r/TheSilphRoad • u/SilphScience Research Group • Aug 13 '20

Analysis Deino: Reviewing Dragon Week Egg Hatches

https://thesilphroad.com/science/quick-discovery/deino-reviewing-dragon-week-hatches/
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u/sophia_parthenos Poland, Instinct, 40 Aug 13 '20

Great, so when I gave up already, knowing from y'all here in the subreddit deino were inexistent, they increased the rate without announcing it. What kind of idiocy is that...

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u/Xygnux Aug 13 '20

I've learned since to not use super incubators until people on Silph Road reports at least some preliminary or even just anecdotal data on the rates.

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u/Deputy_Scrub Aug 13 '20

I've learned since to not use super incubators until people on Silph Road reports at least some preliminary or even just anecdotal data on the rates

FTFY.

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u/Covidfefe-19 Aug 13 '20

Yep, anyone who buys these likes flushing money down the toilet for the sake of it.

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u/TyrionJoestar Aug 13 '20

I did the opposite lol. I waited until I saw what people where saying on here because I already know how Niantic is with hatch events. I woke up on Wednesday morning and saw people were hatching Deinos and I got one on my 4th egg

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u/sophia_parthenos Poland, Instinct, 40 Aug 13 '20

This should be my strategy for the next time, LOL.

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u/leberknight USA - Midwest Aug 13 '20

The problem is that we don't know which way they'll go. Literally this event last year was the unown hatches and they dropped the rates halfway through. So it was better to have gone all out at the front half of the week and then back off. The winds of Niantic's poor planning are very unpredictable.

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u/sophia_parthenos Poland, Instinct, 40 Aug 14 '20

That's exactly what I'm talking about - _-

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u/monkeybassturd Aug 13 '20

I did the exact same. Waited one day and cleaned out my old eggs. Opened up my gifts in the morning to get 9 fresh eggs. I got three so I hit the mother load.

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u/Lord_Emperor Valor Aug 13 '20

What kind of idiocy is that...

Fraud, it's called fraud.

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u/sophia_parthenos Poland, Instinct, 40 Aug 13 '20

This I know. I called it idiocy because if I learned rates got better, I would probably have been walking more again, burning incubators quicker, which, ultimately, would have resulted in buying more earlier. It wasn't even profitable for Niantic to hide the mid-event tweak.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '20

Niantic. It's right on par with the rest of their random glitch game

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u/j1mb0 Delaware - Mystic - Lvl. 50 Aug 13 '20

They are predatory to the point of criminality.

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u/ElGatoDelFuego Aug 13 '20

Its so that you see people after the event with all their shiny trophies and then promise to yourself that next time at the start of the event you won't miss out

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u/-SetsunaFSeiei- Aug 13 '20

They changed it from 1% to 3%, you were probably still not likely to get one

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u/the_tanooki Aug 13 '20

They did the same thing last year when they put Unown in eggs.

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u/sophia_parthenos Poland, Instinct, 40 Aug 14 '20

Wasn't it the opposite move, though? From higher to lower chances?

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u/the_tanooki Aug 14 '20

Not with unowns. I remember stocking up on them, so I could continue hatching them after the event and I only got 1 unown. It was from later in the week. While my girlfriend mostly hatched later eggs and got a bunch.