Solandres

What in the devil's name is that outfit?

Soooo the prize of visiting everyday is the avatar?

It's almost November.  Can i already start predicting that i will be disappointed in Usul day again?
On a side note: Still no luck on that game they call "Wings"
Should be called "I have no idea what i'm doing"

Okay i am usually one for always being displeased with Neopets,
BUUT
No matter how half-done this event is, i mean, on the plus side, we actually do have something right?
Correct me if i'm wrong, but previous faerie festivals had nothing of of this sort. Or am i wrong?
Ah well. Wing it is terrible waste of my time and i can't wait for that stupid fountain faerie to visit me again

 

Okay i am usually one for always being displeased with Neopets,
BUUT
No matter how half-done this event is, i mean, on the plus side, we actually do have something right?
Correct me if i'm wrong, but previous faerie festivals had nothing of of this sort. Or am i wrong?
Ah well. Wing it is terrible waste of my time and i can't wait for that stupid fountain faerie to visit me again

 

DID I SEE A FA MULAN REFERENCE RIGHT THERE!
*votesthousandoftimesmentally*

Preach fellow sister
For your comment made me so happy

So, what good paint brushes are out there that don't have their full compliment of pets yet?
I STILL think they could easily find a viable reason for an Alien brush, SO many possibilities there, seriously.

I shall this post with a positive comment, since i've been dishing out negative comments about TNT work recently
Love the wings.
Now
Spare me the horror of the colours and the atrocity of those boots.
TNT, you failed again

Okay i might have pushed it a little on the 3 years thing.
But darling, the atrocity for the previous 2 years?
2015
NOT only did TNT delay on my beloved species special day, they gave an excuse that the art team is working super hard on a special design for Usuls & Xweetok.
What did my beloved Usul get?

An ABOMINATION.
What new clothes did she get to wear that year?

Snowager's Vomit.
2016
If i recalled correctly, there were 2 new colours released on this year. Elderly & Pastel. [And of course the long awaited Stealth]
But what did TNT release for these wonderful creatures?
https://images.neopets.com/items/usul-clay.jpg
https://images.neopets.com/items/usul-custard.jpg
Sewage & Variant Snot.

I rest my case sweetheart, let me cry in the corner now

You know the answer to that really, don't you, we all do...JS sacked them all.
And so we get handed a big bland bowl of mediocrity nearly every pet day, served up with a large side of amateurism, because the truly talented people are working elsewhere these days.

One more year of waiting and dying of envy inside looking at the other pet colours.
I was really hoping for a Stealth Usul, but, i forgot the phrasing,
"Once bitten, twice shy"
Silly me to keep hoping

Usul Day..

I've been disappointed for the past two years

Please let this year be, groundbreaking

Happy birthday indeed darling!

To many more years!

Happy birthday indeed darling!

To many more years!

Round #11 - Springtime
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Round #12 - Games Galore
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Round #13 - Lovely Lutari
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Round #14 - Prom Night
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Round #15 - Neopian Worlds
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Round #16 - Edible Pets
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Round #17 - Fun in the Sun
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Round #18 - Quirky Quiggles
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Round #19 - Let the Music Play!
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Round #20 - Neopian Characters
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this is jarjar binks after retirement ...
 
he became a couch potato

Absolutely when things like this happens.

Sorry about the loss darling, but the world is round. It'll hit them back sooner or later

Correct me if i'm wrong, is the Woodland Meerca inspired by... a Potato?

So it's a Meertato



That's hot

Correct me if i'm wrong, is the Woodland Meerca inspired by... a Potato?

So it's a Meertato



That's hot

Thank You spritzie for the help! Appreciate it much!

Unfortunately it's a r96 gourmet item, there's only one on the TP and they're asking 260k. :(

Slowly, I think Eventide is starting to lose its appeal as compared to when it first came out. Anyone agreed with me on this?
 
Transparent looks nice, and I like the Lara Croft inspired clothing set for the female gelert. Not crazy about the male set though.

I agree with the people who are defending neopets decisions on making the opponents seem a bit stronger. It has been some time since neopets had a huge event this big.
 
So pretty much, this caters to those avid battledome players who spends millions of neopoints and time to train their pets.
 
Neopets is about pleasing everybody. Didnt they have a puzzle-related event during the Negg Festival last year? Most battledome players were kind of upset that the neggbreaker was so so easy to defeat.
 
In conclusion, neopets can't please everybody. So why not we just smile and tag along for the ride? Just have fun and remember how hard the Neopets team had worked to being out this plot.
 
Ps; Don't be selfish, you may not like the opponents, but others are dying to have a chance like this.
 
xo,
Sonia Solandres

In the last several events, TNT has used the checkmark system to show completion of each stage, and you got credit or not (there were a few group-participation stages in TFR in which they didn't indicate how much was necessary, but they did tell us when battle caps were met, and the checkmark system began after TFR, I think during the Discovering Moltara event, and has been used for every event since then, with the exception of the AC, which has its own scoring system). A gold checkmark is generally for completing on the day of release (I'm not sure if it's during the current wave for the current war or is still "day of" -- can anyone who completed one of the waves before the next one started but not the first day confirm what color their checkmark is?). A green checkmark is for completing the step, but not on its day of release (has anyone gotten one of these? when did you complete the first wave?). Usually, having all gold checks earns you the highest prize.
 
Plots and wars are more complex, so they can allocate points based on how much you participate on each step. So it might be that those who complete the doing your part bars "on time" (getting all gold checks) will get the max points, while others will get points depending on what percentage of each bar they fill. During TFR, there were additional challenges, but they didn't provide additional plot points (just whatever you earned naturally by completing the challenge) because they gave prizes as you completed them. TNT never tells us how the scoring will work until after the event is over, but they've been getting gradually better about giving hints with checkmarks/"step complete"/"cap reached" messages. So my inclination is to take it that filling the bar each wave indicates reaching the max points available for that wave. But of course I could be wrong; the caps could be much higher.
 
The number of wins on mighty jumped from 40 to 50 from wave 1 to wave 2. I have no idea how many losses that would take, but I suspect it'd be several times that. If the required number of wins for each wave continues to grow, I suspect it will be very difficult to lose enough times to fill the bar completely. (Honestly, I really hope that's true. It wouldn't be fair to top level battlers if someone with a pair of scarab rings on level 10 was able to earn the top prize in this war. There needs to be spread in terms of final plot points so the top level prizes become valuable. TNT's been at this a while, though, and I'm sure they'll create the spread somehow. They've gotten a lot of backlash in the past for not creating spread, e.g., in that Moltaran mini-plot.)
 
So if I'm right and filling your bar = capping out on points for that wave, why should you battle any extra? 1) Because no one knows if I'm right, and it's a gamble to assume that I am. 2) To help your faction. You do want them to win, don't you? I'm sure TNT is keeping track of the points earned for each faction, and that will determine who wins the obelisk (and the coolest trophies, and probably the theme of a few more of the prizes vs. the other factions' themes, though they'll all be represented). I think the faction challenges might count extra, but I'm not really sure. (They do need to be made less rare, I think.) 3) Bragging rights. Your trophy may link to your final battle record for the war, and anyone who visits your look-up can click through and see that you beat each baddie 5 million times on mighty.
 
I'm hoping that once someone "wins" the obelisk, it will open, revealing its malevolent power, and we'll all have to work together to fight its power, giving us a little bit of puzzling, though I don't think TNT has ever done that in a war before. Then again, the last war was about a decade ago, I think, and they've had battles in most plots, so they might decide to throw a bone to the puzzlers, who haven't had a plot in a while, either (TFR was the last real plot).