8. Are Neohome being brought back into the game? [1:06:35]
9. Frozen accounts items appear in shop wizard searches, can they be removed?? [1:07:20]
TNT is always watching and analyzing what the community writes and their feedback. 👀
TNT also enjoys the community's conspiracy theories and speculation.
Tales of Dacardia:
A revamp of the existing Island Builders
An April (beta) launch in Canada before a global launch
NeoPass: Launched on March 27th, 2024, will connect all Neopets games together and can sync rewards.
In the future will allow you to share NeoCash items easily.
Fan sites and Community driven games can utilize NeoPass.
TNT working on addressing cheaters and botters, gaining lots of valuable community tips
Concerned about botters getting high value items.
Many accounts stopped and frozen but the issue still persists.
NeoPass improves security and might make botting harder.
Recent focus was improving core Neopets components not visible to players (ie: server infrastructure, security, critical bugs, cheating) and will now begin focusing on many quality of life improvements.
NC Pet Styles will be released in small batches every few months, will be seeking community feedback to prioritze these pets.
Shops and Trading Post might get some updates and could increase the Neopoint limits in the future.
Neohomes probably wont be coming back because it could compete against Tales of Dacardia.
Interview with the writing team
This segment included these TNT staffers:
TNT Aesop (Narrative and Creative Director)
TNT Jewel (Narrative Designer: tales of Dacardia), worked on Tales of Dacardia for 5 years
TNT Fallie (Meepit) social media manager, not part of the writers team, Australian
TNT Stone (Senior Narrative Designer) originally worked on story for Faerie’s Hope, ran creative contests, editing for Neopian Times, and now running the events
Highlights with TNT Dom
NeoPass:
Launched on March 27th, 2024
Connects different Neopets games together, including Tales of Dacardia
GDC (Game Developers Conference):
First time the team has gone (all together) in about a decade
Allowed the team to learn from experts and see what the gaming industry is doing
Tales of Dacardia:
Revamp of existing Island Builders
April (beta) launch in Canada before launching globally
Some teaser pictures:
Q&A with TNT Dom
1. What is TNT doing to address the cheaters/botters? [53:55]
Can’t give much information about specific users
Receive a lot of tips from ambassadors and user tickets, will be investigating these claims
There's some concern around botters getting high value items
For some of the high profile botters, they have stopped the main accounts, but the problem still remains.
TNT is trying to figure out how to improve gameplay and make botting harder to do.
Neopass is also trying to improve security on the site that will make botting harder in the future.
The team has frozen botters, but will continue to update as they come up with more solutions.
2. Progress on more pet slots, Neomail rework, and updating the weekly quest prize pool? [56:50]
100 items are being tracked (in the quests prize pool to track for inflation), lots of new feature launches and updates recently, hoping to focus on more gameplay issues in the near future
A lot of updates may not be visible to players.
A lot of recent improvements related to dealing with bots, cheating, security, server infrastructure, updating payment systems, and other important core issues.
Will have more surveys to gain feedback, or you can talk to an ambassador
Plushie, Jelly, Baby, and Maraquan have been launched as of March 27th, 2024
More NC Pet Styles will be launched in small batches every couple of months.
They will be looking for user feedback to determine the styles they will prioritize next
4. Will there ever be changes to the Neopoint limits in the shops or trading post?? [1:01:00]
A lot of people don’t know how to use the trading post, and these systems don’t work well with high-valued items, or items affected by inflation.
NeoPass will make it easier to move Neocash items to your accounts, without using the old mechanic of using a gift box, in the future.
The Auctions/TP/etc are not very intuitive, so the team is looking into changing some things to make it easier to use (such as raising limits) and fully testing these new features and changes.
5. With the introduction of NeoPass, will you consider moving NC items between accounts? [1:03:15]
(TNT Dom briefly mentioned this in the previous question)
NeoPass allows you to receive rewards from other Neopets games (Tales of Dacardia) and bring them into the main/classic game.
New features can built ontop of NeoPass.
Rather than fixing the old (classic site) login system, it was better to do a complete revamp of the account system, rather than dealing with a 25-year old system (to be more intuitive.)
6. Will we be able to stay logged in on the same account on multiple devices at the same time? [1:05:13]
"This should be possible through the classic site, I'm not sure what the issue right now, but it should be possible to fix"
Fan-sites like Dress to Impress (DTI) and SunnyNeo will be utilizing NeoPass.
8. Are Neohome being brought back into the game? [1:06:35]
Tales of Dacardia will have some aspects of building/decorating homes
Debating on whether or not Neohomes should be brought back into the classic sites, but don’t want to develop competing game features/mechanics across different games, such as Tales of Dacaradia.
9. Frozen accounts items appear in shop wizard searches, can they be removed?? [1:07:20]
It’s on the list of things they are working on
Live Giveaway Code
As a reminder, you may only use this on your main account as its only one redemption per player. It will expire March 29th at 5PM NST. You can redeem this at the Grundo Warehouse.
