This guide is intended to help them get the most out of trading their pets, and to help ensure they don't get underoffered.Please feel free to add anything/critique the guide
Table of Contents
- Acronyms
- Customs
- Names
- Colour popularity
- Species popularity
- Trading UCs
- Other helpful guides
Acronyms
This is a list of commonly used acronyms and phrases of the Neopian Pound board:
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Customs
If you are offered a 'custom' this means the person who offered is willing to paint/morph the pet they have offered to suit your liking. For example if Janine the Royal Peophin was UFT someone might offer Latoya the Baby Kau + 1mil custom. You could then ask the offerer to morph/paint Latoya into something you'd prefer on a budget of 1million neopoints, i.e. ask them to paint her Faerie.
Names
If you've ever traded a pet before you might know that the PC are a very picky bunch when it comes to names. Of course it depends on the individual you're trading with but in general this is the ranking order of names:
RN (Real Name) - i.e. Bob, Jane, Lauren, John
RW (Real Word) - i.e. Slippers, Igloo, Pea, Chocolate
VWN - Xxxxx - i.e. Allie, these names are capped so they resemble a real name and usually 5-6 characters or shorter and contain no numbers or underscores
WN - Xxxxxxx, xxxxx - i.e. Letishia, these also contain no numbers or underscores but may be slight longer or uncapped (or both)
DN - XxxxXxxx, xxx_xxx - i.e FluffyBunny, Lil_Jane, these can be two words and may contain one underscore, or one number
BN - xxx_xxxx_xxx, xxxx###, -i.e DarkKnight278, these contain multiple underscores/numbers and are usually uncapped/randomly capped
VBN - xxxXxxXx_X## - i.e, l337bo1833jaa_87, no one will want these pets, unless perhaps they are UC
Names are very important when trading pets as they can have emotional or special meaning with the trader. This means that you might be able to trade for a pet far better that yours, because the owner of said superior pet adores the name of yours
Colour Popularity
Colours rankings:
High:
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Medium High:
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Medium:
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Medium Low:
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Low:
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Very Low:
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There are of course exceptions to most of these which are compiled here in this neopets guide Pet Value
Species Popularity
Highest - Krawks and Draiks (Although bear in mind that due to the deflation of PDEs and PKMPs these pets do not carry the same value they once did
Medium - Cybunnies, Poogles, Hissis,
Low - All other basic pets (although some are more popular than others, i.e. Xweetoks and Kacheeks)
Trading UCs (Unconverted neopets)
Due to their popularity UCs are only usually traded for other UCs. However if you have a popular RW/RN or expensively painted Draik, sometimes people are willing to part with their UCs.
Here is a database that shows what UCs have traded for in the past:
http://www.neopets.com/~BugRanger#home
Other helpful guides
These helped me compile my knowledge and helped to write this guide
Pet Value
UC Trading Database
Pet Penny Trading
Thank you for reading!
Edited by trizzle, 15 April 2012 - 01:41 PM.
