nicolelouise

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I certainly have trouble with not being able to control my players well. I'm resigned to it though, because of my cognitive problems I can't react quickly enough, and with all the players running around on the screen my brain can't keep up at all, so I know how you feel, Nicole! I've not experienced them circling the ball, but they might have that in store for me yet. >_<

Exactly!  Once I've played three or four rounds, I'm done for the next several hours and if I'm not around later to have another go then that's all I get done.  Maybe the game will grow on me as I improve?
 
Does anybody else find they have a problem where their player will run in a tight little circle all around the ball but you can't get it to turn directly onto the ball and by the time you do, the other team have swooped it up?  That is driving me nuts!

Welcome! Good luck everyone and let's beat Mystery Island!
 
Nicole, as I am sure you are realizing by now, the practice team is actually more difficult than the teams that we face daily.  I don't think there is any change in difficulty from one team to the next really.  However, the formations do change up and some are easier to play against than others.  
 
I am really really happy to see that the caps are lowered this year.  I can get kind of obsessive about tasks like this.  I will probably not be playing make some noise this year.  At all.  It's really not my game. 

OK, so I had a read, I joined Shenkuu, I tried some practise games, and I just won my first game!  Woohoo!!  Very happy.  The first time I played I thought, "There isn't a snowball's hope in hell that I'm going to be able to contribute any points to my team", but I'm feeling better about it now.
 
Thanks for all the information!

Just joined Shenkuu.  It's my first AC and I just played my first practise games.  Yeah...  I'm sure I'll get better, right?  I mean, the only way is up and all that.  With regards to the comments about the goalie's nerves, I've only played four matches and I'm already over it!  Having said that, I control the goalie and I'm nervous, so in a way it is justified, lol.  I'm not even going to worry about rank this year, I just hope to win occasionally!

You're welcome! Reading the ranks guide again, I'd have had to win another 234 games to progress to Rank 6, and the games were ending in about 2 days, so I wisely settled for Rank 5 :laughingsmiley:
 
I'm interested to see how far I get this year. Of course, interested may be entirely the wrong adjective to use in another month or so :rolleyes_anim:

Hi everyone,
I might have joined neopets 10 years ago, but I've never been involved with the Altador Cup.  In fact, I don't think I'd heard of it before last year and only then when it was all done and dusted.  I've looked at some sites and I'm not sure I quite understand how this works.  Can anyone explain it to me, please?
 
What I've worked out so far is that you pick a team to support, you play yooyuball (yeah, never played that before) which sounds like a variation of soccer or something, and then...??  The most I really know about the cup is that everyone complained last year about people cheating.  Again, I have to say...??? 
I saw someone mention something about other games, I saw something about rubbish prizes last year, I've seen complaints about how hard it is to get to the next level, but I'm not quite getting it.  In my brain, I'm likening it to the Battle for the Obelisk, so I have to ask if you have a minimum number of games you have to play per day or anything like that.
 
What have I got right?  What am I missing?  I'd love to hear from someone, please!
 
 

Good team choice there, Nicole B) Gameplay can be a bit D:< inducing, can't it? :laughingsmiley: Glad you're getting a handle on it. :D

Congrats on your first practice game win! I actually find the Practice Team a bit more difficult than the actual teams you play against. Good luck with Shenkuu in the AC! :D

OK, so I had a read, I joined Shenkuu, I tried some practise games, and I just won my first game!  Woohoo!!  Very happy.  The first time I played I thought, "There isn't a snowball's hope in hell that I'm going to be able to contribute any points to my team", but I'm feeling better about it now.
 
Thanks for all the information!

OK, so I had a read, I joined Shenkuu, I tried some practise games, and I just won my first game!  Woohoo!!  Very happy.  The first time I played I thought, "There isn't a snowball's hope in hell that I'm going to be able to contribute any points to my team", but I'm feeling better about it now.
 
Thanks for all the information!

Nicole, I was in your shoes last year! I enjoyed the AC though, and I'm looking forward to this year's starting. You can learn to play Yooyuball against the practice team in the Colosseum, now. I'm just as bad at it as I was last year :laughingsmiley: If I score straight away I'm fine, but if the ball's taken from me I might as well forget it, lol. I don't even TRY if it's a Darigan yooyu, you'll see what I mean when you get one of those xD
 
Despite not being very good at it I got to Rank 5 last year, the team threads bring people together on here too. Good sense of camaraderie which is really nice. :D

LOL First of all, I had to laugh at your "dumb questions" tag. There are no dumb questions, only stupid answers. lol ;)
 
The AC has been going on for, well, 11 years now as indicated by the "XI". I won't bore you with the first couple ACs, things have changed immensely since then, especially Yooyuball. Which, is I think I remember it being explained kinda like a cross between Soccer (football), Lacrosse, and.. I think there was a 3rd too. But I can't recall what. lol But anyway, if you've taken some hiatuses, (like I have) you could certainly miss them.
 
So, Yooyuball is the main game. You can use the mouse or the keyboard. I prefer the keyboard. And you play. Each time you score, there's a little pause for pictures, or the fans not liking something, think of them like Cut-scenes in a video game. Even if you skip them, 8 seconds is ALWAYS taken off the clock. So the more goals you score, the faster the game goes. I think things get faster after you get 5 scores. And then harder, I forget when. But for certain after 10 or so goals.
There are several different Yooyus who act as the ball. Last year there was a pattern, Normal Yooyu, then special yooyu, then Normal, and then another random special one. I haven't done any practice games yet this year, but I'm assuming the same pattern will be kept.
 
The guide from TDN's coverage of the AC from Last year is still up. Here is the link.
http://www.thedailyneopets.com/altador-cup/index/
 
In case yooyuball isn't your strong suit, there are 3 support games you can play. As far as personal rank points go, these aren't worth as much as games of Yooyuball are.  So you need to play more to increase your rank. The upside? They're generally shorter in time.
 
Make some Noise is like the Neopets game, Tug-o-War. Slushie Slinger is kinda like Berry Bash.(Unless I'm confusing the names of mystery island games. lol) And Shootout Showdown you have to score against the Chia goalie, like a penalty kick in Soccer, you aim and press to shoot, when you think you can get the practice ball into the net. Slushie Slinger is probably the slowest of the support games.
I stick to yooyuball, but I've only made it to the All-Star rank once.
Yeah, the prizes for ACX were really terrible, imho. I wonder if it was because there were staff changes during the AC? I don't know, but anyway, not very good.  The Staff Tournament prizes were worse. Too bad because I did AWESOME in the staff tourney last year.
 
The staff tourney is cool. For I think it's 3, weeks? You create a yooyuball team from TNT's staff. It's kinda like fantasy football I guess. You pick staff, and then after a week, you check back. Depending on how the staff did in their AC games, you get scores for each staffer, and a total. You also get some NP based on how your TNT team performed! You then can change people out or keep your team the same for the next week. At the end, there is a Staff Tournament prize shop as well.
 
Now I HAVE downed last year's prizes, but that was a first that I saw them like that.  PREVIOUS years, had some REALLY good prizes!  I... just didn't have enough points to get them! LOL but seriously, AC 7 and 8, I believe, each had some nice weapons. One came with the Altador Cup Throwing Star, I think 8 gave us the wicked Stone Foam Finger. I think 9 gave us the AC team shields. Wearable or equipable for the battledome.
 
I have HOPE, that the prizes this year might be good again! Since Jumpstart has had a whole year.
 
Anyway, this could easily get longer, and I don't know all about the AC. So I'd recommend reading through that link I posted above. It should have the answers to most of your questions, if not, you can always post more questions. :)
 
As far as teams go, they're all pretty even. It basically comes down to if you have a preference. Like, I always play for Maraqua. I have a preference. I raise a peophin and really like the water element. So yeah. Kind of an easy choice. :D But really, your team doesn't dictate anything but whom you play for. It doesn't impact prizes, points, etc. So feel free to choose any team you wish. :)
 
Anyway, I hope this helps get you started! I forget when sign-ups end, but I think it might be May 31st. June 1st I think will be the first games beginning. So sign up soon! :)
 
Best of luck!

I don't think I had made my tdn account when I sold the meowclops, but I will definitely remember that for next time I have something I'm trying to sell. I have trouble dealing with people saying mean things to me, which I think is why I'm scared to talk to strangers on the internet, even on neopets. I have a few videos on youtube and people on there can be extremely rude. tbh I only started posting on these forums because it is a requirement for the tdn pet lending program, but I was really pleasantly surprised at how nice everyone on these boards has been to me.
 
Anyways, I sold the plushie. I got 5.5M for it. Maybe I could have gotten more, but at least I got back my original investment (plus a bit) and don't have to deal with trying to sell it anymore. And at least the collector I sold it to was happy to get a good deal for it.
 
I figure, I go on neopets to relax and have fun, not to deal with bargaining and stuff like that that I hate doing.

There's a gallery board?  Wow.  Who knew.  I have to say that I avoid the neoboards like the plague.  I never know what anyone's talking about (there seems to be a lot of board slang or shorthand that I just don't get) and when I have ventured to post I get few, if any, replies.  Maybe I should perservere.
 
I don't have a lot of experience with HTS items.  I have a habit of burying stuff back in my SDB and intending to try again at a later time and then not getting around to it.  *shrugs* Story of my life.

There's a gallery board?  Wow.  Who knew.  I have to say that I avoid the neoboards like the plague.  I never know what anyone's talking about (there seems to be a lot of board slang or shorthand that I just don't get) and when I have ventured to post I get few, if any, replies.  Maybe I should perservere.
 
I don't have a lot of experience with HTS items.  I have a habit of burying stuff back in my SDB and intending to try again at a later time and then not getting around to it.  *shrugs* Story of my life.

Hi guys, 
I rescued a stuck pet from the pound and have been zapping him with the lab ray.  He has a terrible name (__OreoCheetah__), which is why he was stuck, but I want to rescue more pets, so I thought I'd see if anyone wanted an 8-bit Quiggle.

He comes with a zapped ghost wadjet that began life as a lurman if I remember correctly.
 
Let me know if you're interested, but I only want to hear from people who are interested in keeping him, even if you intend to zap him yourself.  I don't want him to get stuck again!

I was worried when I saw your previous thread had been shut down, considering there are a couple of other people on here doing giveaways and their threads were still going but I have to admit that I hadn't read them very closely to see if there was any difference in content that would have made the mods close yours.
 
I think this is an incredibly generous thing you are doing and much kudos to you.  I will be pm'ing you shortly.

It's not good that thousands of unwanted Neopets come in to the pound every day. I wanna help them! :D

While out for a stroll, _Shimmy_Angel_ looks down and finds 26,511 NP on the ground. Today looks like a lucky day!

Tarla's there right now!
 
http://www.neopets.com/freebies/tarlastoolbar.phtml
 
I won a Seafarer Rope.
 
 
EDIT: She's there again, but in the leaving phase and I don't know how long she's been there.  I just won an Iced Doughnut Bean Bag.

It's been a while since I've posted on the forums, but during that time of abscence, I finally got access to the Secret Laboratory and the Petpet Laboratory! :laughingsmiley:
 
I think I've decided to maybe pick one pet from the Pound to adopt, zap them into something that'll give them a better chance of adoption, then put them back in the Pound and hope for the best!
 
I've already done it to Taneso (got some decent stat changes and got turned into a Maractite Kau), and now I have a new subject pet, Chawnzey. (Although he's pretty cute already, but why not?)
 
So, yeah, that's what I'm doing with the Lab now that I have access to it. Pretty neat (and kind, maybe from the pets' point of view), right? :)
 
(I also apologize if this is in the wrong category or thread, still have trouble with that... Feel free to move it if it's in the wrong place.)

Aw, I got excited. Still not working for me. :(
 
Hopefully this won't interfere with Sloth Day. I want those avies!  :laughingsmiley:
 
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