Egg caps (rank 15, 20,30 and 40)

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Originally Posted by BrusselSprout

At least in Uldah, when you take the quest, the helper NPC flat out says something to the effect of "You'll get a hat just like hers." It doesn't straight out say it, but considering the pristine cap isnt on anyone, I was oddly led to expect one just like hers...

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"Her" would refer to the female Miqote who started the event in Gridania. True she's wearing a Chocobo Egg Cap but I would imagine that's who they are referring to.

Square Enix isn't gamefaqs, guys 'n gals. They have no obligation to tell stuff such as "which monster drops item X" or "how to open X door?", etc. I'm sure you all have a brain; use it.

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Originally Posted by AdvancedWind

Square Enix isn't gamefaqs, guys 'n gals. They have no obligation to tell stuff such as "which monster drops item X" or "how to open X door?", etc. I'm sure you all have a brain; use it.

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Oh sure, they could at least tell us IF we can get them or not. You know it's this kind of attitude that caused a lot of players to quit at the beginning? Also if they're not gonna answer to these basic qestions they could shut down these forums for good.

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Originally Posted by Alcide

Oh sure, they could at least tell us IF we can get them or not. You know it's this kind of attitude that caused a lot of players to quit at the beginning? Also if they're not gonna answer to these basic qestions they could shut down these forums for good.

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Internet ruined gaming.

Now everyone needs guides and FAQs to know what to do. Have you read the answer from the com. rep? We're supposed to figure this event out.

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Originally Posted by AdvancedWind

Square Enix isn't gamefaqs, guys 'n gals. They have no obligation to tell stuff such as "which monster drops item X" or "how to open X door?", etc. I'm sure you all have a brain; use it.

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Ok well seeing as you have a fully capable brain perhaps you can enlighten us, also if they want their event to be successful and when I say that I mean allow players to get the items they have sunk development time into, then should they not at least make the objective achievable before the event ends.

Of course this is based on the assumption that all the content is in the game, they may very well add more content on the 25th which will finish the event, and even if that was the case perhaps they should have made that known from the beginning.

I'm sure they will drop hints the later we go so at least some people get it. I'm happy they made this a challenge.

I don't think SE should tell these things to us, remember how boring the previous bell inspired events were? They dont need to go back to descriptions like "you feel a chill" but imo this is a nice middleground they've hit. They should give info on game mechanics and patch contents and all that, not on event quests. Besides i do hope these events are made with the prospect of us still playing next year, so it could well be something stretched over a 4 year span. Too much "i want it and and i want it nao' mentality going on at times.

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Originally Posted by Alcide

Oh sure, they could at least tell us IF we can get them or not. You know it's this kind of attitude that caused a lot of players to quit at the beginning? Also if they're not gonna answer to these basic qestions they could shut down these forums for good.

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Considering what we SHOULD know (IE, ignoring data mines), the only cap 'currently' available is the pristine, rank 10 one. There is a reason for us to not to be getting the other caps, which could range from "we are doing something wrong" to "we must craft the next one" to simply "it isn't available yet, but the item is in-game."

Square-enix has no obligation to tell us either option, since if the case is 1 or 2, it's part of the event and the goal of the community to discover what we must do, and in case 3, well...."we" are the ones who shouldn't be data mining the game in the first place.

This is not "basic information" we're missing out.

Not telling us what a food item does probably counts as something they could go ahead and explain why.
The effect of a status in our performance is something they could go ahead and explain, like they did.
How to proceed in a quest is NOT "basic information" and this forum's purpose is NOT to serve as 'quest faqs'. Of course, a player can discover stuff and post around here, sure, but as far as SE is concerned, it's not their problem if the players can't figure out stuff by themselfs, unless they really made something far too retarded to be figured out in the first place (Hello Absolute Virtue). If anyone is quitting the game because they aren't spoon feeding us quest details, I can't help but feel sorry.

If you still disagree, go ahead and make a thread proposing a "Quest Walkthrough" button on the journal telling everything about the quests. While we are at it, they should also go ahead and put map markers listing NM spawn locations and conditions, maybe even provide a full loot table of every monster available, after all, who wants to have little secrets in their game, right?

Wel, if we knew that the quest has multiple parts to it through in-game information it would be in SE's best interests to help us out if we cant figure it out by ourselves. But this is us digging into the .dats and finding more caps through those kind of means.

It's not about wanting a walktrhough or an easy way, if the moderators or the devs see people having a hard time figuring out something for an entire week it's clear that there's something wrong and they should at least tell if we can or can't get that item, people were quitting the game not because they wanted the game to be easier, but because they wanted it to be more user friendly, to understand what they could and couldn't do.
We aren't talking about basic information here, but about basic communication, if so many people are wandering about what those caps are for and how to get them it just can't be ignored, it doesn't matter if we are not supposed to know about them or if we can't get them now, we do know they are in the dat and we are wandering how to get them, we should know if we can get them now or if we have to wait for future updates, not necessarily how to get them.

And this is the whole SE attitude: giving as little hints as possible and letting people speculate and struggle without saying anything. That's the worst communication strategy a company can have. How many people were saying the Companies were gonna be implemented in the 1.17 patch? How many of them got disappointed? Did anyone bother to say "guys calm down, we are just gonna implement basic quests related to the Companies"? No. Would it have caused any harm to SE's plans if they said it? No. Would it have helped many players not to get over hyped and then disappointed? Yes.

Of course, it's our fault if we dig the .dat files, get hiped up and speculate, but we've got these forums and we can keep in touch with the devs, why don't they get the chance to calm us down? That's what I call "communication", not popping up randomly, saying something that cause only more hype (cause that's what they're doing right now) and ignoring at all people that are having hard time or interesting questions. If they want to communicate with us they've got the chance and these forums are a great medium, if they just wanna go on this way they could just shut them down.

They should expect that someone will find a way to view their data files and spread this news around and I agree, if anything they should at least say "keep looking for ways to upgrade, they are out there!" or "Stop looking. What you see is that you get."

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Originally Posted by Arcell

"Her" would refer to the female Miqote who started the event in Gridania. True she's wearing a Chocobo Egg Cap but I would imagine that's who they are referring to.

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I took it to mean the female lalafel dreamer npc that recites the poems. I actually love that the event is kind of mysterious. I hope they continue to be that way. I had assumed that the event npcs in each city wore the respective cap you would be awarded for finishing that city's quest. Since each of the three npcs all wear different versions, it seemed like a good guess. That doesn't require the mining of .dat files or any other nonsense.

Thank you SE for an interesting event, and btw I loved the artwork on the balloons. If there's more to the puzzle yet to come I'll be really happy ^^

got white cap again. wtf. how do i get other caps

So, the patch notes are out and there's nothing about the event, can we be angry now or someone is gonna find another excuse?

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Originally Posted by Alcide

So, the patch notes are out and there's nothing about the event, can we be angry now or someone is gonna find another excuse?

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Everything event related is already in the game, the next questline included. But sure, do make yourself a fool.

Or maybe it's included in "more sidequests added"

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Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah

Everything event related is already in the game, the next questline included. But sure, do make yourself a fool.

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I wander if you get payed for beeing such a fanboy...

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Originally Posted by BrusselSprout

I had assumed that the event npcs in each city wore the respective cap you would be awarded for finishing that city's quest. Since each of the three npcs all wear different versions, it seemed like a good guess.

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The problem is that we're not getting different versions by completing multiple quests on every city. I have 2 pristine caps (from Ul'dah and Limsa Lominsa), so I'm pretty sure I'm getting a third one from Gridania...
On a side note you have to retainer your first pristine cap (or trade it to a PC) in order to get a second on and so on.

I don't understand why people are unhappy unless they have two or three egg hats. For moi, one egg is un oeuf.

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Originally Posted by Alcide

I wander if you get payed for beeing such a fanboy...

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I'm not the one with several rank 50's in his sig. Now that's someone being a fanboy.

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Originally Posted by AlmaMalma

I don't understand why people are unhappy unless they have two or three egg hats. For moi, one egg is un oeuf.

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Hahhahahaha cute.

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Originally Posted by AlmaMalma

I don't understand why people are unhappy unless they have two or three egg hats. For moi, one egg is un oeuf.

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There must be some disinformation issue here, you know that there are 4 different caps and we keep getting only the first one? It's been over a week now and we still can't figure out how to get the others, nobody is giving us a sign of life (not walktrhough, but something that at least assures us that we can get the other caps somehow). You think it's ok? Don't you think that there's a problem here? Do we have to wait untill the event is over before someone recognaze that we've got some serious communication issue and that they can't stop making events for good if that's the way they want to implement them?? An event is supposed to be fun, this is frustrating.

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Originally Posted by Alcide

There must be some disinformation issue here, you know that there are 4 different caps and we keep getting only the first one?

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Because there is only one...

You're only frustrated because for some odd reason, you think there is more than one hat.

Maybe later, there will be more hats...but up until now...there is only one.

It's not so hard.

damn square enix. give us hint how to get other hats.

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Originally Posted by Naylia

Because there is only one...

You're only frustrated because for some odd reason, you think there is more than one hat.

Maybe later, there will be more hats...but up until now...there is only one.

It's not so hard.

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http://ffxiv.yg.com/items?f=s=egg%20cap

You can go on pretending there is only one cap, but you know there are four of them. It doesn't matter if we aren't supposed to know about them, we do and we can't figure out how to get them.
We can't this right now? We can't this year? That's ok, but can someone at least tell us that we can't get them??

That's what people get for dat mining. *head shake*

I love this event anyway. Really cool how they tied it in with the lore of the story and the events to come :)

If you're going to act this way every time they load gear into the game you're going to drive yourself crazy. There's also a gun-blade in the game already....but no one is banging their head against the walls screaming at the devs to tell them how to get that.

The gun-blade isn't part of an event, that's not the same thing, we know there are certain things we can't get right now, but if they add an event (wich is something we are supposed to do in a relatively short amount of time) we can take for granted that we can get everything they added this year...

I don't think anyone on any of the servers has anything other than the Prestine cap. At least your not alone Alcide :)

After I finally update I shall look around for any signs of new eggs and we can rendezvous back here

I've not found anything yet T~T

Guys just ignore Alcide.

He's always moaning about SE apparent lack of communication, this is just his latest flavour.

He'll tire himself out eventually or find something else to demand more information about.

has anyone tried keeping an achron egg with him for a few days in order to make it 'warm' or maybe take it to a hot place? I remember the npc telling me to keep the egg warm, and the achron egg is given every time you start the quest. There must be a reason as to why they dont give a random elemental egg.

When I started the quests I got given a random elemental egg all times.

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Originally Posted by PennywisE

Guys just ignore Alcide.

He's always moaning about SE apparent lack of communication, this is just his latest flavour.

He'll tire himself out eventually or find something else to demand more information about.

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Oh so SE wants to ignore people, right? That's the point of the polls and of the forum, to know what people want and then ignore it...
Don't you think that if so many peopla are complaining there is a problem??
And who the hell are you to decide who should be listened and who ignored? another fanboy self proclamed SE's pupil?

I myself haven't seen/heard anything regarding higher ranked caps other than the rank 10's we currently have access to. I completed the event quests in all 3 nations and have received the same cap each time. The only thing I noticed different is the quests logged in my journal (each nation is registered as it's own quest title) as we all obviously figured would be the case lol... any updates on whether this will be a timed release as far as the higher rank caps go, please by all means post!

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Originally Posted by Alcide

Oh so SE wants to ignore people, right? That's the point of the polls and of the forum, to know what people want and then ignore it...
Don't you think that if so many peopla are complaining there is a problem??
And who the hell are you to decide who should be listened and who ignored? another fanboy self proclamed SE's pupil?

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You sir, have an unhealthy obsession with calling people fanboys.

Face it, just because someone was bored enough to datamine things they weren't supposed to doesn't automatically entitle you getting any information from SE on it. You weren't supposed to know about it in the first place. Besides, aren't there more important things to be complaining about and whining for information over? Too much bickering over an awful looking hat...

you have to wear the R10 egg hat, it will change rank when your own rank goes up
and then you have to sit on your head until it hatches.

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Originally Posted by Randis

you have to wear the R10 egg hat, it will change rank when your own rank goes up
and then you have to sit on your head until it hatches.

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So where's my Yoga class?

Please don't forget we already had a community manager come in and basically leave a big hint that there IS a way to get the other hats.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...l=1#post101620

Also, seriously if its just a white lvl 10 egg had thats pretty sad, the whole festival is about the colored eggs so it would make sense that we would get some as well.