Top player motivation?
I'm lvl 35, and I have been wondering what my motivation is to play now.
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Before the overhaul, I strived to take down other player's top defenders in gyms. To do this I powered up the best attackers that I had. To power them up, I powered up the best defenders I had to get stardust from gyms.
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Now, there is no stardust from gyms so I don't care about defenders. And top defenders are penalized anyway, so other player's don't use top defenders for me to attack. All that is left is to win raids; but the stardust to do that is more rare than ever. TMs are great to help make great attackers but less so without adequate stardust.
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Not trying to be a downer, but what is your motivation now? Mine seems to be lost.
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I am level 35, too. I still enjoy building up my mon to be as good as they can be. Only a small subset of them can be powered up, receive TMs (I haven't gotten one, yet), or otherwise receive direct investment. The rest all have to be found surreptitiously. The gyms are a means of testing the "goodness" of my mons.
I'm pretty much same as you, level 35 and figuring out my place in this new pogo world.
I still use pogo as motivation for getting in shape. Hour of jogging every morning while hatching eggs.
I would commonly stop and take down level 7 & down gyms. That doesn't happen anymore because there's no incentive for me (on the plus side, more jogging!)
I'll run an errand in the afternoon and do a raid while I'm out. I have lots of high IV mons that need the TM.
So as I'm concerned, keep hatching high IV mons and get best move sets. When PvP and trading come out, they'll be a commodity.
Just a thought here: The motivation to take over gyms and hold them is negligible right now. Ridiculous.
Most probably, I predict, the benefit will be in upgrading gym badges (for defiting and defending gyms longer) - for example you would get a chance a special item (TM, rare candy etc..) would drop from such a gym. Let's see :), it would be a solution....?
There are no more end goals...no more territories to maintain, no reason to hold gyms or attack gyms...
I don't know about anyone else, but having to fight any mon 3 times, even weaker ones just feels plain stupid to me...
2 mons, 6 battles, 3=9 battles Such a chore and a drag...Maybe they SHOULD do reverse prestige so if you use a mon 1/2 CP, you attack it once and it's out...
After 4000+ battles, the battling was already a chore to me, now, it's even worst/more boring.
End goals for me is just solo Level 3s, Tier 4 raids maybe on weekends with more people and that's it...
Grinding to walk buddies with rare candy in the game or hatch eggs sounds foolish when I believe they will rotate egg bosses eventually...
Game is on ultra casual mode so play casually...
I believe in a month, players will drop out since casuals will get bored easily...hardcore are already getting bored with no end game.
My wife already doesn't care to do raids unless it's a Tyranitar so mark my words, player base will drop after raids get boring for the casuals.
I need a a kitten pic. (Best part of SR currently looking at the little kitties).
Try to set some short term goals until this shakes out. In my case:
- I'm closing in on level 36, so that's my first goal
- Succeeding at a level 4 raid (finding enough players has been a challenge, but it will happen!)
- Working on my battle girl medal. I used to do much more prestiging than fighting rival gyms
And of course, continue my daily walking. Getting very close to 1,000 km (late start, 10/30/16).
That'll keep me occupied until things change for the better.
Hope you find some joy in the current meta.
I'm level 36 & losing motivation fast, someone chuck me a berry FFS!! I don't have alot of time so would drive out when I had a spare hour or so, power up some gyms & attempt to hold 10 for the coins & dust. Now the same drive I see the same gyms either full or level 6 of a different team so maybe take 1 or 2 gyms & return home with the feeling I could've used that hour doing something else. Coins have slowed to a trickle, no stardust & little reason to catch commons I used to use for prestiging. 90% of my bag is now worthless but the biggest thing for me is my collection of 3000+ defenders that took months of grinding to build up are now just collectors items? Seriously, what a slap in the face from the games creators & has made me question the whole integrity of the thing & where the game is actually going. I have gone casual now & will remain casual unless something drastic happens as the game seems pointless now. Just need Unown for a full dex & never seen one, maybe they'll chuck one in a future raid, lol
