Acquire 500 easter eggs for quest, GET REAL

[Lady_Starfire]

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.

[Jonius_Maximus]

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.

[Jonius_Maximus]

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.

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.

[badtrip333]

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.

[Fianait]

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.

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.

[RonEmpire]

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.

[Bson]

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?

[Jonius_Maximus]

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.

[Joppa]

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

[Jonius_Maximus]

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.