Sidebar Skins--The Next Avatars?

[Kuri]

Aaw I was hoping that the different skins were gonna be for different events and not controlled by the user.

Like, during December it would be all wintery, around Halloween we would have the spooky one, during March it would be GadGadsbogen, pet days would have pet ones, etc...

But I suppose the way they are doing it will be cool, as long as I get the ones I want

Aw! I'd really like to have it so it changes with events/months that would have been nice.

[avvelenare]

I think, instead of making you buy something, and thus inflating the price, they should make the sidebar skins require you to do something nice. Since the skins would most likely be for your eyes only (you see them on your screen, so you get to appreciate them, rather than showing them off like avatars), there's no point in making you spend a whole boatload of NP. If they required you to do something nice-- like donating something of a particular value to the money tree, or adopting a pet from the pound, or even completing a quest-- it's unlikely that prices would inflate 500 times on a few items. It would probably never happen, but I think it would be nice to have something available to all neopians, rather than only those with the budget to pay thousands for items.

[happysmileyfungirl]

In the neopian times it said:

As well as looking pretty cool, each side bar as certain advantages and disadvantages. For example if you have a Faerieland side bar, you will win more on the Faerieland games, but will not be able to visit the Haunted Woods at all. Exactly what each side bar does will not be explained, that is something you will need to work out for yourself.

This is a pretty good idea but I'm not sure how many people will use a certain sidebar if they can't get into some parts of the site (I know I won't be using the faerieland one as I need to go to both haunted woods and faerieland to do my dailies!)

[plducala16]

In the neopian times it said:

As well as looking pretty cool, each side bar as certain advantages and disadvantages. For example if you have a Faerieland side bar, you will win more on the Faerieland games, but will not be able to visit the Haunted Woods at all. Exactly what each side bar does will not be explained, that is something you will need to work out for yourself.

This is a pretty good idea but I'm not sure how many people will use a certain sidebar if they can't get into some parts of the site (I know I won't be using the faerieland one as I need to go to both haunted woods and faerieland to do my dailies!)

If yopur haunted woods daily is Test your strength you could always go from the games room.

[xjox]

In the editorial at the bottom they said

Even though Halloween falls on a Sunday this year, will you still celebrate Halloween on the site on Sunday? - Samschelfhout2
Well most of the Halloween news has gone up today, but there will be something rather special happening on Sunday :p

I wonder if they will release the first 'special' sidebar to coincide with halloween.....

[Azzie]

How can you show off what you have won? Avatars can be bragged about and flashed on the boards. The only person who can see the different layouts would be YOU, right?

Where there is a will to show off, there is a way..remember the ever useful print screen button

[Matterbug]

In the editorial at the bottom they said

Even though Halloween falls on a Sunday this year, will you still celebrate Halloween on the site on Sunday? - Samschelfhout2
Well most of the Halloween news has gone up today, but there will be something rather special happening on Sunday :p

I wonder if they will release the first 'special' sidebar to coincide with halloween.....

Yup, that's probably it. One of the first sidebar's Adam showed us was the "Halloween/Haunted Woods" sidebar.

I'm looking forward to them, and I'm not. There could be problems with someone having a shiny pink faerieland sidebar, and then going into a dark black shop, or userlookup. It just kind of ruins the whole layout.

I don't know, I guess I'll have to see how they work, before actually saying anything about them.

[okamotosan18]

I'd suppose they would be affected the same way they are now, I didn't have to change my lookup at all with the change (except the top of course), and I don't see how a different color could change how it looks on the same page. I'm just really excited about new advantages and disadvantages. I hope we can change it whenever we want to, or at least once a day.

[Ice]

As well as looking pretty cool, each side bar as certain advantages and disadvantages. For example if you have a Faerieland side bar, you will win more on the Faerieland games, but will not be able to visit the Haunted Woods at all. Exactly what each side bar does will not be explained, that is something you will need to work out for yourself.

I'm thrilled, seriously. This is one of the best ideas on Neopets since... *thinks* ok, so I'm not sure. But I'm still very much looking forward to it.

For people such as myself who missed the beginning of the avatar craze, this will start everyone off on equal ground and I may finally have the chance to collect something seriously


Oh, and I would absolutely *adore* a Lab Ray sidebar that gave you better odds at getting good zaps/stat-related random events. Hint-hint.

[Mokona]

As long as they never make a sidebar collectors high score board I think I'll be alirght with it.

Since they say it'll be like the avatars, I think TNT will eventully have one to go with it I don't want to see it either.....

[Starchaser]

In the neopian times it said:

As well as looking pretty cool, each side bar as certain advantages and disadvantages. For example if you have a Faerieland side bar, you will win more on the Faerieland games, but will not be able to visit the Haunted Woods at all. Exactly what each side bar does will not be explained, that is something you will need to work out for yourself.

This is a pretty good idea but I'm not sure how many people will use a certain sidebar if they can't get into some parts of the site (I know I won't be using the faerieland one as I need to go to both haunted woods and faerieland to do my dailies!)

Couldn't you just change your sidebar to Faerieland, go to faerieland for the games, and THEN change it to something else and visit the Haunted Woods?

[everconfused]

Starchaser, good question. I don't know, and I suppose no one except TNT knows the answer to that one.

We won't know until they come out, whether we have the option to not use these new theme things, or if we can change them at will, or what I'm wondering is if, say, the faerieland theme won't let you go to the haunted woods - would that mean anyone navigating from your lookup wouldn't be able to go there? And would that mean that even if you went to the games room to go to say, TYS, that you would be able to get there even that way?

Personally? I would rather be able to have my own custom sidebar to go with my own lookup. And from the posts on the boards tonight, so would alot of other people.

[Alex]

Well, it's changed. I was browsing the site - one second it was a yellow bar, the next it was a halloween one

[mercurius]

I'd personally rather not have another avatar-like hype with customizable things (I would rather have them as default.) Unlike avatars you can't really show them off .... it just seems pointless that you haveto earn them.

i agree!! I want the faerieland one so bad!

[Weewoo]

Something Has Happened!
You are now eligible to use the 'Haunted Woods' theme when browsing the Neopets.com website! Check out your User Preferences to change your theme.


I'm DEFINATELY keeping this one.

...Until the next is released.