Package deal February 2018

And we have yet another package deal, or three of them as usual.

Special Box, 480 coins:

• 3 incence
• 2 incubator
• 6 star piece

Great Box, 780 coins

• 4 incubator
• 3 lucky egg
• 6 premium raid pass
• 8 star piece

Ultra Box, 1480 coins

• 8 incubator
• 6 lucky egg
• 12 premium raid pass
• 20 star piece

The Special Box looks like a piece of junk at a first look, and it does indeed offer the worst discount. It does, however, have one specific kind of user -- a bicycling rural player. 3 incence plays perfectly with three of the six star piece. While you're slowly biking around you're also likely to put the two incubators to good use.

It's a fair deal, nothing more, but it's not the piece of junk it looks like at a first glance. Well, unless you live in the city. Then it's pretty much a waste of coins.

The Great Box and Ultra Box basically mimic each other. Opening your wallet a little wider gives you a 80 coin discount and 4 star pieces as a bonus. Anyway, if the Great Box is a good deal, then that automatically means the Ultra Box is a slightly better deal, so I'll settle for analysing the Great Box.

The player behind this key board, ie me, hates lucky eggs. They hold negative value for me as I have to discard the crap when they enter my bag. Other players still want their XP though. So the lucky egg part either runs at negative value or a positive one. For the sake of simplicity I'll assign a zero coin value to lucky eggs.

Four incubators sets you back 600 coins. Most of us do prefer to cycle through our eggs in the hopes of grabbing a good 10 kilometre one. Hence incubators always have a value.

Six premium raid passes also come with a 600 coin price tag. You tell me you avoid boss raiding at all costs and I'll start wondering why you're playing the game in the first place.

This is 1200 coins worth of items for 780 coins, which means the package deal is well worth it. Add eight star pieces for four hours of fun with 50% extra star dust and you have a really nice deal. Those star pieces will see good use during the coming community day if you're buying exactly one Great Box.

If you're doing the Ultra Box, then 20 star pieces can seem a little excessive.

Here's a nice trick. You probably dumped every egg in your inventory into an incubator. Keep watch on them. When you're 'soon' hatching just fire off one star piece and enjoy a few thousand extra star dust for no extra effort.

All in all we're looking at a perfectly good setup of package deals. I've seen better, and discarding lucky eggs was a minor downer for me, but in the end I found them to be of good value.