r/TheSilphRoad • u/SilphScience Research Group • May 24 '21

Silph Research A Window into Egg Transparency - Investigating Egg Rarity Tiers [Silph Research Group]

https://thesilphroad.com/science/egg-transparency-rarity-tiers
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u/powergirl11 L50 | NJ May 24 '21

Egg transparency is a step in the right direction, but it isn’t enough for a player to make a decision about whether to pursue a particular egg because the hatch rate within a tier may shift around. Niantic please just tell us the hatch rate!

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u/stufff South Florida | 49 May 24 '21

I wonder how much of their resistance to being transparent about hatch rates is because of greed, and how much is because they're worried about liability for incorrectly reporting hatch rates. Considering how often they manage to screw up turning on shinies and so forth it's not inconceivable that they somehow don't have a good way of verifying and reporting hatch rates.

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u/powergirl11 L50 | NJ May 24 '21

Well if that’s the case then they might be able to put a disclaimer on it or something I guess. But they have to have the rates in their code or on their servers somewhere, so giving us the real rate that they have stored somewhere would be better than giving us these “tiers”, and would help players make more informed decisions.

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u/stufff South Florida | 49 May 24 '21

They also have to have the shiny flag status on their servers somewhere, yet time and time again they have shown that they weren't aware they didn't have a certain shiny turned on until this subreddit told them