Hey everyone!

tyceybby • 20 July 2019 at 11:47 AM

So to start off, my name's Tycen and I'm new here. Actually, I've had an account about a year or two ago, however I remember absolutely nothing about this game. I only stumbled upon it again because I saw it on a forum post on Flight Rising, a site which I don't visit that much as well, but with Dappervolk being under closed development for half a year now and god knows how much more, I wanted some new games like these to play so yeah.
Anyways if someone could help me begin this whole thing and give me a few tips to start me off that would be much appreciated. Also I kinda wish the site provided a sort of tutorial for newbies rather than letting us just stumble around and ask for tips from older players or just figure it out on our own.

sparklefox • 20 July 2019 at 12:36 PM

@tyceybby - Welcome (and also welcome back, I guess) to Egg Cave! If you have any questions, feel free to ask me.

Sorry if this dump of info is a little long, but it might be helpful.

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, followed by clicking the blue "Reply Now" box that will appear after that. The arrow can be used to quickly ping multiple people at once in a thread.

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. I think it could be helpful if you read through it.

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!

tyceybby • 20 July 2019 at 12:43 PM

@sparklefox
Thank you!! This was all pretty helpful for the basic stuff, and I'll make sure to read each article to get a grip on stuff. I'll make sure to pay a lot of attention to the rules and player guide so I can understand what I'm doing and not waste money or accidentally kill my creatures.
Once again, thank you for your help! It was much needed.

sparklefox • 20 July 2019 at 12:48 PM

@tyceybby - You're very welcome. I'm always happy to help.

novrain62 • 20 July 2019 at 3:35 PM

Welcome back to Egg Cave on it's 10th Birthday/Anniversary.
Hopefully you'll be able to stick around longer this time and have
lots of fun. 9.5 years for me and loving it.

cleokitty • 20 July 2019 at 4:04 PM

@tyceybby
Welcome to eggcave! If you ever want to chat, i'm here! 😃