"If Sinnoh Stone is now randomized reward, one in seven trainers got half the reward for the same effort"

#PokemonGO: Disclaimer: Niantic programmers get alot of blame for programming mistakes that may or may not be complex in nature, by users who do not work with programming. This post is about decision making, not programming or even game design.Given that the Sinnoh Stone is now a randomized reward for the weekly research breakthrough, rather than guaranteed addition, why choose a window of 13 days for the guarantee?Assuming the weekly schedule is evenly distributed over the days of the week (and trainers keep handing those quests in), this would leave one in seven with one less guaranteed stone as a result, for those unlucky, half the reward for the same amount of effort over 14 days. It's surely bad enough that those same trainers had the highest (six day) penalty of waiting to access the locked content.I can think of two reasons for this to happen. Either decision making is carried out without consultation of basic math, to the extent that decision makers do not know what they have decided, or the feedback process on decisions is close to non existent. Such things do happen in stressed organizations, but surely someone could have predicted this. They would even get this exact feedback for free, had they only communicated the actual timeline ahead of execution.Can we hope that someone with any kind of influence has learned anything from this?PS. Yes, I do realize that not everyone of those one in seven trainers got one less stone, while they on the other hand missed out on the other part of the reward instead.PPS/EDIT/TLDR. Had we known the schedule ahead, we would have the opportunity to align our rewards to have an equal opportunity. via /r/TheSilphRoad https://ift.tt/2P6c0xj