I'm new...

jlya • 13 December 2017 at 3:17 PM

Hi! I'm not quite sure how to play this game...could someone maybe explain it to me? It looks fun!

animalliterature • 13 December 2017 at 3:34 PM

Hello, @jlya! Welcome to EggCave! This is a fairly small community, but I'm sure it has a lot of purpose! I appreciate your coming!

Well, I don't have much time, and other people literally live to introduce new people, so I'll leave it to them! But if you have any questions, feel free to ask me!

jlya • 13 December 2017 at 3:40 PM

@animalliterature thank you! I appreciate you helping me. I do have two quick questions:
How do you add friends? And. Can I add you as a friend?

Thanks again!

animalliterature • 13 December 2017 at 3:44 PM

@jlya First of all, sure, you can add me! Second of all, all you need to do is click on a person's profile and click Add Friend. They can decide to accept or decline it from there! 😊

sparklefox • 14 December 2017 at 10:55 AM

"other people literally live to introduce new people" - hello this is me

@jlya - 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.

(The community honestly isn't as small as what animalliterature could be making it out to be. It's still quite large - which I guess is obvious - but the amount of active users on the forums could be rather small at times. Just wanted to mention that.)

Have a great day, and a nice time here!

jlya • 14 December 2017 at 2:10 PM

@sparklefox Thank you!! Your information helped a lot and I appreciate you helping newbies - there need to be more people who do that on all games!