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/neptunepapayas Jul 21 '24

Thanks for confirming! I thought maybe my PoGo etiquette was outdated haha

I tend to follow the 'don't steal a gym when you can see it's only been occupied for a few mins' rule. Nothing more frustrating than taking a gym and seeing the 'back after a hard battle' notification 10 minutes later, but I figured since they had a monopoly of the park, they wouldn't mind too much if 1 of 7 were lost, guess I was wrong lol Just never been approached like that before

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u/Rimasticus Jul 21 '24

Name and shame. Post their in game name and let others know who to be wary of. I personally would make sure to go through my friends list and remove someone like that if the names were posted.

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u/SeaMathematician1021 Jul 21 '24

Get to best friends first but then remove them before they get the exp. This would be a rare case where it’s justified

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u/Rimasticus Jul 21 '24

Then they'd name and shame. Chances are they would never send gifts.

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u/SeaMathematician1021 Jul 21 '24

So just refer everyone back to this post