I can just tell this update is going to be another disaster.

At least you can get on your game. Mine is shut down since the new update.

I've had 3 boxes today, 2 blue, 1 pink. It depends on how many eggs you get.
You have obviously only just started, so you would only get 1 today, maybe 2 (if you have egg baskets etc). I only got 1 yesterday after visiting neighbours.

So I just did some quick math. I visited 98 neighbors and zapped some bunnies in my town and received 700 Blue Eggs and 100 Pink Eggs, (traded in 100 blue eggs for 50 pink eggs twice so the final numbers we 500/200). please note this does not include tasks that pay in eggs.

If I do not swap eggs, I will get roughly 37 blue boxes and 5 pink boxes during this 27 day event. I do not see how it is possible to get all the prizes (without spending donuts), especially with the Golden Eggs only being won through other boxes. Given the past odds with wheel events, I am sure the odds of getting gold eggs are low.

Am I missing something??

WILL-P-1998 wrote:
wildly wrong rant...

Sorry, but I enjoy getting tons of new content for free. Great event so far.

empathy77 wrote:
So I just did some quick math. I visited 98 neighbors and zapped some bunnies in my town and received 700 Blue Eggs and 100 Pink Eggs, (traded in 100 blue eggs for 50 pink eggs twice so the final numbers we 500/200). please note this does not include tasks that pay in eggs.

If I do not swap eggs, I will get roughly 37 blue boxes and 5 pink boxes during this 27 day event. I do not see how it is possible to get all the prizes (without spending donuts), especially with the Golden Eggs only being won through other boxes. Given the past odds with wheel events, I am sure the odds of getting gold eggs are low.

Am I missing something??

Yes, you're forgetting the eggs you accumulate in your own town.

empathy77 wrote:
So I just did some quick math. I visited 98 neighbors and zapped some bunnies in my town and received 700 Blue Eggs and 100 Pink Eggs, (traded in 100 blue eggs for 50 pink eggs twice so the final numbers we 500/200). please note this does not include tasks that pay in eggs.

If I do not swap eggs, I will get roughly 37 blue boxes and 5 pink boxes during this 27 day event. I do not see how it is possible to get all the prizes (without spending donuts), especially with the Golden Eggs only being won through other boxes. Given the past odds with wheel events, I am sure the odds of getting gold eggs are low.

Am I missing something??

Questline seems award 1/2 box per task, questline also offers a generator. I'm not quite sure how it will pan out. For all we know there could be an Easter surprise for a golden box or something.

empathy77 wrote:
So I just did some quick math. I visited 98 neighbors and zapped some bunnies in my town and received 700 Blue Eggs and 100 Pink Eggs, (traded in 100 blue eggs for 50 pink eggs twice so the final numbers we 500/200). please note this does not include tasks that pay in eggs.

If I do not swap eggs, I will get roughly 37 blue boxes and 5 pink boxes during this 27 day event. I do not see how it is possible to get all the prizes (without spending donuts), especially with the Golden Eggs only being won through other boxes. Given the past odds with wheel events, I am sure the odds of getting gold eggs are low.

Am I missing something??

I've won both 100 and 300 gold eggs with only 4 boxes so far. Should get one of the gold prizes soon. You'll get more eggs, don't worry. If you win a blue/pink basket from zapping bunnies, once they are full, they give you 300 of either pink or blue eggs, almost another box! I won both the blue and pink, so there is no need to spend donuts on them, I may also win them again.
I don't think you'll be able to get all the prizes without paying donuts, which is annoying, especially as a lot of the cool prizes are in the gold box. I'm going to try and get as many as I can though! Good luck to you as well!

Probably would be 5 donuts or something like that

empathy77 wrote:
So I just did some quick math. I visited 98 neighbors and zapped some bunnies in my town and received 700 Blue Eggs and 100 Pink Eggs, (traded in 100 blue eggs for 50 pink eggs twice so the final numbers we 500/200). please note this does not include tasks that pay in eggs.

If I do not swap eggs, I will get roughly 37 blue boxes and 5 pink boxes during this 27 day event. I do not see how it is possible to get all the prizes (without spending donuts), especially with the Golden Eggs only being won through other boxes. Given the past odds with wheel events, I am sure the odds of getting gold eggs are low.

Am I missing something??

Actually the Golden Eggs have the highest odds at 45% you can see the odds here posted by spAnser http://forum.ea.com/eaforum/posts/list/10057148.page;jsessionid=3C42EAFAD2A87505E0A35E3F8F6BDA2B

GamerGD3 wrote:

empathy77 wrote:
So I just did some quick math. I visited 98 neighbors and zapped some bunnies in my town and received 700 Blue Eggs and 100 Pink Eggs, (traded in 100 blue eggs for 50 pink eggs twice so the final numbers we 500/200). please note this does not include tasks that pay in eggs.

If I do not swap eggs, I will get roughly 37 blue boxes and 5 pink boxes during this 27 day event. I do not see how it is possible to get all the prizes (without spending donuts), especially with the Golden Eggs only being won through other boxes. Given the past odds with wheel events, I am sure the odds of getting gold eggs are low.

Am I missing something??

Questline seems award 1/2 box per task, questline also offers a generator. I'm not quite sure how it will pan out. For all we know there could be an Easter surprise for a golden box or something.

Yes, you're right, I did not take in account quest line tasks that pay 250 eggs or the generator. I am hoping EA raises the amount of eggs received from visiting neighbors.

00-marco_rosas wrote:
The event also appears awfully low in new content to me.

Here are some key problems:
- No award for first 24 hours like usual (Gypsy House, etc.)
- Too few boxes (~ 1 or 1.5) per day
- Bulk of free decorations have been transferred into boxes so I can't decorate immediately
- Boxes award GOLD eggs, a inter-prize that's really not a prize at all
- No discernible goal to reach by players. Most boxes will award a decoration or gold eggs (NOTHING) so there's not much reason to play.

The result that, for me, this even has been downright horrible. Like HORRIBLE to the point that this is evoking less excitement from me than a level update.



Also, I actually prefer the wheel significantly to the prize box if you are going to have to give us random prizes. The major complaint about the wheel was that it was random, NOT about the wheel mechanic itself. Why wheel is better than prize boxes:

- It is exciting to watch the wheel spin and pass near prizes you want whereas prize boxes you know what you receive immediately.
- The wheel is better at showing off the prizes that you may receive because you pay attention to the wedges of the wheel while you're spinning.



I'm not quick to criticize, but EA you really messed this event up. This is easily the worst major event in the history of Tapped Out. There's almost 0 new content accessible for most players and we play and we don't know when we'll actually receive anything. The entire mechanics of this event is fundamentally flawed so I don't know how you guys will rectify this.

But gold eggs are converted to a prize. Only when you start clearing out the gold prizes does it give you blue or pink eggs back - which in turn just reverts back to gold. So either way you are getting a prize. Whether it be blue or pink prize, or a gold prize.

I wish Josh was still around to post his thought on this update.