+Roger chung They're expensive Nike's, and you don't want to walk too far away with them in case someone beats you in a pokemon battle and steals your shoes.
Feraligatr13 but you are the one controlling your character and he can't run when you're pressing 'run' but when your character obtained the running shoes, he/she can magically starts running
Roger chung That's true, but you don't necessarily control everything about your character. For example, you don't control how your character dresses (except in X/Y, where you can run from the start) or what your character says. Your character can choose not to run until he/she gets shoes that are fit to run in.
+Darksilver jesse and the attack payday was basically a "hand full" of pennies thrown at high speed at the opponent. would hurt like hell and not damage the economy. like $0.20 to $0.50 per attack.
+Lain Campbell (Lolly) well I mean a pokeball cost 300, in pennies that's $3, but at his calculations it would be 22.5 cents. economically a $3 pokeball is more believable than a 23 cent ball. right?
Richard Mcilwain was this a reply to me? Because even though that's cool about the yen I'm always going to view a pokedollar as a penny... but yes I do understand that a pokedollar is more than likely based on yen.
I might be a bit late on the mark for this discussion, but wouldn't there actually be a fourth scenario here? The token Pokemon for this move, Meowth, is seen with a gold coin of sorts on its head, and it would make sense that payday somehow duplicates these coins. If paper money needs to be backed by something, coin money is usually the other half of this. Take the US dollar coin, which has a small amount of gold used in its production. A dollar coin is worth its value in gold and hence, essentially backs itself. If payday is a move that duplicates coins to this degree, it would effectively create more money without inflating the economy. But again, it also notably only does this in small increments. A single Pokemon battle would sometimes yield maybe 100 - 300 "poke dollars" extra, which means that this would still take a long time for any notable increase in currency.
Shit, THANKS! Everytime I watch a video and they mention the "high prices", and it makes me cringe because they're too ignorant to think that just possibly, "3000P" might translate to only 3$ in whatever currency the viewer has. I don't think I've run into a single video where someone else considers that thought.
+Juan Carlos So what would that make the bike cost in original Red/Blue? I would figure it up but can't remember what they said the cost for bike was without voucher.
+Ryan Amberger never mind, looked up the bike price on google and it was 1,000,000 poke dollars. If a poke dollar is equivalent to the Japanese yen, the bike would cost $8331.91. Damn, must be one of those competition bikes like Lance Armstrong uses.
I think 100=1 US dollar. Most trainers are children and they can afford to pay about 5-10 dollars. Elite four, gym leaders, and bosses give more because they have and get more.
To me, it seems like payday would cause inflation due to effectively "printing" money, but in the games all of the prices stay the same defying what would make sense in the real world.
The Pokémon Dollar and its symbol were both created for the English translation of the games. In the original Japanese versions (except for Colosseum and XD), the currency used is yen and the symbol used is 円, the kanji for yen. As such, the Pokémon Dollar is based on yen.
I began watching you videos because of Facebook and I love your theories. awesome and thanks! answering questions I always wondered about. and I like your other commentary videos.
But Proto, what about gold nuggets in almost every game? Can't those be used to back up the currency's origin (get a rough idea of what a poke dollar equates to in each generation)?
+Phil Thomas Yeah that is a good question, but since it doesn't fluctuate no matter the reason, you kinda gotta assume that there is some crazy ass NWO shit going on.
+ProtoMario hi proto I'm a big fan but let's get to the point could You PLEASE make a video about your gym type if u were to choose and your favourite pokemon team (not for the gym but just in general) and what would u choose as a gym team
the Machamp giving me a thumbs up automatically made me give this video a thumbs up. yeah, i havent even watched more than 25 seconds, but it doesnt matter because im giving Machamp a thumbs up right back at him. p.s. you should just start having random, awesome pictures of characters giving a thumbs up when asking to like a video, it theoretically makes sense too. it makes someone want to give a thumbs up if a character they can relate to, or has a history with (Example: like first obtaining a machamp with a bestfriend back in the day, on accident at that!)
I got a good follow up theory for you; team rocket tries to get all of the meowths and persians, and tms containing payday, and also all of the amulet coins, and and that is why all 4 of them are so rare.
Huh. You know, I never really gave the currency in the game that much thought. The anime however.... Ash and his group always purchase unhealthy snacks but I've never seen paper or coins being exchanged. They'll just have things in front of them.
Bogart Gaming & Tech Yet one of the many more mysteries of Pokemon. Along with the one that I think was already answered but I'll asked again: Do the people of the Pokemon world eat meat??? I never see them eating anything that looks like meat. It's all pastries and soup with them.
I have a theory: Why does team rocket never use the Pokemon center but always sleep outside(they could go in disguise so they are allowed inside the center)?? Could it mean that Pokemon center actually has paid service but free Pokemon healing??
payday gives you roughly 5 dollars when your pokemon is lv 100. a battle takes maybe a minute, maybe half a minute. so you woul be able to earn 300-600 dollars an hour. if you have a few pokemon batteling wild pokemon simultaneously you can get a few thousand dollars an hour... that will defenitely make you rich ^^
Economics hurt my head too much. There was an episode dedicated to Meowth's Pay Day but they never said how it affects the economy. Maybe the money the attack uses is not valid - does not have monetary strength, like monopoly money. In the game, it's an incentive to have a Persian. The more Pay Day is used in combat, the more money the winner gets. It's good if you're in a tight spot for that 10th Full Restore or and 100th Ultra Ball for Lugia but it's clear that the games and the anime don't work the same way.
Pay day yields 2-500 poke depending on level, depending on Gen. Paydays description says user throws cash. conclusion: Pokemon is attempting to explain inflation as a result of payday, or meowth is using pickup to gather do and then scatters it.
My guess was you simply moved a decimal place over twice to get a more reasonable amount. So that 3000 pokedollar Full restore WOULD be 30 US dollars (3000 -> 30.00) which makes a ton more sense. So I can agree w/ you on that Proto.
"BUT PROTO!"...(lol its hilarious when you do that)..Jessie states in an episode that they are going to steal food because they don't have any money due to meowth not knowing payday
When Diancie made diamonds, the diamonds disapeared at a point and I imagine this is how the money created by Pay Day loses its value, because it disappears and maybe Diancie's diamonds are another form of Pay Day.
Hey Proto, in the Japanese versions of the pokemon games the currency is the yen instead of the pokedollar. When they rbought it to america they didnt want to change it to the regular usd because like you said it would be unreasonable for a 1200 pokeball so they made their own currency up to get past that.
I don't understand the foundation that Pay-Day is an economy breaking move… I mean, it doesn't magically make monkey appear out of thin-air. Meowth is described of loving round shiny things such as coins, and can't help but pick them up and stash them. The way I understand Pay-day, Meowth simply tosses it's surplus change that it has collected on the opponent, scattering those coins around. Meowths can't use this ability forever, it will eventually run out of coins it's collected, translating into the move running out of PP. Pay-Day doesn't make magic appear from nowhere. It just uses the leftover change that the pokemon using the move have collected from other places. This Theory is bad.
i jsut thought of something. payday might not actually be doing anything to actual currency but creating valueless tokens from raw materials it perceives as most valuable at the time. kinda like crypto currency and certain tribes using seashells and beads and those precious metal coins and bullions used for stockpiling wealth but not actually used for currency. in the end meowth/persian coins are valuable enough to substitute for currency when in a pinch but too volatile to be a main source of income
Do a theory on why the weakest pokemon:magikarp evolves into the beast that is gyrados.Or why you can't travel to different regions in the games but it happens in the anime.
$3,000 for a portable spray that completely heals all wounds would be an _amazing_ deal even if the currency wasn't clearly meant to be closer to Yen than U.S. Dollars.
I kind of assumed that payday drew loose change that nobody was using for the attack the opponent. basically just a skill to draw loose change in the couch cushions or on the ground to the pokemon to attack with.
Everything is expensive because Pokédollars are based off of Japanese yen(¥), which is $0.01. You can get water bottles for $2 or ¥2, so that's why Fresh Water is typically ¶200.
If there was an actual species of cats that could spontaneously generate money, the hyperinflation would render $ useless, thus meaning that they would have to use a barter system, in order to avoid an 3rd Great Depression. So, this begs the question, why do they still use money, even if Meowth, who was one of the original 151 Pokemon discovered, was walking, breathing, inflation?
very good video, only thing I can say is that our currency is not backed up by gold. you can't go into a bank and exchange your dollars for gold. dollar bills are only legal tender.
Opower money, happy hour and amulet coin really get you much more money if you combine two of those, problem with pay day is that it doesnt give much cash and doesnt cause much damage fainting pokemon in the adventure through pay days sounds kinda hard.
i'd like to think that in Gen 1, it was a different world that perhaps Giratina has to hold such as when in the Anime Ash got to meet his pathetic mirrored version. When we got Leaf Green and Fire Red, it was a totally different dimension. In Gen1, that dimension needed the people to create the money because of the war. In Gen 3+ (to gen 6 and beyond) something different happened.... The war was ended abruptly (gen 3-5 say a peace treaty happened). Many lives were lost but not as many as in Gen1 and 2. At least, that's if your going to speculate a fictional world's lore without a cannon source. Since Gen 1 and 2 are different from Gen 3-5 and different from gen 6. I also blame Red of THAT dimension for the release of Pay Day TM16. Pretty sure he's hiding out because he got of age and participated in the war, many lives lost because HE was pokemon league champion so he had very strong pokemon and returned home to only have to live in secret. Could be why SOMEONE needed future trainers to have the Surf TM that was hidden in a hut in the Safari zone you literally have to race to to get to and you only got a limited time to get to that hut. The guy is baiting Red to get the TM Pay Day.
I feel like money isn't valued as much in the Pokémon world as it is in the real world. For instance, if you lose a battle you pay your opponent or if you get flustered by losing to a wild pokemon you can lose money and not be phased. I feel like money is only there to exchange goods and therefore Pay Day has little effect on the economy because people don't really care about money as a whole.
It's possible that p dollars aren't just used for money, it could have an actual and important use in the games. Maybe it's a necessary metal for making poke-balls that only meowths and persins (and smeargles, I guess) can produce? It would create a constant demand for it.
How has no one thought of this: The Meowth collects shiny things, such as coins, and THOSE coins are what it attacks the enemy with. Pretty sure Meowth can't just produce coins out of thin air. So really, Meowths payday doesn't affect inflation at all, because the coins it is using for its attack were already in the economy, it's just that Meowth was hoarding them.
This isnt to do with pokemon, but is buying the higher quantity (3) or is buying 3 for 2 cheaper: A bottle of water=£1.00 The water is 3 for the price of During the price decrease, it gets half price off. It doesnt effect 3 for the price of 2. Is it cheaper to buy the 3 separately or to buy it in 3 for the price of 2
OK I'll say another theory about kyurem. How does he have the ability to use five moves? In the game he used a move called absofusion but after he has his normal moves
I vote for number 3... I think, though the way you stated it is mostly incorrect. Because payday usage is more or less constant, it doesn't dramatically effect the poke-economy. Going back to the gold analogy, it would be like if some jerk bought a gold mine and started mining gold. As long as the amount of gold he produces is more-or-less constant, and as long as he spends his gold on things that are necessary for him to produce that gold, and as long as that gold is allowed to circulate through the economy properly, the new gold will actually be a deflationary pressure on the economy, because even though it is "new money," that "new money" is offset by the multiplicative effect of money passing from person to person, and also offset by the costs of acquiring this money (in this case food, mostly.) In addition, the economy is self correcting. Whatever the cost of feeding 20000 meoths in cages using payday like slaves, that is likely where the ultimate value of 15hrs worth of constant payday spam is likely to settle, give or take some minor inefficiency in the market.
do you think there is any solution as to how hold items like miracle seed and pink bow and so on and so fourth help boost attack? some hold items are self explanatory like leftovers or even pokemon specific items like thick club with cubone
This video is PokeMMO in a nutshell. People are using Pay Day Persian to make money but it's made it so the economy of the game is screwy and now everything is expensive.
I'm getting rich With Persian Equip with Double money...leveling up Persian to 75 you get 300 every time u use it. Doubling the battle money as well...I got Brock for 15,000 in the gym battle...normal vs rock
Pokemon theory:Why can't your character run without using running shoes
+Roger chung They're expensive Nike's, and you don't want to walk too far away with them in case someone beats you in a pokemon battle and steals your shoes.
Kirsty Shadowdancer but the problem is that your character litterally can't run without running shoes
+Roger chung Not necessarily, maybe your character is simply choosing not to run.
Feraligatr13 but you are the one controlling your character and he can't run when you're pressing 'run' but when your character obtained the running shoes, he/she can magically starts running
Roger chung That's true, but you don't necessarily control everything about your character. For example, you don't control how your character dresses (except in X/Y, where you can run from the start) or what your character says. Your character can choose not to run until he/she gets shoes that are fit to run in.
I always attributed it to a penny, healing potion =$3
+Darksilver jesse and the attack payday was basically a "hand full" of pennies thrown at high speed at the opponent. would hurt like hell and not damage the economy. like $0.20 to $0.50 per attack.
+Darksilver jesse If you look it's actually less than that, it's something like .00075 cents.
Thats what i thought aswell,
+Lain Campbell (Lolly) well I mean a pokeball cost 300, in pennies that's $3, but at his calculations it would be 22.5 cents. economically a $3 pokeball is more believable than a 23 cent ball. right?
That would make sense, because usually companies try to profit on their products, and i don't think that 23 cents really profits on anything
But Proto! What about the Amulet Coin and Luck Incense? Don't those ruin the economy also?
BDT no it wont as that is taking the trainers money. Ao it iant making any new money
I always look at it as 1 pokedollar =1 penny
+IAMLH same
I always look at it as yen
Richard Mcilwain it's about the same really
Considering 1 Yen == .0094 USD (approx. 1 cent), I don't think you understand.
Richard Mcilwain was this a reply to me? Because even though that's cool about the yen I'm always going to view a pokedollar as a penny... but yes I do understand that a pokedollar is more than likely based on yen.
or... just Payday means that your meowth finds random coins?
i would like to ask , how have jessie and james survived getting blasted off so many times ?
They're incarnations of the Doronbo gang from Yatterman. In the pkmn universe they are literally gods! (And Meowth would be Tonzler.)
Plot armor.
yay it made it into a video :D
+xxStealth007xx you deserve more likes than this... so if anyone likes this comment, like the original comment too, just to help out :)
+jb0258 Why does he deserve more likes? What's so amazing about the comment?
+pathg13 Cause the guy above sugested this theory.
MCShvabo So?
pathg13 So he deserves more likes, couse it is cookie theory.
Now THIS is a theory I didn't expect, yet strangely I'm actually partly responsible since I've done this more than once before!!
Weird, huh?
I might be a bit late on the mark for this discussion, but wouldn't there actually be a fourth scenario here? The token Pokemon for this move, Meowth, is seen with a gold coin of sorts on its head, and it would make sense that payday somehow duplicates these coins. If paper money needs to be backed by something, coin money is usually the other half of this. Take the US dollar coin, which has a small amount of gold used in its production. A dollar coin is worth its value in gold and hence, essentially backs itself. If payday is a move that duplicates coins to this degree, it would effectively create more money without inflating the economy. But again, it also notably only does this in small increments. A single Pokemon battle would sometimes yield maybe 100 - 300 "poke dollars" extra, which means that this would still take a long time for any notable increase in currency.
Shit, THANKS! Everytime I watch a video and they mention the "high prices", and it makes me cringe because they're too ignorant to think that just possibly, "3000P" might translate to only 3$ in whatever currency the viewer has. I don't think I've run into a single video where someone else considers that thought.
Well 3000 is more like 30, as the pokedollar is representative of the yen
+Juan Carlos So what would that make the bike cost in original Red/Blue? I would figure it up but can't remember what they said the cost for bike was without voucher.
+Ryan Amberger never mind, looked up the bike price on google and it was 1,000,000 poke dollars. If a poke dollar is equivalent to the Japanese yen, the bike would cost $8331.91. Damn, must be one of those competition bikes like Lance Armstrong uses.
That would make sense
I think 100=1 US dollar. Most trainers are children and they can afford to pay about 5-10 dollars. Elite four, gym leaders, and bosses give more because they have and get more.
well, can you do a theory about how some pokemons have underwear? do they in the wild?
To me, it seems like payday would cause inflation due to effectively "printing" money, but in the games all of the prices stay the same defying what would make sense in the real world.
That was actually one of your most best videos. Not saying the others are bad. Just that one was just very well made and made so much sense.
Do a theory about the move 'struggle'
It is used when taunt is used against abra or magikarp or when when pkmn is out of pp
The Pokémon Dollar and its symbol were both created for the English translation of the games. In the original Japanese versions (except for Colosseum and XD), the currency used is yen and the symbol used is 円, the kanji for yen. As such, the Pokémon Dollar is based on yen.
I thought pay day is like getting some petty cash. Like getting a few coins. Useful for using to get change
I began watching you videos because of Facebook and I love your theories. awesome and thanks! answering questions I always wondered about. and I like your other commentary videos.
good theory proto I like it if you inform us that much about economic stuff
You were hilarious Proto, and you made an interesting point at the end, guess the government intervened
But Proto, what about gold nuggets in almost every game? Can't those be used to back up the currency's origin (get a rough idea of what a poke dollar equates to in each generation)?
+Phil Thomas Yeah that is a good question, but since it doesn't fluctuate no matter the reason, you kinda gotta assume that there is some crazy ass NWO shit going on.
+ProtoMario XD XD
+ProtoMario hi proto I'm a big fan but let's get to the point could You PLEASE make a video about your gym type if u were to choose and your favourite pokemon team (not for the gym but just in general) and what would u choose as a gym team
the Machamp giving me a thumbs up automatically made me give this video a thumbs up. yeah, i havent even watched more than 25 seconds, but it doesnt matter because im giving Machamp a thumbs up right back at him.
p.s. you should just start having random, awesome pictures of characters giving a thumbs up when asking to like a video, it theoretically makes sense too. it makes someone want to give a thumbs up if a character they can relate to, or has a history with (Example: like first obtaining a machamp with a bestfriend back in the day, on accident at that!)
I got a good follow up theory for you; team rocket tries to get all of the meowths and persians, and tms containing payday, and also all of the amulet coins, and and that is why all 4 of them are so rare.
Huh. You know, I never really gave the currency in the game that much thought. The anime however.... Ash and his group always purchase unhealthy snacks but I've never seen paper or coins being exchanged. They'll just have things in front of them.
+Charlene Alyssa Ingram Snacks* and yes, that's weird huh, you never see currency in the anime :/ - Something is not right.
+TinchoX There's currency in some anime, the ones that call for it.
Charlene Alyssa Ingram That's why I said "in THE anime" meaning Pokemon Anime, there is currency in OTHER anime I know that :P
+Charlene Alyssa Ingram lol bitvoin perhaps? Maybe the pokedex doubles as a smartphone?... now we got a theory lol
Bogart Gaming & Tech
Yet one of the many more mysteries of Pokemon. Along with the one that I think was already answered but I'll asked again: Do the people of the Pokemon world eat meat??? I never see them eating anything that looks like meat. It's all pastries and soup with them.
i go to a business school learning about money is what im used to
Enjoyed the video Proto. Hope you do something similar soon.
Here's a thought for a theory: Can a Ditto mimic its opponent and "evolve" while under the effects of Transform?
I have a theory:
Why does team rocket never use the Pokemon center but always sleep outside(they could go in disguise so they are allowed inside the center)?? Could it mean that Pokemon center actually has paid service but free Pokemon healing??
Keep it up Proto! your videos are getting better and better! P.S. Still loving omega ruby thanks again!
This has somehow become even more relevant over the past year or so
payday gives you roughly 5 dollars when your pokemon is lv 100. a battle takes maybe a minute, maybe half a minute. so you woul be able to earn 300-600 dollars an hour. if you have a few pokemon batteling wild pokemon simultaneously you can get a few thousand dollars an hour... that will defenitely make you rich ^^
Economics hurt my head too much. There was an episode dedicated to Meowth's Pay Day but they never said how it affects the economy. Maybe the money the attack uses is not valid - does not have monetary strength, like monopoly money. In the game, it's an incentive to have a Persian. The more Pay Day is used in combat, the more money the winner gets. It's good if you're in a tight spot for that 10th Full Restore or and 100th Ultra Ball for Lugia but it's clear that the games and the anime don't work the same way.
Pay day yields 2-500 poke depending on level, depending on Gen. Paydays description says user throws cash. conclusion: Pokemon is attempting to explain inflation as a result of payday, or meowth is using pickup to gather do and then scatters it.
My guess was you simply moved a decimal place over twice to get a more reasonable amount. So that 3000 pokedollar Full restore WOULD be 30 US dollars (3000 -> 30.00) which makes a ton more sense. So I can agree w/ you on that Proto.
Your awesome man. This is why I'm subscribed to you. You hav yet to half ass a single video.
I love ur intro how the pokemon blast out of the pokeball
"BUT PROTO!"...(lol its hilarious when you do that)..Jessie states in an episode that they are going to steal food because they don't have any money due to meowth not knowing payday
I always thought about it this way ,pay day produces gold coins not pokedolars and the trainer sells them for money .
* Pokéballs are cheap as hell holy crap.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Amulet Coin's effect on their money too.
When Diancie made diamonds, the diamonds disapeared at a point and I imagine this is how the money created by Pay Day loses its value, because it disappears and maybe Diancie's diamonds are another form of Pay Day.
Hey Proto, in the Japanese versions of the pokemon games the currency is the yen instead of the pokedollar. When they rbought it to america they didnt want to change it to the regular usd because like you said it would be unreasonable for a 1200 pokeball so they made their own currency up to get past that.
But proootooo, what about the move 'happy hour' and o powers?!?
+Josh Already did it
+ProtoMario Ah fair play, great upload I learned something :P
wow I'm an eco student and that was an actually good economics lecture
I don't understand the foundation that Pay-Day is an economy breaking move…
I mean, it doesn't magically make monkey appear out of thin-air. Meowth is described of loving round shiny things such as coins, and can't help but pick them up and stash them.
The way I understand Pay-day, Meowth simply tosses it's surplus change that it has collected on the opponent, scattering those coins around. Meowths can't use this ability forever, it will eventually run out of coins it's collected, translating into the move running out of PP.
Pay-Day doesn't make magic appear from nowhere. It just uses the leftover change that the pokemon using the move have collected from other places.
This Theory is bad.
i jsut thought of something. payday might not actually be doing anything to actual currency but creating valueless tokens from raw materials it perceives as most valuable at the time. kinda like crypto currency and certain tribes using seashells and beads and those precious metal coins and bullions used for stockpiling wealth but not actually used for currency. in the end meowth/persian coins are valuable enough to substitute for currency when in a pinch but too volatile to be a main source of income
Do a theory on why the weakest pokemon:magikarp evolves into the beast that is gyrados.Or why you can't travel to different regions in the games but it happens in the anime.
here's another thing that makes it more complex. the whole world of Pokemon uses that exact same currency no matter which region it is
Pokemon is based on yen for sure. In the Japanese version of the game the character 円 (meaning yen) is used to refer to the money.
$3,000 for a portable spray that completely heals all wounds would be an _amazing_ deal even if the currency wasn't clearly meant to be closer to Yen than U.S. Dollars.
Yeah, but you saw the theory I sent you, Proto. You can make 200,000 PokéDollars in 1 battle.....
i'd lik to thinkthe payday attack money that comes out just disappears right after impact
is this a theory or economics 101 with protomario
I kind of assumed that payday drew loose change that nobody was using for the attack the opponent. basically just a skill to draw loose change in the couch cushions or on the ground to the pokemon to attack with.
Pokemon Theory: Unable to use certain items at certain times because on a subconscious level you are insane as voices echo in your head
I think you should have reminded/taught us what exactly payday does, because I forgot, and I'm pretty sure no one uses payday.
Everything is expensive because Pokédollars are based off of Japanese yen(¥), which is $0.01. You can get water bottles for $2 or ¥2, so that's why Fresh Water is typically ¶200.
"Payday happens so infrequently" Uhh, Proto, I'm actually earning TONS of cash with my money making Happy Hour Pay Day spamming Smergle
Not sure if it's worthy of a theory vid, but how do healing machines in Pokemon Centers heal Pokemon while inside their Poke Balls?
"Wait Your Backing Out The Video Already" That is the reason for titles xD
Oh so that's what the currency is in the Pokemon world called. I thought it was poke coins.
But Proto, many countries don't use the gold standard. But Proto, money today is backed up by credit. But Proto!
If there was an actual species of cats that could spontaneously generate money, the hyperinflation would render $ useless, thus meaning that they would have to use a barter system, in order to avoid an 3rd Great Depression. So, this begs the question, why do they still use money, even if Meowth, who was one of the original 151 Pokemon discovered, was walking, breathing, inflation?
*Guys! the thermal drill, go get it.*
very good video, only thing I can say is that our currency is not backed up by gold. you can't go into a bank and exchange your dollars for gold. dollar bills are only legal tender.
Opower money, happy hour and amulet coin really get you much more money if you combine two of those, problem with pay day is that it doesnt give much cash and doesnt cause much damage fainting pokemon in the adventure through pay days sounds kinda hard.
i'd like to think that in Gen 1, it was a different world that perhaps Giratina has to hold such as when in the Anime Ash got to meet his pathetic mirrored version.
When we got Leaf Green and Fire Red, it was a totally different dimension. In Gen1, that dimension needed the people to create the money because of the war. In Gen 3+ (to gen 6 and beyond) something different happened.... The war was ended abruptly (gen 3-5 say a peace treaty happened). Many lives were lost but not as many as in Gen1 and 2.
At least, that's if your going to speculate a fictional world's lore without a cannon source. Since Gen 1 and 2 are different from Gen 3-5 and different from gen 6. I also blame Red of THAT dimension for the release of Pay Day TM16. Pretty sure he's hiding out because he got of age and participated in the war, many lives lost because HE was pokemon league champion so he had very strong pokemon and returned home to only have to live in secret. Could be why SOMEONE needed future trainers to have the Surf TM that was hidden in a hut in the Safari zone you literally have to race to to get to and you only got a limited time to get to that hut. The guy is baiting Red to get the TM Pay Day.
I feel like money isn't valued as much in the Pokémon world as it is in the real world. For instance, if you lose a battle you pay your opponent or if you get flustered by losing to a wild pokemon you can lose money and not be phased. I feel like money is only there to exchange goods and therefore Pay Day has little effect on the economy because people don't really care about money as a whole.
I wish you could do theories about Ash-Greninja and the other formes of Zygarde. Yeah, I know, it's too early but I'm in no rush. :)
It's possible that p dollars aren't just used for money, it could have an actual and important use in the games. Maybe it's a necessary metal for making poke-balls that only meowths and persins (and smeargles, I guess) can produce? It would create a constant demand for it.
talking about payday what about a theory on how/why team rockets meoth can't use payday?
How has no one thought of this: The Meowth collects shiny things, such as coins, and THOSE coins are what it attacks the enemy with. Pretty sure Meowth can't just produce coins out of thin air. So really, Meowths payday doesn't affect inflation at all, because the coins it is using for its attack were already in the economy, it's just that Meowth was hoarding them.
great video proto
This isnt to do with pokemon, but is buying the higher quantity (3) or is buying 3 for 2 cheaper:
A bottle of water=£1.00
The water is 3 for the price of During the price decrease, it gets half price off. It doesnt effect 3 for the price of 2.
Is it cheaper to buy the 3 separately or to buy it in 3 for the price of 2
maybe the coins that fall of just desintegrate when the attack ends
OK I'll say another theory about kyurem. How does he have the ability to use five moves? In the game he used a move called absofusion but after he has his normal moves
here's another idea, the pokemon government actually relies of PayDay use, not printing out the money themselves
I think payday doesn't wreck economy because it is legal currency that was simply found by the pokemon
sweet game room mix
New theory, the maiden of maidens peak had a husband, this husband went to war, was this the kalos war and if not what war was it?
What about the amulet coin. Which doubles your Pokedollars regardless of who you battle
How do trainers survive encountering pokemon like Magcargo, also how do trainers survive being burned, shocked, and frozen in pokemon amie.
Wow the name blew my mind
Maybe they get the money back when someone buys a bicycle...
thanks for teaching me about econ
I believe I read somewhere that 1 pokedollar is 1 US penny
I vote for number 3... I think, though the way you stated it is mostly incorrect.
Because payday usage is more or less constant, it doesn't dramatically effect the poke-economy. Going back to the gold analogy, it would be like if some jerk bought a gold mine and started mining gold. As long as the amount of gold he produces is more-or-less constant, and as long as he spends his gold on things that are necessary for him to produce that gold, and as long as that gold is allowed to circulate through the economy properly, the new gold will actually be a deflationary pressure on the economy, because even though it is "new money," that "new money" is offset by the multiplicative effect of money passing from person to person, and also offset by the costs of acquiring this money (in this case food, mostly.)
In addition, the economy is self correcting. Whatever the cost of feeding 20000 meoths in cages using payday like slaves, that is likely where the ultimate value of 15hrs worth of constant payday spam is likely to settle, give or take some minor inefficiency in the market.
How did no one else from other regions discover fairy types
I am actually a normal, grass and fairy trainer. So I cannot feel bad for having my Persian .
Can you do a theory on Zinnia's origins/genealogy?
do you think there is any solution as to how hold items like miracle seed and pink bow and so on and so fourth help boost attack? some hold items are self explanatory like leftovers or even pokemon specific items like thick club with cubone
Pokemon Theory: how the fck did no other region discover fairy types?
But Proto! Payday gives you more money then a few pennies! It doubles the battle money!( or something like that, x1.5 maybe?)
Payday might not ruin the economy because it's summoning the chump change from couch cushions, yaknow lost money.
I just assumed it was like Yen and where 100 yen is 1 USD
This video is PokeMMO in a nutshell. People are using Pay Day Persian to make money but it's made it so the economy of the game is screwy and now everything is expensive.
My opinion: PIKACHU FOR PRESIDENT...Popstar Pikachu at least
but payday isn't like priniting money. cause it's like magic and money comes out of nowhere:o
I'm getting rich With Persian Equip with Double money...leveling up Persian to 75 you get 300 every time u use it. Doubling the battle money as well...I got Brock for 15,000 in the gym battle...normal vs rock
I want a theory on why the TM payday was garaged out.
I figured Pay Day didn't create PokeDollars, but rather made gold that was worth as much as the thing said.