Yes, minmaxing your breeding to the extreme would indeed benefit from having a full rainbow set of breeding pairs so that you can farm that "matching V~Wave" bonus every single day. But I do kinda genuinely wonder... among hunters who would even consider such a maximisation to be reasonable, do they actually adopt every single egg they breed? Or do many of them go to the Shelter, where they can be picked up by anyone, not just them, and even then do they adopt every single egg of theirs that they breed? Or is such an aggressive optimisation surplus to requirements, and it again really isn't a big deal that you might miss out on a couple of eggs on a particular day?

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Permanent RNG penalties in the current system being removed, are totally different from ephemeral, temporary and daily changing RNG variation. They are incomparable.

I mean, to the Hunter's who consider maximization to be reasonable are probably hunting exclusive/variants where they probably do try and hatch all of their specific eggs. Same to those who nature hunt and are breeding specifically thus.

Really excited for this update! As an IV breeder, it's going to be so much easier to only need an IV parent from one other person, although I suppose that breeding across species to transfer IVs will need more consideration now! I was initially hesitant about the V-wave but after seeing the V-wave math in an earlier post I'm feeling better about it - it just means I'll need to consider the natures I breed with more. I rarely use the giga (I've had it on for almost a week straight to get 6iv kawotor, but that's an anomaly), so while I initially didn't like the idea, it probably won't affect me much and I can understand the reasons behind implementing. I think my excitement outweighs the doubts atm - really looking forward to it!

Yup. Fair. Valid point. But in those cases, other factors weigh far more and so the variation due to V~Wave would really only be like 1, maybe 2 eggs, assuming you do nothing to adjust to it.

Ignoring the points brought up by others already where I agree, can you tell us what will happen to already existing pairs? All of that work and time I spent (MONTHS!!) putting pairs together now means virtually nothing if they get thrown out the window lol….

I completely missed this! This actually clears up a lot of my concerns about that. I second adding it to the front post. Thank you for clearing it up for us! I'm a bit more optimistic about it with this info :D

Yes, it is true that any work done prior to this update will no longer be relevant under the new system, but it's not hopeless: If your current pair reached 99% base compatibility, it'll still be at least 66% compatible, possibly more if Natures align (but if they don't then it'll be much easier to find new partners). Combine this with the activation of the Rank Reward item, plus the buff to Happiness modifiers, and you're already right back up to 109%, which is more than 99% and therefore better :D

oh! another question following these two that I forgot to add: - It was mentioned in the original suggestion for daycare changes that it was being considered improving the ratio of variants (ex. if the current system produces 10 shinx/buizels : 1 shinxel, instead we might see 10 shinx/buizels : 3 shinxel) Is the ratio improvement still planned?

For everyone saying that the V-Wave can affect / skew the type race severely with the update, heres a jokey proposal: Create a V-Wave Stellar type thats only active during type race and boosts every typing/egg. xD It would incentivise people to play a lot more and help their team imo. This is mostly a joke idea but wanted to put it here anyway, lol

Can you go into more detail about how Twins work? Would they be essentially the same exact egg twice, would they be two different eggs entirely, or would the two eggs share only some bits (like they both have the same nature, or both sharing a base Shiny/Albino chance {meaning they both will be, or neither will}) Could this even mean that twins could be two seperate species? Also, you state that Twin eggs would show that they are twins on the summary page. Would their also be something on the Daycare Egg pickup that shows if some of your eggs are twins? That way if people want to prioritize picking up twins they can?