What are you doing with egg incubators?
What I used to do was put Pokemon in gyms = get coins = buy egg incubators. You know how a bought egg incubator lets you hatch 3 eggs per? Well, I used to use 2 out of those 3 for 5 KM eggs. And then I would save the very last use for a 10 KM egg. (And I would use the infinite egg incubator to hatch the 2 KM eggs. If there weren't any 2 KM eggs, then I'd select the 5 KM egg) I found the most success using this method because more eggs hatched = more stardust and XP = more chances at 10 KM eggs.
With the introduction of the premium raid pass, I'm now...putting Pokemon in the gym = never getting them back = Ok, I finally get them back = coins = premium raid passes.
I just received my third 10 KM egg. And the bought egg incubator does let you use it three times. So I'm thinking to use coins on premium raid passes, unless I have 3 10 KM eggs at once then buy the egg incubator instead. Egg hatching is a nice way to earn stardust after all.
Thoughts?
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Before, I was doing more or less the same as you: once I got an 10 km egg, I bought an incubator, use it for the 10 km egg, and use it for 5 kms eggs after that. I couldn't afford much more as I decided not to pay.
Now, I think the rewards for raiding are more interesting than the ones for hatching. So, I only use incubators for 10 km eggs and raiding.
Agree with the other posters, hatch rewards are very low now comparatively, unless you have 0 or few Dragonite, Tyranitar, Blissey.
Thus, infinite incubator for everything but 10k is how I'm doing it right now. Helps to bike. Raid passes every ~2 days are way better than 5k hatches, even with the dust.
Agree with the other posters, hatch rewards are very low now comparatively, unless you have 0 or few Dragonite, Tyranitar, Blissey.
Some players are short of dust. They should concider incubators instead of raiding passes.
It is really funny. We have a group of players in our town, who go by car from raid to raid, have hundreds of rainbow-candy and tens of level-20-tyranitars, lapras, snorlax..... but they have no dust to get any use of their ressources. :-)
I'm doing the same now as always, using limited incubators only on 10 KM eggs, all 2 and 5 KM eggs in the infinite. It takes a month or two to save up eight or nine 10 KM eggs, then there's usually an event that lets me get some bonus or another when I hatch them all at once. I don't go through all that many 10 KM eggs that way, so I've only ever bought 4 incubators, and hatched the rest with free ones from leveling, and the single-use Christmas ones. 5 KM eggs never seemed worth the coins to me.
I am similar in that I used to use almost all coins I got from gyms to hatch eggs. 10k if I had any, otherwise 5k. 2k always go in the infinite incubator, as they do now. Now however, I'm spending the gold I get on raid passes. The TMs are swinging it, but the last three days I've been rather busy so the gold has reached 150 and as I have three 10k eggs I bought an incubator. Think this is the plan. Hatch 2ks and 5ks out of infinite. Hatch 10ks from bought. It takes ages to get 3 10k eggs if you're not buying incubators so 3 days worth of gold is nothing. Hit the gyms every day.
I only use paid incubators for 10k eggs. At the moment I have no more need for incubators as I've reached level 38. It is a good source for dust but the 50 coins a day means I have to spend 2 days worth of coins for a single incubator and that if my Pokémon gets kicked out after 6 hours. In my city they get kicked out in 15 minutes, earning no coins or they stay in the gym for days earning no coins daily.
I'm on my last 8 paid incubators and once they finish I'm done buying them. He'll, I still have 25 lucky eggs from the last half off Sale lol
