10 Tips For Being Nicer

1. Help the Soup Kitchen by donating at the Money Tree

The simplest way to be nice—donate some of your spare Neopoints. Even a small amount is really nice for the person on the receiving end. With items, don't clutter it up with junk items like Rusty Old Cans or Old Rotten Left Sandals, discard those and donate things like books that someone will actually pick up! Also, if you want to be really nice, when you're getting your daily items at the Money Tree don't take the Neopoints that are stolen by ghosts. How would you like it if your Neopoints were stolen? (It has probably happened- curse you, Random Events!)

2. Adopt Neopets—don't create

If you're looking for a new Neopet, you could try looking in the Pound. It is full of Neopets crossing their paws, wings and whatever else they have, that you'll choose them—haven't you ever wondered why there are so many Pound stories! Chances are, you might find a 'pet in there who might be the exact Neopet that you want. But, even if you don't find the one you're looking for, perhaps you come across a name you really like. From there, you can adopt them and morph or paint them however you like. Kinder still, take a basic low level Neopet, and make it desirable for another user. I am going to try doing that as soon as my Battle Neopet is up to scratch!

3. Reply to people on the Help Chat

If you're on Neopets and are looking for something to do, you could try answering people on the Help Neoboard. They probably just want a quick answer with no fuss. I would definitely be extremely grateful if someone answered my question. If someone is asking where to find the Giant Omelette, give them the URL or point them to Tyrannia. Perhaps they're asking about stocks. If you don't want to give them a full detailed explanation, just give them a brief outline or show them a guide.

4. Vote on competitions

If you're looking for a laugh, you could pop over to the Caption Contest and vote for your favourite—even if you're entered. If there is an entry that makes you crack up like a raw egg that has just been sat on, don't go and click on your voting link, click on theirs! Another competition where we Neopians choose who wins is the Beauty Contest. Each round, you can vote on one picture of each species. They are all amazing so you should show your appreciation. Finally, we have the Customisation Contest where you can go and rate the Neopets on how well dressed they are. There are no wrong choices and you can do it a whopping one hundred times!

5. Participate!

During the Altador Cup, don't rely on other players to help your team rack up the points! Now, I am not saying you have to go and get the All-Star Rank (although that would be pretty good)! But do join in and have a lot of fun. For example, imagine everyone joined a really good team but no one did anything it wouldn't matter how well it did before, they would lose. Even outside of the Altador Cup, participation is nice. For instance, in the Obelisk War, fighting in the Battledome would have really helped your faction and your teammates. Even in the skirmishes, helping out your temporary faction would be a really kind thing to do and you get cool boons as a reward!

6. Use sinks

If you haven't heard this term before, read on! We Neopians are constantly playing games which give us Neopoints which have to be created. Sinks are things that use up your Neopoints so that there aren't too many floating around making everything else more expensive. Imagine you're saving up for a Draik egg and your main Neopoints come from games. Without sinks, everything would get more and more expensive but the games would stay the same—you would never get that Draik egg! So losing Neopoints is a good thing? Some examples of sinks are the Lever of Doom (with its annoying avatar), certain Random Events and Neopian shops that aren't run by users.

7. Be nice to newbies—you were one once too!

Newbies are a part of Neopets today. They don't quite know how the site works yet and may be quite unsure what to do. Don't ignore them or call them n00bs, mostly all they want is a point in the right direction or an answer to a quick question that is crucial to know. Also, if you come across a shop where everything is horribly underpriced, drop them a Neomail to see if it's intentional (when I was new I priced everything at 1NP—oops!). You don't have to become their brand new Neofriend but a nice gesture never hurt anyone—I think!

From here on out, it gets a lot more random—then again, what isn't on Neopets?

8. Apologise at the Battledome

After defeating every single opponent in the Battledome, you are sure to feel pretty chuffed, right? But look at it from your opponent's point of view; you have just been beaten and have not even got a sorry or even just a sympathetic glance in your direction. Remember when your Battledome 'pet was beaten tons of times and you felt really down in the dumps. Wouldn't you have loved for your opponent to give at least a measly sorry for driving your Neopet's HP to zero? Of course! So, take the high and right path and apologise to anybody you defeat-- especially other Neopets!

9. Give thanks to the Snowager

Before I tell you about thanking the Snowager, I would like to point out the even better path. Instead of stealing something from the Snowager, possibly get blasted by him and then say thank you, why don't you just stop stealing from him. However, if you insist of breaking the law at the very least say thank you—mentally obviously, you don't want him waking up do you? Try empathising with him. Imagine going to sleep one night. When you wake up, you find out everything you own on and off Neopets has been stolen. Although the chance of that happening is rather slim that's what constantly happens to the Snowager—just acknowledge that fact!

10. Appreciate the dailies

Speaking of acknowledging, something that the majority of Neopians do is our dailies. It is in our routine so much that we hardly notice them anymore. But when you think about it, without our dailies, those of us who can only get on for a few minutes a day would not have anything to do in those precious few minutes. Those three Neopets at the Fruit Machine must get tired holding those cards all day. Also, that poor Slorg at the Shop of Offers is going to be bankrupt soon if he gives many of us all 50 or 100 neopoints every day ! So, next time you do your dailies just consider and appreciate them.

Hopefully after reading this you will be an overall nicer Neopian. Unless of course you're in the Gallery of Evil and this has given you some new ideas for taking over Neopia...

I know this is gonna sound really cheesy but if you're reading this I got in the NT! Yay, my first article!