Haha! Yep, they sit around stacked up in some digital waiting room based on their time left, highest time on top, until they get to the bottom of the stack and land on the AP!
It's probably most obvious at holidays, when the AP rules change so that holiday eggs are always further down the stack than non-holiday eggs, regardless of time. Right when the event starts, the AP goes from being full of regular, ~5day eggs to being full of 7-day holiday eggs, because the regular eggs got bumped to the top of the stack. Then a few days after the event ends, the AP goes from being full of ~3day holiday eggs to being full of ~1day regular eggs, when the holiday wall runs out at last and finally the regular eggs can get through! :D
Amusingly, eggs used to gain a day when they were abandoned! (Wow, I've been on DC a long time if I can remember that!) I'm glad that's not the case anymore.
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It's probably most obvious at holidays, when the AP rules change so that holiday eggs are always further down the stack than non-holiday eggs, regardless of time. Right when the event starts, the AP goes from being full of regular, ~5day eggs to being full of 7-day holiday eggs, because the regular eggs got bumped to the top of the stack. Then a few days after the event ends, the AP goes from being full of ~3day holiday eggs to being full of ~1day regular eggs, when the holiday wall runs out at last and finally the regular eggs can get through! :D
Amusingly, eggs used to gain a day when they were abandoned! (Wow, I've been on DC a long time if I can remember that!) I'm glad that's not the case anymore.