u/Excellent_Copy4646

Hi everyone!

My Neopet just hit Level 21, and I'm facing a major choice regarding my training routine. I've reached the point where the mechanics for both schools create a massive trade-off between time and Neopoints.

Here are the exact stats for my pet's current tier:

• The Academy: Takes 8 hours and costs a Five Dubloon Coin.
• Mystery Island: Takes 3 hours and costs 2 random Tan Codestones.

I know that codestones are significantly more expensive than dubloons, making the Academy the much cheaper alternative. However, an 8-hour wait time means I can only get a maximum of 2–3 stats a day, whereas the 3-hour Mystery Island timer lets me squeeze in much faster progress.

For players who have optimized their Battledome training, what is the best strategy here?

• Is it worth dealing with the slow 8-hour cook time at the Academy to save a ton of NP on Five Dubloon Coins?
• Or should I jump straight to Mystery Island for the fast 3-hour turnaround, especially now that we can cancel and re-roll expensive codestone requests?

I dont buy my five dubloon coins directly. I buy two dubloons and one dubloon coins and i combine them at the dubloon o matic. Cost me around 6k when i get my five dubloon coins this way

I'd love to hear how you all balanced your budget versus speed at this specific milestone. Thanks in advance!

Has anyone done this before?

U buy 10 dubloon coins and going to the Golden Dubloon to break it down to 2x 2 + 1x 5 coins to resell and make a bit of a profit. Off the top of my head the ten dubloon goes for around 10k, the 2 dubloons go for like 2300 ish and the 5 dubloon goes for 8000ish so breaking it down gets them around 2600np profit each time. I’ve done this before for BD training but on a significantly smaller scale.

Edit: I just bought a Five Hundred Dubloon Coin for my neopets training after listening to the comments here!

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What happens when too many Singaporeans becomes unemployed?

Whats really going on?

I remembered even during covid times also isnt as bad compared to now, despite the lockdowns and restrictions all that.

Why is the job market so bad right now?

Hey fellow Neopians!

I was looking at the Shop Wizard today and noticed a massive price gap between lower denomination dubloons and 10/20 Dubloon coins.

Right now, a 10 Dubloon Coin goes for about 11,400 NP. If I take my pet to The Golden Dubloon, buy a 1-dubloon starter, and leave, the restaurant breaks it down into a 5-Dubloon coin and two 2-Dubloon coins. Selling those back on the Shop Wizard brings in around 12,850 NP.

That’s a guaranteed profit of ~1,400 NP (plus whatever gourmet leftover food item drops) for less than a minute of clicking. The margin is even slightly higher using a 20 Dubloon Coin.

For those of you who have tried this method:

1. Is it worth dealing with the restaurant seating limit, or does it take too long to refresh past the "restaurant is full" screen?
2. Are the leftover food items easy to sell, or do they just sit in your user shop forever as Hard-To-Sell (HTS) items?
3. Is it better to just hold the change for training my own pets instead of trying to flip them for cash?

Would love to hear your thoughts or if there’s a better low-effort side hustle I should be doing instead!

How cooked is the job search for those of u in CS/DSAI and other tech majors? Are u still job hunting or have u found a job already?

I also realized a lot of the work in tech, can nowadays be done a lot more efficiently with the help of AI, coding becomes easier, data analysis becomes easier even full stack SWE also becomes easier with the help of AI, which begs the questions, if AI can help do the work, companies do not need to hire so many ppl in tech anymore. :(

Im from the AI course itself lol. Even for us its hard to get a job relevant to our degree nowadays and dosent mean we are safe from AI takeover as well lol.

Let me guess, has to be a degree holder, married with kids, working as a civil servant servant or better yet a scholar. Obedient, Conformist and obliging to PAP and will do as they are told without asking.

Let me guess, has to be a degree holder, married with kids, working as a civil servant servant or better yet a scholar. Obedient, Conformist and obliging to PAP and will do as they are told without asking.

What if u are the only real character in this simulated game world and everyone else is a just a npc?

So the simulation revloves around u and u are free to change the destiny of the simulation.

Would u rather choose a life where u scrimp and save every penny and keep down your expenses to the bare minimum simply to put your money to invest and let your money do the work for u, at the cost of not enjoying your life now and living a bare minimalist lifestyle.

Or would u rather have a more balanced approach, where u spend your money on daily luxuries like going on overseas trips once in a while, but having less money saved up and invested?

Which type of life would u rather choose?

What if we are the developers of this simulation ourselves?

The reason why we came down to live in this simulation is simply to test the simulation in order to have a first hand feel of how its it like to live in the simulation we oursevles created and to detect any flaws in the simulation.

After death, we go back to our original developer role and with the newfound knowledge after having lived in the simulation for a short period of time, we can improve the simulation to make it better.

Has Anyone thought of this idea before?

His dreaming of world conquest for his MAGA race.