"[IDEA] Who would like to see stardust and candy replaced with Pokemon XP?"

#PokemonGO: I'm not a fan of the system we currently have, the balance between candy and stardust requiring you to catch multiple of X pokemon to evolve it seems at odds with the core elements of the pokemon genre. We should be rewarded for searching out and finding a rare pokemon, not punished by having to repeat that search xx times to evolve it. Further, we should be rewarded for keeping pokemon around, a pokemon you have since day 1 should get some advantage over one you caught today.With that in mind I think stardust/candy should be replaced with PokeXP.PokeXP would be a generally usable substance which could be used to level up/evolve pokemon from the same pool of resources.Stardust could be the base number used, while our current candy reserves would be converted into PokeXP at a rate deemed fair.Along with this I think it would be interesting to have pokemon evolve at certain levels rather than with candy costs. For example starters may evolve at level 20, requiring a trainer level of 20 to actually acquire that pokemon. This would add extra incentive to go out and capture spawning 3rd Evolution mon as a player who has not yet reached the trainer level required to evolve it would be able to acquire it early.Further this would allow players who may only have one chance to catch a rare mon (such as a Mr.Mime grabbed during a flight transfer) the ability to power it up if they so choose.Rare candy could be used as in the original games to provide a single level boost to any pokemon, so as to keep it from being overpowered that could be based on walking distance. IE 1km pokemon require 1 rare candy per level up all the way to legendaries requiring 20 candy per level up.I really think a system like this would encourage gameplay and be fairly easy to implement without upsetting players. It would also encourage playing by casual players who aren't willing to monitor a spawn map for hours on end and drop everything to run out and catch mareeps for a chance to finally evolve an ampharos.Maybe if we refine this idea and bring it to niantic's attention certain elements can be incorporated into the game?TL;DR: Combine candy and stardust into PokeXP, let us evolve/powerup from a single resource. via /r/pokemongo http://ift.tt/2yTghfZ