Level Cap increase
Lucky eggs are technically useless for players who reach Level 40 ages ago. So when are they going to increase level cap.
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A lot of new level games create a new XP or roll over XP at the cap.
For example: 5 Million to Level 41. When you ding 41. You have to earn "Purple XP" to level from 41 to 50.
Another thing that happens is XP is reset when u ding the newest level. So if 25 Million = level 41. Then everyone over 25 million is set to level 41 and 25 million when they level.
I find it amusing that you get 4 Lucky Eggs when you reach level 40. Like, why?
I also don't think they're going to raise the level cap anytime soon. There are people on my Discord who have reached level 40 2-3x over, and it would give them a huge advantage over the rest of us. Not that they haven't earned some reward for playing the game so much, but as the previous poster mentioned, they seem to want to narrow the gap (e.g. weather-boosted spawns).
If they raise the level cap, there are many ways to do it.
One of the less likely is that lvl 40 players would keep all of their old XP and get new levels associated with it.
Maybe they gain one extra level and everything above is erased.
Maybe they lose everything above lvl 40, but get a nice trinket (shiny shuckle).
or something else...
Or, they get to keep the total XP, but starts at 0xp for level 41. I think this is the most probable way as niantic would love a competion, and it will sure give a boost to coin purchase, after all, those players with a huge XP can also do it again. And they also may promote the leaderboard of total cp, weekly or monthly and award a few coins, or whatever...
I think the best way to handle raising the level cap is to cap off instant level ups to one and throw away everyone's extra exp that goes over that, like MMOs do. Additionally, with POGO it should probably come with a new badge that tells how much exp you lost or some other form of compensation for all the effort. And probably also medal requirements like Ingress extra levels to make empty exp worth less.
From 39-40 is 5 million. So 41 would probably be another 7.5. Then 42 would be 10 and so on. There's probably only a handful of people in the world that would go up any more than 5 levels. It would also be an insane amount of work for almost no reward but at least it would keep people playing and spending money. Which is the real reason niantic does anything since they are a business after all
The ground work to increase the level cap to 50 has already been laid with weather boosted spawns going up to level 35. It would likely take 200,000,000 XP to reach level 50. More importantly, it will probably take double the dust and candy to take a Mon from L40-50 as to go from L30-40 for the same increase in strength. It would effect the balance of the game very little.
It would be nice if they rewarded hard work. Throwing away extra earned XP just seems cruel. But, just using XP to level up rewards those who’ve just driven from one level 5 raid to another and really done no work. There’s too much stress on L5 raids. Hopefully, they’ll use the medals. Need to catch so many of every Pokémon type, walked so many kilometers, won so many battles, etc in order to level up along with the required xp.
