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Alpha the White

PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:13 am


Background: I have decided to build a tank (big shocker, Alpha is such a sucker for get-rich-quick schemes)
I have purchased a full set of 17 mini monsters: alpha grams, lightning bugs and walkers, based on the recommendations of a couple guides and on my own observations of returns playing booty grab. I have not yet put the fish in, and I won't until I understand the system of advertising better.

Which is the problem.

I've read the guides, I've looked around the forums, and I have some questions I can't find answers to:

1) What exactly is a recycled thread?

2) How does one get onto the first pages of a good tank thread? All the guides say to do this, but it seems like a real mess and everyone assumes you're familiar with how things work. I suppose I should be, but I'm too impatient to take a couple weeks to get used to it.

3) What does etiquette say about where I can and can not bump/post? I know there is something dealing with invites, but I don't know how that works, how you would go about getting invited and what that even does for you.

I am hoping to get added to the dolphin mania site that nymphie pointed out, but I have to actually have a bump thread to apply, etc.

This is a genuine Noob emergency! Plz Help!

edit: if this belongs in I Am Me, please move it there, I am notoriously bad at deciding which to post in.
PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 11:17 am


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I assumed that by "getting in the first page"
simply means that you have to be there to post
whenever a new "collab" thread opens
or any thread for that matter so that people
can find your tank more easily.

Is it wise to get a bunch of different fish
into the same tank? Because I have the feeling
it's better to only put all the same kinds together
and gwee = great, because they almost always glow
when you have 17 of them in the same tank.
That's what I heard, but then again,
I don't have a filled tank.
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Alpha the White

PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 2:02 pm


The three types in my tank are apparently mechanically identical, so I don't think I'll have a problem with that.

Also, I heard mention that I might not be able to see when my own tank is glowing? Is that true, and how would I compensate for that?
PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 4:11 pm


1. A recycled thread is a thread you use over and over again for when you are glowing. People use to make a thread everytime they were glowing which was hella annoying if your feed settings allowed you to see their threads. Now people make a thread where their tank is under the first post and link it in their sig asking for bumps when it glows.

Ideally people will bump your thread when they see you glow thus bringing your thread up to the top of the forum so that people just looking around notice you are currently glowing. These threads work because really the only way to bootygrab is to go through high trigger tank lists/threads or stalk the first page for 'currently glowing' tanks.

2. You get onto the first page by being one of the first people a user invites to a thread. It depends on whats in your tank and how often they see your tank elsewhere to invite it. Invites work by users PMing you asking you to post in their thread.

3. If the first post states anything about invite only, don't post. Basically if a thread says open and clearly states you can post then you can.

People PM you asking you to post in their thread, that is an invite. You get invites by posting around basically. I have a thread I bump stating what my tank is, yours would be Full Mini Monsters, and that I am looking for invites. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.

Also, I heard mention that I might not be able to see when my own tank is glowing? Is that true, and how would I compensate for that?

Thats right, you can't see your own tank glow. There are like 3 ways to tell when it is.

1) Gold count goes up - This way won't be effective until you have gotten your tank out there. I notice my gold go up a few K since my last click and I can assume I am glowing.

TO VERIFY THAT ^ :

2) Watch your tank on a mule. Be on a mule account and when you see your tank is glowing, bump your thread.

3) http://absol.site88.net/gtools/glowTime.php Glow Timer.
This link USE to be able to tell you exactly when your tank will glow, how many fish will glow and, if your fish give hermit cats or pinkboxes, if the fish was going to drop one. Now it can't tell you when you are going to glow but it can still tell you when you are glowing and how many fish are glowing.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:18 pm


Or you could take my approach and ignore everything about the fish tanks. :]
PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:26 pm


[Moseley]
Or you could take my approach and ignore everything about the fish tanks. :]

OR He could do the opposite and make lots of gold smile

I totally got first post in your glow thread Alpha cool You're glowing btw.

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Alpha the White

PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 9:43 pm


Nymphiedora
[Moseley]
Or you could take my approach and ignore everything about the fish tanks. :]

OR He could do the opposite and make lots of gold smile

I totally got first post in your glow thread Alpha cool You're glowing btw.


Thanks Nymphie ^_^

Unfortunately, I was at work when I glowed sad
PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 9:54 pm


Merumiharu
3) http://absol.site88.net/gtools/glowTime.php Glow Timer.
This link USE to be able to tell you exactly when your tank will glow, how many fish will glow and, if your fish give hermit cats or pinkboxes, if the fish was going to drop one. Now it can't tell you when you are going to glow but it can still tell you when you are glowing and how many fish are glowing.
Off-topic random factoid about Gynne:

I know that Absol kid in real life. I grew up with him and his sister and our dads grew up together. He's creepy and acts like a cat. I don't give him hugs because the last time I did, he purred. : D

Gynne

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Alpha the White

PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:08 pm


Hooray! I glowed! Only 19 people grabbed...but that's still better than before! And I am up to 6k on my tank...it's gonna take a lot more work to get my money back sad

@Gynne: I have the sudden urge to start singing "it's a small world after all"...
and now you all have it stuck in your head!.

@moseley: that has been my approach until I realized that booty grab is such a major money maker. And then I discovered that owning your own tank is also a great money maker. And I realized that it's probably STILL less work intensive than my traditional money-making method (vending).

Also, I'm a sucker for entrepreneurship.
PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:26 pm


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Another question!

What's the use for tapping and how do you do it?
I don't think just clicking on people's aquarium
in their sig is enough?
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Nymphiedora
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 10:44 pm


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Another question!

What's the use for tapping and how do you do it?
I don't think just clicking on people's aquarium
in their sig is enough?
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There is no point at all to tapping D: I guess maybe you can think you're cool is you have tens of thousands of taps or something? XD

PostPosted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 7:17 pm


My mother was slightly alarmed at your thread title. xD

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Alpha the White

PostPosted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:29 pm


AGCourtney
My mother was slightly alarmed at your thread title. xD


Hah, I can see why she would be! Don't worry, there is no reason to be alarmed.
::quick, hide the tank!::


Also, I just got my first full booty grab game! Hooray for gold!
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