Remember to visit the Advent Calendar today, and each day during the month of December http://www.neopets.com/winter/adventcalendar.phtml to receive free gifts (hopefully weapons). Before snubbing the battledome community last year, the Advent Calendar had offered up interesting items like Clockwork Grundos, Bottled Faeries, Codestones, Purple Sticky Hands and the like as prizes. Hopefully we'll see a return to battle gear among the gifts this year. Also, as it's the first of December, remember to check out http://www.neopets.com/freebies/index.phtml for your monthly free nps and food.

Day 5 of the Games Master Challenge has produced another weapon as a prize, this time the purely offensive Evil Fuzzle Blaster. The visible icons on the Blaster are terribly misleading however, as our initial tests have shown, the results of which can be found here. If you believe that we are in any way mistaken, feel free to post and point it out. Echoing the sentiment expressed by VermontHermit earlier, we do hope these new weapons are signs of more to come!

AAA is back with another games challenge - this one lasting seven days. At least one of the prizes (today, day three), is a weapon - "Daemon Goggles". IDB Rater UmbreonMatt has tested it, so follow the link for info on it http://forums.finalhit.org/thread-20948.html Hopefully this is only the first of a series of weapons we'll see over the next few days. Who knows, maybe Neopets will even include a few battledome weapons in the Advent Calendar as well. And of course, for those celebrating it today - Happy Thanksgiving!

Just a quick note regarding site updates... we have a new forum to document changes which don't warrant news posts, please see here - also we have a slightly new process when you submit information to us, please see the forums.

Lastly, all credits for weapon information were lost during the site update, please neomail mike246810 or PM me on the forums so I can restore them. Sorry! I think finalhit restored all credits without saying anything. He's so sneaky! :P

Hi everybody,

I hope you're all enjoying the new layout. There's more to come. In the meantime, however, our league calculator (for 1-player) and Firefox search plugin are both alive and well (although they were never dead). They're available on the side navigation, or through this post.

Enjoy!

To those who are having login issues registering for an iDB account, remember, in addition to registering for a forum account, you must visit the iDB registration page which will automatically convert your forum account usable in both sections of the site.

The "member" box on the sidebar needs to look something like this before you can use the simulator. Otherwise, you're not done with the registration process.

We've done a bit of redesign of iDB and added a new feature.

The new layout was done beautifully by Nan and we thank her for her efforts.

We also added our brand new weapon simulator to help you try out some weapons if you are considering purchasing them. Not all weapons are compatible with the simulator, but the most popular weapons are.

You need to be a member of iDB in order to use it. Follow this link for instruction on how to register an account.

To use the simulator, you need to create a set that you wish to use. This is done by browsing our weapon library and dragging weapon images into the equipment cart. Note that only weapons with "bd sim enabled" tags on them can be added to the cart. Although we do not intend to program all weapons for the simulator, you can request a weapon to be programmed into the system if you wish. If the weapon is interesting enough, we might go ahead and do it.

The equipment cart appears only on pages with weapon information on them (example) and appears as a small tab on the right hand side of the page. Clicking on the arrow will expand it, and you can start dragging weapons into it. The top part of the cart is your equipment, while the bottom half is for the AI.

You need to equip both yourself and the challenger AI before using the simulator. Once done (you need at least 1 weapon each to test), visit the simulator page and fill out the rest of the form with appropriate information. (strength, defense, and HP are the most important, the rest of the values can be anything.

We have a couple more features to be released soon, but we want to make sure that current ones are working before releasing the next.

Please report any problems you might see in our forum so that our staff can handle them.

The site is fully tested under Internet Exploerer 7 and Firefox 3. If you are having problems running the site, consider upgrading your browser (this is an overall good idea, because newer browsers are safer anyway).

It looks like Neopets has a new strongest (most cumulative stats) pet. Hrobi's Antorcha has claimed the title of strongest pet. iDB would like to congratulate her on such an achievement.



I would also like to take the opportunity to say that the top 50 pets are under construction and that it should be back up with a slight delay.

The 3rd Annual Altador Cup is finally over and the prizes have been released. Click here to claim your prize.

To the great dissapointment of all battlers, not a single weapon was released :(. If you haven't seen the prizes yet, brace yourself for somewhat of a let down...[hr]Leave comments HERE as this is where the AC3 discussion is held =]

The Altador Cup is finally here for its third year! The game prizes for the Cup have been of significant interest to the battledome community in the past and we hope it will be for another year around. With this in mind, sign-up to your favourite team and give them as much support as you can, who knows, if you play enough you might be able to afford a treasured battledome item as a prize.

Click here join in the conversation in the forums and tell us who your favourite team is!

At long last, we are proud to release the Return of Sloth plot trophies to our qualifying participants in this year's battle contest!



It was a close battle, but coming out on top in the overall guild standings was STARS with a score of 5,146,099! Not far behind was Phoenix Warlords with a score of 5,142,921! Coming in third was Celestial Dawn with a score of 3,830,930. We would like to thank all guilds for participating, and we hope even more of you turn out for our next event!



In addition to guild awards, individual scores in each league have been awarded trophies as well. With 23 leagues, it would take too much space to list the top three finishers for each league, so please click here to view this thread on the IDB Forums and find out where you placed.



Finally, all participants have earned this participation trophy. Again, thank you for joining in, please be sure to come back for the next Neopets plot (or if I get around to it, the next IDB War...). Special thanks as well to Gemma for making the trophies!

Sorry about the delay, I was unaware these had not been added to the database. Here are the stats for the weapons released during the 2008 Daily Dare competition. If anyone has any extensive tests regarding fractionals, please let us know as that still seems to still be up in the air.

RoS ended a long time ago and prizes are finally out! Redeem your points here

4 weapons are available as prizes, they have been added to the database. Please send in information if you have any! Thanks.






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*Trophies are taking longer than expected. Please bear with us! We're very sorry about the delay.

The Return of Sloth plot has ended and the 1P Challengers have disappeared! IDB has done the final score check. Check it out here (In 1 big file now):

Score by Leagues - Eligible for trophies
Scores by Guilds
Guild Totals

Since there might be errors, we won't be officially announcing the "Winners" until we make sure that all of the scores are 100% accurate. So please let us know if you see any typos/errors.

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Want to give a big thanks to everyone for participating and putting up with us :P Sorry if we didn't meet your expectations, but we've learned a lot from this event and nextime will be ten times better!
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The epilogue of the IDB Plot has just been posted. Come learn the true fate of Dr. Frank Sloth!

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