Toe in the Water

Messages in the Night

Messages in the Night

I have fallen into the habit, when I wake up for my nightly pee, of taking the opportunity to fire up ye olde computer and checking to see that folks on WdC are behaving themselves. Part of this ritual is to open Messenger and hoover up any spare gift points lying around in the little word games it offers. And that is how I’ve noticed a curious anomaly.

The rewards for these games are much smaller at night than they are during the daytime.

At a guess and not having been interested enough to calculate the thing over stats recorded during a lengthy period of time, I would estimate the rewards as 50% of the day rate. And that’s not even considering the fact that far fewer games are offered at night.

It’s not that I’m overly concerned about the matter, living in the blessed time zone known as WdC Eastern Standard Time as I do, but I wonder at the mind that did the extra programming to ensure that the (presumably random) operation of the games should have a built in prejudice against the antipodes and Asia. What can be the reason for this apparently deliberate isolation of the eastern hemisphere of the planet into a state of gift point poverty?

Thinking about it, I have decided that what governs the frequency of the games and value of the prizes is the number of people in Messenger at the time. So the value goes up when there are lots to compete and drops when numbers are low.

Therefore, my benighted and unhappy upside down friends and denizens of the far east, the solution lies in your own hands. Recruit others in your region to WdC and Messenger and the payment is, at least partially, in the form of gift points.


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