XD That is at least his 3rd project im in ;p
Im jelaous a bit, as i believe im doing pretty well here and im getting only almost 2200 gold per hour ;p
Its a pity that the previous project didn't work out that well... Got closed after 2 weeks, not sure if i can tell any more details about it.
Community ofc is good, but the game still needs alot of fixes for the community to help and stay here.
And im also advertising this alot ;p feeling like around 75$ spent already on ads of this site

Yes, You are wrong

15x25x1,5=562,5 GOLD PER MINUTE
so 562,5 x 60 minutes = 33750 gold or 3375 satoshi per hour

With those number as the limit we can max get 2250 or 3375 satoshi per hour.

Not bad for a faucet

Its a displayment bug, it refers to the amount left in your wallet here. So if you requested less than half what you had in wallet the displayemnt would be ok.

Still it will be normally processed. Admin just does that manually so you might have to wait couple days or so.

220 is what i am at now. It will still grow to be more. And to be honest i don't know a faucet that gives 1000... care to share a link ?

Nah, You can earn here better than in faucets and have some fun with a game as well. Myself, im at 220 satoshi per hour level.

Depends how much You earn right now. I work at pc as well so i get at clicks 8 hours of mining a day and i have been here since the start of alpha, but i dont believe in any chance that ill reach the limit ;p The prices, especially later ramp up alot.

Limits are so high at the moment that without huge btc deposit, they wont be reached for quite some time, probably more than a month.

Well, this topic has 30 pages now, admin mentioned the limit of upgrades somewhere in there, but i do not intend to dig through all of that in search of that info ;p

I understand exactly what it is for and how it works, i just answered the question about raw calculation - how much would you have to earn per minute to (sitting 24h/7 at this game) break even on the autominer in the same time.

Sure it still gives way more than a human can do, noone would sit 24/7 at it. Also a good thing for a holiday. Just not worth if you were to pay for it in gold seeking profit only.

And who would pay that if there was nothing to pay from in the admin's wallet ?
The site is designed so he can earn, while we earn, but so far he was only adding to that bussiness. For now he isnt earning.

I dont remember the limit, but the amount of upgrades you can buy is limited for now, but still its far from what anyone can reach. Think it was something like 5 carts, 25 miners, 5 gold ores, but i might be wrong. Thats still more than any other faucet i know.

Well, there is a limit here anyway, so you cant earn that much mybitmine would go bankrupt that way

You need 243 gold per minute for 1 day to 198 for 7 day of autominer for it to return its cost. Simply saying for now there is no player for whom it would be worth buying as of cost/efficiency ratio is too high.

Well, if You have over half the work done already, then coinpayoff might not be such a bad idea, but making it work for gold would rather reduce your loses (payouts) rather then gain You anything (You dont profit yourself from having gold). Also 1 person getting too much gold at once will increase his gold gained possibly too fast via upgrades (i believe ppl would cashout btc, while gold would be reinvested most likely) but that of course would depends on the amount of prizes.

Investment game sounds cool, but You need to start taking some fees for Yourself, i dont want that project to die, and You will have to stop giving away money at some point. passion is one thing, but Your costs will rise over time as more and more ppl come here and upgrade their mines.

About story telling i can make some stuff up today, havent checked your PM yet, forum writing is enough of a violation for me while at work ;p Just (if You havent yet) throw me some limitations - for example - if the stories are to be yes/no based, or multiple choice with different results, or yes/no with both answers having some effect, or some tree style deep rooted stories, or if they should be dependent on what upgrades you gained so far, with more advanced stories unlocking later ingame. I have no idea how much of programming it would take and what You can/ have time to make.

Lvl 11 pickaxe costs something around 3k gold. its only 2% but basing on myself as an example with 3 ores and 7 miners, 2% of 21 gold is 0,42 gold earned per minute. 3000 gold / 0,42 g/min = 7142 minutes which is equal to 5 days of straight mining. With my current chambers and equipment  i need more or less 15 days to get it, i assume im mining for 8 hours per day. 2 weeks isnt that long, and with each additional miner/ore it comes way more efficient. Next lvl is 2x that, around 6k gold which also isnt much - remember that this game is really a long term to earn anything, so it will be returned. And those 15 days calculation assumes that i dont have previous 10 levels of pickaxe already giving me 20% bonus... While initial levels must be cheap to encourage ppl and give some incentive, i believe that around lvl 8 of that upgrade, 10 at the most the price should rise more than what it is at the moment. Beta or not beta, You are already paying out, so even as a temporary hotfix, increase the prices, at least of that upgrade a bit.

As an ad hoc fix for Your earnings if You ever need it without nerfing the game for players too much You can always lower chambers from 5 minutes to 4,5 or 4 minutes, more captchas solved - more gold saved.

And bank will kill you if someone deposits at once 1000k gold and noone steals it.

Have You thought of integrating any part of coinpayoff to this site... You would just have to really CLEARLY state all the rules, and You would skip fees if the btc were to be send to the users accounts instead of straight to the wallets. And ofc You would have to switch to much lower fees and amounts, like 5-10 k satoshis instead of 100-500 k. That way, You would already have a pool of users. The only thing to worry about would be informing at all steps that it is gambling in which some ppl really lose and it cant be avoided.

Two-step stories are also what can be fun and fresh, just requires a little story attached which would make couple lines of text instead of 1-2 sentences, can be done as far as i would think. For such thing i can still be some kind of story writer ;p
As for calculations, its quite easy to predict the prices and effectiveness of upgrades. I would say that the lower levels and initial upgrades should be a bit cheaper, but the higher levels prices should ramp up a bit faster. For now only resources stop players from buying too many upgrades, but still, for example, pickaxe is too cheap i would say. Lvls 9-11 are way too cheap, compared to effect they give. Ppl buying that upgrade levels already earn enough gold, so pickaxe gives quite too big impact.

The idea of a game like banks and robbers generally is fine, but i dont think ppl will like the possibility of their gold being stolen, while those who want to rob would need some high amounts for it to be worth the risk if there can be a penalty. However there can probably be some tweaking possible to make it workable.

Feel free to do whatever You like, these were just loose ideas. I don't know about possible profitability for both You and us players but rewards such as boosters we can buy, with limited time ofc, for example 1-2 hours, could also work i believe.

About story telling it depends how deep You could write it to work, like couple questions/lines/decisions deep and if that would be in popup window or how. Then You can simply write about breaking a wall underground to find a chamber with... and couple yes/no questions to do something inside, like walk the unstable ground or past a creature of sorts or on not so wide bridge over a deep fall or a pool of lava/acid/whatever if our imagination is not to be limited. If You want i could sit after work today or sometime during this weekend and write down some ideas, after all i used to be game master in d&d for couple years, so i have some experience with dungeoneering adventures ;p

About the calculations - i still want to play and maybe at one point finally profit from this game but for that You need to keep it not only enjoyable but also profitable for Yourself, therefore the fewer calculations ppl do, the better for You ;p

I did the math once, tho i dont recall the effects, but im sure that 1st pickaxe wasnt worth buying before 3rd worker

Those were just loose ideas, but he won't be throwing away money only, there have to be some negative outcomes, he doesn't have millions to just rush promotion after promotion and giveaway after giveaway.

Should be

gold per minute = workers x gold ores x (1+0,02*pickaxe)

Your miners broke a wall to the underground stream, flooding a corridor in the mine. Next 30 minutes of mining will yield none/75% lowered results.
Your miners found a big lump of precious metals, after careful cleaning of that node, you discover 50/75/100/150 worth gold/gems.
A traveller visits your mine offering you a bit of a gamble - to buy his sack for 500 gold. Yes/No. Upon further inspection of the contents of his sack you find gold/iron/coal/gems/new pickaxe/metal detector/coal extractor/gem locator/new equipment/just some old clothes/a dead rat/some anthrax killing 1 of your miners/etc
You have encountered a big and rare vein of gold - you have tripled your earnings for the next hour, but due to the overload, you broke one of your mine carts.
Some bats made home in your mine, causing anxiety among your miners, reducing their effectivity by 50% for the next hour.
During the night a bear decided to make a lair inside your mine, unfortunately the miner who find that out in the morning is already dead.
A cave in trapped your miners underground, no mining results till they can break free - like 25-50% chance each mining.
Your miners discovered ancient tomb underground full of different riches. It will take a whole day to empty it, but it contains 10x-30x what you can earn per hour (gold and gems).
Your miners found some remains of an old mine shaft, carts and rails and were able to salvage 500 iron from it.
Your miners found some glowing mushrooms growing on the walls of the mine. They gave a nice, calming light increasing miners' effectiveness by 10%.
Your miners struck a very hard vein and broke their pickaxes.
Some ancient paintings has been discovered on a wall in a newly found corridor, do You want to try finding and expert who could understand and translate their meaning? % chance for something - run out of ideas ;p

Certain encounters of those could be 1time only or on very low % chance.