That is the most stupid quest ever. Players are not going to acquire 500 easter eggs on the first day, let alone week.
Please fix this problem immediately.
If I can't acquire a Vet from this Event then I will be quitting this server.
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That is the most stupid quest ever. Players are not going to acquire 500 easter eggs on the first day, let alone week.
Please fix this problem immediately.
If I can't acquire a Vet from this Event then I will be quitting this server.
I have aquired well over 1500 eggs on the first day and I haven't even finished my first quest chain yet. I have already bought the two easter explorer guys and the 5 floating houses and I have over 100 eggs left over.Quote:
Originally Posted by KatyaGamova
Just curious - I'd like to know how you acquired 1500 eggs in one day? I, too, have to acquire 500 eggs and I can see no way I will be able to complete this at all. I have 2 explorers (that's all I've been able to afford so far). I can't afford to buy eggs in the TO, and I don't have real cash to put into the game to buy things with.
Only way to get that many is either TO trades or gems, so either real money or lots of resources/gc.
I got the eggs via the TO and doing the quest and treasure searches.
I haven't spent any gems yet during the easter event.
I DID spend about 1 full month stockpiling resources with high trading value like noble deeds, granite, bronze swords etc... before the easter event started. My stockpiles took a huge hit with the crisis quest, which I hadn't expected, but everyone working on that quest, plus doing it myself, gave me quite a bit of granite and there was quite a bit of granite available in the TO for reasonable prices.
I thought this was an Easter Egg "Hunt". I guess they should rename it to Easter Egg "Buy".
Whatever. I don't have hours to spend every day trying to find bargains in the TO.
There is another where you are required to get " 800 " eggs, not 500.
I do agree though, for the majority of casual players, 800 or even 500 eggs on the first day is asking a bit much.
Just wait a few days, and the price of eggs in TO will go down for sure.
I had over 1500 eggs the first day. all from selling resources. I planned for over a month to have the resources. I had to buy 800 because of my level. You have at least 6 days to complete it before you get the next chain. That will go into waiting until you finish the first. I do agree that it is difficult for casual players though.
Ok, I'm going to give away one of my game "secrets", it's not really very secret, but you have to pay attention to notice and I noticed it during both the halloween and xmas events.
At the start of an event, everyone is all hyped up to get the rewards and the number of resources (ie: eggs) to gather seems huge but doable so they pay high prices for the eggs and there aren't too many sellers (except for people who understand this "secret") so the prices are high.
Mid-event, two things happen, the first is that the people who play a lot get the quest rewards and the second is that the people who play very rarely start to realize that they aren't gonna get enough resources (ie: eggs) to get the big prizes so they shift from buying to holding or selling. Also, by this time, there are more resources (eggs) in circulation so things stabilize a bit with LOWER prices than at the beginning, more supply, lower demand, less panic, some "giving up factor" = lower prices.
Towards the end of the event when you can no longer get the resources (eggs) but you can still spend them in the market, there are a lot of fluctuations in prices because some people really need just a couple more to get their prize before the prizes go away and other people have already gotten their prizes and are done and other people just give up on the prizes and sell.
All in all, the people who play the most get the most eggs, so their buying/selling patterns tend to dominate, so you see high prices initially, then mid-level prices then cheaper prices.
So, figure out your strategies with these things in mind and you will do well.
ALSO, before an event, you need to SAVE UP RESOURCES. A casual player should basically spend MOST of their game time between events saving up for the events, and only spend big on upgrades and levelling immediately after an event (when the prices of goods in general will actually be LOW). For a casual player, the events are the time to "make the big bucks" so to speak.
Also, if you are going to spend some money on gems, or with the gems you have, the fast explorers are HUGELY IMPORTANT. You can't trade for them and they make the HARDEST parts of the game easier. Granite outside of quests and getting stuff "through treasure searches" during events/quests.
Hope this is helpful for some people.
I have noticed that ALL my mines and other buildings have been slowed down dramatically since the Easter quest was installed. Presumably this prevents me from producing enough resources to trade for eggs in the TO so that i would have to buy eggs with GEMS in the store, which would result in them making more money. ALL my mines especially have come to a near standstill, despite constant buffing. So much for trading. Aside from that, this Easter Quest has not been the least bit fun so far and is very disappointing. My 1st or 2nd quest in the chain is to gather 50 eggs from the VERY LONG treasure search and each explorer takes a minimum of an ENTIRE DAY to find just a COUPLE eggs in this search. I have 7 explorers but clearly will not be able to finish this week's quest CHAIN before the week/chain ends due to this and to how slow this goes. The quests are deliberately made to take forever and as a result this event is extremely boring.
That is really odd. I haven't noticed anything different with my mines and other production buildings, and I do keep quite close track of things. As near as I can tell, everything is producing what the economy screen says that it should be producing, every 12 hours.
I would suggest that you do an overnight test, where you write down the inventory quantity of some items and then do the calculation of what they should be producing according to the economy window and check back in 12 hours and see if the numbers are good. Don't forget that anything being upgraded stops producing, but the economy window doesn't take that into account so it will show higher production rates than reality, if some buildings are being upgraded.
The very long search produces exactly 5 eggs every single time. So, it will take 10 searches to find 50 eggs. If it takes 1 day per search and you have 7 explorers, it will be done in 2 days. You have 4 days to do the quest. So, clearly, you will be able to finish it on time. Even if it took 2 days for every one of your explorers (which is impossible as at least 4 of them must be the fast ones) it would still be done in 4 days.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lady_Starfire
I only have to find 20 eggs using the medium search. I never really thought about the explorers so I only had one on my island. Since I was only finding 3 per 12 hour trip, I decided to get another explorer to speed things up. I was a little disappointed when, on the first go around with two explorers, they returned with only 3 more eggs between the two of them. I must have great luck.
I have that quest too. Was very disappointment to see that my explorer only returned with 5 eggs after searching for 2 days. I only have 2 explorers, so I'm not going to be able to finish this quest before it's canceled. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Lady_Starfire
Well. During the event. Probably on Easter Day. You're going to get some eggs and rewards in the mail.
I believe last year, they gave everybody watermills and some eggs. I don't know exactly how many eggs. 200 ? 250 ? (maybe I'm confusing it with Xmas)
I forgot. So keep in mind you'll get some eggs in the mail too.
If anybody remembers the reward on easter day feel free to post, since I have a foggy memory of the exact in-game-mailout rewards.
Acquiring 500 eggs does seem like a waste of time, in the opinion of this casual player who started playing a month or so ago. I'd have to be constantly putting things up for sale in the TO and getting 20 or so eggs for each sale, maybe. To get from my current 44 to 500 sounds like I'd have to devote a lot more time to this than I should. At the quest ends two days after I started it. No way I can meet that deadline. I have a life outside of Settlers.
On another thread, I read someone saying that if you have someone you trust, you could let them give you a certain amount of product that you need to finish a quest and then return it to them after the game rewarded you for finishing that adventure. Would this work with eggs? I suppose if so few people have been able to meet the egg requirement then there wouldn't be enough people to loan out their eggs. Thoughts?
The quest doesn't end 2 days after you started it. You can actually have about 11 days to do the quest from when you got it and you're still ok, the next one will be in 'waiting' so you just have to get it done before you get 2 more easter quests.
if you started playing a month ago and you are already high enough level to get that quest then you should be able to get the 500 eggs in 11 days or so.
lots of people have more than 500 eggs, looking at how many are being offered up for trade in the TO every day.
500 eggs are easy, if you're in a guild. Gather some between the players, pass them around. when quests are done, resend the eggs to the original players.
super simple- the idea is to learn to work together as a group
As predicted, the trading value of eggs is starting to go down. It will likely bottom out tomorrow if they do an easter gifting to everyone of a big amount of eggs.
then it will slowly go up again as the deadline for getting more eggs approaches.
I've been continuously sending my two exlplorers on medium length treasure hunts (the longest I can do at my level) since getting this quest. As of this morning I have 47 eggs. Between gems and gold, I can probably afford to get to 500. But...
I have no idea what the deadline is. Was it announced somewhere, and I missed it? Not sure I want to spend all my gems and gold on this, only to find that I run out of time and still come up short of having enough eggs for it to be worthwhile.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonius_Maximus
if you can find a guildy or someone, you can just have them send you 500 eggs when you reach the requirement to acquire 500 for the easter quest chain it applies to. Then send the 500 back to them as an alternative to you trading enough to get 500, fwiw.Quote:
Originally Posted by RogerMexico
It does not look like the quests alone will be enough to gather 1350 eggs, so I will probably need to buy more than the 450 or so I am looking at buying now. Right now I'm not sure if it is worthwhile. I have no idea how many eggs the remaining quests will gain for me, and I have no idea how much time I have to complete them.
For the record, these quests feel as though they were designed more to encourage people to buy gems rather than as something that would be fun for the player. For that very reason, they make me less likely to buy gems.
This is the way we do it in my guild. No one has to break their arse trying to acquire a bunch of eggs. Makes it really easy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sanii
FYI for anyone who hasn't figured it out yet: If you already have 500 eggs when you get this quest, you can trade them to a friend or guild member, and when they send them back the quest will complete. Did it myself this morning. Also, I discovered that eggs that are in your Star Menu (no matter how long), also count.
Thanks for sharing your "secrets" Jonius - you might think your tips were obvious, but this was a big help for me. I never did get to 500 eggs in time for that first quest chain, but between all the other quests, searches and most importantly trading for eggs, I wound up with enough eggs for both fast explorers, three watermills and four floating houses. WAY more than I had hoped for at the beginning of the event.
Two observations that were contrary to my expectations:
1) I don't understand why people were consistently paying 8-10 eggs for 1000 marble, although I'm very glad they were. Hoarding for post-event trading seems unlikely, since 8-10 eggs could get you anywhere from 60-100 gc during the event. I think you'd be hard-pressed to get that much for 1000 marble, at least not on Ares. Maybe I'm wrong.
2) I wrongly guessed that it would be possible to buy watermills for less than 240 eggs (that was the shop price) near the end of the event. I thought some people might give up some of the watermills they were sitting on cheaply to get more eggs for something else they wanted. Probably where I went wrong is that nobody sits on watermills :) But what surprised me the most was that toward the end of the event, you could actually sell watermills for MORE than 240 eggs. I sold two of them for 275 each, which was a nice way to turn a lightning-quick 70-egg profit. I assume the buyers were people who'd already reached their 5-watermill event limit?