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Egg Recipe Balancing

This could be considered an idea, but it really just seems like a bit of bad math that could be corrected. 

Piggy Eggs are worth 100 currants less than butterfly eggs despite using a very similar amount of bubbles AS WELL as potatoes and apples.

It seems that the amount of ingredients and energy for making each egg should be roughly proportional to what it ends up being worth, give or take fifty or so currants profit for your time.

Piggy eggs are a bit unbalanced. :)

Posted 14 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Yes, but if you want to get a pig, as an alternative to hatching an egg, you can go capture one.  If you want to get a butterfly, you have no alternative to an egg.  Hence, more value.

    Idea: Butterfly Nets
    Posted 14 months ago by Deedle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have no problem with the butterfly eggs being worth more, it's just that the piggies cost a lot more to make. Which is annoying :P
    Posted 14 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah, but then you get MEAT!  :-D
    Posted 14 months ago by Reba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes, yes :P But if we're encouraged, by the comparative ease, to capture piggies instead of making them... Wouldn't that just hurt the piggies?
    Posted 14 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • No, they like it.  ;-)
    Posted 14 months ago by Reba Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Do they? I've always wondered if they regenerate naturally or not. 'cause certain streets always seem to have the same amount of piggies.
    Posted 14 months ago by Liza Throttlebottom Subscriber! | Permalink
  • They do not regenerate.  There is a dedicated force of us who are busy repopulating streets with piggies every day.
    Posted 14 months ago by Kookaburra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • And here I thought my feeding the pigs with excess produce might have been making a difference... I'll just keep my excess produce from now on...
    Posted 14 months ago by Blitz Subscriber! | Permalink
  • no... feeding piggies is good!  keep it up!
    Posted 14 months ago by shhexy corin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yeah, I did think it was a bit strange that butterfly eggs are the most expensive. Especially since butterflies will die after a certain number of milkings. As far as I know piggys will only die if they're not fed (which a feeder will fix), and chickens are just immortal. I wish there was some sort of butterfly feeder to keep them alive, I don't want to have to keep replacing them because they died D: (this is why I currently only have one milker and don't empty it often)

    With the egg recipes themselves butterfly is the only one requiring something that you need to buy (honey). It would be interesting to see a comparison of the cost of ingredients for each egg if you were to buy everything for them, and also the amount of energy it would take to harvest and process ingredients into having what you need to make each egg.
    Posted 14 months ago by Sunburst Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Piggies die if they're petted/nibbled enough, if I remember right (and I could be wrong). I think when they changed it, they said all the animals die once they've been used enough. Butterflies just die the fastest, especially with a milker or two.
    Posted 14 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I wondered why all the piggies were disappearing faster than I could put them back. 

    I assumed it was lack of petting (yes, they do die from lack of petting, this was changed late August), but it seems it people capturing them. Time to put more effort into egg creation
    Posted 14 months ago by Eldorian Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I wondered why all the piggies were disappearing faster than I could put them back. 

    I assumed it was lack of petting (yes, they do die from lack of petting, this was changed late August), but it seems it people capturing them. Time to put more effort into egg creation
    Posted 14 months ago by Eldorian Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yea, lots of people catching 'em. There's a quest where you need to capture three, besides the amount that are probably captured for whatever other reasons a player may have (stock, sales, etc.).
    Posted 14 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Eek! You have to pet them or they'll die? Good thing I found out before mine all turned into piles of meat on the floor. But what about the chickens? Are they just the exception?

    Gah, I don't want any of mine to die, I guess I just have to keep a feeder and pet them.
    Posted 14 months ago by Sunburst Subscriber! | Permalink