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And I got another one yesterday... this is borderline insane. That's a Mara Cybunny, a Shroom Chia, a Mutant Ixi and something else... and I haven't spent more than 200k total. The first one I got for 160k odd or something. The rest have been under 5k each.

I've got the Grey Faerie today... may wait until tomorrow to complete so I can be confident that I won't wipe over the FFQ I've got stocked. I need to move Mythicent back to use the next FFQ. 

I've had similar luck. Got a second one a couple of days ago and got my Shroom Chia.

And just got another one for a whopping 2000np. Might paint one of my mutant pets...

9 hours ago, GillyTook said:

I am a huge idiot.  I somehow managed to search for 4 point items and spent an hour+ today grabbing well over 130 of them from the shop wiz.  Great.  Hope any of the others I was buying in bulk are 8 pointers, but I somehow doubt it.  

You're not an idiot - you'd have been using the previous CC page on JN I assume? From 2020? r98-100 used to be 8 points and r102+ used to be 4 points. They swapped them for this event.

32 minutes ago, GillyTook said:

I want the gruslen, but I just couldn't join the dark side.  Bleh.

Definitely can't afford that much, and am going with the second tier stuff **rolls eyes so hard they get stuck**  Ugh.  Seeing iffy things about if the staff is worth it or not.  Have seen yes if you do 2 player (I don't) and have seen yes no matter what.  **shrugs** No idea what to think.  Any idea if we can get a thread started later for how to best use the points we get to maximise our profits reselling rewards?

How many days does this last again?   I've found some cheap 6 point items and I'd like to buy out as many as I'll need for the event now before they're all gone.

I've got some trades up for 6 point items - UN selfbetrayal. I've got 10,000 down in wishlist, but feel free to offer whatever you want and I'll accept. I have over a thousand of the things. The event is 9 days but I've prepped for 10 just in case.

The staff is good, but not 200million good. It does between 13.6 and 19 damage with a medium of 16.3. Void Blade does 16 every turn. The big thing is that it blocks all dark damage and reflects 75% of light damage back as dark. Which is nice and certainly worth getting if the price drops enough, but is dependant on the enemy using light or dark attacks! But it is a good attacker and a blocker which is rare.

Feel free to start a thread in the General Neopets Chat section!

Well, I'm now a back street omelette dealer. My shop till is looking very healthy. Started selling at 4000np yesterday. Selling at 13,000np today. I bought these things at 200np or under. 

19 hours ago, berriganify said:

Same re: the petpet, that was the tipping point to joining illusen. Going to try and get it attached to one of my pets at release.

The petpet is why I picked Jhudora. Loved the little Gruslen.

15 hours ago, Cuddlesoftness said:

i can understand how some of you are disappointed but for me being the first time experiencing this CC type event it is pretty good. I have never been interested in the IStaff so doesn't bother me one way or the other but i will get some gourmet foods which is awesome  I just think we need to give TNT a chance they at least got this up and running like they said they would it is better then what i have heard previously of what they have accomplished so maybe instead of always ganging up on them we give them a break and just enjoy it for what it is and see how it goes for the next plot and next faeries festival.

I know i would hate to be staff because it seems it is nothing but bitching and complaining no matter what they try to do. They will never please all of us and what we feel is the right direction.

I chose to see the glass half full then half empty, it can only get better which is better then nothing at all

I think the problem is that they hyped this as CC and it isn't CC. CC is unlimited donations and rewards those who work at it. This is everyone gets a gold sticky star for less than a minutes effort a day. If they hadn't hyped it, maybe people wouldn't be so disappointed. But they did. And they told us to keep hoarding our trash. And then they made it so you can only donate 30 items a day, which means omelettes are now currency as they are worth 8 points which is crashing the site worse than unlimited donations as everyone frantically buys and sells omelettes.

We've been waiting three years for Charity Corner. To hype this as 'the best parts of Charity Corner' is absolute nonsense and they deserve all the shade thrown at them. 

41 minutes ago, GillyTook said:

I'm rather irked at the prize pools.  An unbuyable stamp, goodie bag, and set of wings on Judhora's side (not a dark faerie/bad guys sort, so was not wanting to go with her) vs. some battledome stuff when I STILL don't understand how that works, so no idea if worth it, and a bracelet that is buyable?  Were they trying to force people to go dark side, or do they just not care about equality?

 

Might have to buy some omelettes from you either way, since I hadn't been saving them up, and have no clue what's in my SDB.

 

Edit:  Donated 4 omelettes from my inventory and got 11 points?  Do they have to be particular omelettes, or am I not understanding this either?  I thought they were the maximum value items.  

It's the opposite - the top battledome price was worth 200million neopoints. It's hugely skewed to Illusens side if you have any interest in the Battledome. 

You need to donate r102+ omelettes: https://items.jellyneo.net/search/?min_rarity=102&max_rarity=150&sort=5 has all 102+ items. The prices are not accurate. I sold omelettes at 5800np each and sold 300 quickly.

48 minutes ago, berriganify said:

I really feel bad for the people who sunk so much time and effort into doing Illusen's Glade

I just feel really bad point blank. 

Absolute mickey take. IStaff for four minutes or under of effort. I just sold 170 omelettes for 4000np a piece. I'll only need like 300 of them maximum. Got over 700 to sell therefore. And I haven't bothered to look at my other 4 point items.

ETA: Just sold another 130 odd for 5800np. Easiest np ever. Max prize shop and make a fortune on omelettes of all things.

So the prize shops are up. And I am disappoint. There are no new items - it's all just re-releases of old items. Top prize for Illusen is the Illusens Staff but top prize for Jhudora is Jhudoras Cloud Stamp, not her staff. 

Who'd have thought it. Illusens Staff is now officially worth 120 omelettes. This site is absolutely ridiculous.

Illusen: https://items.jellyneo.net/prize-shop-guide/?shop=46

Jhudora: https://items.jellyneo.net/prize-shop-guide/?shop=47&points_left=&sort_by=1&sort_dir=asc

ETA: You can tell how disillusioned I am that I've picked Jhudora because the Staff is now going to drop so dramatically in price, I can buy it from the SW in ten days. Yay. Also, completed my donations in under a minute. What an event! How brilliantly engaging it is! It will make me spend hours on the site! /fullonannoyedsarcasm if nobody has gathered. 

21 hours ago, granny63020 said:

I too rank right up with you on the omelet front. LOL  They can have them and I will keep everything else. I wholeheartedly agree with you about this whole event. It is horrible but ranks right up there with all of the past events they have had from the past. I am trying to remember a CC event that hasn't been screwed up from the beginning and most always even to the end of the event. I'm wondering why I should think this one should be any different. Even the FF is a mess. I was denied a quest yesterday because I declined doing a Grey Faerie quest the day before. Glitch or no glitch they have yet to offer a replacement quest and give me an extra one to replace the one I didn't get and I got no daily prize either.  So happy days, so happy they have it all under control. If the item the Grey faerie wanted had not went from a price of about 1200 to 227000 I would have completed the quest but I refuse to play these members game seeing how high them can price the items and gouge members. Ridiculous if you ask me (I know, nobody asked me).

I've beenn absently checking the clothing shop today - not as often as I probably should but motivation is at an all time low. The Grey Faerie wants Ixi Fuzzy Markings which have gone from 5000 to 900,000np almost overnight. I paid 200,000 for the space cracker things but at least that was a definite Fountain Faerie quest and mushroom Chia is 20mil. I'm not paying 900k for a grey faerie shot in the dark.

I should have stopped being disappointed with TNT by now. They rarely manage to deliver a fraction of what they promise. The best parts of Charity Corner they said. And then have a 30 item limit meaning the event is over in five minutes a day. It's like they want to drive people off the darn site.

ETA: Don't hold your breath for the missing faerie quest. They never gave me my triple max of AC games on the first day despite it being a glitch that their programming team caused. I could have had a thousand more points. But nope. It wouldn't be fair. Or there wouldn't be a fair way to do it. Despite providing screenshots.

Just waiting for the wearable to get Dyeworks and look absolutely horrific.

The water vandy and petpets are cute though!

I have never loved Grarrls but the both of these are fantastic. I'm also a great lover of dinosaurs and both of these are fantastic. Also love the plushie!

So the points have changed again. Now r200's are no longer included - thank God I only bought two tombola guys. But r98-100 has been nerfed to 4 points? And r102's at 8 points? Guess my omelette hoard may come in handy after all. I am... absolutely baffled by the chaos they are creating with this.

And the max has gone up to 30 points. Which shows they really aren't listening. That's still far too low - considering people have thousands of items stored. And is item based not points based.

Having just checked, I have 1070 r102+ omelettes. If everything now stays the same, I have enough omelettes for 35 days of the festival. So I'm goooold.

18 hours ago, berriganify said:

It seems they removed it now, but originally the point spread listed r200-500 as worth 15 points. I agree that the NC items should be kept to a seperate system.

The 'fairer to newbies' argument is, idk, like yeah maybe it's a little unfair but that's just part of being a new player, you're not going to be able to participate in stuff to the same extent that older players can. I've been there myself lol, and I just waited for the next event. Which I suppose only works if they do these events more regularly than they have been over the past few years!

I really hope that if they're willing to remove the r500s from the general prize pool (assuming that they were meant to be included and that wasn't just a typo) that they lift the cap.

Also, fairer to newbies only makes sense if you can donate a ton of cheap items that newbies can get their hands on easily. A newbie would find it easier to donate 150 one point items than 10 15 point items. Hell, most of us would. I'm buying tombola guys from the Hidden Tower for it which completely destroys the purpose of recycling old items.

They do seem to have removed r500 from the page. But the 10 item limit is still there.

15 hours ago, Mouseykins said:

The reason things are becoming inflated is due to the "Charity Corner" aspect of this event. People want to take advantage of everyone's need for the higher rarities and skyrocket the price. It's a shame really as it ruins the event for people which is why in past Charity Corners, I've only done what I felt as the bare minimum. Now that we're only able to donate 10 items per day makes things a bit trickier as I have been hoarding piles of dung in my SDB for this such event.

I have over a thousand Shiny Obsidians that I've been stocking. But with a ten item limit and them onnly being worth 1 point, it's not worth it at all

The inflation is also because of the quest system. Only four faeries giving quests and a limited pool of requested items means that those item pools have inflated horrendously. 

3 hours ago, Pascalla said:

Ah. I guess I missed yesterday because I didn't know it started, but hey at least I got a Fountain Faerie Quest for my first quest today. Can't complain-- though I don't know what to use it for yet.

I missed Monday as it started late in the day and I'm eight hours ahead...

18 minutes ago, berriganify said:

The pay to win aspect is ridiculous. I have a decent amount of NC junk in my bank luckily, but not enough for the entire event, and I'm sure not giving them any more money after the NQ fiasco, so I'll probably be out of luck for whatever the top prize is. On top of still having mountains of worthless junk in my SDB.

Just disappointing really. Even for my usual expectations for TNT.

The NC element should be in a completely seperate part. Like previous years. Otherwise it's pay NC to get NP which goes against the rules of the site itself!

I have 75,000 items. If I collect dailies for the full 14 days that's another 500 items odd. I will be able to donate about 1/4 of the random junk I accumulate during the event itself. 

There's the whole 'more fair to newbies' argument. But how? r200 are worth 15 points. Cheapest is a baby paint brush at 600,000. So 6,000,000np a day for 150 points. Or 150 Shiny Obsidians for more grind but what? 10np each? So 1500np a day. But you can't get 150 points through Obsidians if there's a 10 a day cap. 

It screws everyone - the old players who spent hours over the last three years prepping. The new players who can't afford 15 point items to donate. And any player who can't afford NC. TNT have outdone themselves on the ridiculousness here.

I do wish they'd go back to giving us a day and a half for the first day of any event. It hadn't started by the time I logged off work and so I missed the first day. They know people are in different time zones and they always used to account for that but haven't for the last two events. It wouldn't be so bad if they set the event to go live at midnight NST, but it's a pain in the rear when you have to wait for them to program it to start and if you're eight hours ahead you miss it.

Rant over.

First quest

Which would be awesome as it's a 300np item. Except shop wizard is showing the cheapest at almost 500,000np. Why do people have to be like this. I'm refreshing the main shop page instead. I swear previous years weren't this bad.

Has anybody else seen the Charity Corner side of things update? I can't find it on the main website, but it's all over the neoboards and Reddit. So ten items a day with the best points being for NC items. TNT have successfully destroyed Charity Corner AND turned it pay to play. I thought they were planning on listening to their user base this time?

Edit to add: https://www.jellyneo.net/index.php has all the information.

And I've gone Mara! If only because I can't see me having spare budget for NC in the next few months and I'm not willing to get rid of a pet to get a Shroom. Next NC purchase will definitely include five new pet slots though!

Oooooh boy, I need that Magical Plushie and ain't that going to hurt!! It's absolutely adorable!! So squishable!!

I do like the pastel. It's a stunning gradient but with a slightly florescent edge.

And both the wizard and the shaggy dog are very cool. I'm trying to figure out if it's the wand making the Poogle look unhappy or if it's just an unhappy Poogle...

You need to transfer np that was earning on your main to your side. Anything else runs the risk of getting frozen.

What I do is put up a junk trade of 10 items on my main. I offer from my side with like 1np and accept on my main. My side now has junk items. I then create a new trade on the side with one of those items. Bid on it from my main with say 20,000np to last me a while. Accept. Side now has legal np.

As Duma said, you cannot collect interest on any np you have on a side as this is 'earning np'.

The outfit is very nice. Reminds me of the Gila Lizard. I like the fact that lots of these outfits are almost new colours in and of themselves. I also really like the woodland tail!

But yeah, Valentine is underwhelming. It's just a copy and paste of a bland colour scheme onto most pet. No innovation or creativeness. It's like the Cybunny tail could have been a heart. The only really nice one they've released has been the Draik with the heart details on the tail.

On 7/30/2023 at 7:51 AM, berriganify said:

I'm a little annoyed that they moved the quick stock button to the opposite side of the page just after I'd gotten used to it being on the right... but the SDB link is definitely a welcome change, and I know NC traders have been asking for unstacking for years (although I'm not sure why exactly lol)

On 7/30/2023 at 5:12 PM, granny63020 said:

When GlitchtaleLover  told me what that stack able button was for I too did not understand why I needed that since when stacked the number of that item was next to it and let me know I have 4 of whatever. So, now I'm curious, why would it make a difference to NC Traders? You have the same amount of the item,stacked or not.

It's because if you buy say 10 of a gram/cap, maybe 2 of them will have the bonus item - if you're lucky. When it stacks, you have to actively remove the top one from the inventory before you can check the next one. It's a pain in the rear. It's why we used to use the old inventory where nothing stacked - you could check each item individually.

19 hours ago, ranga_muffin said:

I'm sorry I'm a bit confused by your transmog option, but here's my opinion for your others:

Before I read your Cybunny's name I thought maraquan or oil, and having read their name I think definitely maraquan.

In terms of the Hissi, I too like the faerie (and likely easier to customise/more variety), although I am also a sucker for lost desert, especially this design.

I also have to agree with Angelo though. I have been trying to work out which fruit/veg chia to get for years (no joke), now that there's a sroom option, well that's pretty difficult to pass up too! I suppose it depends on what matters more to you currently - the best value/savings or which pet speaks to you most even if it's not what you expected.

I have a mutant side and used FFQ's/Premium Perk to get the really expensive options a while back. I saved the cheaper ones to do at my own leisure as they were all 1.5mil-2mil potions. Looking at prices now, they have absolutely sky rocketed. Almost every potion has an inflation warning on it. So the last three in my original plan would now cost 21mil instead of a max of mil.

I think Cyrenye is definitely going to be Maraquan. It does fit with both plays on the name, particularly siren.

If I want the Shroom, I need more pet space. May have to wait til next month. Can't justify near £20 on virtual money for pet slots this month...

I'm a bit of both. I see no point in using the FFQ for something within 3-5 million. I can easily spring for that myself. So Baby. Tyrannian and Faerie are all non runners. I don't pick colours by cost, but certainly aim to get the best deal if using a freebie! So Mara or Shroom are the best options.

32 minutes ago, iloveeevee said:

I personally would do the Maraquan Cybunny, the maraqua paint brush is quite pricy imo and also maraquan pets look sooo cool. it fits your cybunnys name so well too! like the color scheme is so fitting!!

also the potions could go down in price again

The Mara brush is definitely pricey and it does fit the pet name! I need to buy more pet slots on a side to have a new pet anyway, it seems!

9 hours ago, Angeló said:

I think you should get a Sroom Chia ... because we need more Fruit and Veggie Chias in Neopia

Have you seen FrenchFrying, my Potato Chia ?

No I hadn't - that's brilliant!

I do like the idea of having a mushroom chia. Which considering I always hated the Chia's is...unusual for me! I'll sit on the quest whilst I contemplate names.

On 8/20/2023 at 6:15 AM, berriganify said:

I'm so conflicted, because that spy outfit is so lovely........ but.... meercas are just... too round

I am in agreement. But that Peacock tail is wonderful... I kinda want a meerca just for the tail!

Eh, I actually quite like the Burlap. Although it's not going to beat Burlap Kau for my heart.

I do like the elemental designs - particularly water - and the new outfit. The plushie is indeed adorable and my gallery needs it.

Steampunk is a tad busy for my last but I love the elemental and hydra clothing! Also the marble egg. Been a while since we've had a draik egg I think?