So this suggestion would obviously be for next year.
This year is my first year of the Torn Easter Egg hunt. It was something that I was looking forward to having seen it on the calendar but I have to say I have been a little disappointed, mainly due to the very low spawn rate. This means that actively trying to embrace the event by spending time hunting for eggs (as the name suggests) is not very rewarding. Technically this may increase the number of eggs one finds, but if you are spending many hours between egg finds this is not so much fun. As a result the best thing to do is perhaps just play normally and if you happen across an egg that is a small bonus. But this then is not adding much for me and makes it not much of an "event" in my eyes.
My suggestion to improve this is the following: Obviously the main thing is to increase the spawn rate so players are more frequently rewarded for actively "hunting". However just doing this would wreck the current economy of the eggs in the game. So my suggestion would be to introduce small easter eggs that spawn much more frequently. The small eggs would be the same colours as the existing eggs in the game and a number could be traded up to get the main coloured egg and the associated bonus. The exact numbers are open to discussion but for example the spawn rate could increase by 5 times and you could require 4 small eggs of the correct colour to get the corresponding main egg. The small eggs need not be tradeable if necessary , with any unexchanged small eggs being available again for the next year event.
This would also mean players could choose when they exchanged the small eggs and thereby also could schedule when they get the particular bonus that each egg conferrs.
This year is my first year of the Torn Easter Egg hunt. It was something that I was looking forward to having seen it on the calendar but I have to say I have been a little disappointed, mainly due to the very low spawn rate. This means that actively trying to embrace the event by spending time hunting for eggs (as the name suggests) is not very rewarding. Technically this may increase the number of eggs one finds, but if you are spending many hours between egg finds this is not so much fun. As a result the best thing to do is perhaps just play normally and if you happen across an egg that is a small bonus. But this then is not adding much for me and makes it not much of an "event" in my eyes.
My suggestion to improve this is the following: Obviously the main thing is to increase the spawn rate so players are more frequently rewarded for actively "hunting". However just doing this would wreck the current economy of the eggs in the game. So my suggestion would be to introduce small easter eggs that spawn much more frequently. The small eggs would be the same colours as the existing eggs in the game and a number could be traded up to get the main coloured egg and the associated bonus. The exact numbers are open to discussion but for example the spawn rate could increase by 5 times and you could require 4 small eggs of the correct colour to get the corresponding main egg. The small eggs need not be tradeable if necessary , with any unexchanged small eggs being available again for the next year event.
This would also mean players could choose when they exchanged the small eggs and thereby also could schedule when they get the particular bonus that each egg conferrs.