I just started playing Pokemon Go so I could play with my brother’s kids and I know very little.
I took over my first gym and then was wracked with guilt picturing small children crying their eyes out over their pokemon, so I started googling to see what the consensus was on player etiquette.
From what I understand, as long as a pokemon has been in a gym for 8.5 hours the owner will get the full 5o coins for the day. But I also keep seeing something about the coin reset at 12:01 and read that you shouldn’t take a gym between 11 pm and midnight and I really do not get it. Can someone enlighten me? I did see there had been changes to the game over the years so maybe the stuff I’m reading is not all up-to-date.
If you kick out someone close to midnight, the probability is high, that some of their other Pokémon are already kicked out of different gyms and they already got their 50 coins for the day. So in this case it would be more “polite” if you wait till after midnight to kick them out—so they can get 50 coins again.
Though I personally wouldn’t stress so much over it. It’s all part of the game. If you’re not actively griefing, kicking everyone instantly out and hogging all the gyms, it’s okay. (I usually check how long the Pokémon is in the gym. If it is in there for a short time—less than one hour—I let it stay.)
Thank you, that clicked it for me! Somehow I was just not getting that the coins were not cumulative, so that makes sense now.
In fact, it sounds like regular turnover actually benefits everyone, since you don’t get extra coins for staying multiple days. I feel much better! I didn’t want to be the adult that showed up and ruined everyone’s fun, but I just looked up the average age of a Pokemon Go player and it looks like I’m not actually very likely to come across many children, haha.
“Losing” is part of both the game and life, the kids will get over it. I mean, as kids we played games like TMNT and Battle Toads and we managed, not getting 50 coins because you got kicked out of the gym is nothing on comparison.
But yea, if you want to be extra nice, you can look out for these things and lose all your PvP battles.
Honestly, if you care about kids’ experience that much, join them in raids, that does much more.
Logically I know you are right, and if it happened to my niece or nephew, I’d tell them “that’s life”. I think I’m just envisioning those Easter egg hunts where the big kids come in and get all the eggs :) And now that I say that I realize that I would not even be the big kid in the scenario where I go against an 8-year-old’s encyclopedic knowlege of pokemon, so I really have created a lot of drama in my mind for nothing…
One time I started taking a gym and after 3 minutes I saw a 20+ year old man sprinting down the street, yelling at me. I was on a bike so I just biked away because I did not feel the need to get stabbed over pokemon go.
So, don’t do that and you will probably be fine. If it’s a gym close to your place and you notice that it gets taken at the same time every day you could shift your habits around so that you both get a couple of hours. My dad is a pensioner and he grabs a gym each morning walk and some kids grab it back on their way home from school. Nobody get a perfect coin pay from it but they get fair amounts. The push and pull of gyms is part of the game
