You can't.
The percentages of how often you find HP in missions and daily bonus have declined (even though the admin says they have not) and the amount of HP you get IFFF you find any has declined as well.
You can buy HP, but that's expensive and valid only for one year, where one year isn't enough time to get the price of the HP back through increased sats per hour.

Personally, if the price for selling were the same as for buying, I'd love to SELL HP on an annual basis (or would that be called lending then?), because that would make more money instantly than using the HP does in a year.

@clearmaker

thanks for that comment.
Personally I'm one of the best users CMG could have, because I do not use any other website that uses shortlinks, but that doesn't solve the problem for the websites, because users like me are rare.
If faucets were talking to each other and negotiating who can use which shortlink or PTC wall or whatever, 99% of them would have to close, simply because there aren't enough shortlinks for all of the faucets basing their business on them.
But who would volunteer to go away and make room so the others can make profit?
How would you decide who can stay online and who not?

It's capitalism, whatever could make a dime will be swarmed with businesses trying to make that dime, until nobody can make anything anymore and in the end the small business owners pay the bill.
Look at the franchising businesses, same story there.
Countless kinds of shops have long discovered, there is no profit in selling stuff to consumers, because there's a gigantic, ever increasing supply versus a declining demand, therefore they promise franchisers in big words a great career as an independent shop owner, where then the manufacturer sells to the franchiser and the franchisers go bankrupt.

The entire webspace industry doesn't live from consumers using websites, but from website owners paying for the webspace and even that branch of business is going down the drain due to an ever increasing offer of ever cheaper webspace.
Why is it that almost all faucets have massive problems with lagging connections, downtimes, exceeded ressources, etc.?
That's because the site owners all believe cutting expenses could get them into the profit zone while ignoring that the only way into the profit zone is more users, where more users requires better and faster webspace.

I have my own homepage (in my profile) where I pay roughly $30 per year for unlimited space and unlimited traffic, my site has grown over the last 15 years to roughly 2TB (yes with a "T") in size, but I have never had any kind of problem with speed or connections, my site is always up and lightning fast.
Compare that to the $10 or so the super cheap hosters cost and then tell me, what sense is there in saving $20 per year for a business that wants to make 1000s per month?

Thanks for the support ..... and let me answer that question.

Basically it's the same problem as with shortlinks.
Shortlinks pay a given amount of times per day and IP, but for most faucet owners the sentence ends at "Shortlinks pay", they ignore the rest, because IFFF they had to recognize that a shortlink won't pay if the same user has been through the same shortlinks on some other faucet using the same shortlinks, that would break the profit calculation faucet owners do before opening their business.
The result is as logic as can be, 100s if not 1000s of faucets opening every day, competing for the very same shortlinks, all discovering that the majority of shortlinks doesn't pay, not because the shortlinks don't pay but because users are active on many different faucets simultaneously, therefore they run their faucet a few days, lose a few $100 and close their faucet again.

CMG holds some kind of middle ground on this.
They do rely heavily on shortlinks, but they also have some ads directly on the site, therefore CMG survives longer than most other faucets, because they always have their direct revenue.
But the effect is already visible in small changes leading to a steady decline in payouts.
From the daily bonus, where the amount of HP you can find there 10% of the time has been cut by 67%, up to the rearrangement of mission levels which has cut mission payout big time, CMG is obviously trying to cut payouts alongside their declining shortlink revenue, which comes out way behind expectation.
But not using shortlinks is out of the question, just like not using PTC walls or this SmoresTV, they can't drop this, because if they did, their profit calculation would turn so deeply red that they would have to close the faucet.

That doesn't mean cutting payout would solve the problem, it just means they are trying to solve an unsolvable problem by creating another problem, because with declining payout users will disappear.
I can tell, because I have a few referrals and I can see that over 90% of my referrals turn inactive after just a few days, about 50% don't even stay one single day.
This is also indicated by the fact that the option to sell a referral pays only a tiny amount, meaning even CMG is aware that not having to pay me referral bonus anymore would result only in a tiny little savings for them.

Has anyone ever wondered why sites set a high withdrawal minimum, like the 50,000 sat CMG sets?
Is that because they have to check on cheaters, or could that be because over 90% of all users disappear before reaching this minimum?
CMG cannot afford a lower minimum payout, just the opposite, they can afford payouts only because over 90% of all the claims made on the faucet never reach a payout request.

There's a solution to this and I have suggested it to Jamboom, I just have to wait until he figures this out on his own and comes back to me one day.

Scroll up, this has been reported several dozen times and the reason is always the same, namely the DDOS protection.

If you keep the page open until the next DDOS check is due, then you click on "Refill 1 energy" it willl not do the DDOS check right away but first popup the choice of shortlink.
Upon click on a shortlink then the DDOS check kicks in, but that then has no way back, because it hangs in between the CMG site and the shortlink.

Same thing on several other things on the site, like restarting virtual mining or launching missions or daily bonus, always the same reason, always DDOS check in between site and shortlink.


..... while I'm writing already, there's a new lag.
You must have changed something in the site, causing the main page to load ahead of the data.
That's fine for the site itself, but now the page hangs in loading the timers just as much as it was lagging before with the whole page.
There isn't much point in the page loading faster, if you then cannot click anywhere until the timers have loaded.

Yes, but at FH you cannot have more than one account per IP and at CMG you cannot withdraw from two accounts to the same wallet.

How does one do that?
My wife would love to join too, but I kept telling her she cannot, because we're on the same IP.

Not that I know, had one kinda recently, not sure how long ago, maybe 3 days.
But it always was a low probability, like once in 30 missions or so, so it's quite natural having a bad streak up to weeks at a time without finding any.

I guess that's the central question here and the answer might be fairly simple.
What do members of society who do not want to use public transportation do with busses and trains?
Answer: They see them, have them available, but they don't get anything out of them.


I believe that's already possible, IFFFFFFFFF there were anyone willing to buy cards.
The problem is, you cannot look into a VMP of someone else to see what they offer unless you join them and therefore you just don't know if the owner of a VMP has put up an offer for buying or selling cards into his exchange.

So what's missing here is a "guest" access to a VMP including an option to use their exchange.

Those are cards to be used in the upcoming game.
The game is not online yet, so you can only wait until it starts and you cannot sell cards.
The cards you have you can view under "Profile - My cards", what they will be worth remains to be seen.

That's been said many times in this thread and if you're in it for the money, then it's true.
This is a game with an entertainment factor and a tiny little payment aside.

If jamboom comes back to me one day and takes my suggestion (which isn't public yet) that might change.
That may take a loooooong time or even never happen, but if you knew what it is, I bet you'd stay on this site just in case it might come true.

I can tell you, as of right now I have 1103 HP and I'm getting 42 sat an hour.
But I haven't bought any of this, I have accumulated the first 1000 HP through missions and the rest through daily bonuses and occasional small mission rewards.
Of course, it took me over half a year and right now, after the cut in HP in the daily bonus it will take you 3 times longer to get there.

But then I don't really see the difference.
If I'm getting 18 sat an hour more, and if I'm online maybe 12 hours a day, that's 216 sat a day, 6480 sat a month or roughly $0.25 per month.
Would 25 cents a month really make such a difference to you?

The site has recently cut the HP you can find in the daily bonus by 67%.
Used to be 0.3 multiplied by the day of the month, now it's only 0.1 times day of the month.

If the value of BTC goes down the rate in virtual mining goes up.
Once in a while you will find a tiny amount of HP in the daily bonus or as a reward for a mission, but it takes years to get to an amount that would make a visible difference.
Other than that you can buy HP, but you can buy HP only with a deposit and you should be aware that the amount you have to deposit to buy HP equals roughly 2 years of virtual mining before you get the investment back, where obviously only after you have the investment back you will have the advantage of more sat per hour.

That's different for every type of coin.
Go to the withdrawal page, choose what to withdraw and where to withdraw to and the page will display the minimum.

How shall I put it?
If it were for the money, I would have left your site roughly 10 minutes after I signed up.
I believe 99% of users on your site aren't in it for the money, simply because in calculation of amount of time invested to value cashed out your site pays less than 1/10 of other sites.

But users do the math and where they don't expect much money from this, they won't invest into the site either.
I mean, what's the point of paying almost 45,000 sat for 1000 crystals that are entirely worthless plus 10 HP?
It will take a user roughly 2 years of uninterrupted virtual mining to get those 45,000 sat back and then that's a value of less than $2.
Personally I currently have almost 9,000 crystals and not the slightest clue what to do with them, just the opposite, just by doing missions I'm getting more crystals than I can use in virtual mining even if I never sleep and keep virtual mining going 24/7.
Why would I pay for more crystals? Why would I pay $2 just to MAYBE get $2 back in 2 years and from then on 5 cents more a month?
This is the crypto world, we can't even be sure whether or not there will be a crypto world in 2 years from now.

Furthermore, for the fun factor of a game ....... well ....... it's just not for me, I don't like war games, never have, never will.
I prefer construction over destruction, i.e. I LOVE games like "Legend of Zelda".
That in combination with not expecting anything of value out of the game is why I've deleted my VMP.

Anyway, if you're convinced users will love your game so much that they are willing to buy cards, then put your money where your mouth is, offer users the reverse option of selling cards for the same amount it costs to buy them and leave it up to the users which way around they prefer.
That's the easiest possible way to find out whether or not your users like the game.
Offer users to sell 1000 crystals plus 10 HP for 45.000 sat and be prepared for almost all users on level 18+ cashing out 400,000 sat by tomorrow.

Glad you remember me though ...... looking forward to you getting back to me on Skype as you said, once you're done with this war game.

May I give you my 5 cents (again)?

Basically I can put it in one short sentence: I've opened a VMP on start and I've deleted it again about 2 weeks ago.

I believe I can speak for almost all long time users of your site when I say, nobody expects anything good from this new game.
The reason is, you don't give any useful information, where useful stands for "how much money can one make in this game and what's the average chance of making any money?"

99.9% of your users have the experience with those lotteries that one never wins a thing, because tickets to a lottery where chances of winning are 0.01% are next to worthless, especially if the max price one could win is less than $5 and the general expectation about this new game is that it will be on the same line.

Wanna make an experiment?
Instead of ever more options to get more crystals nobody needs, make an option in CMG to SELL lottery tickets, crystals and cards for Satoshi.
You'll see, 99% of your users will sell most of their crystals and all of their cards and tickets near instantly.
Maybe that will then tell you that you're working in the wrong direction.

You don't get free STEAM cards, you're getting a gift "ticket", meaning you get a lottery ticket where you could win it.
But the chances of winning are like 0.01%, so I wouldn't expect winning any.

..... nobody forces you to buy power to mine, nor does anyone force the admin to maintain the same performance index.

There is no fairness in business, never was, never will be.
There's only a relation between demand and offer, where those offering goods or services for sale depend on finding someone demanding those goods or services.
If you don't like lower payouts, there's no point in complaining about fairness, you're free to go to some other place and see whether or not you can find a better offer.

Have you looked at the price of gasoline lately?
While prices for crude oil were rising, so was the price at the gas station.
Recently crude oil has dropped in price by roughly $30 a barrel, how much has the price of gasoline at the gas station dropped? Not at all?
Are you complaining about that not being "fair" or do you realize that being the simple law of a free market where the relation between demand and offer makes the price?

You think those who bought BTC at $20K find it "fair" that the price dropped to 3K by now?
Do you believe those who sold BTC at 20K last year should now be "fair" and buy back BTC at the same price?

What "should" and should not be is up to the site, not up to you.
What you calculate for ROI is of no concern to the site.
If you buy shares of BMW, you may check the dividend they paid in the past and calculate your ROI, but you do not get the slightest guarantee that they will pay the same dividend next year.