Blogshares Artifacts

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OK, Sayed says that Artifacts are for rich players:

“Artefacts are designed for rich players and they give them a fair bit of power in return for a lot of cash. There are limits and costs associated with each usage. When the power is exercised, those who have their stock restructured or taken over are paid fair prices for the loss of those shares. Simply put: Artefacts rebalances the competition to enable rich players a chance of winning as well.”

Blogshares

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I’ve been playing Blogshares for a while now. I’ve managed to accumulate a total worth of BS$ 38 million or so. Now Seyed has introduced Ideas and Artefacts:

“Ideas are commodities produced by blogs which can be bought and sold or used in the building of artefacts. Each blog produces ideas for the industries it is associated with when it is indexed. The number and value of the commodities each contributes depends on the number of incoming links and the value of its outgoing links.
Each artefacts requires 10,000 idea commodities in the industry it is associated with to produce… Artefacts can be used to conduct special actions on blogs in the industry it is associated with.”

Now, this all sounds great and I like the idea of this. My understanding is that basically Artifacts are “power up cards”; you can only have one of each, and can only use it once per 24 hours and then only on blogs in the industry associated with the Artifact. You get powers like Hostile Takeover, Hype, and PR Disaster, etc. Some of the Artifacts’ names and descriptions are highly amusing.
These things are very expensive too. It takes 10,000 ideas to make an Artifact. If you could find industries which have enough ideas that cost say $1000 each, then you could get an Artifact for $10,000,000. Most of the industries which have enough ideas however seem to already be priced at the maximum $25,000 or nearly so. Which means it’s gonna cost $250,000,000 to get an Artifact!
Unfortunately, the mega players have massive advantages as usual, some of the top players already own dozens of artifacts!
Edit: I forgot to mention that last month I achieved a rank of 179th best player (out of 8000 active players).

Cycling

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Yay! I was back on my bike today. I made good time on the way home too. Just under 35 minutes for the whole journey. I still forgot to do my stretches when I got home 🙁

More Rain

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I didn’t got to work on my bike again today 🙁
I must do it tomorrow the rain wasn’t half as bad today. The last time I missed a few days, then worked away from the office for a while, then the weather was bad again,… before I knew it, it had been two years since I’d ridden my bike.

Books ‘N’ Work

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I did finish Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban last night. It was every bit as good as I remembered it. I wanted to move straight on to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire but it seems Jamie took it into school recently and left it there. She forgot to bring it back (as I asked) when she came home from school this afternoon. 🙁
Back in work today and it was raining so hard this morning I decided to forgo cycling. I’ll try to get back to it tomorrow. Busy as usual. That’s about it, it wasn’t quite as hot in the office today but it was more humid to compensate!

Sunday

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As usual Jamie and I went swimming this morning with Steve and Megan. Jamie did really well today swimming eight ‘widths’ of the pool. (Actually about 4/5ths of the width — a narrow strip is roped off for serious swimmers.) I was very proud of her. She doesn’t normally exert herself at all. So todays effort was very very good. Well done Jamie!
When we got back from swimming, we all sat out in the sunshine for a while. I go too hot and went in to read. I finished Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets last night and am most of the way through Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. I’ll probably finish it tonight.