New Newbie adopted...

ninila • 22 February 2018 at 3:47 AM

Well, hello! 😸

I stumbled over this site because of a trade on CS where somebody else displayed their eggs ... And now I'm here xD

About myself ... uhm ... Hmmmm ... Its always so difficult to find something to write ...

I'm a student (university, not school 😃) and a gamer. Not as much as other people, but more than many people xD Mainly Overwatch, Okami and Pokémon at the moment. I'm also a huge fan of reading & writing.
(Reading&writing + gaming = huge fan of RPGs 😸)
So far I haven't wrote any fanficition yet, but I plan to and look forward it! And I also plan do start drawing since I always wanted to do that but ... I never really had the time for that, but I hope now I will find it 😸

What else could be interesting ...?
I have a cat at the moment and had many pets in my life so far. Rats, fish, dogs, other cats, hamster, rabbits, a pony (just to care it, not really in my garden), a turtle, and I always wanted a saurian or a snake, but my bevloved turtle was the only pet in the right direction I could get. Grrrr 😃
Maybe that's the reason why I like this kind of adopt-a-huge-number-of-pets-sites? Possible.

Also i'm not a native-English speaker, English was always a kind of enemy from me <.< Sorry for any mistakes I made or strange sounding word combinations, I'm glad if you correct me!

I wish everybody of you a great day!

sparklefox • 22 February 2018 at 4:13 PM

@ninila - 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.

I'd say your English is quite fine. A few words are a little weird, but it's still easy to understand what you mean.

Have a great day, and a nice time here!

ninila • 24 February 2018 at 3:37 PM

@sparklefox

Thank you very much for the nice welcome and the explanations!
The Guides are very helpful, and you already explained many things to me - especially your information about the EX, CC and XC is very helpful 😃
And I'm glad my English is understandable xD

I have one question, if its okay for you to answer me: How can I see how rare a pet is ...? I tried to get it myself, but the Archieve doesn't help me at all and I don't know where to look >.>

sparklefox • 24 February 2018 at 4:51 PM

@ninila - You can see the rarity in the Archives. It's called "Population Rank", but it's basically the same thing. I understand that you checked there before and it didn't help, but I'll try to explain how the rarity thing works there to maybe help.

Every creature in the Archives has a Population Rank part in amongst their information. This is pretty much their rarity. The higher the number is, the more common the pet is, and the more there are of them on the site. Currently, the Tasma is the most common (at #1) and the Dilloton is the rarest (at #652). Forgive me for the lackluster explanation here because I'm tired, but hopefully I've helped here, even a little.

ninila • 24 February 2018 at 5:27 PM

@sparklefox

Oh O.O I hope you get sleep soon! Its not good to be tired - please be sure to take care of yourself 😸

Your explanation was totally enough, thank you really much! I understood it the opposite way >.< So now its totally clear to me (: