Shinedust adjustment For Trading Higher rarities

qiulio

Hello lovely Pokemon Team. I love your game and have been playing for almost a year. I don't have any problems, but I would like to give some feedback that I think is extremely necessary to keep players like me who have been playing for a long time enjoying the game (and spending money on it). I am extremely happy about the new update that now allows you to trade up to 2-star cards. It makes the game and the trading feature so much better. However, the problem is definitely the Shinedust costs. In all the time I've been playing Pokémon, I've collected about 400-500 thousand Shinedust and I've never had any real use for it. Now, trading is happening in many Discord groups, etc., and it's a lot of fun. However, because of the share feature, I'm no longer really interested in trading cards that are below 1 star or 2 stars because i do spend some money on the game and majority will be focused on 2 star cards. The problem is that it costs far too much, especially for players who have already reached the highest level. It's impossible for me to earn enough Shinedust to really enjoy the trading feature. Two or three days ago, I had 380,000 Shinedust, and now I have 85,000. That means I can make 2-3 more great trades and then it will take me months to collect enough Shinedust again to trade for another valuable card. In my opinion, the maximum should be 15 thousand Shinedust at HIGHEST for such a trade, or they should adjust it so that you can earn such an amount of Shinedust in one whole day of playing for example. Trading should be fun and not complicated, you shouldn‘t be worrying about having enough shinedust to trade with friends or people you really want to trade a card with. I am and majority of people will be willing to spend money for gold to recover the trading stamina, but i would have to spend hundreds of dollars just to get my shinedust back up to a point to be able to trade ONE rare card. This month so many people will end up having no shinedust because it‘s new, it‘s fun but it can‘t last like this. So with a big PLEASE i hope you will adjust this.

gadoschi1991

Shinedust is pretty much their way to battle against the multi-account farming weirdos out there and I get their point of view.

But, I still do agree it's way too high of a cost right now for higher rarity cards (especially 2 stars and 2 star shinies).

25000 shinedust for the highest rarity is - well, let me give you a perspective of how long / how much money it takes to collect enough for just 1 such trade: a pack opening will net you around 200-250 dust on average, which means that, for just one such trade, you will probably need to open AT LEAST 100 packs, if note more.

Even if you have premium active, that's 3 packs a day, plus 4 hourglass a day from the daily quest which ammounts to 28, a week and let's round that up to 3 additional packs a week.

Not counting events, that ammounts to just about 100 packs a month.

So, provided you do everything perfectly timed, and excluding events, which usually only net a few extra packs and a few extra thousand dust, you're looking at a whole month of grinding on average for a single 2 star trade if you're "F2P".

Excluding the launch of a new series, sets usually release once a month.

So, by the time you've likely pulled a couple of 2 star cards that you can trade, you will only be able to trade one of them, provided you do not spend your dust on any lower level trades at all

I also wish shinies and 2 stars were tradeable between each other, but I don't think that one's going to happen any time soon.