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Bring back the Dust... Please!!!!

Ok.. I get the fact that they needed to tighten up the free coins as a whole... but taking away the Dust we were getting out of the gyms, and I mean all but ZERO dust now,, is a bit harsh... Actually painful...
Cool gym i saw earlier today!

Asked by kimosabi77 years 11 months ago
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So we no longer get the 20 dust from feeding mons in gyms?
I haven't been playing much.

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Still get it. It's rare to find a gym that needs much feeding though.

The best way of getting dust remains putting the time in to catch Pokemon...

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You're getting 20? I've only been getting 10 dust per berry fed. But tonight I got 2 eevee candies from feeding the same vape, I guess it was grateful ;)

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The previous 5000 per day for holding 10 gyms is really overhyped. 5000 stardust is not that much, 50 mons or a handful of hatches. Even with one incubator you can match that on a day.

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Disagree. The 5,000 daily dust reward was in addition to dust accumulated those other ways. So, to make it up, you'd have to catch an extra 50 mons per day, which is probably close to a dedicated hour of playing time, when you consider missed throws, replenishing pokeballs, etc.

As far as incubators go, if you are spending real money, sure, you can buy more incubators, and walk more, and make up the dust that way. But for free players like me, the number of eggs I can hatch is largely dependent on the number of free gym coins I can get, and that has been reduced along with the dust.

I am catching more mons now, especially evolved forms, in order to try to make up the lost dust rewards, but there is no doubt that I am accumulating dust more slowly than under the old system.

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If you were not in a very stale environment where gyms may have stood for weeks, stardustwise, the time was probably much better spent catching mons than taking down gyms.

One hour daily spent on gyms, is easy 40-50 mons and 3km for your single incubator.

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For us in Singapore, almost no legit players could hold 10 gyms every day. Mystic players could hold 5-6 gyms if they try to (but most get 3-4 only), other 2 teams could hold 3-4 gyms.
But even Instinct players could hold 10 gyms a day if they drive around at night as a group to bubblestrat and build Blissey walls (a very famous group of Instinct legit players used to do that almost every night in the north-east areas of Singapore).

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That is an awesome gym.

I agree, the lack of dust is frustrating. Fortunately, I was very stingy with both coins and dust prior to the update, but I am still very reluctant to spend what I have saved, because they are so much harder to replenish. I hope there will start being occasional double stardust events, and the addition of other ways of accumulating dust.

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by aSp 8 years ago

Now we must buy incubators AND raid passes.

I saw that gym on Mystic7 vid too ;-)

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Yes, dust is a real problem but the casual players don't care and nither do Niantic.

Casual players can catch lvl 20 pokemon fully evolved form and play on par with those of us who have been grinding since day one for 100 coins a pop. Those of use who refine movesets and look at IVs, those of use to go the extra mile

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There is a big difference between a squad of L20 mon and a squad of L30+ mons though. If dust was easily available THEN there would be little real difference between hardcores and casuals.

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Agree with you. They'll have to feed a lot of berries before being able to power up their level 20 tyranitar - if they even realize the need to do so!

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Yes, the knowledge gap is arguably what makes the biggest difference in the field.

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I actually disagree.

Could I use more dust! OH YES!!

But dust is the only real limiting factor in the game now with elite mons being readily available at raids. There needs to be an incentive to grind pokemon and dust is it. Hardcore players often complain about the new system giving casuals easily obtaining the firepower that they worked for months and months to get, but dust is what makes the difference. The hardcore players have it. The casuals do not.

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Agree. If the coin system stays as it is, then they should bring back the dust collecting for holding gyms as it was.
Then the whole new gym system would make a lot more sense than now.

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agree with some of the below posts yes you have and awesome set of level 20 mons but if you want to build them up you need to be strategic with what you spend your dust on and grind for it.

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