rntracy1

On ‎6‎/‎18‎/‎2018 at 9:50 PM, CylonPirate said:

I've found the best method for me with the darigan yy is to stand at the bottom of the goal and blast it full power so it bounces of the wall and slices into the goal. I really miss the version where if you stood in a certain spot the yy would go in at the same angle every time. I mean I think we have enough dynamic trajectory yys with the faerie and mutant

I've found that with the large net power up and the darigan yooyu being SLIGHTLY cooperative and going TOWARD the goal rather than away from it, I have no trouble getting it in there.  LOL.

Seriously though, if I don't have the large net power up (which it usually takes so long that I end up getting some type of power up) I keep running side to side and heaving the ball as I run by.  Eventually it makes it in there.

Hmmmm! Is anyone else experiencing severe lag today.  Then the site goes down completely.  It must be all those people practicing against the practice team putting too much strain on the site.

2 hours ago, Nielo said:

I think the rules page will probably explain pretty much the same things that I'm about to mention, but I'll explain it to you in my own words (instead of deboratibi's ) as well:

- You're not submitting your own pet. You can go to https://impress.openneo.net/ and choose the colour and species of the pet you want to customise. (You can, in certain cases, decide to customise your own pet by typing its name into box in the middle of the page, but for this particular round that would only work if your pet is a Red Pteri, as this is one of the requirements for this round.)

- Once you've chosen, in this case, the colour Red and the species Pteri, you can customise that pet with any item that ever existed on Neopets (and fits that colour & species). Once you've done that, you can click on the 'Sharing' tab on the right side of the screen and send me the 'Outfit page' link (which will link to the animated version of the custom you just made, and which is always posted underneath the images in the 'Runway Votes' threads) and the 'Medium' link, which is a medium-sized screenshot of the custom you just made. (If, however, you think the screenshot doesn't do your custom justice, you can always send me a screenshot instead, or ask me to make a screenshot of it for you. As long as I have the Outfit page link, that's no problem at all for me.)

- Add a title and, if you a wish, story for the character to that message to me, and you're done.

- Just make sure to follow the requirements for the round, so in this case, it needs to be a Red Pteri, dressed up doing any job for TDN.

Let me know if anything is still unclear.

Nope that pretty much explains it.  As if I just fell off the turnip truck.  Thanks. 

3 hours ago, midnight_spell360 said:

Best quote EVER!!! Can I use this with my AP teachers at my school? Particularly the one that talked more about his wife & kids than the actual material I needed to know to pass World History?    What do you mean there are no questions about my teacher's wife & kids on my $80 AP World History Exam? That's ALL he ever talked about!

Absolutely! You totally have my permission.  "Mr. Teacher, explain to me, like I was just born yesterday, exactly which question on this exam is the one about the stuff you've been talking about all year?  I know everything about your wife. "

On ‎6‎/‎16‎/‎2018 at 10:09 AM, Nielo said:

I've been told Ian has received 3 Pins from Overpowered: a Kacheek, a Shoyru and a Kougra, and we get to give them out as prizes for this very special round of The Runway!
So numbers 1, 2 and 3 will receive an actual prize this round! (This also means I'll make sure there won't be any ties.)

You'll have two weeks to enter, and two weeks to vote this time. The regular rules apply: you can find them right here.
(I do want to mention something that I always do, but might be more relevant now that actual prizes are at stake: due to experiences with another (similar) contest, I always check all the votes for each entry, to make sure people haven't asked their friends/family members to make accounts just to vote for them. I haven't seen it on here since I started running this contest, so I don't think it'll be an issue, but just in case: if I see a lot of accounts made in the past week(s) vote (mainly) for you, I'm going to look into it and you risk being disqualified.)

 

Special theme: Dress up Jerry the Pteri
Description: Dress up our very own mascot, Jerry the Red Pteri, to show us what he looks like doing his job. Maybe he works for the TDN news team as a reporter, maybe he's on the Battlepedia team; it's your choice. For more information on both Jerry and the jobs he could possibly be doing for TDN, check out our About page and the Now Hiring page.
Entering period: Saturday, June 16 - Friday, June 29
Voting period: Saturday, June 30 - Friday, July 13

 

Ian will be in touch with the winners to make sure they'll receive their pin.

If you have any questions, you know where to find me.

I don't understand how this works.  I was always under the impression that we were submitting our OWN pets all dressed up.  Apparently this is not the case.  I will read the rules page, but could you explain to me exactly what it is that I am submitting.  Thanks.  Explain it to me as if I was just born, never saw a computer, and have no clue what I'm doing.  I mean, not literally THAT in depth, but pretty close.  Obviously I know how to use a computer, but I know nothing about this entry or where to get the image from.

I'm going to go for it!  Everyone's comments have definitely talked me into it.  I have been wanting to do it for a long time but wondered if it was worth it.  I do want the avatar and hey, I definitely won't get that if I don't spin the wheel.  Right?  lol.  I will let you all know how it works out.  Look for my results on the wheels forum.

30 minutes ago, midnight_spell360 said:

@Nielo Thanks, that was helpful. It estimated that I will need to play 510 YYB games which became 40 games per day IF we have 13 more days and 79 of SLSL, 471 games of MSN & SOSD each all per day, but I am not so sure we will have 13 more days.

But, I do appreciate that at least I got an answer. Thanks!   

Unfortunately if you NEED 471 games of SoSD and MSN per day, you will not be able to do it.  Those games are capped at 401 per day.  However, if you only need 40 games of YYB, that one is capped at 46.  If play the extra 6 per day, that MIGHT be enough to carry you.  10 games of YYB equals 100 games of SoSD/MSN.  I have a terrible headache so you will need to do the math.  But 6 extra YYB games per day is 78 games over 13 days (if we actually have 13 full days).  Those 78 extra games are equal to about 780 games of SoSD OR MSN.  You needed 471 of EACH of them.  The difference of 70 games over the cap for 13 days is 910 which is 1820 for Both games, so you would still be short.  You can play 86 games of Slushie Slinger.  So you can make some up there too.  It might be CLOSE, very close.  Good luck.  Keep plugging away.  There's always next year.  The good thing is, you can at least get a GOLD trophy!

4 hours ago, Nielo said:

Perhaps the ACG is smaller than it's been in previous years. Faerieland is the only land getting scores over 8, which is usually a sign an ACG is involved. But since they're not even in first place, the ACG definitely seems to have less influence compared to previous years. People seem to think Meridell as an ASG, but I personally think TM (which I'm on) has one as well, since we don't usually do this well. I'd love to think we've done this on our own, but the only other time we did alright, we came in 5th with the help of an ASG. I do think the Cup is definitely more interesting this year, as the scores seem closer together so far.

I am also on TM and I am also AS rank.  This is my 2nd year reaching that rank.  This year I reached it half way through the cup, last year I reached on the last day.  For me, personally, I felt it was quite easy to do.  I don't know if the ASG or any part of them are on TM as I don't pay attention to what teams those groups are joining.  Personally, I have no interest in joining up with the ASG.  I don't want to switch teams every year (unless I was switching with @Scoobert_Doo as we join the same team).  Whether our faith in each other is justified or not (lol- I'm totally joking of course) we have that trust in each other for all of the team/partner games to get the scores needed to achieve .  

13 hours ago, Nielo said:

I don't think Kiko Lake has any cheaters this year, so I'm guessing they're all honest players this time. Looking at JellyNeo, it seems they only did really well the past few years, when they had an ACG, and didn't really place higher than 6th (but mostly much lower) in previous years. So maybe now that all the cheaters have moved to another team again, there simply aren't many core players left.

Do you mean the fact that you could only sign up until the Cup had just started, instead of being able to sign up during almost the entire Cup? Because that's the same as last year, and maybe even the year before, I think. Or did you mean something else?

Well yes, look at the year Haunted Woods had the ACG, I believe it was year IX.  They came in First.  I had no clue about the ACG or the ASG for that matter.  That was the year before I started playing.  So, dummy me sees that HW won the cup, so I join that team my first year, year X, because, well, I am a noob of course.  And HW came in LAST place that year.  Of course, that was the year they messed up the trophies, lol, and my last place trophy says 1st place, lol.  That is so funny.  I was like, WTH, HW came in 1st place last year, why would they go from 1st to last.  Then someone told me about all the cheating.  I think that was the year kiko lake won.  Then of course I ended up on Kredludor when they had the ACG on their team.  I gotta see about getting on the ASG since I have already gotten AS.  Does anyone know what team they are on?  I haven't paid attention to what teams any of the groups are on.  My guess though, the ACG is on meridell.  JMO.  And I totally agree that kiko lake is legit this year.  Although, if they are, you would think they would win SOMETHING.  lol

2 hours ago, Scoobert_Doo said:

It's not over, yet. I think we still have a chance at 1st. And, @rntracy1, if anyone, it would be my fault, from yesterday. I've been mainly playing YYB and capping at 46 games. After that, I'm usually too burned out to play anything else. Monday thru Friday is harder for me, as I work a regular job. Capping YYB takes a few hours. So, blame me. I can take it!

I work full time M-F too.  lol.  Yep I do.  8-4 M-F.  That's why I responded about being upset about them having the BYE every Sunday.  That's not right.  I forget who said that people work on Sundays and cannot play, so it's good for them to have a BYE on Sundays.  I responded by saying, "If they work on Sunday, That means they have a weekday off to play when I am working and CAN'T play.  So by that theory, they STILL play more than I do.  If they switch the BYE days, it gives people who work during the week a chance to play on the weekend and people who work on the weekends a chance to play during the week. But it isn't fair to have BYE days EVERY Sunday."

@Scoobert_Doo, if you maxed out YYB then you made up for the games I didn't play.  I played about 30-35 games of YYB, but I wanted to max out. I didn't realize we could STILL win 1st. I will make sure I continue to play my best.  @TokaValencia, I didn't even realize we got 8's.  That's AWESOME! I guess we did do awesome! I don't know what's up with Meridell.  They either have the ASG or the ACG.  

Meridell Cheats!  lol.  I feel like it's MY FAULT we didn't win yesterday. I KNOW that's not true, I worked very hard, but the reason I say that is because I wanted to play more YYB than I did.  I wanted to max out on it and I just didn't have the energy to do it.  I maxed out SoSD and played a ton of slushie slinger.    Those are the ones we won so that's good, I guess we all played well.  If we won YYB it would have made the difference for our team and I should have concentrated on it.  I feel like I let everyone down.  Maybe it's because I let myself down.  Like I said, I will be thrilled with 2nd, even 3rd place, so I really shouldn't let it get to me.  On to the next.  Woohoo.

@Nielo, Thanks.

Ha ha ha! Yeah I know, I will change it.  I have grown to like my AS shield from last year though.  But, now I have earned my new one.  

Yes, you are right, we are ALL all stars!  We are doing FABULOUS.  I am still plugging away, especially tonight, with playing Meridell and all.  I played hard the night we played Maraqua too. I can't believe we lost SoSD to Brightvale!  Seriously!!! I maxed it out!  I maxed it out today too!  I will max out YYB too.  I only ask that you guys carry me for keyboard masher.  I can't do it guys.  I can't play that game.  lol.  You guys gotta carry that game for me.  You obviously have been doing a great job because our team has been doing so well.  This match, tonight against Meridell will tell if we have a shot at winning the cup.  I will be happy If we come in 2nd or 3rd too.  I will continue to do my part, that's all we can all do.  WE ARE ALL DOING GREAT!  I am so proud of us all!  

@Scoobert_Doo, I guess I know which team we will be on from now on.  I am proud to be on team TM.  WE ARE AWESOME!!!!!

@TokaValencia, Thanks! Yes, I set my goals and try very hard to reach them.  I did NOT plan AT ALL to reach AS this quickly though. I never thought it was possible. My goal was two ranks per day though, and I was able to do that.  So, yay!  As far as Slushie Slinger, I am playing that game now.  So, I will carry you for that game and you carry me for MSoN.  (keyboard masher).  How's that?  lol.  I hate that game.

Whoo Hoo!  I did it!!!! Made AS.  It's all down hill from here baby.  I will work TOWARD double AS, but no promises guys.  I have worked my bum off for this rank.  I did it                         so the rest of my time could be easier.  I am so happy.  I can relax now.  Now I am playing for shop points. Pretty sad that when you make AS you still can't even get the                         most expensive items in the shop.  I was shocked. 

Ahhh, yes, you're right.  They did say that.  The problem was, they capped the drops from the wraiths and you never knew what you were going to need, how much of it, when, etc.  I gave exactly the number of potions I needed to give, and I barely had enough of some of the ingredients.  I wasn't going to buy the stuff at the ridiculous prices.

1 hour ago, jellysundae said:

All I can pick up is it was awarded to people to used a lot more potions, but I don't know how many.

Oh, ok.  If that's the case, then I only used pretty much what I needed to.  I saved my items because, well, I didn't know if I might have needed them for, uh, umm, something.   Of course, I am never in on these duplicate items though. LOL

Yes, I got the nice trophy, stamp, and fiendish formations avatar too.  I only missed day 1 by a few hours.  The stamp isn't millions of NPS anymore though.  Maybe because a lot more people got it???

What is this healing potion that people are talking about?  People are talking about receiving duplicates.  I haven't received any.  Can someone fill me in?  Thanks.

8 hours ago, Aquamentis12 said:

LOL @Angeló, YES! She is quite good at annoying me with her smooth yooyu-stealing moves! It was still a good match though!

LOL @rntracy1! Glad to know despite you getting a good "workout" from Maraqua that you managed to score your best scores yet! I managed some good scores against your team as well! A couple of 15s and reclaimed my 17-0 score, this time it went through and was counted. Although I must admit, it's the first time I've gotten a 17 with an assist from the opposing team! (darigan yooyu lol) That being said, 13 and 14 are no scores to sneeze at! It's kind of odd this year. First Maraqua played all the teams with 2-2 formation, then 1-3, and now 3-1 formation teams. Weird, imho.  Each formation has it's weaknesses and strengths, and as the AC goes on, some teams, like you mentioned, get a little more aggressive before the first 4 goals are scored. I've noted this over the years, the opposing team USUALLY gets more aggressive at intervals of every 4 scores. I believe every 4 scores the player makes. So you're close to finding out how crafty they are at 16. My "goal", pardon the pun, is to see if 18 points in a game are possible on the player's side, or a combination of player and opposing team's scores. I've been VERY close in previous ACs, but usually during the 2nd minute of play, something happens to eat up a precious couple of seconds. The first minute of play, I can USUALLY get 5 or the max of 6 points. SOMETIMES I can get to 12 by the time the 2nd minute is up, but I can't close on 18. 17 has been my best score the last few ACs. So I ALSO try to see if I can keep my goals per game average high, and try to improve that. So far, I'm doing MUCH better than last year. Of the meager 182 games I've had time to play so far, my Goals per game average is 2,305/182= 12.6648 (Rounding up to the 4th decimal place). Last year I was about 11.5 I think for most of the AC. I also just tabulated my progress so far for games so far with 10 goals or higher. Of my 182 games so far, 6 have been 9 or fewer goals, which I don't screenshot.  But here's a breakdown of my 176 game scores of 10+ so far this year.

10 goals 11 games
11 goals 17 games
12 goals 40 games
13 goals 57 games
14 goals 26 games
15 goals 19 games
16 goals 5  games
17 goals 1  game, not counting the score-send that glitched. (The glitched score was against Meridell). I'm still annoyed that that one didn't send.

These are NOT all without being scored upon. I've allowed no more than 3 points in a single game, and that one time they got to 3, was a fluke due to lag. lol Sometimes it's 1 or 2, but rarely either. For MANY years I've been wanting to "trade" our goalie for one that can actually STOP the yooyu and that won't fight me for control of the character when I use the V-key on my keyboard. lol

I may not look forward to the AC, but when I start to take part, I do like the challenge.

Btw, congrats on your team beating Maraqua yesterday. Terror Mountain IS looking like it could win the cup this year! I don't know when you take on Meridell, which appears to be Number 1 right now, but good luck when you face them!

It's not a compliment, Maraqua was making me very angry (Bahaha).  They really were though.  I was getting so frustrated with them. LOL. 17- ANYTHING is a great score!!!! The most I've ever scored in a game is 15, and it wasn't 15-0.  It was 15-2 and I was thrilled with it.  So my team points were only 13, (15 minus 2 = 13) but I'll take it.

Last night I hit rank 19.  That was my goal.  I wanted to hit AS by this weekend and it looks as if I will do it!!! .  Going for double AS now?  HECK NO!!!!! I will NEVER put that much pressure on myself!  Although I will have to say, it really wasn't that bad hitting AS this year.  I hit 2 ranks per day, except for one day I only managed 1 rank.  But that's why I did it, to take the pressure off toward the end.  Now I can relax and have fun.  Now I am simply going for shop points.  My rank is done.  Woohoo. 

I don't know about Meridell.  They are pretty tough.  I am thinking 2nd place at the most.  But I will take it.  I maxed out SoSD, I max it out every single day and we lost out to Brightvale.  Come on now!  Lol.  I maxed out on Yooyu ball too.  I even played 2 extras just to make sure I was maxed out.  LOL.  I did not max out Slushie slinger and I don't really play keyboard masher.  I leave that up to my teammates.  I figure, they can carry ME on one game.  LOL. 

Like you Brian, I kind of dread the start of AC, it's at a bad time for me, the end of the school year, but I still do pretty well once I get going.  I wish it was more into the summer, when I have a little more time to contribute.  Oh well. 

I am not too fond of our goalie either.  I still haven't managed control of it.  No matter how hard I try, he leaves the area as soon as they come to score.  LOL.  It REALLY seems to me that our goal net is larger than theirs too.  LOL.  And, the net on our side is flush with the lines, whereas on the opponents sides, it bends in, so you are always bouncing off the posts.  Hmmm, that's my twisted observation anyway.  Probably not true however.  LOL.

What happened to Kiko Lake this year??  Must be karma for the year they had the ACG.  They haven't won a match yet.  Wow!  There isn't a board here for them.  Hmmm! 

2 hours ago, jellysundae said:

I need to try this wheel one of these days! I've got plenty of NP, but I always feel I need to have more before I start throwing big chunks of it away on this contraption.

Exactly this!  I feel the same way.  As soon as I get a few more NPs, I will spin it.  Then it's not enough.  lol.  I just have to bite the bullet and do it I suppose.

I have been getting a LOT of the Darigan Yooyus too.  I swear they've changed the coding this year.  Some of the games are ridiculously hard.  Every other Yooyu is a snow yooyu.  I have noticed more power ups though.  Yes, I have been working quite hard.  I wanted to hit rank 18 last night but only made it to 17.  That's ok, I will still make it beyond AS, I just had my goal set and didn't reach it, so I was a little disappointed in myself.  But, that's ok. 

For the Darigan yooyus, it helps me to run parallel with the net and toss the yooyu at the net as you run by.  If it doesn't go it, try running by the other way.  If find that shooting it straight at the net rarely works.  Hope that helps a little.

When I am trying to get the ball, my guy grabs it, then skids.  WHAT IS THAT!!?  LOL.  Because he does that, I end up having to run back by a defender and they steal the ball from me.  If I didn't skid by them in the first place, I would have been fine.  It's not like I was hurling down the field and had to skid to a stop.  It's just something to help them steal the ball from me.  I am convinced of it.  LOL

I think we need one of those big bully skeiths on our team too.  Two teams in a row now.  LOL

7 hours ago, Duma said:

Doing my dailies today I got 2! random events:

AND I got Sneezles from Expellibox. Neopets was generous! LOL

That's AWESOME!  I LOVE Clarence and his clothes for some reason.  Don't ask me why.  I guess because they look so snazzy.  I love the traveling library too.  I don't mind the NPs on the ground or given by Illusen either.  LOL Congrats on the great REs.  Sorry about the Sneezles.

I got a mummified jelly too.  I had never seen one before, now I know why.  It is only going for 700 nps.  What a shame.  The pirate jelly is still UB.  That's good.  Maybe I should feed it to my pet and have 1/2 a pirate jelly.  Surely that has to be worth more, no? 

On ‎6‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 6:22 PM, Angeló said:

couldn't play at all today

had a busy day as usual with Mondays 

it's now 1:20 AM .. i will play just 10 games of YYB and call it a night 

plus it's vs MARAQUA and they have the 1+3 formation i detest , all their players are huddled near their goal and they keep snatching the Yooyu from me right before i shoot , and that Skeith Bully ! 

won't rank up today

OMG, I hate that big bully skeith too.  lol.  He is the one who keeps grabbing my fire yooyu when I wind up and shoot.  At least with other teams, you can score about 3 goals before they start snatching the yooyu from you, but Maraqua steals it right from the get go.  It is a while before I can even score my first goal against them.  Sheesh.  Believe it or not, I have scored my highest games against them though, 13-0 and 14-0.  Every other team has managed to score against me.  lol.  

So, I guess they liked my idea.  Thank you, thank you, Thank you very much.  ROTFL.  

@jellysundae, it isn't PUNISHMENT for switching teams anymore than having the avatar being temporary.  Taking the avatar away would be punishment too.  It's just a way to prevent team hopping for the sake of avatar collecting.  I LOVE the idea.  I should, it's mine.  lol.  (Ok, gotta go now before my head gets too big to fit through the door- LOL)