Shiny and New

arti • 9 February 2021 at 10:51 AM

Howdy, Im arti. Im not that interesting and I hope you don't mind. Im 16, I’ll be 17 around the 23rd of February. Starting to feel like an old lady, cant imagine when Im twenty. But hey, we move. I play a lot of games every now and then and I recently took notice of egg cave after messing around on FR, and it doesn’t look half bad. I don’t know the community here but I assume you all are fairly welcoming people when it comes to a social platform like this, something that relies on popularity on the forums to an extent. Nonetheless, my first day and I got a lot of sweet eggo’s to look forward to evolving. I’ll be reading the forums throughout the day and responding if necessary and help yalls out. Thank ya for having me. 😊

sparklefox • 9 February 2021 at 11:02 AM

@arti - Welcome to Egg Cave! If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. This community can indeed be pretty friendly and welcoming at times. Happy (extremely early) birthday.

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 will 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 20 or over is considered immortal and so cannot die - you need about 6,000 total stats to reach level 20. 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) or through your cove's page (click the "[amount] Creatures" button on the sidebar, the blue number is how much your creature needs to evolve).

I apologise if you knew any of the above information already.

Have a great day, and a nice time here!

shirothekittehlover • 9 February 2021 at 11:10 AM

@arti Hi! Nice to meetcha 😊

distorted • 9 February 2021 at 1:05 PM

@arti Welcome to EggCave! If you have any questions, feel free to ask me!

mithmel • 11 February 2021 at 3:49 PM

Hello. Welcome to the online game.
Here we are all polite and kind.
I hope you enjoy the game.