What is the most efficient way to use additional incubators?
I really like to hatch eggs, and the 3 uses / incubator per egg give a huge impact for the more or less decent price. So I usually have 6~7 incubator active. First I applied them when ever they were available to what ever egg I just had but it felt kinda inefficient to do so for me.
It started feeling more efficient when I only applied the infinite incubator to the 2.0 KM eggs. But I can't really get why this should matter.
So is there any most efficient way to apply incubators to eggs to get the most use of them before they are expired?
Or doesn't it matter at all?
Best Answer
The general idea is to use the infinite incubator as often as possible.
Imagine you have one 10km egg, five 2km eggs and 2 incubators (one infinite and one with limited number of uses). There are 2 ways to hatch these eggs:
- use infinite incubator 5 times for 2km eggs and limited one once for 10km egg
- use limited one 5 times for 2km eggs (you have to a buy second one) and infinite once for 10km egg
Hatching eggs both ways will take you 10kms, but the first way will consume only 1 charge unlike the second one that will consume 5 charges.
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Answer 2
I always use it for the eggs that require the highest km to hatch.
Think of it this way, let's say you walk 30 km while always having eggs in your incubators. Your unlimited incubator gives you 30 km of "hatch-distance" during that time, no matter which eggs you put into it.
If you use the limited incubator 3 times for 2 km eggs, it'll be gone after 6 km, giving you only 6 km hatch-distance. if you use it for 3 10 km eggs, it'll last 5 times as long, giving you 30 km hatch-distance. So that would be more value for your money.
Answer 3
It depends on how you define "efficiency" in this context.
An incubator only has 3 uses, so as far as the number of eggs you can hatch are concerned, there's no difference between 2, 5 and 10km eggs.
If however you're looking to get the most kilometres or hours out of your limited-use incubators, you'll obviously want to use them to hatch 10km eggs since those take the most distance / time to hatch.
Another school of thought is to use these 'extra' incubators to burn off the 2km and 5km eggs since they are 'additional capacity' compared to having only the infinite-use incubator. If you're paying money for your incubators, this is probably not the most interesting strategy since you'll be buying more incubators this way (because you burn through them quicker).
Personally I use the extra incubators I get from leveling up on the 10km and 5km eggs while I burn off the 2km eggs with my infinite use incubator, because I don't currently plan to spend any money on extra incubators.
Answer 4
I'd say use the limited incubators to get rid of the 2km/5km eggs so you can have more space therefore more chance to earn 10k eggs.
I wish I did this earlier.
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