Gyms are live!

[ephemera]

Iiiiiiiiinteresting!

I like the new battle pre screen, and the animation of fights.

New battle scoring on the one hand slows things down (you eat away at the defenders will to fight rather than 1000 points per win) on the other hand I like how the "injured" pokemon gets weaker. Also having revive and health available inside the gym interface

Winning a gym = getting a badge, but just claiming a gym slot does not, and nor does spinning a gym picture, which is what the text suggests.

No sign of coins for having pokemon on a gym... <- artifacts of my posting about experiences in the first 30 mins or so of gyms being live.

How is everyone else getting on?

Comments

[evil_plotbunny]

I think the badges lagged behind the reopening of gyms. It took 5 spins for my first, but the others came immediately. Badges seem to have a bar underneath measuring something (possibly how long your pokemon has been in there), and the ones where you have a pokemon have a picture of pikachu. Tapping on it gives a spinning disk so there's more info there, that isn't loading.

Spinning in a friendly gym gives you xp.

I claimed the library gym immediately from my desk, the others in the area went to my team almost immediately so I haven't tried battling yet. i thought the red heart was for a gym you had a pokemon in, but it looks like it's gym claimed by your team.

I fully expect to lose all 4 gyms I have pokemon in over the weekend since I'll be away and it doesn't look like you can feed berries long distance (at least not yet).