Do the field research tasks get better after you get your 100 medal?
I got a silver medal earlier today for completing 100 field research. I just got the best field research challenge yet, "catch a dragon-type pokemon" for 1500 stardust. Now that's more like it! Is it related to the medal or is it just a more rare task that anybody can get?
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I get stuff and then I spend stuff, I finally decided to max more things bc gonna spend it anyway. However, lack of rare candy has me maxing Dragonite #3 right now. I'd also rather be putting it to finishing: Salamence, Gardevoir, maxing another Tyranitar...but Dratini is the only worthwhile candy I have right now
Exactly.
I'm a filthy casual (1, maybe 2, raids a day) so my rare candy numbers are limited. Sure I do have 250 sitting in my bag gathering dust (until I get a 100%/98% legendary that I want at 40 instantly), but anything above that is spent immediately and I'm nowhere near having one of each legendary at 35-40. Luckily 2 months of worthless dragons (and maybe 3 months of worthless golems) gives me some freedom to spend rare candy on older legendaries.
Stardust on the other hand is sometimes spent for fun (still spent on useful attackers with good IVs, though) because I have plenty anyway. My most recent "why nots" are a Tyranitar from lvl 6 to 40 and two Dragonite from below 20 to 40.