'tH3 Awsum' Neobux Emporium..

There appears to be quite a lot of confusion pretty much all the time from new members and veterans about exactly how to explain when you should click your advertisements on Neobux. Assadon has created a pretty good guide and has posted it into the Neobux forums but at the very least, with the help of my significant other I think this alternative explanation will also be useful to the members of Neobux =] .

The Issues

Well, for starters let’s look at the issue boiled down to three simple points:

1. You must click one set of your advertisements each server day
2. For many (most?) members, your advertisement reset times will be different each day
3. Due to this difference, it makes it possible to make the mistake of viewing your first set of ads in the morning before the reset, and then a second set later in the same day (more on this later)

The problem here is then how to decide when exactly you should and should not click your adverts – something that I hope to be able to help with, using my account details as an example =] .

The Image

Imagine a 24-hour clock on one dial (most* that I’ve ever seen are only 12-hours). This one has midnight [00:00 am] local time at the top, and noon [12:00 pm] at the bottom (where the ’6′ usually is). In place of the ’3′ is 09:00 am and in place of the ’9′ is 18:00 pm.

* Yes, I did say “most”…

Now let’s take a look at this (hand-drawn!) imaginary clock… :

Also labelled on this imaginary diagram is the time that the server’s clock hits midnight [ 04:00am (local) / 00:00am (server) ] and the time that my advertisements reset [ 19:29 pm (local) / 15:29 (server) ].

With these markings in place, hopefully it makes it obvious which times I am able to click in. These are my options:

1. Between 04:00 am (local time) and 19:29 pm (local time) – these are adverts that became available yesterday (“yesterday’s” ads)
2. Between 19:29 pm (local time) and 04:00 am (local time) – these are adverts that became newly available today (today’s “new” ads)

So how does this help?

Well, as long as you only click in one of these time periods then you will never have any problems with clicking two sets of ads in one day then being unable to click the next day.

But… I do something slightly different…

I only click 4 of the ‘new’ ads each evening. This means that when I wake up the next day, it is a new server day and I have 5 ads to click.

This has the benefit of allowing me some flexibility re: when I click next: I have already clicked during the server day so if I do not click on the evening then I will not lose any referral clicks and I will have 9 ads to click the following morning. Just my way of not needing to worry if I get asked to go out on the night =]

I’ve decided to not *actively* support browsers that do not run Greasemonkey or are not fully Greasemonkey-compatible.

More specifically, I’m pretty anti-Google Chrome regarding the privacy concerns (did you know that until a recent update a unique identifier was sent to Google with details about every URL that you visit? *) and Opera is a little bit awkward to code for due to lack of support for any form of storage available to the script (except for v11.5 which was recently released I think, which has localstorage available to scripts).

* after the backlash it received, it is now sent only when you install and / or update chrome

I realise that both of the issues I mentioned are both semi-irrelevant due to recent semi-solutions becoming available, but they are not the complete reasons for not supporting these browsers.

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Question:

I want to know, what do these letters mean next to our flags?

Answer:
These letters are simply the first initial of the colour of the flag that the referral has been assigned.

• W = White
• R = Red
• O = Orange
• Y = Yellow
• G = Green

Answer:
R.Average == Real Average

In other words, it is your average *after* the recycle costs have been taken into account.

For example:

• A golden with 200 rented referrals and an average of 1.00 will earn $2.00 in one day.
• If that golden member were to spend $0.50 on recycling, the total earnings will be $1.50 for that day.
• An average of 0.75 without spending anything on recycling would also give $1.50 in profit / total earnings for the day.

Therefore, we call 0.75 the “Real Average”.

There seems to be trends going around at the Neobux forums with certain questions being asked & answered quite frequently regarding my scripts and Neobux in general, so I’ve created a new category ‘FAQ’ and will be adding to it occasionally.

Coming up soon in this category is a post about the Neobux Ad Reset Time (just gotta upload a couple of photos) and maybe a few more details about creating the rules for the referral highlighter script but hopefully that won’t be needed soon.

As an aside..

If anybody is willing to write any articles or even faq-type posts then please do get in touch! Payments for these are negotiable but everyone will get your referral link on the posts etc and maybe links to your own blogs… Long story short, get in touch and we’ll see what can be arranged =]