Faucet-o-naut Serial: Mart2000 report: Preliminary: "Hey Ma, It Works!!!"

1. I'm sure the most important thing to many people is that I successfully earned and cashed out 1014 satoshi:-

Before playing: balance: 5750 satoshi
After playing: balance: 6764 satoshi

2. OK, it took a while, but as I wrote above I do have an antique Sony Experion (X10i) about 10 years old maybe? It has severely limited resources so really, don't let this worry you.

3. I was a little surprised to see an Xapo advert, yet it didn't let me enter my Xapo *email* address as some other faucets do. If their promo is still on, then we could be receiving an extra 50% on all earnings.

4. Some (mutable) sound effects would be uber-cool. Especially when we kill the wave of aliens, so we know we won

5. You are right that the gameplay calculations need some attention. Maybe a difficulty factor for each alien/group? So that one that is difficult (the left/right slider alien) gets say 1.1 times the payout? Or those pesky purple aliens we get 1.5 times! Uh-oh! Look! they are invading this post already!
 
6. Above all really: It is an amazingly STABLE APP. even on my steam-powered "smart" phone. Many apps crash, freeze, and generally mess people about even when they have current devices (read some of the comment/reviews to see what i mean,and some of those people charge you money for them. I wonder if the bitcoinaliens Android app is the first app that PAYS YOU ?

7. For a beta release all I can add is: Well Done, Great Job to bitcoinaliens and the Developer!!
(now just don't go breaking it OK? )


Nanu Nanu Peace out (Robin Williams RIP)

Is there no end to bitcoinaliens' awesome-ness ?
Is there such a word as awesome-ness ?
Why am I asking all these silly questions?

The last one is probably due to lack of sleep! I promised myself a nap a while ago, but I simply must try this out on my l'il old Sony Ericsson first!

If it works on this ol' thing it should work on a piece of string and two tin cans (ask your parents LOL )

I'll let you know how i get on Daniel D'Alien

@bitcoinaliens If I can make a suggestion? I believe that on this forum you can go back and edit your original post. If you could put up a numbered FAQ hosted somewhere that answers these questions, and then link to them from the first post, it might just help. (Be careful of SM's terms, I just read them (I now have a headache!) and helping people *too* much could be an issue for SM). The numbering is so that those of us trying to help others can just type, "please read FAQ #99" or like that.

In a forum you will always get some people who just assume that everybody is here for their benefit and just ask instead of doing a little own research. It's a "cost of doing business" ;-)  I see it as no publicity is bad publicity. What if this topic vanished off the front page of the forum? (not likely but you see what I mean?)

Another common "habit" of new users is to read the first post and then hit "Reply" - often they don't even realise that their question has been answered a gazillion times before.

Daniel, I think you are doing a quite incredible job (ahem [cough] except for my occasional pleas re: my coinad account mart2013 ) So I am more than happy to do my best in helping the new users in to the weird and wacky world of bitcoin and the weirder and wackier, but highly profitable world of Planet Uruk

Your Mileage May Vary (YMMV)
Mart.

Yeuccchhhh!!!!! Yes, I have seen those in the past, but usually only when I have spent an hour or two surfing lots of faucets.

You say you are "refreshing". Do you mean refreshing the Page? That may be causing problems.

Just now (ugh zimagez is playing games )


See those three grey boxes in the bottom right corner? If you hold your mouse pointer steady over them, a tooltip will popup telling you briefly what each one does. (Sorry if it sounds like I'm taking down at you - just making sure I cover all the bases).
The first one (circular arrow) gets you a new image. The next one "speaks" a capTcha (never had much luck with that one!)
The third one [ ? ] gets you the help screen. Click that one and then click the big blue  [ Report a Problem ] button.

I have found that sometimes, mention that you need to solve many capTchas, they clear your "block" within a few hours.

No guarantees, but I hope that helps.

I think you may need to contact your Internet Service Provider (ISP) but first you can confirm that weekendbitcoin is truly OK by going to http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/weekendbitcoin.com and seeing what it reports.

Sorry I can't be of more help on this one. Good Luck!

BitcoinAliens / WeekendBitcoin do not control the capTcha's.

There was some discussion about this a page or two back, and the general feeling is that if you do a large number of capTcha's in a short time period the the capTcha company (SolveMedia) may make them harder to read, finally becoming impossible. Sounds crazy, but originally these systems were designed for e.g. buying tickets and like that where once per day is more usual.

Your best bet might be:-
1. to take some time out, especially from any other faucets.
2. report the unreadable capTcha's using the Help  [ ? ] button.

Hope that helps.

Working fine here (UK) syamster.

What error messages are you seeing?

I would say I am 99.99999 recurring % certain that it is dead. As for closing the topic, read the post immediately above yours.

HTH,
M.

Ummm... The new S'ru'un Alien may have been my fault... I mentioned that I had a long sequence of Frogs (Ribbit!) and maybe Daniel D'alien took pity on me! Perhaps he kissed the Frog and instead of a beautiful Alien Princess, we got ...


Not only are BitcoinAliens and WeekendAliens the Highest paying, Easiest, faucets out there, but we have Daniel D'Alien to keep us on our toes and make the whole thing like a story/game. Enjoy!!

(And please be sure to support his sponsors)

Mart
(not connected to BitcoinAliens except as a very happy Fauceteer! or should that be Faucet-o-naut? )

Reply from Forum moderator
 

@syamster  what does this test site say for you? http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/weekendbitcoin.com

@LordOfCoin, I would (really!)  defend to my death your right to express an opinion, but that does not mean I must agree with you. What "garbage text" are you referring to? Can you screen print it and then upload / paste it here?

@Ryu Hunter, Exactly

@adzino bookmark or somehow keep this link: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/weekendbitcoin.com
Next time the weekendbitcoin site is down for you, it will independently test and tell you if it's up or not. My ฿ 0.001 is on "It's just you If I'm right, contact your ISP. - Hope that Helps.

Hi Dan ( bitcoinaliens )

Congrats on taking over coinad.com I must be one of the few who needs to thank Carlos because while I was using it last year, it worked and paid OK.

I see the Terms still say, "After 30 days of inactivity, your account will be permanently suspended."

I guess I fell into that hole, could you un-suspend my account: mart2013 please?

I am subscribed to both bitcoinaliens and weekendbitcoin newsletters and NO WAY can they be described as "spam". We opted in to receive them! and the content is usually interesting and useful.
It is a little frustrating to get reminded of CoinAd when I can't login though LOL )

I just now wrote this topic's moderator
or is it a case of "It ain't over till the fat lady sings" ?

Yes, they are fun though I think I have seen all the games now. They need some new ones

There are Pro's and Con's for all the capTcha* types.

• The Program (Faucet) owners prefer the ones that are hardest to crack, and if the capTcha pays a little too that's a bonus
• The cheats and thieves prefer the ones that are easiest to crack.
• The honest users prefer the ones that don't mess them about, and if they are fun to do, well that's a bonus

SolveMedia is a good compromise, and a good choice IMHO. If you get an impossible one that could mean you are blocked for "over-use". Try clicking the Help (?) button and report it. That sometimes clears your block a little sooner.

**** If bitcoinaliens could make it so we can choose which capTcha type, and cookie that for say an hour or two, returning to HIS favourite type after a while, that could help.

OR, do as I do and treat it as a reminder that I have been clicking too long and you should go get some sleep or kiss your wife or say hello to your children... 





* Why do I capitalise the T? Strictly speaking it should be written CAPTCHA. The T stands for a name, Turing, aka Alan Turing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing I use a capital in honour of a young man who probably saved 10,000 or more lives.

Don't let that newbie tag fool you ;-)

I need to get some sleep, but if I dream up any ideas for you I'll be sure to let you know.

Thanks as always
Mart

Pssst! Don't tell anybody but... over on http://www.weekendbitcoin.com

Thank you, here is your 10,000 satoshi

No sir, Thank YOU bitcoinaliens!

YW, and yes, I've seen those "SolveMedia" ones on other faucets, usually if I've been having a long fauceting session. I think there is a link to report them as "unsolvable" somewhere on the overall box. Though I usually take it to mean it's time I got some shuteye and hit the hay LOL

Glad the ReCapTcha ones are working for you! Happy Hunting!

And a very good morning to you too

bitcoinaliens has no control over the capTcha display...
Working for me just now, what are you seeing? A screenshot would help me to help you.

WHOOPSIE ?

In the "This week in Bitcoin" newsletter that BitcoinAliens sent out approx one hour ago it says,
I think that last line was included by accident, but I could be wrong!