missmon93

Congrats!!! Today was only my 2nd one, so I still need to do 6 more for the prize...hope I can manage...

I had a bunch of R90s and I didnt get anything more than a stamp worth 60K... I considered buying some R90s from shops when they were 20Kish out of desperation, but honestly it seems too iffy based off what my results were already. Buying stamps is the way to go if youre collecting. The only thing is. Who knows if they'll go down or up in price after the event. Its hard to say. The economy is so shifty I'm scared to put my points anywhere lol. Good luck I hope your choices pay off.

Welcome to the BD section! :D Leaf Shield works best with Strength and Defense boosts balanced, so you should definitely consider using it. ;)
 
It's been a long time since I beat up on the ol' Chia Clown. So I looked up his profile. http://battlepedia.thedailyneopets.com/index.php/oneplayer/viewprofile/103/
 
His Seltzer Bottle and Ultra Rainbow Flash will get half or totally through the Leaf Shield. I'll recommend 2 item-types for you that should be in just about every battle set.
 
Downsize!, NOT Downsize Power Plus, but just Downsize! (yes with the ! at the end) This handy little defensive item will block 50% of all damage for one turn, once per battle. Once used it will vanish for the duration of the current battle. The Downsize Power Plus is retired, super expensive, looks identical to Downsize! Teh differences are that Power Plus blocks ALL damage once. The other difference, is once you use it, it's gone forever. So just don't buy it. It's not worth it. ;)
 
2nd item, regardless of level or anything, you SHOULD have a Healer! ;)
 
When I was starting out with battling, loooooong ago. I used a Slime Potion. Heal's 10hp, once per battle. Cheapest on the Super Wiz is 111 np. If you want a little more healing. I would suggest Bronze Scorchstone, a classic healer that heals 15hp and is hovering around 5000np. Or, Lesser Healing Scroll is hovering around 10,000np, and heals 25hp. All of these are once per battle.
 
Having a healer and Downsize! should help you take less damage, or recover more quickly from what damage you do take.
 
Best of luck!

you could try using your leaf shiel as well but a scroll of ultranova coupled with a minor healing scroll or a cursed elixir will mean that you never have to heal

you could try using your leaf shiel as well but a scroll of ultranova coupled with a minor healing scroll or a cursed elixir will mean that you never have to heal

got it! Altador rug, bottle of oranga sand, bottle of blue sand, cheery plant & babaa care!

got it! Altador rug, bottle of oranga sand, bottle of blue sand, cheery plant & babaa care!

I am trying the whole, fostering-pets-and-zapping-them-then-finding-them-a-new-home, thing. My only flaw in the plan is I have no idea what other people look for in a pet.
Not including UC pets, what pets do people most want/wish for?

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Enjoy, missmon93!

That stinks!
 
I use control-v to place my bet so I don't have to type it each time (and now, the back button and just change a few things, since that finally seems to work for me).
 
When it's lagging and you're trying to get your bets in on a time crunch, open 3 (or more) tabs of "place bets." After clicking to place your first bet in the first tab, place your 2nd bet in the second tab and click "submit." Then go back to the first tab and you should be able to click "place bets" again by this time. Then submit your 3rd bet in the 3rd tab, click "place bet" in the second tab, then submit your 4th bet in the first tab (which should be all ready for you, no waiting). The worse the lag is, the more tabs you should open at once.
 
Hope these tips can help people since the lag continues and sometimes you've just got to get those bets in at the last minute. It stinks to not be able to place a bet or make a mistake because of a time crunch.
 
Good luck in today's bets!

Could you please draw my darling? His name is JohnIsRealHot and here is his look up http://www.neopets.com/petlookup.phtml?pet=JohnIsRealHotim not really sure about a referece image but one day soon hes going to be faerie and i would love if you could draw him that way

It's randomly awarded for finding the candycane in the animation. You can find more info here.
 
I got one today and got the white cloak thing. Nice. :D
 
As for your question on the previous page, yes they are exclusive. They didn't used to be waaaaay back in the day but now they are. So if ya miss it, you'll have to buy the items you missed.

Hi Monica! When I first read your post, I thought you collected windows in real life! But collecting them on neopets is cool too. :P

Some of the described issues are not so much a result of savage capitalism by itself, but rather, savage capitalism in an essentially closed economy* lacking many of the complicating factors of a real-world economy while adding others. It's something you see commonly in nearly every online community with virtual currency and some form of economy, though pet-sites like Neopets, avatar communities like Gaiaonline (and MMORPGs such as Runescape and World of Warcraft) are most heavily predisposed towards it.
This tends to be a combination of several factors:
A lack of attractive sinks (scarcity attracts, but those items are scarce because they do not frequently appear, which means that most people will buy said items from other people, which means the NP stays in circulation); it does not help that the great majority of items that get used up sink less neopoints than a single player could make in a few minutes, or have alternative options in that price-range; A tendency towards making the more attractive potential sinks real-world-money items instead (NeoCash in Neopets' case, Gaia Cash in Gaiaonline's case, etc.) which does not work as a sink for the normal currency at all (and indeed even makes the other sinks less attractive to some degree); An endless supply of new money to enter the economy, limited only by the number of players active x time willing and able to spend. In the real world, money changes hands, but there are strong limits on the amount of new money to enter an economy (by coins being minted and bills being printed), which may as well not be present at all in Neopets' case. (One could say there is some limit on the amount of new money a single player can make in a short timespan, but with a long list of different possible ways in which said player can make it, essentially the only limit is the time said player has and the amount of effort they're willing to make. Of which in some cases, not much is needed at all.) Essentially unlimited storage of items and money, meaning that people are extremely unlikely to throw away an object they have simply because they now have something better; In Neopets' case, random events and dailies adding items and money to the economy. (Yes, there are also random events that take away things, but with a bank to keep one's money safe and a SDB to do the same, I dare say a lot less is lost that way than is added) Items with an actual limited number (as opposed to items that are rare but still in some form supplied to the economy, however little) staying on abandoned and frozen accounts or ending up with people who will not consider selling under any circumstance, constantly decreasing the number and thus driving the prices on said items higher; resulting in a top-down inflation at first, followed up by a deflation of the lower-rung/common items resulting in what is essentially a break in the economy between a large group of cheap items and a small group of very expensive items with very little in between.** A lack of actual necessities. Your pets may not exactly be happy about being left untrained, disease-ridden and starving, but they won't die. Nor will you. There quite honesty are very few consequences to such a thing beyond the risk of a random event making your pet red or blue (if that one even happens any more), which isn't even much of a risk if your pets aren't painted. This means people can spend practically every single neopoint they have on luxuries. Heck, it's even possible to keep your pets well-fed, free from disease and happy without ever spending a single neopoint, long as you're willing to hop by the giant jelly and omelette daily and hang around the healing springs when your pet catches a disease. As a result, pricing makes very little sense and you get things like certain pencils being more expensive than a chair or bed. A lack of fees on transactions between players, meaning that it's a reasonable choice to buy an item from a fellow user for, say, 597NP rather than pay 599NP for it in the shop. This makes the already ineffective sinks even less effective.  
*One could make the claim that Neopets is not so much a closed economy as an autarky, though it certainly has strong traits of both. Indeed, there is outside influence on Neopets albeit indirectly (in the form of holidays, for example, which influence to some degree which items are popular--Christmas/winter-themed items as we're nearing Christmas, romantic items as Valentine approaches, etc.--but also in the form of (not allowed, but nonetheless happening) offsite trading/account selling, to name just a few) but far less than would be the case in a real-world economy; and furthermore, the influence is indirect rather than direct. An object made in Belgium can end up in, say, China. An item on Neopets will stay on Neopets or be destroyed on Neopets, but will not ever enter a different economy/site. Neopoints are the same; they exist on Neopets or stop existing, but will not enter a different economy/be ported off-site.
 
**People want those items; they get more expensive; they try to sell their own items for higher prices at first or sell expensive items they otherwise would not have sold; for the rare items, this new higher price likely stays; however, because there is now an influx of common goods on the market, not only does the inflation not stay, the prices decrease to likely a price lower than before

I was reading on somewhere the other day that a user emailed tnt as they wanted to have everything different colour of a certain pet and tnt gave them an exemption to have more sides for this reason only and were going to monitor it. there was a screenshot and everything but wonder they probably qwouldnt want too many people doing it or they mnight as well let everyone have unlimited sides

Yay! I just noticed that too. It will make my life so much easier when planning battles to gain my 15 items / nps each day. :)