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Idea to make the game fun: Lending and Borrowing

Here's the fact: while some people are enduring stardust drought, other people are sitting at 1mil+ dust; some people don't have enough bag spaces for candies while others might need huge amount of candies when Mewtwo is out.

If we can do some dust/rare candies borrowing/lending:
1. Central Bank way: you deposit your excessive dust/candies to a Bank operated by Professor Willow, then you get earn some interest. If you want to borrow dust/candies, you need to use sth as collateral, maybe coins. The interest rate can even be floating and align with real world finance market, ...
2. Peer-to-peer way: this is even more exciting. You lend/borrow dust or candies to/from other players by enabling item trading. To prevent alt account trading, there may be some requirements like trainer level.
3. Free-market way: this is more complicated. You can search/create for offers in a trading center. Trading centers are like gyms that spread in the map all around the world. Such borrowing/lending agreements are being protected and regulated by Prof Willow (he's the voucher for both parties).

What do you think?

Asked by bioweapon6 years 7 months ago
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by razvan 6 years 7 months ago

Number 1 could work since look protected towards abuses, unlike the other 2.

P.S. Looking at the title I thought at borrowing pokemons :); like I can lend 1-2 lvl 30 Golems to another Valor before the raid so we increase our team damage :). Or some maxed Vapes that don't make the cut in my team vs. Moltres or Tyra but will be stars for many other teams.

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Pokemon Borrowing is even more a fantastic idea! With Niantic controlling behind borrowing you are safe to lend your Poke to others.

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I love it!!

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A level requirement might not work. People can just "borrow" stardust from their friends who have quit the game.

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I'd like it if u could trade your excess candies from 1 type to another via the Professor. Say swap 100 candies of 1 type for 1 of another type. Great way to offload candies you're not using while gaining afew rarer candies such as for legendaries

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Number 1 is a good suggestion.. However, the other 2 ideas are not good and must never ever be implemented. This is because number 2 and 3 will end up with players selling stardust for real money and this will cause botters or fake players to create multiple accounts and use bots to gather millions of dust. Even if Niantic banned those accounts, they will just create another hundred accounts with bots to gather dusts as it is just a minor setback for them and doesn't really harm them at all. This will create unfair environment to casual and serious players in the long term.

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I'd like to trade directly, from phone to phone, maybe legitimated via exchange of a QR-Code.

Then, each player choses what he wants to give, freezes the trade, if both have freezed the trade, nothing happens until each of them confirms. After both confirmed, the trade is executed.

A friend of mine does many raids and is very low on potions but has lots of rare candies. I have lots of potions but not many rare candies.
I think, we could find a fair deal.

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