Gym Improvements (to battle stagnation and weak pokemon)

And then we'll be back where we started from, with people ranting that they don't even get 1 hour because the rival team knocked them out (which is why we ended up in the 1 coin per 10 mins but 50 coins daily in the first place).

I really have no idea how and if they're going to solve this. I suggested having a recall ability after 8 hours, so that players can call their mons back. But then there might be a problem with that, such as players recalling and then instantly replacing with a brand new 3K Blissey, thus making it harder for anyone to break the gym down. Probably could be countered by making it locked for 10 minutes until next person on the team can replace the retired mon.

Many people here were saying they'd want an incentive for attacking, so collecting 50 coins via attacking would make opposite teams attack. But as someone around here said, that idea won't work for areas dominated by one team and double-account people could keep replacing themselves.

So... how is this going to be solved?
I think the instant 10 coins per gym owning was the only thing keeping people attacking.

I agree that free coin collection should not essentially be random. Pokemon Go Lottery

I like the coins based on how long you've held for, but by shortening the required hold time to 10 minutes per coin, and putting the daily cap so low, I think they went too far trying to address the initial reactions.

I'd like to see something like 1 coin for ANY defender returning, plus say, 1 coin at 30 and 60 minutes, and one per hour there after - something like that, but a higher max coin award per day (100 would be ideal). So you can still get something in a high turnover area, yet there's also an incentive to hold gyms for longer.

Meanwhile, they could make gyms give stardust for defeating them - maybe, 100 stardust for beating a gym down completely, and 1 dust for every coin that someone gets back when you knock out their pokemon.

That's my idea, at least.

This is why people need to wait, to many people complained about not being able to keep pokemon in gyms. I had one of my pokemon in a gym for 3 days. Everyone complained too soon. The amount of gyms being overtaken has decreased and the spoofers(in my area at least.) has decreased. I still think what they did for payout made more sense, but they hit the panic button. It is what it is, i am just afraid that too many complaints will come in and they will just implement the old system. Plus i thought it was originally supposed to be that your pokemon return to you when a raid boss appears.

They should return to a reward for holding gyms. Otherwise the whole system of feeding berries makes no sense.
In fact some people get angry when you feed their mons because they want them back, it's a bizarre system.

I like the motivation idea for gyms, but the rewards seem off. For example, the gym across the street from my residence has long been dominated by my team (Mystic). It seems so much so that no one else tries to take it. At this point (4 days later), I'd like the coins, so I've stopped feeding my mon in the hopes someone kicks him out. That's obviously not what they wanted when they established the berry system.

My suggestions:

• Create a maximum time for a mon to stay at a gym (maybe 72 hours) at which point he's sent back automatically, no matter what his motivation levels.
• Alternatively, make the rewards system a hybrid between the old and the new by allowing you to collect 50 coins every 5 days (so that the coin system matches the old one) that the mon stays in the gym without taking him out.