We Can Formally Confirm Galleries Are Coming

Ian • 23 September 2024 at 2:04 PM

We can confirm that Galleries are indeed coming to Egg Cave in about 6 weeks. Drop your requests in this thread here! 😸

That is all.

megamisama90 • 23 September 2024 at 3:00 PM

Just gonna say wow and yay! 😸

valorieviolet • 23 September 2024 at 3:04 PM

6 WEEKS?!? Oh boy! Counting down the days now 😋

Pertaining to the galleries, it would be amazing if we can put the items in any order that we want, similar to how the cove lists work. I know there are users who like to keep the sets together and even users that like to organize things by color. 4 items per row would be ideal, but totally up to whoever is designing/coding it!

mairbear • 23 September 2024 at 6:53 PM

Galleries o: For what? Where? How?? XDDD
Excited to see what this ends up looking like ^^

< My egg named Gallery is also very interested 😋

redflipflap • 23 September 2024 at 7:17 PM

I’d love to see sorting categories! Like baked goods, food items, books, travels, etc!

minnie298a • 23 September 2024 at 8:21 PM

🎉YAY!!🎉

I'd like to second the suggestions about organizing and categories.

I'd also like to suggest that if possible items in galleries don't "count" in the algorithm for questing. I know this won't totally fix that issue due to those players who have not being on for a while, but it should help ease the situation.

redflipflap • 23 September 2024 at 8:55 PM

@minnie298a @ian very much seconding the idea about gallery items not counting in the quest algorithm - respectfully, if i have cool stuff in my gallery, you'll have to pry it from my cold, dead hands😊

distorted • 23 September 2024 at 9:01 PM

naming galleries maybe? like if someone wanted to display all space items they can name their gallery accordingly

newlife • 23 September 2024 at 9:14 PM

I would like to suggest user shops being reset when Galleries are released. There are several players who have used the user shops as galleries, so this should make it easier for them to set it up and (hopefully) get rid of items in user shops that are 99 million EC.

Alternatively, those shops with several items that are 99m could be reset, alongside any inactive shops that have not been touched in several months (6+).
What I mean by "reset" is simply setting the price of each item to 0 EC, not completely clearing out their shop on the user's end. So, everything is still in their user shop, but not being sold.

The user shop experience needs a revamp to be honest, so hopefully a small update can be released alongside galleries (listing restock price (how much item an item is sold for in NPC shops) for individual items while restocking our own shops would be a great benefit).

heatherm19 • 23 September 2024 at 11:49 PM

*brain short-circuits* *blinkblinkblink*
AWESOME!!!!

I agree it'd be nice to be able to order things the way we want. Since Ian's post is extremely vague I'm not really sure what to 'request' as it's hard to guess what the feature will be like, but personally I'd like the ability to make different pages/tabs (like the way a creature's item collection has different pages for the different shops, but user-made, for easier and more customizable sorting).

While I know that user shops being used as 'galleries' is a big part of why a feature like this is wanted, I would personally be wary of making any sweeping changes to gallery-shops, in the interest of not messing with individual user's accounts. A simple way for a user to convert their own gallery-shop into a proper gallery would probably be very helpful,

Deleted • 23 September 2024 at 11:58 PM

This would be a great addition to Egg Cave. Will these galleries have unlimited space or limited spaces like the user shops? If it is the latter, it would be great if there is a way to expand multiple gallery spaces at once.

snowywinter • 24 September 2024 at 2:21 AM

YAY!!!!!

Request: Make it so that we can remove items from the gallery, unlike how it's permanent on creatures. (I don't even mind if there's a small fixed fee. Perhaps 100 ec per removal.

PLEASE start us out with half the number of spaces as there are existing items. In the very least at least 1/4 IF this is going to be like cove and shop spaces. Would really prefer for it to be unlimited, but understand there are standard dynamics of gameplay here on Eggcave. Would unlimited be nice? Yes, very appreciated, but I also don't expect it.

As others have said it would be really great if there was some way we could organize what we put in, that it's not just in the order added like in Shops. And I agree that Tabs could be extra fun.

THANK YOU IAN so much for making Galleries a reality! 😃

Ian • 24 September 2024 at 12:37 PM

@newlife thanks for the suggestion here that user shops should be reset. I agree that that should happen, at least above a certain price threshold when galleries are released.

@minnie298a noted about the questing algorithm. I also agree gallery items should be considered as being out of circulation.

@raretreasurehunter56 at the moment we are thinking gallery spaces works the same as upgrading your user shop. Start with 50, then pay EC to upgrade. Another thing worth spending EC on.

heatherm19 • 24 September 2024 at 1:30 PM

@Ian I know this may be way too much to 'add on' to this suggestion/feature, but if the idea is to have spaces be similar to user shops with paying ec to upgrade and such, might this possibly be a good time to revisit the issue of the +200 cost becoming way too unmanageable after a certain point? (Yes, it does probably affect cove spaces more significantly than shop/gallery spaces, but it's the same idea, so....) ... Just thought I'd mention it...

Ian • 27 September 2024 at 5:12 PM

@heatherm19 we'll take a look at the cost, but to be honest we'd like for spaces to pose some sort of goal + challenge to work towards!

dragrawr • 27 September 2024 at 11:39 PM

OMG YAY

pain • 29 September 2024 at 9:21 PM

yyyyYERRRRRRRRRR BOIIIIIII

myriadium • 3 October 2024 at 12:43 PM

That's so fun! So we'll get to display items? I would like an easy way of reordering them, like with drag and drop. The current methods of reordering creatures in cove lists is very clunky, but I do understand if that's not possible with the current version of ec. Looking forward to it!!

megamisama90 • 4 October 2024 at 5:59 AM

I was just thinking this, agreeing with @myriadium.

dibabeebees • 29 October 2024 at 1:12 PM

FIANLLY

silvia • 29 October 2024 at 4:45 PM

Oh wow!! Thank you SO much @Ian, I just returned to the site and I can't wait for this to happen! ✨ What I'd personally love to see would be the possibility to order them both manually or by specific criteria (example, older items then new, or by category / shop... like item collection in creatures' profiles, you can select the category and a list will appear, it would be so nice to have something like that but also the option to drag & drop to make our own little displays If we choose so... maybe a toggle between a "classic ordering", like the one we have on creatures, and a "free ordering"?). And also please don't make it impossible to expand like cove expansion (and we have way more items than creature so raising the price every one purchase would be... well, bad). Having a goal to strive for is good but at least make us buy spaces in bulk instead of 1 each click with a raise each time?

Thank you for your work!! 🙏🙏💜

kediset • 3 November 2024 at 1:19 PM

oh sweet 😃 was about to comment on recent blog post about need for galleries (cause of chatter in comment section about the turkey one not going to be practical as a travel when it'll be pretty much blocked out), but then wandered over here..
Nothing to add as others have already said what I would have suggested o-o (mainly the ability to be able to arrange items how we'd like )

redflipflap • 10 November 2024 at 7:44 PM

Are you there god ian, its me redflipflap

has it been six weeks yet

dragongirl02 • 12 November 2024 at 1:15 PM

Yeah, I hope that will help with those items and have galleries not included in the quests. I'm in a panic a lot when rushing them on my cell. For one of the last quests, I had a Blue Cosmic Slime, and the only options were 14,000,000 EC and 20,000,000 EC; I was in a panic; it was at least, thankfully, that day it was not on 12 quests so that I could work around it luckily, but it gets risky for us HST users as a some of us do get stuck with the under the table method.

minervaandmars • 24 November 2024 at 5:43 AM

Yes, finally!

salanderinlove • 10 December 2024 at 9:30 AM

Finally!! My OCD thanks you! I'll finally be able to retire the "store", can't wait for it!

I think it would be really cool if we could organize the items in whatever order we want (just like we do with eggs in lists), it would be interesting to be able to "name" categories too.