Should i get rid of my Alolan eggs or 2ks?
When the Squirtle event happens and egg distance drops, I know that the 2k's are the most efficient for stardust farming, but those dumb 7k's take up space and take so long to get rid of. but are the least efficient for dust.
im trying to stock up on 10k's for the next event, I believe its following go fest when hatch candy will be increased (assuming that research milestone is reached) and wondering if it would be better to clear out as much space as possible for 10k's or get more dust, as I am lacking in both
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Walking 2ks during reduced distance is inadvisable because of the distance update intervals. Since the distance is updated every 4 minutes, if you take more than 4 minutes to walk the 500m, you will be walking the same egg for 8 minutes, which likely wastes a lot of distance. With larger eggs, you lose much less distance to the update intervals.
7ks are better for dust than 5ks and 10ks so I would probably go with them for the CD. 1,75km distance should be doable in 16 or 20 minutes each.
For comparison, 8 minutes per 2km egg amounts to 22 hatched eggs ie. 44 km worth of walking. 20 minutes per 7km egg amounts to 9 hatched ie. 63km worth of walking. That's a huge difference.
(There was recently talk of the interval being changed to 8 minutes but I'm not sure if that was reverted. If it still applies, larger eggs become an even better idea during the event.)
If you are focusing on maximizing distance per egg, then the 4 (8) min refresh time can waste some distance walked if you have 2km eggs in your incubators.
If its not going to be your main activity, then its ok but you should still try to time the distance correctly so that you dont waste time walking for nothing.
I for example will be taking things relaxed this CD (squirtle is not very important), so if I see that my egg is 0.4/0.5, I can walk the 100m in 1 min and chill the other 3 (7).
Im going to be focusing hatching eggs, squirlte's not a high priority aside from just novelty, but im more concerned with getting rid of as many eggs as I can, but im not one of those super dedicated maximize every resource to the fullest extent people, I use rarecandy on nonlegendaries and super incubators on 5k's, my main goals to get as many 10k's as possible
8 data points isn't exactly proof of anything, you just had a string of bad luck, or those are from the first alolan egg batch which had worse stardust rewards. Results from other people seem to indicate that they give out 5k+2k for 1200-2400, which amounts to an average of 257 dust/km, more than the average 240 dust/km that 5ks and 10ks give.
