Weekly News Thread: June 3 - June 9

[bettywales]

3rd June - Fyora Day (belated)

* Today the whole of Neopia is holding a big celebration in Queen Fyora's honour. To start things off, a new item have been added to the Hidden Tower.


* There is anew page of Fyora-themed Poemsfor you to read.

* The Chocolate Factory has created some tasty Fyora-inspired Gummies that are now on sale.


* noahmcdx is this week's Minigolf Spotlight award winner thanks to their course - short or long...

* Make sure you stop by the Art Gallery today to see the new pictures.


* The latest Caption Contest is starting.


* The Story Telling competition is continuing from last week. Good Luck!

* If you need something to keep you busy, there are some new Faerieland Colouring Pages.


* A fun thing to do this Fyora Day might be to give friends and family something from the Gift Shop.


* This week's Pet Spotlight award has been given to a JubJub called Ololosat.

* Congratulations go out to Resveratrol and Jermites! Each has proven spiffier than the rest in the Customisation Spotlight. Voting for this week's contest has begun. Good luck to this week's entrants!


* Trading Card Fun Paks are now available at Target stores. All of the fun packs come with a virtual item, Neopoints and a chance to win a Key Quest token! Click Here for more info.


* If you have a Pwerko, Scamander, Snuffly or Fangy, you are in luck because you can now paint them faerie at the Petpet Puddle.

[May]

4th June

* Today's Random Theme is: Raspberries!

* To start off this raspberry day, there are a few new items including a background that you might want to pick up!


Mmmm... Raspberries are the best berries!

* Congratulations kimmster! You have just won the latest User Lookup of the Week award.

* The Food Shop has all sort of Raspberry dishes prepared for today!



* If you like Raspberries, you should stop by melticity's Gallery Spotlight - Raspberry Madness.

* Starting today there is now pin protection on the closet page.

* There are also four new Shopkeeper images for you to choose from.




* There is a new Mystery Pic competition. The answer to the last one was Qasalan Mummy. 349 people guessed correctly, earning them 5,731 NP each.

* No one seems to have told these Neopets and Petpets not to play with their raspberries.




* This week's Meridell Castle Spotlight award has been given to jasperware with their level - Can you beat this!?.

* Mmmm... these School Supplies smell like raspberries!

[May]

5th June

* The Healthy Food Shop has some delicious new organic fruits available.



* Today's Site Spotlight goes to soozzz and Daftestpunkie for Sophie's Secrets.

* This week's PPL award has been given to the Bogie. Well done boogieman, Flick, Citizen Snot, SirRunnyShnozz, and all the others.



* We have a new Better Than You today. Can you beat Linae at Kou-Jong?

* Oh, will you just look at these new Darigan-themed balloons from the Darigan Toy Shop.



* If you want a chance to have your videos viewed by others on Neopets why not submit them?

* Why not make someone smile today by sending them a Greeting?



* A new Lenny Conundrum competition has begun. The answer to last week's was embarassing. 3983 people guessed the correct answer earning themselves 503 NP each.

* You can now have a Rock Sketch Background!



* The week's Pirate Cave Of The Week award goes to finish_at_the_door, designed by faerie00food.

* The Book Shop has some fun new books for your Neopets to read.

[May]

6th June - JubJub Day

* JubJubs can now be turned into Pirate or Fire versions at the Rainbow Pool!



* A new page of Poems is available for you to read. Congratulations to the selected writers.

* To start of JubJub Day there are some new JubJub shaped juice bottles for sale at the Food Shop.



* There is a new Mystery Pic competition. The answer to the last one was Kau Sock Puppet. 376 people guessed correctly, earning them 5,320 NP each.

* Go to the Art Gallery some time today and check out all of the new JubJub-themed art!



* The School Supplies Shop has some fun new items.



* sassy_bearbear and their pets are opening their neohome at 71600 Blizzard Lane, Terror Mountain, because they've just won the Neohome Spotlight award!

* Add some playfulness to your petpage, shop, or gallery with these great new JubJub-themed Fun Images.




* Yay! The Plushie Palace has some new JubJub plushies on sale!



* All JubJubs that drop by to say hello to Cap'n Threelegs on their special day will be eligible for free training.

* Can you think of something witty for our latest Caption Contest?



* Today's Petpet Spotlight goes to a Walking Carpet called Teddee.

* JubJubs will be looking cool in the new clothes from the Clothing Shop.



Let's go play!

* Help the librarian drive Kit through the busy streets in our latest sponsor game Kit Kittredge - Road to the Newsroom.

[May]

7th and 8th June - Petpet Appreciation Day

* The newest issue of the Neopian Times has been released! Keep your eyes open for great stories and adventures like A Letter to Neopia - Declaration of Sentiments and Which Yooyu Are You?.



* This week's Neoadventure Spotlight goes to chipperjones10810 for The Land Beneath the Lake.

"You have some... twisting feeling in your gut, maybe your company-paid vacation isn't all you thought it would be? The Kacheek awaits your answer. But, you begin to back away from him, what were you thinking?"

* Wow, these are some cute Petpet colours!



* A new Random Contest has begun! Good luck to all the entrants, and congratulations to last week's winners.

* Show how much you love Petpets with these fun new Buddy Icons.



* The next round of the Beauty Contest is about to begin! Head on over and vote for your favourite.

* If you are looking for a new instrument, maybe you will like one of these new Petpet-themed ones from the Music Shop.



* La, la, la, la... Oh did you want to know about the Altador Cup?

* Don't forget to check out all of the pretty Petpet pictures in the Art Gallery!



* What better way to celebrate Petpets then with Poems?

* If you want a chance to have your videos viewed by others on Neopets why not submit them?

* Petpets love to play, and these Fun Images are just some examples of the things your Petpet might enjoy.




* ryukokoro912 has won the Faerie Caves Spotlight award thanks to their level - Cave of Wonder.

* Mmm... these Petpet crackers from the Bakery are sure to be a hit!

[Siniri]

Too bad I was travelling when Wednesday's news came out -- this week's Lenny Conundrum is ridiculously easy. Everyone really should try it (of course, the prize will probably be less than 200NP each).

I don't remember Petpet Appreciation Day. Is it new, or am I just oblivious?

[May]

This week's editorial:

URGENT! Please answer, TNT!!! Is there a way to transfer all the stats of a Neopet (strength, defense, intelligence, etc.) to another Neopet, with or without the Battledome battles fought? (Please remove my username. Thanks!) I hope that, in the future, we can have this option. ~username removed
Nope, and nope!

Though, we must admit that we're horribly curious as to why this question was considered "urgent." oO

I was suspended today for creating two Roleplay Forum posts requesting one on one rps over Neomail. I linked one of my Neopet’s pages in the post, but not an offsite link. I was not requesting dating for my Neopets, either. I do not think I broke any rules. As a Neopets member for over 6 years, a premium member, and an avid user of the rp forum, I like to think that I am familiar with the rules. On the day in question I saw many other one on one posts on the board. I don’t know what I specifically did. The reason for my message to you is that, in my attempt to figure out why I was suspended, I found that there is no forum for contesting suspensions. I could not even access the Help, Contact Us, or Rules pages because I did not have the use of my account. I feel that it is imperative for users to be able to respond to suspensions, since (I think) they are done on a case by case basis, and of course mistakes can be made by moderators. ~Skidoo12343
While we do appreciate that you actually roleplay Neopets on the site, your Petpage that you directed players to informed them to contact you so that you could RP over aim/email, which is against the rules since it pulls players off the safety of the site. We're sure that you must be aware of the no aim/email swapping rule, since you've been on the site for a long time. If you were still unaware of this, please review the site Terms and Conditions. As you can see, you were suspended for a legitimate reason – as is the case for the vast majority of all suspensions. With most suspensions, the time you will not be able to access your account is 24 hours. By the time your email would've been looked at by the Support Department, your account would have finished serving the suspension.

When I try to play the "Cave of the Week" in Hannah and the Pirate Caves, it doesn't work. The game says, "Please wait while the cave is loading," or something like that. After that, it just says, "Error while loading user level: 4836." Why does this happen? Please remove my username. ~username removed
We are looking into this and we will try to get it fixed as soon as possible.


I am pleased by this.

Hey TNT, can we enter the Customisation Spotlight from our side accounts? ~zhang42614
Yep! All you win is a trophy, so go ahead and enter Neopets from your side account. However, for the sake of everyone's sanity, we politely request that you not take this up as an invite to enter every single Neopet you have (like that plain green Buzz with no background sitting on a side account you haven't logged onto in three months.) Please use common sense when entering into any spotlight. We'd seriously appreciate it!

Recently, I (and many, many other Neopian coders) have noticed some absurd coding filters. On User Lookups, Petpages, etc., the filters are now blocking words that are vital to most coding ("position" and "display," for example). Word on the boards is that this filter has been put in place to stop "scam shops," where it looks like you're buying an expensive item when you're really not. There's a fix for the filter for now, but it's technically incorrect coding and many people don't know about it; besides, scammers could just get around the filter the same way as well. Please remove these unjust filters - the beauty of Neopia's pages depends on it! ~seegensays_
We are working on fixing this. We are sorry that your coding is currently messed up.

Can ghosts/the Pant Devil/anything else steal your NC Mall items if they're in your inventory? ~penguin813
Nope. They are in a special section and cannot be stolen, so don't worry.

Hello TNT! So, I have a question here (and a few cookies... want some?). Anyway, my younger brother and I were chatting through Neomail and he told me to look at his Petpage. When I did, it was full of screenies that show expensive items being bought, which my brother can't afford and never bought. Also, he never makes screenies. Never ever! So... do you think someone went in his account? ~pinkychibi
Nope. Your brother simply created a Neopet that had been created long ago, then purged from the system due to inactivity or being frozen. Just have him clear the Petpage and don't worry about it.

Hey, TNT! I was looking at the map of Altador and couldn't figure out whether it was based off ancient Rome or ancient Greece. There are very distinctive features of both, such as the aqueduct-like wall surrounding the city (Roman characteristic), or the freestanding architectural columns (Greek feature); there's even a Santorini-like town off in the distance (again, Greek), yet most of the regular structures look as if they're made of cement! (Oh, Roman cement...) There are plenty more features I could describe, but it'd take quite a while. So, which was it ACTUALLY modeled after? ~ bhkh2
While the kingdom of Altador was admittedly modeled after those civilisations, it is not based on any one specifically. Altador is Altador. It's much the same as Shenkuu, which is obviously based off Asian aesthetics, but is not intended to wholly represent any one culture in particular.


And we're proud to be historically ambiguous!

Will main market mallers or less ever be able to get refunds on their shop upgrades? Ever since you guys took down the main navigation bar sales have gone down for mallers. For example, I have a 600 sized shop and don't think it's worth it to mall anymore. Will I be able to get a refund on my Neopoints and specify what size I want my shop to go back to? Like, if I wanted my 600 sized shop to go back to 100? Please answer this because it's been on my mind a lot and I think that it would be a good idea for a new feature on Neopets. Kthnxbai! ~sergeineoshadow
We are sorry that sales have gone down. We are not planning to do any refunds, but we are thinking about putting the navigation bar back up sometime next month.

Hi TNT. I saw a User Lookup that said this in it: "This User Lookup was created by username for the use of guild members only. Anyone caught using it otherwise will be reported." Could you really be frozen for this? Thanks for clearing this up. (: ~spiffy_skittles
Yes, if something is created by someone else and you are not given permission to use it (be it art, coding, writing, etc.), then they are fully within their rights to report you for stealing it.

Where do you guys come up with the phrases that go under the usernames on the boards? They're all so random! ~desertflower11
They're from our twisted little minds, like most odd things on this site. o.o

Hey TNT! I was looking over old Editorials and couldn't figure out how you decide what order to display the questions and answers. Is it random? ~hbananad
Generally, they're displayed in the order that we spot the questions and paste them in. I bet you were hoping for a more interesting answer, huh? Occasionally we move a couple around to fit the little images in better, but that's about it.

Why can't accounts that are less than 4 months old transfer or adopt limited edition (or most painted) Neopets? I'm a responsible owner. ~nightcloud_warrior
We're sure you are. However, the system was abused by players making brand new accounts and adopting all the nice Neopets out of the Pound and sticking them in side accounts made just to gather fancy Neopets for some unknown reason. This rule is to help protect Neopets and give active accounts a better chance of getting a nice Neopet.

Hey TNT! So, I have this question: can we have a gallery on one of our side accounts? I want to make a sand gallery but I don't want to combine it with my non-existent Jelly gallery. ~axolotlfaerie
Yep! That's how it had to be done in the past, before we introduced galleries as something separate from shops. Just be sure to fund it all from your main account.