

Plenty of other games have similar systems in place to make it harder to level up as you get higher on the experience ladder. There's nothing inherently wrong with this kind of slowdown in advancement as a game progresses.
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By those projections, a player maxing out at an extremely healthy average of 100,000 experience points a day would need more than a week to get from level 31 to 32, about a month to get from level 35 to 36, and a full year to get from level 38 to 39 (we won't know if these projections match reality until people actually start reaching these higher levels). Twitter user Klik_Vox has assembled the data on the matter into a graph showing how it starts getting incredibly hard to advance once you reach some of the game's higher levels. "Stronger, evolved, and more rare Pokémon should reward you with more XP, plain and simple." Advertisement "It makes no sense that a 10cp Pidgey should be giving the same XP as an 1600cp Scyther," he writes. The exponentially increasing steepness of the leveling climb is particularly daunting, Riggnaros argues, because the game doesn't increase the amount of experience offered by the Pokémon you capture at later levels. While advancing to level 15 only requires a few thousand experience points per level, by the time you hit level 30, it takes a full 500,000 experience points to increase your in-game status. What's more, the total amount of experience needed to reach the next level appears to go up exponentially as the game continues. "I cannot stress how ridiculous this would be for someone playing spending coins on pokeballs (ie playing the game - which is the majority)."

"From level 29-30 I went through over 1000 pokeballs.
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Getting enough Pokéballs to keep up with all those escaping Pokémon means spending real money or spending inordinate amounts of time farming free Pokéballs from those slowly refilling Pokéstops. In a detailed Reddit thread discussing his "late game" progress in Pokémon Go, user Riggnaros discusses a few ways the game grinds progress to a halt once players hit level 25 or so.įor instance, Riggnaros says, once you reach a level in the "mid 20s," low-powered Pokémon you encounter in the game start to "have an abnormally high chance to evade capture." That means players will need to start wasting a lot more Pokéballs to capture the most abundant monsters, which are key to gaining the experience points needed for that next level. Now that the game has been out for more than a week in many regions, though, some of the first players to hit the game's higher levels are running into a wall that's halting that easy advancement. Provided you're not in a Pokémon-light rural area (or, er, a black neighborhood), it's pretty simple to just keep farming Pidgeys and nearby Pokéstops and gyms for the resources you need to watch your in-game numbers go up. Further Reading Throwing cold water on some of Pokémon Go’s hottest takesAt the early levels, it's relatively easy to advance in Pokémon Go without spending any money.
