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Post by Breakingchains on Feb 27, 2019 13:49:18 GMT -5
I actually managed to get the 25 second ruins achievement! I had to zoom out to the point that the game was like, GBA size, but it finally worked.
The river game wasn't too bad. I suddenly realized it existed today and managed to get all the achievements in about an hour. Oddly enough when I started watching TV while playing to pass the time, my average score went up. xD
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Post by Huntress on Feb 27, 2019 15:54:25 GMT -5
Man, I am bad at both of these games; I finally dug up the achievements list - is it even findable anywhere on the site other than news links and Jellyneo? - and can't manage to get any of them beyond the very first one (whoo, you started reading the story!)
Buuut in fairness I'm also having a hard time getting invested in it so I haven't been trying all that hard. This feels like it should've been a weeklong mini-plot to tie in with the new map, similar to the Brightvale portals. I get the feeling that they're drawing it out to give everyone maximum time to complete steps and achievements, but it kinda has the opposite effect; it's been four months of some girl being sassy in the desert, there's essentially no sense of urgency to keep me tuning back in to see what else will happen.
...wait hang on, what happened to all the Sakhmet-Qasala animosity? Shouldn't there be like, piles of ugly foreign politics brewing in the background? Although Sakhmetian shopkeepers no longer care if I'm Qasalan or not, so Amira and Nabile may have had a reasonable cup of tea offscreen or something.
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Post by Herdy on Feb 27, 2019 16:42:34 GMT -5
It's worse than that -- there was a full on military coup in Sakhmet, along with a brutal crackdown on the freedoms of regular citizens. Amira, and presumably the rest of the royal family and the Senate, were placed under house arrest while the ruling military attempted to raid the Sakhmet treasure house.
Nabile tried to get Aymas to sort it out, but he went off to murder his only daughter for daring to leave the house, so presumably she's escalated things in the meantime by sending Qasalan soldiers to liberate Amira... No, wait, those soldiers decided to murder Lyra as well. Truancy is not okay in the Lost Desert.
Seriously, as a broad story idea the coup in Sakhmet had the potential to go in any number of ways to make an A-tier storyline for a Neopets plot. Instead, we decided to focus on the most boring part of the scenario possible, watching a spoilt noble girl acting inconsistently (why run away when Aymas is literally trying to send her to Qasala and get her out of the city?) while trying to climb a wall for weeks on end.
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Post by Zoey on Feb 27, 2019 17:34:41 GMT -5
Seriously, as a broad story idea the coup in Sakhmet had the potential to go in any number of ways to make an A-tier storyline for a Neopets plot. Instead, we decided to focus on the most boring part of the scenario possible, watching a spoilt noble girl acting inconsistently (why run away when Aymas is literally trying to send her to Qasala and get her out of the city?) while trying to climb a wall for weeks on end. The wall must've been really, really high. And teenage whining kills a lot of time, apparently. (Is there a comic about this already? In general the speed at which plots move with TJST make for some great material. Like in TWR, I imagine people could host festivals and watch the Lost Desert Senate propose and pass entire laws while waiting for the wraiths to attack) |
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Post by CrimsonShroud on Feb 27, 2019 21:01:13 GMT -5
It's worse than that -- there was a full on military coup in Sakhmet, along with a brutal crackdown on the freedoms of regular citizens. Amira, and presumably the rest of the royal family and the Senate, were placed under house arrest while the ruling military attempted to raid the Sakhmet treasure house. Seriously, as a broad story idea the coup in Sakhmet had the potential to go in any number of ways to make an A-tier storyline for a Neopets plot. Instead, we decided to focus on the most boring part of the scenario possible, watching a spoilt noble girl acting inconsistently (why run away when Aymas is literally trying to send her to Qasala and get her out of the city?) while trying to climb a wall for weeks on end.
I know right? Why are they throwing the most interesting aspect of the story to the wayside and instead focus on the plight of a character who's antics should be happening the background? It should be the other way around. Heck, did they even update the Sakhmet coup situation lately? It's been quite a while since the Lost Desert Daily was updated.
If the original TNT were still running the site, this story would have gone quite differently.
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Post by Huntress on Feb 28, 2019 5:35:16 GMT -5
Seriously, as a broad story idea the coup in Sakhmet had the potential to go in any number of ways to make an A-tier storyline for a Neopets plot. Instead, we decided to focus on the most boring part of the scenario possible, watching a spoilt noble girl acting inconsistently (why run away when Aymas is literally trying to send her to Qasala and get her out of the city?) while trying to climb a wall for weeks on end. Having reread the entire plot last night, I can see how it might've slotted into place; it basically looks like they started the animosity story as a setup for a framework in which Lyra struggles with her poor little rich girl problems. Which is good in an of itself, s'just that the scope becomes a problem. Like, I've written that NT story where I explored the feelings of Qasalans about being the eternal second best in Lost Desert. I didn't do it very well, obviously, and the politics were largely background to characterstuff, but since it was just a Neopian Times series of no consequence, I could play around with the idea as I pleased. But whenever TNT writes anything, they write canon by definition. Lyra's story reads to me like a typical inconsequential NT story, a "what if the two desert kingdoms went sour and Lyra's story happens within that". Only NT stories happen in a vacuum whereas site plots are - or should be - actually impacting the world and how the playerbase functions within in, so when they crash Faerieland, it stays crashed, when they bring up a desert zombie city, it sticks around, and when they cut the Darkest Faerie loose and pit two desert kingdoms against one another, it... shapes the way the site itself changes...? :'D (Is there a comic about this already? In general the speed at which plots move with TJST make for some great material. Like in TWR, I imagine people could host festivals and watch the Lost Desert Senate propose and pass entire laws while waiting for the wraiths to attack) The problem with making a comic out of wars progressing incredibly slowly is that it's a bit too realistic to be easily handled (ye average war is all about living your life as best you can while waiting for the next enemy attack - and the Hundred Years' War had actual decades of no fighting inbetween). Buuut I've been toying with the idea of doing a follow-up with Baelia in the Hidden Tower because she's still running the Hidden Tower and nobody's bothered to tell her that Fyora got better, freakin' troll queen. (I'm eternally paranoid about making comics about topical events because I always fear that the thing will stop being topical before I can get the comic published. Fear born out of the time I took too long drawing the Ring of the Deep series and ended up redrawing large swaths of the background because um, Faerieland crashed in the interim.) |
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Post by charming thievery on Feb 28, 2019 13:37:09 GMT -5
Chapter 10, page 14 is up, and the "Keeping Up with the Xendriks" achievement can finally be completed! (A notification that you got it should appear once you've clicked that last arrow.) Some people on the neoboards have reported not being able to get the achievement though, so if there's a glitch, I hope it can be resolved soon. But anyway, make sure you've read everything!
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Post by mollyscribbles on Feb 28, 2019 16:13:00 GMT -5
Oh, neat! Didn't even realize I'd gotten it. The only achievements I'm missing are the 400 point one and the under 25 second one, mostly because they required playing games I hated past the point I felt like putting in any effort whatsoever.
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Post by Ian Wolf-Park on Feb 28, 2019 23:01:18 GMT -5
I just read the last part and I am completely confused at what had just happened. Anyone else in the same boat?
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Post by doctortomoe on Mar 1, 2019 0:11:40 GMT -5
Got the achievement.
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Post by Ian Wolf-Park on Mar 1, 2019 9:25:49 GMT -5
Chapter 10, page 14 is up, and the "Keeping Up with the Xendriks" achievement can finally be completed! (A notification that you got it should appear once you've clicked that last arrow.) Some people on the neoboards have reported not being able to get the achievement though, so if there's a glitch, I hope it can be resolved soon. But anyway, make sure you've read everything! It's not a glitch. According to the Achievement itself That's probably a surefire way to tick people off, given the quality of this plot. |
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Post by mollyscribbles on Mar 1, 2019 13:58:14 GMT -5
Huh. If it's supposed to be any 10, shouldn't people have started unlocking it with chapter 10?
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Post by Breakingchains on Mar 1, 2019 14:16:08 GMT -5
Ah heck. I've only viewed 7 on day-of-release. Unless there's going to be 3 more, which seems unlikely, I assume I'm locked out of the top trophy.
...Honestly, I know this sounds like sour grapes I'm starting to think they need to get rid of day-of-release challenges entirely. They stop making sense when you have a largely adult fanbase.
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Post by Duke Pikachu on Mar 1, 2019 21:41:25 GMT -5
Going to post my thoughts on Sunday, but something that caught my eye for the latest Legends & Letter bumper:  So Lyra is in the game? |
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Post by Jae on Mar 2, 2019 12:45:54 GMT -5
Remember that time I said during the Neopies I didn't vote for the Plods because I didn't want to give the impression that I preferred no plots over slow plots? Yeah.
But seriously, I don't like how abrupt that little addition to the top of the page is. :/
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