SunnyNeo - News http://www.sunnyneo.com en-uk http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech 30 Thursday, 17 May 2012 12:59:15 -0700 Thursday, 17 May 2012 12:59:15 -0700 SunnyNeo is a Neopets help site. It offers: avatar and fonts help, graphics and tutorials, plot covers, game guides, new rainbow pool, customisation overview, battledome help and more! <![CDATA[Altador Cup - Pre-Tournament Press, fan freebies and roster changes]]> Tuesday, 15 May 2012 06:58:47 -0700 Pre-Tournament Press reports!


It looks like team Faerieland made a very interesting tour across Neopia!

If you're in the spirit for more Altador Cup things, you can use the Fan freebies to show this off! We've updated our Altador Cup fan-freebies page with all the images for the upcoming season.

And, thanks to the images of the fan freebies pages, we can also report on some roster changes!

Altador and Shenkuu - Altador and Shenkuu decided to switch players. Timu wil be playing for Shenkuu this year, while Foltaggio wil try his luck playing for Altador.

Brightvale and Roo Island - Brightvale and Roo Island are switching players as well. Brightvale's former team captain, Tressif, will play for Roo Island from now on, while Gordo Gunnels will be in-forcing Brightvale's squad!

Mystery Island - A new unknown Xweetok will be Mystery Island's new player. Bertie Shurtz is the Mystery Island player who will retire.


Sadly, we we not able to see if there were any changes at the practice team or not...
]]> http://www.sunnyneo.com/#2368 <![CDATA[Altador Cup Prize Shop Reminder]]> Tuesday, 15 May 2012 03:13:41 -0700 Altador Cup Prize Shop.  Also, don't forget to check your Staff Tournament section to see whether you have points left to spend there, too.  As always, you can see all of the Altador Cup prizes and staff tournament prizes in our Altador Cup guide.


Let the games begin!
]]> http://www.sunnyneo.com/#2367 <![CDATA[Gem JubJub Power Bounce Suitcase]]> Monday, 14 May 2012 11:45:28 -0700 Gem JubJub Power Bounce Suitcase has appeared in the Future Fashions section of the NC Mall!  If you don't have access to Future Fashions, the suitcase should be available for everyone to purchase within 72 hours.  In the meantime, check out our Future Fashions Guide for more information and previews.


Ooh shiney

The suitcase acts like a capsule, but when you open one there is a random item(or more if you’re lucky) from the past Summer JubJub Power Bounce games.  
There are also 2 special limited edition bonus items from this suitcase:  Curly Black Wig and Gem Facepaint.
 


The rereleases are listed on our Gem JubJub Power Bounce Suitcase page. Got a re-release that is not listed there? Please let us know!
 
]]> http://www.sunnyneo.com/#2365 <![CDATA[Altador Cup shop opens in the NC Mall]]> Monday, 14 May 2012 11:43:28 -0700 NC Mall. Masks are the rage this seasosn, since two new items have been released so far: Mystery Island Team Mask and Shenkuu Team Mask.


In Future Fashions you are also able to see the Altador Team Mask and Kreludor Team Mask as new items.


All for just $100 a month...

This will very likely mean more pre-season Altador Cup coverage will appear on the Neopets site very soon. We'll keep you updated on this, just visit our Altdor Cup section for this!
]]> http://www.sunnyneo.com/#2366 <![CDATA[New Job Opening: Altador Cup Daily Reporter]]> Saturday, 12 May 2012 13:19:07 -0700 Altador Cup (the whole month of June most likely). Sounds like you? Read more on our Apply for Staff page.


Maybe the new guide writer will love including the referee in their daily reports =)

]]> http://www.sunnyneo.com/#2364 <![CDATA[More premium news: previews!]]> Saturday, 12 May 2012 04:23:50 -0700 neoboard with some previews of the new premium:

A few of us thought you might like to see it and the Premium team was all "go for it" because they're rad.

It's not really a notification bar, honestly. It's, like, notifications mixed with a toolbar, mixed with Portal? Something like that. Might be hard to envision it without being able to use it, but hopefully it's still interesting to see.

Oh, and if we're wrong and you don't want to see it, you can totally ignore this post. If we're right, we gladly accept candy and small marsupials as bribes for future sneak peeks.

Full Bar
http://images.neopets.com/premium/sneakpeeks/notificationbar.png
So, it sits at the bottom of every page with access to your Premium stuff. (You can turn it off.) On the right: Space Faerie Scratchcard, Premium Collectible Cards, Premium Boards, and the Help Centre.

SSW
http://images.neopets.com/premium/sneakpeeks/notificationbar_ssw1.png
http://images.neopets.com/premium/sneakpeeks/notificationbar_ssw2.png
He can be used without leaving the page, which I find pretty handy.

Dailies
http://images.neopets.com/premium/sneakpeeks/notificationbar_dailies.png
I know a lot of folks were worried about this going away with Portal. It's just moving here instead.

Let us know what you think!

Later she also replied to some questions:

Heh. Yeah, the people working on Premium aren't switching to working on site content during the delay, you crazy kids. They're still working on Premium stuff. XP The site content folks are the ones working on site content. *nod*

Anyway, let's see...

5th Neopet information coming soon, I think. (It will probably be me posting again. ) I have a 5th Neopet on this account right now! *cackle*

The bar is not Flash and it's not part of the browser. It's just regular code on the page that floats the bar at the bottom. So yeah, most mobile browsers should see it just fine. Safari will.

@sweetaislingirl: Email the premiumsupport@neopets.com with your ticket number. It sounds to me like you've checked all the regular things that were causing folks not to receive the emails, in which case I have no idea what the issue could be. But I've been told by the Premium team that they have access to that address and are expecting your email so they can look into it for you.

Sniperspace mode: I'm honestly not sure. I never used it that way so I didn't notice! I emailed the Premium team to check.

@ickle_pengu: Don't you mean NQIV? *winkyface*

Okay, about Sniperspace... just because I'm curious. How do you like to use it? Why would you use that over the new bar version? In the bar version, I have the search results up and then CTRL-click all the shops I want to buy from so that they open in new windows. Then I go to each window to buy. Is that what you do with Sniperspace, only... from a pop-up? (I'm just genuinely curious from a design perspective, is all!)

@shy_gurl1983: Yes! I also like the thought that we just program a feature as soon as we think of it. That would be awesome! But alas, the Creative department spend weeks, sometimes months, writing documents and paper-testing things before a programmer touches code or an artist starts to draw. So just because the programmers are busy on certain things doesn't mean other things aren't being worked on.

Sniperspace: Okay, I gotcha. Basically the bar version is the same then. (All searches happen in that little module without reloading the whole page.)

Storytelling Judge: Sometimes comes in later and leaves later. It's a preference.

Better account security: It's not one system that can just be upgraded. It's a super elaborate set of multiple applications that are constantly being tweaked and updated as needed. It's *always* being looked into!

My magical 5th Neopet is VanCleef.

I'm heading home! Let me try to answer everyone before I go:

- The Scorchio icon is a 5th Neopet reminder thingy. If you have a 5th, it goes away. (I think it also goes away if you don't create a 5th after a while, for people who don't want it so they don't have to stare at it all the time? I forget how it works. More will be explained when it launches, I'm sure!)

- My 5th Neopet is not on my user lookup because new Premium isn't launched yet. In our development environment, he's totally there with the rest of my Neopets hanging out. All your Neopets will show up. You don't choose four out of the five.

- You reload SSW results by clicking 'resubmit'. If you hit the reload button in the browser, it reloads the entire page (and resets SSW).

- SSW results don't carry over from page to page. If you have one window open and are SSWing in that bar, it won't show up in your other window.

- I believe they're looking at everything /Neopian/ from Portal that doesn't have a new home yet. I don't know if anything specific is planned right now, but I do know they're researching it all.

I think that's it? I hope I got everything! I apologise if I missed you. I blame Sleepy Eye Syndrome.

Good night!

Tarla is Toolbar. Doesn't have anything to do with the notification bar, I'm afraid. (Though we may move her somewhere else in the future. We've talked about it some.)

*really disappears this time*

]]> http://www.sunnyneo.com/#2363 <![CDATA[Premium changes update]]> Saturday, 12 May 2012 03:33:02 -0700
Greetings!
We're writing again with a few more updates about the Premium switch, including launch date information and maybe a haiku just because. Please keep reading!

Launch Date
So! We were going to announce the official launch date of May 22nd, but instead it will be a bit later. We know, but hear us out! All the new features are set and ready to go. However, since there are multiple different payment method/subscription combinations that all have slightly different processes, we want to give the tech team more time to work on the data transition. So, instead of mid-May as we originally planned, it will now be early June.

As soon as we know the new date for sure, we'll share it with all of you. We just didn't want mid-May to roll by without letting you know what's up!

Payment Updates
As we noted in previous emails, some of you will need to update and/or confirm your payment information in the new system. We're putting together instructions for each of the different payment methods/subscriptions and will be sending that out a week or so before launch so you'll be prepared when the time comes!

Webmail
This is yet another reminder that Webmail will be closing soon! However, we were able to have the cutoff extended out to May 31st, so you have a few more days to back up your emails and contacts if you're a procrastinator.

A Premium Haiku
New Premium comes
On a much awaited day
Monoceraptor

Farewell
That's it for this update! In case you've forgotten or haven't seen what's in store yet, check out our Premium FAQs. They're updated regularly so you can always view the latest there.

See you in Neopia!

- The Neopets Team


What do you mean? I'll have to wait even longer for that 5th per slot?
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