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I sent 12 explorers out today on a long quest for eggs. Eagerly I opened my mail tonight to find 3 eggs. Seriously? At this rate I will be able to buy a veteran general in 450 days. I know there are other ways to get the eggs but I recall last year getting at least 10-20 eggs each time I sent them out. I hope this was just an unlucky trip if not I will be one unhappy camper.
You were just unlucky that time.
You should be averaging much higher than that.
I sent 3 Explores on a short search. Grand total 1 egg. Got a quest asking me to get 20 eggs from Med search. Sent all 3 on Med search.. Grand total 2 eggs. 3 Explorers gone 12 hours. 2 Eggs? The quest chains are not balanced at all. My wife was able to finish her entire quest chain within a few hours. My first one took a few hours and now it looks like my second one will take days. This is awesome.
me too got screwed by chance it will take me 8 days to complete my second quest find 50 eggs trhough very long searches of two days with three explorers this cant be what they wanted they should have make it so that everyone of the same level gets the same quests this is completly unfair and certainly no fun this again tells me that the devs dont understand their own gameQuote:
Originally Posted by Talador
The quest threads certainly are NOT balanced, but what I am really hoping is that since everyone will get 5 (or is it 6?) easter event quests, I"m hoping that there will be a total of 5 (or 6) different quests and each person will get each one once. If that is the case, then it's balanced, just some people will have the harder ones at the beginning and others will have them at the end or whatever.
It DOES make sense for them to randomize the order that people get the quests, otherwise if EVERYONE had a quest to get 500 eggs, the cost of eggs in the TO would be truly insane and then when everyone had easy quests that give eggs, the cost of eggs in the TO would plummet. This way things are a bit more stable, at least the influence due to the quests is stable.
If they are totally random, then I feel really really sorry for anyone who gets the hardest one 5 or 6 times!!! THat would be hugely unfair!!
long treasure hunts will give you 2 to 3 eggs on average. very long treasure hunts will give you 5 eggs all the time. you'll need to do some heavy trading or buy gems to get the general if that's your goal.
http://www.thesettlersonlinewiki.com...erexplorer.png
The transparent eggs are the % chance you wont get any eggs
I just got 10 eggs from a medium or long search(can't remember). Either this is very wrong, or I got very lucky.
Got 14 from a medium search... (explorer was upgraded to find % more loot though). Found it worked well from Xmas event.
Artillerist posted this on the testing forums:
How many eggs each search can bring back
Short: 0, 5, 10
Medium 0, 10, 20
long 0, 20, 30
very long 0, 30, 50
now for the trained guys (skills with books)
Short: 0, 7, 14
Medium 0, 14, 28
long 0, 28, 43
very long 0, 43, 71
Or perhaps you were looking at data from 2013.Quote:
Originally Posted by pacheesi2
I've finished 9 long searches so far during easter this year (several levels before I am allowed to do very long searches), and 3 out of 9 have given me 10 or 20 eggs each, 6 out of 9 gave zero. Certainly seems that the pic posted last year, which is used in the wikia page on eggs, is unlikely to have any bearing this year for long searches. That claims I could expect a nearly 96% chance of getting some number of eggs, but so far it is only 33%. Actually before this morning, I had only gotten any on 1 out of 7 searches, or 14%.
Based on what was posted earlier, if we assume every search has just as likely a chance to get eggs with only the amount of eggs scaling up with duration, the searches would look something like this:
Interestingly enough, when compared against the very long search as a baseline, the short search is the least forgiving in terms of "down time".Code:SEARCH HRS AVG EGGS/HRS 48 HRS VL_EQUIV_HRS MARGIN
S 6 5 0.8 40 8.9 2.9
M 12 10 0.8 40 17.8 5.8
L 24 17 0.7 34 30.2 6.2
VL 48 27 0.6 27 48 0.0
What I mean by that is that to produce an equivalent number of eggs as very long search, you have to restart the short search each time with a delay no greater than 2.9 hours from the time the search completed. Seems like if you're very active, 2 short searches and a medium search while you sleep should theoretically produce the highest rate of egg retrieval. If you're not, then either the long or very long will be
That is IF every search has the same chance to bring back 0 - Min - Max number of eggs. This is all just speculation.