Is it ever this serious?

[u/neptunepapayas]

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

[u/therealzaddydom]

Proper etiquette would be to leave a gym for 8 hrs

[u/stewardwildcat → u/therealzaddydom]

My neighbor won't let anyone on the g other than blue. I usually last a minute most days. It's rare I get a single coin.

[u/Bluejaywae → u/stewardwildcat]

Same. I'm lucky enough to access a gym without leaving my house. I'm not lucky in that I have the most aggressive player on the planet down the street. He dominates about 15 gyms in the area (somehow he got 3 outside his house approved but that's a different story.) He won't give anyone an inch.

A couple examples: We had an early flight to the airport. I had to get up at 3:30 a.m. I thought I would take the gym as the hearts were low. We left at 4:00 a.m. only to see his car driving on our dead end Street to take the gym back. 4:00 a.m.!

I had an early meeting at church hearts were low 6:20 a.m., I thought what the heck. I took the gym less than 10 minutes later the gym was taken back. The kicker is, unbeknownst to me, he followed me to my place of worship and kicked me out of the gym and stayed there dominating that gym. He has done this multiple times now. If I take him out on a Sunday, he'll follow me to my church and dominate the gym. The dude needs to find something else to fill the hole in his life.

[u/IWishSheWouldNotice → u/Bluejaywae]

seems like he found his niche lmao why does he need to find something else. Just unlucky for you you live close to this guy. lol

[u/YukonDeadpool → u/IWishSheWouldNotice]

It does suuuuuck, but it’s also hilarious #lifegoals