New to egg cave:)

name • 19 January 2015 at 10:23 PM

Hello I'm Jen and nice to meet all of you 😃 Looking forward to meeting new people and enjoying my time here!

mastergemma • 19 January 2015 at 10:34 PM

Welcome to EggCave @alphayjuliets !!

If you need help feel free to ask because nearly everyone here will he happy to help! You can ping people by writing @ in front of their username and that person will receive a notification saying that you have pinged them on a topic. Why don't you try pinging me?

Other ways of communicating is on a person's wall, you cannot ping on a wall. The Wall is located on the person's profile and if someone writes on your wall you reply to them on THEIR wall, not yours. This is a common mistake seen XD

Another common mistake is seeing players not feeding their own creatures, you CAN feed your own creatures!

Creatures gain levels by gaining feeds, clicks and views. You will notice that even if you have clicked and fed a creature, the level won't increase straight away. This is because levels and views only update once a day, around 3am ECT

Hide your EC (EggCoins) that you get from feeding your pets and other's everyday in your Strongroom and gather the interest every day.
When unable to go on EggCave for a while leave your pets at Tim's Food Shoppe and keep an eye on the Laws of Ark (site guidelines).

To gain some friends take a look at the forum. But make sure you do not revive a 'dead' topic (a topic that has not been active for quite a number of months!) There are many threads that are active and many are always happy to chat to new players! A good thread to look at is the Shoutbox!

Cave Monthlies are creatures that are only going to be obtainable for this current month, take a look at recent blog posts to see which critters are the current monthlies.

A note, please be careful with trading, many will try to get a better deal out of a newer player just because you are new. Before trading for creatures, please do a little research first!

With the list of creatures, #1 on Eggcave IS NOT the rarest, it is the most common (there have been instances when players have tried selling the #1 creature because they thought it was the rarest)

Messages that only have a smiley/emote (whatever you call them where you live) are considered spam and are not allowed

Also, join the Click Exchange to help get your creatures more clicks and feeds!

I hope you have fun 😃

name • 19 January 2015 at 10:52 PM

@mastergemma Thanks for all the tips 😃 PING! haha I'm kidding.

I actually have a questions so far:
What is considered a rare creature? (I looked up the Archives and I saw how there were available ,seasonal, endangered and retired. I would assume that retired creatures would be a rare creature? Correct me if I'm wrong 😊)

-Jen

mastergemma • 19 January 2015 at 11:19 PM

@alphayjuliets

"Rare" creatures can be any creature that isn't currently available. There are many different types of rare creatures, popular, unpopular, ones that were only released for a small period of time or ones that were released for a while.

Retired creatures can be called rare but there are some that are still pretty common to see. An example of this would be the cave monthlies. These creatures are available for a whole month and then are retired at the end of the month and by the end of the month there are lots of people selling extras that they have. (it's still very easy to trade for some of the cave monthlies as people are very willing to trade them away)

The Cash shop creatures can be called rare creatures as there aren't as many of them as normal cave creatures but these are way more expensive than many rare cave creatures

This probably looks confusing but after a while you'll understand how trading works and how often new creatures are released/retired

name • 20 January 2015 at 3:41 AM

@mastergemma 😊 thanks! I guess I just need to figure out what popular "rare" creatures there are!