Umm Hi?

fierydraggon • 3 December 2017 at 3:13 PM

i.. New here i so shy

animalliterature • 3 December 2017 at 3:36 PM

Hello, @fierydraggon! Welcome to EggCave! Feel free to ask questions in the Help & Questions section of the forums, and... well... yeah I've forgotten how to introduce people. I never have before, to be honest. Anyways, welcome to EggCave! I hope you have a great time here! Any questions you might have may be answered in this:

So, if you don't verify your account with your email within thirty days it is deleted. But no need to worry! If there is a typo or it isn't sent to your email, you can contact the EggCave team! Be aware you cannot trade or anything of that sort of matter until you verify your account, but until then, you can search through the forums and post anywhere if you want, you can start collecting more creatures, etc.! Check out the Archives in Explore for information on all the types of creatures, and if you have any ideas for new creatures, there's a Fanart and Creature Suggestion section on the Forums! There you can support and create EggCave creatures, though, sadly, some may not be accepted.

I appreciate that you've come to play EggCave, it's a very small community, but it's quite a fun game. You can roleplay and make friends, and if you're as shy as me, you might just collect eggs for a while instead of interacting with others, but that's completely fine. If you do decide to come out of your shell and start interacting with others online, there's Forum Games, Roleplays, etc. to have fun with others!

Now, you'll want to keep feeding your creatures daily, because, unfortunately, they have a chance of dying when their happiness is ten% or lower. I just wanted you to be aware of that.

So, lemme think... what other things did I want to know when I was new...? Oh, and in Social there's a Click Exchange! There you can put your creatures into it to help them hatch and evolve! In the Click Exchange, people interact with your creatures by feeding them and things like that, and it's quite helpful when you want an egg to hatch or a creature to evolve. But you'll have to be patient, because, like I said, this is a very small community, which means most people won't always be looking through the creatures in the Click Exchange.

Also, if you answer someone, please ping them on it (Ex: @animalliterature or @fierydraggon) or they will be further unaware that you replied.

Now, what else...? Well, if you have any questions, feel free to PM me! Though I may not be able to answer some. To start a conversation, there should be a button to click (or press) if you go to my profile.

sparklefox • 3 December 2017 at 6:07 PM

@fierydraggon - Welcome to Egg Cave! If you have any questions, feel free to ask me (or animalliterature, your choice). Some of this information has already been glossed over by animalliterature, but I'll keep it here just in case.

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.

To be honest, the community isn't as small as what the post above is possibly implying. It's just that the social side of the community isn't as large as the overall one. By that, I mean those that are more active on places like the forums.

While we're on the topic of the community and the post above, I'll give another little tip and say that in order to get the most out of the on-site Click Exchange, you should check back on it at least twice a day and keep clicking until no more links are available at that time. Personally, I try to check it when I first log in and before I'm leaving for the night. You should also try to keep as little creatures in it as possible. I usually just try to keep only one or two in at a time - the XC is spent slower and the clicks gained will all go towards the one creature, or be halved between the two. This is better than 20 XC being spread out to ten or so creatures.

I apologise if you knew any of the above information already (which is most likely the case, as I mentioned earlier).

Have a great day, and a nice time here!