lilshadowdweller Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 This isn't intended to be a "woe is me" sort of thread. There have been moments within my Neopet journey where I had been very fortunate. (For instance, wayyy back many years ago when the Rainbow Pool was made available to anyone who signed up for Neopet's sponsors. I was able to pain 4 pets any colour I desired). But I have never received a Rainbow Fountain Quest in all of my ten years here. I also got a random event for an awesome Sloth avatar item ON A SIDE ACCOUNT. xDD But when it comes to the NC mall and me digging out real money, well, my luck comes back to haunt me. First off, I had purchased a "Wonderclaw Widget" for one of those nifty rainbow items I really like. I have yet to receive anything which astounds me from it (like a rainbow), but today I tried and was blessed with...dum-de-de-dum... Ew. Just...ew. I hate to sound terrible, but it just looks terrible. So...yeah. "But it's OK", I foolishly thought. "Valentines day is coming up, and I had just bought a niftly mystery capsule! If I'm lucky, I could get many different items!" What did I get? Well.... and a bow. Overall value? 175 NC (I counted the current discount of the Cumulus Wings, which is currently 75 but regularly 150?) ALSO, I had already purchased the discount Cumulus Wings! So I can subtract the value. To add more insult to injury, I do not "<3 NC". xD Yay. -__- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nataluna Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 i opened 5 val caps in the hopes of achieving a valentine re-release, alas no joy also and i instead got cap junk. i ended up trading for valentine tree of hearts, for 3 caps *sigh* wonderclaw i usually buy the powerup and the large claw, and i only do it when a new machine is released, that way you usually can find trades. (i have those tights too, ugly!) and can anyone say.. bounching tennis ball and bows? (these are the most common "cap fodder") the way the NC is structured unfortunately devalues any item in the NC mall for a long period of time and places an unfortunately high value on limited edition items like appetising apple, or bathazar's bag of bottled faeries (this one i know is valued at 150+ capsules) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizyMarie Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 It just sounds like you are having a case of crappy luck. but maybe it won't all be so bad. ;P But anyway, NC isn't always worth throwing money into. And the capsles never seem to have good stuff when I get them. I just keep my NC sitting there for anything interesting that they release. (like all the archer items for my Pirate Kougra.) And maybe, just maybe, you may get a Fountain Faerie quest some day :) I got one a while back, and it seems like everyone has gotten one in their lifetime in Neopia. (Active users, I mean) So, best of luck to you in your furture quests for more goodies and quests :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacky Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 I disagree with you on the fountain faerie thing, Lizymarie... I have been on neo for over 6 years, and I have yet to get a ff quest. I know of a LOT of users that have been there for way longer than me and they never got one either. I had sort of a hiatus for about a year, but most of the time I have been extremely active (as in 5 or 6 hours a day, playing loads of games, etc. Quests are just pure luck. I am happy for everyone who gets a ff quest and don't really worry about me not getting one, though I would love to get one. So congrats on getting yours! :D It always makes me happy to see people get cool RE's like that! @lilshadowdweller: I'm sorry to hear you had a bad luck streak.... Hopefully that streak will end soon and you will carry on with something amazing happening to you! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilshadowdweller Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share Posted January 29, 2012 @lilshadowdweller: I'm sorry to hear you had a bad luck streak.... Hopefully that streak will end soon and you will carry on with something amazing happening to you! :D I know! I think the thing is that you hear more about the quests people DO get, rather then the ones they do not. And yeah, sometimes the NC mall just isn't worth it. I don't care too much about collecting but I'd like to get some items. And what do the claws and power ups do? I've never used them with that game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saxen Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 Aww I'm sorry to hear that :( Capsules can be a reet pain!! I bought I think about 11 of those Rainbow Capsules for that amazing Plushie Brush background thingy but of course I didn't get it XD You'll have some good luck soon I'm sure ^_^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angeló Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 when you're talking NC capsules and real money , Neopets really knows how to fish for your cash while giving you nothing of much value in return .. I personally have no experience with the NC Mall games , except for the two times when they gave out tokens for free ... one I got a blah background with , and the other i got fire and ice wings - which are nice looking but not very practical as a wearable (only AFTER that , they released the gothic wonderclaw ... to top off my luck lol) ... but for example .. they release 7 items .. 5 of which are not worth it ... one is nice .. and one is super awesome - then you find out it's a bonus which requires you to buy more tokens and have a 10% chance of getting it ... welcome to corporate Neopets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nataluna Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 they are optional extras you can purchase with the game, they do cost NC though. if would genuinely want to play, it works out to be a better economy to purchase them as a large claw gives you 2 prizes, a powerup gives you the next level up. the large claw is 75 and so is the levelup. whereas a 10 pack of tokens costs 900NC (90NC/token, hence 75 NC for an extra prize at the same time is a better value) i use them in conjunction with a guide that tells me what prizes are on what level (and based on that i decide whether to use the level up) you cannot use a levelup on a gold teir prize so bonuses are still random when you recieve a gold teir. generally if you have NC if you can offer custom, you will generally be able to trade for the items you really want after about a week of it being out. most of the time if you are after randomly awarded NC prizes, wait a week or so and then trade for them. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilshadowdweller Posted January 29, 2012 Author Share Posted January 29, 2012 Yeah, I hope I can get rid of some of them Annukii. :( And Angelo, they did get me. Unfortunately, I rarely dish out cash for them. I don't like Viacom very much so it kills me to support them. Sometimes, it's fun to have NeoCash, I do think of it as basically say, purchasing another video game *which I do in reality* but yeah, I think I'm not going to be spending NC for awhile. Most of my pets aren't easy to customize anyway. Two are Maraquan. As for the extras, I should have tried it. I didn't know what they did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rune Valentine Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 I've never been very lucky with Mystery Capsules, so I definitely feel your pain! :( It sucks that so many items are being re-released, and you buy 10-15 capsules and all you get are random junk. Not even one item out of the re-releases. I've resolved to not buying NC anymore, though. I figure with my luck I'll be wasting money I'd rather use for important stuff. Yep, definitely corporate Neopets working here xP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leedom111 Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 NC is kind of tough... you have to spend lots of real money to get anything worthwhile. I wish they would release more cool neopoint items. For example, most wigs are NC, not NP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xSummer Posted January 29, 2012 Share Posted January 29, 2012 arrgggg. nc is a tough one but i promise luck will come ur way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nataluna Posted January 30, 2012 Share Posted January 30, 2012 NC is kind of tough... you have to spend lots of real money to get anything worthwhile. I wish they would release more cool neopoint items. For example, most wigs are NC, not NP hence i've spent waaay to much on NC <_< decided to collect wings, i got really lucky with the rarest of the bunch, flower wings as i was able to negotiate a 4 way trade instead of having to offer full capsule value. the main problem is trading items, you need gift boxes which are not provided when you buy NC through paypal, hence the current trading revolved around gift box capsules. which items were you trying from wonderclaw? i know i had terrible luck with the gothic machine. that advent bonus widget started off alot of very bad things :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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