May 2010 News Archive

We've found some future prize images! These have come straight from a Neopets Altador Cup TV commercial. We believe the items to be "Altador Cup Faerieland Snowglobe", "Vintange Haunted Woods Jersey" and "Altador Cup Yard Statue". For more on unreleased prizes, check out Altador Cup V Preview page.

Not to worry Moltara fans, the set of Altador Cup Pet Lookups is now once again complete.


Also, remember to check out the Altador Cup Goodies page for more ways to show support for your favorite team!

Hey everyone, my name is Vik, and I will be covering the Team interviews for the ACV! I have been on the Sunnyneo staff for a few months now, but I never really got to introduce myself. Speaking of interviews, we will now be accepting Team Interviews from one member on each of the ACV teams! Please neomail vikrambal with your answers, the questions are located on the Sunnyneo ACV Interview Page. Good Luck with the AC!

Here is a preview of the upcoming Neocash Collectible for June.

For the first time this year, SunnyNeo will be hosting a staff tournament for the Altador Cup. Yes, that's right, 24 staff members will be working hard to keep the honour of their teams high. Will they show their skills and bring home eternal glory for their team, or nothing more than a Partially Inflated Yooyu Beach Ball? You can follow all team members on our brand new Staff Tournament page, which will be updated frequently with new standings.

Good luck to all the participants and may the best player win!

Interested in more SunnyNeo AC goodies? Check out our Altador Cup Coverage.

No partially Inflated Yooyu Beach Balls were hurt during this tournament...

We have a new group of pet lookups for your use. You can now show off your chosen team in style.


We will be adding more Altador Cup graphic goodies so keep your eyes peeled for updates.

Also make sure to stay up to date with all the latest happenings from the Altador Cup by looking over the Altador Cup coverage page.

The Altador Cup Player Avatar has been re-released.  If you hit rank 1 before today, just go open any of the Altador Cup Games and you will receive the avatar.  Otherwise you will get the avatar when you reach rank 1.

Two new colors for the Gikerot :

     
Orange                 Purple

And the final Nc Mall newsletter of this month.

New colors:


            Chocolate                          Strawberry


Also new clothes:
  
        Farmer and schooler are the new clothes



All this in the day of the yurble :D

First of all we'd like to thank everyone who has been Neomailing us with queries, feedback and general information about this year's Altador Cup. You make your teams proud!

We've added some new pages to our Altador Cup Coverage navigation, which you may wish to check out:
- Sign-up Bonus Items
- Match Schedule
- Scores Table
- Ranks
(Please note that we are looking into the possibility that TNT may have changed how to achieve an Altador Cup related avatar this year.  It's possible that if there is an avatar available this year, it won't be awarded until the end of the tournament.)
- Rank Calculator
- Achievement Rewards

We've also added some new Altador Cup themed shields and an Altador Alley guide.  This is a US-only sponsor activity that is part of the Altador Cup.

Feel free to browse our specially designed Altador Cup Coverage navigation bar for all of our additional features related to the tournament when you're looking at those coverage pages.

In other news...

We have started our in-depth Daily Match Reports! They will be added to the coverage news daily so please keep checking back and feel free to Neomail Chimp_Chicken_Fish with feedback on these reports. Your team deserves a fair match report after all.

This is the new Caption contest for today number #1114

And last but not least the Premium Cards are:

            
  July                                      August

Good news for those who didn't have the chance to clear all the Mists during Tarla's Mystery Tour. It seems you now have to buy a Mystery Bag from Tarla's Shop of Mystery to clear the remaining Mist. This is only possible for those who cleared at least one part of Mist during the event.

Finding Mist is totally random, so it can get a bit expensive.

You can buy one Mystery Bag every 1,5 minute.

So far people have been able to clear more than one Mist today, but we have no idea if there's a limit (your bank account perhaps?)
 
Tarla's shop restocks every 1-2 minutes, but it can take longer

You can still get all the prizes after you cleared the Mist, except for Tarlas Underground Workshop Background, which was only given to those who cleared the Mist during the event.

Visit our Tarla's Tour of Mystery Guide for more information about Tarla.

From the Petpet Park News:

If you love to save Park Points, be sure to visit Fins, Feathers & Fashion this Friday between 4-5 PM NST for our last (at least for now) ONE Park Point item sale! This lovely pair of Spring Garden Shoes will be on sale for the entire hour. Make sure you don’t miss your chance to keep your Petpet’s feet clean and dry and save some Park Points!

We've recently discovered that there are miniature prizes for completing achievements in this year's Altador Cup.

At the moment you can gain the achievements but there is a glitch and the prizes are not being awarded.

Prizes are now being awarded. Unreceived prizes are also awarded.

Prizes are now being awarded correctly. Previously unreceived prizes have  also been awarded.

We have an Achievements Guide page with the known achievements and their prizes listed.

So far the current achievements discovered are for:
- Winning 5 Yooyuball matches
- Scoring 50 goals in Yooyuball matches (cumulatively).
- Win 10 Yooyuball games with 10 or more goals scored in each game.
- Win 5 Yooyuball games with 14 or more goals scored in each game.
- Scoring 5 goals in 40 shootout showdown games.
- Playing one of each Altador Cup game. (Yooyuball, Shootout Showdown, Make Some Noise, Slushie Slinger)
- Scoring 10 times with a clockwork yooyu (cumulatively).
- Save 50 goals in Yooyuball (shooting at yourself does not work, trust us, we tried XD).
- Send 100 scores of Make Some Noise with 6000 or more points
- Score 100 goals with each player (goalie excluded)
- Play Slushie Slinger 50 times with a minimum score of 200

Achievements appear like this at the top of your screen (you will not see the achievement notice if you are playing yooyu ball in large screen mode):

A lot of you will have started to notice that Yooyuball is acting strangely when you go to send score after a match.

Looks like TNT were on the ball! The glitch appears to be fixed. Hooray!

The known glitch (very recent) is as follows:
- Scores are not processing after achieving a score of 10 points or higher.
- Sending a score of less than 10 points in Yooyuball will still process as normal.

Hopefully TNT are working on a solution as we speak.
We will update you as soon as we are aware that the glitch has been fixed.

Good morning! It's past 12:00 AM NST and time for your first matches of the season. I hope you've warmed up those Yooyuballing muscles and trained your vocal chords for Altador's most exciting annual event.

Be sure to check which team yours will be facing today on the Altador Cup V Schedule/Results page.

Still not decided on which team you want to support? How about taking our "Which team should you join?" quiz for suggestions?



There is also the NC Challenge that you can participate in if you've bought your ticket from the NC Mall.  We have an updated NC Challenge Guide that shows the challenges and prizes.

Be sure to check out our Altador Cup Coverage for all the latest updates of the tournament. See you in the colosseum!

Only a few hours away from kick off now! We have a new series of userlookups to present to all you rabid fans. We hope you enjoy them. There will be more  NEW Altador Cup graphics goodies coming within the next week, so keep your eyes glued to SunnyNeo!

From now on we will be updating this newspost with the Tarla locations rather than making new ones. We will of course be updating our Twitter page with all the latest updates as well! Also read our Twitter Help page to learn how to receive sound alerts, popups or text messages on your phone when Tarla appears.

Locations Previously Spotted
Location	Date	Approx. Time*
Tyrannian Town Hall	May 26th	about 10:37 PM NST
VP Space Station: Hangar	May 26th	about 9:44 PM NST
Giant Omelette	May 26th	about 9:20 PM NST
Slushie Shop	May 26th	about 9:01 PM NST
Tyrannian Petpets	May 26th	about 6:08 PM NST
Iglo Garage Sale	May 26th	about 4:55 AM NST
Wheel of Mediocrity	May 26th	about 4:33 AM NST
VP Space Station: Hangar	May 26th	about 3:57 AM NST
Kacheekers	May 26th	about 2:07 AM NST
Typing Terror	May 26th	about 1:06 AM NST
Let it Slide	May 26th	about  11:55 AM NST
Tyrannian Cave Painting	May 26th	about 10:51 AM NST
Kacheekers	May 26th	about 9:42 AM NST
Snowmuncher	May 26th	about 7:29 AM NST
Iglo Garage Sale	May 26th	about 7:09 AM NST
Volcano Run II	May 26th	about 5:56 AM NST
Tyrannian Mini Golf	May 26th	about 5:10 AM NST
Tyrannian Petpets	May 26th	about 4:19 AM NST
Giant Omelette	May 26th	about 3:54 AM NST
Grundos Cafe	May 26th	about 2:37 AM NST
Grundos Cafe	May 26th	about 1:43 AM NST
Snowball Fight	May 26th	about 1:26 AM NST
Giant Omelette	May 26th	about 1:04 AM NST
Wheel of Monotony	May 26th	about 11:34 PM NST
Grundo Warehouse	May 25th	about 9:58 PM NST
Go! Go! Go!	May 25th	about 9:26 PM NST
Iglo Garage Sale	May 25th	about 8:21 PM NST
Tyrannian Mini Golf	May 25th	about 5:00 PM NST
Return of the Return	May 25th	about 4:39 PM NST
Destruct-O-Match	May 25th	about 4:18 PM NST
Ticket Booth	May 25th	about 2:23 PM NST
Iglo Garage Sale	May 25th	about  12:27 PM NST
Snowbeast Snackrifice	May 25th	about  4:54 AM NST
Chia Bomber II	May 25th	about 3:59 AM NST
Wheel of Mediocrity	May 25th	about 2:19 AM NST
Return of the Return	May 25th	about 1:03 AM NST
For older sightings of Tarla, have a look at our Tarla's Tour of Mystery guide
*Please keep in mind Tarla appears for only a very short period of time. She will only stay on one page for 1-12 minutes. If you missed her, you have to wait until she appears on a new page.

Visit our Tarla's Tour of Mystery Guide for more information about the Tarla. On this page you can also see a sneak preview of whats hidden behind the mist! 

If you want to search for Tarla at various locations, use our easy to use Map Links page!

For those of you who have been playing practice games of Yooyuball recently, you will have noticed that the field was off-set by a few millimetres making scoring goals a little bit more challenging than it needed to be.

This has now been fixed by TNT and the field is no longer arranged oddly.

Reminder: The Spring Button Up Shirt will be retiring from the NC Mall on June 1st. This item is fairly unique as once it retires, you will be unable to ever get it. This is because Elite Boutique items are non-giftable. Get it while you can!

The Spring collection of NC Wearables will also retiring on June 1st. However, these items will still be obtainable through usual trading methods.

We have just opened a new job opening, we are now looking for one or more CSS Layout Stylists to add to our team. The job is opened for people who enjoy creating layouts using CSS codes.

We are also still looking for other new staff members such as Graphics Makers, Petpet Park Experts, Game Guide Writers, Battledome Experts and Tutorial writers. For more information, have a look at our Apply for Staff page.

Moltara, we haven't forgotten about you! The Altador Cup Fonts page has been updated to include fonts for all Moltara supporters.

◦ ● ◦ ▲▲▲ neoHTML M O L T A R A ... To win the cup! neoHTML [center]◦ ● ◦[br][fontc=#FFBA1A]▲[/font][fonts=4c=#FF0000]▲[/font][fontc=#FFBA1A]▲[/font][br][fonts=1]neoHTML[/font][ ][br][fonts=4c=#c80000f=georgia][b]M O L T A R A[/font][br][fonts=1c=#FF9900]...To win the cup![/b][/font][/center] siggy

We have also eyedropped Moltara's team colours for you to use on anything you'd like. Go to the Altador Cup Team Colours page to check it out!

Today the first people are finishing with Tarla's Tour of Mystery by having cleared all 16 pieces of mist. (You can still clear them until the 26th). If you have cleared all 16 pieces, you will be rewarded with the following items. All of these are neopoint wearables.

Tarlas Underground Workshop Background	Tour of Mystery Garland	Tarlas Scarf
Shop of Mystery Grab Bag	Tour of Mystery Magnifying Glass

As we are sure you are all aware a new ad has been added to Neopets which covers the top navigation bar and is effecting all layouts.
Many of you have mailed us with a solution to solving this on our userlookups and petlookups, and they have all been updated and should now work perfectly.


Should you wish to edit your own userlookups copy and paste these codes somewhere in the middle of the coding for your layout.

For lookups that are aligned to the left of the screen:

For lookups that are aligned to the right of the screen: For petlookups and lookups that are centered:  We are still checking our other layouts and will keep you posted.

There's a new game that went up for premium beta testing: Kookia.

Oh no! Kookiths are on the loose in Neopia, and they must be caught before they can get into any trouble. These mischievous Petpets may be cute, but they're also fast and prefer to travel in groups. Are your Kookith-capturing skills up to the task of snaring them? Give it a try!

The goal of the game is to catch all the Kookiths that have escaped. You can catch the regular coloured ones by hovering over them with your mouse. The blue Kookith can be caught by clicking on them. If you collect three you will unlock a bonus round where you can catch golden Kookith for extra points. By collecting many Kookith in a row the amount of points you get will rapidly go up.

As you may have noticed, sign ups for the Altador Cup V have started. If you cannot decide which team to join, you may want to consider taking our brand new quiz:
Which Team should you join for the Altador Cup?

This is our very first quiz, and we hope that there are lots more to come! Enjoy!
Of course you will be rewarded with a very beautiful banner once you have completed the quiz =)

There's a new MME at the NC Mall: MME6: Magical Shapes Bubble Wand. You can find it at Speciality. We have updated our MME Guide with newest info and a flash preview.

TNT have just released the new Altador Cup index and it's looking spectacular!

Keep up to date with our ACV coverage and the ACIV prize shop is no longer available.

TNT are also hosting a staff tournament! That should be fun to watch.

Shortly after the Moltara team image was found, the images for this year's Terror Mountain, Tyrannian, and Haunted Woods Team have been uncovered! These images show all player substitutes.

Coming to theaters near you soon is the updated version of the Karate Kid. Now on Neopets you can test you karate skills in The Karate Kid A Hero’s Journey!

Wax on... wax off
 

Yes... Our SunnyNeo Altador Cup Team has been working overtime and we're entering ACV with a new attitude!

We have a new navigation system, new guides and lots of new graphics and more to come!

Check out our full Altador Cup V Coverage which will be regularly updated.

Note: Please note that it appears that TNT are still updating team images. This may take a short while. Until then, these may not be the final rosters.

In other news... Introducing Team Moltara!

Two unreleased petpets have been found, the Pink Blugar and Starry Ombat.

From the Petpet Park News:

Ever wonder what it’s like to be a flower pot? Now you can! Fins, Feathers & Fashion will be holding a ONE Park Point item sale this Friday between 4-5 NST for this very green Flower Plop Hat.

We've updated our Quest for Knowledge Capsule Guide with the bonus capsule and LE item info.  Happy Capsule opening!

It's quite possible that the actual games for Altador Cup V will start on the 26th May, with sign-up week potentially landing on the 21st for a duration of five days.

This has not been confirmed yet but is based on the FAQ information of 2 tournament days becoming "breaks". Thanks for the help from the users who Neomailed us with this possiblity!

We are currently waiting for TNT to release the official information about the tournament structure. For now, this is unconfirmed but plausible.

Today, the last Quest of Knowledge capsule will be released and the adventure will end. We've added a preview of the bonus item to our guide. It's a proto type, so it might not fully resemble the real image. View at your own risk! Thanks goes to farmerluk from the NC Mall board for sharing this image with us!

Also, as soon as the last capsule is released, we'll update our guide with more information and previews.

It looks like TNT have released this year's Altador Cup FAQs!

The main link doesn't yet work because it's not been officially released, but here are the individual questions linked below (duplicate numbers relate to both general AC FAQs and NC Mall queries).


It also looks like there will be two tournament breaks!

Can I earn Neopoints from playing the games in the Altador Cup? [...] On the two tournament breaks, June 12th and June 30th, you'll be able to earn Neopoints for the first 10 scores you send per game on each day. After you've maxed out Neopoints in each game for the day during the tournament, you should still continue to submit your scores, because all the scores you send will count toward your prize shop points and your team's total![...]

The Altador Cup is just around the corner and of course there will be a NC Challenge! Here is the image of the Altador Cup V NC Challenge Ticket. Make sure to check our Altador Cup Coverage.

The SunnyNeo Altador Cup Team are proud to present to you... Our Countdown to the Cup!

Head on over to our Altador Cup V Waiting Room to see what other things we have in store for you whilst we all prepare for the upcoming tournament.


There is plenty more to come!

We would like to thank the multitudes of users who neomailed us regarding the discovery of an Ice Krawk. Since we have found one, we no longer require your neomails about it. 

Punchbag Sid has made a rare appearance in the Battledome.  Challenge Punchbag Bob (the one with Difficulty 100) with your active pet and lose to get an avatar.  Hurry, he doesn't stay very long!

Update: Sid was spotted around 12:32 pm NST and left around 12:49 pm NST.  Gone now, but for the lucky ones who managed to grab the avatar, don't forget to check out our premade Neoboard fonts.

We have some new Altador Cup Support Pixel Badges so everyone will know exactly who you're supporting! Check out these new pixel banners on the Badge page! 

Will Krawk Island be able to break the Altador Cup "Winner's Curse"?

If you're looking for more support goodies to show off your team spirit, check out our Altador Cup Goodies page, and stay tuned while we're working on even more goodies!

Thank you ShinyFurret for letting us know on Twitter that the items at the Almost Abandoned Attic sell for the same price as the 'Estimated Value (approx)' on an item's lookup. We've updated our Account Age Information page with this new info!

As the Committee gathers the paperwork together for the upcoming Altador Cup V tournament, it looks like some teams (like Krawk Island) might be undergoing some changes. Plus there's the highly likely addition of Team Moltara to the field...






Head on over to our Altador Cup Previews page to sneak a peak at what may come to a coliseum near you!

Remember to claim your Altador Cup IV prizes if you haven't already. Deadline is May 20th!

We have found the image for the Adventure of Knowledge Boots, probably the LE for the Adventure of Knowledge Mystery Capsule. We have added the preview to our Quest for Knowledge guide.

The Official Neopets Page! on facebook has just released a sneek peek at this little gem.

Moehog Day is coming up and will give us two new colours for the Moehog.

It looks like there is a new Premium Collectable Card:

Looks like the new perk has finally been found! Visit the Almost Abandoned Attic if your account is 3 years+ older to buy some items! It can be reached by clicking on the door of the southwest house in Neovia, or from the link provided. ;)

Update: Our Account Age Information guide has been updated with some more information on this new perk.

More items to buy! Yay~

You head on over to the SunnyNeo Altador Cup Goodies page... and you discover something mysterious and awesome within its contents...

It looks like a new shield!

Also, with us only being about two weeks from sign-up week for Altador Cup V, you may want to head on over to the ACIV Prize Shop to use up any remaining points from last year's event!

New colours for the Dartail and Gwalla are waiting to be released.

Tyrannian Victory Day is here! TNT has decided to update one of Neopets' oldest relics, the Giant Omelette, with new art.

We've done an update on our guide to Tarla's Tour of Mystery. We've added a section that shows how many mists you can clear week to week. Furthermore, we've also added a section that shows you how you can find out how many mists you've cleared (in case you lost track). Once you've found out, you can of course use one of our fabulous mist counters =)

In case you didn't notice yesterday, we've updated two of our sponsor activity guides.

The Capri Sun Clubhouse Guide has been updated with the latest hidden pouch.  The Kraft Mac and Cheese Stadium Explosion guide is also updated with info on the last two pieces and the bonus item.

The latest Quest of Knowledge capsule has been released, featuring Captain Threelegs and giving out a rather cool sword. We've updated our Quest for Knowledge guide with more info and a preview.

Here's Caption Contest #1,109!

We've discovered the names of quite a few unreleased items that relate to the Altador Cup. Quite a few of them look like they'll be the prizes, like snowglobes for each participating team. It also seems the Yooyu for this year's prizes will be the Snow Yooyu. We've added all these items to our Altador Cup previews page, and we hope we can add the images as soon as we find them.

The Sunnyneo Team would like to wish all the mothers out there a very happy Mothers Day :)

Capri Sun Beach Brawl

Quick and easy way to earn some Neopoints! Have fun!

What do you mean I have something in my hair!

Here are Caption #1,110 for Moehog Day and two unreleased shopkeepers!

Look's like someone's being naughty.

We need some help to cover Tarla's whereabouts. We currently do not have enough staff members to post Tarla alerts on Twitter 24/7. Because we really do want to post alerts around the clock, which is why we are looking for people who would enjoy helping out with this. We've just opened a new staff application for Tarla Alerter. If this interests you, please consider applying. If this is not your thing, have a look at our other job openings as well.

Two new shopkeepers have popped up just in time for the celebration of the downfall of the evil Monoceraptor!

From the Petpet Park Facebook:

In honour of Petpet Park’s first birthday, you will receive double scores for all mini games you play from Thursday May 6th until Thursday May 20th. Earning those Park Points for that special Birthday-themed ensemble has never been easier!

If you wanted to give your petpet a nice outfit, it may be a good idea to play games between May 6th and May 20th. It will go much faster when you get double points!

Also Fins, Feathers & Fashion will have this festive birthday shirt on sale for just one Park Point between 4-5 PM NST Friday, May 7th! Be sure to get one before the hour is up and it returns to full price.

The latest Quest for Knowledge capsule, Fyora Mystery Capsule, is now selling at the NC Mall. We've updated our guide with more information and a preview.

Also selling in the NC Mall is the monthly collectible item for May, the Extreme Potato Counter Collectors Mohawk. You can only buy this item during the month of may, after that, it'll retire forever!

Since we started our Twitter account little over two weeks ago we have received questions from users who aren't quite sure what Twitter is and how to use it. This was a reason for us to make a few tutorials on ways to use Twitter to your advantage.

As you may have noticed, we have been posting Tarla Alerts on our Twitter page. If you visit her within a few minutes after we post, you can still catch her. If you don't see our message until later you've missed her. Did you know there are some easy ways to get notified like through your phone or a simple popup with sound on your computer?

Got you interested? Visit our Twitter Help page for some step-to-step tutorials!

We have two different mist counters for you to put on your lookup (or anywhere else) to show off to everyone how often you have cleared the mist from Tarla.


They can be found on our Tarla's Tour of Mystery page along with instructions on how to use them on your lookup or elsewhere.

The fans begin to dream of the tournament to come and the Altador Cup Committee are conversing with Team Managers... The Techo Super-fan is stocking up on throat pastilles in anticipation for Altador Cup V.

What better way to fuel your enthusiasm than SunnyNeo's specially created Altador Cup Previews page with some of the latest sneak peaks?

Hissi Day is just around the corner and looks like it will be Relic and Camoflauge for the new colors!

And what do you think about these new outfits?
 

          Captain Jack versus Lady Gaga?

Neopets is back online after site maintenance.  Good morning, world!

We've added a Capri Sun Clubhouse Guide for the current sponsor activity (US players only, it seems).  We'll be keeping the Daily Trivia answers updated, as well as the hidden pouch search as new steps are released.  Don't forget to check our Mac and Cheese Stadium Guide for another current sponsor activity.

Update: The Mac and Cheese Stadium Guide is updated through May 3rd.

A new image has surfaced that may confirm Moltara's participation in this year's Altador Cup!

In every Altador Cup thus far, team participaters have been awarded their team's wearable backgrounds. An image of the Moltara Team Background has surfaced. We'll bring you more coverage on the Moltara Team's inclusion in this year's tournament as it develops.

We've added a Tarla Shield to our Shields Page.  At least you'll be able to find her somewhere!

We have found the image of the Krawk Island Adventure Sword, most likely to be the LE of the upcoming Captain Threelegs Mystery Capsule. You can see the image on our Quest for Knowledge guide.

If you're using our Map Links page to check for Tarla, we've updated a bit and added a few jelly-ful locations that aren't technically on the map.