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This years rosters are now available and there have been a few changes amongst teams, including a new addition! Take a look at the changes below!
 
Wan Dirx seems to be taking a breather this season, while Coco Metrone and Ealyn Hawkshanks have traded teams.
 


 

 

 

Right now, we're looking at a minimum neo account age, minimum post requirement, minimum avvie requirement and minimum trophy requirement. We're still tweaking the numbers to make sure they're obtainable, but also make sure that they reflect a certain amount of effort put into the account, which is why there is a range of requirements rather than just a post count or a neo account age.

I'm with Haunted Woods, have been for the last two years (the only ones I've actually played). I love the community, we're few but very close and very friendly.
 
But I must say I HATEHATEHATE the AC. I just force myself to play it because I just KNOW I'm going to regret it if the prizes come out and I have few points. Apart from that, I just HATE everything about it. The mindnumbningness of playing the same four games over and over and over and over... GAAAH!
 
And I hate Yooyuball. I.hate.it.

The forums and the main site are separate, so you'll need to have to sign up over on the main site. This means that you will have two sets of login information, one for the main site and one for the forums. :)

I've noticed downforeveryoneorjustme ALWAYS says Neopets is up, even when many users are having problems...
 
I'm having trouble this morning too. The pages are taking a long time to load and I finally got a "down for maintenance" page.
 
Edit: The "down for maintenance" was on an NC Mall page.

For those curious, we would be looking for 20 mil in collat (the max you can do at once in the Auction House) in addition to non-np requirements due to the extremely high value of the lend.

Cheese: Spicy Juppie Cheese
Action: Forward Somersault
Times: 87, 92, 91
 
And that is attempt 99. Tomorrow will be my last day with this combo.
 
I feel now is a good time to reflect upon our experiences. What we've been through, what we've learned, what we hope for the future. Despite the crushing disappointment of 99 tries and 99 failures of the Spicy Juppie Cheese - Forward Somersault combination, I hope we all draw solace from the comforting certainty that future generations need never waste 150NP on this absurdly horrible combo. May it rest in peace.
 
In the days and weeks to come I urge everyone to focus on their goals and mark the little victories by which any war is won. A win here, some NP there, even breaking even is a moment to cherish, to celebrate. Yes, we will lose NP. Yes, we will win cheese, but no avatar. Yes, we will break the record for worst cheeseroller run (116 seconds, btw). Those moments matter. They chip away at the ponderous mystery that the Neopets Team has set before us. Like explorers of old, we have acknowledged this challenge. We have accepted it. We will embrace and conquer it.
 
Let our tireless journey continue friends. FOR SCIENCE!!

2. is the first prime number, the lowest positive even integer, a factor of every single even number, and the base for computers' most fundamental language, making this post possible.

Phew! I take a few days off and we get a ton of new data, and a new contributor. Nice! Welcome to the forum 2_crazyman_2. (can I call you Crazy?)
 
It takes quite a bit of juggling to add a new opponent to the spreadsheet. We have to find the items they drop and add lines to the spreadsheet so I can log the items. The new lines have to be linked to other tabs of the spreadsheet that crunch the numbers and generate statistical data... It can get a little involved and time consuming. That's why we're temporarily limiting data to the following challengers:
 
Central Arena: Chia Clown
Cosmic Dome: Jetsam Ace, Giant Space Fungus (GSF)
Dome of the Deep: Koi Warrior, Giant Spectral Mutant Walein (GSMW)
Frost Arena: Lady Frostbite, Donny
Neocola Center: Commander Garoo, Evil Sloth Clone (ESC), S750 Kreludan Defender Robot, Space Faerie, Robo Grarrl
Rattling Cauldron: Zafara Rogue, Black Pteri, Jelly Chia, Pant Devil

Attack
Defense

 
Not very nice, useless in 1P and traditional 2P, Might work a bit for common L97 weapons like Barbat Throwing Star, Rancid Battle Dung, etc.

Attack
Defense

 
Not very nice, useless in 1P and traditional 2P, Might work a bit for common L97 weapons like Barbat Throwing Star, Rancid Battle Dung, etc.

...the Easter Bunny is now relaxing in his cozy home! :D
 
I present to you my new Pastel Cy (formerly Royalboy, thanks for all the help on the other post ;) ), Arthemiz! :thumbsup:
 
ps: I know the glass of Neggnogg is a little season-off, but I found wearables to be incredibly lacking cups of tea or coffe, or even hot chocolate! Frustrating... -_-
 
Anyways!
 

 
ps: aww, it's much nicer with the movement of the rain. See it here! :)

It is the BattlePedia Group from TDN, Crimson, rocky and me were talking about it on the IRC channel ;)

I've not noticed an increase in the Lab Ray's negative outcomes.
 
I have, however, noticed an increase in negative RE's.
 
Both in occurance and in type.
 
I seem to be getting hit more often with negative ones (one that made my pets depressed, one that removed a stat point, got hit twice by tax events)...and there are new negatives (the mood crasher, ones that affect stat points, etc).
 
I seem to see the increase only in the negative events not in the positive RE's (in fact, I see fewer random faerie quests now than at any period prior).
 
Could be just me, I guess.
 
I know they are still shaking things out and have not even completed (begun?) the full transition...so I will be interested in seeing how it all comes out in the wash.
 
Cheers!
 
:P
 
 
(I had my 'prize' from Petpet Park say "Stolen by the Pant Devil" a few months ago, so that is not a new thing. I remember cuz I thought it rather funny.)

I'm pretty sure it's just a coincidence. It makes NO sense for TNT to be messing with thing so well established as the Lab Ray just because they changed host companies.

There's some difference between the two, and it became a dilemma for me.
 
Not long ago, I got a Pirate Draik Egg from the Forgotten Shore, and I decided to cash it and then buy some weapons, while keeping the rest. I buy a HCC, but then I got confused when I have to buy either YB or BS.
 
The YB has 0.08 icons less then the BS. Then again, the icon type for BS is not as good as those of YB. Let's just see it this way:
 
Ylanas Blaster
Attack: (5 fire)(2 air)0.667 (Total: 12.667 icons)
 
Brynns Legendary Sword of Wraith Smiting
Attack: 0.75 (Total: 12.75 icons)
 
The physical icons from the BS is the primary downside. Lots of weapon can block those things. While YB only has 3, BS has 5. If your opponent is using these things' nemesis, the RP, you'd better use the YB. But, if your opponent uses WC, it'd be better for you to use BS.
 
So, I finally bought the YB, because it's a blaster (better in real life), and it seems more promising (because of the fire icons), even though I'm a huge fan of TFR (even though I didn't participate because I didn't know how to participate at that time), and I found a bargain of 800,000 NPs! Anyway, if you want more opinions, feel free to click the links that I gave you in this article.

Yup, I had the problem before and I procrastinate solving it for about 9 months. That's when I became really tired to see my pets in their halloween outfits and decided to fix it :P

There is simple fix for this error, though it can be time consuming.
 
Basically, you need to remove items from your closet (check often to see if the error went away.) It's a smart idea to only keep the items that pertain the current season or that you love above all in your closet, and stuff everything else in your safety deposit box.

First thing, I would say depending on your training, I would wait until you hit the 7 or 8 brown codestone training levels. My reasons are as follows....
 
Another thing to take into account, and this is why I've been against the masses speed-training to 250 from the lower levels to start, was because the MORE people who need the red stones, the even HIGHER the darn things will go in price!
I DO understand it's a personal choice. I was roughly halfway through the 8 regular codestone training zone before I went up to Level 250 during the Obelisk war. But the whole reason that the red codestones average as much as they do right now is because people just raced up to the red stone training ranges because they were cheaper at the time than training with the regular codestones.
 
It's NOT all about speed, the best way to train, imho, is to do it at a measured pace, so as your pet gets stronger, in however way you train them, you understand their strengths, weaknesses, and are able to compensate. The one thing you cannot gain from speed training levels, is experience. A speed leveler, will gain experience eventually, once they are forced to slow down, but in the meantime, the many speed levelers force down the prices of brown codestones, and over-inflate the price of red stones. At this moment, a Zed Codestone has once again inflated (from the last time I looked) to about 37,000np. For ONE. An Eo Codestone, usually the highest priced of the brown stones, is under 9k. When a player get into the multiple red stone range, and get asked for 2 or more Zeds, Trust me, the wallet HURTS. 2 Zeds is about 74,000np. Simply insane...... although, I must admit, not AS insane as when the red stones first came out. They were ALL unbuyable back then.
 
But still. nobody's gonna stop anyone from speed leveling, and unless someone talks about speed leveling, nobody will probably even know if they are, but I think people should at least be made aware of what it means not just to them, but to everyone in the red stone range. And that those stones WILL only continue to get more expensive as more people, one way or another, enter the red stone range.
 
One more thing, someone could say to me "Sure you're at the top boosts and we're not". To which I would say, It took me 10 years to get this far. I didn't always have the np to train with stones. So I used other methods available as well. Like scratch cards, faerie quests and Kitchen Quests. I took a total of several years off in total from the site since I joined. So that naturally slowed me down in training. I went from the 7 regular codestone level to the 8th during the Obelisk War, and then leveled to level 250 from 236 because the regular codestone training at that level WILL kill a wallet. During the obelisk war, I seem to remember that all my stats were under 500. Since then I've trained slowly due to the rise in cost of red stones from the speed levelers. Before major speed leveling started, the red, Zed codestones were expensive at 10,000np, Now they're almost 4 times that amount.
 
It's really a simple case of supply and demand. There is an order as to how things are supposed to be done. If one disrupts the natural order, then it causes chaos and rationing for many if not all involved.

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So I'm trying to get the MSPP avatar, I followed TDN's avatar solutions which says to "View your inventory while carrying a Malevolent Sentient Poogle Plushie (TCG) there."
 
I've refreshed at my inventory multiple times but the avatar won't show up.
 
Here's what I'm doing:-
 

 
As you can see I'm clearly carrying the MSPP (TCG) in my hand so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong :(

So I've been haggling with the food shop in Neopia Central, and I've been haggling with the shopkeeper for a carrot that costs 1,856..
So my strategy was to give him half of what he wanted, then if he didn't accept, i would drop down to 1 NP (lol)
so this is how it went:
 
The Shopkeeper says 'Hmmm, no, im not going any lower than 4,040 Neopoints...'
 
The Shopkeeper says 'I wont take less than 9,107 Neopoints for it.'
 
The Shopkeeper says 'Hmmm, no, im not going any lower than 13,619 Neopoints...'
 
The Shopkeeper says 'Surely you would pay at least 21,545 Neopoints for this item?'
 
The Shopkeeper says 'I paid much more than 1 for this item... give me 32,000 and it's yours.'
 
The Shopkeeper says 'Tum de dum... Im not going to accept less than 47,999!'
 
The Shopkeeper says 'May your hair fall out and your tongue grow warts. Im not going lower than 73,005.'
 
The Shopkeeper says 'May your hair fall out and your tongue grow warts. Im not going lower than 108,013.'
 
The Shopkeeper says 'You are a very offensive person. I demand 162,478 Neopoints!!!!!'
 
The Shopkeeper says 'May your crops be devoured by locusts and your teeth rot. No less than 244,126!'
 
The Shopkeeper says 'What... 101,000... I have to make a living you know. What about 436,036?'
 
The Shopkeeper says 'May your ears turn purple and fall off! Pay me at least 739,055!'
 
The Shopkeeper says 'I did not become a shopkeeper to be insulted!! My final offer is 941,062!!'
 
The Shopkeeper says 'May your crops be devoured by locusts and your teeth rot. No less than 1,042,996!'
 
"RIGHT NOW I'M REALLY ANNOYED. BEGONE. DON'T COME BACK!"
 
ALL THIS FOR A CARROT. from 1,856 to 1,042,996............. Yeah Carrots!
 
Share your bargaining horrors here!

Well... SuAP, BCG & MSPP are lendables, so it's hardly someone saying they're rich. A lot of people are proud of those avatars because it takes A LOT of hard work to get them. Your account has to be of a certain standard before someone will lend you an item worth millions (and billions) of neopoints. Stamps, Neodeck cards, customised pets etc are not cheap by any means.
 
As for 'Richest' etc., if you're that committed to avatar collecting that you spend 10million on an avatar and put all that work in, would you not be proud of it?
 
Just because it's your personal preference that these avatars aren't 'pretty', doesn't mean that everyone shares your view, and it doesn't mean they're 'showing off' in the sense that you're implying. Being proud of something and showing off aren't the same thing.
 
I'm an avatar collector and to be honest I kind of resent this question xD I've worked really hard for all of my avatars and if I want to parade them then I will, because I've put the time and effort in to get them.

I can say with a fair degree of confidence that this is true. It's only an approximate measure (as with all demographic surveys, this kind of thing is skewed by selection bias, social stigmas, etc. - we're also only a tiny proportion of Neopets users), but the demographic analysis for TDN's Facebook page hovers around 79% female, with more than half of users (of all genders) aged between 18 and 34. That said, we have significant representation from all age ranges, from 13 right up to 65+ (of course this doesn't cover kids too young to have Facebook accounts). 
Age
 
I guess I should cover the main topic raised here first - my opinion on age is pretty straightforward, and in line with what most people here have said. As an older gamer, you should be able to play pretty much whatever game you want. What grown adults do with their free time is their own business, as long as they're not harming anyone else. Even in a community there are no rational or ethical grounds for excluding people simply based on their age. We are people, we define who we are, not an arbitrary time period between the present and a birth event. On a personal level, I know many much older gamers who get along just fine with young adults and teenage gamers. They're cool to have around. They're all unique people with different personalities. As far as I can tell, age really doesn't make a blind bit of difference, so there's no reason we should pretend it does.
 
Predatory behaviour is an entirely different subject from age and gaming. If you are using any communication medium (gaming included) to engage in abuse, whether sexual or otherwise, this is disgusting and wrong ethically, morally, and probably legally, and quite frankly you are a horrible person. This is true regardless of your age or the target demographic of any game you use. An older predator finding younger victims through a game made for young children is no better than a teenage predator finding similarly aged victims through a game made for teenagers, and this should have no bearing on an older gamer's right to play games marketed at younger audiences.
 
The question of age appropriate games for younger audiences brings a fair degree of general controversy into the mix. There are many games with mature content, be it violence, sex, or other material, that may or may not be appropriate for younger kids. There are a few very extensive and very well resourced national and international rating systems that for the most part do a pretty good job of labelling this content. They are thorough and backed by a lot of legal muscle to make sure games get rated properly. Combined with the massive amount of information available on the internet, it's not exactly difficult to figure out what is in a game and whether it's appropriate for your kid.
 
And that's where the ultimate issue comes in: parenting. No amount of resources poured into rating systems or game store legislation can do a parent's job for them. It is parents who are responsible for doing the research (even if it's nothing more than reading a rating label) to make sure a game is appropriate for their kids, taking into account all factors - not just age, but mental and emotional maturity, past experiences, potential future experiences, personal preferences, and so on. It is parents who are responsible for actually keeping an eye on their kids and paying attention to what influence it's having on them. It is parents who are responsible for sitting down with their kids and explaining important concepts they may need help understanding (be it sex or financial responsibility). A gaming console, computer, or mobile phone is not a surrogate parent. No rating label can understand a child like their parents can. Whether a child can handle a title meant for older audiences is very much dependent on the child, and only the child's parents are in a position to actually make the call.
 
tl;dr: Older gamers should be free to pick our own games, regardless of age. Young kids may need some help from their parents, and their parents should be ready to provide that help.
 
Coding Ability
 
A brief tangent here because I (typically for me) want to put emphasis on something that should be self-evident: your ability to write computer code has zero relevance to your right to enjoy a game and participate in its community. The truly ridiculous elitist attitudes generally (I both believe and hope) come from people with trivial knowledge of some basic coding, a vague impression of what programming is, and no understanding whatsoever of actual game development. These people, just like trolls everywhere on the internet, latch onto whatever pathetic excuse they can find to feel superior to everyone else.
 
Heck, I'm an experienced programmer, and a darn good one, and beyond general "this is how computers work" facts and some speculation, I wouldn't dare try to speak from a position of developer authority on a game I had no insider knowledge of, let alone discriminate against other gamers based on largely irrelevant additional knowledge. I'm no game developer. Sure, I can write software. That's not the point. Just because you took Coding 101 in college and can throw together basic macros doesn't mean you're more qualified than anyone else to enjoy a game. Just because you're a graduate software engineer working for an IT company doesn't mean you understand game development in all its science, art, terror and glory. Just because you're a 40-year game industry veteran with a pedigree of outstanding titles you've helped develop doesn't make you more qualified to discuss a game than the developers and gamers making up the community around it (granted that one would lend your opinion some weight).
 
tl;dr: You (usually*) don't game by coding, ergo coding should not be a requirement to enjoy a game or participate in its community.
 
* There are some intriguing educational and concept games that actually have an element of coding as part of the game mechanics, but nothing really significant.
 
Gender
 
Ah yes, the big painful issue that's somehow still an issue. I don't think anyone here seriously believes that females shouldn't play video games, or that they're somehow less invested or competent in video games they play, so I won't belabour this point like I did the coding one. It is truly sad to see that sexism is still a major problem in the game industry and among gamers in general. And it's not just games - despite massive strides towards equality and general respect across the globe in all walks of life, sexism remains an issue just about everywhere in just about everything. It's not always obvious and it's not always deliberate, but it's still there. As Azurablue said, attitudes are changing, but not fast enough.
 
And here's the thing: I honestly believe that gamers do comparatively well in this respect. Ranging from religion/traditions to the film industry even to serious level-headed professionals like engineers, discrimination is rampant in the world, whether it's in how women are portrayed, what they're "allowed" to do, or in how much they're paid. Relatively speaking, gaming is one walk of life where women are fairly well accepted and respected. Most gamers are fairly savvy people who will happily game alongside men and women, and I say this knowing my fair share of gamers (granted of course that this view is skewed by who I choose to associate with). They don't discriminate because, well, aside from the English language's somewhat awkward enforcement of gender-specific pronouns, they don't really care what gender you are. And honestly, that's probably how it should be.
 
So why then is there the popular perception of gamers as generally immature and sexist? Well, this and many other issues link back to another deep-rooted issue with gamer communities in general (I'm hesitant to label this as a "problem", at most it's a perception problem). This is the issue of the "silent majority", or the "vocal minority", depending on which angle you prefer. Simply put, we have a few very loud people, and many, many relatively quiet ones.
 
Gamers are pretty vocal people. As far as the various walks of life go, we are among some of the loudest, shoutiest, most determined folks out there when it comes to making our voice heard - when we're upset. When we're content? Not so much. Emotionally charged gamers, or people simply seeking attention, have plenty of motivation to post angry, ranty, rude, or outright discriminatory content on gaming forums and social media. The calmer, more sensible gamers are generally disinclined to invest time and emotion in a discussion (especially an unpleasant one) when they could be, well, playing games.
 
As a result, it's ultimately the ones that shout the loudest who get heard. Sadly, it's often the case that the louder people are the irrationally angry ones, and the loudest of all are the hate groups seeking to stir up "controversy" for the most ridiculous reasons. It tends to be the case that a few people with opposing views get very upset themselves, only serving to make discussions shoutier and even more unpleasant. This occurs in everything from legitimate opposition to bad business practices, to more controversial stuff like balance debate, to completely ridiculous subjects like sexism in a modern industry where it has no right to be.
 
The one comforting point I personally like to take from all this is that the vast majority of gamers really aren't blatantly sexist or otherwise abusive - they just don't want to dive head-first into a crapfest. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean that the world of gaming isn't still terrible. We should be doing far better than we are today but we're not. The painful discrimination Azurablue experienced at game stores is one example. The widespread use of the term "girl gamer", as if the gender-neutral noun "gamer" is exclusively male and a special "girl" pass is needed for a woman to enjoy a game, is another. And then of course there's the sexist portrayal of female characters in many, many titles (it sells well, so studios stick to it - can you really blame them?). We may be ahead of the curve, but we're very far behind where we could be, and I sincerely hope that with a little time we can get to where we really should have been a long, long time ago. I would like to know at least one walk of life where people aren't treated as lesser beings, whether it be by age, coding ability, gender, skin colour, or any other arbitrary factors.
 
And well, last I checked, we didn't operate computers with our genitals.
 
Full disclosure: I am a male.

Congrats on the find, that's awesome! I think giving out rare random events is a great idea though to be honest. Stamps are one of the things I truly love collecting on neopets but it's a bit discouraging knowing how pricey some of them are. I don't see myself every completing the collection. By handing out more of the stamps in the long run it could make the price of some of the unbuyable one's go down.