User blog:Robin Patterson/Gold from friends

You know how hard you try to click at just the right time for the one or two gold pieces friends can get, every 12 hours or so?

I sometimes wonder how accurate is the information you get. Tonight I clicked on the usual place and was told that one friend had had gold "unclaimed for 13 seconds". Within about 2 seconds of that appearance, i.e. about 15 seconds after it had allegedly become available, I clicked to claim it. Imagine my irritation on being told: "Sorry, there's no Gold in Janice's profile right now!

"The last Gold was found there 19 seconds ago (by another Gold hunter!)"

Logically, that means it was claimed by someone else 3 or 4 seconds before it was available to me.