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Remembering the Great Stardust Drought

With new players joining Pogo the biggest complaint I get is how hard it is to get stardust.

For my OG players this is comedy for us. I just send them the below link and they quickly apologize. These youngins won't ever know what the stardust struggle really was.

https://pokemongo.gamepress.gg/q-a/day-42-great-stardust-drought

Asked by Barrelrider136 years 8 months ago

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Nor will they know the great Blissey Towers

Or evolving five Dragonites, only to get Steel Wing on all five.

PUT A TRIGGER WARNING BEFORE THAT KIND OF STATEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!23213124!$@!$@!$@!$!@!@$!@$@!$@$!@$12$12$!!$@@!!@$!@$!@$!4

I got 3 in a row before finally catching a wild one...my first without SW had Hyperbeam :) there was also Twister Gyarados and Bulldoze Arcanine that made me cry.

Luckily I kept my 96% SW/HB Dragonite, I named Larry (before genders were introduced.) She is now a solid pokemon :)

My gym troll

I have some legacy moves too!

So many bad memories. The curse of steel wing claimed many of my Dragonites before TMs were available.

Memories! Tears tear down my face remembering how PoGo used to be pre-gym update.

My biggest trauma is still walking Lapras 500 km only to see it get nerfed a long line other Pokemon, because Niantic is inconsistent AF

This was my pain. IS/IB Lapras that got nerfed.

This. So much this. My 2800 IS/IB Lapras used to be one of my favorite defenders to toss into gyms back in the day. I was pretty sad when I logged in one day and her CP dropped down to 2444.

I don't know about y'all but I still struggle with it now and again. I don't understand how people end up with over a million stardust, if not multi-millions of it.

I think that is generally casual players or those creating an alt account without immediate battle purposes. My wife sits around 500k stardust with a fully powered up "battle team." She doesn't randomly power up pokemon, and being casual, candies, and pokemon worth powering up are the limiting factor. Also player level is a limiting factor.

This is my wife's battle party that is limited either by level or candies. (Her maxed Machamp is in a gym)

Why did she place her maxed Machamp in a gym?

You know when you see a gym with empty slots 100m away, and you drop whatever you doing at that point just to run to it?

Most trainers sort by maximum CP.

I have always been a dust spender when I had a mon a wanted to spend dust on. However, it has been so long since that happened for me that I have finally reached over 1 million. Never thought I would to be honest.

Maybe that's my problem, I always find stuff I want to spend dust on, even if it's not relevant/outclassed. I caught a 98% shiny Zapdos that would make a nice trophy. I have a 100% level 5 or 6 Beldum that if it ever gets a Community Day will be a contender for maxing out. Now with luckies I know I'll feel inclined to power things up on the principle of it costing less, despite knowing I'd be better off not doing so.

At least I've laxed on it so I have a constant reserve of 100k, and if I dip below that I don't touch it until it goes back up. But I see people with hundreds of thousands of dust, maybe over a million, with full rosters of maxed out Pokemon and can't figure out how.

Seems like there's four kinds of dust spenders.

1. Those who spend it on anything. The second they get enough to power something up, then they do it. I mean, who wouldn't want to get a lvl 40 Pidgeot?

2. Those who spend it on the Pokemon they like. It might not be a great Pokemon, but they like it and makes sure it reaches a high level.

3. Those who only power up the necessary Pokemon. Could be ones that are relevant every day, such as Machamp, but also ones that are useful in the current raids.

4. Those who won't spend any, unless there's an extreme circumstance or, if necessary, might spend a few hundred to complete a research task.

I know players who belong to the three first ones and I personally belong to the fourth category. Haven't spent any (apart for completing a few tasks) since the first day of december last year.

Subsets of 4:

Those who spent a ton of dust on stuff that was hyper useful and that got nerfed directly or indirectly when better pokes came along. Now they may be gun shy, choosing to go with weather boost pokes only....otherwise known as the “why bother” group). No sooner had I leveled my not-top tier BS Snorlax did Niantic go with BS Snorlax as research reward for July.

Those who are making dust hoarding thresholds part of the way they add challenge to the game.

Those who don’t know what they should spend it on.

Me- 2.5M dust w/10 L40 (mix of useful vs fun). May be group 3/4. Note that up until recently, I tended to power up exclusively as a mini-revive on useful pokes after battling with them or having defend. If you use the same pokes over and over, you don’t do this much.
Family 1 - 1.3M w1 L40 (100IV golem but others close behind)
Family 2 (child) - much closer to group 1
Family 3 - 1.3M group 4 (not sure what to power).

I tend to play hard during events, especially ones that give dust bonuses. There's a college campus near me that's saturated with pokestops (that often get lured up during events) and spawn points, making it a fantastic place to grind dust.

Currently sitting at 6.8mil dust, and that's after powering up/maxing out a few pet projects. There are several players in my group who have 2-3x the dust I have. It all comes down to how hard you're willing to play and finding areas that have enough Mons for you to catch and enough stops to replenish balls. Add a Go+/Gotcha to the mix, and you're in business!

I go out and catch pokemon in the city. During my active periods the daily amount is 350-600 which during events can easily become over 100k per day.

No, dust drought is still dust drought for me. Powering up pokemon now is a dream after dream as weeks of gathering dust can be swallowed away by 3 minutes of investments and there is simply not enough dust to powerup more than 1 pokemon at a time in any normal situation. The 20 to 30 or 35 curve is especially painful, since it's the necessary range for most useful and high iv pokemon.

I want to power up an alolan ninetales, a breloom, a 100iv sceptile, another 2 mewtwos and a smack down tyranitar from 30 to 35 and many more but the dust drought isn't allowing me to do that.

i played this game for almost a year without powering up anything, i never was a gym player and never cared about coins, i would only beat weak gyms and collect around 20 to 50 coins somedays. Now my floor is 1 milion stardust, i never get below that, i have a friend that spends every dust he has, he is never over 15k(thats when he wants to take something to level 40)