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I picked the same as @jellysundae. I think she is on to something. The "old" players, have dome well, in the past. I picked Gutterfoot as the Star Player. I never seem to pick the "winning one, though.

The ray is fired at Critoh... ... and he doesn't change at all ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Whoa... did it actually work? Sure looks like it. Your Petpet has been transformed. Imagine that.

The ray is fired at Tiny_berry... ... and she loses 2 strength points Sir Bob of Geraptiku shall now be known as Spiffy. How nice.

Faerie Crossword Answers - [Play] Daily Puzzle Answer - [Play] Across: 2. ball 5. lamp 6. benny 7. ixi 10. sink 12. drenched 14. rock Down: 1. altalaphus 3. alton 4. olly 6. bite 8. ice 9. ten 11. isca 13. red Who sat out for Altador Cup III? Answer: Kiko Lake Prize: 312 NP

The ray is fired at 16B... ... and he changes colour to Shadow!! Project Desert Eyrie Day 18 The ray is fired at Hoxko... ... and he doesn't change at all

i ran around the desert for two hours today trying to get all the items i needed for some dumb shield, before finally realising that the "skeith eye" that was requested by the dude was actually asking for an "iguana eye" thanks. anyway i got an avatar out of it Something Has Happened! You are now eligible to use 'NeoQuest - Wise and Powerful' as an avatar on the NeoBoards!

i picked Scribbles cuz duh. Senor Malo i've had on my team every year, so i'm loyal to him. Jade and Kiko Cat seemed to do well last year and then Aesop cuz i like Kreludor.

i'm glad break days don't count toward ranks. makes it actually feel like a break day

Yeah, I thought Jelly-day was Sunday too, I played, but didn't have a lot of time so I didn't get many games in. Then of course, today is/was Jelly Day. I don't see why we can't at least play for our own ranks and points, bye-days NEVER counted toward our chosen team's rankings in the years before that policy was put in place! Just our personal stats. I managed to get to 138 wins so far, so I'm in Rank 6. Better progress than I've made in previous years at this point of the AC, but not as fast as many other skilled players. I may score high in the games I get in, but you need to get games in to have any shot at decent prize points. I just don't like not trying my best when I play YYB. I've got total 1766 goals so far. My PPG average is 12.7971, (rounded down). So slightly better than last year's, but there's still a long way to go and I could still blow a number of games. lol Plenty of time for that to happen. lol I'd prefer quality of games to count too. Not JUST quantity. I wish Maraqua was doing better. I don't remember them having a season starting out so far back. I don't know how they did during the few times/years I took a hiatus from the site. But I'm a little disappointed so far. Ah well, there's plenty of time for things to change on that front too!

That is the CUTEST Stealthy pet I've ever seen.

There is a new colour and it is stealthy

SOTAC is a group of roving all-star players - the Secret Order of The Altador Cup. The hubris of that name might give you a little idea about the issue with them >.<;; They choose a team to play for each year, and that's basically the team that's gonna win. I've always dreaded them choosing Shenkuu because the victory we gained would be so hollow, but because of this previous drama it's hopeful that Shenkuu's blacklisted forever in SOTAC's eyes. xD What I didn't realise was a wider-reaching impact SOTAC has, they recruit all the best players they can from all teams - sending NMs to double/triple/quad all-stars hoping to lure them away from their own team; thus weakening all teams. : / SOTAC's said to be with Meridell this year, hence them being in the lead...

What they could potentially do is change the scoring so that your goals are divided by the number of players in the team, thereby evening it out between the big players and the smaller teams. I'm not sure how much of an uproar that would cause mind you!!! I well remember the initial uproar when they changed the Yooyuball game - hell, I was part of it - so a change like that could cause absolute mutiny! Well done on your 16 goals - my highest so far is 13 which I have hit a grand total of 4 times so far!!

That's a fascinating potential look at the behind scenes... and now I really want a yooyu. I have a CHristmas one but I suspect that was given in an event or something... most of my old petpets were. I might need to add that to my list of things to work for and perhaps have a Darigan (to mock my own lack of ability) or just buy a Clockwork as I don't think there's a paintbrush as they are so cute! The latter I could certainly do immediately, but I'm trying to build up my bank balance not deplete it! *Edit: Just realised the clockwork paintjob is the Robot brush. I'm being slow this morning!! Yes, I have to agree with you on the fingers and joints! I've noticed it more this year than last time I played, so I'm clearly getting old. It's a pity it's against the rules to coopt someone else to play for you. I have two much younger sisters who could be bribed and cajoled with sweet things and Lego. Although, not only would that get me banned from neopets, it might get me banned from the house as well... I can't imagine my foster mother being all too pleased at hyperactive children and more Lego on the floor! I'm always in two minds with the clockwork. One glad that an extra eight seconds is gone and two guilty because my ineptitude led to its explosion.

The first handful of times I had very few captcha's. Once I got over about 20 I was getting captcha's every time. No, there's no captcha on YYB or SS. In fairness, my email was polite and sensible rather than whining or rude - I asked if they had to keep the captcha's could they reduce the number down to every 50 games or something. I understand it's to stop cheaters, but a captcha on every game for a twenty second game is rather ridiculous and is really offputting. Particularly when some of the captcha's were putting me through three checks before I could move on, meaning the anti-cheating device was taking more time than the game itself!! I'll just end up not playing that game rather than hounding them in earnest, but it seemed worth a try to just chuck them a polite email and more voices tend to make more of a difference. I don't know a lot about computer security systems, I freely admit, but this seems like a really cack handed way to manage cheaters - and is one that adversely effects the majority of honestly playing characters more than the cheating players, who can also just do what I'm going to end up doing and not send scores on the two affected games.

its to be expected, what with the "winner's curse", but we've never finished dead last so as long as we can avoid that....

Agreed on all counts, but at least the NC items weren't confiscated from me as well I suppose. I also suspect they don't have a neomail template for 'you didn't use a banned word but we don't like the connotations so please don't do it again', so the official warning template is just a catch all! I mean, if it were a year old account and I wasn't firmly attached to my pets I might have tried it. Or if the worn item was several million neopoints worth in value. But whilst annoying, it was definitely not worth the value of my pets to me!! Nor the amount of time I've put in trying to get various trophies and the like!

That is certainly my aim. I want that shiny trophy! I'm slightly peeved that the Jelly Day ddin't match where I thought it would be - five days play should have taken us to Saturday and then Jelly Day on Sunday. I didn't play on Saturday, but knew I was losing the points. I hadn't expected to need to play yesterday and so was rather surprised this morning to discover I had lost not one but two play days and can't build points today. Bah!