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Holiday Gifts!
By popular request, we are reprising last year’s crazy gift-giving spree. Even now, some of you will be browsing your My ROBLOX page and notice an interesting object in your inventory: the This gift was given to users who, as of this morning: The ROBLOX Team would like to thank these people for being such good citizens! strong Some information about the gift spree, for those of you who were not around last year: - Telamon a
| December 5, 2008 -
ROtris
a There’s a new game in town: ROtris! And there are fabulous prizes for beating it! strong strong strong A special thanks goes out to - Telamon a
| November 28, 2008 -
Winter Playland Building Contest Update
The Winter Playland Building Contest is well underway. If this is your first whiff of the contest please read Here is an update for each part of the contest. Fun For All: strong em em em Hard Work Pays Off: The nominations for places to win the Ice Crown for excellence in wintery building are still rolling it. I must say it’s an overwhelming number of nominations! Please keep in mind though this is a tough hat to win. Last year we gave out 34 Ice Crowns. This year we are planning to give out about 100. em em em em em Important dates: strong strong Talk about this contest more on -ReeseMcBlox font a
| November 27, 2008 -
It’s the Economy…
A fabulous new release is upon us! ROBLOX may never be the same! We have two major features in this release, both relating to the economy. strong Most of you won’t remember some of the crazy promises we made about delivering a currency exchange soon after created the "tickets" currency. We have always believed that an exchange was necessary for our economy to work in the way we would like it to. After 14 months, it has finally arrived! strong Here is a good lesson that also applies in real-world currency trading: strong If you go to your My ROBLOX page, you will see a link on your profile that says " em First of all, don’t panic. Instead, let’s take a look around. First: what is going on here? Hundreds of players are trading with each other. When you trade 100 tickets, someone else is getting those 100 tickets and giving you some ROBUX. Players post trade offers on the exchange. On the left hand side, you can see offers from players who want to spend tickets to buy ROBUX. This is the "Tickets Book". On the right hand side, you can see offers from players who want to spend ROBUX to buy tickets. This is the "ROBUX Book". An offer looks like this: 100 @ 5:1. That means "I am selling 100 tickets for 20 ROBUX (5:1) ratio". When two offers match, a trade happens automatically. A trade matches if the ratios are the same. For example: if I want to trade 100 tickets for 20 ROBUX and another player comes along and offers 20 ROBUX for 100 tickets, we trade instantly. If you place a trade that no one wants to do, it sits "on the books" until you cancel the trade. You can cancel a trade by looking at your "Open" ROBUX and ticket positions and clicking the "Cancel" link. If you have an open trade, ROBLOX holds onto your money until you either cancel the trade, or your trade is matched with another player. This is so you can’t go spend the money that you just offered to trade. strong There are two types of trades that you can do. A market trade, and a limit trade. u Pros: Market Trades happen Cons: Market Trades are unpredictable. When you make a market trade, you are saying "Trade this money RIGHT NOW for the best current offer". For example, you want ROBUX right now. So you do a market trade and offer 100 tickets. Basically, your trade is matched with the top open trades on the ROBUX book. Between the time you decide to trade, and the time the trade is matched, other players may have come by and scooped up the best trades at the top of the book. That’s why there is no way to tell ahead of time how many ROBUX you will get in a market trade. u Pros: Limit Trades get you Cons: Limit Trades may never be matched. They can sit on the books forever. When you make a limit trade, you are saying "Trade this money ONLY at the ratio I want. I don’t care if it takes forever to find a match". For example, say you have 100 tickets and you want to buy some ROBUX. You need 300 ROBUX and don’t want less than that. You could offer a limit trade of 100 tickets for 300 ROBUX. Your trade will be put in the ticket book. If it matches, the trade will happen right away. Otherwise it will sit there until someone else comes along and offers a matching trade. Limit trades can optionally be "split" or "unsplit" (the default is to allow split trades). If you allow a trade to be "split" that is saying, "I want to do 100 tickets for 300 ROBUX, but I’d also do 50 tickets for 150 ROBUX". If you don’t allow split trades, you are saying, "I want to do 100 tickets for 300 ROBUX. I don’t want to trade unless I can get all 300 ROBUX". Making a trade unsplitable makes it harder to match. The only time it really makes sense is if you are trying to get an exact amount of money (to buy a certain hat for example). Congrats. You now know more about currency trading than most adults. If you have any questions, be sure to check out the strong User to user advertising is another feature that we have been planning for over a year. However, we never told you guys about it, so you didn’t constantly bug us. We’ve all been there. You just slaved over a brilliant new creation and now you want to test it. But no one will come visit your place! What do you do? You could post about your place in the forum, or spam comments like a noob. Well now there is a better option: create and run an attractive-looking ad. Other users will see your ad; clicking on it will bring them to your place. The best places will probably be able to recoup their advertising costs, from place traffic bonuses and clothing sales. strong strong There is Basically this is what happens: Our interns print out all your ads onto pieces of paper here in the office. If you bid a small amount (like 50 tickets), they print your ad on a small piece of paper (like a post-it). If you bid a large amount, they print a poster-sized copy of your ad. All the ads are printed on special paper that dissolves after 24 hours (the stuff they usually use for top secret documents). Then all the ads go into a giant sack. Every time someone loads a page on roblox.com, we pull an ad out of the sack and display it on the website. Then the ad goes back in the sack. It’s more likely that we pull out the ads printed on big paper (the small ones sink to the bottom you know), so the people who bid higher get their ad shown more. The interns get really tired, so we have to periodically replace them. But don’t worry - it’s easy to find new interns. strong That was a pretty huge release. Some dedicated users might have been running around on test.roblox.com and noticed that the new heads didn’t make it into this release. But we haven’t forgotten about them. - Telamon a
| November 21, 2008 -
It’s the Economy…
A fabulous new release is upon us! ROBLOX may never be the same! We have two major features in this release, both relating to the economy.
| November 21, 2008 -
It’s the Economy…
A fabulous new release is upon us! ROBLOX may never be the same! We have two major features in this release, both relating to the economy. The RoblEX Currency Exchange Most of you won’t remember some of the crazy promises we made about deliver...
| November 21, 2008 -
Winter Playland Building Contest
It’s time for another building contest. This one is going to be epic! You have lots of time to get this one together so make it special. What is a Winter Playland? First off it’s a place on your account with “WPBC” in the title. It could include some of the following possibilities… Use existing models and anything published to the Toolbox in your creation. Or, make new models and creations. Entries will be judged according to: Ways to win? strong strong em The staff will visit nominated places every couple days and give out hats ONLY to the best places they see. Once a place has been visited a comment will be left on the event site explaining the result. You can search How long will this go on? The contest starts now and goes until the end of December. It’s a really long contest! The first round of COOL hats won’t be delivered until 3 weeks from now. The second round a few weeks after that. So if you only have one place to build on you may want to wait to change it. Don’t get bored of your place! We will announce when the time is coming. The judging of the nominated places will start on Monday Nov 17, but you do not have to rush. Please take your time to make awesome places for the staff to visit. Need that form again? Here is the link. What else? Check out last year’s -ReeseMcBlox a
| November 15, 2008 -
ROBLOX Halloween Secret Video Contest Results
Intrepid visitors to strong Only videos submitted on or before October 31st were considered. There were two categories that videos could win in: Most Views and Highest Rated. The winners each get 4000 R$. Most views and highest rated were determined by searching for "robloxsecrethalloween" on YouTube, and taking the top results. Note that if you do the same search now, the order may have changed since judging occurred. In the case of "Highest Rated", there was a 3-way tie! Thanks to everyone who submitted a video, there were a lot of great entries. But the masses have spoken. I present: the winners! strong embed a strong embed a embed a embed a - Telamon a
| November 4, 2008 -
ROBLOX Halloween Secret Video Contest Results
Intrepid visitors to Yorick’s Resting Place may have found Builderman’s desk on the second floor of Yorick’s house. If you went through his papers, you saw an intriguing notice about a secret video contest. We now have the results of this contest…
| November 4, 2008 -
Halloween Mysteries Abound!
a strong The strong Thousands of players have successfully completed our Halloween treasure hunt and found strong Close to 100 players have found and entered the secret contest advertised in a special hidden section of Yorick’s level. Congrats to those adventurous elite! Judging will occur on October 31. strong Get in the spirit of the season with ROBLOX Halloween Wallpaper - 1920 x 1200 is for "wide" monitors, 1600 x 1200 is for "normal" monitors. If you have a lower resolution screen, you can tell Windows to "stretch" it to fit. a a - Telamon a
| October 24, 2008 -
More Awesome School Projects!
There were just so many cool entries from the recent contest we can’t resist posting some more to the blog. Check these out!
| October 15, 2008 -
ROBLOX Halloween Treasure Hunt!
Dare you visit Yorick’s Resting Place in an attempt to locate The Riddling Skull?
| October 11, 2008 -
ROBLOX Halloween Treasure Hunt!
Dare you visit Yorick’s Resting Place in an attempt to locate The Riddling Skull ? In this spooky forest you will contend with a poisonous river of purple goo, black caves with mysterious paintings, dark hallways, a tree with claws, an ancien...
| October 11, 2008 -
ROBLOX Halloween Treasure Hunt!
a Dare you visit In this spooky forest you will contend with a poisonous river of purple goo, black caves with mysterious paintings, dark hallways, a tree with claws, an ancient graveyard, an abandoned mansion, secret plans, and, oh yes, riddles. Complete the level to attain your own copy of The Riddling Skull! - Telamon a
| October 11, 2008 -
Introducing: The Riddling Skull
a A No one has yet figured out how to obtain this rare item, however, serious investigation is under way. Very obtuse clues are all the community has to go on right now. However, more clues will be forthcoming over the next several days - so keep a look out! - Telamon a
| October 10, 2008 -
Introducing: The Riddling Skull
A mysterious skull has appeared in the ROBLOX Catalog… No one has yet figured out how to obtain this rare item, however, serious investigation is under way. Very obtuse clues are all the community has to go on right now. However, more clues wil...
| October 10, 2008 -
School Project Contest Winners!
The School Project judging is over and the winners have received their prizes. Hooray! There are 106 Grand Prize winners – users who sent in projects that used ROBLOX in inspiring and clever ways. The users on this list received 500 R$ and all t...
| October 5, 2008