I agree with you and it's been an issue for a while. You need decent public gyms to retain new players, or like you said, the player base is going to shrink. It's hard to get ahead or even feel like you're advancing your fighters skills at all, with most of the public gyms. At this point, with the player base so low, I think the game would benefit with a boost to the Cozad gyms and actually make them a viable place to train fighters.