Is the worst part of a level cap increase....
Having to spend a thousand hours farming for XP. Spening 30 minutes a at a time evolving your Pidgeys. The repeating it over and over. PLEASE NIANTIC, make evolving multiple mons quicker. Taking a half hour each time, sucks! Its a complete waste of my time. Niantic made it easier to select multiple mons to delete but when evolving with a lucky egg you will spend 30 min. Or if you dont use a lucky at least make that faster. Niantic should be able to make that happen, right???
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Multitasking helps. Watch netflix, read articles, browse reddit, eat, whatever. Mass evolving only requires one hand and a bit of attention every 20 seconds or so.
I don't think Niantic has any reason to make mass evolving faster. They never intended it to be a thing and you can basically buy exp by raiding so there's absolutely no incentive for them to help us mass evolve easier. I wouldn't mind being able to mass select mons to evolve and then just leaving the phone there for 30min while the evo animations play, but I don't think it's going to happen.
Mass evolving is not worth the time unless there is also an event with double XP. (And that was the problem with the first Community Day.)
I used up all my lucky eggs during earth day event while farming with star pieces. Not the most optimal XP gain with lucky eggs, but good enough and something I was already wanting to do anyway.
A level cap increase is necessary, especially for all those hardcore players out there - this i agree.
A big however..... i seriously hope the level cap is not solely determined by XP! I have hardcore friends around me that have already breached 60 mil xp, 100 mil xp, etc. So even if they do introduce say a level increase to level 45 (rumored), these players would immediately hit the cap.
Another point is what purpose would levelling up trainer level serve? To further power up pokemon i.e. changes to max CP (this serves nothing new to existing gameplay)? Or just rewards (no point here)? Or maybe exclusivity for levelling up? Niantic has to figure this out. Initially i would have agreed if they released ex raid passes to those that have hit level 40, but since Niantic has already decided level 5 is sufficient to be entitled for an ex raid, then a trainer level increase must serve a purpose.
My thoughts....
