If you could buy neo, what are the first actions you would take?

[Ehentalix]

Ban everyone who whines about UCs first, fix the site second

Legitimately, the first thing I would do is open a community poll on the top three issues people want to see fixed.

While that's going on, all the more glaring issues behind the scenes would be addressed, like updating all the coding to make the site function more smoothly, and porting the site to better servers (Professionally this time, to avoid losing half the fucking site again.)

Create sections of the site devoted to 17+ players, making it possible to tone down the filters while still maintaining adherence to COPPA and the like.

Release all the unreleased items finally, because it's absolutely ridiculous to have items that "exist" in the game but that aren't actually there.

[♥ Hydrapple ♥]

TWO FACTOR AUTHENTICATION
FILL OUT THAT STAFF
CONVERSION TO HTML5
UPDATE NEOBOARDS
UPDATE NEOMAIL
ALLOW THE SITE TO GROW WITH THE CURRENT AND MOST PROFITABLE BASE TO GROW RETENTION RATE

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[Maths]

Make Krabbox's art the official website art

[Ehentalix]

TWO FACTOR AUTHENTICATION
FILL OUT THAT STAFF
CONVERSION TO HTML5
UPDATE NEOBOARDS
UPDATE NEOMAIL
ALLOW THE SITE TO GROW WITH THE CURRENT AND MOST PROFITABLE BASE TO GROW RETENTION RATE

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You can only do 2FA if you fire the current ticket staff first; I don't want Tony P having access to my phone number

[Nimue]

Fix the MFing battledore
Bring back CONSISTENT and ENJOYABLE plots and site events, including wars
Hire a team of artists who actually have a creative bone and an ounce of motivation to do quality work
Fix all the bullshit half assed colors (looking at you, pastel)
Quality of life improvements for everything glitchy (neomail, etc.)
Bring the boards to a more "this decade" standard (ping system, anyone?)

There are so many things to fix but these are some that bother me the most

[♥ Hydrapple ♥]

You can only do 2FA if you fire the current ticket staff first; I don't want Tony P having access to my phone number

This is a very good point that would be top priority

[qhn]

If I was going to buy it I'd be planning to put a small (relatively) amount of money into acquiring the property and a shitload of money into fixing it and making it profitable outside of the NC Mall.

Hire real artists to totally overhaul the converted pets and release more than 1-2 good colors a year instead of just drab colorfills. Most of the conversion-era art needs a revamp anyways and I think it'd make a lot of people happy if the quality went back to or exceeded that of preconversion era.

UC paintbrush or NC feature. I love trading UCs but mostly because I just love the UC art. That + making converted pets look better would break that whole UC economy and that's exactly what I would want. Anyone could have the UC art with a little work or maybe money.

Make Neopets an app that functions on computer or mobile. Retain as much of the web-based option as possible for post-flash as well for OG users. I don't know why they're not doing this. Have they seen how popular some games are? Update the art and go full app, and Neopets would come roaring back.

Fix premium. Make it less about free NPs. Bonus plots, bonus colors/options, polls that actually affect change on the site, options for more galleries, etc. Stuff that doesn't interfere with playing the game or succeeding, but things that many fans would happily pay for.

Court quality advertisers, bring back merchandising (still have my darling kougra plushie!) and focus on making premium a truly premium experience so that I could rely less on NC Mall.

New plots with actual storylines and interactive components. End the low-effort NP sink events.

Amnesty period. Create a pathway back for frozen users who have either been away so long the system doesn't know what they even did, or who were frozen for minor things. I think a lot of people end up quitting because they get frozen for minor things or in some cases for nothing at all. And a lot more come back and cheat, because if you're just going to be frozen for nothing anyway, you may as well be frozen for something. I'm sure tons of people would come back if they knew they could get their accounts and pets back.

Fix the security system, do away with birthday checks, hire reasonable mods/support team. Relax the filters slightly, given the older audience. My kids are 7 and 5 and even they don't need to be protected from words like "grape" and "uncle." Or even mild swearing and innuendo.

Fix the BD and make that a key part of the site again.

Kill CAPTCHA and fix the damn lag.

[jellybelly]

Fix the glitches
Update the rules
Change the target audience to late teens to adults instead of kids
Allow an nc UC paint brush, maybe with restrictions though (non tradable, one per account or one only on main account)? Therefore trading and selling market won't die completely but it will allow someone to get their top dream pet at least

[DrSloth]

put some effort actually in the site and not on apps that no one cards xD

[l0st1d0l]

Hire a bunch of competent devs and designers to remake the whole site (and finally get rid of flash); pick better mods; give myself some neat pets cause why not?