Acquire 500 easter eggs for quest, GET REAL

[RogerMexico]

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...

then it will slowly go up again as the deadline for getting more eggs approaches.

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.

[Sanii]

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.

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.

[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.

[Wimpy]

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.

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.

[Spikescopilot]

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.

[SusanStoHelit]

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?