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[Reality]

Basically my ping to Neopets is awful and I was wondering about whether scoresending on multiple newbie accounts, transferring and self-icing was a possible means of making NP for me (as it is connection independent). Does self-icing really isolate the scorsending from your main or is it basically pointless? I see lots of people suggesting to do it but I'm not exactly sure if TNT would just turn a blind eye. Has anyone had success with this?

[Turtleboy]

When I first started back up again, I score sent on two accounts for about 5 days. I didn't send that much, maybe about 40k on each account everyday?
Ideally, what you say does make sense - but it seems like it's going to be a lot of trouble.
1.) you have to create multiple accounts every day
2.) you have to score send on multiple accounts every day
3.) you have to transfer the neopoints over before TNT finds out about your ss-ing.

It seems that for you to make any real sort of np, you would have to score send with a super low time limit (so that you don't end up waiting 2-5 minutes per game which will drag out over the course of multiple accounts). If you really want, this doesn't seem like a terrible idea but it just sounds like a lot of work.

I think one thing you can do is just score send (with legitimate scores/wait times) over your main + your shells. I haven't heard of many people getting frozen over this SS-ing/use of multiple accounts but one person on this forum JUST got banned for that reason. So, maybe you can score send on your main right now? Maybe like 50-60k a day for now and then try gradually doing it on other accounts and see where that gets you.

[Pirates]

I do not advise score sending :X
I had a friend who was a 51 month account that eventually got banned after 2 weeks. :X My sides all got banned for SSing and I immediately stopped it on my main so I wouldn't get frozen.

[Random]

Scoresending is a terrible idea for actually making Neopoints.
I use it for my avatars though, with all legit times. I haven't gotten frozen for this ever.

[Turtleboy]

It's not terrible.
If you actually play the game, just time yourself and make sure you have the range right (if hte game only awards points in sets of 5's and 10's don't go score send 517
Play each games a few time, take your highest score - build a range around that and you don't ever have to play again.

It's not a great way to make money but it helps especially if you don't have shells to AB with.

[Dichromate]

Even legit times have a pretty good chance of getting iced, IMO. By the way, OP, how long do you plan to do this? You know all this freezing is screened by TNT (At least they said so) right? Eventually one of them is going to catch up on what you're doing, notice everyone sending it to the same account, and iced it. You can make 1 mil maybe, but that's only before you get deep freeze.

[Turtleboy]

That's the whole reason he's going to ice himself.
After icing himself, they can't find out where everything is going.

And legit times do not have a high chance of getting iced. If you're score sending at reasonable time/scores that won't pull notice towards you - you won't be iced.

[Dichromate]

That's the whole reason he's going to ice himself.
After icing himself, they can't find out where everything is going.

Oh okay, my bad then. It's just that I saw something like this somewhere else

I knew I was going to be frozen, so I self-iced and transferred my nps (I sold the ZDAP) to a side. Well, when I used to do this a few years back when I would self-ice neopets would never freeze me, I figured that they couldn't track it. Dumb, I know. Anyways, I guess they can now? Anyways, screw TNT. I found GG, and have lurked for a few days, and now I figure I'll play illegit. Sorry, I just felt like ranting a bit.

and thought they could. Apologies. (:

[sircomflix]

That's quite a bit of effort, and your take on it does seem kinda sketchy. Even if you do self-ice, I'm sure they'll still be able to deduce what you are up to if they take a look. You could make a butt load of accounts with equal amount of proxies and send on them everyday with reasonable times I suppose.

[DanDoesWork]

AB is the best thing to do for a np source...maybe I'm just bad but most of my side accounts which used SS with very good times got iced.

[Warlord.]

I send a list for 150k every night while I'm sleeping. Been doing it almost every night for a month.

No freeze yet, just gives you a nice chunk of np to wake up to.

I wouldn't recommend scoresending on multiple accounts though.

Edited by Warlord., 01 January 2011 - 03:37 PM.

[Turtleboy]

I send a list for 150k every night while I'm sleeping. Been doing it almost every night for a month.

No freeze yet, just gives you a nice chunk of np to wake up to.

I wouldn't recommend scoresending on multiple accounts though.

Agreed, I've send a list for about ~50k (it takes a while though) for a pretty decent amount of time on.
Since I've heard all this freezing talk - I've only left it on a shell. It's built up a lot of neopoints by now (just daily sending) and never frozen.
I built this list myself, took like 3 days - I actually played the games for a bit then tried to see where a reasonable range was and then added it to the list.
It's probably not as effective as everybody else's list but I figure, if I never get iced - it's a lot better then trying to move around neopoints so TNT doesn't chain ice you

[Turtleboy]

EDIT:
Double post my bad, refreshed on an error message.

Edited by Turtleboy, 01 January 2011 - 04:01 PM.