User blog comment:Cottonmouth255/Discussion of the Week: Egg Quests/@comment-7622429-20140323002309

Well, it always sucks being the one who has to run away from the monsters instead of slaying them, but it does teach players a thing or two about map-planning and movement reactions. I can't say for any of the changes made over these past few generations, since I haven't been up-to-date with MH for awhile now, but making them more challenging in some fashion is just natural progression I guess.

The main things I'd like to see being done is actual choices of gathering eggs or not, and being able to see monsters take care of them in a more natural setting, perhaps some new animations to show the caring parent motif. Maybe even sitting on eggs and them only attacking from the nest if provoked.