So while gym sniping is totally possible by the mechanics of the game, it's pretty rude, yeah. I think what makes your situation more terrible is that it was a fellow team member. Where I live, I pretty much always expect Team Instinct to snipe from Valor or Mystic. (It's kind of what they're known for here.)
I think sniping conquered gyms is usually not a big deal. I don't set out to do it, but if I see a gym go grey and I could place something, why not? After all, it's usually not *that* much more work to conquer one more pokemon. And I only do it if I want the stardust reward immediately, or if I think it's funny (mainly if it's being conquered from my team). I don't have time or inclination to sit around all day re-placing a pokemon as soon as an attacker defeats the gym.
But sniping a gym that someone else has levelled *up* feels really nasty. You know that's a LOT of work. And they're supposed to be on the same side as you. I wouldn't always notice -- if I just walk up and there's an empty slot already there, it might just be bad luck I assumed it was free but someone had just made it. But if I saw it just appeared, I'd known someone else had worked for it. Or if I saw someone working and they looked to be my team, I'd let them have the space they'd made. It'd be nicer if that were enforced mechanically -- if you level the gym up, you get first dibs on the spot for N minutes. But I guess it doesn't come up often enough to be a bit priority.
In brightknightie's case, it strikes me a particularly mean because the person in minivan saw that it was being levelled up and then specifically drove over to camp out and wait for that slot to open. And then drove away when they snagged it. Yikes!
Yes! Thanks. It was definitely the "laying in wait" aspect that felt unkind. In a crowd or at a busy location, you can't always tell what's happening, or what people are trying to accomplish.
Thanks. Yes, a system-enforced default minute or two would be nice!
:-) Can multiple people level up a gym, the way multiple people can battle a gym? If so, ideally, it would have been cool if the minivan person had disembarked, walked up and said, "Hey! Playing Pokemon Go Team Valor? Me, too? Let's level up this gym together and make two places!" :-)
I know that you can't always tell whether a gym slot has just now opened up, or whether someone opened one on purpose to help stock up the gym to hold on to it longer. I think that it's the perceived "laying in wait" that... lacked team spirit? :-)
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I think sniping conquered gyms is usually not a big deal. I don't set out to do it, but if I see a gym go grey and I could place something, why not? After all, it's usually not *that* much more work to conquer one more pokemon. And I only do it if I want the stardust reward immediately, or if I think it's funny (mainly if it's being conquered from my team). I don't have time or inclination to sit around all day re-placing a pokemon as soon as an attacker defeats the gym.
But sniping a gym that someone else has levelled *up* feels really nasty. You know that's a LOT of work. And they're supposed to be on the same side as you. I wouldn't always notice -- if I just walk up and there's an empty slot already there, it might just be bad luck I assumed it was free but someone had just made it. But if I saw it just appeared, I'd known someone else had worked for it. Or if I saw someone working and they looked to be my team, I'd let them have the space they'd made. It'd be nicer if that were enforced mechanically -- if you level the gym up, you get first dibs on the spot for N minutes. But I guess it doesn't come up often enough to be a bit priority.
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Oh, well. :-)
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:-) Can multiple people level up a gym, the way multiple people can battle a gym? If so, ideally, it would have been cool if the minivan person had disembarked, walked up and said, "Hey! Playing Pokemon Go Team Valor? Me, too? Let's level up this gym together and make two places!" :-)
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I know that you can't always tell whether a gym slot has just now opened up, or whether someone opened one on purpose to help stock up the gym to hold on to it longer. I think that it's the perceived "laying in wait" that... lacked team spirit? :-)