[Cap]

I've had this thought for a while and it was again brought up earlier in conversation. Currently in the Hackuman game when you go to incubate an egg, you can’t select the eggs you want to incubate. My suggestion is what if we can categorize the eggs you have available (Emerald, Ruby, Sapphire, Gold, Amethyst) and then select one at a time which one we want to incubate? So something along these lines:

Eggs Available
Emerald [Raise egg]
Ruby [Raise egg]
Sapphire [Raise egg]
Gold [Raise egg]
Amethyst [Raise egg]

That way we have a little more control in which eggs we want to use.

[DemonAsylum]

Just for clarification, rearranging your awards to put 1 egg before another does NOT make it so you get the option to incubate that egg first. It still bases it on which egg you got furthest back.

However, that provides all the more reason to make a change like you mentioned and this has actually been brought up by a couple of us in a different thread recently. I completely agree that we should either be able to discard certain eggs we don't want to bother with like a green or red for example, or we should be able to choose which egg we want to incubate and regardless of when we got it or if we got a different egg before it.

[Cap]

Just for clarification, rearranging your awards to put 1 egg before another does NOT make it so you get the option to incubate that egg first. It still bases it on which egg you got furthest back.

However, that provides all the more reason to make a change like you mentioned and this has actually been brought up by a couple of us in a different thread recently. I completely agree that we should either be able to discard certain eggs we don't want to bother with like a green or red for example, or we should be able to choose which egg we want to incubate and regardless of when we got it or if we got a different egg before it.

Gotcha man. So you’re saying if I put one of the eggs I got recently before the Fourth of July egg, it’ll still only let me hatch the Fourth of July egg?

[DemonAsylum]

Gotcha man. So you’re saying if I put one of the eggs I got recently before the Fourth of July egg, it’ll still only let me hatch the Fourth of July egg?

Correct, that is how it should go and what I’ve experienced every time. What you mentioned is a good thought though and fair to assume how it may work. I considered the same thing a long time ago hence why I even know about how it works myself 😂

Like I mentioned though in my first reply, the fact that not even rearranging your awards makes a different is only all the more reason we need something changed or implemented to get a choice with either discarding certain eggs or choosing what egg to incubate and no matter the circumstances with what other eggs we have, when we got any of them, etc.

[Cap]

Correct, that is how it should go and what I’ve experienced every time. What you mentioned is a good thought though and fair to assume how it may work. I considered the same thing a long time ago hence why I even know about how it works myself 😂

Like I mentioned though in my first reply, the fact that not even rearranging your awards makes a different is only all the more reason we need something changed or implemented to get a choice with either discarding certain eggs or choosing what egg to incubate and no matter the circumstances with what other eggs we have, when we got any of them, etc.

Okay I’ll have to check again in a bit because I swear that since I’ve had this Fourth of July egg, I’ve hatched other eggs I’ve gotten after it by putting them before it. Maybe I’m delusional!

Regardless though, I think a change where it shows how many of each egg you have and the ability to incubate an egg in the corresponding category would be a cool modification to see.

[DemonAsylum]

Okay I’ll have to check again in a bit because I swear that since I’ve had this Fourth of July egg, I’ve hatched other eggs I’ve gotten after it by putting them before it. Maybe I’m delusional!

Regardless though, I think a change where it shows how many of each egg you have and the ability to incubate an egg in the corresponding category would be a cool modification to see.

Despite knowing that's the experience I've had, I too thought to myself that surely you've hatched another HUM since getting that 4th of July egg.. I checked though and nope I guess not. You last hatched a HUM on April 18th, 2022 and you got the 4th of July egg on April 19th, 2022.

By all means feel free to try of course though.

Regardless, I definitely agree about the choice for which egg you want to incubate. No need to show an amount however since you can't get more than 1 of any specific egg at a time. Once you've gotten X kind of egg, you can't get another of the same kind until it's off your profile by either using it in HUM or it expiring a week later.

[Cap]

Despite knowing that's the experience I've had, I too thought to myself that surely you've hatched another HUM since getting that 4th of July egg.. I checked though and nope I guess not. You last hatched a HUM on April 18th, 2022 and you got the 4th of July egg on April 19th, 2022.

By all means feel free to try of course though.

Regardless, I definitely agree about the choice for which egg you want to incubate. No need to show an amount however since you can't get more than 1 of any specific egg at a time. Once you've gotten X kind of egg, you can't get another of the same kind until it's off your profile by either incubating it or it expiring a week later.

I believe you, that’s crazy though. I guess I am delusional. When did it become a thing where you can’t get more than one of the same egg at a time on your profile?

[DemonAsylum]

I believe you, that’s crazy though. I guess I am delusional. When did it become a thing where you can’t get more than one of the same egg at a time on your profile?

Yeah it was a surprise to me as well haha, but you can of course go see the date you got your award as well as in your bytes logs see when you last hatched a HUM. That's how I was able to get the info and compare.

It's also been a long time so you're hardly delusional haha. It's understandable to think you hatched a HUM after getting the award when it was so far back and also assuming rearranging the eggs would make a difference. It definitely makes some sense in theory.

The game is just seemingly coded in a way to force the incubate option to whatever the furthest back egg you got is. Asides from it likely just being easier to set up that way, I guess it also makes some sense given those oldest eggs would obviously be the first to expire. I assume Xerotic understandably thought we'd want to take advantage of any eggs we had (which was definitely true for earlier days in the games existence) as well as in the order that makes it most likely we wouldn't lose any from expiration.

As for the not being able to get more than one of the same kind of egg on your profile (or more specifically get a follow up one from posting), I believe it's always been like that. When there were still egg lottos, it definitely provided the appearance that you could get more than 1 outside of winning them from a lotto, but that was actually the only way. If you got a green egg from posting or from winning a lotto than you wouldn't be able to get another green egg from posting for instance. You'd have to use the egg in HUM or wait for it to expire. Then once you no longer had a green egg on your profile, you would have the chance to get one from posting again.

[Cooligan]

Yes please! Actually one of, if not the largest reasons why I haven't tried playing HUM yet is because I can't select which egg I want to raise first, and I really don't want to waste the one 4th of July egg that I have and it's the only one the game will let me hatch regardless of how many eggs I have, or where they're placed in my awards.

I've never hatched an egg before, so I really want to start the game off with hatching an Emerald egg so I can get my bearings and a feel for the game overall you know? Rather than use a Ruby or Sapphire (or now Amethyst) or especially a Gold; I imagine it'd be smarter to make a first attempt with a lower tier egg since it'll most likely be killed off fairly quickly.

Gotcha man. So you’re saying if I put one of the eggs I got recently before the Fourth of July egg, it’ll still only let me hatch the Fourth of July egg?

Same thing for me unfortunately. Even if there were some type of "Refresh" button to refresh the egg in the hatch box out of the eggs you currently have on your profile would be useful.

I believe you, that’s crazy though. I guess I am delusional. When did it become a thing where you can’t get more than one of the same egg at a time on your profile?

Oh that's been a thing for a while now, and I can't help but think that DemonAsylum had sooomething to do with that decision with his x1337 eggs at a time from the lotto. 😂

[Sky]

Pretty sure it was already a thing where you had to incubate an egg of a particular color before you could gain another of that color on your profile. Prevents stacking. Demon only had several of the same because as you said, the egg lotteries, which are thankfully gone.

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That is however a big issue, if I were Omni I'd just make the Independence Egg a legacy award and make it so they can't be hatched anymore.

[Cap]

Yes please! Actually one of, if not the largest reasons why I haven't tried playing HUM yet is because I can't select which egg I want to raise first, and I really don't want to waste the one 4th of July egg that I have and it's the only one the game will let me hatch regardless of how many eggs I have, or where they're placed in my awards.

I've never hatched an egg before, so I really want to start the game off with hatching an Emerald egg so I can get my bearings and a feel for the game overall you know? Rather than use a Ruby or Sapphire (or now Amethyst) or especially a Gold; I imagine it'd be smarter to make a first attempt with a lower tier egg since it'll most likely be killed off fairly quickly.




Same thing for me unfortunately. Even if there were some type of "Refresh" button to refresh the egg in the hatch box out of the eggs you currently have on your profile would be useful.


Oh that's been a thing for a while now, and I can't help but think that DemonAsylum had sooomething to do with that decision with his x1337 eggs at a time from the lotto. 😂

Exactly, I’d rather not hatch that if I didn’t have to. And like you said, if you could start with a lower tier egg to get a feel of the game before you throw in a stronger one, that would be ideal!

Pretty sure it was already a thing where you had to incubate an egg of a particular color before you could gain another of that color on your profile. Prevents stacking. Demon only had several of the same because as you said, the egg lotteries, which are thankfully gone.

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That is however a big issue, if I were Omni I'd just make the Independence Egg a legacy award and make it so they can't be hatched anymore.

Yeah it would be cool if it became legacy so you couldn’t incubate anymore. But I’d love to see the ability to select the egg you want to incubate first, from a strategy standpoint too.

[Sky]

Exactly, I’d rather not hatch that if I didn’t have to. And like you said, if you could start with a lower tier egg to get a feel of the game before you throw in a stronger one, that would be ideal!


Yeah it would be cool if it became legacy so you couldn’t incubate anymore. But I’d love to see the ability to select the egg you want to incubate first, from a strategy standpoint too.

Might as well. But not allowing that also forces people to be more active to accumulate the bytes to hatch an egg quickly. But I'd prefer what you're suggesting.

[DemonAsylum]

Yes please! Actually one of, if not the largest reasons why I haven't tried playing HUM yet is because I can't select which egg I want to raise first, and I really don't want to waste the one 4th of July egg that I have and it's the only one the game will let me hatch regardless of how many eggs I have, or where they're placed in my awards.

I've never hatched an egg before, so I really want to start the game off with hatching an Emerald egg so I can get my bearings and a feel for the game overall you know? Rather than use a Ruby or Sapphire (or now Amethyst) or especially a Gold; I imagine it'd be smarter to make a first attempt with a lower tier egg since it'll most likely be killed off fairly quickly.




Same thing for me unfortunately. Even if there were some type of "Refresh" button to refresh the egg in the hatch box out of the eggs you currently have on your profile would be useful.


Oh that's been a thing for a while now, and I can't help but think that DemonAsylum had sooomething to do with that decision with his x1337 eggs at a time from the lotto. 😂

Yeah I’ve never even considered the few people that never hatched their independence egg and don’t want to for whatever reason. Surely you guys know you don’t lose the award though right? It still shows as exactly the same asides from on the awards page where it lists everyone that has it. It will just say (used) after, no bigee.

Unfortunately I missed out on that award back then as I either wasn’t fully active on HF again yet or I simply wasn’t into HUM yet. Either way, it’s one of the awards I regret most missing out on 😭

Anyway, an option to choose what egg to incubate would be ideal for the sake of both moves efficiency and just general strategy. Whether it be used to avoid wasting moves on lower tier eggs or to choose a specific egg for one of multiple reasons I could easily think of off the top of my head, the option would be very useful.

As for the duplicate eggs thing, it’s been around as long as I can remember and also prior to my having a chicken coop full of them from lottos haha. With that, since no thread was definitely ever made about a change, I’d assume that’s just how it’s always been. I personally like that how it is though as well as egg lottos later being disabled to force actual posting activity and that helps the forum being the only way to get them. That and of course making HUM much less P2W which was one of the biggest complaints people had and understandably so.

[Gary Clark Jr.]

Give us the option to scramble the eggs we don't want - aka the green and red ones.

[Cooligan]

Exactly, I’d rather not hatch that if I didn’t have to. And like you said, if you could start with a lower tier egg to get a feel of the game before you throw in a stronger one, that would be ideal!

Yeah it'd be awesome solely for the fact that new players probably don't want to risk their higher tier eggs at first, and also especially due to the Bytes cost of raising a new higher tier egg like a Sapphire, compared to a lower tier like an Emerald.