I just started playing Pokemon Go so I could play with my brother’s kids and I know very little.
I took over my first gym and then was wracked with guilt picturing small children crying their eyes out over their pokemon, so I started googling to see what the consensus was on player etiquette.
From what I understand, as long as a pokemon has been in a gym for 8.5 hours the owner will get the full 5o coins for the day. But I also keep seeing something about the coin reset at 12:01 and read that you shouldn’t take a gym between 11 pm and midnight and I really do not get it. Can someone enlighten me? I did see there had been changes to the game over the years so maybe the stuff I’m reading is not all up-to-date.
“Losing” is part of both the game and life, the kids will get over it. I mean, as kids we played games like TMNT and Battle Toads and we managed, not getting 50 coins because you got kicked out of the gym is nothing on comparison.
But yea, if you want to be extra nice, you can look out for these things and lose all your PvP battles.
Honestly, if you care about kids’ experience that much, join them in raids, that does much more.