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Does defender bonus include stardust?

The new Gym Update docs only talk about earning coins in the defender bonus. Do we still get Stardust?

Asked by gibell7 years 10 months ago

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"There has been no information on whether stardust will remain a form of gym reward under the new system. However, Niantic's gym FAQ states that feeding berries to defenders will yield stardust and XP, possibly replacing the old reward paradigm. In this preview video, feeding a berry to a demotivated defender yields 50 stardust."

https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/news/gym-update-everything-you-need-know

Thanks! Didn't see that.

I wonder how many times you can feed berries to a defender. There might be a few problems such as botters hoarding berries and then sitting near the gym, continuously feeding the defenders. That means the gym will just never fall.

I watched a video, it seems, as you would have to feed many berries to raise motivation. I think, those spoofers would run out of berries soon, if someone seriously attacks the gym.

Also, you won't want your gym to stand forever since you will need them to return with coins but max of 100 per day. At some point you will intentionally stop feeding them. I imagine it will be very difficult to control this without Being in a massive number of gyms and often going over your 100 coin/day limit.

So this will be easy. Someone like me usually have 30 defenders in gyms.

So all to I have to do is let 10 return per day and place them in other gyms and I can keep collecting like clockwork even if 10 are kicked out if the gym

Well, let's hope stuff goes well. I see 5 gyms at the park near my house. 3 gyms are very close to each other, and one of them was placed at my favorite nest spot.

I believe there is a cooldown on feeding berries to pokes in gyms. Likely to prevent you from just sitting there feeding berries easily and quickly to mons when an enemy is spending a lot of time taking down the gym. Would be too easy to protect gyms then.

Great, as I understand, you can feed berries to any mons of your team, so this means even if I have no defenders in the gym, I can still earn stardust and xp by feeding berries to other pokemons?