Hidden Egg Hunt Buff Bug

Ok, so logged in today for the start of the easter event and find that a guild mate (also on my friends list) has buffed my mayor house with one of the new buffs "Hidden Egg Hunt".

This buff is supposed to spawn 10 eggs on your friends island after buffing them, and both players receive the rewards for finding and collecting these eggs.

However, I only have my regular old collectibles showing on my island, and no sub-quest mentioning anything about finding hidden eggs.

So I found my 19 regular collectibles, logged off and refreshed my browser hoping that would trigger the eggs to spawn, and still nothing.

Now as far as I'm aware, I now have to wait another 24hrs before another buff can be placed on my mayors house that will spawn an egg hunt.

I'm worried for my guild mates and friends wasting anymore buffs due to this bug, if anyone has had this happen please let me know here and if you found a work around for it.

I have submitted a ticket to BB.

I have checked with others in the guild and both other friends and guild mates haven't had problems.

CL's I spoken to say there are a few people in Ares experiencing this bug, not so many from Zeus however.

http://tldr.me/1g9ijx3.png
^Shows my buff timer and mayors house is buffed.

http://tldr.me/1ty6hm.png
^Shows I have collected my regular buffs and no sub-quest to find 10eggs has appeared.


UPDATE: Just buffed a friend/guild mate who is:

a) offline and
b) has regular collectibles not found on his island and his eggs spawned right away....

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BB should really compensate my guild mate for wasting his buff like that...

Bump. Anyone else have this problem? My friend is still down a Hidden Egg Hunt buff...

also having the same problem here, 2 of my guild mates have buffed my mayors house and another guild mates mayors house and nothing has showed up egg wise on either island......there is still over 4 hours left on the buffs and nothing to show for it please fix this

are you guys missing the progress bar under the collectibles tab in the quest book? there's supposed to be a green bar telling you how many eggs are left to find. if the eggs arent there and the bar isnt there, the only thing that took is the visual buff light on mayor house. there have been a few reports of glitches on buff lights (barracks, a noble, etc) I wonder if it's related.

Having the same problem myself. Mayor's house window shows buff countdown clock. Buff lights show in main window. But no eggs.

HELP!!!!!

i had the task in the collectables tab. there was a seperate window for egg hunt

Same issue. Somebody gave me the buff but I didn't receive the quest. The eggs didn't spawn either. Given that I received the quest 2 times before, I have no idea why it didn't this time.

CL_RigidNubs: be careful trading the egg hunt buff...it will only give the reward if you on each others friend list...guild mates do not count unless on friends list

Maybe this could be part of the issue

I have the same problem, can someone help?

Another BB screw up. My guildmates don't need to be friends, they are.

Whenever someone buffs my mayors house the eggs get hidden and I can find them, but I don't get a progress bar in my quest log until well after I've found them all AND received the email. Last night, the quest suddenly popped up as completed about 4 hours after I found and received all of the eggs.

Still no compensation or explanation as to why this buff didn't work for me, and what looks like a few others.

Everything mentioned in this thread I have tried, checked and tested. The person that buffed me WAS on my friends list and a guild mate.

There was nothing that showed up in the quest log to indicate the eggs had spawn, I keep hearing that it was suppose to show up as a separate sub-quest to the Easter event and also separate to the regular collectibles bar. Even after finding all my normal collectibles, refreshing ,rebooting, clearing cache, did not cause the eggs to spawn.

The pictures I've provided both show this.

This is the response I was given after sending in a support ticket to BB:

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Gee thanks for taking the time to actually read what I typed BB, if you did you'd realise the stuffed you replied in with bold shows you didn't pay one iota of attention to anything I said.

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1. Google Chrome Version 34.0.1847.116 m

Google Chrome is up to date.

2. Adobe Flash player - You have version 13,0,0,182 installed

Check.

3. Check. Already did after reloading browser.

4. Check. Already did after reloading browser.

5. Tried IE, no change. Not downing another browser when it's clearly not a browser issue.

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I'm an IT tech, so yeah none of that is really relevant to coding errors inside the game.


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I feel that BB is very short handed and haven't been able to put things together for Easter that make sense.

To make the hidden egg buff not work on guild mates only friends is really dumb. I have 59 guildmates and only 15 are on my friend list. I feel that a guildmate is automatically a friend. Why the heck do I have to make them a "friend" to make the Easter program playable. Someone is not thinking. (Maybe me??)

Agreed, Wimpy. They didnt think this one thru. What else is new?

The bug doesnt seem to affect everyone, only a few.
Lag will prevent the progress bar from showing, but that was fixed with a refresh.

For everyone complaining about guildies being on friends list, click on the guildmates name in your list. If you don't have the option to 'unfriend' them, then they are not on your friends list. You will have to manually add them by clicking on the 'add friend' option and typing their name. Just because you're in the guild together doesn't automatically make you friends.

My guildmates tell me that they are getting eggs from guildmates who are not friends.

had same problem

A guildmate put the buff on my mayor's. I found 10 eggs and he got 10 eggs and he is not a friend, just a guildmate. I guess either it is fixed or I am lucky.

This bug affected me this afternoon and I was buffed by a guildmate who is also on my friends list so that's not one of the problems at least for me. I logged in about an hour after he buffed me and I received the buff mail too but not the eggs or the quest in my quest log. Also, my afternoon collectibles had already spawned and I thought the spawn was about an hour early though maybe not.

Screwy game!!

and why is ppl surprised about this?

By the time I was able to read the email requesting that I send a screenshot to 'prove' my complaint, the buff was finished. A screenshot showing the absence of eggs to hunt and the quest missing in the log proves nothing anyway since that is also how it would look if I'd actually received the eggs to hunt and the quest was completed. Still waiting to see if we receive the 10 eggs each we're owed.

don't count on it. they did the same to me when the new quest came out when the collectibles first came out.

I have the same issue. I'll have to warn people to not drop them on my island anymore.

Same issue here... refreshed but still no eggs or subquest

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Originally Posted by Wimpy

My guildmates tell me that they are getting eggs from guildmates who are not friends.

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I have several guild mates who are not my friend who mayors house I have egged and their eggs have spawned and we both still got the reward. I think it may be a way to blame user error instead of a coding error. Just my opinion.

I have seen the same issue and found two options ...

1) Make sure you are ON your island when your friend drops the buff, I have never seen it fail to work this way. If you get the buff when you are logged off or on an adventure island or visiting a friends island I have seen it fail.

2) BEST PRACTICE: stop making the Egg Hunt buffs and just make the 10 eggs. This is the route I am going the rest of the event. Yes, it is selfish but I know I will always get 10 eggs this way.

Hi ThisNameIsTaken,

I am going to investigate this further. Let you know when I have more information.

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Originally Posted by BB_Rawren

Hi ThisNameIsTaken,

I am going to investigate this further. Let you know when I have more information.

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Much appreciated. Thank you.

Now I am getting random buildings producing zero output with a buff timer of 24hrs, can someone explain this buff bug?

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Hi guys,

So here is what I was able to find out.

There are a few ways the Hidden Egg Hunt can not work properly:
1. The buff doesn't work due to lag. In this case, wait 10-15 minutes and sometimes it will show up.
2. The buff works but the quest does not complete - over half of these seem to be due to buffing a guildmate that is not on your friends list.
3. The buff just doesn't take. In this case, currently the only solution is to write in Support and they will reimburse.
4. Last one: The last collectible does not register for the quest. In this case, I can quote from a recent news:

"Occasionally, those pesky Rabbids will steal eggs from your adventures. Just in case you didn't receive an eggs reward after adventure completion, an in-game mail will be sent approximately 10 minutes afterward. Missing eggs of previously-solved adventures will be sent with Easter Removal phase 1."

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Originally Posted by BB_Rawren

Hi guys,

So here is what I was able to find out.

There are a few ways the Hidden Egg Hunt can not work properly:
1. The buff doesn't work due to lag. In this case, wait 10-15 minutes and sometimes it will show up.
2. The buff works but the quest does not complete - over half of these seem to be due to buffing a guildmate that is not on your friends list.
3. The buff just doesn't take. In this case, currently the only solution is to write in Support and they will reimburse.
4. Last one: The last collectible does not register for the quest. In this case, I can quote from a recent news:

"Occasionally, those pesky Rabbids will steal eggs from your adventures. Just in case you didn't receive an eggs reward after adventure completion, an in-game mail will be sent approximately 10 minutes afterward. Missing eggs of previously-solved adventures will be sent with Easter Removal phase 1."

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Well since 1, 2 and 4 don't apply in my case, does my friend who buffed me get his wasted buff back? I've written a ticket to support and I don't really feel like having to write another one just for him to be reimbursed. Dragonbane79 is my friends name.

Same problem here.

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Originally Posted by ThisNameIsTaken

Well since 1, 2 and 4 don't apply in my case, does my friend who buffed me get his wasted buff back? I've written a ticket to support and I don't really feel like having to write another one just for him to be reimbursed. Dragonbane79 is my friends name.

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Hiya,

Your friend will need to submit a ticket themselves in order to get reimbursed.

use a fairy fire to find the eggs, then you'll know for sure if the quest isnt active, imo. ive experienced, many times, that no quest comes up but the eggs are still there and if u find them all you both still get the egg bonus

ya, sometimes you have to refresh to get the quest bar to show

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Originally Posted by clarkstar

use a fairy fire to find the eggs, then you'll know for sure if the quest isnt active, imo. ive experienced, many times, that no quest comes up but the eggs are still there and if u find them all you both still get the egg bonus

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I find all my regular collectibles twice daily without trouble, even the difficult to spot ones. After 10 minutes of searching my island, trust me when I say I couldn't find 1 hidden egg from the buff. Even when the buff spawns eggs there is always 1 or 2 obvious eggs.

The fact that the quest didn't show up in the adventure log shows it was a bug. Even after running through all the known fixes/work-arounds suggested by players, CLs and BB mods.