Fishkeeper

Does this event increase the success of vampire bites? I'm biting some eggs right now and getting an unusually high number of successes, and I'm curious if that's just random chance going well or if it's actually boosted.

So how long will the AP have the Halloween eggs at the top? Does that just last until all the Halloween eggs are gone, or is there a point at which they'll be mixed in normally with the others? I don't recall how that's worked for prior events.

I've got my full quota. Ctrl+click works great for me- just open all the eggs in a new tab, swap to another biome, and repeat. Then go through the new tabs and see what you got. It's definitely getting easier as people fill up- there's only a bit over half as many people hunting as there were last night. You do have to be aware of that lag at the hourly drop. It's not that the eggs vanish- they can take almost a minute to start appearing at all.

Except that the new drops don't flood for 16 hours exactly and then completely vanish. They flood for about 16 hours, then start to have other things mixed in, then stop flooding but are usually decently common for at least a week before settling. It's not unreasonable to think the flood length might be intentional, but on further observation, that doesn't appear to be the case.

This isn't an intentionally done thing. TJ isn't hitting a "drop loads for 16 hours exactly" button. What's happening is that the code which tries to keep ratios balanced properly goes "hey, there aren't any of these two species! time to compensate" and sends out loads until a fair number of them exist. Now, it could probably use some sort of tweak.

We can't tell rarity yet, as far as I know. They'll be the only things in the cave for a bit while the cave balances out the ratio, then probably fairly common for a few days, then they'll gradually settle into however often they're going to spawn.

Maybe! Check out what folks are offering- good lineage low gen metals (including a 3rd gen sAlt gold, 2nd gen gold, and 2nd gen silver), a CB silver for multiple moons, a Cheese for blue moons (says "2 auto"), a low-gen tinsel plus a yellow sapphire, all sorts of good stuff. The upside of this is that, if you're a new player who manages to catch an extra NR, you can probably trade it for something pretty darned good. I've already traded an extra for two 2nd gen Aeons, and I probably could have gotten more if I'd been willing to wait and watch. Trading will always favor folks with a scroll full of rare dragons, there's really no way around that. If you didn't get enough of the NRs, just wait a couple months; you should be able to trade for them fairly easily. Or get them in the Market if it comes to that. No need to participate in the hype if you don't want to.

People are expecting that much because they can get that much. Whether or not that's reasonable, it is the way it is. Why would someone accept less than they can get?

Just ignore that- there's always a ton of demand for new stuff. You'll be able to catch yours eventually, or you can trade for some in a bit once the hype dies down. They should also get easier to catch once the hype is over with, since people will probably stop grabbing them instantly.

It would be a little odd for two to be available at the same time, and then one to be limited. I suppose it's possible.

The new guys are really pretty! I'm a smidge disappointed that they aren't spiders, though. I was expecting spiders from the multiple "eyes" thing. Maybe next year! I like that they have a slightly more festive coloration to them, and the color scheme is gorgeous. Gonna hit my silver trophy in a couple days at this rate, but, ugh, I'm out of freezes and all my slots are full of hatchies! I need an Incubate for hatchies. I have a bunch of Reds sitting idle because Incubate doesn't do me any good right now.

Awesome. I'm trying to get my silver badge by Halloween, so those could-hatch-now eggs are really tempting. I think I'll grab a couple each of the new releases and then profit off the AP. Gotta say, even 5+ days is a pretty good deal in the AP. When I was on before, it was rarely all that much under a week. I like grabbing all these CBs with a day-plus already knocked off, I need these guys for my collection.

How long does this nice post-release flood of low-time eggs in the AP last? I'm really, really tempted to grab and hatch some of those "3 day X hours" eggs, but I can't get at them without abandoning some of the good eggs I have. Are those likely to be around tomorrow morning as well?