Neopia Fun Factor by midnitemist |  |
Fun in Neopia generally means the many games NeoPets Staff has created for
us to play with. However, there are many other fun stuff in Neopia waiting for
people to explore and realise. Here, I've stated out a few ways in which you
can enjoy life with your pets, other than playing games.
1) Pets
Pets are naturally playful, so you can have a lot of fun with them. Feeding
and playing with my pets is fun to me. Because you see, when you feed your pets,
you have to decide how many food items would fill him up, and then you have
the choice of what to buy. Plus you have to calculate the average price for
that particular item and work out the best buy (if your slow computer is enemies
with the Main Shops like mine) Unless you feed your pets with the daily omelettes
Sabre X guards so well ...
2) Shop
Shops are mainly used for selling items, and to make more NP. But other than
that, you can try looking at it in another way. Decorating your shop not only
beautifies it, makes customers want to come back, it also allows you to explore
with basic HTML and have fun. There are many different Web sites that provides
free backgrounds and graphics for you to decorate your shop with. But while
having fun, you should remember to be considerate - Don't put too many huge
graphics, dolls, or loud music that freezes people's screen and takes forever
to load. Sometimes other computers may work differently from yours. If can,
try it once on another computer, example one in your School Library, and see
the effect. Treat your shop as a real shop, a real business, and you will find
it to be enjoying.
3) NeoHome
If you have some NP to spare, try getting a NeoHome for your pet. It may
not be of any use now, but as NeoPets has said, they're working on it, and later
on, you can hold parties and have your own garden. Even if you can't invite
your friends over now, you can still prepare your it first. Some sites like
www.nothingbutneopets.com provide a NeoHome Guide, in which they give some advice
if you're just starting out on your NeoHome. It can be fun - Buying furniture,
deciding where to place it, giving names to the rooms, upgrading it. The advantage
is, NeoPets furniture is really easy to shift around, not like real-life furniture,
where it weighs about a thousand kilograms, and shifting it to a new place everyday
would take up too much time and effort. In NeoPets, you can change the furniture
anytime, according to your mood, remove the furniture if you don't like it anymore,
or add new furniture, and move the current ones around the house.
4) Pet's Page
NeoPets has been very kind to allow our pets to have a page all about themselves.
You can have a lot of fun trying out many different HTML techniques. Even if
you don't understand fanciful HTML language, NeoPets has provided a very basic
HTML Guide for us. Like your shop, you can decorate it any way you want. Throw
in some graphics, cute backgrounds, interesting contents and - DING!
- It becomes a great page for your very own pet. Add information about your
pet, like how you came to choose that particular type of NeoPet, and what his
name means, or how he became such a fine young pet he is now. If you enter it
for the Site Spotlight, you may even get a Trophy!
5) Exploring
There are many different "worlds" in NeoPets. Other than Neopia Central, all
of them have something good waiting in store for you. My favourite is Terror
Mountain, since there is Happy Valley, which houses the infamous Snowager and
Kiosk. Recently Maraqua was invaded by the bad bad bad Krawk Pirates. But in
it's place came out Krawk Island. Now, that is another interesting place to
visit. You can train your pets in the Academy, which is cheaper than in the
Training School, though it takes far longer. However, you can play Deckball
or Deckswabber while waiting for your pet to finish his course. In Mystery Island,
interesting tours are also provided for your pets for only 50 NP. Plus, Random
Events have been known to appear more often in other worlds. In short, you can
spend some very meaningful time exploring around with your pets. Just treat
it like a Family Day Outing :o)
Here are several places, which I think has been overlooked by many as "fun".
Some people might think it's very troublesome, like maintaining a shop. And
think I'm nuts, saying that calculating the average price for something and
then finding the best buy is very fun. But it really can be, if you don't treat
it as a chore. Hope you have more fun in Neopia from now on! |
