That's truly good news.
Please let us know what one has to do to opt out of the game so one cannot get attacked.

No you are not missing anything.
Even on level 20 (where I am), even including the market with options to sell cards and stuff, even if you remain active 16 hours a day, hardly ever miss an energy refill (which I can do because I'm retired and have loads of spare time), even including referrals (where I have some 50), the site pays far less than $2 per month, meaning becoming a patron is always a secure loss in money, meaning this is something you do only if you're willing to donate to the site because you like the site more than your money.

Dear Jamboom,

apparently you got the message that players don't like the upcoming battle system, but somehow you didn't get the point.
I am not "concerned about the Spy and Battle system" as you wrote in todays news update, I downright plain and simple do not want to battle other players.
Whether a player cannot lose cryptos, but just cards and crystals, I don't care, I don't want to battle.

If you insist on implementing this system, that's your right, after all you're the owner of the site and you make the rules, but if I don't like the rules you make, I will leave and not use your site anymore and I believe I'm by far not the only one who thinks this way.
I wish you luck in finding users who like this, it's just not for me.

If it were an optional game, where a player can choose to either join the battles or stay away, that would be a different story, I'd stay away from the game and still use the rest of the site.
That way you could have the best of both ends, players who like the combat could enjoy the game and users who don't want to battle could benefit from selling their cards in the market to those who love the combat.

Just in case it might help you understand me, here's why I don't like the idea:

In the current system I can go to sleep or to work or be offline for some other reason and I can plan with the mining boosts at what time I have to come back to restart mining and launch missions.
With the battle system implemented I imagine I will come back and find myself having lost my crystals, meaning I cannot restart mining and my whole schedule is messed up.

Furthermore, this is a P2P game, meaning in the overall balance of all players combined, there's nothing to gain, a player can gain something only if another player loses something.
I assume there is some kind of random factor involved that decides about the chances of winning or losing and that means in the long run ALL players will play this game literally for nothing, there's only the always present chance that one wakes up one day and cannot restart mining because all crystals are gone.

Same error as several dozen times before.
There just isn't any maintenance on the server until it crashes and this time the crash was way overdue, because nearly all functions were either heavily lagging or not working at all.

If they do the same they did the previous times, it will take a day or so until they notice the server crashed and from then on another few hours until they have cleaned out the data and restarted the server.
Hopefully after that for a week or two their server will work smooth again, before these problems start all over again.

Am I the only one here who doesn't like this at all?
I dislike this so much, I'm seriously considering to leave CMG at the day of the update.

Help me out guys, post your opinion about this, I can't imagine there would be many users who like this.

Rational would be to know what a faucet is and subsequent not keeping so much value in the balance of a faucet account.
This is nothing particularly related to CMG, more to faucets in general, but the cases where users get banned from faucets only because their balance became bigger than the faucet could afford to pay out are countless.

In the specific case of CMG it is absolutely obvious that the site either cannot or doesn't want to afford paying more than roughly $1 per month for an average user, maybe $2 for very active users.
This means it doesn't matter how you manage to get to a higher balance, fair or not, within the rules or not, makes no difference, the fact remains, the site will not pay more than $2 per month and user and any attempt to get more out of it will get you in trouble.

@Jamboom
Not sure if it helps you any, but I know this user, not for real but from seeing the name in the marketplace.
He's one of those using the marketplace like a trading platform, offering trading pairs for a spread, not sure whether you'd consider that abuse, but there's literally no way this could be a  bot, because he's adjusting the pairs he trades in such fine adjustments (as in reacting to other users offers) that no bot could do that.

Either way, here's my 5 cents about the "abuse" part.
I believe for a good part the site itself causes the abuse, because it opens the opportunity in the first place, let me explain why.

Your withdrawal minimum for LTC is (converted to US$ at todays price) roughly $0.30
Your withdrawal minimum for BTC is (converted to US$ at todays price) roughly $4.00

where your site pays an average user roughly $1 a month, meaning in LTC one can get to payout in about 10 days, while in BTC it takes about 4 months.
This obviously leads to a gigantic demand for LTC, because 99% of all users don't stay on your site for 4 months, but quite a few users stay about 10 days, meaning they want to sell everything (cards, crystals, etc.) and trade all other coins to LTC, so they can take a withdrawal before they leave.
Now for one the option to trade with other users highly increases the withdrawal requests, simply because more users reach the minimum before leaving, for two this opens a real profitable trading opportunity for long term users, where selling LTC for BTC can fetch roughly 50% profit, which is so much profit that users like alya can offer trades the other way around at a 25% loss and still turn a profit.
Users like me, who are frequently too lazy to setup an own exchange offer sell LTC to users like alya and new users buy from alya ...... doesn't require a bot, just plain logic and a bit of understanding for how trading works.

About the same thing happens with trades for crystals and cards.
Only new users in their first week or so need more crystals than they get from missions, latest from level 15 on active users find more crystals than they need.
Your boost section charges extremely overexaggerated prices for crystals and cards, i.e. you ask 8,000sat for 1,000 crystals (plus a chest), while crystals are entirely worthless for long term users, meaning they sell them in the market for roughly 100 sat per 1,000 crystals, which turns out to be what new users are willing to pay.
You charge 2500 sat for 100 bronze or 50 silver or 25 gold cards, while the price in the marketplace is somewhere around 50 sat for these cards.

In short, I would agree, the marketplace shouldn't be a trading platform where users make money by trading for a spread, but it's up to you Jamboom to change that, not by banning active users, but by equalizing withdrawal minimums and adjusting prices in the boost section.
Remember many, many pages ago, when you first announced this marketplace? When I doubted you would allow users to freely set prices?
Well, THIS is why I had my doubts, I just couldn't imagine you'd make obvious to new users how overpriced your boost section is.

Not long ago some other faucet had a promotion for a signup somewhere, that actually paid 5,000 sat just for the signup.
Apparently the site has bet that from the total of users signing up a sufficient amount would later on use the site.
The same faucet also had a promotion that paid 650,000 sat for a signup that required a 10 EUR deposit, meaning one had a net gain of about $50 (yes, I did get that paid and was able to withdraw it to my wallet).
So it's not impossible that such a promotion can exist, it's just that without ANY information about requirements, let alone clear ones, I hesitate doing a wild signup on a gambling site, especially while the banners CMG now has all over the place lead to the very same link without promising 10,000 sat.

I never bothered cheating anywhere, therefore I don't even know how one could.
I also see faucets as a hobby, not because I make money elsewhere, but because I don't need any money, I'm retired and have my finances secured.

But then, I see faucets as a hobby that pays me a little pocket change, therefore I do not only not become a patron for a price higher than what the faucet pays, I also don't use faucets where the electricity of running my computer exceeds the value they pay.
When I got started with faucets, having tons of spare time, I claimed from 100 faucets in parallel, until I discovered how useless that is.
Over the last year I've dropped almost all faucets I used to claim from, CMG is (for a reason I'm not even sure of) the very last low paying faucet I still use, where by now the electricity my computer costs already exceeds the value CMG pays.
I've been close to dropping CMG a few times in the past, basically every time an "update" resulted in a cut of payout and I'm still not sure why I sticked to it, but I can tell you, if V2 becomes what I expect it to become, which is a 50% cut in virtual mining reward due to all HP over 1000 moved to a token, I'll be out.
If CMG becomes a P2P gaming site, where the only way to make money is to combat other players, I'll be out even faster.

As a user I simply don't care how a site handles cheaters, I've been victim of a false positive cheat detection myself, where a site had an auto-refresh in their page and then banned me for the reason that I was doing so many page refreshes that only a bot would do that, while all I did was keeping the site open all day.
If I see an obvious cheat, yea, I'll report them as well, but for the question whether or not I keep claiming from a faucet the amount of cheating going on on that faucet is none of my concerns.
I'm always willing to give site owners my point of view and I have a few ideas of how to reduce cheating, but in the end my point of view is just the point of view of a regular user.


Change of topic ...... here's a question regarding todays promotion.
The offer for 10,000 sat for a signup on that gambling site doesn't say anything about requirements.
Will one get 10,000 sat just for a signup without deposit, or only after one has gambled for a given amount of money?

It's as logic as it gets, isn't it?
The amount of fraud on crypto sites is some kind of stable (very high) level, but the amount of regular users is relative to the amount a site pays.
Therefore extremely low paying sites will always have 99% cheaters, while higher paying sites have "only" 90% cheaters, not because there would be less cheaters upon higher pay, but because there are less regular users on low paying sites.

If a site then lowers pay for all users just to stay ahead with their profit over their payouts it becomes an exponentially increasing problem, where ever more regular users leave and the relation between regular users and cheaters becomes ever worse.
Regular users who see their pay lowered and/or get exaggerated amounts of popups do not "thank" the cheaters as one of the articles in the news suggested, they leave.

Might be to play several games in a row?

I have been observing the relation between BTC and LTC for over a year.
As a wild rule of thumb you can take BTC:LTC at an average of about 1:100.
Over the last year the actual course went from roughly 30% above 1:100 to roughly 40% below 1:100 (not sure about the actual peaks).
In the last 3 or 4 days the relation went from almost 40% below to (right now while I'm typing here) 23% below.
Even versus US$ LTC has gained 5.5% in the last 24 hours.
In other words LTC is rising sharply and the PI of LTC is going down because CMG pays NOT a given amount of whatever cryptocoin, but however many cryptos a given value in US$ will be worth.

They are not, someone just typed the wrong name above and from there on it got copied and pasted.

How about never?
They just don't care, because hiring staff to handle these cases costs more than losing the users having this problem.

By my estimate the challenges page currently loses roughly 30% of all multiplier rolls, it takes 15,500 rolls before the challenges page records 10,000 rolls.
Furthermore, however many rolls you do is not counted right away, but roughly an hour later.
But it doesn't stop there, i.e. the challenges page also doesn't count all the bonus stars you accumulate.
Faucet claims frequently do not give the 3 bonus tokens and so on and so on.

This is a VERY old problem, happens every time the server hasn't been restarted for a given amount of time.
The problem increases, meaning the challenges page will lose more and more rolls and the delay before the challenges page counts them will become longer, the longer the server remains without restart.
Sooner or later (unless it gets restarted earlier) the challenges page will not count any multiplier rolls anymore, not long after that the entire site including all the faucet pages will go down.
A day or two after that they will notice, restart the server and from there on for a week or two things will be back to normal, until the whole problem starts over.

The big problem in this is, they do not have any support at all, they simply don't read their email, meaning you can't even let them know when it's time to restart their server.
I actually had the idea, if I sent a mail to mellowads (that's owned by the same people and connected to the coinpot faucets) and told them I ment to put a paid ad on mellowads, but not unless they fix their faucets, maybe that could get their attention, but then I guess chances for that to succeed are smaller than the efford would justify.

Yea well, I didn't expect you not being able to imagine situations where you can't do anything else or don't want to or don't have to for a single minute every day.
The latter is my case, I'm retired, my financial situation is settled and secure, I do this for fun, I just pick out of the faucets there are those that pay the most with the least effort.
The first two case would still match me, even if I weren't retired, because I do this one minute a day alongside my second coffee after breakfast, at a time I wouldn't be able to concentrate for any kind of money making work, even if I wanted to.

Not once an hour, but once a day, when at least 5 of them pay (bonuses included) roughly a penny per claim.
It takes about a minute to do those 7 claims and that's in relation to the time it takes something I'm willing to do, even though a total of about $1.50 a month isn't anything worth mentioning.
In addition I run the multiplier for 10,000 rolls a day, which takes just two clicks to start it and another to close it afterwards and gives 7 cents (minus what the multiplier loses) in bonus tokens per day, making it a total of roughly $3 a month I can withdraw for a minute of work per day.

Sometimes you get them, sometimes not, depends whether the lag there currently is between the faucet sites and the coinpot site itself gives a timeout in between faucet claim and adding the tokens.
Same way, if you run the multiplier and check on the challenges page how many multiplier rolls you did, you will notice, roughly 20% of all rolls do add or subtract the tokens wagered, but aren't counted in the challenges.

This happens so frequently, I don't even care anymore.
Take the site as is and if that's not enough for you, the only thing you can do is leave.

Two little bug reports:

1) The site frequently switches language to Russian, when coming back from a shortlink.
Not every time and not sure what it depends on, but frequently.

2) It seems the site doesn't reset daily shortlink usage when I have used precisely 100 times "shortest" but none of the others.
Not sure whether it depends on the "precisely" or something else, but today is the 2nd time in the last 2 weeks this happened to me.

Edit: the 2nd one just got fixed, half an hour later than usual, so I assume it was fixed manually.

I'm aware what the withdrawal page says on top of it.
That's why I said ................ and scroll down to the bottom of the page.