so, i’ve heard this funny rumor that you can level all the way to 101 in metaplace in just a few days by signing up a whole bunch of fake accounts to sorta game our “earn 10,000 coins for each person you invite!” system.
the good news: yes! yes, you can! in fact, go do it now! sign up a bunch of fake accounts and get yourself to level 101! woot! you’ll even have massive amounts of coins too! buy everything! yay!
…
okay.
are all the dumb ones gone now?
they are?
great.
now, the bad news: if you do that, you’re painting yourself a “blue cheater” for everyone to see. guaranteed to get snowballs and tomatoes hurled at you on sight.
lemme explain.
something that’s not really that widely known about our metacred system is that you get “typed metacred.” it’s typed to either builder, player or socializer depending on what you did to earn it. so, you go visit lots of worlds, you get lots of “player” metacred. you sell a module on the marketplace, you get “builder” metacred. and, yes, even everytime you meep someone, you get a tiny little bit of “social” metacred.
there are lots of things you can do on the platform that get you different amounts of all these different kinds of metacred. inviting people to the platform is one of them. in fact, you get a CRAP-TON of social metacred for inviting people.
now, here’s where the “blue” part comes in.
if you look at everyone’s level ring, a careful observer may notice that the three colors surrounding are in different distributions — that’s not random. purple is build metacred. green is play metacred. blue is social metacred. so, you can tell a person’s play style just by looking at their metacred ring.
cool, huh?
now, let’s look at a few legitimate level 101s.
here’s kstarfire, crwth, legend, truffle and xuemei. notice a common theme? sure! all their rings are really, really heavy purple.
interesting!
there’re basically 3 reasons why:
- you almost always earn metacred tiny bits at a time. (the 10,000 for inviting someone is the exception)
- you need to earn that tiny amount an ungodly number of times to make it all the way to level 101. (several hundred thousand metacred 50 or so at a time…)
- earning build metacred is “passive” unlike the “active” way you earn play or social metacred. (how you gain build metacred for someone buying one of your plugins and you’re not even online, for example)
heh. now, let’s look at a few other people: [EDITOR’S NOTE: names removed to protect the not-so-innocent] hrm. let’s see — on the platform for two weeks or less, level 101 and their rings are almost all social blue… busted!
now, that’s not to say that everyone who is all blue is bad. those lower level folks who are blue? they’re the early believers bringin’ their posse with them! they’re the tip of the spear! they’re the prophets! they’re the influencers and they think metaplace is AWESOME ENOUGH TO SHARE! they should be celebrated and held shoulder-high!
it’s just the one’s with the big, big level who are all blue. if it was legit, they’d have to be like aplusk or oprah or (more likely) some famous blogger — regardless, they’re someone we’d all know and they brought the herds.
besides, inviting fake accounts is dumb. the real payoff for inviting people isn’t in the “YOU GET 10,000 COINS!!!” part. it’s the quiet, smaller text at the bottom — you earn 10% of what they earn. since it takes 200,000 metacred or so to get to level 60, when your friend gets there, they’ve netted you twice the initial 10k just in residual earnings!
shhhh…
*glances left*
*glances right*
the real secret to gaming metaplace?
invite a bunch of badass builders — you earn 10% of what they make selling all their badass items. then, just sit back and watch all the coins, fame and riches come rolling in!
m3mnoch.
