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If Goob comes in, 12:10 or 16:10 seems reasonable. Of course, that does mean neither of the 13:1's in the 2/?/?/13 arena's winning... and Goob needs to come through!

Yeah I did try the Golden Dubloon but I can never get in. So I'm haunting the petpet shop instead. Particularly for Deaver, Snarhook's and Cofflings which are all under 5 dubloons. Nawhool (sp?) are also good. Some of them are worth 4 CC points, so a double win... if they restock! Hopefully it will be fixed when they move it to the new interface. They've made it so Kitchen Quests only give stat increases to your active pet on the update, so I'm hopeful!

And the pirate petpet shop really isn't stocking a lot of low priced pets. I've bought a handful of ten and twenty dubloon coins for a fraction of the cost of a five dubloon coins, but splitting them is becoming a nuisance. I managed to snag a Snarhook a second ago to break one of them... but this is aggravatingly slow!

48:10 yesterday! My dropping a safety and putting the full 16:10 base bet in paid off. I was tempted to add in the 8:10 as well, but thought I'd really be pushing my luck! I've taken Garet's formula but boosted Lagoon instead of Harpoon. 2/3/10 seemed better odds than 2/2/5, but I may be proven wrong!

I had a bust yesterday but woke up to a lovely 56:10 today. Pity I didn't drop another safety and do the base bet, but I thought I was already pushing it! I've gone with Garet today.

14:10 today and I accidentally skipped Saturday so missed out on 18:10 - doh. Gone with Garet again today, although removed one of the 13:1 Goob safeties and replaced it with an 8:1 base bet.

Oh, I jpined the movement to send them a ton of faxes a day that was going on at the time. And joined a guild for the first time. I was outraged! I think I stopped playing for a long time shortly afterwards in honesty! But yes, I really want this years event to go well and be of a decent standard... unfortunately, I don't want to set my hopes too high as they are destined to be dashed! Hah! That sums it up nicely!

They do and now the whole outfit is up. I removed one of the background pieces as it looked a tad too busy...

Yeah, I was doing that whenever a faerie or darigan yooyu came in at the start of the tournament as I can't play those balls for the life of me. Then I discovered it wasn't permitted, swore silently and started reading my book when those balls came in instead.

Oh I'd forgotten about the CAPTCHAS. How did I forget about the bleeding CAPCTHA's??? They drove me barmy last year. I barely played SS and MSN because of them and was almost ready to throw my computer out the window with SOSD! I managed just over All-Star last year and I was cursing the limit on YYB as that was the only game without the bleeding CAPCHAS... I mean, it's awesome that they lowered the requirements for All Star since my last experience with the AC, but having to find parking meters every three games was seriously aggravating!

Yeah, that's my exact fear. I recall an editorial or something saying the games would be released as a 'trial run' for practice and feedback... I'd have expected that to happen by now if it was going to happen at all. Let's be honest, how much feedback do they really hope to implement change on in less than a month!? The thing is that people are annoyed by the poor implementation of the currently converted games, but they don't form a big part of the site. However when you have an event like the AC where people have to play the same game hundreds/thousands of times through a month in order to get the decent prizes... that game needs to be up to scratch. And you forgot Igloo Garage with its 'suspicious score', Pink Runner not carrying scores over across levels and Fashion Fever that now requires you to dress up the pet to get a measley 300np. I can still to this day recall the hoo-hah when they changed the YYB from the simplistic format to what was until this year the current format. And yes, they fixed some of the really obnoxious things like originally you couldn't skip through the goal scoring animation, but in reality they said like it or lump it and the player base eventually settled down. I'd like to say that was about 7 years ago? I may be horribly wrong about that. But it was when I was working in my current place of employment for the first time... I spent three years or so in two other universities and have been back there for ... nearly three years. I'm fairly confident it was relatively late in my time in the A Team, but not in my last six-twelve months. So that puts it around 7-8 years ago... And let's be honest... it's not as though TNT have hugely improved their communication skills since then... *cough* Charity Corner *cough*. Or their organisation skills, *cough* three years to prepare for the demise of Flash *cough*. Ot put more attention into the non-NC aspects of the site... *cough* three retired mystery capsules in as many months but no new converted games *coughs*. I really ought to get this throat tickle looked at... So what I fear we're going to see is a perfectly presented NC site to the tournament, but at a slight mark up from last years prices. A reasonable staff tournament because let's be honest, it would be difficult to screw that up. And an absolute hot mess of a main event with barely working games, glitches galore and possibly missing side games because they forgot to convert them... Call me a pessimist.

Personally, I have the same sense of low key dread that I got coming into it last year mixed with the excitement of possibly getting another Yooyu for my gallery. The dread is always there because playing the same games hundreds of time is never going to fill me with glee... This year though, I don't have the feeling of missing out on neopoints by not playing my usual flash games for 50-100k a day... as there are so very few Flash games. However, I also have this growing dread that of the flash games that they have converted, very few of them actually work. And even the ones that do work are glitchy as hell - I'm looking at you, Turmac Roll. So are we going to be met with a game that is all but unplayable creating the kind of chaos that we haven't seen since the year they revamped the game and it was met with outright shock, hatred and serious rage??

They've done nicely on both the colour and the clothing, haven't they? I particularly like the vines flowing up the Woodland Hissi. Very pretty! The outfit would probably look awesome on the Woodland Hissi as well! Unfortunately only the staff and tail piece are currently modelled on DTI

Oooh, I'll have to try and see if I get a different one tomorrow! I didn't check the converted page today!

It was something along the lines of: I just thought I would check whether you were all right up there at TNT as we have noticed that there have been several incorrect quiz answers recently. What with the recent exposure of Topsi, I thought it worth taking the time to ask whether there has been a hostile takeover that we haven't noticed? I thought after I sent it that I should have included a line about them responding in coded messages via morse code or something. But it was the end of the working day and I was running on empty at the time. Yeah, my editorial question did not make it through to the final edition... who'd a thunk it?!

I just sent in an Editorial question asking if they were all ok and whether Topsi had taken over without us noticing. ... I'm not sure how they'll manage to respond if Topsi has taken over mind you...

It doesn't look like you missed much over the weekend, although some lucky so and sos got 70:10 on Saturday. Garet got 14:10. And yep, 32:10 for you as well!

Tuskadreams the Island Tuskanniny is UFA. I'm currently training stats to make her more adoptable as well.

32:10 yesterday. Score! Gone with Garet, but I've taken the Tailhook safety over the Admiral Blackbeard safety.

Ooouuuuuch! But you might want to add a few words to that post or it will get pinged by the mods I think!

Yeah, I'm at 20k per upgrade or something and my eyes water every time I do it. Particularly when the plushies are worth less than the upgrade itself!!

I do like the elderly base and the male clothing. It won't persuade me to change from my Royal Werelupe, but in honesty very little would! Again, I echo the wish that they'd used a slightly different base with the male and female... that's the second time they've done that in the last month now. I'm not so keen on the female clothing, I admit. The image for the outfit isn't showing here for me, so just in case anyone else is having the same issue: Now that is very, very smart. I may have to wait for it to come down in price and HarmBoer can be a faerie capturing werelupe occasionally! I really like all the individual elements and it will go well with my usual spooky forest theme for him.

It could have been worse... although that meat stew looks awful!

Well, that's the Skeith avatar out of the way and now the Tuskanniny avatar to boot. Maybe the Kacheek avatar tomorrow. Although this is costing me a small fortune as I painted the Skeith Faerie and the Tuskanniny Island using the morphing potions!

Glad it's not just me then! I did think how insane it was to invest np into painting and training a random pet that's going back into the pound... and decided this was happening anyway. Now to the neolodge and then back to the Pound. Edit May 12th: Up to a whopping total of 40,000 items in my SDB for the next Charity Corner! And I suppose if they have a revamp and change it completely so you can only donate certain items I've got over 1000 Shiny Obsidians that can go to the furnace of the Rubbish! avatar...