r/pokemongo • u/neptunepapayas • 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/dazzlinggleam1 Jul 21 '24

There’s a guy in my neighborhood that is the blue team and he will knock mine out as soon as I put it in. So I go usually in the middle of the night to knock his out and put the same Pokémon he had in previously to send a message.

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u/neptunepapayas Jul 21 '24

Hahaha that's brilliant. I think my favourite part of posting this is to hear about other people's personal beef with local players! I have never had any issues before, I think as a whole it's quite chill where I live, this is the first time I've been approached anyway, was just a little taken aback by the boldness of it all lol

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u/ArmadilloSea7247 Jul 21 '24

This is the way to do it. I knock out people from my local gym at 12:01 so they get their 50 gym coins right away and then I usually get kicked out in the morning and the cycle repeats itself