Blogshares - Notes from an obsessed player

I’ve been thinking a lot about this game–what I want to get out of it and what is fun about it–lately. My real passion is collecting.

Thanks to a couple of tools that I’ve discovered (tools that are far from secret, btw), I’ve managed to “open up” some rares.  Basically this means that there are some industries that have no blogs in them. They are idealess. If you can locate a qualified blog, you open it up. The problem is that many of these industries are in impoverished areas or in “census-designated places”(i.e. non-existent names).

It’s a real challenge to locate qualified blogs for these. Then you have to get them to drop. Ideas won’t drop unless there are incoming links. If there are no incoming links, the trick is to link to them in your own blog, reindex your blog, and then reindex the blogshares profile of the industry you are trying to make drop.

Then you have to catch them before anyone else.

There are some players who are desperate to hold onto the rares they find and make sure no one else or only their friends get them.  So they either remove the links as soon as possible or every day at the appointed time, they reindex and catch the ideas themselves. The other day I was issuing a bond to a friend and another player sniped it. That’s perfectly legal, but it’s not particularly nice behavior. But then there are a lot of tactics in this game that are perfectly legal, but mean spirited.

I don’t get that.  In a way ranking in Blogshares, is pretty much like an unending game of king of the hill. There will always be someone who is trying to be number 1. There will always be someone who will get those ideas–somehow. What the heck is the point in trying to hog them all?

At this point, I have achieved most of my game goals. I would very much like to have ideas in all of the industries, but beyond that, I just want the industries opened.