Returning user

raineovdarkness • 1 week ago

Hi!
I am returning from.... a long time ago. Maybe like 2017/18? I don't really remember. I honestly can't believe I didn't entirely forget this game. Most of my creatures are dead, sadly, but I remember having a lot of fun with this cute little game.
I'm curious: how do I do Quests and complete them? Also, just... what do you do on this site besides click and hatch pets? I know there's more to it, but I can't remember for the life of me. I have no idea how active it is here anymore, but hopefully I stick around more this time.

Please feel free to reach out to me for anything! I'm down to make connections, and could use someone to help reintroduce me to the game and catch me up. It sucks that I JUST missed Halloween stuff, oh well.

minnie298a • 1 week ago

@raineovdarkness
Hi. Welcome back.
Quick Questing basics:
- Quests ask for items available in the NPC shops. Each Quest asks for items from a specific shop eg Speed Reading asks for items from Leila Library, Gourmand is from the General Food Store etc.
- Items from Trinket Travels and the Bean Sack are not requested. Neither are retired or CC items.
- Once activated you have 12 hours to track down the items and turn them in.
- If successful that quest type has a 5 minute cooldown. You can still work on other quests.
- If you chose to cancel the quest, that quests has a 1 hour cooldown. You can still work on other quests.
- Each successful quest gives you 1 relevant token, and a random item associated with that quest shop,
- Tokens do not expire. So hoard away until something you want comes along.
- Creatures in the VEND machine are retired Cave creatures. Monthlies and Creature Release Week from what I've seen.
- Creatures are added at random times.
- Creatures are removed when their "stock amount" is reached by people redeeming them. This is based on a percentage of living creatures when added, so varies. We will get a warning notice of one week when that limit is close to being reached.

Personally, I feel that Questing isn't really a new player friendly activity as it can get expensive, and fast if your buying from other players. As a returning player, you might still find it expensive depending on your Strongroom and what your asked for.

Best tip I can give for someone thinking about Questing is stock your Strongroom from the NPC shops when you have the funds. I feel a varied and well stocked Strongroom will work out cheaper in the long run.

As a side note, a couple of years ago a feature was introduced that means that on a pc you can hover over an item in a shop and see how many you have on hand. Not sure how this works on mobiles and tablets though. But I do know that you can see this number on the "Haggle" page for NPC shops.

raineovdarkness • 1 week ago

Thank you! I had no idea how to get some of the bakery items and failed my quest ;;
What's the best method to earn currency?

dragrawr • 1 week ago

@raineovdarkness feeding is the best option for currency! You can also fill your shop and sell items.

Also welcome to eggcave again!

raineovdarkness • 1 week ago

Thank you, thank you!

minnie298a • 1 week ago

@raineovdarkness
From memory, items requested in Quests should be available to you somewhere when activated. NPC shops, user shop or your Strongroom. However this does include the people treating their shops like a gallery with ridiculously high prices. Galleries are kind of in the works. Beta testing was opened earlier this year, but there was some coding bug where sorting didn't stick, so it's in limbo at the moment.

For future reference:
Baked Bun Quests - The Bakery
Going Global - Travel Agency
Gourmand Quests General Food Store
Miserable Meltdown - Finley's Flavors
Speed Reading - Leila Library
Toybox Quests - Toy Shop

For me, my most reliable method of earning ec is feeding. I do so on a pc and as such can work fairly fast using the Ctrl+W method (open a bunch of creatures in a bunch of tabs, sit my mouse on the feed button, then left click to feed, and then Ctrl and W to close the tab. by holding down the Ctrl button, it's click, tap, click, tap, rinse and repeat.).

I primarily do my feeding through the Click Exchange. It may not be the most reliable way to earn stats, but I do find it reliable for earning ec,

You could also see if you have any retired items you don't want anymore. There is now a schedule for ec items to retire on the 26th of each month. It's only been a couple of months though.

Also, in case it changed since you were last here, Double Feed day is now on the second Sunday of each month.

raineovdarkness • 1 week ago

Thank you so so much for your help! I've been looking through big user shops and regular shops and just hoping for the best but I have a heard time with Global stuff ;;

do you think there'd be any users who'd give away unwanted retireds?

pathogenia • 1 week ago

@raineovdarkness Welcome back to EggCave! If you want, here's a small lot I just threw together with one of the September monthlies and a bunch of items to get you started on your quests! Feel free to offer whatever you want for it. (⁠ノ⁠^⁠_⁠^⁠)⁠ノ
Trade #1087683

raineovdarkness • 1 week ago

Thank you so very much! I fear I don't have much to offer ;;

pathogenia • 1 week ago

@raineovdarkness That's okay it's no big deal. Having a stockpile of items is really helpful for quests because you'll never know what they might request. Hopefully that can get you started, or even if you want to put them in your user shop to try and flip them for a profit to other questgoers. (Just don't price them too high lol!!) You can pull stuff from your own shop if it gets requested.

Btw, love your cove, just a note you may want to put in your profile somewhere if you are "Feed Friendly". Basically some people don't want creatures in their coves fed or clicked because it can cause them to evolve past a stage they wanted to keep them at, and freezing their stage costs CC, premium currency. Of course most people do actually want their creatures to evolve, but to ensure no one feeds someone who doesn't want it, people usually look for the term "Feed Friendly" in the profile's description. If you have that, I think people will be eager to feed your creatures!

raineovdarkness • 1 week ago

Thank you for the info! I'm sad I missed the Halloween Event... rip my shroud 3
But I appreciate it, I'm just not sure how to price stuff