"Niantic really needs to address the fact that gyms, one of the core features of this game, suck. A rebalance is necessary, casual players have basically abandoned the game."

#PokemonGO: Gyms have basically sucked since the second month after launch. Since then every single god damned gym is nothing but Dragonite, Gyarados, Vaporeon and Snorlax. After the rebalance, Rhydon is included, and now I'm seeing some Tyrannitars here and there. But ultimately, 99% of all gym defending Pokemon are accounted for by the top ten or so best Pokemon.It's stupid and unfair but worst of all, it's just boring. It's so ridiculously dull to see gym after gym with the exact same loadout: 3 snorlaxes, 3 dragonites, 3 gyarados, a vaporeon or something else.Not only that but the game is essentially "pay to win" because spoofers and hardcore players have destroyed the curve. The game seems to be designed for casual players, what with its incredibly dumbed down stat system that only shows the player a Pokemon's CP, and yet casual players are at such a severe disadvantage compared to GPS spoofers that scoop up all the dratinis and other rares all over the map without leaving their houses, and hold down 10+ gyms without walking so much as 10 feet out the door.Not only that but I doubt very much that spoofers spend any cash at all on this game because they don't need to.The thing is, Niantic could fix this. Rebalance the game in a way that hamstrings cheaters, makes things fun for casuals, and provides an incentive to actually put a few bucks into the game from time to time.I personally think Niantic should:Implement a new gym rule: NO DUPLICATE POKEMON. There's already a Dragonite here? Oh well, take your Dragonite someplace else. This will make gyms battles at least more fun . . . what's the point of me having 300+ pokemon if I never get to battle 90% of them? Seriously, 9 out of 10 Pokemon I've never even attempted combat with.GET RID OF CP. Just remove it from the game. Where it is currently displayed, display the Pokemon's level (i.e. Level 30). If Niantic thinks stats are too "complicated" for casual players, have Atk, Def and Spd listed and just give them like a 1 to 5 star rating each. That combined with HP and moveset is enough to tell players which Pokemon are useful, and will encourage people to use some of the more fun and interesting mid tier Pokemon instead of just spamming the same ones forever.Gyms should gradually lose rank over time. Perhaps gyms should lose a rank every 12 hours? This will at least require spoofers to continually train their gyms and babysit them after training them up to level 10.Change the way the bonus cooldown works. Most days I don't bother with gym battles because I play solo and the best I can hope for is a paltry 10 coin bonus because by the time it takes me to walk even a couple blocks to a second gym, my gym's been flipped already. Again, the game seems designed for casual players, yet the mechanics of gyms heavily favor spoofers who play with multiple accounts or a few friends. Even if I got a group of ten friends together to drive around and take gyms, they would still flip in a matter of minutes anyways. So make it somehow that if I take 5 different gyms in the same day, I can get my bonus for each of them instead of simply getting one and then having to wait till tomorrow to get another 10 coins.Provide some kind of indoor activities for players to mess around when it's too crappy to go outside. Like training your own pokemon against each other. Maybe for every ten battles you fight your own pokemon against each other, you get one candy. Or something like that. Just give us fair players something to do indoors while the cheaters are using GPS spoofing to conquer the whole city during a blizzard.My 2 cents. Curious as to what others think. via /r/pokemongo http://ift.tt/2ng2WZR