We are using the price discovery mechanism that is distribution of JWL will be relative to how much BTC is raised. If the 200 BTC goal is not met but sufficient outside funding is secured to ensure that we have at least $120,000.00 USD as starting capital, we will continue and proceed with the JWL distribution.

200 BTC Goal & Clarification

For clarification on a few things as there are some ambiguities with what we said, the Heroes project will still be launched on it's current time line within the next 2 weeks (prior to the ICO ending). This can safely be done as users using PayPal to purchase Jewels will be buying from the PayPal reserve and will not be able to immediately turn their immature Jewels into the actual Jewels cryptographic asset.

We thank those who have offered input and suggestions as to how to reach the 200 BTC goal as it may seem as it stands we are quite far off. It should be noted that we are also seeking means of investment capital outside of Bitcoin Talk as well as negotiating private deals. We are currently in discussion with a few people in regards to private deals and partnerships which will not affect the Jewels ICO or distribution. Strictly speaking, we are looking to have a starting capital of $120,000 or more which will come from the ICO as well as outside investors.

Thanks, we will continue to keep the community posted on these matters.

The Jewels ICO will be extended to September 1st!

We have decided that it is within our best interest to move the end date for the Jewels ICO to September 1st. The more that is raised, the sooner we will be able to reach our goals as the end budget will dictate how we allocate spending the money in terms of hiring employees and paying for services. For this, we are now setting the minimum goal of 200 BTC ($120,000.00 USD). If this is not reached on September 1st, we will begin a refund to all of those who have invested to have their funds returned. If it is reached, we will proceed as expected.

If you haven't already, please check our our newest project Conquer Heroes at https://www.conquerheroes.com/ where you can help our with our testing of our newest server. Testers will receive special rewards on the official launch of the Conquer Heroes server for their efforts in bug hunting. We value any feedback you can offer us about your overall experience playing on any of our games.

As always, if you have any questions or general inquiries please feel free to ask and we are more than happy to help with or answer them

For those who have already invested if you are unsatisfied with our change in timeline, please email us at jewels@apexconquer.com and include your account information, transaction id and as much information as possible to we can verify your identity and return your BTC to you. As of right now, we have currently passed the 10 BTC mark and are steadily on our way towards our goal.

Thank you for your understanding.

This certainly isn't a copy of a game. Yes, we are using an existing client however the content provided on our server is entirely unique. There are plenty of quests, tournaments and events that exist on our game that do not exist on the commercial game. From this it is possible to make the argument, that if a commercial game is mismanaged (which Conquer Online definitely is) it is very possible for a game built on its client to be more attractive then the commercial game itself. An example of this is unless you are the type of person who is willing to dump thousands of dollars into a game, you probably won't enjoy the commercial Conquer Online that much.

In regards to your list of other investments, we have made a post previously explaining the difference between the models used which you can read here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1545327.msg15642283#msg15642283

This is the furthest thing from a copy-paste game and I would recommend you download the game and give it a try. You'll see from just moments after logging in it most certainly is not "bots and maybe 2 real players."

Hope you have a chance to try it out

If anyone else has any problems setting up the client, feel free to ask for help here or directly on our forums. Many of our members of our community would be more than happy to assist you!

We've recently passed the $5000 mark, nearing 10 BTC.

Thanks for the support, and keep the questions coming! We loved to talk about our projects and interacting with those who are interested

We're glad to see that many people from the Bitcoin community seem to have started taking an interest in our projects and we hope you enjoy our games. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our support or at your convenience send us an email or a PM on the Bitcoin forums.

Just wanted to let everyone know we have now built our twitter for jewels and we hope all of you will follow us and show us your support.
It's @jewelscoin and I'll be updating the op with this information now.

Thanks for your support everyone, we've just passed an estimate of $3000.00 USD (4.51559788 BTC currently).

Pro4Never has a scheduled appearance on the Blockchain Dynamic talk show but the details are still being worked out. Once we have more news on this we'll be sure to let you know!

There will be a signature campaign available in the upcoming days.

In regards to your question, I'll see if we can get a video made where in it we talk about it and our express some of our current thoughts and plans. This video should cover your questions as well as answer plenty of other questions surrounding Project Rebirth. It's possible that in the Blockchain Dynamics talk show we may go into depth about this a little bit as well.

I'd like to emphasize dynamics and mechanics are two different things. I apologize if I said before it would be based off the existing games dynamics because that is not the case. Mechanics typically refers to components of a game that have a "skill" factor. For example, how well you can hit a skill shot and how certain skill shots work would fall under "mechanics." If a player with equal equipment can take on say 3 other players with similar gear by dodging their skill shots while landing there's, using counter abilities at the right time, etc. and outplays their opponents, you would typically say that player is mechanically gifted.

To answer your question, the game will most likely be 2.5D (this means 2D map using an isometric grid and 3D characters/models) with modern graphics. The game will most likely be stand alone and require you to download it to play it. We cannot offer you any concept art at this time, but we do have plenty already written documents on conceptual things that may play a role in development. Will look to elaborate on this in the video.

I'm sorry I don't understand your question or statement.

Some items which don't have a myriad of attributes (bless, etc.) such as garments (they change visual appearance of armors) could exist as blockchain assets (and there are other items that fall into this category) but to us it simply doesn't make sense for a small subset of items to exist on the blockchain meanwhile others don't.

All in all, the problem isn't blockchain technology itself, it's more so the scenario players have been accustom with from player other games which is if their account is hacked or compromised, the central authority (the game company) can reverse transactions thus giving the rightful owner back their items.

We have thought about this. While you're right doing this would decentralize the system further as well as allow players to "truly" own their gear there's an inherent problem with this approach.

Before I get into the cons of this approach let me first say that this approach does work well for a RTS (card) Game such as Spells of Genesis where you can represent cards as assets. Cards are immutable objects and thus they can be treated as just that; assets.

However, in our existing game (as well as likely in Rebirth) the item system will be dependent on upgrading items. In Apex, an item consists of a few parts: The base item, composition, bless, enchantment, two gems, and the list goes on. At very best, you could represent base items (easily) with an asset but representing the 'upgraded' aspects of an item are a bit more difficult and would require a custom blockchain solution (which isn't the biggest problem!).

The biggest problem is player security. Decentralization puts the burden of responsibility entirely on the player. Many players opt into scenarios where they share accounts and items with friends on a regular basis. Can you imagine the reaction a player would have if they emailed support and support said sorry we can't reverse that trade because item exchanging is an immutable transaction on the blockchain that we cannot reverse? They would freak out!

We hope you enjoy the game and are able to offer some feedback to us. Our community is very friendly as such don't be afraid to interact with higher level players! Most of them are very welcoming and won't mind showing you the ropes of the game.

Our goals exist outside of the existing games realms as in Q1 2017 we expect to begin developing a game where we entirely own all the assets hence there is absolutely no grey-area territory over copyright claims. This projects success is not contingent on Apex always running, however of course immediate use cases and viability puts us far ahead of other coins which simply state "we're a game coin, we want games to use us to trade items, etc." and yet no game with an actual player base has adopted them because honestly they have no incentive to do so.

In terms of projects being shut down ND has no history of attempting to shut down anything outside of using a C&D to which they've never followed up further on. This goes without saying as looking back on history, ND did not make any legal attempts to shut down crippling services to their game such as CoAI and CoG in their prime.

Hello, if possible could you elaborate on your criticism? We're interested in hearing why you think this is a bad idea and perhaps once I hear your reasoning I can offer you some reasoning as to why it is not.

We want to thank everyone so far who has shown their support in the thread and financially as well as those who've taken the time to try out our game and offer us feedback. We're only a few days in with still 27 days left and we've already raised around $2,500.00.

Thanks everyone!

Hello, partnering with existing communities such as Hyper and C2 is of interest to us but before we can agree to anything we would need to further discuss the nature of our partnership. We'll be contacting your via PM to which we can better discuss the involvement of your community.


Thanks for your interest in our project. We'll contacting you shortly via PM.

Thanks for reaching out to us, we'll be in touch shortly via PM in regards to how we would like to proceed and we are looking forward to being on the show

Hello,

Thank you for featuring us on your talk show. We've had a chance to listen to your show as a member of our community pointed it out to us. We've also had a chance to listen to some other of your recordings prior to the one mentioning us and over all we enjoy the way you conduct your program. However, we can't help but feel we were sort of written off as just another gaming coin to which in our own thread we respond here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1545327.msg15642283#msg15642283

Given this, we would like to arrange for a discussion between Blockchain Dynamics and our lead developer Pro4Never to talk a bit about Jewels and possibly do some what of a Q/A to address some of your concerns as how Jewels will be different and what we are trying to achieve.

Please send us a PM if you would be interested in doing this.
Thanks!