Helloo

plethora • 16 November 2017 at 10:22 PM

Hi I'm new and have no idea what I'm doing... time to figure that out!

sparklefox • 17 November 2017 at 7:29 AM

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

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.).

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.

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.

I apologise if you knew any of the above information already.

Have a great day, and a nice time here!

plethora • 17 November 2017 at 7:57 AM

@sparklefox
Thank you! That's really helpful 😊 I had no idea about the pinging or bb code. What is the blog?

I also have a few other questions, how do I find gobblers?

Is there a private message button/place thing?

What happens when eggs hatch?

What do items do, and what does the rarity thing mean?

Thank you again for your help! I hope you don't mind all the questions....

sparklefox • 17 November 2017 at 9:56 AM

@plethora - You're very welcome!

• The blog is where information about new updates to the site are shared. For example: new items, new creatures, new features, retired creatures... The list goes on.

• You can find Gobblers pretty much everywhere. You have a chance of seeing one on every page you click on. They appear as very transparent images, so it might be hard to spot them at first.

• There is a private message system here, yes. When you click on another user's profile, you will see three boxes near the top. ( http://prntscr.com/hbpknz ). Click "Send Mail" to send someone a private message.
Alternatively, you can go to the mail page by clicking your username at the very top and then clicking "[number] Unread Mail". From there, you click "New Conversation" and add the user(s) you want to send it to via "Add Recipient".

• When eggs hatch, their appearance changes. I'm not really too sure how to describe it, but... yeah. They change to a different stage. It may take a minute or two for them to actually hatch / evolve when they eventually reach the required stats, but you'll be notified of it when it happens. (If they don't appear as though they've evolved, you probably need to clear the cache in your browser and refresh the page a few times - it's not a site bug and the evolution has definitely happened if you've been notified).

• When you use an item on a creature, their happiness goes up. Exceptions to this are travels and items from the Cash Shop Park, which instead have a different function such as changing stats, freezing creatures in their current stage, etc. The rarity explains how commonly they'll restock in the shops - common items restock often, while virtually unobtainable items won't restock as much. The higher the rarity, the more they're usually worth when trying to sell or trade them to other people. Items with rarity 100 / "unobtainable" will not restock in shops and are instead gotten through ways such as events.

Hopefully this helps, and feel free to ask if you still don't understand anything.