More places to explore?

lunar • 12 September 2013 at 8:39 PM

I've noticed how bland the explore map kinda seems. There are so few places to visit in eggcave :/
And I was wondering if we could add some new places?
A hidden village in the forest, or a secret temple in the volcano?

Something like the asteroid, where once a day you would visit it. Like for the hidden temple, you have to go through this "maze".
~As you enter, pick left or right through the passage.
And if you get far enough, lets say you discover 500 ec, or if you take a wrong turn, "you quickly remember the way out, thats enough adventuring for today."
And each day the way would be random.

I feel like we can make the map so much more exciting, it'll be interactive with for all users.
So please tell me what you think, and I would love to hear more ideas for places to visit and such.

spiritkoi • 12 September 2013 at 9:04 PM

@lunar
That's a cool idea!! 😃

halounsc2552 • 12 September 2013 at 9:14 PM

@lunar
@spiritkoi

I think we should have this wheel-of-fortune type of mini-game where every week or month we would get a spin on the wheel and get various prizes. Some of the prizes can be donated. Like an egg or EC.

lunar • 12 September 2013 at 9:51 PM

@halounsc2552 That would be cool 😸
It could be once a month, like the 1st of every month your try is reset.

And yeah, donating is good! Like, there will be a donation pool!
Example--> 32 eggs donated, 102 travels donated, 1mil k donated.
And it will all be spread evenly among users. There should be like a standard prize though, like a small amount of EC so the wheel wont just be on donations alone.

halounsc2552 • 12 September 2013 at 9:53 PM

@lunar Correct Like 50-300 EC. The EC will be the main prize. Eggs and Travels are randomly dropped base on their Rarity.

lunar • 12 September 2013 at 11:04 PM

@halounsc2552 but since its once a month, the stakes of getting a "better" prize are much much higher. Like 1 chance in 400.

sony • 13 September 2013 at 8:58 AM

@lunar
I agree with the map reconstruction, they need to do something about it!

But not really much on the wheel, I mean... what if people donated rare eggs or valuable travels? And if someone won them, they'd start to depend on those, and this would turn into a luck and chance site...
So I might have a bit disagreement on the wheel thingy, but 100% with the map redo! ^^

tralala22 • 13 September 2013 at 10:12 AM

@lunar

I totally agree with your suggestion, and the maze would be awesome.

Though, I have questions... 😋 (Sorry, I like doing that...😊)

1. I think you should probably make some more ideas. 😃
2. HERE'S AN IDEA!!! 😃😃😃
So there's this art shop game, where artists can gather together and draw pictures. Everymonth there is a theme needed. So you have to draw according to the theme. Then @Ian or whoever will choose the best at the end of the month. That person win 3,000 EC... The prizes are like the Site Trivia. 😃

3. And the prizes can't be too good otherwise people will just depend on these to get eggs. Or EC.

Yay!😊

@halounsc2551
@sony
@spiritkoi

sony • 13 September 2013 at 10:43 AM

@tralala22
xD
I do agree that EC needs to make players interact with their arts, creatures can't just have their "set" forms, players need to be inspired from them and need to create different poses, or colors to show the love to their creatures, but I don't think it should be an art shop "game", it could just be a gallery, where users submit their art and each week/each two weeks, there would be a specific amount of winners who get their pictures picked to be showed off in the gallery with a spiffy amount of ECs x3
Ugh, it sounds just like Neopets D8
xD

@piucca talked about creating an art gallery once! 😸

piucca • 13 September 2013 at 5:04 PM

@sony
Surprised anyone remembered 😊
The idea was for the prize to be a special creature
you could only get from the monthly competition or EC.

I am sure @Ian has something up his sleeve
for the empty areas of the map. I do like your idea @Sony

tralala22 • 13 September 2013 at 6:53 PM

@Sony
True...true...

XD I guess you're right...!😊

sony • 14 September 2013 at 1:12 AM

@piucca
Well I remembered, we even had like a small argument about it, you had an idea that the prize was a trophy-like creature, and I disagree on that because I think those creatures would be tradeable and stuffs! x3

Yeah, it's true, I think Ian's working on redesigning the places in Ark and creating an art gallery, but those aren't his first priorities I guess, but he'll make those come true someday I believe, several people and brought this idea up and lots have agreed!

And thanks! ^^

@tralala22
Well I don't know... we still need more opinions though!

piucca • 14 September 2013 at 9:16 AM

@sony

😃 ❤️

wolf-of-shadows • 15 September 2013 at 7:12 AM

@lunar @halounsc2552 love your ideas

olimpt • 15 September 2013 at 6:51 PM

@lunar
The temple thing is practically copying neopet's thing.

lunar • 16 September 2013 at 5:07 PM

@olimpt

As I said that it was an example. This is not set into stone, I just made an example to attract more original ideas.
If you think of any, by all means, do share.

fakeworld • 17 September 2013 at 1:27 AM

@lunar I agree with making the map much more exciting, there's just a lot that can be done to it, we need this as soon as possible. 😊

mighty-lair • 22 September 2013 at 1:28 AM

@lunar

Great way to get the idea ball rolling! Once is all it takes going through the map *yawn*

I like the idea of random prizes across the board. They could be anywhere.

I would also add ec bonuses during feeding. Its boring and getting a Travel or an ec bonus would liven it up a little. As it is everything is carved in stone.

10 chances at the cave: Throw a bonus pick when feeding.
15th of every month is extra ec. Make a wild day show up.
The map could have a hidden portal show up. Get a prize.

Travel shop is all there is and I don't know how many times I just hit reload for 10 min. out of boredom with whats available. That being said, the three ideas I just mentioned would add a little randomness.

Add color choices to CC creature purchases available at time of purchase. In order to change the color of a creature make up a name for it, not my forte, and sell it like the Mars, and Venus Stone.

4 ideas.

When feeding, looking at map and a portal shows up or going to the donation center, A work of art from the Artist's Forums appears. Could be a one of a kind or a series number 1 of 200 etc.
5 ideas to, Shake It Up.

gabrieltaft • 27 September 2013 at 10:08 PM

@lunar

If they ever do an overhall to the world map and add new places. I think it would be really cool, if you had a very small chance of finding travels when exploring this world.

Deleted • 27 September 2013 at 11:09 PM

@lunar That would be fun but we can't just do that. I uses lots of time to make updates on the map. They'll have to reprogram the whole thing. However, since the release of Leila, there wasn't that much map activity to do ☹️