Finding/sharing stable gyms?

[trajanx]

Any advice for finding good gyms to hold long-term? I tried looking for rural locations using the Ingress map, but it was extremely time consuming to find gyms (vs. stops), and disappointing when you finally find one and it looks to be strongly held by another team.

Would make sense for us to share a few locations and jointly defend - I mean, sure I guess other teams could see and attack, but what's the point when the gyms will just change hands again anyway? Would make sense for each team to identify a small handful of gyms in out-of-the-way places and leave the other teams' spots alone while we battle for fame/infamy in our local locations

Any suggestions for tools, forums, chats where folk are coordinating this? I happen to be Valor but don't mean for this to be team specific.

[Ripper3]

Well, there's already two threads for this. But one is for Team Mystic, the other for Instinct. So if you are Team Valor, you could as well open a new thread for it

For Mystic team: Location of stable GYM. Never be kicked out of the GYM
Dunno about the Team Instincts link.

Thing is, you do want to keep the locations private, otherwise rivaling Teams will just drop by and knock the Gyms down. With the amount of botting on this forum, no gym is safe, anywhere.