New Site!

Briguys Roblox is now at www.briguy.co.cc I hope to move it to a .com domain soon, when I can come accross some money.

Go to the new site now!

Note: Things are still being buggy and the site may go down once in awhile.

Special thanks goes out to my friend Randall for turning my old computer into a server.

Note again: The old authors of the site need to talk to me to set up their new accounts.

Moving?

Briguy’s Roblox might be moving to another webhost. No, that doesn’t mean that you have to remember any new URL’s. I should be able to forward you from this site to the new one.

As for now, please be patient as the site could go down from time-to-time until the move is permanent. Kthxbai!

–Briguy

MOAR WRITERS!?!?!

Yes. Today we welcome Robotdude109. A bit of a newbie, but hey, I don’t care. He will be writing place reviews (which we so desperately need) for now.

But do you want to keep track of who writes what? There is a widget on the side bar that shows you the current post made by each writer of Briguy’s Roblox, along with the option to click on our names and show ALL the posts we have posted. Awesome, no?

–Briguy

Devs working hard or game hardly working?

It has become evident that the devs have been working hard. Very hard indeed.

Animations!

The devs have released animation to the testing site. It looks great. Want to see it?

Of course, I am thinking wayyy outside the box. What about the users? How will we be able to use animations? Will we have to program every single little movement? Some new “animation studio”? Will there be preset movements? Will we have access to them at all? Questions which should be answered this February.

Contests!

I’m sure many of the older users have wondered “What happened to the contests?” Well, they are coming, with a brand new system to help it along! You can enter places into the system, and users can vote on a scale of 1-5 how epik it was. This does raise some concern. Will people vote without visiting? Will people create many alts to get their votes up? Will people bribe each other to vote? Why am I asking so many questions?!

Loopkilling BEGONE!

In a release sent out a few days ago, a patch was released that stopped loopkilling (the users know already, get off my back Reese. :3) This is a great step, as it will finally allow users to get on with their game in peace. Yay, world peace!

ZOMG OPINIONS!

While I was looking at the comments to the animation video, someone posted something along these lines:

Why don’t you spend less time on the game and fix the community?

Well, it’s a simple answer: The devs can’t change human nature. Telamon isn’t Dr. Manhattan. Get over it. The community is hard to teach and keep track of. All the mods do is punish those who cross the line. Sooner or later people start getting closer to the line, then we push them back, and the whole cycle starts. It’s something that can’t be changed. Oh well.

–Briguy

(Note: My podcast host died. So I can’t do my final podcast of the season until I get it back)

News Today!

Lets check the news!

Hats for Haiti Success!

The Roblox “Hats for Haiti” program has finished, and the results are astounding. Over $5,000 had been raised and donated to the Red Cross. $5000 is definitely nothing to scoff at. You can read more on the Ro-blog.

Time to “set” up some sets!

Sets have just been released. Sets are essentially a group of models put together by you. This way, you can create sets for your games, or create sets from other models, all in one convenient place. Sets also comes with a new insert tool (which is still being de-bugged) and a nice new page on your “My Roblox” toolbar.

Items of the week!

Roblox is now releasing “Items of the Week.” Each week, they will release 1 special hat and 1 special gear that will be available for 1 week ONLY. After that, it goes off sale (and may even become collectible later.) This is great, because it gives everyone a week to get some monies before the item goes away.

New on BG-RBLX

(Is BG-RBLX a bad shortening of our name. I digress)

I changed the theme so that the pages are easily seen and accessed. I also turned on ratings for posts. Hopefully this will keep you entertained until I figure out where this blog is going. (and by going, I mean moving to a real host or not)

Enjoy the wrap-up!

–Briguy

Happy Birthday, Briguy’s Roblox!

Today marks the 2 year anniversary of Briguy’s Roblox. Wow. 2 years. And still going strong. It’s almost nostalgic to think of how this all started. A simple idea. Guides. All I wanted to do was to help people have more fun in their games, because with my help they knew how to get to the next level, get the winning capture, or make the final blow.

Briguy’s Roblox was the second-to last Roblox-sponsored blog. It was me, Wonkakid (www.robloxnews.com), Kanaju (robloxtimes.wordpress.com), and SonicBoy (robloxdirect.wordpress.com) and now, almost none of those sites are active. Why? When the devs took the links to our blogs off the Roblox site, things really went downhill. We kept on going with the hope that the people who visited our site through Roblox would take that one extra step to type the link into the address bar.

And for me, it worked. Before, the most views I had in one day, was the first day my site was put on Roblox. That record was beaten last March, when the devs made the test server widely known, and every hit that day was from searches of “roblox test server”

The summer and fall of 2009 was better than the first few months of being endorsed. People never stopped coming.

So Briguy’s Roblox will continue to live on.

–Briguy

Roblox is helping!

I was pleasantly surprised when Roblox took the liberty of donating money to the Red Cross to help everyone in the Haiti disaster. If you buy one of the Haiti hats, Roblox Corp. will donate money to the red cross. It’s a nice gesture that shows that roblox, the users, and everyone cares. Thanks to everyone that bought one so far, and buy one if you haven’t already!

–Briguy

How to make some quick Robux

Everyone is wondering: How do I get more Robux? Well,  you can get some the same way people get money in real life: Investing.

Place 1 to invest: In the Robux itself

The Currency Exchange may seem like a place only for people with a PHD in mathematics, but it’s actually quite simple. The price of 1 Robux fluctuates every time people make a trade. When Robux is in high demand, the value of Robux goes up. When the demand for Tix goes up (which it rarely does) the value of the Robux goes down. So how does one make money on it? When the value of Robux is low, change your Tix into Robux. When the Robux is high, change your Robux into Tix.

For example, say the value of 1 Robux is 8 tix (which is normal). I would then trade all my Tix into Robux. Lets say for easy following I traded in 80 tix. I would get 10 Robux back. Then I wait for the value to get higher, say to 1:10 (1 RX = 10 Tix). So now I trade my 10 Robux in to get 100 tix. I just made a profit of 20 tix. Then I wait for the value to go back down to trade my new 100 Tix into 12 Robux. I just made 2 robux with a petty amount of 80 tix. Then you can trade bigger and bigger values to make a KILLING on robux.

2. Buy Limited Edition hats

Limited Hats are simply collectors items. They go by one simple rule: The less of them there are, the more it’s worth. I just watched as the Red Grind hat sold only 100 hats for only 7 Robux. The result? The lowest price for said hat is now around 2,500 Robux. Wow! After the “Marketplace Tax” you would make a profit of around 2,200 Robux. That’s  a lot of Robux! And better yet, this all happened in the first day!

Now remember, the less LE hats that are being sold, the more it is worth, and will be worth more as the rarity goes up (note: the price/rarity can also dip: Keep your eye on the current lowest price and try to match it)

BIG TIP: Unlike the Currency Exchange, you MUST pay a %10 tax when you sell an item. So when you put it up for sale, be sure the price is over 110% of what you bought it at. For example, If I bought a hat for 200 RX, I should sell it for MORE than 220 RX. 220 RX minus the 200 I bought it at leaves 20. 10% of the original price is 20. So after taxes, the loss is 220. If I don’t sell it for higher, you will LOSE money. After you hit “update” it will give you a profit after taxes. Be sure this is higher than what you bought it for!

That is all I have for now. Be sure to keep your eye on Briguy’s Roblox for some more tips!

–Briguy

ROBLOX Gold Edition?

Recently Telamon posted on his twitter something about ROBLOX Gold edition. What is this exactly, we do not know. This is all Telamon said,

“Thinking about ROBLOX Gold Edition.”

but later said,

“Actually I don’t think I was supposed to mention Gold Edition. Forget about it for now.”

This, I am guessing is a big project coming up. What do you think this could be? Leave a comment

–Nexx

From Briguy9876: Well I think that if was really a project, Telamon wouldn’t reveal it like that. I think he is either messing with everyone, or its some big PR stunt. Well, not really big….or a stunt…but still….

Guides

Roblox place guides. The very thing that started this blog and moved it so far along, are impossible to make these days. I’ve tried every place and nothing seems too worthy of a guide. I’ve also allowed users to PM with guides (free advertising much?) but no one even tries it.

So heres another offer: If you know of a place thats really worthy of a guide (Ex: Tipover) then post it in the comments. Also, if you have a great place, but people get confused, be sure to PM me with a guide and I will take a look. Remember, the place creator knows the place best!

–Briguy