Make gyms themed:
- Water gym
- Dragon gym
- Electric gym
- Rock gym
etc...

At themed gyms, Pokemon of those types get a 30% damage bonus.

Bring back the x2 and x0.5 multipliers:

If a Pokemon is immune or resistant, it takes 0.5x damage instead of 0.8x.

If a Pokemon is weak, it takes 2x damage instead of 1.2x.

Other than those two suggestions:

Lots could be introduced. The game is button mashing, so maybe introduce multiple buttons. Maybe introduce a defensive skill (ex. you could get stunspore and the opposing pokemon can be stunned temporarily, etc) as a defensive move. Introduce a defensive ultimate skill too (so by using defensive moves, you build up your defensive ultimate).

Other things that would be nice to see is more overall balance (so using a Butterfree or Gengar or Alakazam isn't necessarily 100% retarded).

There's lots to say about where the game could go, but it would be too easy to introduce those multipliers to increase diversity at gyms (and make geographical locations mean something).

Some good ideas man. Game definitely needs more balancing and more battle mechanics to stay interesting.

Wow gengar and Alakazam are bad? Dam wished they were op bc they are hard to find

This post was edited by Mangartist on Aug 1 2016 05:48pm

They definitely need to fix the multipliers. I'm sick of losing to water types with my electric. I'm not used to and it doesn't make sense lol

I think they need to compensate for all the stardust I wasted on 4 vaporeon cause they suck now.


Also like the suggestion you had in another thread about choosing to fight or catch in wild

This post was edited by LordBerem on Aug 2 2016 09:04am

so much potentiallllll

really hope niantic gets their $hit together because I'd love to continue playing this game for the next 5-10 years if they make all the improvements they can

shinies
better battle mechanics
trading
6v6 lineup
better gym stuff
better tracking system
more pokemon

i wish nobody could b0t but i don't think that'll be going away anytime soon and since i can't beat them i've got no choice but to join them

play for 5-10 yrs yet bots already


dat logic

by time you hit max level, and other gens of poke come out, those trade bots will be your best friend.

take d2 for instance, it aint the people solo mfing that gets the community their items, its ppl that run 1000+ bots for items making the game enjoyable for everyone
or runescape
or wow
or mtgo
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I remember back in D2 when you could get 3 players in a game and dupe (2 wall necros and 1 meteor sorc, or some combination like that). Made so many enigmas and other things. Also got away with running pindle while I went to school back in the day. But I mostly solo mf'd.

Problem with Pokemon Go is that the game needs *A LOT MORE* to it. As things stand, it's not worth spending $10+ round trip in gas, 60+ minutes round-trip driving, just to get to a central location and game for 5+ hours, day in and day out. For what? So I can take a gym for 30-180 seconds before it gets taken back?

The grind for Pokemon Go needs to stay at home (legitimate play, not by GPS spoofing), the hunt for rarer Pokemon (among other features) needs to be what gets people outside. If they do that, and introduce lots more features, then yes... bots will be what ruins the game. As things stand, bots ruin the game, but the game sucks as it is as well... so it's just a draw flat out. GPS spoofing makes the game okay-ish... I'm only playing because other people are, there's a sense of value to playing currently. As soon as less people play, or if the game doesn't get any new features, I'm gone (or if I get banned for GPS spoofing then I won't be making a new acct).

This post was edited by Canadian_Man on Aug 2 2016 07:11pm

idk why companies never learned the most important thing about playing d2.

they had both open and closed battle.net to fit the hacker lifestyle and keep them separated.

if you never played open don't even respond with "closed has dupers and hacks to" because it was a totally different level on open battle.net lol.