Thank You Devs
Coral Sword Of Justice
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Thank you for working hard and addressing part of the issue. It means a lot to me and other.
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This.
There is absolutely no reason why a few cheating players should get to have all of the eggs, while the honest players are left with scraps.
There are people who are purposefully breaking the rules in order to get rich, and IT IS WORKING. They are getting hundreds of eggs, making dozens of pows, selling pows and extra eggs.
They are making anywhere from 2-5k PER EGG, just because they have them while honest players do not.
These cheating players get to have dozens of pow gifts, thousands of cubits, and all the power they want during this event.
The honest players?
We get an egg. Maybe two. For an hour of searching.
If we want a pow? Should expect to spend 15-20k completing a set.
I realize that you devs are probably busy planning future updates, but isn't it just a little important to maintain previous updates as well? To make sure everything balances out? (ALSO HEAVY SARCASM ON 'A LITTLE'. ITS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT.)
Honesty gets you dirt poor.
Cheating gets you filthy rich.
Seems incredibly balanced (more sarcasm).
Hopefully this is your April Fool's joke for this year, cuz I'm just about done with talking about this seriously and having no one with the power to change it actually give a crap.
There are techniques to find eggs (although they are quite tedious). Basically, if you sweep the outer rows of an empty mine for two concentric circles, you should be able to gather 3-4 eggs...and it takes about 5-10 minutes. It's boring and tedious...but you can easily gather about 12-20 eggs an hour (taking into account the time for changing mines and getting from the entrance to the edge). It would still take 5-6 hours of focused searching to get about a 100 eggs, but it's much less dire than you describe.
So, if you are just randomly running around 'hoping' to stumble on an egg, then I'd agree that you might be doing good to find one an hour. But there are techniques (that have been posted to the forums and provided in the videos) that aren't cheating where you can increase your odds for 'stumbling' on them. They aren't necessarily fun techniques either, but they are available to anyone who is willing to do them.
This also doesn't mean that those that are hacking the files to make the eggs appear should be given a pass either. I happen to agree the search radius should be increased as even using the focused search techniques are quite boring / tedious making the 'hunt' less of a hunt and more of a monotonous process.
But either way, whether it's 2 eggs an hour or 12, them cheaters shouldn't be getting 200 lol.
I've tried the "around the edges" thing, but I'll have to check out your tutorial on it to see if there's a better way. Thx for the heads up :D
I felt I needed to comment too because if we exaggerate how hard it is to find the eggs, then the devs might just roll their eyes and think it's those that aren't using a systematic method (or those who want it to be too easy) that are complaining and would more likely not consider doing anything differently because they wanted some real effort to be put into the hunting of eggs since the pows probably have some amazing things in them.
I also don't want those of us that are actually hunting and putting in many hours of tedious hard work, but have a better technique than just randomly jumping around, getting lumped in with those that are actually using a hack such as changing the texture packs to make them easier to see. BTW, if the eggs are made more visible (whether increasing the range or just making them all visible to level the playing field with those using a texture hack), those diligently using successful search techniques (though the techniques may change if all the eggs are visible) are going to be getting even more eggs than those just randomly jumping around, or doing the technique once or twice and throwing up up their hands and claiming it's too hard. Those people aren't cheating, they are just being smarter about how to find/collect eggs.
But yes, it would be nice to hear if the devs are going to change anything if the texture packs can be modified and provide an advantage to those that are doing that type of hack.
Just let the good players do it the hard way and make the bad players (cheaters) just get a huge advantage! Unbelievable
Plus i’m quite sure i’m not the only one here saying that cheaters got a huge advantage ;)
You know this is another thread, there is the previous one with everyone saying the same thing i said
Also, good hunter or not it is impossible to sell eggs in bulks, i have seen people selling eggs in bulks (20 i would say) and then refilling them! How is that possible?
EDIT: Furthermore, extending the radius allows for transparent textures to be MORE effective. So by extending the radius, it benefits people who would modify the textures.
Now is the radius too short? Well... Maybe it's a little on the short side, so we may increase it a tad as part of the other updates we're doing, since we're rolling out bug-fixes at this time. So, time permitting you may see some small range increases before the end of the contest, but no promises since we have to fit it in with the other work already underway.
As one of the diligent hunters, I would still love to see a slight expansion as when I have to jump over a bush or tree or a block or two of terrain, I am pretty sure I'm probably missing some eggs that I'm walking past. ~2.5-3 block range would greatly help in this situation as often I'm typically jumping up two blocks due to the obstacle (be it terrain or trees). Thanks for listening to all the comments and providing input!
I fully understand where Cosmic is coming from but at the same time, someone who is cheating doesn’t usually tell their method of doing so and we’re being asked to send one of the devs a pm regarding the method which doesn’t connect in my point of view.