Saturday, October 16

My fav game - Blogshares

Some time back, I was searching for a generous soul to give me a gmail invitation. was really desperate then to get one and in the search, came to Blogshares. I landed at the forum and then through the forum, I came to main site.

At first, I didnt understand what it is, but later understood that it is some game. Being a curious person, I decided to register and check it out and thus I entered the site with my name and initial balance of 500B$. I was trying to figure out the game in midst of work, and was able to make some small profits. Suddenly, one morning I found my self 30times rich and when I checked, I found that a Generous player, "Mars/irissecurities" gifted me some shares and then brought them using something called as artefact. Artefact, well something new I thought and then proceeded to discover the new things at Site. Then, slowly I grasped the game and now, I am in top 200.

Hey, I ought to give thanks to Laila for her tips and trades. She gave me a good leap in the game. Above All, I should give a special thanks to BSEC. In the month of August, during Mid August to be precise, I was suspended from game, cos, the Cheaty Pants System discovered that a single player is playing game using two different ids. Hence, I was suspended. I first got angry, then I realised the actual issue, and when I explained it to the BSEC, they accepted it and restored my status to normal. MrPilot is the one who helped me out, in the sense that his answers made me maintain my coolness. And its 'C' who supported my clarification. Thanks MrP and C.

The period of suspension has actually helped me in observing the game more clearly and also know people like Raymond, Admiral_Justin, IslandDave, JustJames, MrPilot, Arvind, Laila, RWO, MLT. My next step was to enter IRC for Blogshares. Through IRC, I came to know these people more and also Jay (Jay Campbell), AlanDean, SubWolf, KyRahJade,Eli,Linn, imsaguy, VillageIdiot and sprimal. I am still learning about them. But, yes, I do enjoy the chats and wait to have a good chat with them everyday. One more reason is that I wanna appear in ChanStats.

ChanStats are the statistics taken out of the real time chat and are really funny sometimes. The other day, AJ was showing me the lst for previous year and he is the topper with many lines last year. This year, I suspect that Raymond is going to takeover. Till now, he has been having high stats for uite sometime, from the time he joined. Soon, he may go to top, thats what I feel. Both of these as well as others are ready to help and once they know the person, the way they answer is different. How come I forgot about Arvind, the teenage guy from Dubai. He has been a member of BSEC and also a member of other teams. Recently, he quit BS for school, but is still a memberof IRC and is a cool chap.

Dave is the one who actually made me write this piece, cos he announced some contest and offered Premier Membership for the top three. And this is an effort to get it. Dave, I am writing here, and hope that it comes to the standards that you have set. Jay is the owner of this site and he takes the help of other members in running and maintaining this. He is asking us to take premier membership for supporting the bandwidth, and Jay, I promise that I would take one soon. Dave also happens to be the Leader of the Editing team and to be a member of that team, I should impress Dave first. I wanna be part of it and donno how I can do that soon?

I am really impressed by the skills of Alan. He is the main member of Math Team, the team that takes care of all validations at the site. Alan, three cheers to your skills. I wish I concetrated more on Maths instead of Computing Skills :(

Earlier,I used to spend my leisure time at various technical sites, but now, this is taking away most of time. I am getting addicted to this more and more. By the way, did I tell you what this iste is all about? This is a fictious Share market, where Blogs are treated as companies and categoriesed into differnt inndstries. Each blog generates some ideas for the industries its voted into (voting is again done by the members, moderated by the moderators). Generation of ideas is taken care by the Industry Moguls. If you own 10000 Ideas in any industry that has an artefact defined, you can create an artefact and then play game in a different level. The whole game depends on the values of Ideas, the share prices and the blogs. Voting gives you karma and chips and after reaching a certian level in karma, you can become a moderator.

RWO has started a charity on the name of Blogshares, to support the cause of children in need using the Chips, ideas and monetary cash donated by the generous players . Laila has joined him in his efforts. She is a mother of two grown up kids. A child from Phllipines is already taken care of. I hope and wish that this project would go ahead and be a success. If this game can help some needy souls, that is really great. Good Luck RWO and Laila in your efforts and I would do all that I can do for the cause.

Hey, do you guys see the Tagboard here? Its an enhanced one, which I got for free, thanks to Jay. Jay runs some raffle at BS and we have to use the chips to participate in the raffle. I am lucky to get a Tagboard, which I can use for one year :). Thanks Jay.

There is a lot to say , but then there should be a limit and hence I am closing this here. Thanks Folks for reading this patiently and please leave ur comments here. I wanna know ur feedback, on the topic as well as my style of writing.