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That is correct.


They're hinting they'll have the pound back up soon though, and I personally suspect they'll include a secure transfer option this time. If you cannot bring the zapper to the pet, you may soon be able to bring the pet to the zapper.

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Okay, so far I've got:
Ylana's blaster (I had around 48k - just too little to buy another one, darn it!)
Singularity plushie
and How to Break Codes and Influence Plot Events.

Is it worth getting a few more copies of the higher priced book or going for a collection of the smaller ones?

Bought my prizes and put the them in my SDB to be forgotten or accidentally sold before i mean to sell them heh. I'm hoping the Y. Blaster ends up being a good investment in the end I got two of them and I've never 'invested' in anything before so i have high hopes!

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Just plugged some rough figures for reasonable current prices of the plot prizes into an excel spreadsheet to work out how many NP you get for each plot point spent per item. Hopefully it'll be useful to some of you

Item	Plot Points	NP	NP / Plot Point
Leftover Scrap Metal	5	50	10.000
Series Of Tubes	10	10	1.000
Duplicate Space Faerie Token Keyring	25	150	6.000
The Sounds Of Vacuum	50	100	2.000
Code Symbol Dice Set	100	150	1.500
Garoo Elite Patrol Handbook	500	5000	10.000
Space Faerie Lip Balm	500	3000	6.000
Hydroslothic Acid Toothpaste	795	5000	6.289
E-Z Brand Acidifier Play Set	999	10000	10.010
Singularity Plushie	1000	8000	8.000
Sightseeing On The Virtupets Space Station	1000	9500	9.500
Yurbot Bobblehead	1000	8500	8.500
Singrowlarity Brand Singularity Farm For Kids	1200	9500	7.917
Fire Extinguisher Of Diversion	1500	9500	6.333
Evil Genius Portrait Kit	1500	10000	6.667
Xarthab And Zorlix Bobblehead	1500	13500	9.000
The Art Of Grundo Diplomacy	2000	15000	7.500
Garoo Elite Wind-Up Toy	2000	15000	7.500
Commander Valka Plushie	2000	15000	7.500
Ylana Skyfire Action Figure	3000	20000	6.667
Miniature Gorix Spaceship	3000	20000	6.667
Parlax Plushie	4000	30000	7.500
How To Break Codes And Influence Plot Events	4000	30000	7.500
Control Rod Apparatus	5000	25000	5.000
Resistance Honor Badge	5000	27500	5.500
Resistance Headquarters Background	6000	25000	4.167
Melting Test Station Background	8000	30000	3.750
Resistance Battle Visor	10000	57500	5.750
Exceptionally Tiny Laser Cannon	12500	45000	3.600
Buzzler	20000	50000	2.500
Ylanas Blaster	25000	750000	30.000
One-Use Robotification Zappermajig	45000	0	0.000

Obviously, prices are subject to change n whatnot, and these are by no means definitive prices, I refreshed the SW about 5 times for each n rounded down.

*Updated 5th April*

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I was going to do that later today, and now I don't need to!

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You're welcome pickles Call it payback for the WC spreadsheet

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I got glitch-slapped by the TP. I was trying to get one of the Blasters, and the guy took someone else's offer and I never got my np back. I am sooooo steamed.

I am hoping that TNT can help me out, but so far no word from them. By the time I get back my np (if ever) the blaster'll probably be selling for 1Mil NP or more...

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CyberTrini
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...and yes, I have joined Twin Skies. Have you?

The blaster SHOULD become more expensive as time passes by, so try not to sell it. I sold my blaster for 800K and bought it back for 770K, and made 30K out of it. The plot prizes guide is a good way to find which items to get.

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Valrigard the Draik
Neopets username: lord_valrigard

Picked up the only two things I really wanted- the bobbleheads! Still not sure what I want to do with the rest of my points- maybe get some books as investment, a few more toys.

I'm on the fence about buying the blaster- I have the np's but I don't battle that often or that much (just for DoN and plots)...

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I think it's very unlikely that Yvanas Blaster gets downgraded. TNT seems to have very deliberately positioned it between the 11 iconers and the 13 iconers, and deliberately made it so everyone would buy this if they want something to resell. They made the top prize untradeable, and the next prize after the blaster is an R88 petpet (buzzler) that was selling for under 10k before people foolishly started hoarding it thinking it was a retired plot prize.

Plot prize weapons normally are so rare that they inflate at some point beyond their value in the battledome. I think they wanted to make these common enough to bring down prices a bit. So instead of making it the top prize they made it affordable so many people can get them or even 2 of them.

If it were sufficiently rare, like a top prize, Yvanas Blaster would have sold for around 3.5 M pretty quickly. As it is, there are a lot of them out there, and it may take some time for them to rise, but I expect they'll still be over 1M before too long.

The 13 icon weapons, which had been selling for around 4M, BOD/WOR, are ones anyone has about a 50/50 chance of getting one of them by completing NQII on insane. That's difficult, but not that much harder than doing one of these plots. Considering how long that's been out there, you can still do it, there should be a pretty good supply of them out there too--they just weren't dumped on the market all at once.

I got a Ylanas Blaster, which I'll probably put in my battledome set for now.

I also got one of each of the backgrounds and books. I decided to pick up a Space Faerie keychain and lipbalm too. These prizes weren't really anything I wanted, but the backgrounds and books will have good resale value later on.

That leaves me with like, 285 points.

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From the latest editorial:

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Pretty close to what I posted (on page 1) as what the reason would be:

I hate the way that question was worded, because it made everyone who wanted to move their zapper to a side account look like shady types with greedy ulterior motives. The only reason I wanted to buy the zapper in the first place was because I wanted an actual Robot pet, for keeps. I'm almost never on the Neoboards, so I don't care about a frikkin' avatar - the one with Hoban's probably the only one I'll ever use unless they make one with an even more poignant and awesome reference - and I definitely don't intend to resell it or give it away. I'd have bought and used it by now, except I don't have any more room on my main account, which is the only one I can legally use to complete a plot, correct?

Yes, I realize that there's no way for TNT to detect individual intentions over the Internet, and I have no doubt that people would abuse it if the zapper was sellable. I know full well they're doing the smart thing. That doesn't make me any happier with the decision, though.

And so help me, if the pound opens back up and I lose one of my oldest pets in a transfer trying to get a Robot pet, that'll be the absolute last straw. Inflation is too high now and I'm not online often enough to make the NP needed to start over.

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Wait, I'm confused. Is there actually an avvie associated with having a robot pet? (avatar.starried.net's been down, so I couldn't check there.) My lab pet got zapped to Meerca about a month ago (one of the ugliest pets, in my opinion), but she got changed to robot about 2 weeks ago. I had no idea that was really rare, and I've still been zapping her hoping she'd change species. But if I can get an avvie from the color, I may as well do that before she changes again. And if anyone really wanted a roboMeerca (I don't know why you would, but to each his own), I'd be willing to adopt her out if the pound came back up. That's where I got her, anyway.

On-topic: I won't be getting the robot-zapper, but the blaster sounds pretty good -- it'd be a definite upgrade to my set. The question is, should I waste almost all my points to get two (hoarding one until prices go up a lot) or should I spread out my points and get some of the books and such? I guess I've got plenty of time to see how prices stabilize. (My other plot books are just in my SDB unread, anyway.)

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