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  1. After years and years of playing, I discovered that if you have the shop wizard open prior to getting a quest, you can do one search after the quest starts. This has helped me immeasurably when using faerie quest fortune cookies or during an event with daily quests since you control when the quest begins, but it also got me into the habit of having the shop wizard open in a tab while I do my dailies.
  2. I did! Mintyfish is at level 503, with strength and defense just above 750. I did move HP up to 1008 but I don't think I'm going to push it to 1500. There's no increase in multiplier after 750 for strength or defense so one could safely stop at level 375, but because I had put HP at 840 on my own, I had to bring level up to at least 420 in order to do anything with strength/defense. Once I did that, I made a goal of getting to level 500 to be able to get the last level of faerie abilities. I'm collecting my bottled faeries for it now. I should mention that by the end, I'd invested into Faerie Quest Fortune Cookies, so I spent the last few months doing a faerie quest every day (sometimes twice - thanks faerie festival!) and upgraded randomly for much of the way and trained to even things out. To be honest, the FQFC path was more fun than the full-time training grind, but you might have to spend real life money for it. There have been in-game gifts of NC lately and I happily spent it all on fortune cookies.
  3. This is 100% true. If you're at level 100, you can train your strength or defense (or movement) up to 200 and your hit points up to 300. However, once you go over 2x with hit points, you can only train hit points further (up to the 3x level maximum). No more strength or defense while you're doing this. I did do this, thinking I wanted it, but I was wrong. In my humble opinion, you should increase HP to 3x at the end of your training journey not the middle! I kept strength, defense, and hit points 2x my level up until about level 280 when I noticed for the first time that one could up the hit points to 3x the level, so I went wild and got my hit points to 840 before I realized I could not train my strength or defense until I reached level 420. All I could do for 100+ days was to train level and nothing else. I have done the math (after doing all this, not before like a sensible person) and depending on where you stop training strength and defense (there's no reason to go higher than 750), it's between 11 and 14% cheaper red codestone-wise to train everything up 2x until you hit level 500 and then increase hp as much as you want. Realize that no matter what, you're in for finding 1200 to 1500 red codestones. Not having to buy 200+ extra codestone is obviously cheaper and will take several weeks less to complete, but that's not why I'm warning against going 3x early. I can tell you the sad grindy-ness of level day after day made me hate the game: If I got to do a faerie quest that gave me 3 HP, I got mad! You should be happy something that would cost 300K np to do cost nearly nothing, but my joy had been ground down to a nub. In those days and days of grinding level out, I passed the Adept and Advanced levels of training, so once I reached the 2x limit, all my progress on strength and defense cost 3 red codestones. I had to skip over the 2 codestone cost entirely. I felt that I'd missed out on the cheaper tier even though mathematically it was only for 14%, it still made me grumble. Maybe if I'd chosen the path purposefully at the start, I wouldn't have felt that way, but all of a sudden realizing I had to level up about 200 times before I could change anything else wore on me. And, of course, some players are going to be fine with it, but I think you're better off knowing what you're up against beforehand. (I'm better now that my pet's levels and stuff are properly aligned)
  4. Are you guys seeing weekly quests? I'm not. I thought maybe the weekly quests were completing 7 days of daily quests or something, but I've only got one check mark and I've finished my second day of daily quests. So now I think something may be wrong. Or I'm missing something obvious. For example, I didn't notice that sometimes the quest wants you to do something multiple times like buy an item only there's a little progress bar that says 1 out of 3, so I briefly thought the quest was broken. edit: man, right after I complained here, my weekly rewards tab shows two check marks. So, I'm back to believing the weekly reward comes after completing seven days of daily quests.
  5. If this was really a Charity Corner event, limits would make no sense since the point was to clean up our excess safety deposit box clutter. Were we shown what perks or prizes we could get ahead of time? I don't remember donating to the Charity Corner to get to a specific prize level. To me, this event is really a Faerie event (free quests!) but with a recycling side event to win valuable prizes and that's different. The limits seem to be there to keep players with deep SDB's from snarfing up a billion valuable stamps or battle dome weapons.
  6. I figure they have several servers spread out in different data centers in the world and various web pages go on specific ones. So, it's possible that just some of the neopets pages would be unavailable, but what breaks from our point of view will appear random. It's not something we are doing wrong or can fix. Theories aside, I'm happy to report that I was able to collect interest and spin trudy's surprise, play a game of slushie slinger and also fight in the battledome without any issues. I'm in the US, so maybe those servers are up and working now.
  7. I had to log out and then log back in again to get the message that I got free NC. I didn't notice my NC balance change until the the next day, although I wasn't looking especially hard.
  8. The text from the free goodie bag from the NC mall mentions it. I opened it already, but I think it was "Y23BIRTHDAY". It gives you 150 NC off a 1,000 NC or more order.
  9. Pro tip: if you want to use your birthday discount at the NC Mall and you're thinking of adding some fortune cookies to your order, be sure you do it from inside the NC Mall and not from Noda's fortune cookie shop. At Noda's, you conveniently buy the cookie right then and there and it never goes into your shopping cart and the cart is where you type in your discount code. Just do a search for fortune cookies at the main mall page and then you can do your shopping cart magic.
  10. The default for the forum software TDN uses is 10 reactions/day. They may have it set higher (or lower) but I was curious and did some googling.
  11. OH nos. I did the wrong thing then. I was carefully keeping everything twice my level but got greedy when I "discovered" the three times level limit for HP. Looks like I can't upgrade my attack or defense until I move up 140 levels or so now. Would have been much cheaper to stick with keeping everything twice the level. Let this be a lesson to to kids out there, don't get greedy with ninja training...
  12. Does anyone know the math rules that govern training at the secret ninja training school? I always thought you couldn't go past 2x your level and then one day I was bringing my hit points (endurance) up and it went over the 2x limit. I thought I remembered that you could go to 3x with hit points, so for the past few months, I kept going on hit points, grateful that I noticed this before level 300 where it takes two red codestones per course instead of just one. I got my hit points up to 3x my level a few days ago. Happiness and joy, right? But now, I get this error if I try to train in strength or defense: Error: No statistic can go above twice your pets level (292 x 2 = 584). Your highest statistic is currently Hit Points at 873. Please increase the level of your pet first! I may be able train in endurance because I could before, but I'm not going to because If I'm reading this right, I may be trapped into only updating level until I get to level 437 (which is half of 873)! Does anybody know if this is normal behavior? Was letting me go to 3x hit points a bug? Here are my pet's stats if anybody wants to check the math. Lvl : 292 Str : 580 Def : 579 Mov : 245 Hp : 873 / 873 I think I may be stuck doing level training well into Advanced course types, which requires three codestones, which will be a most unrewarding grind.
  13. Don't forget about the Forgotten Shore (see what I did there?) The map pieces are super cheap now and when you finish the map, there is a one time payout of several thousand NP. After that, you visit the shore daily and can get 2-5,000 NP. It's random, so you can get nothing, but I've never gone longer than a week without getting some NP from the Forgotten Shore.
  14. I was 1 day from my 100,000 spin when it got stuck yesterday and after some deep breathing exercises, I'd accepted that I would be starting over today and wasn't sad. When I spun today without even looking, I was happily surprised that I got 100,000 np. It's definitely fixed for me!
  15. I suppose it could be a new and different bug but I'm guessing it's related to the clock change bug. Something like this seems to happen when daylight savings changes take place. I really thought it had been fixed this time around because Trudy's Surprise on Sunday worked perfectly normally after the time change.
  16. Clearly I'm not the demographic for this because the first thing I thought of was "OMG, how do you feed 15 pets all the time?" I find 4 stressful enough.
  17. It's not just you. My pet's stats have that slash, too and I get the swashbuckling academy error as well. Just checked this morning and everything appears to be back to normal.
  18. 6:30am NST (8:30 for me) and it's still doing it. It's definitely a thing happening today.
  19. I think it's totally random. I typically spread the opportunity for opening things like this across all my pets, so there have been times when it pops immediately and there have been times when I've cycled through all my pets several times before it opens. So I know it doesn't just open with my strongest pet.
  20. Hey, it's a few weeks later but I'm getting different jelly now!
  21. I've been getting Squished Jelly for at least the last 5 days. Edible but unappetizing looking jelly.
  22. I figured out the shop wizard issue that was bugging me. If you go to the shop wizard through the neopets interface directly, like a normal person would, when you return to it by hitting back in your browser, it may not work and you get an error (this has improved in recent days, though). If you hit back and do not get an error, your search field will be empty and you have to retype what you're looking for. This also happens for reloading the shopwizard with F5. If you went to the shop wizard from somewhere that preloads your search, like the jellyneo items page does, then you don't get errors for going back in your browser. In boring technical terms, the URL for the shop wizard normally looks like this: http://www.neopets.com/shops/wizard.phtml But a preloaded search looks like this: http://www.neopets.com/shops/wizard.phtml?string=Pirate+Hook+Candy+Cane Adding that string argument fixes something that normally goes wrong with the reload or back. I don't see a lot of people bookmarking pre-loaded search terms so this doesn't have a lot of practical value for you guys, but it bothered me, so I had to figure it out.
  23. Today using back in the browser didn't work for me either. Also, the refresh worked but I had to retype what I was searching for. That wasn't happening yesterday. I'm not sure what I'm doing differently that made it work the other day so I'm going to temporarily suspend my pro-tip until I work this out.
  24. old days: get prices through shop wizard, hit reload to get a new list of prices, click back in browser to search for another item today: get prices through shop wizard, hit reload AND submit the search again. Hitting back in browser seems to work OK. I think this wasn't working well last week because I remember having issues with hitting reload but it seems to be working now. It's still more clicking than the old days but I'm not getting errors any more.
  25. trudy's surprise old days: there was a tiny message in the header with a link that said trudy's surprise had reset. You had to hit the right part of the link to actually go to trudy. Otherwise you went to your neomail and then you had to find the message with the link. today: you should get red circle & a number in the header over the yellow bell letting you know you have a message. Pro tip: once you click on the bell, you have to click on the "alerts" tab to see the message about trudy. I said should because it's clearly bugged a little. It only shows up after you've gone onto a non-beta page that shows you the alert the old days way.
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