Earthquake Science!

[aeyria]

oof, just had really bad luck. did one earthquake on 8 eggs ~4hr12 give or take a few hours, none sick or incubated, all stage 5 cracks; 5 shumogas, 1 electric, 1 morphodrake, 1 nebula. all but 1 shumoga, morphodrake, and nebula killed, other 3 unaffected. 

Edited August 30, 2021 by aeyria

[Igoreete]

Egg #: 1&2  (pyro2)
Time Remaining:  4d 20hr

Crack Stage:  5

Sick?: n

Incu?: n

Result:  unaffected

 

Egg #: 3&4&5 (shumoga)
Time Remaining:  4d 20hr

Crack Stage:  5

Sick?: n

Incu?: n

Result: killed;caught;unaffected

 

Egg #: 6 (shumoga)
Time Remaining:  4d 19hr

Crack Stage:  5

Sick?: n

Incu?: n

Result:  unaffected

 

Egg #: 1 (shumoga)
Time Remaining:  6d 0hr

Crack Stage:  no crack

Sick?: n

Incu?: n

Result:  unaffected

 

Egg #: 1 (shumoga)
Time Remaining:  6d 17hr

Crack Stage:  no crack

Sick?: n

Incu?: n

Result:  unaffected

 

So, 8 eggs  5 unaffected  1 killed  1 caught

[JaneMcAsh]

EQ (3 times) results - none of the eggs incubated, all had large holes:

3 died (2 in 1st try - 5d 4h, 5d 1h; 1 in last try - 5d 1h)

3 were caught - 5d 3h, 5d 3h, 5d 5h 

1 fled to AP (2nd try)

 

Egg #: 1
Time Remaining: 5d 4h

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: No

Incu?: No

Result:  Dead - 1st try

 

Egg #: 2
Time Remaining: 5d 1h

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: No

Incu?: No

Result:  Dead - 1st try

 

Egg #: 3
Time Remaining: 5d 1h

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: No

Incu?: No

Result:  Dead - 3rd try

 

Egg #: 4
Time Remaining: 5d 3h

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: No

Incu?: No

Result:  CAUGHT

 

Egg #: 5
Time Remaining: 5d 3h

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: No

Incu?: No

Result:  CAUGHT

 

Egg #: 6
Time Remaining: 5d 5h

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: No

Incu?: No

Result: CAUGHT

 

Egg #: 7
Time Remaining: 5d 5h

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: No

Incu?: No

Result:  Fled to AP (on 2nd try, unaffected on 1st try)

 

Edited August 31, 2021 by JaneMcAsh

[Moonlight_Eevee]

Egg #:1
Time Remaining: 5d13h

Crack Stage: s3

Sick?: no

Incu?: no

Result: hatched and caught

[spirited_soul]

I apologise for my lack of science info. I had not planned to contribute to this thread so I dont have info for the forms. I had posted in the release thread last week though. It's below.

 

"From my EQ attempts on the Shumoga eggs I noticed that there seemed to be a higher chance to get an egg with S1 or S2 cracks to hatch than the eggs with holes. I have no idea why but I hatched 3 with just cracks while the 2 with big holes died. For the other eggs I used Ward to protect them. "

 

One thing I have to add. I might have been using Ward incorrectly but I had a Canto egg and a pyralspite so I put Ward on them both and then used Earthquake. If I read this thread correctly though Ward does not protect eggs from being affected by the EQ? Or does it? (I think I read about using Ward so the hatchling would not die of sickness after EQ hatched it)

 

Because it seems like a lot of folks are using earthquake and not using Ward to protect the eggs they want to save. Or is it that most folks just dont have enough White dragons? I am a bit confused.

[natli]

I just EQed 8 eggs and caught 2 hatchies and killed 6. Also it took about 10 EQ to do that because my eggs were often unaffected.

 

They were all S5 and between 3d22h and 4d12h unincubated.

Edited August 31, 2021 by natli

[missy_]

OMG.

 

My first attempt at making skittish babies!

 

So many earthquakes  And methinks many more to go — but I’m running out of Greens!

 

So. I began with these eggs at the following view counts.

 

View counts under spoiler:

 

 



 

 

 

The eggs were at these ages (very lowtime):

 

Egg ages under spoiler:

 

 



 

 

 

I then Warded all of them before proceeding.

 

My first attempt yielded this: Two skitters which I caught, one dead egg, and five unaffected.

 

 

 

 

 

 

After that, the real fun began.  

 

Six additional Earthquake attempts, and all remaining five eggs are unaffected. 🥴

 

See attempts under spoiler.

 

 



 

 

 



 

 

 



 

 

 



 

 

 



 

 

 



 

 

 

 

I then begin to wonder if Ward is somehow making their wee little shells more impervious,  and decide to wait a few hours for Ward to wear off. It probably has nothing to do with it, but I don’t have unlimited Greens.

 

Saga to be continued! 

[MissK.]

Well, I just EQed 7 CB shumogas between 3d 12h and 4d 12h, all with big holes. The first two attempts were not particularly thrilling:

Spoiler

 

 

2 casualties, ok, fair. But then the third one hit lol.

 

Spoiler

 

....that was fun. 0/7, I was prepared for disappointment and still didn't expect it to go that bad. 

[FortyTwo]

5/8. Acceptable. I had an egg hang on for 7 earthquakes before dying at the 8th round.

[missy_]

So far today I have Earthquaked 13 times. Got one skittish (thank you) but the other four eggs are still “unaffected” by the earthquake and I am almost out of Greens.

 

ETA: Final count: 

 

Used 21 Earthquakes today. That is every Green dragon on my scroll.

 

Got 3 skittish, one dead egg, and four eggs that refused to break — “unaffected by the earthquake.”

Edited August 31, 2021 by missy_

[Tini]

Egg #: 1
Time Remaining: 4d5

Crack Stage: s5

Sick?: n

Incu?: n

Result: death

 

Egg #: 2
Time Remaining: 5d14

Crack Stage: s5

Sick?: n

Incu?: n

Result: catch

 

Egg #: 3
Time Remaining: 5d16

Crack Stage: s2

Sick?: y

Incu?: n

Result: death

 

Egg #: 4
Time Remaining: 5d16

Crack Stage: s3

Sick?: y

Incu?: n

Result: death

 

Eqed twice

Egg #: 5
Time Remaining: 5d16

Crack Stage: s2

Sick?: y

Incu?: n

Result: uneffect, then death

 

Egg #: 6
Time Remaining: 5d16

Crack Stage: s2

Sick?: y

Incu?: n

Result: uneffect, then catch

 

The luck was not with me tonight

[purplehaze]

Honestly, from looking at results here, I think it is mostly luck.

I just had a very good piece of luck and managed to successfully hatch and keep 3/3. (2 tries)

 

Egg #: 1
Time Remaining: 4d 9h

Crack Stage: s4

Sick?: no

Incu?: yes

Result: success

 

Egg #: 2
Time Remaining:  4d 8h

Crack Stage: s4

Sick?: no

Incu?: yes

Result: unaffected, then success

 

Egg #: 3
Time Remaining: 4d 8h

Crack Stage: s4

Sick?: no

Incu?: yes

Result: success

Edited September 1, 2021 by purplehaze

[HeatherMarie]

My first skittish-EQ success! I was so nervous, haven't tried much since all this started. 

 

 

The one that died was the lowest-timed, 4d2h.... I've seen people say stats don't really matter as long as it's lower-timed and has a hole, but that one had the lowest stats of the three. The two successes were both around 5d8h, both with at least 100 more unique views than the dead one (and between 200-800 more overall views). 

 

 

[FortyTwo]

More Shumogas!

 

Session 1: 1 egg

Earthquake #1 1 success

 

Session 2: 5 eggs

Earthquake #1 3 success

Earthquake #2 1 success, 1 dead

[MissK.]

My results today, after 4 earthquakes (I ran out of greens after that) : 

 

Egg #: 1
Time Remaining: 3d 23h

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: n

Incu?: n

Result: dead

 

Egg #: 2
Time Remaining: 4d 1h

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: n

Incu?: n

Result: unaffected

 

Egg #: 3
Time Remaining: 4d 6h

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: n

Incu?: n

Result: unaffected

 

Egg #: 4 & 5
Time Remaining: 4d 17h

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: n

Incu?: n

Result: dead

 

Egg #: 6 & 7
Time Remaining: 4d 19h

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: n

Incu?: n

Result: hatched, caught

 

Egg #: 8
Time Remaining: 4d 19h

Crack Stage: 2

Sick?: y

Incu?: y

Result: dead

 

At least I got a CB pair this time,  2/8 is better than my previous 0/7 lol. 

Edited September 2, 2021 by MissK.

[Moriaty]

 

Spoiler

 

Bruh it's true. Eggs at lower stage cracks seems to have a higher rate of hatching compared to big holed ones, at least in my experiment with like 10 eggs it held true. whaaaaat

 

WEll I ran out of greens, so with the addition of three traded eggs and one traded hatchling I now have four skittish babies (two of which are bred though, so I might freeze them to get the hatchling sprite). I really should've had the insight to get more greens when eq canto happened, but I still only had three. Grah.

Edited September 2, 2021 by Moriaty

[Charu]

Got a bunch of Smumogas. Waited until they had big holes, with the exception of 1 that I had caught recently. Fired off Earthquake and killed one of the Shumogas with a big hole. The other 2 unaffected. Earthquake again. Unaffected. Earthquake again. Dead. All I got was a Pyropellus that I accidentally snagged from the cave while looking for Shumogas.

 

This is why people don't like this BSA and all this did was re-affirm that position for me. No thanks. Green Cantors and Skittish Shumogas look cool, but I'm just not going to.

 

Edited September 3, 2021 by Charu

[Fuzzbucket]

I was doing quite well. But yesterday all three were killed  I do hope there isn't a ratio thing here.....

[Natevaelle]

Earthquake Attempt 1

 

Egg #: 1
Time Remaining: 4 days 3 hours

Crack Stage: S5

Sick?: No

Incu?: Yes

Result: Unaffected

 

Egg #: 2
Time Remaining: 3 days 6 hours

Crack Stage: S3

Sick?: No

Incu?: Yes

Result: Hatched and Caught

 

Egg #: 3
Time Remaining: 4 days 2 hours

Crack Stage: S5

Sick?: No

Incu?: Yes

Result: Died

 

Egg #: 4
Time Remaining: 4 days 3 hours

Crack Stage: S5

Sick?: No

Incu?: Yes

Result: Unaffected

 

~~~

 

Earthquake Attempt 2

 

Egg #: 1
Time Remaining: 4 days 3 hours

Crack Stage: S5

Sick?: No

Incu?: Yes

Result: Unaffected

 

Egg #: 4
Time Remaining: 4 days 3 hours

Crack Stage: S5

Sick?: No

Incu?: Yes

Result: Died

 

~~~

 

Earthquake Attempt 3

 

Egg #: 1
Time Remaining: 4 days 3 hours

Crack Stage: S5

Sick?: No

Incu?: Yes

Result: Hatched and Escaped

Edited September 4, 2021 by Natevaelle

[BlueSkyy]

I just used ALL SEVEN of my Green dragons to earthquake a stupid Shumoga egg and it was UNAFFECTED by all seven Earthquakes. See you in a month I suppose. /vent

[Moriaty]

2 hours ago, BlueSkyy said:

I just used ALL SEVEN of my Green dragons to earthquake a stupid Shumoga egg and it was UNAFFECTED by all seven Earthquakes. See you in a month I suppose. /vent

 

If you really want to take a chance on that one egg you can try kill on the egg, as far as skittish Shumoga goes kill-hatch have the same effect as eq-hatch

[Terces]

Egg #: 1
Time Remaining: 4D5H

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: No

Incu?: No

Result: Dead

 

Egg #: 2
Time Remaining: 4D5H

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: No

Incu?: No

Result: Dead

 

Egg #: 3
Time Remaining: 4D5H

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: No

Incu?: No

Result: Dead

 

Egg #: 4
Time Remaining: 4D5H

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: No

Incu?: No

Result: Dead

 

Egg #: 5
Time Remaining: 4D5H

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: No

Incu?: No

Result: Dead

 

Egg #: 6
Time Remaining: 4D5H

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: No

Incu?: No

Result: Dead

 

Egg #: 7
Time Remaining: 4D6H

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: No

Incu?: Yes

Result: Dead

 

Egg #: 8
Time Remaining: 2D1H

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: No

Incu?: No

Result: Dead

 

Egg #: 9
Time Remaining: 2D1H

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: No

Incu?: No

Result: Dead

 

Egg #: 10
Time Remaining: 2D4H

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: No

Incu?: No

Result: Dead

 

Egg #: 11
Time Remaining: 2D5H

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: No

Incu?: No

Result: Dead

 

Egg #: 12
Time Remaining: 2D5H

Crack Stage: 5

Sick?: No

Incu?: No

Result: Dead

 

Skittish shumogas are dreadful. I manually killed the first five, used 2 EQs on the next two eggs. The last five eggs took 11 EQs, more than half of them did nothing which is annoying.

 

[Charity322]

Lost two more Shumogas to Earthquake (and one Venturis).  Got two that hatched though (and one Cloudplume), so I don't think I'll have the callousness needed to Earthquake any more.

[DarkDragonfly330]

Here's a summary of the results of eq from this thread since Shumogas were released, with a focus on eggs that were actually affected. Results were counted as follows:

Hatched and caught: success

Dead/hatched and ran: fail

Unaffected: not counted

 

1) 3/5 success, 2/5 fail

2) 2/2 success, 0/2 fail

3) 0/5 success, 5/5 fail

4) 2/7 success, 5/7 fail, +1 kill success

5) 0/1 success, 1/1 fail

6) 3/4 success, 1/4 fail

7) 0/3 success, 3/3 fail

8. 3/5 success, 2/5 fail, +1 kill success, 2 kill fail

9) 3/8 success, 5/8 fail

10) 7/8 success, 1/8 fail

11) 3/7 success, 4/7 fail

12) 0/5 success, 5/5 fail, +1 kill fail

13) 7/8 success, 1/8 fail

14) 2/3 success, 1/3 fail

15) 1/2 success, 1/2 fail

16) 1/1 success, 0/1 fail

17) 2 kill success

18) 6/6 success, 0/6 fail

19) 0/3 success, 3/3 fail, +1 kill success

20) 3/4 success, 1/4 fail

21) 3/3 success, 0/3 fail

22) 0/3 success, 3/3 fail

23) 5/8 success, 3/8 fail

24) 2/3 success, 1/3 fail

25) 1/2 success, 1/2 fail

26) 0/5 success, 5/5 fail

27) 0/2 success, 2/2 fail

28) 0/4 success, 4/4 fail, +1 kill fail

29) 0/2 success, 2/2 fail

30) 0/6 success, 6/6 fail

31) 0/3 success, 3/3 fail

32) 5/6 success, 1/6 fail

33) 0/5 success, 5/5 fail

34) 1/2 success, 1/2 fail

35) 3/7 success, 4/7 fail

36) 1/1 success, 0/1 fail

37) 2/8 success, 6/8 fail

38) 2/3 success, 1/3 fail

39) 0/7 success, 7/7 fail

40) 5/8 success, 3/8 fail

41) 2/6 success, 4/6 fail

42) 3/3 success, 0/3 fail

43) 2/3 success, 1/3 fail

44) 5/6 success, 1/6 fail

45) 2/5 success, 3/5 fail

46) 3/7 success, 4/7 fail

47) 1/4 success, 3/4 fail

48) 0/3 success, 3/3 fail

49) 1/4 success, 3/4 fail

50) 0/7 success, 7/7 fail, +5 kill fail

51) 3/6 success, 3/6 fail

 

229 total eggs eq'ed and affected, 98 successfully hatched and caught, 131 fails (most dead, some hatched and ran)

Kill action used on 14 eggs, 5/14 kills successful

Edited September 5, 2021 by DarkDragonfly330

[Astreya]

My horrible bad luck with Dark Shumogas continues. 8 Earthquakes used, and this was the result (EQ4-7 left the final egg unaffected):

 

 

1st EQ:

 

2nd EQ:

 

3rd  EQ:

 

8th EQ:

 

Here you can see what horrible idea it is to have a breed depend on using EQ:

I am not amused.

 

Edited September 5, 2021 by Astreya