Hi there! I just joined!

frostseraph • 18 February 2021 at 10:34 AM

Hi, I'm Frost! I'm kinda just going around trying new adoptable sites and found this one. I was -almost- turned off completely by eggs needing to have unique names(I really really wanted something like Flurry or Snowflake but Flurry was taken and I assume Snowflake is too), but I'm here and will probably check in on and off. Very happy to see the click exchange too.

I'm a huge Yugioh fan including all spinoffs, hence I ended up going with the name of the Yugioh Arc V protagonist for my first egg just to get something not taken. I also love Sailor Moon, Naruto/Boruto, and Pokemon. I collect plushies IRL.

Looking forward to meeting you all!

Edit: I just want to give MASSIVE props to this site for having by far, the most gender options I have ever seen on a website. I'm cis myself but heck this is much appreciated even by me. More sites need to do this.

sparklefox • 18 February 2021 at 11:48 AM

@frostseraph - Welcome to Egg Cave! If you have any questions, feel free to ask me. Part of me likes the "unique name" stuff because it makes your creature feel a little more... well, unique. Finding a good non-taken name is also pretty satisfying. It can be a little annoying sometimes, though. Not the biggest fan of Yugioh, but some of the monster designs are pretty cool. I remember watching the anime here and there as a kid purely for the monster fights - don't ask me to name any characters or plot points because I paid so little attention to any of it that I can't recall anything.

(Sorry if this dump of info is a little long, but it might be helpful... or not, I don't know.)

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!

nykoang • 18 February 2021 at 12:27 PM

Hello @frostseraph , welcome to egg cave! Have a wonderful time here and feel free to make some friends!

shirothekittehlover • 18 February 2021 at 1:40 PM

@frostseraph Hi there! 😊

distorted • 18 February 2021 at 2:08 PM

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

born2b_me • 20 February 2021 at 2:07 AM

@frostseraph I am new as well. Maybe we can help each other.