February 2013 News Archive
This is an archive of all of our older news that we have removed from the front page of the site.
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I'm too pretty for this. |
**Harumphhhh** |
If you win a prize not listed on our Battledome Prizes page (scroll down to Ugga Dome), please let us know! Also please let us know if you win a faction challenge prize we haven't got listed.
Did you say more NC portions? Ok!
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You can view our Luminous Casks Guide for more information.
Did you get some of the items? Then please help us model them! Check out what we need at our Model For SunnyNeo page. Want to see what they look like on your pets? Visit SunnyNeo's Dressing Room.
Introduction:
On an unrelated note, I wanted to introduce myself. I'm Jay and I just recently joined the SunnyNeo staff. I'll be here to help out with getting pet models and image models. Just trying to help finish up the closet here so that you will be able to better dress up your pets. So if you'd want to help out, go check out that link right above and see if you have any of the clothing items we need! I also love the NC, and it's probably safe to say that all of my money is now going to go towards these casks ;-;
Battle cries ring out as blades clash and Novas fly through the air. The obelisk sits silently in the middle, waiting patiently for a victor to emerge... |
The SunnyNeo Plot Coverage will be updated as we watch the first day of the battle unfold.
It also appears that Neopets is a bit broken at the moment, so watch your step.
Update: Neopets is all fixed.
This, and other plot-themed graphics, can be found on our Plot Graphics Page!
Brains and candy. An excellent combination!
Rumours go even the members of the Brute Squad use these claws secretly!
Also, there is a new MiniMME selling in the NC Mall. Go have a look at MiniMME12-S1: Grand Maractite Hall Background!
What will it morph into? Only time will tell! Our MME guide has been updated.
Soon your pockets will be overflowing!
Aren't they cute?! Remember you can keep requesting for more lookups and graphics when you go fill out our Graphics Requests Form; We're all looking forward to new ideas and suggestions (:
*mew* I love myself! *mew*
If you're still this much in doubt, you should now take our new quiz: Which faction will you join?
And once's you've made up your mind about that, be sure to vote which faction you've choosen in our Plot poll!
A banner for each of the six teams can be found at our Plot Graphics page! You can plaster them all over your lookup while you wait for war to begin.
We're dying...
...to show our team support.
Looking for more easy neopoints games? Look at the Top Ratio Games guide!
Even Dino needs a break from the Techo Master's relentless training!
Battledome Veteran: Given out at the Battledome to users who had had at least 1 win in the Battledome on February 19th, 2013. This is when Aethia's Ability Academy was opened and new abilities replaced the old ones. This also marked the moment when the old Battledome was commemorated. | |||
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voting is mandatory...
Support your faction on the neoboards with these new plot related smileys. Check out our Neo Smileys page to see all the smileys there are.
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*thieves* | |
*sway* | |
*order* | |
*brutes* | |
*seekers* |
Neopets Twitter Account is hosting another contest!
Contest time! Tweet your faction and why you chose it. Use #ObeliskWar Winners get prize codes! Ends next Thursday (Feb 28). |
The obelisk is swarming with numerous factions, all bent on seizing the mysterious tower for their own purposes. Nefarious? Undoubtedly! There's no way these factions can come to any kind of rational agreement. It's going to be war! But that's not the issue here. The question is... which side will YOU fight for? |
Prepare for battle!
Be sure to stay tuned into our Plot Coverage which will be updated soon.
Edit: Have a look at out Join a Faction page if you want to sign up!
Just when we thought it couldn't get any more crowded at the Mysterious Obelisk, zombies and monsters and ghosts, OH MY! We heard that each faction is taking volunteers to fight for their cause. "Lucky" Neopians will be able to swear their loyalty to the Thieves Guild, The Sway, the Order of the Red Erisim, the Brute Squad, theSeekers, or the Awakened. Which one will YOU pick? You can make your choice starting tonight, but choose wisely! |
So it looks like we will be able to choose a team to join very soon. Not sure which team to choose yet? We have guide about all the 6 different teams in our plot coverage, go have a look at them!
One Obelisk to rule them all...
It also seems the release of the new Faerie abilities caused many glitches on the site:
First off all there are glitches that deal with the trophy and awards that have been given out. TNT has stated about these on their message board:
Hello! If you can read this then the lag has shown you mercy, if only for a moment. Huzzah! If you attempted to collect veteran rewards soon after they launched, the current lag spike -- which is unrelated, coincidentally. It's a database issue and we're working on it! -- might have caused some rewards to go un-granted. We've coded in some extra fail-safes to prevent this from happening in the future, but if you were already affected then please check below for a solution to your particular issue: - If you're missing all of the rewards, please visit the main Battledome page again later. As the lag subsides, your rewards will be granted. (http://www.neopets.com/dome) - If you received one reward but are missing another, please submit a Battledome bug ticket with the information requested so we can grant you the rewards you're due! TROPHY: First check to make sure you have wins in the old Battledome. If you do and you still didn't get the trophy, submit the ticket! Please make sure we have your username, as well as how many fights you've won in the old Battledome (so we can give you the proper trophy). You can find that stat on your user lookup. NEOPOINTS: Check that you had learned at least one of the old abilities. (http://www.neopets.com/abilities.phtml) If you have at least one and still didn't get Neopoints, please include your username and the names of your Neopets with abilities in your ticket. AVATAR: That was granted to everyone who had at least one win in the old BD. If you should have gotten it but didn't, please include your username and the number of wins you had in the old Battledome when you submit your ticket. Sorry again for the trouble. We'll get your rewards granted ASAP as tickets come in and we're working to fix the issue causing the lag. (It might be a while. We'll keep you posted.) - The Neopets Lag-Loathing Team |
There are some more glitches though:
- Some people do not seem to be able to view the new abilities (they can open the Abilities page, but there aren't actually any abilities showing up on that page). Other people are able to view them, but not actually train for them.
- People who have used any of the weak bottled Faeries on their pets will find these have not been added to their availible blessing on the abilties page as well. So be carefull with blessing a Pet right now!
- Some people seem to have their Neopet stuck in battle. They cannot feed or heal it, or finish a Faerie quest with it, although they are able to battle with this Neopet. Battling with the Pet is possible, but this doesn't make any changes to the status. Withdrawing at the status page doesn't work either, since the Neopet doesn't show up to be in battle there.
- At the moment, you will only get opponent only prizes in battledome 1-player fights, and no general prizes like codestones anymore. Have a look at our Battledome prizes page to see what these prizes are.
We hope tnt will pull out some coding Mynci's who will sort out all these glitches soon!
These foul creatures have awakened from their crypts. Beware, they are the sort of lunatics that cavort in public with lollies. |
Our Plot coverage will be updated with a page about the Awakened soon.
Edit: Our Awakened guide is now up. Be sure to have a look at it!
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Along with the bonuses we also have a new MME for purchase in the NC Mall. Who knows what this MiniMME11-S1: Approaching Eventide Skirt will morph into next? Best guess is probably more Eventide items. But, it will only be available until March 3rd, and costs 300 NC. Check out our MME guide for more information.
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Aethia's Ability Academy! (BETA) - Aethia has opened shop and is now ready to teach your Neopets a plethora of new abilities for use in the Battledome... if you're strong enough! Some things to note:
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Yes nice try...
Update: If you can get the Battledome to load, it will look like this:
And also the Battledome homepage will give you a neopoint compensation for your old faerie abilities. You will get neopoints (seems up to 62,000 nps), an avatar and a trophy.
Wisest of scholars, this society has collected on every subject in Neopia. Even King Hagan goes to them for research. |
A page all about the Seekers will be added to our Plot Coverage.
Edit: We now have added our Seekers guide to the list of teams.
Also a reminder that today is the LAST DAY for the Valentines Shop! All the Valentine items will be retired. That means all the Grams, Gram Items, Valentine Capsule, Valentine Mini-Pack and various other items. Check out our Retiring Items Guide to see all the items that are retiring.
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All good things must come to an end!
There will be fighting...
The true strength of a warrior lies in his strength. These warriors know the value of old-fashioned smashing and whacking. |
Our Plot Coverage will be updated with information about Brute Squad.
Edit: We now have a Brute Squad guide too.
Magic is best studied by experts, like these folks, so stand back. You don't want to be on the wrong side of their experimental fireballs. |
The Plot Guide will be updated with more information.
Update: we now have an Order of the Red Erisim guide up.
Those pesky thieves just don't know how to heed a warning, do they? If you have seen (hopefully from afar) members of the Thieves Guild hanging around the Mysterious Dig Site, please, do not approach them! Tyrannia is still rather unstable, and we would advise against going near that obelisk, no matter what the thieves claim. *sigh* We just hope a brave group of Neopians will show up to stop them. |
So enigmatic, they might be just a rumour... But to be safe, you should probably stop reading this now. Even the Meepits fear them.here |
Edit: Our plot guide has now been updated with content from the the two video's. Find out more in our Thieves Guild guide and The Sway guide.
Also, it seems as by some glitch, for a short time an new challenger has appeared in the battledome, that seemed to be an upcoming challenger for the plot. Maybe it's time for training? Thanks goes to thethighris for telling us about this!
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The charming face of Neopia's criminal scene. Looking for your items? The Thieves Guild has already stolen them. And your socks. |
Want something we don't have? Send us a graphic request! We are always looking for new and fun ideas for things.
Mysterious Obelisk Behold, an obelisk... how very mysterious. How long has this been sleeping beneath Neopia's surface? Word has gotten around that something big has been discovered. Even now, forces are mobilising to investigate the obelisk... and perhaps, claim it for themselves. |
To be continued. Read all about this plot at SunnyNeo's Plot Guide.
Update:
The Neopets news just has been updated about this as well:
Argh! You haven't been at the Mysterious Dig Site as of yet, have you? A strange obelisk has been unearthed and it is pulsating with an unsettling energy. Experts are advising all Neopians to stay away. We hope that nobody will suffer any ill effects from having been there... |
If you can help us out with previews for these items, then please submit your pet on our Model Page.
In the plot guide so far:
- Background information with all clues given about the plot so far;
- a Walkthrough with all prizes on the Mysterious Dig Site and
- a guide on the NC Challenge: Scanning for Buried Relics
In the mean time, if you would like to join in the discussions of what is happening, there is a NeoBoard: Tyrannia: Mysterious Dig Site
Along with many site events, this one also includes a NC Mall Event: Scanning for Buried Relics. You can purchase Tyrannian Scanoscopes in the NC Mall under Specialty.
You can get to this event by clicking on the sparkly mound at the Mysterious Dig Site
Tyrannian Scanoscope 14-Pack |
Tyrannian Scanoscope 5-Pack |
Tyrannian Scanoscope 1-Pack |
Today's first prize is Tyrannian Lagoon Background, our guide with the prizes from each day is soon to come!
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When clicking on this landmark, you will be taken to a Mysterious Site...
We don't know what this all will mean yet, but it very much looks like this could be another hint for the upcoming plot!
Update: Two new random events are going on now that seem to be related tp the new Tyrannian area. It seemed they started to appear at the same time the new Tyrannian map spot appeared as well.
One of them is a varriation opn the old earthquake RE, which will shake your browser (it seems all the common browsers are effected) It seems you can get is RE on all kinds of pages, not just on Tyrannian ones.
Thanks goes to parody_ham who provided the picture we used, but so many people have informed us about this event that is is impossible to name them all, but thanks a lot everyone! You know who you are :)
Update 2: Some buttons have been descovered that look like some kind of digging event is along it's way:
Everybody duck and cover! There have been quite a few rumblings coming from Tyrannia today... Don't worry though, we have contacted the proper authorities. We are pretty certain it is nothing. |
Do we really trust them? ;)
Don't forget to check out our other Valentines Graphics as well.
It has been updated with today's item, Glade of Pink Background.
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Sealed with a gift.
Today's item is Vision of Hearts.
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We still need a lot of models for this item, so if you have it, why don't you go over to the Model for us page and help us by modelling it?
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Did you get some of the items? Then please help us model them! Check out what we need at our Model For SunnyNeo page.
Check out our NC Collectibles guide for an overview of all the items released in this and past NC Collectibles Series.
Hmmm... what is this Ixi Seeking? |
Well, that's what we want to know too!
Also, it seems some new bottled faeries has been released and battledome Abilities will return soon!
New Bottled Faeries! - Aethia is almost ready to open her new Ability Academy in the Battledome, but your Neopet won't be able to train without the proper blessings. Thankfully -- or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it -- Balthazar has recently stepped up his game and come up with some new Bottled Faerie technology. If you find one of these new bottles, you can open it and start collecting blessings to prepare! This means the old bottles' magic is fading fast, but fear not. It's said that if you somehow combine them together, there may just be enough magic left to help you train. |
All old bottled faeries are now retired. You can now mix three of them in the Cooking Pot to get one of the new bottled Faeries. It seems the new bottles will give out points you can spend in Aethia's new abilities feature. As soon as we know more about this, we will keep you updated!
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