Single post in The Beginner's Guide - Help & Questions

Hi! I've been playing for about a month now and I have a few questions: - is there a known rate at which pokemon gain happiness in an appropriate field? or in other words, would I be able to calculate how long it would take for a pokemon to reach max happiness? - do variants affect shiny chains? for example, I'm currently chaining kantonian meowth, would it interrupt my chain to hatch a galarian meowth? - this one is more of an etiquette question: if I were looking for someone to help me with trade evolutions, or for a couple of eggs to fill out my eggdex, would the trades forum be the appropriate place to make a thread? Thank you in advance!