[X] My Assistant

[Tyranisaur]

I have gotten this error message a couple of times when claiming eggs. I know it's perfectly normal to get one that indicates that the egg has likely been adopted by another user. However, this one is different, which is the basis for this report.

I have a little suspicion that the cause is that eggs are purged if there are too many, or they have been in the shelter for too long. It would seem really unfair that we are getting premature eggs when eggs are also removed from the shelter.

[Spades Slick]

Well, the Shelter page DOES say that eggs over 36-hours old, or those corresponding to overpopulated species, are removed, and that's been in place since before I joined. It very well could be the reason for the error.

[Cycloneblaze]

I usually get the 'Invalid Pokémon selected' error after I've left the Shelter page open for too long, it times out after a few minutes. Assuming you are talking about the message which also says not to leave two Shelter tabs open, or whatever.

[Shadow Fennekin]

I usually get the 'Invalid Pokémon selected' error after I've left the Shelter page open for too long, it times out after a few minutes. Assuming you are talking about the message which also says not to leave two Shelter tabs open, or whatever.

Oh my Arceus, this is the exact problem I have.
At the Lab too, whenever it lags when you pick something I just go to another tab and look at something while waiting for it to register I took something. Then I come back and need to do a full refresh in order to claim something.

[Tyranisaur]

These are the two error messages you talked about. I'm talking about a third one. I didn't encounter it again after making this thread, so I couldn't create an image of it.

Basically Spades is correct in that the shelter is made to remove eggs from the shelter if there are too many or they have been there too long. And it is technically working as intended when it does that. However, I am questioning the design choice of when this happens. Really only on high multiplier days with boosted breeding. The purpose of removing eggs is to reduce the amount of eggs that never get picked up. When simultaneously there are eggs of the same species that are hitting the 1 hour rule, there is a conflict of mechanics. Because the 1 hour rule exists to facilitate giving eggs to more users than just the top hatchers at times when there are too few eggs produced for everyone to get all they want. In short, this is a mechanic that kicks in when there are too few eggs.

I this conflict was very prominent all the way back when Eevee was the SWSH pokemon as well, but it was alleviated at that time. Could it be that the egg pruning threshold was simply increased, and it took until now to hit it at a time when we didn't want to hit it? Also, whenever the shelter prunes eggs, would it be for the best if it only prunes among the youngest eggs, to limit the conflict of mechanics?