The Ten Best Ways to Spend 20,000 NP by leb388 |  |
You've saved like crazy. You've played every game possible, gotten every free
item, tried to get people to join Neopets so you'd get referrals, even tried
to get something from the Money Tree. Now, how are you going to spend your hard-earned
Neopoints?
Here is a list of what I think are the 10 best ways to spend about 20 thousand
Neopoints (you shouldn't spend it all in one step, of course).
1. Buy a new paint brush. It doesn't have to be drastic and
costly, like a Faerie Paintbrush, but you can get a cheap paintbrush and change
your pet's colour from red to blue, or yellow to green. It'll be nice to look
at a different coloured pet when playing Cheat!
2. Improve your NeoHome. Or, if you don't already have
one, buy some land and build a few rooms. Make them out of an inexpensive material;
if you start with Brick, but then find that it's too expensive and switch to
Straw, it'll look odd. Always plan carefully when building or adding a room;
once I tried to make a door when there wasn't one in another room, and it came
out looking like a dent in the wall. Make sure each of your pets has a room,
and on half-price day (the 3rd of every month) go to the furniture shop and
buy tons of stuff.
3. Invest in Neopian Stocks. Most people buy stocks anyway,
but here are some tips to follow. Always buy them in shares of about 300 to
1,000 per company. Never buy a stock with a point value of more than 20 (15
is the lowest you can buy them for).
4. Start working on your NeoDeck. Use some Neopets to get a
NeoDeck if you don't already have one (there's a link in the games room), and
choose a specific category. I try to get a majority of cards that are Aishas.
You can buy a bunch of cards that are the species of your Neopet(s), or just
buy cards that have good names or pictures. But don't get a size 25 NeoDeck
and only buy 5 cards. Also, think of a creative name for it.
5. Improve your pet's stats. It may sound silly for me to say
this, but some people don't even bother to take their pets to the Mystery Island
Training School or Swashbuckling Academy in Krawk Island. They both have advantages
and disadvantages: the Training School codestones usually cost more than dubloons,
but the lessons are shorter. On a certain pet day (look at the Neopian Calendar
in "world"), free classes all day long are given to that species of Neopet in
the Training School. Oh, and another thing: you can stock up on dubloons, but
for codestones you have to buy the type that's specified. I still usually buy
codestones, though, because I'm not that crazy about my pets being trained by
pirates....
6. The Money Tree. No, I'm not talking about getting stuff from
it, I'm talking about giving stuff to it. I tried this once, and it was awesome:
look up something in the Shop Wizard that's 1 NP, such as a Volcanic Rock or
Palm Fan. Then, buy 40-50 of them (make sure you have few or no items in your
inventory first). Then, using the Quick Stock, donate them all to the Money
Tree, and see how long it takes for them all to disappear (for me, it was two
refreshes, but I already had a separate window open for the tree). The shop
owners will be glad to get rid of those useless items, and people with high-speed
Internet connections will have items that are worthless.
7. Buy a lot of books for your pet. Just a few books can make
your pet noticeably smarter, and it might have a chance to win a trophy! Some
Neopian-owned shops stock tons of books, but if you can get more than five things
from the main Book Shop per stock consider yourself lucky. Sometimes, the Faerie
Crossword or Poogle Solitaire gives points of intelligence, too, but those don't
count in the book award.
8. Collect something. My item that I collect is plushies. It's
really fun to see how many colours of one species I can get, and my pets never
run out of toys to play with! Other things to collect are neggs, NeoDeck cards,
Tombola items, Battledome weapons, codestones or dubloons, paintbrushes, certain
types of food, and items that have to do with a certain type of Neopet Some
collections are cheap, but others can drain your bank account, so be careful.
9. Got help? Go on the "help" or "quests" chats, and buy an
item for someone on a quest, become their Neofriend, and send it to them for
free. This is especially nice if you don't have many Neofriends, and they'll
almost always get something for you in return when you're on a quest.
10. Out of that 20,000 NP yet? Good. Now clean out your Safety
Deposit Box. If you have more than 2 pages worth of stuff, click on the things
you don't want and put them in your shop. It'll be easier to access that rare
you don't want the Pant Devil to get, and you can make tons of Neopoints
Well, there's the 10 best ways to spend 20,000 NP. I hope that some of my
suggestions have helped your Neopoints expand from the safety of your bank account
to the adventures of Neopia. |
