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Make Excavation great again [An In-Depth Excavation Suggestion]

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INTRODUCTION - (Make sure to open the spoilers) -   Lets get straight to the point, Excavation Sites need an update. The last big change to Excavation Sites was about 1 1/2 years ago, so

Iceflake
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Personally Having Items all the same instead of having them correspond with the site would just feel very bland -1   This site just seems unbalanced as 1 sync shouldn't be able to syn

Blackfoot
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I am +1ing this. I used to do excavations daily, but since I have obtained a decent or epic version of every pokemon in there, its become quite boring with the exact same pokemon all the time.

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  On 2/27/2021 at 2:53 AM, Norex said:

PinkNotAtAllPinkRock.png Spawn Change Suggestions PinkNotAtAllPinkRock.png

(Note: These are just examples to give some ideas for spawn changes, feel free to share your thoughts and ideas in the comments)

 

Credits for some ideas on the spawn changes and source for provided data

 

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First of all Fossils fit well into Excavation Sites and can even be synched with an NPC in the Historical Site. Revival Herbs are always useful for rather new players and can still be useful to more advanced players as they can be used on quests, events, leveling pokemon etc. While Heal and Energy Powder may be useful to a certain extend to newer players, they feel like a waste for most of the playerbase after a while. I would suggest to change them to items which are pretty much always needed and useful like Vitamins (Protein, Iron, HP Up etc.) or make Heal and Energy Powder exchangable for Artifact pieces.

 

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For most of the time my personal experience with the Artifact Pieces shop has been that I would only buy Focus Sashes as these are the most valuable items you can get and they are rather easy to sell. Most other items are not worth their price, are not needed or have other sources you can get them from easily. To give Artifact Pieces a better use I suggest to lower some prices in a balanced way to make it worth buying other items than focus sashes and a few other items.

 

Balancing prices and available items is not easy by any means but I tried to come up with fair prices based on a calculation. To understand the suggested Artifact Pieces prices and that calculation you need to know some numbers. For a full Excavation Site run we end up with an average of 64 Artifact pieces (I used 60 for cleaner calculations) and a Focus Sash costs 6 Artifact pieces and sells for about 2.000 - 2.500 Pokedollar (I used 2.000 Pokedollar for the calcuation). Buying 10 Focus Sashes for 60 Artifact Pieces and selling them for 2.000 Pokedollar each leads to a daily profit of 20.000 pokedollars.

 

Example of the calcuation based on a Reroll Ticket:

 

Reroll Ticket.png -> Reroll Ticket (2.250) -> 750.000 / 20.000 = 37.5 -> 37.5 x 60 = 2.250

Reroll Ticket.png -> Reroll Ticket (2.250) -> 750.000 (Current average price of a Reroll Ticket) / 20.000 (daily profit from selling Focus Sashes) = 37.5 (days to purchase a Reroll Ticket from another player if selling the Focus Sashes daily) -> 37.5 x 60 (Artifact Pieces gained daily from a full Excavation Sites run) = 2.250 (price of a Reroll Ticket in Artifact Pieces)

 

The goal is to end up with item prices which are somewhat balanced in a way that makes the items worth buying instead of selling the Focus Sashes and buying the desired items from another source.

 

Itemicon_Helixfossil.png Fossils:
I dont know why Omanytes and Kabutos Fossils are not available yet but I would suggest to add them as they are the only missing Fossils. I think the prices for Fossils are too expensive overall but I did not change them too much since I dont know if there is some in-depth balancing behind that and the fact that they are untradable.

 

Itemicon_Protein.png Vitamins:

Adjusted the prices so you are able to buy 10 Vitamins after a full Excavation Sites run.

 

Itemicon_Fokusgurt.png Consumables:

Adding certain items like Reroll Tickets to the Artifact Pieces Shop makes Excavation Sites even more lucrative. However I did not suggest more random items to keep the theme of the Excavation Sites alive for the most part but I think Reroll Tickets can be a very good addition as they serve as a more or less long-term-goal players can work for.

 

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Adjusted the prices based on the explained calculation. I did not suggest additional items as the already existing ones fit the Excavation Sites them perfectly well.

 

image.png.906a24c603d03ff52f4924c714cc9d83.png TM Moves:

Adjusted the prices based on the explained calculation and added the TM for Substitute since it is only available in Trainers Valley so far.

 

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Since obtaining 1.000 Artifact Pieces to purchase a megastone takes over 2 weeks of full Excavation Site runs and megastone-quests usually do not take longer than a 1-2 days at most for the majority of the playerbase I would suggest to lower the price a little bit to 600. While I think adding megastones exclusive to Excavation Sites is a good way to make them interesting again it should be considered that some players do not like to do Excavation Sites as well. I think lowering the price from 1.000 to 600 Artifact Pieces would be a good change which could motivate some players to do more Excavation Sites again. Obviously players who already bought the megastones for the original price of 1.000 Artifact Pieces would need to get compensated with the extra Artifact Pieces.

 


 

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+1 for great idea (change pokemon spawn, add reroll ticket, and change point for mega stones)

but I think to keep the energy powder, I use it a lot to train pokemon if I'm not relog and back to pokecenter

 

 

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