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My Google-Fu has failed me.

Why did Stardust come in amounts that weren't divisible by 100? Yes, now it makes things a bit easier for Weather Boosting and 1.5x for Starpieces, but was it ever explained why originally, it was coming out in amounts that weren't divisible by 100? The only use for Stardust is to Power Up Pokémon, and every Powerup is divisible by 100, so doesn't make any sense to me why Niantic would make it possible to have 1 Stardust in your inventory.

Asked by FandangoGhandi7 years ago
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Eggs don't give nice, round numbers.

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If you think of an egg as a three layer quantum, and the candy represents the energy state of a pokemon particle in the area bound by the white of the egg, then Heisenberg's Uncertain Egg Timer Principle states that you cannot measure the particle quantitatively without altering that quantity.

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Eventually it all rounds out. Probably sucks when you 9,956 and need 10,000 dust but that math challenge seldom happens and is resolved by hitting one more mon. I consider the extra "bonus" and by the time we get millions of dust it becomes significant.

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Friend recently got themselves to 3,333,333 dust for a screenshot. It doesn't matter when you're in the millions, but it does create fun opportunities like that.

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I don't think google can explain design decisions like that. They just happened to make eggs that way, so that's how it is. At least that doesn't matter much, unlike some other design decisions they've made.

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Google doesn't explain anything - it's a search engine. I used it to try to find the answer, couldn't find it, so asked here. I figured it was a question that had been asked a few times in the past, so someone might be able to link me to the answer.

Anyway, so beyond some people being salty at me, the answer seems to be no one here knows what the answer is and no one cares. Just one of those Niantic things.

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I mean, why would anyone here know the answer? It's a pretty insignificant thing, if you had the opportunity to ask a Niantic employee about things there are a few dozen that you'd ask about before bothering with "why can we have stardust numbers smaller than 100".

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