Hello!

Deleted • 16 July 2017 at 1:50 PM

Hi there. (:

I have a few questions since im new here.

1. How do you obtain EC?
2. How do i get better creatures?

thank you (:

chiroptera • 18 July 2017 at 2:03 PM

@xoxomicaela
You can get ec from feeding, trading, and games.

Depends on what you mean by "better".

iris1929578 • 18 July 2017 at 6:26 PM

@xoxomicaela

You get EC mostly from feeding. It's simple but takes a long time if there are a lot :|

You get creatures by trading, mostly. Older players like me (four months here!) had lots of chances to get monthlies (limited edition available for a month). Most creatures are retired ☹️

sparklefox • 19 July 2017 at 7:49 AM

@xoxomicaela - Welcome to Egg Cave! If you have any questions, feel free to ask me.

If you are replying to someone, you should ping them. Otherwise, they won't be notified of your reply and therefore be unaware that you've done so. To ping someone, simply type an @ followed by their username (e.g. @sparklefox ). You can also click the left-pointing orange arrow in the grey box below a forum post. You can only ping up to five people per post, and anyone pinged after those five people will not receive notifications about the ping.

Checking out the Forum Rules and the Site Guidelines would be an easy way to start. These explain what is and what isn't acceptable regarding the site itself and the forums. A couple of other useful links are the Player Guide (a helpful list of commonly asked questions) and the eCode guide (the code tags used around the site, such as the tags I'm using to make this appear in italics. Just a little tip, but EC doesn't seem to currently support BBCode or HTML tags, so posting your creatures onto these forums using the codes provided for them will not work.).

A common mistake from newbies is that they'll ping and reply to people who have commented on their wall using their own wall. Pinging does not work out of forums and the blog, and to reply to the comments made on your wall, you go to the user's wall instead. That way, they will be notified about your reply.

Egg Coins (EC) is the main currency of this site, and is used to purchase most of the things available on the site - such as items and travels for your creatures. These are mainly gained through feeding eggs / creatures. Cave Cash (CC) is another currency and is used in the Cash Shop Park. This is purchased through real life money and can be spent on many exclusive items and creatures only available here. Exchange Credits (XC) is for use in the Click Exchange - found by clicking on the XC amount in the sidebar. These are gained through clicking the creatures in the Click Exchange, and every click on any creature(s) you have in here uses one of your XC. If you have none left, then your creature(s) won't appear in the Click Exchange until you gain more (and yes, getting a minus amount is completely normal and happens when people click fast enough on your creature(s)).

This post here explains many different abbreviations which are commonly used around this site. It would be helpful to read through it, in my opinion.

Any creature which has reached level 2,000 or over is considered immortal and so cannot die. To evolve your creatures, you need to reach the right amount of stats for that creature's species (200 feeds, 1,000 views, etc.). You can find this out via looking up the species in The Archives, available under the Explore tab above.

You can get 'better' creatures through the Trades Center (available in the Shop tab above) - where you can trade creatures of your own for the other creatures that people put into it. There are also the Auctions (in the same tab), where you can get creatures through bidding on them with EC. I find the Auctions to be the easier one. If you are lucky, you can get an endangered creature (which are creatures that used to be common in the Cave but can no longer be found there) from the Leila Oasis (in the Explore tab), or a creature from the Mysterious Asteroid (same tab). If you check back at the Thief Shop (Shop tab) every ten minutes past the hour starting at :05 (e.g. 12:05, 12:15, 12:25...), you can also have a chance at buying a rare creature there - however these can be pretty expensive and have a chance of actually being fake eggs. If there's anything I've missed, I'm sorry.

I apologise if you knew any of the above information already. I'm a little late with this information too, so... whoops.

Have a great day, and a nice time here!