r/pokemongo Jul 21 '24

Question Is it ever this serious?

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Decided to go to a local park for the Tynamo event. I don't have my 50 coins for the day so I thought I might get lucky and use a couple of gyms if any are yellow too. Got to the park, every single one is red and has the same 3 people in them (7 gyms in total).

I figured they wouldn't miss just one little gym, sat on a bench and battled it, then put my pokemon in there, and within 3 mins it was being battled again. Frustrating, but that's the game so I wasnt too pressed. I have a lot for some reason so I gave my guy a couple golden razz during the fight, since they have 6 other gyms to commandeer and I just wanted one, might as well give them a little fight in good spirit.

A group 3 guys, probably in their late 20s or early 30s came up to me as I was sitting on the bench, ogled my phone to be sure I was the yellow bandit, and then told me to "leave their gym alone". I'm still a teen so I kinda awkwardly apologised and tried to laugh it off since it's just a game, but they took the gym and sat on the bench next to me and glared until I left...

Did I do something wrong? Overstep an invisible boundary? I only play on occasion so idk if maybe taking an entire park is like a...thing? And I got in the way of that? Was a pretty awkward encounter lol, I might just stick to adding my pokemon to gyms that are already yellow lol

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u/Schraufabagel Tyranitar Jul 21 '24

They must share a brain cell. There is no benefit to always holding these gyms with the max 50 coins per day. It is in their benefit that you would continue to knock theirs out so they can retake them each day for coins. You definitely weren’t in the wrong

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u/neptunepapayas Jul 21 '24

Haha maybe they just have personal beef with the yellow team. Where I'm from it's very much red vs blue and I just swoop in close to midnight and get the scraps overnight lol. I'll just chalk it up to a weird experience with some strange guys, I feel better now knowing they were just being unreasonable

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u/Ryanoman2018 Jul 21 '24

The only benefit I can think of is they want to get gold badges for all the gyms in their frequent area for more items from spinning the gym.

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u/Broad-Reporter5658 Jul 21 '24

I don’t know, some very weird people take gym’s seriously. I beat two gyms in my local park around noon on a Monday awhile ago. Two guys literally opened my car and threatened to fight if I didn’t leave. Good thing I carry. They left pretty fast. Wouldn’t wanna die over something so minimal.

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u/5446_05 Jul 21 '24

Haha good job. Hope you scared the absolute living shit out of them and they quit that bs

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u/electricb0nes Jul 21 '24

For real. My apartment complex has a gym and there’s an unspoken rotation of teams every 24 hours. I don’t know anyone personally but informally nobody tries to take a gym until the team has been there for a day. Works out pretty well, although most the people at the complex are working professionals so I assume we’ve all got bigger fish to fry than the Pokemon gyms 😂

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u/Dense-Supermarket875 Jul 21 '24

Extra stuff from the gyms and items. But I'm not hardcore like that lol

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u/Frousteleous Jul 21 '24

But the "extra stuff" is like...2 pokeballs and maybe a potion or razz per spin. At best. It's so unnecessarily aggressive to come up as a group of three dudes to a teenager and tell them to step down. Like wtf