i'd just like to point out the unbalance between finding the easter bunny and chances of an egg drop.  I more or less kill stuff. i have 11 eggs.  i heard a mod talking on friday night that a player has caught 217 rabbits... so at best hes got 108 eggs. I do realize this might be an extreme example but there it is.  11 eggs to a possible 108.

I do realize that hunting for the rabbits should give you more eggs because you are focusing just on getting eggs and not actually skilling or combat. Further more without actually knowing more about what effects combat related egg drops. Like the wild increases egg drops.    but for example if you fight say a lvl 30 wildy monster vs a lvl 60 non wildy monster what differance is there in a drop rate? we don't know...

Barb agly course isn't giving dbl exp on completion.

i'd just like to point out the unbalance between finding the easter bunny and chances of an egg drop.  I more or less kill stuff. i have 11 eggs.  i heard a mod talking on friday night that a player has caught 217 rabbits... so at best hes got 108 eggs. I do realize this might be an extreme example but there it is.  11 eggs to a possible 108.

I do realize that hunting for the rabbits should give you more eggs because you are focusing just on getting eggs and not actually skilling or combat. Further more without actually knowing more about what effects combat related egg drops. Like the wild increases egg drops.    but for example if you fight say a lvl 30 wildy monster vs a lvl 60 non wildy monster what differance is there in a drop rate? we don't know...

FYI it was 3 catches for 1 egg.  So to catch 217 rabbits, at best it's 72 eggs.  I spent about 5 hours to get 70 rabbit catches, and i basically found him every time I was hunting, there was never more than 3-4 people looking for him while I was.  So for 217 that had to have been at least 18 hours over the course of the week.   You also have to remember that it's easy to AFK multiple accounts.  I had 8 accounts farming eggs, and the drop rate for all 8 combined was equal or maybe a little better than one account catching the rabbit.  I think the drop rate from NPC's was fine.

Why catch bunny 3 times in a row?  Totally discouraging.  A for effort but meh event tbh.

Because its WAAAAYYYYY to easy to rack up eggs / tokens (for the xmas event) with only 1x each time. 

Think about it, if you or only 2-3 people are doing it at a time, you can typically find him every 5 minutes (usually shorter but whatever).  You do this for an hour getting an egg every find = 12 eggs an hour vs about 4 eggs with 3 times in a row.

I only did it to get maybe 5 eggs but it just wasn't my thing, spent most of my time using some mats skilling and farming for clues.

My alt got 20 eggs simply from killing warriors in al kharid (non wild) doing easy clues so its not hard either way.

Still managed to get 3 ears, 2 on main from skilling and 1 off alt from farming npcs.

Vigor got what 400ish catches? if he got 3 in a row each time (never failing to complete thus loosing those) thats only around 6 ears on that character vs having 20 ears if it was 1 catch = 1 egg.

Tell me how many hours all these individuals spent actually playing the game in a leisurely way.  If it's more than three hours tops, it's too much if you have a job, family, etc., which most normal people if this age group ought to have.  If you want the server to grow, you need to cater to normal, not abnormal individuals; it's common sense.

a rough guess but i figure it took me 24 hours to get my b ears using combat.  If i had kids i would not have that time.  (reptiles>kids)

What i think should have been done was make it easier to get bunny ears but place a cap on the amount you can get per character. The casual player could easily get his surprise and the hardcore player could just use multiple accounts to get more.