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Originally Posted by Pkcore
Oh sorry I think I misread a part of your post because I was reading your suggestion and you said this:
"The idea is to reward hardcore trainers. That's a good idea and I support it. However the fixation should not be on a magical number "10,000" itself, but more so based on the experience trained."
So I was like okay that's a nice thesis, reward trainers who put in the time in general regardless of what level their Pokemon is, by basing it on experience trained instead. And my thoughts on that was that it would be a good suggestion if experience trained on an account is already being recorded, otherwise trainers wouldn't be credited for the training they've done to date.
But I see now I misread something and that your suggestion is to actually turn in levels but instead of only being able to turn in a level 10,000, be able to turn in any level that has 100B exp. or more to get the corresponding amount of nuggets. But now what I'd point out is that this conflicts with the opening statement from the quote above where you said "The idea is to reward hardcore trainers." Because based on your numbers, a level 4642 will have 100B+ exp. and get me a nugget, so you're saying I can trade for a level 4500 which someone else put the effort to train up and only add 142 levels to it and get a nugget for it?
I think maybe a good way to go about it would be to combine your suggestion and the original suggestion by having rewards for reaching various level milestones.
For example:
5,000 => DarkHo-Oh
7,500 => DarkMew
10,000 => ShinyMew
12,500 => GoldenHo-Oh
15,000 => GoldenMew
Additionally, I think these should be one time rewards just for having a Pokemon of the specified level or above rather than turning them in. I think these should be additional incentives to train and after training so hard to end up with a really high level Pokemon, I wouldn't want to see someone lose the Pokemon they put so much time into to train up.
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The idea is to jack up the value of high levels such as 4499s in the trading market so that training is "worthwhile". Whichever trainer decides to trade for a 4499 would therefore have to pay a fairly tempting amount considering how the original owner could simply train a hundred levels more and then claim the nugget, which in turn in term leads him up to a valuable reward. In that sense, there should be no direct conflicts of intent.
"Turn in"s and "milestone" rewards ultimately differ on the repetition factor. Turning in encourages trainers to train repeatedly and constantly receive rewards for it, whereas milestones are more of a "achieve and retire" kind of feature.
I get what you mean by turning in painstakingly trained 10ks would suck; but in that same vein, it makes the golden prizes truly worth a drool. More so in terms of trading, they can now potentially attract amazing offers which their 9ks or 10ks could not have due to the hard level cap of 4499.