Suggestion Sunday! Please use this post to field your ideas for the game!

I'd like them to rework the gym system.

Gyms are just boring right now and there is almost no motivation to take one down. With the new coin system gyms can only give you a combined 30 coins a day, that's not worth the time and effort to take a lot of gyms and defend them.

As a result gyms around here (not the highest level of activity but not rural) sometimes don't change for a week or longer. Would be nice to make both attacking and defending more rewarding in some way.

Defending a gym for a week just to get the notification you already got your 30 daily coins when the mon returns is just BS, at least compensate with candy, dust, items or at least XP or something on top of the coins. Maybe then people would put in more effort than just dropping in whatever they catched last in an open slot.

Having another way to strengthen the defense besides golden razz would also be nice, feels kinda boring to only have a single item that actually does something in regards to gyms.

Capturing the gym itself should also already give some nice rewards as well, would give single players (especially on underrepresented teams) more motivation to actually take the time to take down a gym that they know will be list soon again anyway.

Could also be interesting to add an NPC aspect or so into it, like having to battle the team leader if a gym is full, Team rocket turning the defenders into shadow mons etc, but every extra effort would again require way better rewards for capturing the gym.

/r/TheSilphRoad Thread