Sent you a PM.  Hopefully we can get this sorted momentarily

It was a clone. It's also not tradable for LTC because I've suggested keeping it out of exchanges for the time being because until there is a strong enough network of small services on board, the coin has no value. (Something that these dozens of failed coins' developers didn't seem to understand,).  In the greater scheme of things, the fact that GME has a high reward is totally irrelevant.  It just means more supply going around, which is a stable system would ultimately just lead to proportional prices (You'll notice the Yen is significantly smaller than the US Dollar, all that means is that exchanged denominations are usually larger.)
tl;dr the value of individual coins is not as relevant as the value of the total circulation of the coin, and that value is currently not at a satisfactory level for listing on an exchange to be a wise option.

Also, it sounds to me like that Ixian guy wasn't successful, given the past tense.  So it sounds like that may not be a viable strategy

I really am sorry that this coin isn't what you think it should be.  But hey, the source is on github

Thanks for the input, I can tell by your post count that you've been here quite a while, so I appreciate you taking the time to do a little reading and give us your two cents.

You might need to read a little closer, GameCoin wasn't launched for a specific game (Actually, it seems it was totally launched by the original dev as an obvious scamcoin, they did't bother swapping out logos or even changing the ticker from FTC!)
However, thee are a couple games with links near the bottom of the main post which accept and distribute GME.

The main reason I took over the GME project once I saw it had been abandoned is more of a curious interest than anything else.  I'd toyed with the idea of a coin that could be marketed an in-game rewards/commodity, but more an an incentive program that a standard and official currency.  It would be encouraged that game studios develop thier games with GameCoin support as an extra: distributing GME as in-game rewards (to bring players in that might want to collect GME) and/or accepting GME in exchange for in-game bonuses.

This coin won't be particularly profitable in the short term, so the biggest challenge is coming up with incentives and profit opportunities to keep the miners here, because it seems a lot of people are looking for relative small short-term gains rather than to be part of something larger.  More than anything I was looking to build/work with something neat, and add another open-source project I can cite contributions to.

tl;dr At the moment this coin can be sen as very similar to the scamcoins, provided you look at it from the perspective of someone hoping for a short-term gain.  We've got piles of ideas and plans, but until they are put into action and show results, they are exactly that.  Those who will benefit from GME will do so a little further down the line, and they'll be the few who see the potential of said plans.

Can you clarify?  These two statements seem entirely contradictory.  How can there be a huge premine if there is no blockchain to save?

We adopted development of this coin not very long after the original "developer" (The one who didn't even bother/know how to swap out a few graphics and string constants) had departed.  Nearly all active members of this fork were active members of the original coin.
Perhaps we should modify our threat to remove the "unofficial" status to avoid confusion. (given that the original developer didn't do any actual developing)

All major hashpower and GME service providers and consistent users are on the same blockchain.  There is no fighting from what I've seen.


If you could at the very least correct Gamecoin's ticker to GME I'd be much obliged.  We'll get out of the dead category on our own steam

It's sort of neat seeing stuff like this going on so smoothly.

Guh, that's never fun.  I've been there.

Oh I'm a small piece of the big puzzle.  All the active posters here have put a lot of faith and effort into getting this bird back in the air, I'm just a delegator that tries to keep everyone on the same page.
I'm as broke as broke can be, so I just contribute what time I can here and there.  The big round of applause goes to pretty much everyone else.

Yeah, it's understood miners want to see their value.  The only issue is that GameCoin might not be a short-term investment coin.  It may only pay off (if at all) for the few that devote time and resources into it to actually build it into something outside the alt-coin pump-and-dump standard.  I totally understand your frustration though, it sucks putting a bunch of work, effort, and resources that could have been spent elsewhere on something and then waiting for results.  I'm open to suggestions on some sort of incentive or relief for miners because you guys are carrying this coin right now.

I do think we need at the very least GameCoin to be updated on the list, because it's obvious that it hasn't been updated since initial release, and the GameCoin team, community, and mission (or lack thereof) was entirely different.  Personally i feel the thread is not giving this small little sub-community the credit it is due for the monumental (and somewhat uncommon) feat of reviving a 51%'ed coin that didn't have much to offer on the front.

The original GameCoin just may have been the laziest release this place has seen.  But since things changed around here, you guys might be the hardest-working folks here

That's called an unstable hashrate. All small coins have them, not all of them are using a difficulty algorithm as speedy as this.  We've improved the situation to better weather the storm, but no solution is invincible.

This isn't a mining-based coin.  So trying to promote it in it's own right and its immediate value to miners is pointless because it has none.  It's sort of a catch-22 because we need to keep the hashpower providers interested long enough to generate interest for the coin's actual purpose, which will give the coin value, which will produce mining interest.  Right now our real problem is that mining interest is produced by low difficulties (something that by nature is fleeting).  So we need stable interest to obtain stable hashpower.

Yeah, just a little leak I've been meaning to fix.  In the case of a full withdrawal, our system absorbs the tx fee (all coin daemons have thier tx fees left at the default to ensure consistent transaction speeds, and we charge no additional fee for deposit, withdrawal.)

Just remember we get the 0.02YAC back next time you deposit (If you ever do, totally your call)

My theory is that "Coin" has stuck partly because of laziness, partly to try and snag some brand recognition from BitCoin, and partially because when you think "Coin" you think money, something that has real value.  Th eonly reason I'd want to shy away from "token" is that by definition a token meant to be valueless stand-in for money.

To be blunt, "Coin" is sexy.

Though I'd be totally down to just start calling this coin GP, as a nod to classic RPGs or something like that.

Not likely.  The copyright says 2011 and the whole thing seems like an obvious and not-so-successful moneygrab.  We can still hold brand integrity over it since it was never well-known

Well, the problem is right now a large majority of the coins are held by a relative few.  That makes demand pretty low.  The only way we can establish and hold a 0.10 valuation would be to try and throttle mainstream offloading of coins by big holders (ie "cashing out"), as this decreases demand and lowers value further, as it shows weak support for the coin.

Trying to offload almost exclusively to game developers/service providers, however actually increases demand for the coin because it shows bigger outside interests wanting in.

So I guess the short answer to your question is no, I haven't seen anyone willing to sell things with serious cash value at that valuation any time soon.  But that's not the direction we're aiming for.

GameCoin's ticker is now GME, the coin has been adopted by active and competent developers, and the 51% has been all but defeated with some changes to the difficulty algorithm.

The coin is now more agile and can easily survive even brutal hashrate drops with only minimal delay to transactions (fixing a problem plaguing most alts), as well as quickly adapting to a large hashrate spike to prevent abuse by bigger miners.

I was actually cnsidering writing guidelines to some similar effect, imposing guidelines to keep the coin level and stable.

(possbily) Bad news for miners, these would include pretty tight daily deposit allowances in games to allow for fairer play (Nobody will want to play a game when a select few have nearly unlimited funds, and gave developers won't want to accept a currency that would allow that kind of discord in thier games).

If all of these guidelines are met, a game/app/platform will be designated as "GameCoin Approved", and may be featured/promoted by GameCoin, may possibly qualify for a small stipend to get the ball rolling (if the game offers GME as in-game rewards, which will also follow guidelines for approval)

Of Course, GameCoin will always be open-source, so people that don't care about approval don't need to bother, they just miss out on the benefits/trust that comes with it.  It would still be suggested that all developers follow the guidelines regardless to ensure a stable value for the coin, which really benefits us all in the end.

Also, I was thinking of a price more in the range of $0.10/GME.  People forget that GameCoins can be broken down into a lot of very tiny units.  It would probably be suggested that the standard in-game "unit" for rewards be around 0.0001 GME or less (a single "unit" would be equivalent to one basic unit of in-game currency in value (Coins, Gold, GP, etc)).  Remember Approved games would enforce deposit limits to prevent the games from being abused by early adopters of the coin (which actually hurts the coin's value and all of our wallets).

If we went through this we would likely politely ask that exchanges not adopt GameCoin at this time (to prevent mass abuse of the GameCoin System before the target price is solidified, devaluing the coin).  A proper exchange would be launched where miners could list thier coins for cash purchase by game developers/content producers, at prices a little more towards the target price.  But, as I said before, GameCoin is open source and all of these things would be suggestions, and ultimately the masses have control.

I don't think it's out of the box thinking at all.  It's just looking at everything from an elementary level.  Most coins were created on the basis of making money, so thier primary interest would be an exchange.  This coin was revived because the name could lead to come cool applications, so the real value (and where the coin will obtain the best price) is by making it available to the masses, and having places that actually accept it as some form of money (in-game or otherwise).  This is a coin, it's purpose is to be used as a medium of exchange for goods and services, not just as a raw commodity.

I think an exchange is an easy way out and a march to a slow death.  This isn't a quick cash out, pump-and-dump going.  This coin's backed by an actual idea and a plan now.
Getting listed on an exchange would get interest faster, bas as all other alts it would fizzle and poof.  The real trick to building interest is to get small casual games accepting GameCoin, GME giveaways and incentives that are game-oriented, maybe auctioning off some Steam codes for GME.  Give it some Game-based value rather than market-maniuplating, pump-and-dump, flavour of the week garbage.

Don't worry guys, I'm not just spewing hot air, I've got some pretty cool things on the Horizon to make it super easy for developers to accept GameCoin payments, and I'm n talks with a couple local devs.

Try clearing your peers list file.  The checkpoints should prevent the bad peers from being re-added, but if they were added to the peers list pre-upgrade, they might not be blocked.

Credited 50 YAC + 25 YAC for making you wait (Sorry about that, day job and all )

I'll send you a PM so I can get a little more info from you and track down the coins.