Editorial/news/neopian times is out! -- 12/16
Sat Dec 17, 2005 3:33 am
# If you happen to get hold of one of these new crackers, open it! Some fabulous prizes await you inside.
# There is a new Mystery Pic competition. The answer to the last one was the Hannah and the Pirate Caves - Part 2 Neopedia. 686 people guessed the correct answer, earning 2,916 NP each.
# A new issue of the Neopian Times has been released. Keep your eyes open for great stories and adventures like You Can't Get Away From Omelettes and The Story of the Magic Doorknob.
# Five new Poems are up! Right now! Go look! Seriously... go look.
# Two new Holiday Greetings are available to send to your friends and family. We are not responsible for annoyed siblings.
# If you think your Neopet is the cutest in all of Neopia, a win in the Beauty Contest will prove it! A new contest is about to begin.
# Next week we will be having a Snuffly theme, be sure to send in your Snuffly pictures and poems!
# A plethora of new masterpieces are now on display in the Art Gallery.
# The winner of the latest Pet Spotlight is none other than chewyblee, a rather tough Baby Pteri.
# For those who aren't aware, we thought we'd mention the exclusive trading card that can only be found inside the Darkest Faerie video game. EXCLUSIVE TRADING CARD! (There, mentioned.) If you like video games, or trading cards with nifty art, or both even, check out The Darkest Faerie on PS2. You know you want to.
# Do the Neopets in the latest Caption Contest know that you don't get prizes from that kind of cracker?
# 201346 Chia Close, Neopia Central, owned and decorated by lady_eleanore, has won this week's Neohome Spotlight. Well done!
# These new smores are quite tasty, if you can get your hands on one. The sell out rather quickly from the Food Shop.
# World Challenge Updates! There are now more ways to win in the World Challenges. You can now win by having the highest tally, the highest score, or the highest total of scores. No minimum number of scores sent required! Fancy that.
Interesting tidbits from the Editorial:
The other day, I was logged onto my spare account and I got a random event telling me I had been given a book from a traveling book shop. I was wondering, is it against the rules to send this item to my main account? ~ kateiau
Nope.
Anything won from a random event is yours to keep, and since you obviously can't have a shop on your alternate account, it's perfectly alright to send it to your main to sell it if you wish. (Or read it to a pet or whatever you wish.) This is quite different from doing dailies and getting freebies on alternate accounts, which isn't allowed.
I'm a college student so I go between computers a lot. I use neopets from my dorm, work, and home computer on a regular basis. And I've heard that you can get frozen by using neopets on multiple computers. Is this true? ~ luvjamesm
No, that isn't true. Logging onto your account from multiple places is fine. We know that even though we rarely leave the office, most people enjoy going places like "outside" and "to their Grandma's house" and such. While we find it quite strange, it's not unheard of. Feel free to play Neopets wherever you go.
We all voted several months ago for our favorite April Fools Day pets, but I haven't heard a thing about it the since. Will the winning pet ever be released or has the idea been shelved? ~ balooh
No worries! It hasn't been forgotten. We've just had lots of big events this year so it was scheduled after some of those things. To make up for the wait, we'll let you in on a little secret. There are TWO new Neopets species being released soon! One of which is the April Fools pet, of course. The other is something quite different. These are in addition to the Lutari, which is part of something much bigger that we can't discuss yet. You'll just have to be patient with that one.
(At last! They speak on the subject! :O)
# There is a new Mystery Pic competition. The answer to the last one was the Hannah and the Pirate Caves - Part 2 Neopedia. 686 people guessed the correct answer, earning 2,916 NP each.
# A new issue of the Neopian Times has been released. Keep your eyes open for great stories and adventures like You Can't Get Away From Omelettes and The Story of the Magic Doorknob.
# Five new Poems are up! Right now! Go look! Seriously... go look.
# Two new Holiday Greetings are available to send to your friends and family. We are not responsible for annoyed siblings.
# If you think your Neopet is the cutest in all of Neopia, a win in the Beauty Contest will prove it! A new contest is about to begin.
# Next week we will be having a Snuffly theme, be sure to send in your Snuffly pictures and poems!
# A plethora of new masterpieces are now on display in the Art Gallery.
# The winner of the latest Pet Spotlight is none other than chewyblee, a rather tough Baby Pteri.
# For those who aren't aware, we thought we'd mention the exclusive trading card that can only be found inside the Darkest Faerie video game. EXCLUSIVE TRADING CARD! (There, mentioned.) If you like video games, or trading cards with nifty art, or both even, check out The Darkest Faerie on PS2. You know you want to.
# Do the Neopets in the latest Caption Contest know that you don't get prizes from that kind of cracker?
# 201346 Chia Close, Neopia Central, owned and decorated by lady_eleanore, has won this week's Neohome Spotlight. Well done!
# These new smores are quite tasty, if you can get your hands on one. The sell out rather quickly from the Food Shop.
# World Challenge Updates! There are now more ways to win in the World Challenges. You can now win by having the highest tally, the highest score, or the highest total of scores. No minimum number of scores sent required! Fancy that.
Interesting tidbits from the Editorial:
The other day, I was logged onto my spare account and I got a random event telling me I had been given a book from a traveling book shop. I was wondering, is it against the rules to send this item to my main account? ~ kateiau
Nope.
Anything won from a random event is yours to keep, and since you obviously can't have a shop on your alternate account, it's perfectly alright to send it to your main to sell it if you wish. (Or read it to a pet or whatever you wish.) This is quite different from doing dailies and getting freebies on alternate accounts, which isn't allowed.
I'm a college student so I go between computers a lot. I use neopets from my dorm, work, and home computer on a regular basis. And I've heard that you can get frozen by using neopets on multiple computers. Is this true? ~ luvjamesm
No, that isn't true. Logging onto your account from multiple places is fine. We know that even though we rarely leave the office, most people enjoy going places like "outside" and "to their Grandma's house" and such. While we find it quite strange, it's not unheard of. Feel free to play Neopets wherever you go.
We all voted several months ago for our favorite April Fools Day pets, but I haven't heard a thing about it the since. Will the winning pet ever be released or has the idea been shelved? ~ balooh
No worries! It hasn't been forgotten.
We've just had lots of big events this year so it was scheduled after some of those things. To make up for the wait, we'll let you in on a little secret. There are TWO new Neopets species being released soon! One of which is the April Fools pet, of course. The other is something quite different. These are in addition to the Lutari, which is part of something much bigger that we can't discuss yet. You'll just have to be patient with that one.
(At last! They speak on the subject! :O)
Sat Dec 17, 2005 3:48 am
Two new Holiday Greetings are available to send to your friends and family. We are not responsible for annoyed siblings.
I know my siblings will enjoy them 
Sat Dec 17, 2005 11:52 pm
I know they said that there were two new species going to be released but I am wondering if one of them was the Xweetok. If so then that weird one is actually the april fools one after all. I still think it's name is going to either start with and O or a V. I wish I could guess it's name.
Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:19 am
smudgeoffudge wrote:I know they said that there were two new species going to be released but I am wondering if one of them was the Xweetok. If so then that weird one is actually the april fools one after all. I still think it's name is going to either start with and O or a V. I wish I could guess it's name.
I'm pretty sure that one of them is the llama one and the other is the ugly one...
Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:27 am
Anoohilator wrote:smudgeoffudge wrote:I know they said that there were two new species going to be released but I am wondering if one of them was the Xweetok. If so then that weird one is actually the april fools one after all. I still think it's name is going to either start with and O or a V. I wish I could guess it's name.
I'm pretty sure that one of them is the llama one and the other is the ugly one...
I doubt it. Why would they refer to a pet that was released half a month ago?
Sun Dec 18, 2005 12:29 am
IcyBlue wrote:Anoohilator wrote:smudgeoffudge wrote:I know they said that there were two new species going to be released but I am wondering if one of them was the Xweetok. If so then that weird one is actually the april fools one after all. I still think it's name is going to either start with and O or a V. I wish I could guess it's name.
I'm pretty sure that one of them is the llama one and the other is the ugly one...
I doubt it. Why would they refer to a pet that was released half a month ago?
which pet was released half a month ago?
Sun Dec 18, 2005 2:47 am
Anoohilator wrote:which pet was released half a month ago?
The only other new pet released this year, the Hissi on May 4th.
Sun Dec 18, 2005 3:15 am
i remember once in an editorial, they said they planned to release a certain ammount of species in a certain ammount of time....
like they said "we plan to exceed 50 very soon in fact. IN FACT, we want to have at least 54 by the end of the year!" ... or something like that.
does anybody remember this?
like they said "we plan to exceed 50 very soon in fact. IN FACT, we want to have at least 54 by the end of the year!" ... or something like that.
does anybody remember this?
Sun Dec 18, 2005 3:19 am
The Wonder Weezel wrote:i remember once in an editorial, they said they planned to release a certain ammount of species in a certain ammount of time....
like they said "we plan to exceed 50 very soon in fact. IN FACT, we want to have at least 54 by the end of the year!" ... or something like that.
does anybody remember this?
They are at 51 now. So are we going to get three more by the end of the year?
Sun Dec 18, 2005 4:23 am
Skynetmain wrote:The Wonder Weezel wrote:i remember once in an editorial, they said they planned to release a certain ammount of species in a certain ammount of time....
like they said "we plan to exceed 50 very soon in fact. IN FACT, we want to have at least 54 by the end of the year!" ... or something like that.
does anybody remember this?
They are at 51 now. So are we going to get three more by the end of the year?
they didnt say they were making 54... that was an example number. im just pretty sure it was above 50, because they were pointing out that they wanted to go extreme and release a bunch of pets before... some point of time.
i was just wondering if anybody else remembers them mentioning this.
Sun Dec 18, 2005 6:00 am
Well you've got...
Xweetok
New awesome raindeer type pet
Lutari (coming early next year I believe - coinciding with the Mobile pack)
April Fool's pet (not planned, but might replace another idea they had...)
Xweetok
New awesome raindeer type pet
Lutari (coming early next year I believe - coinciding with the Mobile pack)
April Fool's pet (not planned, but might replace another idea they had...)