17 explorers, no eggs since last update...

[Narasn]

I didn't have many savages because the tool tip on them says 'can map sectors faster than normal explorers'. Why would I need more than one ? There was no indication they had a higher drop rate of event items than any other explorer. The lucky explorer, for which you pay double, mentions loot so shouldn't you get more eggs from a more expensive explorer ?

Personally I think the number of eggs needed to get the achievements for this should be the same as the adventure ones or as one person in this thread mentioned they should have been reversed, i.e you should need to get the 3200 eggs from adventure loot and only 1200 from your explorers. I probably have gained close to 2k eggs from adventures and haven't really been trying, whereas, I am going to be lucky to even get the 30 point achievement for explorers nevermind about the 50 point one.

[Ornias]

I have 19 fully booked fast and Lucky explorers. Before the update I was averaging 320 eggs a day on very long searches. Since the update that has dropped to less than 150 a day. I will be fine obviously, but for the new players this is a money grab attempt.

[Donnie56]

I have only gotten 258 from explorers LOL

[Atma-Darkwolf]

Devs I hope u understand this isn't about you being money grubbing greedy twats(Although, your defiantly leaning that way) its also not about us spending money or not(MANY of us, when able, are fully happy to put cash forth toward something we enjoy... WHICH LEADS TO THIS POINT

People DO NOT like to put money toward something when they feel they are FORCED to just to 'keep in the game' (Esp when said game is 'free to play')

Last year at easter, I felt I HAD to buy gems to even have a chance, which I DID need to (I needed the explorers AND I had to buy eggs) and I just managed to get all the rewards with i think 50 eggs left over. That was after spending 50bucks to buy gems AND use up my remaining store to get the explorers at the start. If I had not, I would not manage at all. I had hoped, and (STUPIDLY so I admit) thought that my purchase last year on the explorers would allow me an 'easier time' this year(Which it did yes) but instead you changed up the game AND made it nearly impossible... without of course 'dipping into' other sectors(IE pvp which requires more land on main island, which requires mountain busters, which are horribly over prices esp after over a year of being promised they would be cheap. Hell if I remember right the original idea, which isn't any different than what u have now ingame, was priced at 1/5th what u have them listed at now. Hell AFAICT that's the ONLY change and the ONLY reason you 'held it back' - not bugs, but u wanted to charge more.)

Point is: Make us feel we are forced to pay just to 'manage' - people WILL quit. Make us want to pay to 'enrich' our gameplay, and people WILL pay. its simple as that. (Also the constant Bullsh!tting and lying you guys do recently has really soured your relations, please look into that and try to be more honest, or at least attempt to make the lies convincing)

[Eriond]

I didn't have many savages because the tool tip on them says 'can map sectors faster than normal explorers'. Why would I need more than one ? There was no indication they had a higher drop rate of event items than any other explorer.

They don't have a higher drop rate, they just return twice as fast as normal explorers, so you can do twice as many searches in the same amount of time, thus getting more returns. So, yeah, tool tip doesn't really explain that well.

[Narasn]

They don't have a higher drop rate, they just return twice as fast as normal explorers, so you can do twice as many searches in the same amount of time, thus getting more returns. So, yeah, tool tip doesn't really explain that well.

Based on this thread and my own experiences the savages do have a higher drop rate than the luckies, especially AFTER the changes. I actually bought 3 more savages because of this. Should savages have a higher drop rate, I don't believe so, but right now they certainly appear to. Luckies return from adventures faster than savages but I think I have only got one set of eggs from my luckies since this changes and my savages return eggs every time.

[LoLex]

17 explorers, and I am far from getting that achi. Something is really wrong with return rate of eggs Disappointing.

[Atma-Darkwolf]

well since update, my luckies are bringing back(3 of them) 1 stack of 16. (ONE of the 3, i know its just chance, but even so...)

Before the update my luckies would often bring back 32 (Some still stacks of 16 but more often than not 32) and SOMETIMES would bring two stacks back each. Not once before update have any of my lucky explorers brought back '0' eggs.

All this was with luckies who only had books in the first tier(IE parchments, no actual books, no 'shovel' skill) so the 'change' should not have affected me whatsoever. NONE of my savages have books in them.

Savages were also hit too, with 12 of them maybe 4of them will return with anything, best 'haul' I got from a wave of savages was 112 total (that's all 12, most stacks of 16 a few 32, none higher)

They simply nerfed ALL explorer drops

(BTW this isn't about adventures if anyone's confused, they have always had a 'up in the air' drop rate where it seems its 50/50 chance to get 'anything' and THEN it works out to abysmally low or decent rates basically. This thread is about the outright BS lies we were told about explorers. And yes, the 2 achievements are prob 'swapped' by mistake and nobody wants to own up to a 'mistake' because apparently BB staff/devs are not human and don't make mistakes :P)

[Ciara_Belle]

agree - many of my explorers don't yet have sturdy shovel.... and yet they went from great egg finding to zero eggs... something is amuck... and i don't see how any player will hit the 3200 eggs required in the achieve.. im only 1/2way there and were over 1/2 way thru the events... what about the newer players that don't have a 1/2 dozen explorers etc?

[BB_Endesmor]

I don't know if they paid you extra bonuses to write up that obvious LIE(Not even bs here, your outright LYING to the customer because if your NOT your gullible and dumb as a sack of stones to believe what u just typed) Good one there with customer service champ.

I am not lying. We had included a vague description in the changelog, but when I saw this thread and your concerns, I decided to share some details with you and to be transparent.
Again, besides the "Sturdy Showel" skill, we have not made any other changes to the egg drop rate/amount. The programming team is investigating, but has not yet found any issue.

Cordially,
BB_Endesmor