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Try zooming out? That worked for me at least! I’ve now played Slushie Slinger on mobile and it’s playable - just - but even more hellish than normal. The image is really poorly defined so I can’t make out my score!! The controls are clunky and you can’t turn without hurling a slushie if you have one in your hand, so if you need to collect with a slushie in your hand you hurl it regardless of whether there are any customers! So many lives lost! i am dreading this year, particularly the first week where I am on leave and so virtually entirely reliant on the mobile games!!! And just tried YYB. There is no way to zoom on mobile and I can’t get the game to start!!!

Got there eventually! Clearly my two pets are celebrating Fyora day this week!

I found several minor issues with YYB, but nothing massive. My main issue was the Darigan ball, but I always had trouble with that! And the fact that now any player can pick up bonuses; I like to save them for when I need them which now doesn't work. The auto player switch is still as annoying as it was last year as well. Personally, if I'm using one player, let me bleeding use them! I have a plan and I don't need the game deciding to switch to a closer player who then hares off in the wrong direction!! SOSD's goalie is annoyingly fast in comparison to last year. Slushie Slinger's controls are glitchy, requiring double clicks, and there is a huge predominance of green slushies for some random reason. MSN was about normal. Of course, this was all on Desktop. I haven't tried YYB and SS on mobile yet, but I wasn't too impressed with SOSD and MSN is a complete and utter catastrophe! SOSD doesn't want to move the ball, so I have to shoot from the middle. MSN top score was under 800 despite tapping for all I'm worth. It is not good. I will have to garner the motivation to try SS and YYB at some point... but I really don't wanna!! I know several members of this group don't play YYB at all and managed to All-Star last year. I think if you max any single game for the entire tournament, you can All-Star. But remember, All-Star doesn't get you the top, top prizes. All-Star alone may get you the Yooyu. But to get the top (usually clothing) items, you will need to double AS or above!!

@Angeló I did not I'm afraid! I went Maraqua this year, so still sticking to one of my usual three (Maraqua, Darigan and Lost Desert). I had a brief flirt with backing the underdog Moltara, but losing all the games no matter how hard I played would just be depressing. But Shenkuu was definitely a close call!! Yep, hence why I've given up on caps... Well, I tried SOSD and MSN on mobile yesterday evening. It... did not go well. SOSD is playable, but not brilliant. I can't figure out how to make the ball move so I'm always shooting from the centre. MSN is just impossible. Tapping as fast as I could, I struggled to get a score about 800... in the entire time limit. I can usually break 2700 quite easily. It's not well done AT ALL!!!

Maybe I'm just a nerd, but I quite literally squealed with excitement when I saw this crossover challenge on the boards: http://www.neopets.com/neoboards/topic.phtml?topic=161074444&next=1 http://www.neopets.com/~thermale#1 If anyone fancies joining me, I've picked Charmander as my starter Pokemon! You never know. This might actually encourage me to even play MSN!

Ever the optimist. I think they are just trying to claw back NC sales any way they can do in honesty. I mentioned in another thread, they really shot themselves in the foot by nixing the Brazilian NC card values from 2000NC to 750NC. A lot of people - myself included - bought a small ton of them just before the values were dropped and so haven't had to purchase any further NC all year. Others simply can't afford the value rate and have just stopped buying NC. And still more are just so furious about the whole thing that they are refusing to buy NC on principal. I can't blame them in honesty. The on site rate of NC value is far too high - particularly for 'luck' items like the retired caps or caps with a bonus item. You have to buy tons of them to get a chance of the item you want - which at 200NC/250NC a pop could easily equal £45 dollars just on a single capsule. It's not worth it. I've been tempted a couple of times since and got stung by the low bonus rates - I think I bought 25 odd Heartbreaker grams and got a single Dark Castle Background. But thats some 4000NC just wasted. So I'm now going to do the event things, ignore the caps completely and save to hopefully get a UC/extra pet slot. And hah, yes. If I was doing the videos, I'd likely be fired after the first one!

Well, I've now tried all the games on desktop. They take a while to load and I need to do the YYB zoom out work around to make that game work but everything else is kiiiinda fine. MSN - never been a favourite and never will be, but I'm hopeful that it might be more playable if there aren't the dreaded CAPCHA's this year. YYB - needs the zoom out work around, but seems to be working ok other than that. Thank the most high that they have kept the skip ability for goals scored. I was dreading a return of the last revamp where you couldn't claw seconds back per game!! I'm hoping they make it not Full Screen for the main tournament. SOSD - that goalie is fast! I'm missing more than I'm scoring, but it's still quick and relatively easy. SS - more flaws here that I can see. The controls are clunky and often require you to click a button twice to do anything as it doesn't register the first click. There is a huge dominance of green slushies as well. And the strangeness of a customer turning up with a red slushie and it immediately changing to green. Sometimes I got full points for them, sometimes I didn't. However, I did manage to hit the min score without issues. I'll have a look at the mobile versions in a bit... Yep, me too! I also missed more goals than I actually scored. Oops. Ouuch. I've used Chrome and Edge on both desktop and laptop and had no issues. I'm not sure what to suggest. Once loaded do they continue to be slow? It might be that you just need to have a single tab open and max it before playing anything else?

Just in case anyone else is also scrolling through the retired archives to find this, I suspect the game caps and minimum required scores will be the same this year as they were last year: Yooyuball: 46 wins/draws Slushie Slinger: 86 games (270 points min score) Make Some Noise: 401 games (2700 points min score) Shootout Showdown: 401 games (35 points or 1 goal min score) Note you have to play for at least 10 seconds for the game to be valid.

I got All Star last year by seriously bolstering my YYB with SOSD and to a lesser degree MSN. So my YYB alone would have got me to rank 19 last year, but my SOSD alone would have got me to rank 13, so easily pushed me over the All Star ranking. I don't think it would have been possible just doing YYB though as I get so frustrated with that game that I inevitably need a cool down period!! MSN and SS had the aggravating CAPCHA's last year as well - so did SOSD but I powered through them as the game at least is so quick and easy. MSN and SOSD both have the same points value (1, I believe). But for me at least SOSD is so mindless and quick that I could rack up the points relatively quickly. MSN hurts my wrists as you've said and takes more concentration and time to get the minimum score - the amount of time it takes me to get the min score on it is the same it takes me to complete SOSD! SS is my nemesis. It's long, slow and gives half the points of YYB. I only played it on the rare occasion I had maxed both YYB and SOSD AND had extra free time before the end of the day and I'd split that between SS and MSN depending on which was annoying me more at the time. I ended up with enough points to get the stamp, the yooyu and some of the books which was me sorted. I was so very keen to get the yooyu prize - it's like what drove me all the way through the competition. Yooyuball Goals Scored 7,130 Goals by Layton Vickles 748 Goals by Tormo "The Terror" Frein 2,895 Goals by Kep Bonnefie 2,858 Goals by Tandrak Shaye 629 Saves by Reshar Collifey 981 Number of Wins 727 Number of Draws 1 Number of Losses 0 Slushie Slinger Games Played 30 Top Score 665 Make Some Noise Games Played 436 Top Score 5,678 Shootout Showdown Games Played 4,800 Top Score 1,200 I still haven't tried booting it up on my mobile. But lots of mobile data will limit that as I can't currently access my work wifi on my phone as the stupid thing thinks it knows the password but it's been changed since. Can I figure out how to delete the data without wiping every password from my phone? Can I hell. If it was a simply regular router it would be fine. But because it's a big server and you have to go to an external page to put the password in, the phone isn't recognising it as saved. It is however saved because it keeps trying to connect and then locking me out of my actual work account. I've ended up literally just turning the wifi off as I step into the building!!

Now that would make it worth it. Although... chances are it would be for 45 whacks and I'd have missed it by two shots! I honestly thought the thing was glitched and would never break!!

It sounded like they are going to be releasing 7+ slots as NC items... which makes me a tad bit salty. It's in their best interests if we have more pets after all!! So since 2010 ish apparently, the exchange rate on the Brazilian cards has been mega favourable. So you could buy 2000NC from a Brazilian Shoppy seller for between $7-10 dollars dependent on sales and you got 4 boxes with each card. I think I got them as low as $5.50 a pop at one point. And the sellers were still making money on it because of the exchange rate. TNT decided in their eternal wisdom to nix this and so now a single Brazilian NC card (still around $7) gives you 750NC and two boxes instead of 2000NC and four boxes. It is still a slightly better rate than buying it on site - you get 2250NC for essentially $21. Which when onsite NC is 2000NC for $20 with no boxes, is a slight saving. I think you essentially get 150NC free plus the boxes (three cards equals six boxes) that you otherwise have to hope for Trudy or open GBC's for. I think a lot of people did what I did - and spent a fortune bulk buying NC cards before the value was nixed, so I haven't had to spend any new money on the site in about eight months in honesty. Others have simply stopped buying Neocash because there isn't a cost effective way to purchase it anymore and frankly, the actual exchange rate makes a single GBC $2.50 and it's simply not worth the cost. Essentially, I think in an effort to pull more money out of the users they shot themselves in the foot and are now desperately looking for ways to get people to purchase more NC.

So today I have hit a Pawkeet Pinata some 35 times. It has still not broken. EDIT: IT FINALLY BROKE! 43 times in total!! It was not worth it. Three two point items. Bah!

But close! It just didn't quite sit well with me to completely swap teams. I already have loyalty issues, but at least those loyalty issues are confined to three teams... and that one year where I apparently picked Roo Island. I'm disowning that year. It would be awesome to see how many people signed up for each team. It would be really interesting to have it confirmed if FL and Moltara's weak performances are linked to the lack of players!!

No worries - I got caught on the back foot last year by CC and had to spend about half a million just getting items as they all inflated in price!! I think I finished up with 16k in points, which wasn't bad for a last ditch effort. I should be well in excess of 70k points this year. I've probably spent more over the year on junk, but the prizes will hopefully be worth it. I tend to stick to the following point-cost ration: 1 point items: 10np and under 2 point items: 20np and under 4 point items: 200np and under 6 point items: 300np and under 8 point items: too expensive to buy as they sit around 1000np minimum and it isn't worth it. When CC is officially announced the prices sky rocket so 1 point items went for 30-50np, 2 point items 100-150np and 6 point items 700-1000np. So it's well worth stocking up now! The gold trophy requires 10k points, so you'll need a fair few items!

And I remembered to get an entry in! Go me!!! Mosaic pets are hard though. They are so busy that any clothing tends to look ridiculous on them!

I'd have voted for that purely because it made me giggle!!

Welcome back! I returned from a years long hiatus about this time last year... just in time for Flash to die! Food Club is definitely the go to as a np earner, particularly if you're back in your main and aged accoount. I've made some 30 million on it in less than a year... and then spent most of that on petpets but hey ho! You're back just in time for the Altador Cup as well. Which looks to be... interesting times shall we say. But if you can make the games work, you should be able to All Star by maxing a single game most days of the event (I did it last year maxing YYB and SOSD and taking weekends off). There are usually some decent prizes at the end of it all. The wearables, stamp and books usually sell well. I'm contrary and will be aiming for the Yooyu to add to my small but growing gallery. As you're back in an old account, make sure to check your SDB - you may have some hidden treasures that you can sell for a fortune. I did not. And as an extra hint - start stocking up on junk now. Charity Corner should be starting sometime after the AC; possibly August. You donate junk to get points and nice prizes. I made about 2 million selling my prizes last year and I only started stocking up as the event was announced. This year I've been more prepared and have something like 50k of items awaiting donation in my SDB!

It looks like at least some of my fears have come to pass. There are obvious issues in the games, even if there are work arounds for them. TNT have released an absolute ton of NC items and we haven't even hit the Luxury Lounge yet - I'm debating over whether I want all those Yooyuballs for my Yooyu gallery. My side doesn't have NC so I'd have to buy cards to make it happen and I'm not sure I want to. I've now tried all but SS on a laptop and I can make it work I think. I'll have to give it a shot on my mobile though as that may well be a completely different matter!!

Joined Maraqua this year. Darigan last year but I've swapped between Darigan, Lost Desert and Maraqua over the years and went with the smaller team this time. I have no loyalty do I?? @jellysundae I almost picked Shenkuu so your unwavering support has clearly had an impact on me!!

Well, that's me saving my remaining NC then isn't it!? I was half expecting they'd do it as an NC item but it sucks to be right. I was really hoping they'd do it as a plot or reward that didn't require actual money. I expect it's going to be easily over 5000NC to get the convert item in honesty. Which just moves the game further into 'pay to win' categories. I am hoping that they will allow us to convert our current pets. I have a Plushie Shoyru and have plans to get either a Mara Draik or Krawk through a FFQ or Premium Perk and I think both of those are potential UC's. I'm more salty about pet slots being an NC item. Just give us more pets!! The more pets we have, the more NC custom items we will buy for them so surely it's a win win even free. I think TNT are really suffering after the loss of the Brazilian NC card value - a lot of people, myself included, haven't bought NC since. Admittedly, I spent a small fortune just before they crashed the values so had something like 60,000NC in November. I'm down to 20,000NC now as I traded a ton of the MME's for big wishlist items!

Well, I got YYB to work by zooming out and then I could click play. Like why is that even an issue? What is wrong with TNT!? I thought last years CC was bad enough but honest to God this is just going to be a flaming shower of poop, isn't it!? I've just realised this years timings really don't work for me either - although thats a me problem, not a TNT problem. I have a week off work the day the AC starts and I'll have limited computer access at best. And then I have a huge data cleaning dealine the following week that really can't be ignored!! I may end up playing on my phone... which fills me with all sorts of dread!! It's clear that the NC Mall is the focus for TNT. So many new items have been released and we haven't even got the NC Luxury Lounge yet or whatever it will be called this time. The pet slots being an NC item really grinds my gears though. I mean, just give us another slot for pity's sake. Don't make us literally pay for the priviledge. I can see why UC's are going to be an NC item, but it is moving the game so much further into the 'pay to win' category which is sad.

So, having wandered onto the boards like the fool I am, I have noted that TNT have posted an entire post dedicated essentially to what doesn't work and how to get around it: http://www.neopets.com/neoboards/topic.phtml?topic=161118979 I mean... they only had an entire year to prepare for this event. Is it so impossible to actually test things and make them work prior to releasing the games?? This topic has been edited by a member of staff (hrtbrk). This topic is regarded as high importance by site staff. Per the reason above, this topic has been PINNED.

I've signed up ok. But I can't get the YYB game to actually play. It forces me to full screen which is annoying but dealable. But then it says 'Play Now' and ummm... I can't click on it or start the game at all... which is less than helpful!! I'll have to go check out the boards now... Hah! Yep. Majorly annoyed people! Well, I can play SOSD and MSN with no issues. Haven't tried SS yet. This may be my first AC where I try to reach All Star without playing YYB!!!

Starting positive I see! Good luck!! Hahahahahahaha. Imagine TNT being organised enough to do pre-cup testing. It's like a strange alternative universe.

She is pretty. I was half tempted to buck tradition and back either Faerieland or Moltara this year but decided against it at the last second!!