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Quite simply put, all coins are worthless right now if crypto is the future of money.  I was looking at the charts and if bitcoin were to rise to $100,000,000 (1 penny per satoshi) at ANY point, that is 20,000x the current price.  

In other words, every penny you invest now turns into at least $200 at that point (even if your altcoin is only worth 1 satoshi/coin).  Seems like they are worthless right now compared to what they could be.

The idea is that if you believe altcoins will be world money, why wouldn't you save up as much as you can?

We are in the process of reversing the bear market... Yesterday was like a flare... Not fireworks... Gonna take some time to hit new all time highs.  Dump looks like profit taking by the trade bots

I envision this a becoming a casual gaming community.  I do not want it to be pay to win, and it is intended to be a throwback game.  Initially it will be an arena/card battle game, it will evolve into what the community suggests/votes on. 

I have not programmed in two weeks, but have been testing the Explore / fund unit function.  I will be adding the find item part tomorrow and then beginning the code for the free for all arena.  Once the arena is built, I will befin pre-alpha phase where players may join by invitation only. 

My next update will be when the arena is finished.  Feel free to comment if you have a question, i will gladly answer!

Update.  Been very busy with my regular job and will be doing some dev work this weekend.

As for my OP thank you all for your feedback.

Revenue model update

I have been in contact with the BAT/Brave support team and the game CAN be used as a verified publisher site.  I am very excited about this because the game can earn while people play and players can earn BAT while playing.

Additionally, I will eventually add a hall of fame and will be awarding crypto prizes to leaderboard leaders every 5 minutes. 

So for example, one category will be "most kills" ... The all time leader will win a prize, the person with the most kills in the past year, month, week, day, and hour will also win prizes every 5 minutes. (6 winners per category). 

The math... 6 winners per category every 5 minutes = 72 prizes per hour per category. (6 *12).  That is 1,728 prizes per category per day (72*24).  5 categories = 8,640 prizes per day.  Additionally a daily random give away of 1,360 prizes per day.  Total is 10,000 prizes per day.  If I start the game fund with 10,000,000 satoshi the game will be funded for 1,000 days where each prize = 1 satoshi.  If I can get the game balance up to 1.0 BTC, each prize would be 10 satoshi, etc.

As mentioned above, I will be implementing Brave/BAT and that means no ads unless you opt in so you can earn BAT while playing.  Also, I may or may not offer in game purchases.  Regardless, my goal is to raise crypto awareness and create a casual time passer game with prizes. 

Prizes will be in the form of trophies and can be exchanged for crypto or in game items.

Why cant i just pair my phone to a wireless/bluetooth dongle without having to be on the same wifi network or have a chromecast compatible tv.  Jesus... This s÷%! Does not need to be complex... Pair with dongle, mirror phone over wireless. 

Can we build it an implement crypto somehow?

First... A ponzi would be if i said pepple will earn X satoshi per day, and paid used other peoples funds.

For the last time...I am developing a game.  It has a bitcoin balance.  The amount of satoshi/trophy will be based on total btc and total trophies in circulation.  It will fluctuate.  I have every right to give away bitcoin as incentive to play, or did you forget what bitcoin is?

These are never bumps.  They are quoted replies.  Please, no more trolling as this is a serious topic.

Thank you

Can both.  Could do rank rewards for richest, strongest, best record, highest level, most total wins, etc.  And also do the recurring arena competions, etc.

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I had a similar idea to do a real world "farmville" to develop farmland in hunger stricken areas but never could figure HOW to do it.

If you are looking for a team, i may be interested in the future.  

I like the concept but i agree, not enough integrity in people to trust.

Maybe there is a way, but why not just write your own content?

How to explain...

Right now my game generates random "generic" units based on player level, fame, and loot box.  No issues there...

But, i thought it would be cool to add some culturally significant units from either historical figures or movies, etc.  For example... If you find an "Eye of Horus" card with the name "Sauron" the card would become "Eye of Sauron" and have card text about LOTR.  I want to use an image from wiki-commons for the card

Or maybe you can find "Bill the Time Traveler" from Bill & Ted's excellent adventure.  Or Ghandi, or mythical beings like Athena.

Does anyone know about copyright and such from images that are commonly used to represent such things?  At what point do "fair use" laws protect the content?  The special cards cannot be purchased, only found in gameplay.

Also, in the future, trophies will be valued based on game economy and may be worth more or less than 1 satoshi each.

Thanks for the feedback everyone.  I appreciate both the positive and negative comments as they help me consider angles i had not thought of.

Next week i will begin building the free for all MMO arena.  The coding will be easy, just gonna take some time to get the combat skills programmed in. 

After that, I need to do the Farm programming (simple), Raids, Wars, and Gem Den (mini game).

Then it is Alpha release time.

I FULLY expect that there will be a lot of suggestions about how to improve the look/feel.  Great!  The current version is all about game mechanics and proof of concept.  Then we add stuff and make it pretty.

During Alpha, the only way to get trophies will be KOTR wins and each trophy will be = 1 satoshi.  I redid the math and KOTR will distribute 1000 trophies per 5 minutes (288,000) / day.  This will basically use up the $400/month i am personally contributing to the game. 

9x trophies for each of the top 100 every 5 minutes (you could have several winning units each round).  Alao the #1 longest surviving unit gets 100x trophies per round.

So if you have 5 units in the top 100 you can basically win 45 satoshi per 5 minutes.

We will start there and build on that.

I tend to agree withother replies about starting small.  Yes you compete for KOTR titles to win trophies that can be used for various prizes, but can can earn trophies other ways too, such as selling rare units to other players, faucet claims, and mini games. 

Incomes come from ads and player purchases to feed the prize pools, as well as $100/week from my income from regular work. 

My concern is making it fun, fair, and sustainable.  The alpha version will be released this spring (probably in May) and is really a concept model for the game that I would love to eventually develop into an app.

When alpha is released, i will be looking for players to test and suggest ideas for the game.  Sales of items wont start at least until Beta (or full release) and alpha testers will get free premium stuff like lifetime subscriptions.

Your comment is senseless.  This is about game development and how to include a sustainable way to pay crypto prizes to people.  You dont know what a ponzi is, clearly.

Yes there will be many that will say such things.  But there will be others who love the challenge of the game and figuring the math involved to form strategies.

After running several sites and a similar game i created before, my approach is to make it a community and not worry about attracting the masses.  I will be developing continually even after release, and utilize player suggestions.  

If enough people play and want a more appealing graphical game, then we will have to work together to sellout the sponsorships so i can hire the help needed.  

Currently the game will only contain what i personally coded.  In the future that could change.  

Thanks for the input and i agree it is a challenge to overcome.  The colors on the units reflect rarity levels, a feature i loved about Borderlands when it first came out was trying to find the rare weapons.

I want to keep overhead low so there can be many ways to get bitcoin.  Players who dont use bitcoin can still exchange trophies for in game premium items and raffles... Bitcoin is just an option to select for a prize.  I want to add doge, eth, peercoin, monero, and some others as well.

Thanks

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