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I still play regular but it is getting pretty mundane. But that is not because pokevision and other 3rd party was banned. In fact they were supposed to be banne

I still play regular but it is getting pretty mundane. But that is not because pokevision and other 3rd party was banned. In fact they were supposed to be banned a lot earlier. The map users (myself included) will never pay for pokemongo but might pay for the map. This is not a good business model for them and in fact it defeats the purpose. Instead of hunting or seeking you are basically shopping. The reason why it is getting boring is actually something else... it is in the flaw of their game design. This game is extremely biased toward people who live around water with high density such as Santa Monica and San Francisco. You can catch Dragonite and bunch of starters there. But most people instead will catch eevee and growlithe at the best. Basically after a while you finish catching every pokemon around you and there is nothing else to do other than fight gyms. But gyms are so easy to beat that you don't have much incentive to defend it.

fl0wenol 10y ago
Agreed. The process by which you fortify gyms is broken. Leveling up your gym is very time-consuming and can too easily be undone, especially by other players nearby. There needs to be a better way to handle gyms and battles that scales with local user activity... perhaps a shunt to a PvP mode that grants the winner or the winner's color a certain amount of exclusive access time to fortify. The game is not similar enough to Ingress for the existing tit-for-tat ideas to work. Fire XMPs <=> Gym Battle; Add Resonators to Portal <=> Put Champion on Gym. Where's the equivalent of shields or key-based recharging at a distance? Why can't I buff my pokemon stationed on a gym (or the gym itself) with items after an alert that the gym is being battled?
- betadreamer 10y ago
  This is a great idea. They should have an item that buffs the gym for 24hr. This will create a nice mechanics where you want to put your pokemon on these buffed gym (more incentive to train) and it will be challenging to beat in general. Players that beats the gym also gets more XP.

fl0wenol 10y ago

Agreed. The process by which you fortify gyms is broken. Leveling up your gym is very time-consuming and can too easily be undone, especially by other players nearby. There needs to be a better way to handle gyms and battles that scales with local user activity... perhaps a shunt to a PvP mode that grants the winner or the winner's color a certain amount of exclusive access time to fortify. The game is not similar enough to Ingress for the existing tit-for-tat ideas to work. Fire XMPs <=> Gym Battle; Add Resonators to Portal <=> Put Champion on Gym. Where's the equivalent of shields or key-based recharging at a distance? Why can't I buff my pokemon stationed on a gym (or the gym itself) with items after an alert that the gym is being battled?

betadreamer 10y ago
This is a great idea. They should have an item that buffs the gym for 24hr. This will create a nice mechanics where you want to put your pokemon on these buffed gym (more incentive to train) and it will be challenging to beat in general. Players that beats the gym also gets more XP.