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Some transfer rewards low?

Rob1754

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    So I've been playing Pokemon Go for about 2 days now and I've managed to evolve a Pidgey and I'm currently trying to evolve my Pidgeotto. I think it's cool that they've decided to just have candies for the 1st evolution (ex. pidgey candies) but when I went and caught another Pidgeotto I sort of expected to get more than 1 Pidgey candie for transferring it. What are your thoughts on this? Do you think you should get a bigger reward for transferring a 2nd evolution? 2 or 3 candies possibly?
     
    Esper said:
    I think it's fine for now to have the amount low. It might be a little frustrating because everyone is rushing to evolve their Pokemon, but if the game is going to have any longevity I don't think it can give everything away too easily.
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    Yeah that makes sense. It would get rather dull if it became to easy.
     
    Esper said:
    I think it's fine for now to have the amount low. It might be a little frustrating because everyone is rushing to evolve their Pokemon, but if the game is going to have any longevity I don't think it can give everything away too easily.
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    Very good point this is.
     
    Whilst it is true that the game may be too easy if transferring evolved Pokémon gave more candy, it always feels like a big disappointment finding something awesome like a Golbat or Pidgeot in the wild and then ending up wishing it had been a 10 CP Pidgey instead. I do wish they'd have some kind of reward for transferring away evolved Pokémon as it feels quite pointless to go through the effort of catching them half the time but I can understand why they don't.
     
    Honestly, I don't catch evolved Pokémon that I already have for this reason. Unless they have a fairly high CP, there just wouldn't be any point. They're going to be harder to catch, use up more Poké Balls, and give the same reward. I just let 'em go.
     
    It's pretty disappointing to be honest. Even Poketubers believe that there should be more rewards for higher evolution stages.

    Professor Willow is a scam artist.
     
    At the very least, it should be two candies for a second stage Pokémon, three for a third stage.
     
    I think that you are right, but in that way, should be difficult to find and catch evoluted pokémon
     
    Getting a Gyarados is a bit frustrating... I mean you have to catch 101 Magikarps to get it and Magikarp seems to be quite rare in my area at least... I've only caught 1 so far...

    And I also think that trading second stages should give more than one candy (2nd gives 2 and 3rd 3). Wouldn't make the progress a lot faster since you don't find 2nd stage pokemons as often.
     
    I agree that evolved pokemon should give 2 or 3 candies. Especially for the fact i'm lucky if i can find 1 pokemon of a species, forget about 2 or 3 or even 20 you need to evolve some pokemon. Not sure how people already have fully evolved pokemon unless they were lucky enough to find them in the wild.
     
    I did a mass evolution last night and noticed something I hadn't known before.
    When you evolve a Pokémon, you do get one piece of candy for that line in return. I've never seen a "+1 [Pokémon] Candy" pop up any time I've evolved anything, so I wonder how many people actually know this.

    This does kind of offset the low reward for transferring a Pokémon that you've evolved, but doesn't really address transferring second stage Pokémon that you've caught.
     
    Benermerut said:
    I did a mass evolution last night and noticed something I hadn't known before.
    When you evolve a Pokémon, you do get one piece of candy for that line in return. I've never seen a "+1 [Pokémon] Candy" pop up any time I've evolved anything, so I wonder how many people actually know this.

    This does kind of offset the low reward for transferring a Pokémon that you've evolved, but doesn't really address transferring second stage Pokémon that you've caught.
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    I noticed this a couple of days ago too. At first I thought I was just imagining it but I tried a few times and it always worked. It's cool that there is a small little bonus for these evolutions but feels strange to not even mention it when it happens haha. Makes you wonder if this is actually intended behaviour or if there's a glitch?
     
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