Help For the Newbies

by darkocean

I am doing very good in Neopia, and I am going to show you how you too can prosper! At first it is best to have one pet because they need food, want weapons, defence items, magic item, toys, books, grooming items, which can tend to get costly! If you decide to create instead of adopt make sure you give your pet a good name! Come on now people, who wants a name like 134446_do_da_fart? Yuck! If you give your pet a good name you'll be much happier with your pet, and most likely not boot it to the pound. Be part of the solution and not the problem. Make sure you pick a pet that you like very very much! (Love is a better word ;) And remember to play with you pet and to feed it other wise it will get very sick and unhappy :( If you can take care of your Pokemon then why not your Jubjub or Kacheek? Right away you should at least put 100 NP in the bank.

It is here you need something to fall back on if you spend, or lose it all. So that doesn't happen, I suggest that you set a limit of NP that you can spend a day. (If you have say 800 from playing a game or two then spend 400.) A good way to make NP is to go play the games in the games room (on the left yellow bar). I like the Kiko match, Pokemon match, Poogle solitaire, and the robot challenge game.

Another thing you can do is to get NP is to open up a shop. You can find it on the bar above the NeoPets shopping map or you can go here. Believe me, it is worth the 250 NP! Stock up your shop with food. A good price to start with is 15 to 20 NP. If you want the food to sell almost immediately then you need to go to the chats (yellow left bar again) when you are in the chats to post click on were it says new board.

One thing about buying food in the shops, if you have a fast enough bandwidth (all I know is that that is what makes things load fast or slow depending on what one you have) is that you have to grab what you can get! And do not click on the close and refresh button it will take you to your items! By the time you get back to the shop most everything will be gone. Put a piece of food or two in your deposit box, you can find it in the bank near the bottom of the page.

Another way to go to your deposit box is buy clicking on your items on the top bar or you can click here! When you get a shop size 8 or more then you can start having contests! People like food!! (When you get more items, you can sell things like books and toys during your contests.) Later on you can use the Shop Wizard to search for books and such. Don't pay anymore than 5 NP! Fill up your inventory with that stuff and post in the chats about your contest, don't tick off the people by posting TOO much! And change the words a lot. I think it is making the NeoPet monitors angry when people are lazy and just put things like ###### that to change their postings. It's important that you have something good to give to the winner/winners people like rare stuff like Codestones and Faeries (sometime one or the other will drop into your lap from the random events). To give the person their item you can make them your Neofriend and send it to them. Or you can use the Island Trading Post. To give them NP you will write the winner a letter and tell them to price an item in their shop for...say 1000 NP and then you just go and buy the item for that price.

Putting in a background is a good idea because it makes your shop look nice and is easier on everyones' eyes, unless you choose a flaming red background with key-lime green text! ;) If you would like to get quests than go click on the explore (yellow bar again). My favourite quests are: The Kitchen Quests in Maraqua, and the Witch's Tower in the Haunted Woods. Here you can earn some neat stuff, or make your pet/pets stronger. Use the Shop Wizard to get the needed items much cheaper sometimes than the High Street main shops.

To go to the Shop Wizard click on the blue starred tent in the right corner of the upper bar or you can go and click here! If you want to go see if the Snowager is sleeping, you'll need an Ice Totem to go see it and the rest of the Ice Caves. (You can get free stuff from him but it's cold and dark in there... you can also get hurt by the Snowager, so be careful! If you get a boo-boo (snick-snick..snicker..^o^) you can take your pets to the kind Water Faerie in the Faerieland Healing Springs.

I hope this helps newbies because I know how frustrating it can be when you first join up! Now you get a newbie pack which is nice of NeoPets :) Hey! Don't forget to have fun because NeoPets can be a great place to come to when you need cheering up.