Hilarious reasoning. But I take it you are in Team Valor, or else you would take it back, yourself.
Aren’t there any members of Instinct or Mystic willing to take the gym? Even if you agree to let them have it long enough to earn a day’s 50-coin bonus?
As I said, the gym is outside the town. It’s in the fields next to the busy road. The road is currently under reconstruction, the parking lot is filled with gravel. I don’t know many players and only 1 player from my town still plays, but I doubt anyone is willing to go there to take over the gym. So spoofers are the only solution, unfortunately.
It sounds like a problem in search of a creative solution. Clearly valor alone will be incapable of solving it, and if you haven’t an instinct for that kind of problem solving, then maybe a mystical source of assistance can be found.
(not trying to be a wise ass or come off as humorous – just trying to have fun with a ridiculous situation. It sounds almost too contrived not to be a cheap sting op by Niantic, and it doesn’t seem to be worth the bother)
If I just want a certain gym, I just take it. I’ve outlasted numerous people that try to take over my local gyms. I just take them back before and after work. They get tired of it eventually.
Same works for when I’m Golding new ones.
If they remove me after short a short period I’m straight back there asap to show that 2 can play that game. They normally relax the tactic after I’ve returned serve a few times. It’s not a chore when there’s an end goal (gold Badge). It is a chore when your already Gold and there’s no real purpose for it.