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User Shops Have Arrived at Egg Cave

May 21, 2018 at 1:20 PM
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What's New: User Shops

User Shops have arrived at Egg Cave and you can find yours under the Shop navigation drop down. A new profile tile has been added to everyone's profile, too, which links to their shop front. Here's how it works.

  • Move items from your Inventory by clicking on them and selecting "Move to Your Shop"
  • Set item prices anything between 1 EC and 100 million EC
  • Items that are 0 EC do not display and cannot be bought
  • When an item sells, the EC goes to your Shop Till (when you have more than 0 EC in your till, there will be a bubble that appears on the sidebar)
  • Like Coves, you can expand your shop to accommodate more items (all shops begin with 50 spaces)
  • Your profile egg displays as your shopkeeper and you can modify your shop's text under Update Shop Text

How To Find Items You Need

You can use the User Shop Search to search for items that you need. By default, the lowest-priced items display first so you will always be getting the best deal. Please note that search results might be a bit sparse at first, as users will need time to stock their items and set reasonable prices.

The main sidebar search does not include user shops. This is a specific type of search (like auctions search or trades search).

User Shops Directory

The main User Shops page acts like a directory where you can view the biggest shops and most well-stocked shops. Think of these as kinds of leaderboards. But it also includes two tabs called Recently Stocked and Recently r90+ that we think you might find really useful. On these two tabs you'll be able to find the most recently stocked items as they are priced and put into shops.

If you find a deal, snatch it up as quickly as you can!

User Shops Capabilities

You cannot buy or sell either eggs or creatures in user shops. Continue to use auctions and trades for those transactions.

Unrelated: Instant Withdrawals/Deposits

Withdrawals and deposits are instantaneous again at your Strongroom. Prior glitches that allowed people to "double withdraw" and generate Egg Coins remain fixed under instant withdrawals/deposits.

Coming Soon: Quests

With a brand-new way to get items quicker and easier than ever before, we're excited to announce that we have plans to implement a fun questing system (requiring items) in the coming months. Stay tuned for updates!

Comments: 104

kota • 21 May 2018, 1:21 PM

Neat!

Ian • 21 May 2018, 1:22 PM

@kota so many possibilities!

skyfall4 • 21 May 2018, 1:26 PM

@Ian OMG OMG QUESTS????!!

kota • 21 May 2018, 1:27 PM

@Ian yes quests especially 😊

Ian • 21 May 2018, 1:39 PM

@skyfall4 yeepppp no joke ❀️

jlya • 21 May 2018, 1:41 PM

@Ian This is all very cool and I am excited to check it all out! Can't wait for the quest portion, too. πŸ˜‰

skyfall4 • 21 May 2018, 1:44 PM

@Ian OMG YASSSSS I will be on Egg Cave 24/7 when it arrives x3 Hmm... it would be nice if there was a select "move all checked to shop" button?

icymuffin • 21 May 2018, 1:51 PM

Ahhh~ I'm excited to hear that quests are finally coming :>

icedmagma • 21 May 2018, 2:15 PM

😱 Quests!! That's awesome!

jlya • 21 May 2018, 2:43 PM

@Ian @skyfall4 I agree with skyfall on the "Move all checked to shop" button. It would save a lot of time!

spiritkoi • 21 May 2018, 2:44 PM

Wow that was fast. 😱 But I'm really excited for quests!

skyfall4 • 21 May 2018, 2:45 PM

@jlya Mainly because I find it very tedious πŸ˜‹ @Ian, I had another problem of locating my shop xD Maybe putting it as an option in the drop down menu might save some time?

budgie • 21 May 2018, 2:47 PM

Loving the new update, but please allow cc to be used as a price. It would be nice to offer an item for either 500k ec or 50cc

skyfall4 • 21 May 2018, 2:47 PM

@Ian whoops just realized it was already in the drop downs xDDDDD

foxbit • 21 May 2018, 3:06 PM

This is a great addition! Considering I need EC now and I have too many items in my Strongroom haha. Hyped for quests as well.

foxbit • 21 May 2018, 3:11 PM

I would suggest, aside from there being a quick-stock button in our inventories, a button that would let us update the prices of each item at once, instead of manually changing the price one by one. It's kinda tedious.

skyfall4 • 21 May 2018, 3:30 PM

Another minor thing would be maybe put the rarities? Because a new user might not know the item prices, and accidentally buy a common item for 100k.

skyfall4 • 21 May 2018, 3:31 PM

@budgie Maybe the option to do both? 😱 Like you enter both prices, and you can buy it for either this or that. Or maybe you want a combination of both.

icecloud101 • 21 May 2018, 3:32 PM

awesomesauce!

skyfall4 • 21 May 2018, 3:40 PM

And maybe and option to search by rarity and cc items? I feel like I comment a lot x3

Ian • 21 May 2018, 3:43 PM

Taking note of your suggestions, all! 😊 Sounds like with the release of user shops we really need more convenient quick stocks. Working on it...

budgie • 21 May 2018, 3:43 PM

@skyfall4 Yes exactly, would be so convenient ^^

Ian • 21 May 2018, 3:43 PM

Also the ability to update item prices together (submit one form for all) instead of one form for one price.

Ian • 21 May 2018, 3:44 PM

We are also considering allowing CC currency to be specified for items -- why not? 😊

skyfall4 • 21 May 2018, 3:46 PM

@Ian Ooh that's nice! @budgie Yeah!

dusskfall • 21 May 2018, 4:26 PM

@Ian when i try to go to the second page in my shop it puts me on the list of shops instead

cokealoka • 21 May 2018, 4:32 PM

IM SO HAPPY THANK U GUYS

toplel • 21 May 2018, 4:38 PM

YAYY!

foxbit • 21 May 2018, 4:50 PM

@Ian Yay, thank you, Ian! Also what @dusskfall said is true...I can't go to the second page of my shop.

veritaspunk • 21 May 2018, 4:51 PM

...very much like neopets, even the terms hehe.

caylith • 21 May 2018, 4:56 PM

Why only for the items... why...

ambivalent • 21 May 2018, 4:56 PM

Wait... QUESTS!?

ethereality • 21 May 2018, 5:03 PM

mass stock items please ❀️

skyfall4 • 21 May 2018, 5:05 PM

Hmm @Ian perhaps a notif when someone buys an item? I didn't notice I had sold something xD Also a sold history or something like that? So you remember what you sold?

veritaspunk • 21 May 2018, 5:08 PM

@skyfall4 That would be annoying, especially for larger shops ... although if there was an option to turn it off or on ... but that may be more complex hmmm :/

skyfall4 • 21 May 2018, 5:13 PM

@veritaspunk Mmmm true... perhaps just the log? And makes no notifications? And once you sell something perhaps the log can highlight the new/recently sold ones.

umbregrl • 21 May 2018, 5:27 PM

Would be fun to be able to add more than 1 item at the time to the shop please! 😊

icedmagma • 21 May 2018, 5:44 PM

@Ian seriously you're the best!

jlya • 21 May 2018, 5:50 PM

@Ian kind of along what @skyfall4 said, but maybe some sort of way to notify who bought what when? It's be nice to know who our customers are. 😊 Thanks for making eggcave so awesome!!!

foxbit • 21 May 2018, 5:51 PM

@veritaspunk Yep. I'm getting a Neopets vibe too. And I like that! πŸ˜ƒ

jello • 21 May 2018, 5:54 PM

@skyfall4 yes that’s a great idea

sparklefox • 21 May 2018, 5:59 PM

Ooh, these look pretty nice. I'll check them out later.

skyfall4 • 21 May 2018, 6:19 PM

@jello πŸ˜ƒ I am having the customer problem like @jlya said~ My till went up BUT I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I SOLD O.O

jello • 21 May 2018, 6:21 PM

Well if you look at my shop I had 16 of both toys in my shop. I didn’t get a notification or a log of what I sold but I can tell because I only had two items in my shop. However, someone with a bigger shop would have trouble, yes. @skyfall4

jlya • 21 May 2018, 6:22 PM

@skyfall4 it really would help to have a record of things so you would know what to restock and when.

skyfall4 • 21 May 2018, 6:24 PM

@jello aka me~ I need to purge my strongroom as well as make profit with the good items I have, which means a big shop. @jlya As well as what people are interested and what prices will make people buy while you get good profits

jlya • 21 May 2018, 6:27 PM

@skyfall4 yes! I would like to know which customer bought what for what price. That way if a loyal shopper guys so many things, I could give them a bonus of something.

skyfall4 • 21 May 2018, 6:28 PM

@jlya Yeah! Aaaaand someone bought something for 100k+ and I don't know what and it bothers me xD

jello • 21 May 2018, 6:31 PM

@skyfall4 just found something out: if you set everything at 799 or 1499 or stuff like that, you can determine how many items you sold if you have a heavy shop and you don’t remember stuff easily. It’s not thaaat helpful but..

skyfall4 • 21 May 2018, 6:35 PM

@jello Ooh that's a nice idea! πŸ˜ƒ And thank you for the travel ❀️ 😸

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