@batmanrises, I see your point about raising the value of PC. Overall, though, I think it would do more harm than good, even in comparison to just raising the minimum number of PC required per transaction.
Imagine someone new checking out the sellers' forum and noticing "minimum price 20 PC". They'd probably wonder at some point, "How much is 20 PC worth, anyway?" Then they go to buy credits, and they see that, hey, one PC is worth one cent. How convenient. 20 cents minimum per transaction? That's nothin'.
Now, raising the price to, say, 25 PC would get a similar reaction from each individual. "So you're telling me I can get an item/pokemon/edit/whatever for a quarter? That's not too bad."
But let's imagine raising the
value of PC.
First of all, like Dom said, everyone's accounts here would suddenly inflate. I'm imagining that the PC-to-cents rate would be a whole number (not something weird like 1 PC is equivalent to 1.333333... pennies.*). Already, the amount of "money" we have has at least doubled. And the cost of
everything has also doubled, meaning that while everyone who does not exchange real money for PC or the other way around is not affected, everyone who does is. "20 PC minimum? That's worth... 40 cents. Hang on. Someone's offering to do a custom team for 300 PC. Does that mean I have to hand them $6.00? That's... kind of a lot."
And there's the other problem. Prices would have to adjust either way, but it's one thing for 20-PC items to start costing 25 or 30 PC. It's a whole other thing for
every item you could possibly purchase to suddenly cost
a minimum of twice as much money.
We could adjust all the prices, e.g., 300 PC teams would cost 150 PC instead, but that would result in two major changes for the worse: one, that the minimum price for everything just went up to 40 cents; and two, that each real-money PC purchase is either double the price or half the value.
Plus, to me, I really like the 1 PC = 1 cent rule. It's just really satisfying to instantly know the cost/worth of something or how much "money" I've just earned by looking at the number and not having to calculate anything. And I'm a math major. I love calculating stuff.
* Note: The trouble with having decimals in the mix is the accessibility. It's not tough for the average person to double a two-digit number (or a three-digit number ending in 0) in their head. It's quite tough, though, to multiply a two-digit or three-digit number by 1.333333... in one's head, especially if said number is not a multiple of three. It's even tougher to divide an arbitrary number by 1.333333... in their head to figure out the value of the PC they currently have. A calculator is handy, sure, but it's a little excessive for a hobby.
Sorry for the text wall. I really like that you're thinking outside the box and trying to come up with new options. But this particular option would either greatly reduce accessibility for many of our users or necessitate an overhaul of our currency system.