I have to say I really enjoy reading Swatza’s Featured profiles to top Tengaged users. Nice way to know little bit more our Tengaged community!!
Tengaged Economic Report from Grayson10001
September 23, 2008Nice post from Grayson10001.
Reproduced with permission of Grayson100001 (hopefully).
Original source: http://www.tengaged.com/blog/Grayson10001/5630
With the introduction of the new T$ currency, the Tengaged community has been buzzing about what this means to them, their games, and the future of Tengaged. After some investigation it looks like it is effecting mainly two markets: Blogging and Betting.
Blogs have increased by leaps and bounds in recent days and speculators believe the monetary incentive could be the main catalyst. There were 34 blogs posted yesterday and a total of 33 blogs posted five days previous to that. If membership continues to increase at the current rate, daily average blog totals are expected to reach well into the lower 40′s by early October. Even some of the Tengaged Top 20, who have previously been dormant bloggers, have been claiming a stake of their own little bit of Tengaged press. The effect this is having on the content of blogs? A change of scope. While the majority of blogs pre-T$ were concentrated on in game activity, now bloggers appear to be focusing on topics pertaining to a larger audience. Now if you plan to make a fortune blogging on Tengaged, don’t expect to get rich quick. Only about 10% of blogs have been acruing a significant amount of money. On average, I would expect to earn yourself anywhere in the range of .1T$ to .5T$ per blog.
Now moving on to betting: Overall, there hasn’t been much of an increase on the avg. amount bet per game; however, there has been an increase of single players receiving high bets. The average bet (amount bet on game divide by the number of players) seems to trend towards 3. One game in progress that may be record breaking in the amount of bets is Game #7213. It seems it is mainly a handful of people betting on most of the contestants. Who will be the biggest winners? Everyone except those in the bottom 5. The reason being is that 5th-1st place will get a cut of the money and those betting on the game have spread out the bets in such a way that they will see some profit.
Should you bet your hard earned T$ on Rookie games? It depends how much of a risk taker you are. The return on betting on Rookie games isn’t large. The reason being, there isn’t much risk involved. If you bet on someone that finishes in the bottom half of the ranks, you lose your money. If you bet on someone that ranks in the top half, you get your money back or make a profit. So in general, you can flip a coin to see if you will make any money. If you want to make the big bucks, you are going to have to take a larger risk, which means putting all your eggs (or at least a lot of them) in one basket….and hopefully they don’t all crack.
As for the future of the $T, most expect the value to increase in the coming weeks. With the announcement of a new shop opening and the promise of new items to purchase, many predict that Tenagers will find their T$ more important than ever.
My advice: Blog a little, vote/post on other blogs, and don’t be voted out first in a Rookies game. Save your T$ until the store opens and see what is has available. If you love something you can purchase it and if not, there is always betting on rookie games to amass a fortune.
Timelines, bug fixes and new Facebook group.
September 1, 2008We’ve been adding small updates during these last days. Just today we ended with the Timelines feature we included 2 days ago, with some improvements: You can see your friend’s actions and many bugs corrections reported by Stian (http://www.spillet.org).
Other fixes have been corrected as well as the one reported by Vindication referring to not showing blank spaces correctly on posts and messages.
We were informed by Karl (Swatza) that he created a new Tengaged group on Facebook!! Thanks a lot Karl!
Avatars don’t have nose…. well, almost
August 8, 2008
Tengaged Prototype Housemate 2.0
It’s known that Tengaged’s avatars don’t have a nose. But there have been some posts about people asking why do they have now a red nose instead of the most absolute emptiness.
It looks like everyday more and more red noses are appearing on Tengaged, but they are just a few and will never take control over those who don’t have it.
Yes, tengaged is different… we usually don’t have a nose 
Private Mails on Tengaged
August 7, 2008If you see a little icon on the top the page, you are right, finally we have released the internal mail on Tengaged. New users under 20 Karma can send private mails to their reciprocal friends, while users above 20 may send a messages to any Tengaged user.
… and there are still lots of new features comming.
Thanks all of you for your support and help to improve and spread Tengaged!
Bets finally opened
July 21, 2008We have opened the bets for the Rookies games. The maximum amount to bet is 10 Karma points per game and you may win up to twice what you bet plus some amount depending on other user’s bets. Game’s participants can not bet although they can win a percentage of what people bet on them, more details later.
We have also started to use the security mechanisms for detecting some “cheating” and applying it when enrolling in new games and when finishing a game, etc. Double users may not enroll in the same game now and if not detected during the enroll process their Karma will be getting lower instead of increasing when game is finished.
Tengaged promotional video?
June 30, 2008Just playing and testing with what could be the first Tengaged promotional video…
Help us spread Tengaged!
bet in rookies
June 28, 2008If you are those who want to get lots of Karma and can’t wait to win in several games, we will open next week the “Bet in rookies”. Basically in each Rookies game you may during the 1st day of game bet part of your karma to one of the ten housemates. If that one wins the game you may triple the karma bet.
The basic rules are:
- You can not participate in that game.
- Everybody (with karma) may bet.
- Only is possible to bet on Rookies games.
- You can only bet for one participant per game and a max of 50 points.
- The karma you win depends on the final position of selected participant.
- 1st: You get double the karma wagered + % of karma other users bet on the other participants
- 2nd: You get what you bet. You don’t loose karma.
- 3rd: You get half of the bet, You only loose half of the bet.
- Other: You loose all the wagered karma.
- The 3 better participants on the game (1st, 2nd and 3rd) may also get a percentage of karma bet on them.
Hope you like it!
Recent changes
June 24, 20081. Positive votes to Private Messages are not allowed anymore. Although positive votes in PMs was not an important variable for the “algorithm” and it was not taking into consideration when 2 guys were trying to cheat by voting positive to each other’s PMs, it was somehow still happening and to avoid confusion we just took it out.
2. As g2bAndrew suggested, in Rookies is shown the total points obtained by the nominees, we will do it also in Newbies next week.
3. We finished the process to check all users using more than 1 account and added lots of security checks. This information is now used for our own stats but soon we may reduce karma to those users utilizing more than 1 account to cheat in games. In future we will ban these users automatically.
4. Due to this post, we decided to change to n-1 instaed of 3 the number of houseguests involved in POV nomination.
5. Autorefresh is included in all games, not only on those where enrolled.
… and many many performance and security issues that are delaying all our plans 
Super Heroes awards
June 21, 2008Phanne has finally posted the 1st monthly SUPER HEROES Honnor awards, which you may read it on her blog and I reproduce it here (with her permission)
It seems that the winners are:
Best Name: The European aka Ilysa
Best Breasts: The Tranny/Boobguy aka Stiano
Best Superpower: The Distractor aka Rockgoddess
Best Non-green Superhero: The Kohn-Artist aka Kohniva
Best Undercover Agent: Lemonhead aka Umfooanoo
Best Use of Green on a Non-superhero: Brianmertz
And the Lifetime achievement award goes to…..
The Distractor aka Rockgoddess!!
Without the helping hand of the Distractor, the Green Hornets would not have such snazzy outfits, and nice breasts.
Congratulations to the winners! 
