Eep. I just moved 1.75 between accounts using trades...I have to go to bed soon, so I didn't think I'd have the time to do it through shops. :x Ah, well, it was between my legit main and my sister's, so we could probably get both back, if worst came to worst...:/ Anyways, apparently the Faerie Paint Brush was in the Hidden Tower for 200k for 4 months in 2005, and then it became a prize/alien aisha vending machine only item.
200k? You're kidding, right? XD I wish there would be something like that now. x( GAH. I'm ready for tomorrow. AC cup and maybe a retirement from the HT.
Yeah, it used to be amazingly cheap. I had a couple before I got frozen for multi-accounting. Boy would I give anything to have my old main back..
Well, you have to take into consideration the relative difficulty of making NPs between '05 and now. Back when the economy wasn't over-saturated from things like KeyQuest, 200k would've been more than its worth now. (Hence the great lesson of investments, always invest in items, don't keep your pure.) Even then, though, it was only in the Tower for 4 months before being retired from the Tower.
In 05, it was great though. Yeah, 200k was a lot, but it wasn't even comparable to 3.5mil now. I can't keep accounts long enough to invest. x_x
Did they retire anything? I didn't see anything retired on the homepage, but then again it would be hidden wouldnt it...
I just browsed through the HT and all looks in place. I thought Royal PB maybe, but it's actually near the bottom. lol sorry, i'm bad at alphabetic order.
Nothing retired- Nothing new- And evidance suggests that the tnt are trying to phase out the battledome. They made a tut for the whole of neopets- shops, restocking, Ncmall, Wareables, Food, The lot.. and the only thing they never mentioned was the battledome.
I can see where you're going. I guess BD is only popular with older players. Most older players are already at neo to stay, so they don't really need anything else. Yeah, some people quit, but TNT is mostly looking for new, young users. Why help BDers then? I guess that's TNT's views, but I would like to see a major improvement in the BD that isnt freaking FLASH. I hate that they are making everything on the site flash. >.>
>Also the fact that 90% of scamming is done for the battldome, autobuying, cging, flps, buying nps.. these are all caraaistics of the bdome`s darkside. >Also the bdome is the only site event that they cant really make real money off. >The actual bdome features pet been "killed" "defeated" "knocked out" , all these are not a good promotion for a website thats now aiming at 8 year old girls.
Yeah, I hadn't thought about the first one, but the second two, yeah. There is definitely a lot of cheating going on in the BD, but there are also a lot of serious legit players, too. TNT is focusing their efforts into things that can make money, but I can't really blame them. I'd do that same.
Well, that's a fundamental problem with Neo's philosophy . To stop autobuying, freaking change your captcha once in a while! To stop cookie grabbing, add more security to your script that maintains state. Stop freaking out over buying NP. And what does flps mean?
FLP=fake login page. And why should TNT bother making those changes? It'd be annoying for those of us here. Really, though...as long as people keep playing, and Viacom gets their money...-shrug- TNT isn't going to bother with security fixes and the such.
oo. well, flp's you just need to raise the average intelligence of your user xD. (and patch your xss holes, if there are any) and yeah, the whole point of adding security would be to make it harder for the cheaters... aka, us! yay! i'm not saying i want them to... i just wanted to point out how tnt is doing very little to /stop/ cheating.