Neopets has implemented a Captcha, which you have to go through everytime you want to visit someone elses UserLookup or PetLookup. Neopets made use of the highly sophisticated “reCaptcha”, which is marketed by Google itself. This smart Captcha’s motto is “Tough on bots, Easy on humans” (though I think Neopians tend to highly disagree).

If you aren’t attempting to mass view lookups, than the captcha only requires a click of a button indicating you are not a robot, than you’re free to pass through. If you are accessing the lookup through a VPN/Proxy, or attempt to view multiple lookups in a short amount of time (indicating bot-like behaviour), than you’ll be prompted to select images that all follow a certain pattern.

The implementation of this neopets reCaptcha has come under some serious scrutiny from Neopians far and wide. Initially the implementation was made so you had to go through this pain-staking process to view your own lookups, however this was quickly reverted to make it only applicable to lookups of others. On August 1, 2016 they decided to remove the Captchas altogether after weeks of complaints after complaints from the Neopians. However that didn’t last long, as they decided to reintroduce the Captchas again on August 25, 2016.

Neopian Reactions in Regards to the Neopets Captcha

I’d rather have the CAPTCHAs on a few pages I don’t visit often than insurmountable lag on every page so let me be the first to say YAY (I’ve been hoping they’d do this for a couple days now l o l)

aren’t captchas supposed to make the site safer too????? after they got rid of the captchas everyone’s accounts were getting compromised lol i’m glad they’re back, they shouldn’t have been taken out to begin with imo

If they are worried about bots just allow us to make private profiles and set every account that has been inactive for the past so long to private, thats a better fix…

In other words, they don’t stop accounts being stolen at all The only argument that can be made is that they make it less likely for non-famous players with lots of assets to have their accounts broken into. But that’s a rubbish argument, as it is effectively saying that it is better for poor players to lose their accounts.

The only reason this is an inconvenience for me is just because of how often I check my own pets lookups/my own accounts and it makes it a chore to check on side accounts when I’m on my main.

I am glad to hear others have them. i thought maybe I was searching for names too quickly or something and had activated some sort of spam filter lol

This bites. As Recklesse said “the only thing it contributed to actual security was by stopping us visiting lookups that might, or might not, have a cookie grabber. So because some people don’t know how to protect themselves we all have to pay. Take responsibility for your own account safety people. It’s all about the server load. Security is really just a convenient excuse. As Herdy said before, if they really wanted to make the site more secure there are things they can do to accomplish that but they refuse.

Ughhhhh – I loathe the reCaptchas. I can’t visit userlookups or pet lookups at ALL with them active, because one of my adblocks blocks google scripts, and so I’d have to disable it and reload my browser to get it to work. Plus with noScript and since I have my preferences set as ‘click to allow any flash whatsoever’ it takes ADDITIONAL steps to try the reCaptcha. They are an absolute pain in the keyboard.

I think the number one security problem on the site is cookie grabbers, not people looking for specific accounts to break into. CGs don’t target specific users but only the random person who happens on to a page with one on it. The captchas give people a false sense of security. They do nothing to prevent CGs. Captchas lessen the number of people going to ULs and petpages thereby perhaps lessening their chance of being CGed but mostly they lessen lag.

Finding accounts with UC pets or high avatar counts or big galleries or whatever doesn’t make it any easier to breach those accounts. If it did, then the solution would be to not have user lookups and pet lookups visible at all. While you’re at it, let’s make sure nobody’s active pet is displayed on the boards. Oh, and we’d better restrict everyone to default avatars too. Hide everyone’s achievements and there’s nothing to target (though for many there’s no longer much point in playing).

Don’t have much to add regarding the usefulness, but they don’t bother me. It’s two clicks. I don’t visit lookups often (disinterest) but I just spent some time clicking through things and the extra clicking was barely noticeable. Don’t care if they stay or go.

I may be in the minority, but I would honestly prefer if TNT would get rid of most userlookup/shop coding abilities if it meant extra account safety. Partially because it’s a complete and utter pain to visit userlookups with reCaptchas anyway, so I don’t spend a lot of time looking at people’s beautiful userlookups anymore. Well, at least we can still visit shops without reCaptchas, so I guess it’s great that they didn’t ad reCaptchas for that or something.

The Captchas were for two reasons though. The bots sifting through people’s userlookups looking for targets not only gave the hackers targets, but it also was contributing to the lag. Because multiple bots doing thousands of page views a day, is a strain to the servers. I love that people are willing to be willfully ignorant of this fact just to “hold up” their baseless arguments.

I don’t think anyone is ignorant of that? It’s quite observable that the presence of captchas reduces lag, aside from anything else. People are just attempting to address this false impression people have (and that JS have encouraged) that captchas increase security. That and, you know, lag is only an issue because JS have rubbish servers. It’s a solution to a problem they effectively created.

But this is really a stupid reason to put reCaptchas up. That only means JS is very bad at combating DDoS or they have a very lame server that can’t even handle requests that very likely didn’t even hit any high in Neopets record where we didn’t get much lag from those requests. And besides, again, they can have other ways to find targets and not like having your UN means you’re doomed.

Also, after the experience during the Altador Cup, where reCaptchas were added to user ranking pages (allegedly because of those same ‘bots’), only to be removed again when it was realised that those ‘bots’ were mostly legitimate players checking the page. Who’s to say the perceived ‘bots’ in this case aren’t just all of us visiting each other’s pet and user lookups, and their servers just can’t handle it? We don’t know.

To be fair to them there are most certainly bots looking at those pages in high numbers. It’s not a case of regular user curiosity. But again, the only useful information entirely unique to userlookups that cannot be mined from other captcha-less pages is Last Spotted. Many cheaters target abandoned accounts, because there’s less chance of the owner turning up and trying to get stuff back. So, you know, captchas effectively increase risk for active account users

Oh I don’t even argue against the servers JS set up for this are sub par. But if it slows down the bots I honestly don’t care. I honestly don’t give two craps about viewing other people’s lookups and pets. I rarely do because of slower internet. And the flash for pets has never been fast, even under Viacom. And tbqh, I don’t really notice much more lag now than I did when it was with Viacom. I mean they have major tv networks under their belts, which surely they devoted more servers to.

They are definitely a pain… but I don’t think I heard of many people having their accounts compromised while they were in place. But since they’ve been gone A LOT of users have been targeted/compromised/frozen. So if it really helps keep our accounts safe, I can deal with the hassle. :I

Neopets Gender is whether your pet is a Male or a Female.

Information

There is a total of three ways that you will be able to do if you’re looking to change the gender of your pet. The first one is by going to the lab scientist. If you would like to do that, you will simply have to purchase the 9 Secret Laboratory Maps for approximately 1,500,000 Neopoints from any place in Neopets, and then you will have to Zap your Neopets until he changes gender. However you will have to note that this is not recommended if you’re zapping a pet you like, because he will have the possibility to change species and colours, and he will be able to lose strength, defence and agility points. For that reason, it is recommended that you’re sure you would like to zap him by going to the Neopets Laboratory Map section of the game, where you will find the Yellow Scorchio scientist and zap him.

A second way is to fight the Lab Ray Scientist by himself, in the Battledome. However, to have him as a challenger, you will also have to purchase the Laboratory Map Set and from there you will have a chance to have him as a challenger. He will have a Strange Potion that is equipped with him, and if he manages to fire it at you, you will then see that the gender of your Neopet has changed, whether you like it or not. If your Neopet gender was Male, he will turn into a Female, and if the Neopet was Female in the first place, she will turn into a Male. You will not have to win against him in order to receive a gender switch, as he will only have to use the Strange Potion that he has. This can take few battles with the Lab Ray Scientist in order to be attacked with the Strange Potion, as he does not use it that often.

If you would like to receive the Scientistist as a challenger, you will have to go to the page that says Select a Pet, and from there you will be able to get him as a challenger. Note that you will need the lab ray if you would like to go there. The Neopets Secret Laboratory Maps must only be redeemed in your main account and therefore the Neopet that you want to change his gender must be on your main account. If TNT notices that you are trying to make a profit on your side account, you will be most likely warned or frozen, depending on the time you’ve been playing Neopets.

Other

You will not have to fight the Lab Ray scientist or to zap your pet for a chance to have it change its color / species, go back to level 1 or to lose other points. You will be able to buy the Strange Potion by yourself. This is the potion that the lab scientist uses on you, however you will not be able to equip it as he does. You will be then able to use it on your Neopet to see that their gender have been successfully changed. Note that the Strange Potion can be quite pricey and can be ranging from 1 million all the way up to 2 million Neopoints. For that reason, only go for it if you have the appropriate budget. You will not want to waste months of savings over something that will change the gender of your Neopet. Choose wisely.

After that, you will be able to decide to purchase a Royal Boy Kyrii Morphing Potion or a Royal Girl Kyrii Morphing Potion. However, these are not that sought after because you will have to sacrifice your Neopet specie in order to have his / her gender changed.

Lastly, if you don’t mind about the specie of your Neopet, whether it changes or not, and all that matters to you is the gender, nothing else, you may want to try the Witchy Negg. CAUTION: however, this item doesn’t guarantee that the gender of your Neopet will change, and it has also a chance of turning your Neopet into a Moehog, a Lenny or into a Tuskaninny. It has also a chance to play with the intelligence of your Neopet to add or decrease points depending of the luck you will have.

In the past, people were able to change the gender of their Neopets by using the Cape of the Sun, although it does not work anymore. Once this item was equipped to your Neopet, that pet have had the possibility to change gender from Male to Female. However, Female to Male did not work back then. This no longer works because it was a glitch that was done by TNT, and therefore it was completely fixed. You will be able to use the Cape of the Sun without having to worry, as nothing will happen to your Neopets from now on if you decide to use it.

Effects

TNT have said in an editorial that if you change the gender of your Neopet, it will not be converting. That means, for the people who have unconverted Neopets that were obtainable back in the day, before April 2007, can change the gender of their Neopet without having to actually have their pets converted, which would be very unfortunate.

It is recommended that you do not use the Lab Ray as the main way to go after a gender change, because you will have a chance to have the color and the specie of your pet to also change, which is not something all people want if they have a nice colored pet. If you have the budget, simply buy the Strange Potion. If you do not have the budget to purchase that potion, battle a few times against the Lab Ray Scientist and he will be able to change the gender of your Neopet if he decided to use his Strange Potion, which will most likely happen.

Unlike before, where unconverted pets have had no change between a Male and a Female picture, now they do. They will look differently, in other words. The female pets will have longer lashes on their eyes than the males. If your pet is a Royal Boy, it means that this pet is a male. If he change its gender to a female, he will still be wearing the same clothes but the eyes will be different (because they will then contain fluttery lashes). Same thing happens if you have had a Royal Girl pet and you decided to change it to the ale gender.

If you are battling the Lab Ray scientist with a Royal Pet, you will have to know that doing so will not be able to make the pet revert back to the colour it was, and the clothes will not get back to the gender that is the opposite of the current one. If you zap your pet, which is not the same, and you happen to have a gender change, you will be able to notice that your pet’s apparence will have been changed. Zapping a Royal Girl pet by the lab ray and successfully having it change to male would make that pet a Royal Boy pet.

For the unconverted pets, if you change their gender, they will not turn from female to male or from male to female. Instead, the will be Royal Girl pets with the male gender or Royal Boy pets with the female gender. Strange, right? Well, that’s the Strange Potion is all about.

It’s a beautiful day outside, the birds are singing and the sun is bright high in the sky. You wake up feeling refreshed and determinate how you will spend this beautiful day: playing Neopets until 3:00am. Your turn on your computer, you go to www.neopets.com and then the worse happens… NOTHING. You ask yourself, is Neopets down. If so, is Neopets down for me, or everyone?

It doesn’t load, or it takes too much time to load and eventually the connection is lost. No clear signs of it being down, no crying bright Red Pteri welcoming you with the terrible message “Neopets is temporarily offline”, nothing at all… and you clearly start to panic. What to do? Is this just me or is my internet connection? So many questions, but no answers.

Stop! Don’t panic! I’m here to help you! The first thing you need to do is to go to check if the site is really down or not. For this, you can use some pages like DownForEveryoneOrJustMe, IsItDownRightNow or CurrentlyDown – You’ll see a little space where you need to write the name of the domain that you want to check. In this case, you’ll have to type in ‘neopets.com’ without the www or http. The page will take a couple seconds to load and get the data from the site, and it will show you the result.

You’ll either get a page saying that the site is currently down, or if the site is up.

What to do if Neopets is down for everyone?

Looks like the site agreed and noticed that Neopets is down for everyone. Websites go “down” for a number of reasons. They may be doing maintenance on the site, or the server it’s on may be having problems and had to be reset. Usually, TNT will let the community know beforehand when the site will be in maintenance by publishing it on the news, like the followed example:

“ATTENTION NEOPIA – Please be aware that Neopets.com may experience occasional downtime due to scheduled maintenance by our server providers between 8:00 AM Tuesday, Jan 12 – 8:00 AM Friday, Jan 15 NST/PST. During this time you might find the site unavailable, so any further updates from TNT can be found on our official Facebook or Twitter. Sorry for any inconvenience this might cause!”

So a good way to not be surprised when the game is down, is to check the News often. If you forgot to check the news recently, and Neopets is not working, you should check their Facebook or Twitter page in order to see if they have announced anything related to this. At the same time, you’ll be able to check if anyone else has commented about sharing the same issue on their pages, which will also help you to make sure that is indeed a general down time that the site is suffering.

Now, the only thing that is left to do is waiting for Neopets to get back up, which might take minutes or hours. You can get updated by checking the official Neopets social network pages or, by just refreshing the site once in a while.

What to do if Neopets is up but it won’t load for me?

If all the sites that check if a site is down or not, are telling you that Neopets is running without problems, then there is something bad in your side… which might be a little bit more problematic, but don’t worry, there are things you can do to try to fix this problem. First things first: are you using an internet connection in which you’ve successfully enter Neopets in the past? You are sure that Neopets is not blocked in your computer or that you’re not using a public connection that blocks sites of games? (That last thing is pretty common in schools for example).

If you are sure you should be able to get inside Neopets, try deleting the cookies of your browser. This is pretty helpful and tends to work most of times when a problem like this pops up. You don’t know how to do this? Then check the instructions for the browser you are using below:

1) Internet Explorer: Start by entering the browser, go to Control Panel and click twice in Internet options. You’ll see a ‘Delete temportal files’ under the general tab, which you’ll need to click and then select the ‘cookies’ option when the popup window appears. Delete, wait a few seconds and it will be done.

2) Firefox: Click on the Firefox button, select Options and go to Privacy. After this, select the ‘Show Cookies’ button which will appear on the right side. Select the History menu and pick out ‘Clear Recent History’, make sure you select to delete everything. Go to the details by clicking on the arrow and Clear all cookies. Might take a few seconds to load as well, just let it run.

3) Chrome: Start by clicking on the Settings and then ‘Show advanced settings’ which will appear by the bottom. Under ‘Privacy’ click on ‘Content Settings’, and then click on ‘Cookies’, redirecting yourself towards ‘All cookies and site data’. Select to Remove them All.

4) Safari: Click the Safari preferences, going then to ‘Privacy’ and check their Details. You will see a list of sites that are storing cookies inside your computer and you can remove single sites by clicking the ‘Remove’ button and selecting a site or to ‘Remove All.’ Finish the process by clicking on ‘Done’.

5) Opera: Go to the ‘Settings’ at the top of your browser and then select Advanced Preferences, which will give you an option to click on ‘Cookies’. Here you can accept all cookies, accept cookies only from sites you visit, and never accept cookies. The best choice would be to accept cookies only from sites you visit. Finally click on ‘Delete new cookies when exiting Opera’ and restart the browser.

After cleaning the cookies of your browser, close it and open it again. If Neopets still doesn’t load for you, try a different browser and if the process repeats itself, then move to this steps: Check all I/O cables, including those attached to your PC, router, network, and cable or DSL modem. If you’re on a wireless connection, try plugging in with a cable. Next, try restarting your computer and, if applicable, your router and/or modem. Restart, not reset: just unplug them, wait 30 seconds, then plug them back in again and let them reboot.

If nothing of this works, then the problem might be a little bit deeper. Consider sending a mail to support@neopets.com telling them about your bug report. Most likely they will be able to tell you if there is anything wrong with your current connection to the game.

If you have done some major ilegit activities inside Neopets you might have been IP banned from the site. If you want to check if this is true, change your IP by using Incognito mode in Chrome (easiest way in case you don’t want to download a program that does it for you) and if the game does load in Incognito mode, then you are most likely IP banned. If this is correct, all what is left is to send a ticket to the same mail shared before, or to just continue playing the game with a new IP by using a VPN.

I hope this guide was helpful in order to inform yourself and fix your problem! Happy playing!

Buy Neopoints instead of playing Neopets games on hours and hours,  while only earning the ridiculous amount of 50k? Are your goals in Neopets very far from your reach only for your incapacity of making Neopoints fast and in good amounts? Or is your dream becoming a Neomillionare to fulfill all your dreams and your friend’s wishes? If you replied to any or all of this questions with a ‘yes’ then I tell you: there is no reason to suffer, no reason why you should wait either! Just buy neopoints and all your problems will be gone! Is one of the most simple, easiest and safe ways of cheating, something that has been happening for years already and the success rate is very high.

But I’m sure that you must be having a lot of questions about this, and probably, even fear of doing something wrong or getting scammed by somebody else. Don’t worry at all, because there’s where this guide comes to play! Just keep reading and you’ll be an expert on how it works to buy Neopoints, which are the safest ways of getting them, and which are the things that you should do, and which ones you need to avoid.

Where to Buy Neopoints Online?

The first question that comes to people’s mind is where they can buy Neopoints. For starters, do never discuss the buying or selling of Neopoints inside Neopets, this will only result in TNT giving you a warning, silencing your account or even worse: giving you a free pass to freezeland from the one you’ll have a lot of troubles getting out. The sell of Neopoints happens offsite and only offsite is safe for your account to do it.

 If you don’t have anyone who can recommend you a site to buy NPs and you’re on your own trying to decide on which one to buy. We highly suggest taking a look at www.neopoints.in, as our premier buying space for buying neopoints.

When entering this webpages, try to seek for the date of creation or any clues that suggest it could have been around for a while. Avoid buying from a new site right away (our example Neopoints.in, has been up for five years), is always better to go with one that already has a reputation and some sites even include customers comments and reviews! After checking this, you should also see what’s the rate for which each page sells their Neopoints or what deals they are having.

Once you have selected the place where you’ll buy Neopoints, contact the seller. Most of this webpages will have a mail and if much better if you mail them there and wait for their answer (so you’re sure it’s an active site) and then proceed to buy the amount of Neopoints you desire from them.

How to Buy Cheap Neopoints?

If you did the sites investigations suggested on the previous question of the guide, you already know that Neopoints sell for real life money (USD or your currency) being Paypal the most popular way of sending it, due keeping confidentiality on your information. If you don’t have a paypal, most sites also allow online credit card transactions. For buying Neopoints you’ll need to have any of this two forms of sending payment avaliable.

Transfering bought Neopoints

Once you’ve selected the method you’ll use to send your payment and you have contacted the seller to make sure they are active, go ahead and make the transaction. Your Neopoints will either be sent in a shell account, by the TP or by your shop.

A shell account refers to an empty account, usually aged, where people store ETS or Neopoints. The use of shell accounts is pretty normal when you buy things from somebody else since it gives you a place to hold them until you can move them to your permanent accounts on secured ways, and also, this allows you to get your bought Neopoints without the need for the seller to know the name of your real account. Your NPs are most likely to come into sell accounts if you buy more than 5 million Neopoints, but some sellers do it anyway for lower amounts.

If your Neopoints come into a shell account, your seller will give you the account information (username, password, birthday and optional pin) when you have that information DO NOT RUSH AND ENTER TO THE ACCOUNT. You will need to use a proxie to change your IP address. Using a proxie or VPN will help you in having more security and avoiding getting frozen since when you change your IP, you get inside an account with a different login information so, in the eyes of TNT, you are another person. This is important since you don’t want to link you permanent accounts to the shells with the bought items/NPs.

Now, once you enter the shell account, you can transfer the Neopoints directly to your main or a side account, depending on the amount of NPs. If it’s lower than 10 millions, you’ll be ok if you do it in the same day, but if it’s higher, might be safer to transfer them slowly.

The best ways of transfering your Neopoints are either by…

1) In the shop of the account where you want to receive them, put enough items with the 99,999 NP value to transfer the Neopoints from the shell account. They can be junk or more expensive things like red codestones if you want, and after a couple days you can send them back to your account from the shell, as a regular gift transfer.

2) Put some lots on the TP from the account you want the NPs in, and offer them in small amounts (500k per lot would be ok for example). They can be junk items, it doesn’t really matter a lot, but if you want you can do the same as on point 1) and send the items back to you later on.

3) Buy easy to sell items with the Neopoints, and transfer those items to your account either by a trade or by regular gifts transfer. Some ETS can be popular Paint brushes (royal, baby, darigan, etc), Draik eggs, Draik MPs, avatar items like chokato, ZDAP, FQD, and so on.

That’s it! Now you’re ready to buy some Neopoints. Head on over to Neopoints.in, to become an instant neomillionaire today!

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