Ideas and Artefacts

Originally Posted on 30th December 2005

Real industries in the real world produce commodities depending on the sort of business they are, ie. a saw mill produces wood products and a bakery produce a range of food products. On Blogshares a Blog also produces commodities, but all blogs produce the same type, this is called an idea.
As is with the real world, the greater the value of the business, the more commodities (ideas) that business will produce. Now you have that very brief outline of what an idea is you can learn to understand what an artefact is.

When you gain 10,000 ideas in a specific industry, you can create an artefact. Artefacts give you the ability to perform a whole range of functions on any blog within the artefacts industry. Some of these abilities are: stealing ideas, forcing buyouts of shares from other players, raising or lowering a blogs priice, and many more.

Summary:

Blogs produce ideas.
Ideas are specific to the industry in which they were purchased.
An artefact can be bought when you have 10,000 ideas in the particular industry.
Artefacts can be used to affect market price and to steal ideas and shares.

Hope this makes sense.

Crackers ;)