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Featured Site Neoitems.net
General News
Seventh
Inning Fetch
was released. This game is based on the film Air Bud which is out
on Video and DVD soon. (June 1, 2002)
Every
Wednesday Neopets will now be announcing a new Petpet Spotlight. You can get
a trophy for your cabinet if your petpet is chosen. To enter, send an email
to petpets@neopets.com stating your
username, your petpet's name, why he/she should win. I’m guessing that
the more creative you are, the better your chances of being chosen, so you
may want to stay away from the standard “rags to riches” type story.
(June 1, 2002)
Neopets
now has - 32 MILLION USERS.
(June 4, 2002)
Neopets
has finally updated the Help
Section. (June 4, 2002)
Hi-Score Tables are
finally back. That’s the good news. The bad news is that they wiped all
the tables…including all the individual scores whether they were a high
score or not. (June 4, 2002)
Neopets
knows there is a cheat for Omelette Defender
as so many people have emailed them about it. They say they have set up the
system so that anyone who uses it will have his account frozen automatically.
(June 5, 2002)
Neopets
sent two artists to Suntec City,
Singapore on Saturday June 8th to promote Neopets merchandise. (June 8, 2002)
Neopets
has added a new game. The mayor of Townsville has called upon the Powerpuff Girls
to save the world once again. (June 10, 2002)
Try and
collect as many Dubloons as you can before evil homing mines destroy your
ship in the new game, Dubloon
Disaster. (June 11, 2002)
The latest
addition to Mystery
Island is a Daily
Haiku Generator. It’s all for fun, like the Island Mystic. (June
11, 2002)
Krawps has returned
from its short absence. (June 17, 2002)
Neopets
reached the 50 million Neopets mark. (June 17, 2002)
Neopets
has a new band. That's right WOCK TIL YOU DROP are kicking off their
world tour in their local Concert Hall.
(June 17, 2002)
Neopets
reduced the price of the Baby Paintbrush
to 200,000 NP. (June 25, 2002)
Special
days:
- June 6th - JubJub Day
- June 13th - Quiggle Day
- June 15th - Nimmo Day
- June 19th - Kau Day
- June 28th - Acara Aquatic Festival
Pet Changes
v Get your hands on a Faerie Paint Brush and you can paint your Kau at the Rainbow Pool! (June 3, 2002)
v Got a Pirate Paintbrush? - Then you can get one of these Pirate Krawks. (June 5, 2002)
v You can now paint your JubJub a lovely shade of Skunk. (June 6, 2002)
v You can now paint your Eyrie Cloud and your Kiko RAINBOW. (June 10, 2002)
v You can paint your Techo and Koi Pirate now. (June 11, 2002)
v Now you can paint your Gelert Fire. (June 12, 2002)
v A funny thing happens to Chias when they eat a Lime Chia Pop. (June 12, 2002)
v You can now paint your Aisha DISCO. (June 13, 2002)
v New additions to the Rainbow Pool are the Spotted or Electric Nimmo. . (June 14, 2002)
v Now you can paint your Uni FIRE at the Rainbow Pool. (June 17, 2002)
v Kaus can be painted Starry and ROBOT. (June 19, 2002)
v Ever want a Mutant Scorchio? You now can have one. (June 20, 2002)
v Feed your Chia a Magical Blueberry Chia Pop and you can have the newest fruity pet. (June 25, 2002)
v Neopets has released the Draik, the 45th pet species now available, and have hinted it’s in connection with the new world they have been promising. (June 25, 2002)
v Neopets has created the Mystery Island Paintbrush. If your Neopet was painted Stone then it will be automatically changed to Island and the Stone Paint Brush will be retired. (June 26, 2002)
v Wand a FIRE POOGLE? You can now paint your Poogle with the Fire, Fire, Your Pants On Fire Paint Brush. (June 26, 2002)
v The Baby Scorchio is now available at the Rainbow Pool. (June 27, 2002)
v Now you can paint your Acara SPOTTED (June 28, 2002) or Striped. (June 29, 2002)
PetPet Changes
q If you are the proud owner of a Selket, you can now paint him/her Blue, White or Faerie at the Petpet Puddle. (June 4, 2002)
q Take your Bloop to the Petpet Puddle and you can now paint him/her Spotted, Red, Green and Blue. (June 10, 2002)
q Ghostkerchiefs can be painted at the Petpet Puddle Spotted, Red, and Blue. (June 11, 2002)
q Take your Floud to the Petpet Puddle and you can paint him/her all kinds of colours. (June 12, 2002)
q If you are the proud owner of a Gruslen, you can now paint it lots of pretty colours at the Petpet Puddle. (June 17, 2002)
q Cobralls can now be painted at the Petpet Puddle. (June 18, 2002)
q Take your Cirrus to the Petpet Puddle and you can paint them red, green, grey and robot. (June 21, 2002)
TNE News
I think I have fixed the problem with the internal hyperlinks
from the last newsletter. There were no negative comments, so I assume that
most people like the new format.
I added a small, animated button to my Link to this site page, as well as updated
my Books page.
The news games have been added to my Game Reviews page.
I have created a TNE Report Card Archive.
As always, I welcome any suggestions, comments, and constructive criticisms
that might improve the site or the newsletter.
Featured Article
The
Money Tree: Rip off or Secret Random Event generator?
In the center of the shops page sits the Money Tree. Neopians flock
to the tree in the hopes of grabbing a good item, getting a little food, or
to donate their own items or neopoints.
Most of the time, you’ll hear people complaining about
not being able to get items because of the “greedy people”. To get
items or np, you have to have an incredibly fast connection and be fairly
lucky. The more times you try to get an item, the less chance you have to
get other items. Neopets installed that feature several months ago to discourage
“vultures”.
Donating can either be done from the inventory drop down
menu or the quickstock
page for items and on the Money Tree page
for np. You may be asking yourself,
“Why should I donate my items or np when nobody donated anything to me?”
Other than my belief that it is better to give than receive, or my desire
to help others, there is one more reason that you may have overlooked.
Donating to the Money Tree seems to activate a special “subroutine” in the Neopets system. For some reason, donating seems to increase the Random Events rate. Haven’t been on a Faerie Quest lately? Pet not finding items? Drop off something for the Money Tree. It doesn’t seem to matter what the item is or how many neopoints you offer. You may be skeptical…and this may not work for everyone. Why not try it for yourself, though. Today, when you go by Tombola and pick up yet another bottle of sand, why not drop it off at the Money Tree? At worse, you’ve lost a worthless item. Who knows, it could pay off in the long run
Featured Site
TNE Teacher’s Pet
Award
Neoitems.net is our featured site for June. Even though it has been up and running for quite a while, it has only recently been brought to my attention. Usually, this award goes to sites that specialize in hints and tips, but this site is in a class all by itself.
This is a really well done site that catalogues all the items
in Neopia, as well as some other hints and tips. I found this very useful
when I started putting together a list of items for my Aisha gallery.
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