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Raid schedule

When Niantic changed raid behavior (no eggs hatching) they also changed their schedule. Now raids seems to start in a window of 6AM - 7 PM and I wonder why. I cannot find a reason someone with a sane mind would get up of bed at 6AM (working people excluded as they don't go raiding then) and even find more "sane" people to raid with at this hour. When I finish my work I have like 2 hours to find any meaningful raids to do as any new don't appear after 7PM.

There is one more complain from my part as I cannot add pokemon or beat gyms on my way to work as there are raids everywhere. Today I spotted 2 Tyranitar, 1 Lugia and 1 Moltres (not to mention lower ones) among about 10 gyms I had in view while driving through city center (small one). No people near any of them of course. What the heck?

Asked by artaud216 years 7 months ago
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I'm in the same situation, and I'm suffering too.

With the previous system, there were less raids at the same time, but during more hours. And more important, you could see in advance when an interesting raid was going to start, so it was easier to find people just before the egg hatched.

I feel that way I could do some 4 or 5 level raids, but now it is more difficult to coincide with more players (less time to prepare, bigger window for each raid).

New system is better for people who play in groups, as they can do several raids one after another if they play during the right ours. But it is worse for people like me, I don´'t have a lot of free time, I just want to do 1-2 raids a day, the more interesting the better.

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It's pretty ridiculous for them to put a curfew on raids yet someone took down a gym I was holding at 1:20am.

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Also, the new system is bad for the players who want to take down a gym. You may be close to clearing a gym, and before that, you can not finish it because a raid has started.

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2 accounts of the same team with the same prefix in their names have taken my local gyms at 1-2 am and, sometimes, in the morning at the same time everyday for a week. I've reported them but Niantic doesn't seem to care.

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Why did you report them, cause they took your gyms? At unusual hour? Wtf

I end Up shifts around midnight And then go for a few gyms, go out with dog, whatever And go to sleep in the morning. Should i ve beenreported cause i gymhunt at 3am?

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I used to work very late for a restaurant in a big city so I know there are legit players who actually fight gyms at midnight. However, we don't have that kind of work that ends very late at midnight in my home city. It's also very dangerous to go outside around that time. See my explanation post below, you may understand my situation. :)

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In the new system, the best time to take gyms is middle of the night or LAST gym owner...get all the hours before people wake up...

I hope they change gyms and just remove coins from gym defense and have it for other things, or even attack...attack 1 time, get 5 coins...etc...

I don't like how it's setup to reward the "last" players at night...

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Guys and girls, you need to hear my explanations before you downvote. I didn't make any wild accusations since I know my place fairly well and I have been investigating every single player who suspiciously takes over gyms. Also, I emailed Niantic to ask them to investigate the suspicious accounts above, not to ban them immediately because I understand the fact that only Niantic knows the best details.

Here are the clues I've been collecting in many days:

  • The two accounts mentioned above have the same nickname prefix Kratosxxxx, Kratos1234 (xxxx represents some alphabet letters while 1234 represents a shortened mobile number).;
  • They only recently appeared in my city; never seen them during the last 3 months. They are at level 32 and 30;
  • They take over gyms every night at 12-2 am for over a week and I am the first one to defeat them in the early morning;
  • They have their PKM in gyms with the second one 1-2 minutes right after the first one;
  • The one and only freely accessible gym in my city is a small pagoda, whose gate is only open from 6am to 6pm. Yes, you can stay close the gate and the walls surrounding to interact with the gym but I doubt anyone would ever do this at around 12-2 am. If you don't want to get robbed, to wake the gym neighbors' dogs up, to "insult" buddhas inside the pagoda or to "encounter ghosts and spirits" (if you do believe in them), you just don't do this.
  • There is another gym that requires a paid ticket to enter and is 3 km away from the first gym. This is an amusement park where you can only get access to by paying a 2$ ticket and it opens from 7am to 5pm. I usually go there once or twice a week to fight opponents and also take down enemy portals (I also play Ingress). Sometimes, I saw the gym was also taken by the two accounts. I then checked and calculated the difference between the time that they entered the two gyms, only to find out that amount of time difference was only 10 minutes at most. 10 minutes to travel 3km, buy tickets, get to the gym, fight enemy PKM and put in their own PKM??? How is that possible without spoofing and using multiple accounts?
  • I asked most players on three teams, whom I know well, if they know those people? They clearly had no idea.

After taking screenshots and including all these clues, I sent Niantic emails about the ongoing issues. Niantic just doesn't seem to care.

Well, this is such a lengthy post just to show that I didn't play dirty. I walk and jog 10 km every morning. I play with my one and only account. I feed berries to PKM and defend my team's gym. I fight spoofers and multi account players. I share my knowledge, which I get from this awesome site, with other players. And I'm proud to be one of the very few legit players in my city. :)

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So you're reporting this person because they're level 30 and take your gyms at night and you don't know them? Sounds justified 😒. I'll start with the "new player" at level 30 part, I stopped playing around the time they introduced the Johto Pokemon, I was lvl 18, I started playing again in Dec 2018, I'm level 29 currently. I don't have a spoofer, never have, there are just smart ways to play and get XP, like bulk evolving pokemon that you plan to evolve with a lucky egg activated. All those Rattatas, Pidgeys and Weedles from 2016 proved worth it. So this person could've easily been close to level 30 and came back or just been level 30. Or maybe even just moved there, literally anything could be the case with why they aren't known by you. Now as far as time goes, I get off at midnight and gym hunt every night, I don't see why that's an issue, when you're getting gyms in the morning I'm asleep and when I'm getting gyms you're probably asleep, it's a fair trade off, seeing as different people have different schedules. I will say at that hour they're probably in a vehicle and not walking depending where the gyms are. And that would explain the 3km in 10 mins also. Also there's a group of PoGo players that have an advantage to accessing parks and other areas where gyms are that people never consider and they are the cops and security officers. Like I said I get off at 12am, 1 night I took a gym at this church by a fast food place and grabbed some food while I was in the drive thru line I noticed I was under attack so after I got my food I drove by and the same group I took the gym from took it from and it was two cop cars parked on the road next to the church. I've also have had similar experiences on base with base security. So the person can easily just be a security worker or cop at that park. Ijs you may be overreacting.

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by YodaJi 6 years 7 months ago

Yeah, raids usually stop spawning by the time I have time to do them on a typical say. Last night I went out at 6pm and couldn't find any more raid locally which included a range of about 10 gyms.

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Went jogging early in the morning to see a raid just started 5 minutes before my arrival. So no solo boss raid (3* and above), no fighting opponent gym, no EXP from winning fights, no 12 coins guaranteed for gym defending during 2 hour timeframe. Only got a free raid pass and some Pokegym spin items (less items because gym was held by other teams). Couldn't wait for 2 hours so I kept jogging around to hatch eggs, spinning gym disc and then went home. It's been days like this. How pathetic! ;(

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Yep the raiding hours make no sense. It's like niantec has a thing against people with jobs

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In my town we usually manage to gather 6-10 people to take a few gyms before work starts at 8 AM.

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my husband works 7 to 7 he barly ever get to go to raids . they should raise the end time

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