The BlogShares Blog

So, what exactly is going on and what does it mean ?

Did Trollie finally go 'Mad' ?

Is it a system bug ?

Hack Attack ?

REmember the 29' crash?
It seems "blogshares" had been on a bubble, and now is blowing up (?)

it's a spammity calamity!!!

Most markets do not shut down because of market crashes. They keep right on going in hopes investors will start to reinvest and buy as prices stabalize.

One would suspect the gooberments hand in protecting it's own monetary standard by the way the markets have been shut down not allowing legal trades during this crash.

We are not a crook...err, no....

I did not have sexual relations....no.....

We do not torture...umm...crap, I forgot what we are denying this time...

De Nile is more than a rivah, d00d.

game ends

Ummm, OK, so my ideas crashed ... why did my cash balance collapse, too ?

Crap, my cash balance crashed too... If the ideas value crashed, shouldn't be the my total idea value which plummetting down?

This is essentially just a currency exchange without a spread. This has the interesting side effect of increasing the starting potential of new players (from here on out).

hmmmm i lost most of my cash balance too :( .
i guess its all over then :(

Well, but we, the middle players, are the more affected in all this, are we going to be compensated somehow?

I guess I'm having trouble understanding what programming change went into effect and was it ever discussed as a possibility. In other words, someone HAD to know this was going to happen, therefore did that EFFECT how they traded over the last 24 to 48 hours?

Black Friday in 1929 led to the depression. BUT the MONITARY system was NOT DEvalued. I can understand the crash of idea prices, but why COUPLE that with a 10,000 X
loss of CASH BALANCE?

It is a bit disingenous to suggest that will help stop a freefall in the market. In fact it would have the opposite effect, since I no longer have the cash to go in and support prices.

As Ricky Ricardo used to say. "Somebody gotta lotta
'splaining to do".......

Last but not least, revaluation and everything else aside,
why the change in RANK if this was done evenly across
IDEAS and CASH BALANCE?

So my questions are "What did they know and when did
they know it???????

Yes it does seem they destroyed the entire reasoning behind keeping a cash safety net just in case something like this did occur. And yet stock prices haven't been touched at all. Gonna make it very hard for most of us to restructure any of the higher priced blogs now.

Well, I guess it is time to stop playing this game. As if the constant server slowness wasn't bad enough, someone decided to erase all that we've built up. I guess the joke is on those of us who payed for "premium memberships." Oh well.

hurt!, yes its hurt me alot

Guys/Gals:

Relax. All is well in the world. Nothing has changed except a decimal place shift. The rankings haven't changed dramatically, it just took a few moments for the system to update all player accounts. This should all be back to normal.

Since the mid-range priced blogs now offer some relative profits (much better compared to net worth when compared to the top blogs prior to the crash), more players can use blogs to increase net worth with less contention for the top blogs to do so. No math has changed, it all works just as before.

Aaaarrrrrgggggghhhhhh!!!
Lucky for those who keep their much money on blogs then...

well i'm not about to try and do all that work over again that i did to get the wealth that i had in the first place... i guess this ends me coming to blogshares after coming here for a year and a half

And this right at the moment I was contemplating purchasing a membership.

As VJack said, "As if the constant server slowness wasn't bad enough, someone decided to erase all that we've built up. I guess the joke is on those of us who payed for "premium memberships."

Gee I just don't know now. This requires some thought.

Welcome to blogshares, again/.

It's thurzday.

Geez! I just got home from the second of 2 searches in as many days and when I pulled up my account I thought I was going to have a heart attack. I'm standing on the window ledge trying to put my jumbled brain back together.
Oh well! Game it is and this is certain to make life more interesting. I guess I'll regroup and reaccess, but first for some more turkey and mashed tators. Being out in the middle of the night in 19 degree temps, 2 nights in a row, looking for lost people has made me verrry hungry!
I might get like Trollie and start BBQing anything in sight. Kitty ;)

@ Kitty Mason
Don't jump Kitty. Don't jump. Come back in off the ledge and let's talk. Or maybe it is bad for you. Did you buy a premium membership? That would suck.

this is screwed up,I had 45,000,000,000 in ideas.the majority of my balance.Now I have 4,500,000 in assets with a handful of stocks.After selling the shares I now have a 10,000,000 cash position.Can't wait to see my rank now.

Interesting!

BlogShares remain my favorite game!

Well this was quite the shocker but I guess since it seems to have effected everyone equally I have no complaints.

What's next? Perhaps RAIDs will be banished... especially after such a long discussion about it and now the share value is much stronger after it's been revitalized by this turkey cellebration event/

We do not approve...

what happened and why did my 0's disappear..i have read all that was written here but #@$@# .still not getting into my sleepy dazed mind.

how will mars be able to pump more real $ into the blogshares server?

Groundhog Day. man, i went to sleep on 25th november 2005 and i wake up in 10 march 2005 (my networth looks as if i had just played for a few days!!)

guess i need to go check whats happening on my bond page!!

T to B to M to K ! :)

have to go back and change a few of my worksheets , remove a few 0's and get back to the game.

i have a few chips, anyone wants to pay 80m per chip now? :)

ho ho ho.... and interesting turn

..paul

A bit of the IRC news and wire reports:

IslandDave: General Jay has issued a state of emergency, all BSEC should report to their assigned locations and form a posse immediately.

IslandDave: The BlogShares Fed has just locked themselves in Jay's closet, they are holding emergency meetings as we speak.

[AP]: Santa Cruz -- Near the Headquarters of BlogShares, black vans and bullet-proof hummers have cordened off the block in an attempt to disrupt the economy. B$Fed members said to be running low on pizza, pot. A source close to the B$Fed says the insurgents did it. Though it may have been the unpatriot terroristic sympathizers.

[FauxNews]: Santa Cruz -- B$Fed known to be caving to libruls, taxing everyone 99.99% of their net worth. Damn libruls. Sources may or may not have implicated the Clintons.

[E!]: Santa Cruz -- Market Crash, Chaos, yadda yadda...But what was SubWolf thinking when he bought those shoes?

[Fark}: Bad: Market Crashes. Worse: Cash too. Worst: New Industry suggested: Cross-dressing Conservative Poultry Farming

[FauxNews]: Santa Cruz -- Though not directly involved as earlier reported, libruls provoking price-slashing terrorists by demanding early withdrawal from the Ideas Market.

[High Times]: Santa Cruz -- Dude.....the site is green....coincidence?

[Adult Video News]: Hollywood -- Adult video publisher Suburban Wolf devalues BlogShares currency to film 'An%l Idea Whores 12: Doing It For Chips".

[ESPN]: Santa Cruz -- Terrell Owens failure to win his arbitration leads many to speculate he will spend his time on the Ideas Market. Veteran traders scatter at the news, withdraw funding from TO's portfolio.

[The Onion] : Santa Cruz -- BlogShares owner Jay Campbell adopts new ugliest dog in the world. Idea Market insiders credit 'Short Bus' Campbell for championing price changes, cherry-vanilla milkbones.

[NASA]: Houston -- New space-age chemical experiments cancelled after funding levels from BlogShares Institute are destroyed by revaluation. BlogShares Lunar Express flights said to be postponed until 2009.

[Jake News Network] : Santa Cruz -- The ballgag devaluation of screaming in my ear made george bush and pnp love midgets and jelly

Great timing! Just as I was days away from paying to renew my premium membership, you guys pull this.
Gameplay improvement is one thing, but I'm afraid my girlfriend was right all along when she told me, Blogshares is a "complete waste of time"

-dee jub

hahaha! i issued bonds of 10000 ideas at $1 each lol!

look at what happened!

Okay SB, I won't jump! Actually it would be so messy. I'll just pick up the pieces and keep playing. It's too much fun to quit. I do have a premium and glad I do. I don't have to worry about transaction limits. Anyway, since everyone is affected I'll just try to forget all those little 0's that disappeared.
Hey, and thanks for the nice comment on my blog! Kitty ;)

So do all the newbies start the game at a nickel now? B$500 / 10000 = B$0.05 cause if not it's like getting B$500K
;)

@kitty mason: I am picking up the pieces and continuing on too. BTW you are welcome. :-)

Woo hoo! Keep up the grand work. Change is good. Karma grand, chips good, dollars getting better.

Why?

I lost money :-(

I am not happy.

Bound to happen sometime! I didn't think this bubble could (or should) last. Great way to add some challenge to the game. Ok, now get out there and make some money!

help ! my cash balance !!!!

What you don't understand is that this is the same thing as your old balances. The zero's didn't matter. If they were taken away from everyone, it means the same thing.

I never recovered from the last 'tweak' months back. Damn glad I didn't renew my subscription - this is the final nail in the coffin. When people are paying money to play a game, do not keep shifting the goalposts.

Next time you guys are asking for ideas on how to improve Blog$hares and I suggest random market crashes, kick me in the nuts.

Ugh. You people still don't understand. You still get the same benefits of Premium Membership, the zero's were meaningless. They were taken from everybody, which just cancels out everything else. So what, the shares market is now a little more important. Big deal. If you're going to cry and leave about it, then you don't belong here anyway. Maybe you don't have a T anymore. But everyone who was at the same level, lost it too. And those that had a Q now have a T. I'm in Junior High, and even I can understand this.

Not fair, coz those people who keep B$ in shares are not affected as much as those who keep B$ in ideas. Worse, now most of the lower value-ideas value is plummetting to $0.1. Or... perhaps all will be lowered as well?

So, what happens to all those missions, the "I will pay B$1B for a link" and so on. Are those missions cancelled? Did they all automatically get knocked down by a few zeros?

I was undecided until I read these comments. Now that I see that Helena is opposed, I am strongly in favor of the change. In fact, I think we should have everything devalued even more to raise her level of displeasure.

The point was for it to have affected everyone equally,as for this happening it failed to do so.Players with large idea holdings have been penalized.Players who had a large sum tied up in shares made
10000 X when the devaluation occurred.
Rank has therefore been DRASTICALLY changed.When the change occurred,it should have occurred accross the board to have not affected rank.EVERYTHING should have been devalued.The only FAIR thing to
do would have been that.I enjoy the challenge of RANK.Could care less about the 000s.I will continue playing but would like to know UPFRONT what the rules are.
(ie Are Random Market Crashes In Effect)

Restore the backup please and adjust the game correctly.

It's an amazing thing, like shooting starz ...

Job well done.

Hell, yeah! This is one cool thing! :D :D :D Can't stop laughing since yesterday, hahaha.. now this is interesting.. :D :D :D

As a member who recently upgraded to premium, I can say that I have no regrets at all. It makes the game much more interesting as now I can lose money too :-))

Does no one else remember that this is a GAME??!!

Minerva

Yes I remember it is a game,but the rules were "changed without notice".That is why I'm upset.Being a middle class player in this "game" and being lowered to a lower
rank is upsetting.There should have been warning in the "Quick News Box" that something was up.

wish I could have sold forward my ideas...

I was preparing an spanish tutorial... there i was going to say that the real thing about blogshares, was the ideas market, just as i sold my almost 100m B$ in shares, to invest in ideas market... so i lost lots of money therefore... That's what sounds unfair for a middle player like me...
The crashes are cool, but not even on 29' so much ppl lost so much...

WEll, it was more than 200m in shares... so its more money thought.. Lol

Huh,after busting my a** all day I seemed
to have recovered somewhat.I had 31 artefacts and $10,000,000
to play with.Now I have 150,000,000+ in assests and almost 200 artefacts.
I'm still holding my breath to see what my new rank will be.Keep ya posted.lol

I was suprised when my piss-poor $130 million in shares suddenly became my nest egg, and my $90 billion in ideas and cash suddenly became $1 million.

Now, when will they add in the ability to sell short? You could have made quadrillions selling short on that ideas crash. Crazy money.

(Of course - once your currency crashed you would have been back to square one)

bah! $40+ trillion gone in a puff of electrons. now only worth a measly $4 billion.

There must be a way to put captcha images on pages like these. Oh My just look at all the spam. Seems like artefacts are the way to go when cash is low, at any rate. Get 'em while you can. I have been.

look! I'm in top 50 now! \^_^/
thing that I couldn't do before the black friday :D

You're welcome for the 15 bucks. Yeesh.

total worth is now $477,086,194.67 with
259 atefacts.And I have managed to massively corner the market on one industry.The idea market for it is already starting to pick up.

It's about time transaction fees should be removed to make ideas market trading more interesting!

Wow, hadn't signed in a while.. had a negative cash balance (bad blog trade) and they didn't seem to remove the zero's from that. I was ranked in the mid 100's, now 30173. Ouch. Seems M.Aurora had the same issue....

Why would someone end up with over 100 more artifacts than they started with after the market crash:?

inquiring minds:

No one's artefacts were changed on Black Friday. If someone has 100 more now, its because they built them not because of any effects of the crash.

cheewacheewa
"Players who had a large sum tied up in shares made 10000 X when the devaluation occurred. Rank has therefore been DRASTICALLY changed. When the change occurred, it should have occurred accross the board to have not affected rank. EVERYTHING should have been devalued. The only FAIR thing to do would have been that. I enjoy the challenge of RANK. Could care less about the 000s."

I Agree.. this targeted re-adjustment totally sucks. I dropped Rank from 600 to 1,400.. B$20 Billion gone. So, not very likely to invest any more clicks - let alone real money - in this 'game' if there is not a re-valuation of share value to match.

I lost 145 Billion on Black Friday, and my rank changed from the 700s to 70s. Hundreds of people must have been (financially) destroyed for that to happen.