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Lower goal for Shiny Aqua

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Binks
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Posted: Thu, 15/05/2025 08:51 (1 Month ago)
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Currently, Shiny Aqua requires you to hatch 50,000 Lab eggs. That is a completely unreasonable amount, as a user stated in this complaint.

One of the main issues is that Shiny Hunting is a core feature of the site. Lab eggs break your chain, so you can’t work towards Shiny Aqua while shiny hunting, unlike the other Harvest Sprites.

A second issue is the large number of eggs needed. Most reasonably active users can probably hatch 50 eggs a day, 100 on 2x. At 400 eggs a week, that’s 125 months of Lab hunting, 10.5 years.

If the goal was dropped to 10,000, it’d take 25 months, which is a bit more than 2 years. Still a large amount, but a lot more reasonable.



The other option is making it require X of any egg, not just Lab eggs. I have hatched 5k eggs in 8 months here. But 1000 of those were on a 4x day using Gem Collector Weedle eggs, with flutes and Premium. Another 1000 Weedle in the same week.

I was also on a couple shiny hunts + had some weeks with 30k EHP eggs in my party, which means I hatched slightly less eggs. Let’s say I hatched 4k eggs in 6 months. That’s 8k a year; 32k in four years. So maybe a goal of 25k-30k [for all eggs, not just lab eggs]
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Posted: Sat, 17/05/2025 15:01 (1 Month ago)
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Posted: Tue, 20/05/2025 08:32 (1 Month ago)
Huge support.
Ill understand doing 10M interactions as PH is a clicking site, but hatching 50k lab eggs (that's like doing 1,000 days of constantly hatching 50 eggs- which is honestly doable only for premium members with flutes on), which is not that doable as PH is not anymore? a lab hatching site. U cant expect the userbase to hatch 50k eggs out of the will of normal gameplay, as frankly, shiny hunting is the thing that replaces lab hunting which should be a pillar of this site.
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Posted: Thu, 12/06/2025 05:38 (17 Days ago)
Considering the shinies are supposed to be forms you can get after a few years but not a whole typical PokeHeroes old account life cycle, I 100% agree that it should not be that high. Especially since the time it takes to hatch eggs sometimes feels like a lifetime, even when you're active and doing interaction exchanges.
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