Guys lets be clear..

I've read up a bit, and I've come to the following conclusions:

The Dev(s) are no PR geniuses, they lack professional communication skills while handling complaints and/or criticism (I'm not technical enough to say if these complaints are legit though, but nevertheless).
But IMHO that can be fixed, just appoint someone with proper community handling experience and/or skills to handle these issues.

Of course this is a great coin, but I do see this hurting the coin integrity to some extent.

This is in NO WAY a (personal) attack on the devs, because I believe in their dedication and they're not in it for the PUMP and DUMP.

Please take this post seriously Devs, this could make a huge difference for the future of LOT.

I have worked hard to make this happen, and I wish people would recognize it and be happy about it. I do not see alot of people do great things for this coin, all I do is for this coin, have started 3 giveaways, got us 700likes at our facebook page and been in constant contact with sites that could add LOT, one of them RapidBalls, and their owner is very excited about LottoCoin.  I just wish all the negativity would stop and we could start recognizing people that are pushing the coin forward.

Cheerios!

+1

Nice! Does anyone know whether work on an escrow-like service has advanced yet?
Furthermore, I've already worked on back-ends for casino like games such as poker (currently only supporting Texas Hold 'em, both heads-up and ring), but transferring funds appears to be a hassle.

Exactly.  Like the user (I am to lazy to go back and look) who spoke directly to Nut and Deviant about having the fix to patch their pools.

And the slide rule / bounty scale down is an absolute necessity.  

For instance, the new lotto game rapidballs owner says "Please can you confirm what bounty you guys can come up with?"

My answer....you get nothing...zero...and now go to the end of the line.
He was approached by Hampuz who said their was a bounty of 1mil (and at that time I believe 1 of 3 bounties was taken).  
RapidBalls put LOT on the back burner and all bounties were taken by the time he responded (more have been added now..I only thought there was 3 originally).
RapidBalls is already making money off just offering the coin on his lotto games.  The vig on all those games and coins is plenty enough.
*no offense meant towards Hampuz, if any was taken. Hampuz is a huge win for this community. RapidBalls is a greedy and greasy slimeball taking advantage of someone's good will.

I think in business and coin development there is a very fine line between compromise and being run over.  IF we allow services to run us over they will continue to do so.  Not a good spend for the premine or public opinion.

The idea of operating on scarcity (no bug fixes) or out of hunger or need to be on cryptsy will run us into the ground.  Act like LOT is worth .1 BTC and accept nothing less when offering bounties and possibly accepting services.

Do we want more publicity/exposure through a rapid ball lottery or any service that ran us over or
more publicity/exposure from telling services to f off if you put us in the corner.

Surround ourselves with only those that want us to do better and will help facilitate that then we can only go up.

The rest will take care of itself then.  imho.

Deposited 50,000 LOT. Got this message: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 84 bytes) in /home/lottocoi/public_html/lottogame/include/classes/class.db.php on line 183

@casinocoin

It's very little but I just donated 30 CSC to your address. 

IMO, I think it's best to lower the max bets for the first few days to ensure everything works well without anyone winning/losing HUGE amounts.

Some other rough ideas:
1. Create a new thread with a CSC promotion for a bonus 10 CSC to the first 500 new registrations. (or whatever number is feasible)
2. Have a point system for those who play or donate. (More points for those who donate) The more casino points you get, you become Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum etc level and you get more perks such as 1% deposit bonuses with a max of 10/20/40/80 CSC per deposit per user level etc. (This is all just example numbers of course)
3. Create a CSC mining pool within the casino and charge a lowo fee to provide some extra fund to the casino.

Will it replace money? No, just as credit-cards and ATM cards have not replaced money. Because you can easily launder money, and hide it, and keep its transactions anonymous. BTC transactions are not anonymous, only the individuals identity of ownership is anonymous. It is not the same thing. You can actually send physical money anonymously, and no-one would ever know you sent it to anyone, or who sent it, other than you. Well, the person who gets it, would know they got it, and might record it, but they would not know who it came from. As opposed to sending a BTC, which records the send and the receive.

it should be on more prestigious markets

such as cryptsy.

FrozenCoin