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@berriganify Legend of Dragon, Final Fantasy and Monster Rancher were essentially the theme tunes of my childhood/adolescence. And Pokemon of course. I never played Dark Cloud as a youngster, but I do have the port on my PS4. I'll have to give it a shot! I almost certainly have the LoD game kicking around. I had like four copies of it at one point as there was a glitch in one of the later bosses that froze the game. Now with the advent of the internet, I know it's because of the Dragoon form. As a teen, I thought my game was busted and bought another. My brother scratched one of the discs, so I bought another. Yeah, that one obviously glitched in the same way... @Aquamentis12I've been after the Turmy avatar for yonks. But again, attention span of a constipated flea means that I only remember to catch Turmy about once a week usually! The reason for it being him? He's my cheapest petpet by a long stretch and I'm not fond of any of the paint jobs bar Faerie which is inordinately pricey and still doesn't really fit the custom as well as the Spring Talpidat. It's a pity there aren't any Oilpaint petpets... I find NQ entertaining and tedious at the same time... which is a strange combination. I will finsih my Evil run of II at some point... maybe... Oh, I'm not fussy with CC. I have a collection of 6 point items because it would be foolish not to. 1616 Wind Up Chia Clown's is probably my record... 840 Space Goggle Helmet might be the next one. It's been a while since I updated my spreadsheet so I've just checked from memory the ones I knew I have a lot of! But I'm not fussy at all. I have 1349 Shiny Obsidian, 620 Water Mote, 944 Gorunda. I have stocked virtually everything! I'd guarentee that I have at least 10k points in 1 point items alone! I mean, TNT have accepted user designs for pets. I don't think they offer monetary compensation though. If you're willing to design the maps etc for little reward, it can't hurt to send them in. But I imagine it's a lot of work! Unfortunately the Legend of Dragoon is only available for download in USA. It was hands down my favourite game despite never managing to get past the glitch on disc 4 mentioned above. I played through the main story up to that point SOOOOO many times. I adored the battle system. It was a perfect mix of turn based battle and needing to pay attention behind hitting 'attack'! And you've just reminded me of Breath of Fire as well!! I'll have to have a look at the Dragon's Lair series. I'm more into RPG's than arcade, but I don't mind straying out periodically. Danganronpa caught me completely despite being more visual novel for instance.

Four nerks - Copper, Aluminium, Ultra Golden and Average Two tan codestones - Mau and Tai-Kai One red codestone - Vux And a neocola token - Blue Certainly can't complain!

@Aquamentis12 Double All-Star near killed me that year. I knew I wasn't going to manage it this year as I have a new job that is rather more involved and would be obvious that I ummm... was doing absolutely nothing all day. The year before I got away with it because I was a data monkey who had trained my site staff well over the years before. I essentially got away with doing a morning of frantic work to bring my weekly numbers up, produced the reports, preened slightly and did nothing until same time next week. That just wouldn't work with this role! But I was hoping for All-Star. Which ummm... didn't happen. I was on track until about end of week 2 when I just lost all mojo and couldn't be bothered! I do love me some cute petpets. I've spent a decent chunk on them over the last couple of years; Darigan Candychan is by far the most elusive. But matching petpets became a great joy and a way to waste neopoints! So my Woodland Ruki has a Woodland Rock, Mara Lutari and Kiko have a Mara Snowbunny and Bubbles respectively, Toy Vandy has a Royal Turmac because the colour match and goofy look was too good to pass up, my Royal/Halloween Lupe has a Bat Boy and my Hallo/Transparent Hissi named Voldermorts has a Grey Weewo named Hedwig! I have a couple left to go on my main - tdub currently has a Feepit that I'm trying to feed to Turmy (a pity as it's my oldest petpet, but doesn't match his paint job at all - I have a Spring Talpidat for him after to make up for the loss of his friend), and my Hallo Grundo has a Snicklebeast which I put on for the avatar but never removed. I do have a Halloween Rock in my SDB though... there's a plan! Oh wow, some people really have gone all out on training, haven't they. I'm more of a jack of all trades - master of precisely zero. I got interested in trophies for a while and started caning Flash games. Same with avatars until Flash went bump. Hence the flitting with the Edna quests that I got bored of! I've been on off training tdub for... years and years and because I have the attention span of a constipated gnat, it's slow going! I got the Jhudora trophy/avatar but got bored and never got around to doing Illusen. Same story with NQ - I have silver at NQI and bronze at NQII. I've been 'working on' my NQII playthrough for... over two years! I get completely obsessed by events - I have over 60,000 junk items awaiting the next Charity Corner for my sins! But yeah, if you have thousands of HP and maxed strength/defence, it doesn't really matter what your weapon set is I guess. Although by that point, one would assume those with 14,000HP also have a nifty weapon set to go with it! I didn't know Cotzan could increase level so much!! I'll have to be cautious if I get closer to 300. I do not want to be making that mistake twice and it would be an expensive mistake to make now! I just got two levels from the Light Faerie putting me at 270. So still a ways to go, but I'm slightly paranoid now! Despite owning a PS2, I never actually played that game! It's a pity they haven't ported it to PS4. I'm still sore that they only ported The Legend of Dragoon (PS1) to American PS Vitas. Makes me very cross as that was my all time favourite game. For a while I even considered buying a second Vita, setting it to US and having it JUST for that one game. I decided this ummm... probably wasn't a good investment though! And thanks - as both are relatively cheap, I'll pick them up to stick in my SDB just in case!

@Aquamentis12 The year before I managed to Double All-Star and was thrilled with the 16mil I got from the Snow Yooyu Dress or whatever it was. I immediately spent it on a Candychan which was my absolute dream petpet! This year I managed 5500 points as I got bored half way through and couldn't summon the energy to fight past it! I think the reason the stamps are so much more expensive this year is because there are more of them. Usually everyone who has the points buys the one stamp on offer and they sell for a set price of around 4 million. However, because this year people had three stamps and the Thunder Sticks to choose from, there are less of each individual item in circulation so the price is far higher. Yeah, if your HP and defence are maxed, then you have way more fire power! I had meant to level boost past the seven and eight tan codestones but made an error somewhere and ended up in seven codestone territory way sooner than I should have. Oh, that was it. I got a wonderful boost at just the wrong time which either pushed my level to 151 or boosted my HP past double 150. I had rarely had more than a two point boost so didn't worry too much and then went, oh bleeding typical! So I ended up level boosting to level 250 even though my stats still hadn't maximised in the slightest to the level! So now I have catching up to do with red codestones! Typically, since then tan codestones have drastically reduced in price - an Eo was 18k easily when I was boosting and all the others were between 4k and 10k. Most of them are now 2k-4k and one is 6k with Eo being about 12k. I have a stock of tan codestones as well, but I'm debating training a secondary set or selling and if I'm selling I'll wait for the Battledome plot to come round! I knew about the 10 limit - I spent a little while fruitlessly trying for the Edna avatar with no success. I ended up gettign five in. Three I timed out due to cost, one was an item, two money and the two stat increases. Still cheaper than a red codestone! I was thinking Dark Faerie... but I think she's had several plots already, so you might well be closer with the Grey Faerie. Maybe not the reformed incarnation bit though!

@Aquamentis12Certainly worth keeping an eye on the new items, you're right. I was looking at the Thunder Sticks in the AC, but they seem ridiculously high priced for what they are. Yes, a freezer plus 16 damage is awesome. But the price differential between 2.5mil for a freezer and then the two Void Blades which I got for free vs 40 million in Thunder Sticks seems absurd in honesty! Admittedly, I could also get them free. I didn't do anywhere near as well this year in the AC, but could get any one of the stamps or the Thunder Sticks. So I'm just going to see which is worth more closer to the next AC I think. The 40-50mil from any of them could buy my way into an entire Battledome set instead of just one item! I've so far spent... 2.5mil on the H400, 350k on Hanso's Charm, 800k on the First Aid Kit. The Hubrid Nox shield will set me back 7mil minimum I think. Ghostkerbomb another 6.2mil. Whichever fire defence I go with is going to be 4-6 mil, although the Pirate Cap is 3.2mil odd. So I'm looking at 19mil odd for a full set with two high tier items, 22.5mil if you include the items I've already bought. If I manage to grab one of the items I'm shop haunting for though, all bets are off. I'm currently eagle eyed for the mythical Thyoras Tear, the Flame Reflectozap and as the Bag of Healing Dust. I don't fancy my chances though, I've never been much of a restocker. But they all apparently sell in shops for around 150k. Which would be a game changer! Oof, the last time I saw SUAP prices being quoted they were around 90mil and I couldn't have afforded that then or now!! That's insane inflation and it could be fixed if TNT fixed the Smuggler's Cove! I've never come across Skarl's Sword before - possibly because it's so very far out of my price range. It is very pretty though! I think if I was looking to upgrade weapons, I'd be looking at Wand of the Dark Faerie but that's a little too steep for me as of yet!! I'll keep gradually adding to my Downsize! and Smoke Bomb collection. It'll be nice to gain a small profit from this at least! It makes a change from my... 60,000+ junk item collection that I started hoarding post the last Charity Corner only for it not to have re-appeared since!! Yeah, I definitely have training time. And on the plus side, with my stockade of codestones, training won't cost me much for a little while at least. And my first Kitchen Quest was a success:. Well, my second. I let the first run out as it was four items and one of them was 6500k. And my second! I usually decline Air Faerie quests, but I'll start going through with them instead. You never know, miracles might happen on the stealing front and the robe is cheap enough that I'm not too fussed if I never get to use it! With the plot, the only hint we had is that it has something to do with a faerie and resolution... but that is very, very vague!

@Aquamentis12 Thank you so much for your really thorough reply! Apologies for not getting back to you earlier - we had a busy weekend and I only got a chance to briefly log into Neopets for Trudy's and Bank Interest and that was it! I was looking at spending a max of around 6-7 mil per item, but I hadn't considered having multiple items for different enemies stupidly, so I may have to re-visit my budget! I'm haunting a couple of the item shops for just in case I get lucky as heck! I don't have either of the swords you mention unfortunately. I took a really long hiatus - about five plus years minimum and missed half the plots! My main battle pet is a kougra. I'd almost be tempted to morph him into a Kacheek for the species healer but I'm not willing to lose the Zombie/Oilpaint crosspaint in honesty! I got the H400 Helmet which I'm happy about - at 2.5 mil, I'm not unhappy with that! Oooh, the Parachuting First Aid Kit isn't one I'd come across in my browsing! That's definitely gone on my list as it's a fraction of the price of the Healing Bag and still doubles my current healing power! I'll definitely add Ghostkerbomb as well then, looking at the page again it seems like it's limited rather than breakable. I can stock up on Thick Smoke Bombs via the Ninja School as well to have a surplus in case of need. It's currently cheaper than user shops anyway! I think the Hubrid Nox Memorial Shield is a solid on my list now; it just seems like a great all rounder and whilst it's at the very top of my initial budget, it's a great all-rounder. The Altadorian Swordbreaker is definitely my backup for full physical defence and I've just got one for a steal at 32k which is way, way cheaper than anything else I was looking for. I think I'll then go with Hanso's Charisma Charm for dark, particularly as it's buyable. The Flame Reflectozap is another one I hadn't come across at all and even though it looks to be inflated as heck since February, seems to be the best bet for fire by far!! Unfortunately there's only one on the TP, so I doubt even the JN price of 4mil is going to be accurate. I might hold off on that one for a little bit. But that means that I have a planned set of: Attack: Void Blades and Ghostkerchief Bomb Defence/Reflect: Hubrid Nox (all-rounder, covers everything bar fire and dark), Hanso (full Dark plus some attack), Swordbreaker (full physical plus some attack) and hopefully Flame Reflectozap if I can get my hands on one (reflect fire). The Faerie Tabard is a possible backup, as it does cover fire and has full water, but is otherwise kind of doing the same job as Hubrid Nox just with less defensive icons. Pirate Captains Hat does the same fire cover at a fraction of the price, but the semi-breakable worries me. At least it's not fully breakable. I refuse to pay millions for an item that could break completely! So that one's a toss up. Freezer: H400 Helmet success! Healer: Parachuting First Aid Kit. Bomb: Ghostkerchief Bomb. Other: Downsize and Thick Smoke Bomb. I'll stock up on both of these in advance to save potentially paying inflated plot prices. EDIT: Just realised I don't need to stock up on Downsize as it's not breakable, just limited use. Hey ho, I now have six to stick in my SDB and potentially sell for a slightly higher profit later. They already sell for 1000np more than I bought them in shop, so I might be on a winner! I'll pick up the buyables today and then, I think Hubrid Nox is my priority. Then Ghostkerchief. Then see what I want to do for fire. Thank you again for all your help - you've been a fantastic help here! In terms of the plot. There's a couple of editorials that cover it: Hey TNT! I really wanted to know, where would you say your guys' priorities are at for the coming one to two years? For example I'm so excited for a potential new plot, I've been training my pet in advance as well for it! But there's also a lot of site upkeep to be done. Where will your focus be, and any news you could give us on upcoming plots or features? ~~christiaan258 As for the plot, our narrative team has already mapped out most of the storyline, and we are tentatively aiming for the release of the first chapters next year. Once we get through some of the upcoming events such as the Faerie Festival and Advent Calendar, we will likely start having some of the other disciplines join us in working on the plot! Although I don't want to give too much away, I can say that the next plot will be a heartfelt tale involving a certain faerie long overdue for a resolution... ~~Aesop From Neopian Times, Issue 965 · JN Editorial ID: 21052 I remember that a few editorials ago, there was a mention that a plot was in the works, and it was about Lutari Island, is that still being worked on or has it been shelved? (Please make my name anonymous) ~~Anonymous So happy you asked this question! We are actually working on planning out multiple plots right now that I am incredibly excited about These do take a long time to put together, but we are tentatively aiming to release the first of these new plots next year. Although the Lutari Island plot will likely be the second or third of these plots already in the works, I can assure you it certainly has not been shelved! And I'll be sure to keep Neopia updated as we move forward with these exciting new plots! ~~Aesop Yep, I've picked one of those up as well now!! Thanks! I've put the editorials for the plot above!

So, as TNT have said there is going to be an actual plot next year, I've decided to take a look at my Battledome Gear. It's been a long time since I even thought about BD stuff, so any thoughts on what I'm looking at or additional tips would be useful. I've currently got this set-up which isn't all that great: Training wise, my focus is getting attack to 350 for 7.5 damage per icon and my defense to 300 then 350 for 6.5 and 7.5 icons respectively. With my current level I can work to get them to 500 for 9.75 attack or move onto boosting HP. I plan on starting using some Faerie Quest Cookies to help boost me along as well. I'm not interested in upgrading the weapons as of yet - 16 icons isn't too bad going and any upgrades would be ridiculously expensive. The Downsize! can also stay. Looking at the JN pages it's the best for the price by a large mile. I might add a Thick Smoke Bomb as a backup option if I don't end up using one of the last two slots. But with both Lens Flare and Warlock's Rage as abilities, I'm not sure I need a second single use blocker. The freezer definitely needs upgrading and I have a bid on the H4000 Helmet which is 100% freeze, non-breakable. The shield also needs upgrading. Hubrid Nox Memorial Shield seems the best bet for an advanced yet vaguely affordable item. As it's a Hidden Tower item, the price should stay relatively stable though so isn't an urgent buy. Healing isn't quite up to scratch either. The Greater Healing Scroll heals 50. My pet only has 360hp at the moment though, so I'm not sure paying out big bucks for Bag of Healing Dust is worthwhile. Although it would be an investment as that 50% healing will only be more useful the higher my HP eventually gets. The Greater Healing Scroll would go on my baby BD pet (he's still on dubloons, bless him!). Getting to level 300 and the Rejuvination perk would be cool, but I have a long way to go before the rest of my stats meet level as I level boosted past the 7-8 codestone training. And then I have two slots left. One could be the Thick Smoke Bomb which is a cheap 100% blocker. A second shield? Hubrid Nox does everything but fire and dark. Sophie's Hat could stay to cover that gap although it only blocks three icons of each. Hanso's Charisma Charm is a second option for dark and does some attack at 10 icons, but I'm still vulnerable to fire which ain't so great. I suppose that's where the Freezer comes in handy! Otherwise it's bomb or reflector I guess? The only bomb that seems to be worth it is the Ghostkerbomb at 20-30 icons depending on luck and I'm fairly confident it's breakable and my bank balance won't stand me replacing it. Reflectors seem to be very specific and it would be luck as to whether you had the right icon spread for an opponent. Shield of Faerieland or Clawed Shield would however cover my fire weakness somewhat, I guess? I guess the ultimate would be Thyoras Tear but that would virtually bankrupt me!

Oh nice! I had a backlog like this after I went crazy buying in 2020 Black Friday sales and got 4 boxes for every 2000NC! I'm down to about 70 now. Hah, true enough. I'm looking at upgrading my Battledome gear and wincing at how much this is going to cost me!

Ooh, thanks for the workaround and the Pale Moon info! I'll be excited if they get them up and running again!! Yeah, that's what I've had on the Flash games. But the HTTPS explanation makes sense.

@berriganify Ah, yes that is possible with Flash games isn't it? Maybe the site fixes done after the password breach have killed them for good. Pity. I only just downloaded Palemoon a couple of months ago! Only took advantage of it for a little while before wandering off again. Completely my fault though on that score! @GlitchtaleLover I don't think I was helping things by having ten shops open at once and clicking quite quickly to get as much junk as possible in as short a time frame. But it never used to cause an issue!

My first two items were mediocre - Slime Window and Usuki Hippie Boy (worth more than the usual two point items I grab, but still.) And then I refreshed at the right moment as an Eo Codestone came on the screen. And then again. And again. And again. Total netted? I ought to spend more time at the money tree. I hoard codestones, rather than sell them - don't know if I want to keep training a secondary pet who is close to Mystery Island training. But whether I use or sell - 90k odd for about two minutes clicking ain't bad going!

@Angeló At least it's not just me! Yeah, drop down notifications don't work for me either, I have to click 'see all'. Haven't tried searching yet! I forgot to mention, the reason the bonus boxes are so useful is that they are the only way to transfer NC items for trading or between sides. You get two per Gift Box Capsule (three if you get the bonus) which are 200NC each (100NC during Black Friday and if you buy on Black Friday itself, they give four boxes). But not including sales or bonuses, 2250NC bought off site gets you 6 boxes, which is worth 3 GBC if you were going to use them yourself rather than trading as currency. So you are essentially getting an 'extra' 600NC worth just in a very limited form as you can't trade gift boxes. But still, any freebie is a useful freebie!

@queen_hatshepset I've heard of that happening when you have a FFQ cookie open and double click on the quest acceptance. It loads up the first then can re-load a second that overtakes the initial quest!

@Duskitty I haven't really been all that active for a while which might explain why I didn't pick it up before. It's doing my nut in though. Pages are taking forever to load - and no other website is affected, so it's just a neopets thing. I'm having to wait 30 seconds to a couple of minutes for single page refreshes at points. Which would be annoying if I wasn't buying a ton of junk for what may be a never happening Charity Corner. But I've bought 1000 plus items today and you can imagine how irritating it is! Then after taking forever, I have a decent chance at one of the error messages. This is one that's been cropping up as well:

Since the password hack, I've found that the site seems to be running a lot slower in general - not a problem for general browsing, but a nightmare when opening multiple shop tabs and buying hundreds of cheap items. I'm also coming across this error semi-frequently: And the Flash games have stopped scoring in Pale Moon. I got them to load yesterday but they wouldn't send scores. Now I can't even get them to load. It's just stuck on this screen: Anyone else noted issues like this?

@Angeló (sorry, my quote function isn't working hence the tagging instead). So you can buy NC on the main site; 2000NC for $20. But you get nothing other than your NC. There are people who sell NC cards - they used to be ridiculously cheaper like $7 for 2000NC but TNT closed that loophole. But they are still slightly cheaper than TNT and for every card (worth 750NC you get two boxes). You also get good service, guarenteed immediate NC and no bugs or issues that will take months to resolve via a ticket. I've used Marina: https://shoppy.gg/@ncshop and Leticia before: https://shoppy.gg/@Nccards with no issues. Others highly recommend Bruno: bit.ly/brunonc Currently all of them are the same price and you get 2250NC for $19.50. It's worth checking all three as occasionally one of them will have a sale and be slightly below the others. There's the added bonus that you are supporting individuals to supplement their income in poorer countries. I think most of the sellers are from Brazil and Mexico.

@Angeló Hah, just remember to buy from third party sellers, not neopets itself. You get a slight discount and two boxes with each purchase which is great. You also get the NC instantly instead of on the site where it can be delayed. I'll keep my eyes out for the BG. You never know. It might be on someone's 'clearing out because I'm leaving' list. @berriganify Oof, yes, it's a gorgeous petpet but I can see why it would hurt. But yeah, the only way that is going down in price is if they re-release it as a new AC prize which seems unlikely!

@berriganify Oh crikey! Which petpet was that!?? I thought the Candychan was bad enough at around 12 mil!! I was looking at a Dirt Symol for one of my babies - I like having a baby style theme so Birthday is also one of the possibilities. But as small children rummage in mud, it seemed fitting until I saw the price! It's the Grave Danger page before you send the petpet off on a quest: https://www.neopets.com/halloween/gravedanger/index.phtml

@Angeló Oof, yeah I'm significantly higher than 56k. And I remembered to do Food Club for the first time in months! I didn't, I'm afraid. It's a pretty background as well. I'll put it on my NC list, but it looks like it was a bonus item and they get expensive to trade for! @berriganify Hedwig has been the goal from the start - Voldermorts being haunted by the sad little owl appealed to me! The rest were mostly down to meandering through petpets to find one that matched somehow. It was colours for the Turmac, and I just think they are cute. Elderly match for Grandad and I have an Elderly Symol on another pet. And I just fell in love with the Mazzew. The Weewoo was 100k odd, the Grey PB 1.3 mil. The Juma was about 400k. Turmac 1.5mil and Mazzew 700k odd I think... so 4 mil odd... Worth it though for this view:

Ooooh! Nice! I've got several more pets/petpets on the horizon, but I've spent more than enough for now! And yep, I fell in love with the Mazzew on sight! The Halloween Goldie was a close second, but the colours didn't match! Random and off topic question - I've just discovered I've got Music Lovers Backdrop in my closet. Is this something you need for your gallery or have you already got it?

Thank you! I need to start moving some items to my baby side I think as my closet is a tad bare, but we'll see. I'm always hesitant to move particularly NC items from my main, despite having a ton of them just in case a custom DESPERATELY NEEDS IT in like two years time... hoarding tendency gets me every time.

Hah! Ouch! You can offer them for trades, but people do tend to go for GBC's over retired caps - exceptions being Baby caps and Dyeworks caps which make people go insane. The AC caps have a large prize pool as well, which makes them undesirable as there is a higher chance of getting low value items. Worth posting on the boards though to see if anyone will bite! As a hint for future - I tend to buy in batches of 5-10 tops depending on how many items I want. That way, I'm usually only stuck with 3-5 leftover maximum!

Sorry, I disappeared again. I think NC items have always had values. Don't quote me, but I believe that's the case. Usually things are low value when they are in the NC Mall and increase in value when they retire. Things that are rarer or older are higher value. Waka and Owls are petpages dedicated to NC values. Waka isn't being updated anymore, but Owls is newer and doesn't have values for a lot of items. It would have been better if they used the Waka values as a starting point and updated it from there, but they started from scratch. So you often have to skip between the two. Waka got their homepage at Neopets.com Owls got their homepage at Neopets.com Dress to Impress is a site where you can test out wearables before getting them and people keep trading lists on there, so you can see who might have a specific item. Dress to Impress: Preview customized Neopets' clothing and wearables (openneo.net) Apologies again for the delayed response.

Next up we have Voldermorts! Deliberate misspell as the actual spelling was taken. But poor little Hedwig! And ooh! It's letting me paste more than one image this time!! Fuzzbabies nearly ended up with a Plushie, but Turmacs are so cute! And finally we have Grandad Eeyore! And I have no idea why it's let me do all the images now, but threw a hissy at more than one image before!

Well, it's been a while. I keep getting bored and distracted and wandering off only to come back to dying pets. However, I had a huge splurge today on petpets! Unfortunately due to image sizes, I'll have to post three back to backs as it will only accept one at a time.