Click exchange

circinus • 27 July 2015 at 12:40 AM

In the click exchange there alot of people who just click it and dont feed even when it says feeds preferred. I think that if its possible, a creature who has feeds preferred must get fed for the person to get a credit.

lykhaos117 • 27 July 2015 at 12:54 AM

@circinus

I'd really like if this were implemented. Based on a few experiments I did, almost exactly 1/3 of users won't feed creatures that prefer feeds, and I often have to keep putting my feeds-preferring creatures back in and getting a lot of notifications as a result.

It would also be helpful to people who click really fast or newer and returning users. Sometimes when people click very fast, they might close a tab before feeding a creature by mistake (I unfortunately know this from personal experience >_<). Also, new and returning users might not know what the little cupcakes mean in the first place, so this would give them another chance to click the creature and feed it once they realize what it means.

circinus • 27 July 2015 at 1:03 AM

@lykhaos117 yeah this was kind of based on a personal experience my nipha had received 400 clicks but was still under 300 feeds which was basically a waste of 100+ credits.

thesplashingmagikarp • 27 July 2015 at 1:15 AM

I feed all regardless of feeds preferred or clicks only; but yeah what @circinus suggested should definitely be a thing. I tried 'feed preferred' and was disappointed with the results, or lack thereof.

dawnfur • 27 July 2015 at 1:20 AM

YESSS. Please. T_T

It's taken my egg like 1 or 2 days to get less than 100. And I KNOW I have at least 50 credits each day. o_O

*has 50 credits* egg has 250 feeds.
*goes down to 20 credits* egg has 260 feeds.
WUT. ;_;

veritaspunk • 27 July 2015 at 1:21 AM

@circinus @lykhaos117 @thesplashingmagikarp


If someone prefers clicks only you also should not be able to feed it ..

Deleted • 27 July 2015 at 1:21 AM

@circinus

I normally feed all creatures in the exchange, not just those who request it. If I'm out of town and on my phone then I feed only those who request and click all who don't. Sometimes you can miss a few, but I try my best.

I think It'd be hard to design a system that rewards credits for feeds. The exchange in place functions by giving credits for each link that's clicked. It might be a challenge to design an exchange that can tell if you've fed. I'm sure they could do it, it'd just be a little more difficult.

I think it all comes down to honesty for the most part. You expect a few slip-ups, but it's very clear that a large amount of users are either being lazy or just don't care about your wasted credits. All you can really do is try and raise awareness about how not feeding hurts users, and encourage others to feed those who request.

ida92 • 27 July 2015 at 3:35 AM

@circinus I totally agree with you. This really should be implemented.

barbyka • 27 July 2015 at 4:03 AM

Besides all this, I'd really like if you could 'lock' the feed option. Like for a creature you want to receive stats, but not evolve. My Adarna evolved, just because users didn't count 'clicks only'. So I'd like if there would be that option.

yileen • 27 July 2015 at 4:20 AM

@barbyka I hate when that happens and that freezes are paid with CC....

Must say I also feed all I click in the exchange.
I put creatures that I don't want to evolve from feeds in Yarolds and hope they don't feed using that.

barbyka • 27 July 2015 at 4:28 AM

@yileen

I feed all Egg cave clicks on Yarolds. It's my way of getting EC 😊 And I also feed all on click exchange. I've started using image only links for creatures I don't want to evolve, or I just don't put them anywhere and wait for them to get enough views from my profile. I miss GG....That was sooo fast immortalizing...

yileen • 27 July 2015 at 4:30 AM

@barbyka
I never heard of GG hehe, but it goes pretty slow on Yarolds, I don't know how some do it 😋 but getting about 800 clicks total daily there (20 links)

barbyka • 27 July 2015 at 12:41 PM

@yileen

It's Glitter Graphics. Users posts their graphics there and you could put your creatures in comments. And they were getting views fast. But they blocked egg cave links, because it was considered spamming.

At least on Yarolds you can get a lot of credit fast. In click exchange I usually clear all creatures 3 times a day. And I've got max. 2 creatures in, otherwise I'm always in negative.

And maybe that's why it takes so long to immortalize, since users don't feed...

moopana • 28 July 2015 at 8:07 PM

I absolutely love this idea. Furthermore, I'd like to suggest that we have a way to feed creatures in the exchange without having to open them in a billion tabs.

Unicreatures has a click exchange that does this. Basically the care buttons pop up below all the creatures when you click on one, then after you care for the creature you get a nice little message of 'thank you for caring for A's creature B!' Which for eggcave could be replaced with 'Thank you! You've received x EC' or something like that. (This could be done just for feeds preferred creatures, to be fair). It also might be easier to have the feed button at the top, rather than the bottom, but idk.

I think just doing that could help solve the lack of feeding, because it would make feeding easier to do.

circinus • 29 July 2015 at 12:03 PM

Thank's everyone for the support! 😊

immortalraven • 29 July 2015 at 12:27 PM

@circinus
I support this. I feed all the critters there unless it says clicks only and takes feeds to evolve. What I don't get is why put a critter that takes clicks in for clicks preferred when it will evolve anyways with clicks. If they're fed they become immortal faster. So I feed those ones too because I think some think you're supposed to do that if the critter takes clicks to evolve o-o Anyways I feed others and I hardly get anything fed back and it's annoying. I would stop wasting my time with the click exchange for that reason but I do get some feeds and it's still faster than just me feeding so I keep using it.

circinus • 31 July 2015 at 9:13 AM

Thank's for the support 😊

maleficent • 31 July 2015 at 12:44 PM

Yes this should happen otherwise whats the point of us selecting what we want for our creatures. I'm always in the need of EC so don't mind quickly hitting feed creature. I really hate clicking but its a neccessary evil lol

I stick with what is selected unless I accidently feed vs click only which is rare.

thaliel • 5 August 2015 at 5:21 AM

@circinus

I am actually experiencing the complete opposite: as soon as I set creatures to clicks only, nobody ever gives me any clicks, no matter how many XC I have