How does the thief shop work

fanficmelon • 5 May 2020 at 3:30 PM

I've been playing this game for 5 years but still don't know how it works. Can't find a thing on it in the Help, so im just gonna ask here. Some questions are
1. How often does stuff appear
2. How much does it cost
3. Is it basically gambling
4. Is the egg often fake
5. Does everyone see the same stuff in there
and so on, so on.

rabbitwanter • 5 May 2020 at 3:58 PM

@fanficmelon
These are just from my experiences !

1.) Not very often, there's a forum here: https://eggcave.com/forums/topic/52412?page=1 where people post what they've got. I imagine there are more creatures at the thief shop than what the forum says but it's still pretty rare
2.) It varies ! See above
3/4.) Yes. Lol. I tend to not buy it if it's a lot of EC because I'm cheap but maybe the chances are better if it costs more? But still not great
5.) I think it's like the travel shop where we do see the same thing if there's an egg there, and the first person to buy it gets it

Hope I could help a little !! ❤️

minnie298a • 6 May 2020 at 6:59 AM

@fanficmelon

I occasionally post on the Thief Shop board linked above, but mostly can't be bothered. However, I do keep a running tally on what each creature I've gotten from the shop has cost me. For example:
https://eggcave.com/egg/2139888 Brillea the Gamaeso cost me 1,768K over 13 visits.
https://eggcave.com/egg/2139903 Busby the Artemiane cost me 1.051K over 2 visits.
https://eggcave.com/egg/2297041 Rebbor the Tidnab cost me 5,344K over 13 visits.

I do consider it a gamble as there is no guarantee that you will win anything. As a result it is something I only started doing once I had the EC to lose. As you can see the fake eggs I bought in getting Rebbor cost between 25K and 600K ec. Most of the creatures I've gotten have been from the more expensive eggs.