Are Eggs from pokestops depends on Biome?
It looks like pokestops deppends on location for me:
1. In last 30egs (all from pokestops near my house) only 1 egg 2km and 1 egg 10km. All other 5km
2. From last 30 egs only one Togepi, no other baby pokemon (all eggs collected during event)
When i go to town and collect egs there, i see big difference.
Is possible that eggs near my house are only 5km and no babies?
Answers
I'm pretty sure Biome is an influence on the contents (10k eggs collected near a Pinsir nest gave me Pinsir, 10K eggs collected near a Kabuto nest gave me 2 Kabuto in a row etc. ) but I don't think it's the only factor.
5k eggs are the most common - one 2K and one 10K in 30 eggs doesn't sound outside the normal average distribution.
I've hatched slightly more babies than 1 in 30, but probably only 2 in 30, so with a relatively small sample size you're probably not experiencing anything unusual.
Agreed. Pinsir used to be crazy common in my area, with a nest nearby. They made up 20% of my first 50 10km eggs.
Since the migrations I no longer see nearly as many, and the nest isn't a Pinsir nest anymore. I am hatching way less. Don't have the data put together for the next hatches yet, but I'd be surprised if more than 2-3 of my last 50 10km eggs had Pinsir in them.
Another example is Eevee. They're not very common around me at all, and I was running only about 5-7% drop in my first 75-100 10km eggs. I heard frequent reports of people in rural areas, where they're super common, running Eevee in 20-25%+ 10km eggs
I have plenty of other anecdotal evidence which supports this but unfortunately it's just that - anecdotal.
Honestly everyone will give you a different answer b/c the cold hard truth is that nobody has a clue.
Personally? I think that biome does affect egg drops.
However, I think it just shifts the % chance instead of guaranteeing certain Pokemon.
I play in a few distinct regions between home/work and as the migrations have occurred I've noticed a shift in the drop rates (at least that's my perception - I've yet to put together and analyze the stats for hatches)
But, this could just be RNG. The problem is with the individual drop rates in the 2-3% range or lower, you'll need a TON of data points to get meaningful info one way or the other. Also, there are a ton of variables involved so hard to determine which ones are influencing. (Specific Pokestop, Biome, Time of day, current spawns/migrations/etc)
What biome or pokestops are you getting these eggs from? I have hatched 45 eggs since the event started from the same 3-6 pokestops and have hatched a cleffa, and 2 elekid. I'm starting to suspect that biomes are definitely a factor as I have hatched 4 oddish and 4 magnemite and an electabuzz (before the event from the same pokestops) which seems to support this theory.
I believe biome is a factor. I'll keep it short though.
- Most of my eggs from the lake are water type.
- Snorlax are common in my area and I have hatched 6-7 now.
- I had never hatched a Kabuto after 1200 eggs, now I hatched 2 in 3 days since a nest came.
- All 4 of my chanseys came from a museum stop.
- When I switched areas, my hatches switched dramatically. My first 300 eggs were from the same 6 stops, then I switched to the town square and immediately got new hatches.
