Originally Posted by
isabelg
Okay thanks for your reply!! I guess you can always ask people to prove they got it through legit means.. I used to sell/trade on here years ago but definitely remember buying neopoints and like being aware i was cheating at the game lol.
Another question, is the neopets team still very strict about people doing offsite trading? I would imagine their team is much smaller these days and they don't bother y'all over here much?
Going to answer with a quote from Bat that I liked a lot in reference to today's Neopets security:
"The Neopets site is basically policed by vigilante players nowadays, and the Neopets team bolsters that behavior by indulging some of their inane tattling with repercussions for other players. We got to where we are with the various downsizes to infrastructure and employees, resulting in a lot of alarms either being turned off in order to reduce the load on limited hardware, or ignored due to a shortage of manpower. While you should strive to never break rules in ways that are known to set off automated alarms, your biggest threat is drawing unwanted attention to yourself. Be smart, careful, patient, and subtle with what you're doing, and you'll tiptoe around most of these whistle blowers. The biggest mistakes are getting greedy, going too fast and making obvious what you're up to.
Again, there are lots of discussions about all of the above throughout the forum, and this is not intended to be a declaration of victory for cheaters or a free license to go nuts, but it is exceedingly easy to color outside the lines if you're clever about it.
Also, please please PLEASE stop outing yourselves to other communities. If you ever have that tingling sensation to share sceenshots of your wealth or your accomplishments: don't. Just don't. You may get a small amount of applause, but there is always somebody out there smashing the "report" button on you."
In short, you'll be ok if you keep it low and slow. Moderation is key and doing everything at a believable, REALISTIC pace will result in believable, realistic outcomes.