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Pokestop egg migration

There were few pokestop around that (reluctantly but consistently) dropped 10k eggs. Since the water event, they happily dish out 2k and 5k eggs. Was there a pokestop "egg policy" migration too?

Where do you get your 10k eggs from (in general)?

Asked by BlueDrone8 years 1 month ago

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Are you sure these stops give more 10kms eggs?

I personally dont believe it...and think we can notice patterns that are simply random/luck.

Do you know how the egg system works? The pokemon we get are not dropped based on their egg tiers aka 5km or 10km.

Instead every single pokemon has a certain chance to drop. When you spin a stop you may recieve a pokemon from the entire pool.

There are afew 'common' pokemon with the highest chance of dropping that happen to be under the 10k egg range....so it gives the feeling of more 10km egg drops and makes it seem like theres a higher chance of getting rare hatches

(in reality tho a snorlax is just as uncommon as before, technically harder as there are more pokemon in the overall pool now, lowering the chances of specific one)

The whole egg thing is just a disguise really for getting pokemon from stops, determined upon collection. We have to hatch them to reveal what they already are

According to the silph road research, dropped egg distribution is pokestop dependent:
https://thesilphroad.com/science/pokestop-egg-drop-distance-distribution

My experience (sample of 2 trainers) is that when you're missing an egg, most pokestops will quickly give you a 2km or 5km one.
Then, there were a few stops known and shared in local PoGo community that dropped eggs rarely (you had to try multiple times), but often dropping 10km one.

But at least two of them now happily dish out 2-5km on the first attempt.

Totally random, I'm afraid.

There could have been something to Silph's research, provided the Pokemon spun determines the egg and that certain Pokestops have a greater chance of spinning a 10K egg Pokemon. But now that the egg distribution changed, so would the Pokestops.

For example, let's say a certain Pokestop had a higher than average chance of spinning Scyther and Pinsir, it would have had a higher than average chance of giving a 10K egg. But now, since those Pokemon are in 5K eggs, that Pokestop would shift towards giving 5K.

No data for this, just a theory.