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Ever got attached to your lab pet?

Discussion in 'Neopets Chit-Chat' started by WildSnorlax, May 5, 2010.

  1. DarthCookie

    DarthCookie Newbie

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    Nah. My baby was perfect before I zapped him; I was just trying to get his battle stats up. I made sure that I changed him back to what he was after I had enough with the lab. :maha:
     
  2. PieceofPoo

    PieceofPoo Level I

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    But if you re-painted him baby afterwards, wouldn't it have been cheaper to just manually train him instead of zapping him and then re-painting him?
     
  3. grammatandy

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    Training gets very expensive. I have a pet that I train every day - multiple times a day. It costs me 7 codestones every time I train him for 1 single point. So every strength point, every level point, every defense point costs me 7 codestones.

    For someone who is not training through the normal methods and doesn't worry about "skewed" stats - it's much cheaper to take them through the lab and then repaint them.
     
  4. PieceofPoo

    PieceofPoo Level I

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    Well codestones are roughly 5k on average.. so 35k training per stat (plus possible bonuses), you'd have to get approximately +17 stats from the lab ray to make it worth your baby pb =P And that doesn't include the MP if your pet changes species
     
  5. xso0intou

    xso0intou Level I

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    I remember getting attached to one of my lab pets, i was zapping her mainly for stats and battledome, and I ended up with a Faerie Kougra. She was UC too , then i decided to zap her again, she turned into a korbat and then turned grey. LOL . Then my main got frozen . ):
     
  6. PieceofPoo

    PieceofPoo Level I

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    Haha, were you cheating on your main? How long ago was it that converted pets were introduced? What was it, like 2 years ago?
     
  7. grammatandy

    grammatandy Level I

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    Well, 17 stats is nothing. Seriously - if you add up all of my one pets stats that count - I have 314 health + 311 Strength + 315 Defense + 178 level

    That's 1118 seperate points. The way it works is you have to pay a different amount of codestones and wait a certain amount of time for them to train as you go up. Right now it takes him 18 hours to go up one point and 7 codestones. You don't get to choose the codestones either - it's random - so if you get 3 or 4 eo's out of that - that's 10 grand each.

    It's extremely expensive - and a baby paint brush is nothing compared to what I've spent training my pet.
     
  8. xso0intou

    xso0intou Level I

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    Nope. I have no ideaa why it said i was frozen for cheating T_T. I had quitted neopets for a bit, logged in around Jan, 2010 and it said i was frozen, i was like wth, i havent even been on !! Then i sent them a support thing and they told me that I was cheating -__-. Fail, thats why i started cheating now. Eat that TNT. Havent been frozen yett.
     
  9. PieceofPoo

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    Haha, I guess it's worth it in the end. But I believe if you add up all the codestones and average them, it's about 5-6k per codestone. But if you managed to get that much out of your pet, then it would've definitely been worth it.

    Ehh.. I hate getting frozen unfairly.. I think each time it said I was either multi-ing or cheating =/ Haha, so you get frozen when you're not cheating, but not frozen when you're cheating? xD
     
  10. grammatandy

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    I got frozen one time because I bought an account so I could move some of my pets to it. I had an amazing account with I would say a value in the gallery alone of about 600 million +, almost 300 avatars, my favorite pets with my real life pet names, battledome set that would rock your world and I lost it because I didn't want to wait 3 months to age an account long enough so I could move some pets over.

    I did cheat - but it was still awful - and I learned a hard lesson from it.
     
  11. fearalucard

    fearalucard Level II

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    Nope I just zap zap zap, dont mind the changes >:) I have lost count how many times he/she has had a gender change from it >:) . I already have my nice pets I like to keep for show and tell.
     
  12. xso0intou

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    Yes its weird like that o_O. I was like woww, so TNT doesnt wanna freeze an illegitimate account but itll freeze the one that i worked hard on. Haha, FAIL. Their customer support really sucks if you ask me.
     
  13. Rundownandy

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    When hasn't it sucked? It has been terrible for as long as I remember.. I started playing around 2001 or 2002....lol.....
    They have only gotten worse. I think its because they really really don't care... lol
     
  14. xso0intou

    xso0intou Level I

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    I know :) . We all know TNT could care less about us, they freeze us because they find it interesting. So the majority of us most likely don't wanna kiss ass , so what do we do? We cheat of course. And then they think they can stop some of us from cheating by chain icing, or icing an account, but yet we still continue to it. Lol .
     
  15. 3dee

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    Yup, except the stats were so ugly yet high! I wanted to pound it but it went through so much with me T_T then someone hacked me lol
     
  16. Harlow

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    My lab pet was my first ever pet so even though i have better looking pets ill always keep her