Is pidgey XP-grinding dead?
Just wondering.
If you start 7 accounts:
7 days friends:
7*10 000 XP
lucky egg: 140 000 XP
30 days:
7*50 000 XP
lucky egg: 700 000 XP
90 days:
7*100 000XP
lucky egg: 1,4 million XP
Or have i missed anything in this absurd amount of XP?
Answers
The advantage of pidgey grinding is that it generates dust, which is more important than XP. Niantic has made it clear in the last few months that they want ppl to level up fast, especially new players. Just look at the ridiculous amount of XP new players could get on adventure week. It makes sense if they want new players to stick around since the loyal base that play from the start, even the very casual ones, are all at 35+. If it would take new players several months to reach 30, and that is where they can start contributing in raids with WB wild catches, than they will not bother playing. It would be like the old gym system that blocked new players from participating. Niantic doesn't want to repeat that mistake.
I certainly agree with you that Niantic wants people to level up quickly, and I think stardust is the more limiting factor. But I think players can contribute long before level 30. On my son's account we did the Eevee name trick and those were the heavy hitters. Combine that with the grass event, Alolan Exeggutor, and fighting event, that account is pretty stacked. That account can solo some T3 raids, like Aerodactyl. The most impressive feat was a 7 person Kyrogre raid. That account actually carried the load, and it is only level 28. All 7 players were level 24-28. And obviously once you start doing raids, then you get to catch the raid bosses.
For example, here are my the top pokemon on a very casual level 28 account.
One reason is TOS: if you want to stay legit you shouldn't use secondary accounts.
Second: it is tedious and time consuming as well, especially if you don't spoof or live on pokestop, you need to send over 630 gifts from 7 accounts till best friends...
BTW if progress glitch will not be fixed you could claim all rewards in one day with only one lucky egg
Oh please, the TOS is a joke. If they actually cared about that, they wouldn't give people an incentive to have multiple accounts. Their new raid system put solo players at a huge disadvantage. Now you add this friends thing? People can easily have an at least half ass second account. The big difference maker is the number of phones people choose to use.
I believe in legit playing. I focus on my account and will do a bit on my son's account (level 28.) I never use both accounts at the same time. But I rarely see other players only using 1 account. I guess it is pretty commonly accepted around here to have multiple accounts. I'm kind of the oddball...
