Oh! @Balthazar007, now you're back, there's something I wanted to ask.
How are gyms and contests going to work? Do we use CP to create a gym or contest hall in an area? And what kinds of areas can have both? A few of us were discussing this a while back and we were wondering if smaller locations should have one or the other, but Feyhollow would be the most obvious place for a Fairy-type gym even though there's a contest hall, and something Tora said implies it could have both.
"Don't worry, we can always return to Feyhollow. Perhaps when the Gyms and Contests are back and holding a event here."
Besides, I had an idea...
What would make the most sense/ work best for this system?
I have been playing around with the concept of gyms and contests. While I can't say too much at the moment, I can say that this will be a feature soon. Probably within a month.
But these are the details that I can release at the moment:
1) Gyms will not be type exclusive. Instead, they will represent the Pokemon in their area. In other words, the Feyhollow gym leader COULD use primarily Fairy types, but could also have all the other types in the area.
2) As far as which locations can have a gym, I'd say that the middle three sizes will have gyms. Villages are too small to see enough traffic if they had a gym, and gyms in Metropolises would have too huge a disadvantage type-wise.
2a) This also gives light to the two other types of location specific gaming content soon to be released: Professor Laboratories and Contest halls. Professor laboratories can be found in Villages; this is because Professor's want to be located in areas with the most variety of Pokemon to study. Contest Halls will only be available in Metropolises; this is because these locations have the most ability to fund these sorts of extravagant events and benefit the most from seeing trainers from around the area bring in Pokemon that their citizens would normally never see.
2b) Also, since there are three different sizes of locations that can have gyms, there will be three different leagues (or divisions if you will). This is to account for the type advantage smaller locations have over larger locations. There will, however, be a champion's league that combines them all.
At the moment, I can't dive into the mechanics behind creating a gym, becoming a gym leader, or anything else besides what's mentioned above. More details will be released the near future.
