EC to CC

zaina2202770 • 3 January 2014 at 12:55 PM

don't you think it would be easier if you could swap EC for CC it would be better don't you agree ?

purrclan • 3 January 2014 at 1:08 PM

@zaina2202770
1) Do you mean having a place where you can put in EC and it gives you CC? Just clarifying.
2) You can already trade EC for CC in a way - you can trade for freezes, gender changes, CSP creatures, etc.
3) If this was implemented, no one would buy CC.
4) If no one bought CC, Ian would start having money problems.
5) If Ian had money problems, he might cover Egg Cave in ads to make up for no more CC purchases.
6) If Egg Cave was covered in ads, people would leave because people don't like a lot of ads.
7) If Ian had money problems, he might make Egg Cave no longer a free site, so you had to buy a membership or something.
8) If Egg Cave wasn't free, then there was no point in making CC cost EC and also people would leave.
9) If Ian had money problems, he might close down Egg Cave because he couldn't keep it running anymore.
10) If Ian shut down Egg Cave, everyone would be sad. ☹️

zaina2202770 • 3 January 2014 at 1:10 PM

@purrclan I mean a place where you can turn your EC to CC

purrclan • 3 January 2014 at 1:11 PM

@zaina2202770
That's what I thought.

zaina2202770 • 3 January 2014 at 1:12 PM

@purrclan also since CC is worth a lot it could be something like 100,000EC ->50 CC

purrclan • 3 January 2014 at 1:18 PM

@zaina2202770
Do you know how many people have millions? 100k isn't actually that much.
And in any case, people are still going to stop buying CC.

zaina2202770 • 3 January 2014 at 1:22 PM

but still its just an idea you don't have to prove me wrong ☹️

aedia • 3 January 2014 at 1:24 PM

@zaina2202770 Creating a feature like that wouldn't make much sense I'm afraid. CC is literally real money and EC is in a way only points for feeding other people's creatures and such. So in no way are they equal to each other. People do trade Cash shop things for EC since it is the quickest and easiest way to get a lot more EC and not everyone is willing to trade their creatures for anything other than EC, so like @purrclan already said, it wouldn't work out for this website at all.

purrclan • 3 January 2014 at 1:25 PM

@zaina2202770
I'm not 'proving you wrong'. You shared your idea for Egg Cave; I shared my idea of why I think it couldn't work.
And trust me, some ideas have been met with much harsher criticism.

karamel • 3 January 2014 at 1:29 PM

@purrclan People aren't entirely going to stop buying CC--actually, it could work both ways. If people want to get more EC, they could either trade (more likely) creatures and travels, or trade their CC. They'd have to buy that CC first though, right? 😋
Also, Egg Cave is already almost covered in ads IMO. x3 Some people are even getting pop-ups. (I don't get pop-ups--only on my iPod--but that's irrelevant.)

That said, I'm absolutely negative on this. All the points have been said for me. EC takes clicking; CC takes money. If 100k EC = 50 CC, I can easily earn 500k EC (more if my laptop didn't have overheating issues) within an hour--that's gotten me the original price of a freeze, or a resurrection stone to potentially revive a rare CSP creature to get me more CC in return.

purrclan • 3 January 2014 at 1:32 PM

@karamel
Maybe not entirely, but much, much less would be bought.

elf • 3 January 2014 at 2:30 PM

@zaina2202770
That would just take out a LOT of the value in CC and we can trade for freezes and CSPs right now anyways and that might cause money problems for Ian too 😋

jazzyleia • 3 January 2014 at 2:56 PM

@zaina2202770
We aren't trying to make you feel down or prove you wrong, this idea has been brought to many people's attentions and it always ends the same, we can't do it because then the site would lose money and then Ian would do things that would make many people leave.

It doesn't matter, because it will probably never happen. CC is how Ian makes money to keep the site just like it is, he probably will never change it.

imcool12328 • 6 January 2014 at 7:33 AM

I used to play a game that actually gave out free membership. It closed down one month later.

cnm0604 • 29 January 2014 at 8:06 PM

Maybe 1,000,000 equals 10 cc? Might be too much, but eh...

metaphor • 31 January 2014 at 10:57 PM

It could work. I know of another site that does this, but you can only trade do it once a month, and only up to 20 (which was the equivalent of $2 USD if I remember correctly). I think every 20 is 500k or so, but since EC is very very abundant that'd be too much. I'd say like 10 CC for every 5 mil sounds fair, and that could be done only once or twice a month.

bunnyshadow • 22 February 2014 at 12:55 PM

This could work if it was about 1,000,000 EC for 5 CC. A lot more EC for less CC. That way the deflating worth of EC could go up again.

9kiwi9 • 31 March 2014 at 10:49 AM

Maybe 100,000 EC = 1 CC?
@zaina2202770

mychelle • 4 April 2014 at 12:18 PM

The way I see it...if the EC to CC were too low, people would simply not use it. If the EC to CC were too high, then you would have people stop buying CC. It would be VERY hard to find a good medium where it would actually be feasible for the site. =/

awkolicious • 14 April 2014 at 3:23 PM

@zaina2202770
I mean hate to sound rude but, just no. I'm so late for this. We aren't trying to make you feel bad though.

@purrclan is exactly absolutely right.