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Defender rewards overhaul

Am I reading this right?

Although there has been no mention of the 21-hour gym rewards collection cycle, it’s probable that this system will be gone altogether in the new gym system. We also don’t know exactly what gym defense rewards will be, or if rewards will be awarded for offense as well as defense.
Niantic rep Indigo has confirmed that defenders will earn coins based on how long they successfully defend a gym, and these coins will be awarded once that defender is expelled

So those of us that have defenders sitting in stagnant gyms for months that use to collect every 21 hours will not see a single reward for that stagnant defender until it is kicked from the gym?

Wow this a bit of a dilemma because we want our rewards but don't want to be kicked from the gym at the same time.

Asked by Specter6 years 9 months ago
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I think someone with Niantic said players will get rewards based on how long their pokemon were in a gym. And it will be rewarded when that pokemon returns to the trainer. So sounds like you get a bigger reward the longer a Pokemon defends a gym, so you need to keep their motivation high, but you can't claim your reward til the Pokemon is kicked out.

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Would be again a big disadvantage for rural Players cause no gym activity means no rewards.

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It sounds like Pokemon will get kicked out regardless when the Raid Boss spawns, so it's like a periodic gym reset. If I read that correctly...

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I wonder if there's a minimum time to get any reward at all. None of the gyms around here stay blue for long at all, and the only way I could find a gym that lasts for days at a time was to drive an hour away. Locally, I usually race to hit as many gyms as quickly as I can before collecting, like last time I had to capture eight gyms just to be able to collect from three of them. It'll be pretty annoying if it becomes impossible to earn any rewards from local gyms, because it's impossible to hold any of them long enough.

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Don't forget, if you have a pokemon over a month in the gym and you want the rewards, just don't visit it annymore, its motivation will go down and when someone finally beats it, you will get the rewards.

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From the rewards, you can screw over all your rival team members by tearing down ALL their gyms so all their mons come back on the same day...They only can get 100 coins max and now, have to revisit all the gyms again...If it was 1 mon knocked out per day, they could be getting 100 EACH and EVERY day...

I saw the gym defenders actually go back to the old previous occupants...it was on the Niantic support page.

https://support.pokemongo.nianticlabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/115009004747-Raid-Battles

"Any Pokémon previously assigned to the Gym return to defend the location."

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