User blog comment:BonesMcGee/Brainstorm: Potential savings in using the hurry hatch trick/@comment-5200570-20120911033420

Hey Bones,

Just looking over your update, are you sure the additional 15 hours in necessary? Assuming perfect feeding and hatching there should only be the 22 hour difference, with that same difference being same time as it will take the second dino to reach level 4 to be fusion eligible. With the first dino reaching level 4 in 15 hours of perfect feeding it will just be dancing around for 29 hours collecting 110/hr waiting until its cousin catches up to it.

In theory, the whole process can be said to take 37 hours, the time it takes to hatch the second dino (22 hrs) and then raising it to level 4 (15 hrs). Yes, that time does not include the 22 hr hatch time of the first dino, but that is ultimately irrelevent because nothing in that time is earning coins, you'd simple be out the initial 250 coin investment at that point.

So, your initial calculation was only including the coins collected raising each dino to level 4, whereas the additional 22 hours at 110 coins/hr I was suggesting accounts for the additional time it just sat at level 4. Because the first dino would be at level 4 in 15 hours, that leaves 7 hours until the second dino even hatches, so there should be no need to take any additional deductions.

Unless of course I've completely over thought this, but I think that's correct.