Basketgate poll

Isnt the faberge egg glitch just bad luck?

It is no glitch but written in the code that you won't get any baskets before you found the faberge egg.
THAT is the Basketgate, that it has been the intention of the devs from the beginning to leave us without baskets for a big part of this event.
Don't excuse this awful behavior by calling it a "glitch".

The odds for finding the egg are 0.07%. That means that one in 1450 bunnies should give it to you.
If you you tap about 150 bunnies a day you should get it after 10 days. Many of us found it earlier.

I'm on day 16 without Faberge Egg now.
Day 18 without baskets. That is two thirds of the event during which I am not able to partake in the immensely important exchange of eggs.
My chances of getting Shary and Father Sean are thus very low.

And this is by design, not by accident!

LeuchtbojeConny wrote:
It is no glitch but written in the code that you won't get any baskets before you found the faberge egg.
THAT is the Basketgate, that it has been the intention of the devs from the beginning to leave us without baskets for a big part of this event.
Don't excuse this awful behavior by calling it a "glitch".

Yeah, I should've clarified but I did this poll on my iPhone so it was hard to type. The glitch refers to the problem where our baskets appeared empty but no one could donate any eggs to them. I had five sitting empty for almost a week until they finally fixed it. Once they filled, I never saw another basket. The designers did include code that prevents us from gaining new baskets once we complete the quest until we find the faberge egg, and it seems like far too many have been unable to find it, while those who were lucky enough to find it or bought it outright are finding baskets dropped at an even faster rate (according to another thread). While that part is NOT a glitch, I'm wondering whether people like me are just unlucky enough to get hit by both or if there is an actual pattern that links the two together.

devdoctor wrote:
While that part is NOT a glitch, I'm wondering whether people like me are just unlucky enough to get hit by both or if there is an actual pattern that links the two together.

Now I'm afraid of finding the egg. ;)

Neither had any problems :D

First day of tapping, when I tapped on a neighbors basket it took all my eggs.

18 days without baskets. 17 days hunting that white whale of an egg.

The broken baskets were a slight glitch in comparison to having no baskets at all. Realizing the hundreds, perhaps thousands? of eggs I have missed out on in exchanges is absolutely maddening.

Since I can really only get blue (my uncommon) eggs from my purchased generator and by dropping pink eggs into friends' baskets, I work a loss that is further compounded by the worst odds ever set up for this game.

So, I lose any way I look at it. A drastically low chance of achieving and the requirement that I can only have half of my earnings used toward that low probability.

Awesome plan.

87aab wrote:

LeuchtbojeConny wrote:
It is no glitch but written in the code that you won't get any baskets before you found the faberge egg.
THAT is the Basketgate, that it has been the intention of the devs from the beginning to leave us without baskets for a big part of this event.
Don't excuse this awful behavior by calling it a "glitch".

The odds for finding the egg are 0.07%. That means that one in 1450 bunnies should give it to you.
If you you tap about 150 bunnies a day you should get it after 10 days. Many of us found it earlier.

I'm on day 16 without Faberge Egg now.
Day 18 without baskets. That is two thirds of the event during which I am not able to partake in the immensely important exchange of eggs.
My chances of getting Shary and Father Sean are thus very low.

And this is by design, not by accident!

not true at all. I had baskets before finishing the easter quest line.
I had baskets after finishing the quest line.
I found the imfamous egg after 8hr completeing the quest line.
I still get baskets every day (at least 4 a day)

You're misunderstanding the issue completely. You found the egg quickly, of course you're still getting baskets. You probably didn't even notice that in the time it took you to find the egg, you got no baskets. Some of us didn't find it right away. Took me a week. Some of us still haven't found it, see above. There is a sixty page thread on this forum about this problem, btw.


*edit* I never had the untappable basket problem, just the week without baskets while I searched for the egg.

I got the Faberge egg then a few baskets then nothing. The nothing was a glitch according to EA. Then I started getting baskets. Almost all have been pink to blue. I haven't had a blue to pink one for days. Pink is my uncommon colour and I'm nowhere near getting the items in the pink boxes. I have resigned myself to not getting Shary, Sean, Blocko store,etc. I am NOT spending my donuts in this only to get more tat. I am buying scratch cards and spending the donuts on items I know I will get.

My husband has had the problem with the basket that won't accept eggs. He also is only getting pink to blue baskets. We both really enjoyed playing this game but the Easter debacle is putting us off. The whole thing seems a blatant scheme to get people to pay for baskets and eggs.

Today I finally scraped together enough pink eggs for a box and what did I get? Another ****** fence.

Both of them and I still am - no fab egg = no baskets.

Unfair EA, unfair...