Thanks so much to the designers and builders who have helped make this event a success. They received fabulous prizes and fame and also helped Builderman get some awesome looking places. Hooray!

Design: Briguy9876

All About the Bluesteel Gift of Long Years

By John Shedletsky - March 2, 2008

Those of you who were around for the Christmas gift-giving extravaganza in December will recognize that Telamon has a predilection for giving out cryptic prizes, then cackling madly as people try to figure them out. But this time, I’m going to explain exactly what is going on.

Everyone who logged into ROLBOX on February 29th was awarded the Bluesteel Gift of Long Years (if you missed it, you can grab one now for 95 R$). There were two hints about this. Firstly, leap years, of which 2008 is one, are longer than normal by one day – thus the “gift of long years”. Secondly, the phrase “Julius got it wrong” in the description of the gift is a reference to Julius Caesar, who is responsible for the creation of the Julian Calendar. This calendar called for one leap year every four years and was based off the belief that the Earth orbits the sun in 365.25 days. It’s actually 365.24 days. As a result, the Julian Calendar is broken – becoming increasingly inaccurate at a rate of 14.4 minutes per year. I’m sure everyone wanted to know that.

Builderman’s Places Sneak Peeks!

By Reese McBlox - February 23, 2008

The teams of builders are working hard to complete the winning places by Sunday. I think not all of them will be quite ready but the ones that are done will be put up on Builderman’s place as they are finished.

I snuck into some of the places while the builders weren’t looking and snapped some pics. All the places are coming along great! Remember that these are not finished places we are looking at. Some things may change! In a few of the pics I made it hard to see the whole thing on purpose. You will just have to be surprised.