Very good point, when it’s raining is especially the time it gets on my nerves xP
We, as in my specific group, normally wouldn’t be able to beat legendaries without a couple of spoofers; we’ve taken down 3 enteis in total and a tyrannitar once (fought many more than that) but we wouldn’t have done it without a little air support. One of the wins didn’t have air support, but that’s cos the spoofers happened to be physically there at the same time.
My biggest issue is that one of the spoofers has all the dogs, and a few of them, and he does brag a little sometimes… The others generally play normally and spoof over to help with raids if they can’t make it in time. If all spoofers were more “responsible”, they wouldn’t be noticed as much and annoy people
It is nice to have support but… I have a very similar situations. I done my first Entei raid a few weeks ago and two spoofers join our team - the both had all of the dogs already and they were the only ones to catch the Entei.
Niantic aren’t serious about stopping/banning Spoofers as anyone that got all 3 Beasts in the first week is not playing honestly and should be easy for them to identify and delete their accounts.
Which if we learned anything from the Articuno bug… means that they potentially can reduce YOUR chances of catching it, if they manage to catch it themselves.
I have been “battling” a few spoofers myself here at work for a few weeks now, and that is without any real benefit to monopolizing gyms. If he could collect an infinite number of coins… spoofers are about to increase exponentially.
Truthfully the majority of us are probably collecting more NOW on average then we were prior to the gym/coin change.
I think my max was 130 in a given day, but on average I was probably more like 30.
Very early after the games release, you got 10 coins per Pokemon, so if you had 50 Pokémon that’s 500 PokeCoins. They changed it (I think) around mid-August.
With the old system, I could get 100 coins every 21 hours. New system, I get 50 coins but try to hold 20 gyms each day to ensure I get those 50 coins from somewhere. I liked the old system better. I could train my own Pokemon at gyms as well.
Please not the old system.
Old system: I was extremely lucky when I got 20 Coins on a day. Nothing to me most of the time.
New System: I can easily get 50 Coins per day or 250+ per week.
But now it takes me 3 days to buy an incubator or 4 for storage space. Old system I could get storage space every other day, or an incubator every day and a half.
I’d say a very large percentage of people that collect coins now wouldn’t have stood a chance if the old system was still in play.
I do think it should be a bit harder to knock a Gym down though.