Clumsy rockyroad1

No one can log on at the moment, TNT said on FB that it might last until this morning.

Something Has Happened! You are now eligible to use 'I survived the Neopocalypse!' as an avatar on the NeoBoards!  
YAAAAAAAAAASSS. TNT i love you i thought i will never have this avatar <3

With regards to the fonts issue, if you go to chrome://flags, you can opt to disable DirectWrite and the fonts should look as they did before the Chrome update.
 
This of course does not solve the scooted buttons issue, which I'm having as well. But I'll let you know if I find out anything.

Any applications sent to the Pet side of the ALP will be processed as normal for as long as the site is up, since most of the apps are for next month. So it is currently possible, yes, provided you apply and are accepted. :)
 
If we're lucky (*knocks on wood*) they won't start the transition till next week, and the chains will be over by this weekend. And even then, so long as a pet is not in transfer I'm not worried- we'll simply pick up where we left off if that happens. Pets that are fully on an account are highly unlikely to go anywhere. Items floating through auctions.... less secure.

Thanks for the Egg tip! I'll definitely get that done soon. I have like 11 pages of them :P


From the way they said it, it'll just happen when it happens. Later this week or early next, so probably not a good idea to pop any fortune cookie until the move is over. They say you'll be compensated but...I tend not to have too much faith in those sorts of words.

Well, maybe you can just work... Like you are supposed to do.

Well, I guess I'll be seeing sunshine for two days :P
 
So it's been taking this long to finish up everything, hopefully there will be better things to come after the server move. I'll be on the unpopular opinion here too - Habi damaged the Neopian economy too much by basically "botting" the earning of NP. It made the general population complacent in NP-earning, rather than competitive. I'm sad it's going but it'll hopefully give more attention to other aspects of the site where you can earn NP too. Maybe this will help renew interest in those things, because it's slowly dying out.

I will fondly remember the giant egg glitch.
 
This one. My favourite glitch.

I know this is going to be kind of a controversial opinion, but I'm actually glad that Habi's going. I feel like it's had a negative effect on the Neopian economy, because with it, it's too easy to make NP and therefore too easy to accomplish goals. I think the lack of challenge has contributed to the site's downfall. If TNT's going to inject some challenge into this site, they need to make it harder to earn NP, and getting rid of Habi is a good start.
 
Besides, people were leaving the game on 24/7, which is not how the game is meant to be played and must have really hurt the servers.

Apparently it's been fixed, it does 10 light, 10 water, and I believe anywhere from 3-9 physical (or maybe it's 1-10 physical like the GBomb, can't be sure yet :P).
 
And really, I think you're reading too much into this. If you read the Editorial, they've been talking about releasing new Smuggler Cove items.

That's right! TDN's Avatar Lending Program is happy to announce that our Bony Grarrl Club is now available to request! Info and requirements can be found on the ALP site here, and the item can be requested on the bottom of the "Items for Lending" page here. A reminder that spamming the forum for post count, or begging for free/cheap lends will not be tolerated and may result in being unable to borrow from the ALP in the future. Thank you to everyone who helped us reach our goal, and safe lending!
 

Oh, so that's why you didn't notice the feature. TNT has explicitly stated that the Battledome might not work properly in IE.

Oh, so that's why you didn't notice the feature. TNT has explicitly stated that the Battledome might not work properly in IE.

Just got online, seems to be fixed now.
 
Pages with buttons: working
neoboards: working

The link to the google form to submit your data is here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1r9AkhwYU4yVlJK8yNmVtEgmu3otsn2ZY9O7uSMFY_FU/viewform
 
Results of Koi Warrior and GSMW testing will be posted tomorrow, after a long long wait.

Hi there! We are currently looking for people who can help us test challengers for our project. The requirements are as follows:
1. Battle pet with at least 55 str and def boost and higher with decent battle set
2. Has free time to help out with maintaining the spreadsheet
3. Is willing to test other challengers even if it means reduced prizes/profit
 
If you satisfy all the above requirements, please PM me so that I could talk to you regarding this matter and be accepted into the testing team.
 
If we have sufficient people to maintain the spreadsheet, we will also accept prize data from anyone's daily battles posted here. But this is put on hold for now.
 
Link to submit your data: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1r9AkhwYU4yVlJK8yNmVtEgmu3otsn2ZY9O7uSMFY_FU/viewform

No offense,but I honestly am against the idea of paperclip trading.
My reasons are:
1.You're trying to trade something that is worth 1 np for something that is like worth more than 1 million times its price with no work involved.
2.There are thousands of people who work hard and save up for their goals while somebody else managed to trade a jelly for a stealthy PB in 5 days.
3.Its plain unfair.
There are my reasons,now if you do a paperclip trade I have nothing against you,but honestly I think you should work towards your goals :/

I think RNG stands for Random Number Generator.
 
I have been concurrently labbing and training for at least 5 years, maybe more. I cannot recommend it highly enough. It's insanely easy to keep your stats even. If the lab is being overly generous (or overly mean) with one stat, there's a very simple solution to keep you from going to the next training price too early: you simply stop zapping that pet until you catch up (just don't tempt fate by zapping once the pet's stats get within range of the next price). Overall, the net effect of the lab ray is a positive increase in total stats, so even if you have to train defense more often because on average you might lose defense more than you gain it, in terms of net effect you're still coming out way, way ahead. (I calculated that I had saved at least 6 million NP in training costs with 3 years of labbing, and I know I've also saved considerable time, too. And your savings only increase the more expensive training becomes.) Don't worry about short term runs of bad luck -- the law of averages pretty much guarantees that if you zap long enough, you'll come out ahead in time and NP saved.
 
One of the tricks to supplementing training with labbing is to not overtrain HP before going to the next training cost. HP is by far the stat most often given by the lab, and it's the only one you can't lose (unless there's a new method to lose it that I haven't paid attention to). Especially when you get to the once-every-24-hours training, you'll want to only train defense and/or strength. (When you're on the train-every-two-hours cycle, it becomes really easy to keep things balanced with training, and you might want to overtrain HP a bit to take advantage of the cheaper prices. You'll just have to try to find a balance that works for you; my personal goal is to basically never train HP but also never have to stop labbing either, and the balance adjusts as your training times change. I got pretty good at keeping to that goal, but it was more by feel, so I can't give specifics.)
 
I used labbing to supplement training from the Academy, through the Island training school, and into the Secret Ninja School. My battle pet is at 800 strength and defense (well, 798, so I don't bump to three reds... I trained over the max in anticipation of the max boosts eventually being raised again), and I'm taking a long break from zapping while I get her HP to 3x level (because all my other stats will be as cheap or cheaper to item-train vs. codestone train from now on, and since I'm at the max boost, I just plan to gradually stockpile items in my SDB -- armoured neggs to help keep her defense up when I resume zapping, and the rest in anticipation of the next war and/or more max boost increases). Once her HP is at 3x level, I'll zap her until I think her HP is high "enough" (probably until I hit the max number of codestones, though I may not want to wait that long), and then I'll finally turn her back into a Mynci and paint her island.
 
While I do get a bit sick of some of her colors, I've already saved way more than the cost of the MP/PB to change her to her desired combo, and the time savings has been significant as well.

Thanks so much Siniri for the lengthy and articulate response. You've addressed many of the issues I've been contemplating and added some really helpful tips that I hadn't even considered. It did hit me after I started the thread that I could just stop zapping a pet at any time if I need to do some catch-up, but you laying that out as well, especially about not overtraining and entering the next codestone threshold before necessary, makes it sound like such a no-brainer. I feel much more confident now about codestone & lab ray training so once I find my next BD pet, I intend to give it a shot.

1. 20 Mil collateral: I will never had this much.

2. Minimum 5 year old Neopets account: My side (my old main account) is old enough, laughing forever.

3. Minimum 250 Avatars: 218/250, getting there.

4. Minimum 500 forum posts: Ahaha, hahHAHA /sob

5. Minimum 25 trophies/medals on User Lookup: I have like 18.



Of course all of this doesn't matter until my account is unfrozen (c'mon Tony, I believe in you. ♥)

But none the less, I'm super proud of all those who donated, and for TDN ALP team. You guys have helped, and will

continue to help so many users. Way to go everyone!



Edit: ( Don't worry guys, I'm still on neo. I am a good girl. c: )

More like "Brace yourselves: Hundreds of spam posts are coming."

Skarl did it!
 
With a vacuum!
 
In the palace!
 
If this is anything like Clue, I'll be very happy.

It seems some thieves snuck into the Lost Desert Palace and stole some important belongings from some of the rulers of Neopia! The nerve! Princess Amira is offering a reward for whoever can return these possessions to their rightful owners. Join the hunt now to test your sleuthing abilities and find out who is responsible for this crime.

Meet Ringo, I was on my way to my glass blowing class when I notice something in the road. I thought it was a bird and there was a car coming on the otherside when I noticed it was a kitten. I slammed on the brakes and go out of the car to stop the car coming on the other side and he ran to me meowing. I immediately made a beeline to the vet. He was tested for feline leukemia, the test came up negative. He has ear mites and a ton of fleas along a bad upper respitory infection. He's only five weeks old, I'm on my way home at the moment where I'm going to clean him up and give him his meds. He will be okay but he has to be quarantined in a carrier for 2 weeks in my room.

Someone most likely dumped him in the woods after he got sick and he's been on his own for at least 2 days. $150 vet bill but worth every cent.

He's not the prettiest and cutest kitten right now but that's because of his RI, he'll be up to speed in a few weeks.

Just felt like sharing my eventful day.

That's right! Due to everyone's very generous donations, the ALP is now in possession of our very own Bony Grarrl Club!

The club will not be available to lend immediately, as we need to integrate it into our item request system, but we did want to let everyone know that we have one, that it will be available very soon, and to give you all a heads up on the requirements for borrowing.
 
Because we've had some problems in the past with lending BGC, we've decided to be a little more strict with the requirements this time. However, we also think they're fair, as we will explain below. The club belongs to everyone who helped us buy it, so we want to keep it as safe as possible. Without further ado, the requirements for borrowing the club will be:
 
1. 20 Mil collateral: Ideally, it would be higher because the market value of the club is 140 mil and growing, but 20 mil is the most you can do in one auction and the ALP does not accept collateral in split trades or auctions. Because we can only accept 20 mil in collat, we need to have other borrowing requirements. As always, Easy to Sell items may be used as collateral, provided they fit into the 10 item + 800,000 NP limit of the Trading Post.
 
2. Minimum 5 year old Neopets account: This is the account age we feel comfortable lending to. Other lenders may choose to lend younger accounts, but 5 years is our cut off.
 
3. Minimum 250 Avatars: Before you look at that amount and panic, let's break it down a bit. There are approximately 160 avatars that you can get simply by clicking on links and by items and pets lent by our ALP. Then there are additional ones you can get from simply participating in certain site events (Games Master Challenge, Altador Cup, Daily Dare, Festival of Neggs, etc), more you can get from visiting the concert hall on certain days, from the Battledome, some you can get from looking through source codes, visiting certain locations in Neopia, etc. Someone who only participated in a single year of site events and got all the pet/item/clickables/concert avvies could easily have 200 avatars, so 250 takes into account all of the easy ones, plus a few that require a little more work.
 
4. Minimum 500 forum posts: Again this my seem like a huge number, but it's quite easily obtainable. Even participating in 2-3 threads per day, even if it's a single post, gets you to that amount in under a year. We want to have a post count requirement because it gives us a feel who we're lending to. If you have a long history of breaking the rules in the forum, for example, it tells us that you might be risky to lend to. Our mods would also like us to mention here that spamming the forums for post count will not be tolerated. Like always, posts must contribute to the discussion at hand. This generally means staying on topic and keeping your posts above 7 words.
 
5. Minimum 25 trophies/medals on User Lookup: Another big scary number, but again this is why we chose 25. Firstly, they can be any mix of site event, site feature or game trophies and any level (bronze, silver, gold and everything in between). Before you start thinking that you'll never be able to get that many let's take a look at some of the easier ones to get:
Participating in Daily Dare gets you one trophy each year you participate Participating in Games Master Challenge gets you one trophy each year you participate Participating in the Altador Cup gets you one trophy each year you participate Beating Round 3 of Cheat! (a simple game) gives you a Bronze Trophy Beating Round 2 of the original Snow Wars (Neopets version of Battleship) gives you a medal Beating Punchbag Bob (it's impossible to lose, it might just take a while depending on your weapons) gives you a trophy Winning 2 games of Pyramid (NOT in a row) gives you a Bronze Trophy Winning Round 2 of Go! Go! Go! (another card game) gives you a Bronze Trophy Winning Round 4 of Cellblock gives you a medal Completing the Altador plot (which we provide a complete walkthrough for) awards a trophy Dungeon Dash awards a trophy to anyone who maxes the score There's 11 trophies that you can get simply by participating in 3 of the yearly site events and by spending a few hours playing games. There are also Neoquest trophies, other site feature trophies (Lenny Conundrum, Better Than You, Random Contest, etc), the Battledome Veteran trophy (you get it as long as you fought at least once in the old Battledome), the Lucky Space Faerie Charm (awarded when you sign up for premium), as well as any other game or plot trophies. You could feasibly participate in Daily Dare, Games Master Challenge and the Altador Cup for a few years, even if you only play a single game for each, and be half finished the requirement. Again, the number is there to show people have put time and effort into their account, meaning they are less likely to risk it by mishandling our BGC. Because the Lutari Talisman and NC Mall Album are given by default, they will NOT count towards the trophy requirement.
 
There are also a couple things we strongly suggest, but cannot verify, so we have to trust that borrowers will be as careful as they can. All Grarrls or Skeiths on the account you will be getting the avatar on should be in the NeoLodge before you get the item. The Lodge keeps your pet full so you can't feed them, and Grarrls and Skeiths are capeable of eating almost every item, even their own weapons. This ensures you cannot accidentally feed the club to a pet (which is how we lost our last one).
 
We'd also suggest having your inventory as full as possible before acquiring the club. If it's the only item in your inventory and an item-stealing Random Event occurs, it will be the only item targeted. If there's more in your inventory, there's less of a chance the club will be stolen.
 
Lastly, like with any item or pet, you should limit your site activity when they're in your possession. Don't keep the item in your inventory or a pet active while you explore Neopia, play games, or chat on the boards. Once you get it, get your avatar and send it back. The less pages you visit while things are in your possession, the less likely something is to happen.
 
Those are the requirements and our reasons for choosing them. They are non-negotiable. Applications that do not meet them will be denied, though you can feel free to re-apply once you meet the requirements, or to apply for other items the ALP lends that you qualify for. The ONLY exception to these requirements is if you're able to provide the full 140 mil in ETS items that can fit within the Trading Post limit. If someone had 10 Pirate Captain Cutlass, for example, this would qualify as full collat. Again, no split auctions/trades will be accepted.
 
-The ALP Team