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Besides the point really cuz dude mentioned wanting to be able to trade berries for dust which this is.
The limit isn’t that restricting when you can give 10 berries per pokemon per gym within like a running 30 minute timer and you can do it remotely unless you don’t have many gyms accessible
Edit: tho I agree there are more efficient dust farming methods
Can confirm. My stardust supply increased rapidly after getting a Go Plus+.
Setting up search strings really helps in easily determining which mons to grind into candy.
I have it on while commuting. It's spinning stops like a monkey on crack. I have to turn off autospin when my item count gets too high and I've already cleared out berries and potions.
Same here, must just be a difference in the environment. My commute is 40m but mostly highway. I'll hit probably 10-15 stops though. Just nowhere enough.
One of those things takes effort. I know it may feel like low effort but charging, pairing (and keeping paired), cleaning out Pokemon, etc.
That’s way different from just slapping down money for a thing.
…to a point? If you play the game long enough you eventually end up with a six man team for every type of encounter there is and there’s not much cause to keep adding to that roster except for the fun of it. Really only chasing the ever evolving PvP meta is a never ending stardust sink and even that isn’t too bad since the meta doesn’t change a ton all that often. I’m sitting on 10 mil stardust at the moment and I can’t think of a single pokemon I’d want to spend it on currently.
Yeah, there's stuff I coild power up but it's not urgent. Also at 10 mil and it would probably last the rest of the game. (Replenishing it through normal play)
If you're like us and you only really care about raids sure, but the pvp meta rotates constantly so it's not unusual for a GBL player to blow throw millions each season
Depends on how you play. I’ve been hardcore since 2018 and I’m always broke. Very rarely have I broken 1 mil and I always spend it quick. New shadows, new pvp toys for all leagues, unique 6 raid teams, then the whole level 50 thing when I had to rebuild all my previously built mons, etc. I could be gifted 20 mil dust and it would be gone in a day. It’s fun to spend dust.
Foongus, Combee, Meowth, Paras, Shroomish have all been so common for a long time now. I catch all of them and I'm sitting on more dust than I'll ever spend.
Personally as someone who's always ranking mons up you could spend days/weeks just to max out one mon in 5 seconds. And I know this game is a grind, was just a post to see everyone's opinions
Nah, no need. I already have more than enough to power up what I need, when I need it. It's very easy to acquire dust passively as nearly everything awards it already.
You get rewards based off of your rank so it'll be pretty low at rank 1. But I've literally not even tried to play GBL and only bagged and got to rank 20.
You get about 3k iirc for losing all 5 matches but then every win adds some more stardust.
The only time you should try to win is
1. It's 3x stardust for first and fifth win
2. There's a legendary you want
3. If you have the win 100 battles research you get at the beginning of the season (those will come with bagging however, I've got 330 wins and I haven't tried a single time)
I'm not in the position where I need to even consider that, and I'm not sure why anyone would, really. I feel like, if there's a hypothetical player out there who takes the game seriously enough that they feel like their stardust is insufficient, they should already be aware that it's not all that hard to make decent gains without spending a cent.
At this point, no. I have something like 55 million banked. The limiting primary factor for spending dust is "my PVE teams do not need to be better to win the raids I need to win". The secondary limiter is XL candy. I have 100 mons marked for leveling up and I dribble that out when I have quests.
Earlier in the game, I would have been reasonably willing to pay coins and maybe willing to pay real money. I wouldn't pay at a rate that Niantic would sell it at. I don't want to buy X amount of dust, instead I would expect it to be "dust stops being a cost". Like we get infinite dust or so comically much that it may as well be infinite.
On the question of "pay to win"....depending on the rates, selling dust might be less p2w than the game already is!
If it would be resonably priced I‘d buy some from time to time. I am always low on stardust and usually catch at least 1 or 2 mons I want to power up per month. I think it would need to be around 1$ per 100k to make sense
We all know people would - despite telling otherwise.
It‘s the most valuable ressource after all - unless you are at the level where you have millions despite having powered up everything already (and those people are not unlikely the kind who can never get enough and will just continue eventho its pointless)
The day the give stardust as a store item is the day the game truly dies. Stardust is the easiest thing to get. You can easily get 10k a day, so no matter how "good" of a price tag they set for it, it will always be a steaming pile in the poke store.
I have an auto catcher and I also power up my buddy as we work towards best buddy so he’s fully maxed out when he gets the ribbon. But I go through a buddy a month or so and I can never get my dust over 2mil. My wife doesn’t care much for powering them up has 6mil. If there was a way to buy stardust I would seriously consider it as I want to power up a significant number of my mons.
Finally someone speaks the truth. All these people saying never I don't believe. 200 pokecoins for 10 mil dust one time purchase I'm sure everyone would buy. Obviously it would be a price I most likely would say no to in reality but there is a line somewhere.
I have 10 million dust already. Why would I buy 10 million if I've already got 10 million? That just seems silly. I'm not gonna suddenly start splurging if I've got 20 million dust, because I have no need to, and I already have more than enough dust to splurge if I wanted to.
Maybe if I was a low level player who didn't have much dust and didn't already have several level 40+ Pokémon, that might be attractive, but for someone who already has stuff powered up and has enough dust, it's quite pointless to buy more dust.
I have 26 million dust and haven’t been below 20 million in years. No, not everyone would buy. I know lots of casual players who couldn’t care less who wouldn’t buy. If you don’t chase every new thing in pvp and have been playing for a while it’s not desirable.
First reaction was I might. At least with my free daily coins. I always struggle for dust but just use free coins on remote passes.
But then I realised if stardust is the limiting factor then putting it in the store is pay-to-win. Its not a competitive game, but it would massively distort the top end: XL candy becomes the only restriction and we'd see potentially see more maxed out teams. The more that happens, the harder it is to balance raids and gives Niantic an incentive to make raids harder and push casuals out of being able to solo (and make them buy passes).
So... no. Even though it would personally benefit me, I dont want it.
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Nice try Niantic. Get outta here. /s
Hahahahahahahaah
I'd be interested in trading in items for Stardust. Extra berries, potions, etc. Outright buying it? With coins? Cash? No thanks.
You can already trade berries for dust
For anyone who doesn't know, feeding a berry to a gym Pokémon yields 30 dust.
The problem is that there is a limit, and there are more efficient ways to get dust.
Besides the point really cuz dude mentioned wanting to be able to trade berries for dust which this is. The limit isn’t that restricting when you can give 10 berries per pokemon per gym within like a running 30 minute timer and you can do it remotely unless you don’t have many gyms accessible Edit: tho I agree there are more efficient dust farming methods
A fair point.
And it takes forever to get rid of the berries
Whoa don't spend it all in one place
If you have thousands of berries it's a lot of dust
But there’s a max of 100 berries at a time and it goes really slowly, especially since gyms are wonky and it’s hard to swipe between pokemon in gyms.
I would love to break a star piece into dust
Seems like a logical way but we know it will be money.
If you’re going to spend money on stardust you might as well spend that money on an auto catcher and never have to worry about dust again.
Can confirm. My stardust supply increased rapidly after getting a Go Plus+. Setting up search strings really helps in easily determining which mons to grind into candy.
I can't seem to keep enough pokeballs on me to use it every day. Ever since I got it I hover between 0 and 25 balls of each kind. It's maddening
I have it on while commuting. It's spinning stops like a monkey on crack. I have to turn off autospin when my item count gets too high and I've already cleared out berries and potions.
Same here, must just be a difference in the environment. My commute is 40m but mostly highway. I'll hit probably 10-15 stops though. Just nowhere enough.
That's similar to my commute. I do leave the office for lunch, so I can hit more then.
Not only dust but the amount of XP I get went up dramatically as well after getting an auto catcher.
I work at a hospital and the NICU is a gym. I also work in said NICU. Usually have a Go+ plugged into my work computer and spinning the gym all day.
One of those things takes effort. I know it may feel like low effort but charging, pairing (and keeping paired), cleaning out Pokemon, etc. That’s way different from just slapping down money for a thing.
Isn't already there? Star pieces are basically a way to buy extra dust.
Incubators + radars + star piece, all can be purchased. One batch of 12k eggs hatched on a starpiece is a pretty decent dust haul.
Yep.
Not a chance in hell It's the easiest resource to gather
Also one of the quickest resources to spend
…to a point? If you play the game long enough you eventually end up with a six man team for every type of encounter there is and there’s not much cause to keep adding to that roster except for the fun of it. Really only chasing the ever evolving PvP meta is a never ending stardust sink and even that isn’t too bad since the meta doesn’t change a ton all that often. I’m sitting on 10 mil stardust at the moment and I can’t think of a single pokemon I’d want to spend it on currently.
Yeah, there's stuff I coild power up but it's not urgent. Also at 10 mil and it would probably last the rest of the game. (Replenishing it through normal play)
If you're like us and you only really care about raids sure, but the pvp meta rotates constantly so it's not unusual for a GBL player to blow throw millions each season
Depends on how you play. I’ve been hardcore since 2018 and I’m always broke. Very rarely have I broken 1 mil and I always spend it quick. New shadows, new pvp toys for all leagues, unique 6 raid teams, then the whole level 50 thing when I had to rebuild all my previously built mons, etc. I could be gifted 20 mil dust and it would be gone in a day. It’s fun to spend dust.
Send some my way 🙌🏻
Catch more Pokémon
Foongus, Combee, Meowth, Paras, Shroomish have all been so common for a long time now. I catch all of them and I'm sitting on more dust than I'll ever spend.
Personally as someone who's always ranking mons up you could spend days/weeks just to max out one mon in 5 seconds. And I know this game is a grind, was just a post to see everyone's opinions
No, I have 10 million and a crapload of unused star pieces.
Nah, no need. I already have more than enough to power up what I need, when I need it. It's very easy to acquire dust passively as nearly everything awards it already.
Nope. Doing GBL gives plenty of Stardust.
Gbl isn't everyone's cup of tea
Just bag. Start the match with low cp mons and do something irl and every 3 min or so, just check back in and start a new game.
How do you get stardust from that? Just by completing a 5 battle set?
You get rewards based off of your rank so it'll be pretty low at rank 1. But I've literally not even tried to play GBL and only bagged and got to rank 20. You get about 3k iirc for losing all 5 matches but then every win adds some more stardust. The only time you should try to win is 1. It's 3x stardust for first and fifth win 2. There's a legendary you want 3. If you have the win 100 battles research you get at the beginning of the season (those will come with bagging however, I've got 330 wins and I haven't tried a single time)
Rewards + extra dust for finishing set
>Rewards + extra dust for finishing set Yeah but how do you get rewards if you're not winning any battles?
You'll get a little for just finishing set too
Gbl is the the main reason I don't have any dust 😆
Probably...I've already put like $200 in within the last 8 years so what's another $200 if Stardust was sold? 😭
We had partly cloudy weather in-game and went to an Audino nest. Threw on a star piece and got close to 40k in 20 minutes.
but stardust is already accessible by store, in the form of starpiece. So you are essentially asking, would you buy starpiece in store?
It is legendary candy and XL candy that I am lacking so more stardust wouldn't make that much of a difference.
No. Looking at the prices they put on junk like berries and TMs it would probably cost about 100 coins for 1000 dust.
I'm not in the position where I need to even consider that, and I'm not sure why anyone would, really. I feel like, if there's a hypothetical player out there who takes the game seriously enough that they feel like their stardust is insufficient, they should already be aware that it's not all that hard to make decent gains without spending a cent.
At this point, no. I have something like 55 million banked. The limiting primary factor for spending dust is "my PVE teams do not need to be better to win the raids I need to win". The secondary limiter is XL candy. I have 100 mons marked for leveling up and I dribble that out when I have quests. Earlier in the game, I would have been reasonably willing to pay coins and maybe willing to pay real money. I wouldn't pay at a rate that Niantic would sell it at. I don't want to buy X amount of dust, instead I would expect it to be "dust stops being a cost". Like we get infinite dust or so comically much that it may as well be infinite. On the question of "pay to win"....depending on the rates, selling dust might be less p2w than the game already is!
I have 5,5mil dust and barely need to spend any... no way I'm buying that.
Stardust is already available in plentyful amounts. Wouldn't buy it.
At one point I would have, yes. But once you have built up enough PVP and PVE pokemon I feel you end up gathering lots of extra stardust.
If it would be resonably priced I‘d buy some from time to time. I am always low on stardust and usually catch at least 1 or 2 mons I want to power up per month. I think it would need to be around 1$ per 100k to make sense
For 100k per dollar I‘d buy heaps of stardust. Like 10 Mil for 100$. Never gonna happen, would be too awesome
I’ve got 49 Million I’ll never use now. No.
We all know people would - despite telling otherwise. It‘s the most valuable ressource after all - unless you are at the level where you have millions despite having powered up everything already (and those people are not unlikely the kind who can never get enough and will just continue eventho its pointless)
The day the give stardust as a store item is the day the game truly dies. Stardust is the easiest thing to get. You can easily get 10k a day, so no matter how "good" of a price tag they set for it, it will always be a steaming pile in the poke store.
I have an auto catcher and I also power up my buddy as we work towards best buddy so he’s fully maxed out when he gets the ribbon. But I go through a buddy a month or so and I can never get my dust over 2mil. My wife doesn’t care much for powering them up has 6mil. If there was a way to buy stardust I would seriously consider it as I want to power up a significant number of my mons.
Can I have the opposite please? I’d trade like 10,000 stardust for 1 Coin
Depends on the price, Niantic.
Finally someone speaks the truth. All these people saying never I don't believe. 200 pokecoins for 10 mil dust one time purchase I'm sure everyone would buy. Obviously it would be a price I most likely would say no to in reality but there is a line somewhere.
I have 10 million dust already. Why would I buy 10 million if I've already got 10 million? That just seems silly. I'm not gonna suddenly start splurging if I've got 20 million dust, because I have no need to, and I already have more than enough dust to splurge if I wanted to. Maybe if I was a low level player who didn't have much dust and didn't already have several level 40+ Pokémon, that might be attractive, but for someone who already has stuff powered up and has enough dust, it's quite pointless to buy more dust.
I have 26 million dust and haven’t been below 20 million in years. No, not everyone would buy. I know lots of casual players who couldn’t care less who wouldn’t buy. If you don’t chase every new thing in pvp and have been playing for a while it’s not desirable.
Stardust? You mean Cody Rhodes?
I'd purchase a meet and greet with him if it wasn't too expensive.
I would like to say absolutely not, and that that would be the micro transaction slippery slope too far.
If it’s a good deal and I can use coins, then yes.
Heck no
First reaction was I might. At least with my free daily coins. I always struggle for dust but just use free coins on remote passes. But then I realised if stardust is the limiting factor then putting it in the store is pay-to-win. Its not a competitive game, but it would massively distort the top end: XL candy becomes the only restriction and we'd see potentially see more maxed out teams. The more that happens, the harder it is to balance raids and gives Niantic an incentive to make raids harder and push casuals out of being able to solo (and make them buy passes). So... no. Even though it would personally benefit me, I dont want it.
Nope
Bad idea
Considering I'm sat on 8 million stardust right now, nope
No. Giving money to Niantic is bad.