound of the new coin system though. Just need to persuade OH to drive me to town today as I left my bike in town and can't really walk at the moment (foot is buggered) so I can check out the gyms.

BumWad - there's not much to get your head around.

Basically, it's very similar to how it was. One team holds a gym, you can battle that gym with your Pokémon, and instead of the prestige counter going down, the enemy Pokémon's happiness rating goes down (as indicated by a heart graphic above each Pokémon). Once you have battled the gym down, you can put your Pokémon in the gym.

If your (or other team member's) Pokémon are not completely happy, their heart will be a little bit empty, so you can feed them a berry. The less happy a Pokémon is, the less well it can fight, so it makes sense for the team to feed them.

Coins are now awarded on an hourly basis, and you get them when a Pokémon comes home to you after being defeated. You get one coin per hour, apparently.

You can also spin the gyms as pokestops. First, click into the gym, then you will see a little photo disc icon. Click this and you can then spin the photo disc.

Raids are not really in effect right now, so don't worry about that yet. Apart from that, nothing has changed. You still battle in the same way, is clicking the hell out of the opposing Pokémon and doing an occasional special attack.

Hello long time no see!

I'm still on level 32. I can't get my head around this new gym thing. Will have a walk out later when it stops raining.

Quite a few around here are level 36/37/38. They are regulars and I'm pretty sure they don't cheat.

I wish they would not have removed gyms in rural areas, it's not like we had an enormous number of the in the first place or have 4G at all the ones that are there.

I battled a Snorlax earlier with my much higher CP Rhydon, I battled it twice, got the heart about half empty, but then I have to go because Big Kids came and sniggered at me so I ran away, I am 36 ffs So I think battles will generally take longer. Before the update I am pretty sure I would have taken the gym out in one go.

Psam it makes perfect sense to test on higher levels first I guess - plus each raid point is presumably less valuable to them with the millions of XP needed!

And this, too, which explains about coins and badges a bit more

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Igneo yes, some new gyms and some old ones have gone.

I just took about 7 minutes to battle down a solo 2700 vaporeon to take our only gym for 6 miles. It used to be much faster! And from experience I know there about 3 of us playing locally because it just switches between the 3! Not sure I will be able to pop for a battle on the way to work any mire around the school run.

Ah, seems I am not the only one to make that assumption

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Faith in Niantic most likely fully restored

Is it possible the level 35 thing is for beta testing purposes and that it'll be released for lower levels (from level 20, perhaps) in the future? I seriously have seen maybe one gym regular in my town who is level 35. The rest are like me, between around 26 to 32.

One of the three gyms that I can access has disappeared, no sign of it, not even just greyed out or anything.

Oops sorry didn't realise the level 35 raid thing!

Gyms are open. No coins though. Pokémon go plus not registering them so you have to have the app open. Can battle by yourself.

I thought I was doing ok at lvl 31. Will be a while before I hit 35

Glad to see the new gym status! I have been playing since July 21st, daily, but I live in the sticks with one gym a ten minute walk away and only a few stops. Crap Pokemon, no nests, very little reward, but I play daily. I'm level 29, no cheating, and it will probably be a year before I get to level 35! A bit exclusively surely?

Level 35?!

Omg.

Dd1 is going to be devastated. I better gain 6 levels by 3o' clock today.

Oh my god I'm so happy! I was just casually checking Pokemon Go and a Hitmonchan appeared in my house!

I've been looking for one of them for forever! So happy. It's high CP but 'not much headway' so can't fight with it. Still, another for the Pokedex!

So, after my mass evolve from this event which I'll do tomorrow after a lot of studying, I now have just 15 left from Gen 1 (excluding regionals and legendaries).

Majority are grass Pokemon evolutions (gloom, vileplume, weepin and victrebell, exeggecutor)

The only ones I need to catch/hatch that I can't walk are Scyther, Snorlax, Porygon and Duduo.

I am one happy bunny