[quote=Artemis]Well, take the sales from any mall. I would guess over 50% are from 3 week old accounts or less. I'm thinking the newbs are there, they are just overwhelmed by how much there is to learn about neopia and they give up. Also, if I hadn't upgraded my internet, I wouldn't be able to play at all on dial-up. I REALLY think the main reasons are overwhelmed newbs who quit before even getting started good, and dial-up users having to quit because nothing will load.[/quote] [center] I know exactly how it is!! Either with the dial up package for premium... it is STILL slow... + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Shop Size Goal : 650 Current Size: 237 Help me? : http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=obsolete_soldier [/center]

Did you guys know they launched a tutorial last year to help with knowing what to do and how around the site? It's here: http://www.neopets.com/help/tutorial/index.phtml - it's on the yellow toolbar under the Explore button :) But still, unless you are a little curious and spend some time clicking around you need someone to help I think. My kids helped me get started. ~ Mimi temps_bons graphics ~ http://www.neopets.com/~Mimi_Miaulement

[quote=temps_bons]Did you guys know they launched a tutorial last year to help with knowing what to do and how around the site? It's here: http://www.neopets.com/help/tutorial/index.phtml - it's on the yellow toolbar under the Explore button :) But still, unless you are a little curious and spend some time clicking around you need someone to help I think. My kids helped me get started. ~ Mimi temps_bons graphics ~ http://www.neopets.com/~Mimi_Miaulement[/quote] [center] I saw that... they also have it on the page after you sign up... but the down side is, is that it is ran on Flash so it'll be slow for dial up users or people with 5,000 things on their PC. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Shop Size Goal : 650 Current Size: 237 Help me? : http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=obsolete_soldier [/center]

[quote=six]I remember starting off 4 years ago and all I did was play games. It wasn't until I went to the boards and discovered Dailies, Lazy links etc. I was such a noob, I had no idea how to join Altador Cup II. *lol* It wasn't until I started wandering around and clicking things that I discovered shops, malls, galleries, etc :P http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=atlantissix[/quote] I remember starting off 6(?) years ago... my original account was Cornball3440... too lazy to look it up. Anyways I was around 8 at the time, my sister got me hooked (Then she quit of course), but I never understood what much meant, but I was determined to get my bank to give me more than 100 np a day XD, and I never understood why the SW never showed me, and I always priced stuff in my shop from dailies at 200 nps... years after I put them in my shop I looked back recently and it still hadn't sold XD i emptied the shop so that TNT would see the IP adresses and think I was running two shops... It took till a year and a half ago for me to just *snap* remember the pw. --- Step outside, take a breath of fresh air, then look down to see if you have a new text message.

Its exam week, or approaching exam week for most high school students, I know a lot of people who are cutting down on there Neo time + since the 10x score sends ended people are making less Np, so they're saving what they're making instead of spending it

[quote=Starr_2525]Its exam week, or approaching exam week for most high school students, I know a lot of people who are cutting down on there Neo time + since the 10x score sends ended people are making less Np, so they're saving what they're making instead of spending it[/quote] Ya AP exams are coming and teachers are already stressing us out and on top of that there are FCAT's, SAT's, and ACT's to take in the following weeks. My neo time will definitely be cut down more than half.

i have to agree with almost everything posted here, i remember starting to play neo nearly 10 years ago now, and it was so basic back then. i lost my account and came back about 4 years ago and even i couldn't understand what to do after playing for years previously. can you imagine how a poor noobie 10yr old feels?im 23 and still cant figure it out sometimes. I find it strange how it looks very 'kiddie' yet i cant see how kids could understand how to play? and i dont think many adults are going to sign up to some thing that looks so juvenile. ive told some of my friends about it and when they go to sign up i always get that 'are you feeling ok' look! i think tnt need to make a choice, either market it to the adults who make up most of the population on neo now or alternatively make it easier for the kids (who its marketed at) to play. also i think they need to purge all the old unused accounts including the pets and items in those accounts.

[quote=Starr_2525]Its exam week, or approaching exam week for most high school students, I know a lot of people who are cutting down on there Neo time + since the 10x score sends ended people are making less Np, so they're saving what they're making instead of spending it[/quote] Yes, I constantly forget about exams because all of mine are taken before my winter break whereas secondary schools do it afterward, which to this day I don't understand why. http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=evilbluemunkeyz

[quote=evilbluemunkeyz][quote=Starr_2525]Its exam week, or approaching exam week for most high school students, I know a lot of people who are cutting down on there Neo time + since the 10x score sends ended people are making less Np, so they're saving what they're making instead of spending it[/quote] Yes, I constantly forget about exams because all of mine are taken before my winter break whereas secondary schools do it afterward, which to this day I don't understand why. http://www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=evilbluemunkeyz[/quote] In our school (when I went) we do exams every semester. Eight classes, four every other day (called block scheduling), 16 for the whole school year. We do exams during the last two days before Winter break, and the last two days before Summer vacation. *** [size=10]Current shop size: 129/700 www.neopets.com/browseshop.phtml?owner=nioe_yemar&misc Owner of The Rainbow Fields Mall! www.neopets.com/~Mynynae - Places to Go, Things to See![/size]

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