Eating other people’s Bitcoins in a deadly game of wits? It’s possible, and it’s called ‘Chopcoin’Got some Bitcoins lying around and looking for a fun way to turn a profit? Chopcoin is an exciting new competitive game in which your survival and success depend solely upon your skill and strategic choices. There is no chance involved here; no dice, luck, or gambles. All you need to do is eat others without getting eaten yourself! But what exactly is Chopcoin, how does it work, and, more importantly, is it fun? Read on and find out.
When you first join the game, you are thrown into a live arena with other players. Your objective? Eat as much as possible —food bits and players alike— grow in size, and collect your winnings. However, be careful with what you eat. Some of these cells look very different and have a hole in them. These are actually bombs, which cause your Chopi to explode to bits when you try and eat them! Every bit of food and player mass is worth its size in Satoshi: the bigger you get, the more valuable you become. Stay alive to the end and the winnings are yours.
You can eat anything that is smaller than you, but anything that is bigger than you can eat you. This may sound easy, but you might be surprised… circumnavigating the arena whilst gathering small bits of food and dodging the big boys. When you finally attain a respectable size, you will surely start to attract the attention of others—some of them may appear friendly and politely grant you some food bits, but looks can be deceiving.
You can choose to split into smaller pieces. This will of course makes you more vulnerable because of your smaller size, but it can also save you in the right moment. The smaller you are, the faster you are able to move. This helps you escape bigger predators, but as a predator your sheer size can help you devour your prey. Can’t reach a smaller and faster player? Split in two and launch yourself towards him. He, on the other hand, might split to try and get away from you. If part of you is eaten by another player, your other parts will remain, so you will be able to regroup and continue on your quest to victory. But if you lose all your Chopis, it’s game over.
You will also find players ejecting their own mass. Why would you want to shoot away your hard-earned coins? If you are already split into smaller pieces, you can choose to send all possible mass into one Chopi to fend off possible predators. That is not all, however, as you can also choose to ‘feed’ bombs: if you shoot mass at a bomb, it will eventually explode and multiply itself in the direction away from you. Use this smartly and at the right time to destroy and conquer other players. On the other hand, be careful not to eject mass onto other players, unless you are feeling especially generous!
Moving on to the specifics: you use your mouse to navigate through the playground, press the spacebar to split your Chopis and press the ‘W’ key to eject some mass. The rounds are time-based, and you have to pay a small fee in order to join the game—comparable to buying in at a poker game. If you survive the round, you get your size back in coins. If you get eaten, you will have to buy-in again, so you must be careful! The timer never stops, so you can be one of the first players to buy-in for a round or strategically buy-in right before the round ends. However, if you wish to try the game before you gamble, Chopcoin also offers a faucet playground. Here you can practice your game before joining the paid playgrounds.
This is what Chopcoin calls the ‘play types’. They essentially determine how the game is played. Chopcoin currently offers two play types: ‘buy-in’ and ‘faucet’ and they work exactly as one might expect. The buy-in playgrounds follow the aforementioned rules. The faucet play type is special, it is free to join by everyone, but you can still win something! With this play type, a few top players win a fixed amount of coins at the end of the round. To keep it fair, there has to be a minimum number of players before the faucet pays out any coins. Chopcoin uses the latest technologies and works on any modern browser, even on your phone or tablet. The game launched on the first of September and are now accepting new players. So head over, deposit some Bitcoins and give it a whirl, you won’t regret it!
Find the game at
www.chopcoin.io, and for more information, contact
info@chopcoin.io.
Press release:http://chopcoin.io/press/Chopcoin_press_release_en.pdfhttp://chopcoin.io/press/Chopcoin_press_release_de.pdfhttp://chopcoin.io/press/Chopcoin_press_release_es.pdfhttp://chopcoin.io/press/Chopcoin_press_release_cn.pdfMediaCointelegraph - Chopcoin launches with new skill based gambling gameCasinos-online - New virtual currency gambling site opensGamblingwithbitcoin - Chopcoin.io review - addicting skill based gamblingCoinlife - Chopcoin guide beat the best bitcoin gambling gameUpdate 09/03/2015:Paid playgrounds one player protection added. (If only one player joins the playground, he get the full payment back)
Update 09/04/2015:All paid playgrounds are without fees for one month.
Update 09/05/2015: Faucet playground added!
The faucet play type is special, it is free to join by everyone, but you can still win something! With this play type, a few top players win a fixed amount of coins at the end of the round. To keep it fair, there has to be a minimum number of 5 players before the faucet pays out any coins.
Update 09/07/2015: Free playground has been closed as he is unnecessary because of the new faucet playground.
We added a "refer friends" system! Go to your account overview tab and check out the new link.
Update 09/17/2015: We added a lowroller playground located in the USA. Good luck!
Update 09/18/2015: Play with your own skin and let everyone know how cool you are!
http://chopcoin.io/learn/skins/Update 09/19/2015: From now on we offer a changelog you can find here:
http://chopcoin.io/changelog.txtUpdate 09/21/2015: We increased the refer friends bonus to 5%
Update: 09/26/2015__________________
- Player count should now always update properly.
- Users can now join free servers without having to login (does not include faucet servers)
- Chat has been added - Players can tip other players
- Minimal changes to the gameserver to speed up the gameplay
Update: 09/28/2015__________________
- The servers recently received a large patch to optimise the game.
Update: 09/30/2015__________________
- QRCode generation is now possible on the deposit tab
Update: 10/01/2015__________________
- Game options are now stored on the client by means of localStorage (when available).
- Link to block explorer added to transaction details page. Click on it to see the transaction info.
- Links are now filtered in chat.
- Statistics page added
Update: 10/02/2015__________________
- Some optimisations in regards to drawing.
- A universal framerate limiter is added to the client.
- "Simple Mode": what this does is force nodes to draw as 'simple', which means no borders and no collision effects-that is, all nodes will just be circles now, except for the virus which retains its shape (but will have a fixed amount of 16 points). Next, it disables skins on all nodes. Finally, it sets the max framerate to 30.
Update: 10/10/2015__________________
- Nickname is now also stored in local storage (when available)
- Accounts are now locked for 15 minutes after 5 failed login attempts.
- Email validation has been added to account registration.
- The mobile version version got its much-needed update.
- Multilanguage ui added. We will update all pages in the upcoming days.
Update: 10/16/2015__________________
- Pot play type added
Update: 10/20/2015__________________
- New chat overlay added. You are now able to chat while playing. Press T to chat in-game and press y to show/hide the chat.
Update: 10/25/2015__________________
We added some user groups to the chat and also to the ranking system.
http://chopcoin.io/chat/- Normal User
- (✓)Supporter (Supported Chopcoin)
- (♥)Loves Chopcoin (Donated 0.05 BTC)
- (✰)Donator (Level 1: donated 0.1 BTC)
- (✰✰)Donator (Level 2: donated 0.2 BTC)
- (✰✰✰)Donator (Level 3: donated 0.3 BTC)
http://chopcoin.io/statistics/- Place 1 = (♔)Username
- Place 2 = (♕)Username
- Place 3 = (♗)Username
We added new chat commands. For more info visit
http://chopcoin.io/chat/You can whisper another player by typing:
/w <username> <message>
Example: /w tiCeR hello
If you want to get a donator status: Available types: love (0.05 BTC), level1 (0.1 BTC), level2 (0.2 BTC), level3 (0.3 BTC). The amount will be directly deducted from your total balance and you will be awarded the appropriate donator status.
/donate <type>
Example: /donate love
Update: 11/04/2015__________________
- Provisional balance has been added. For more info:
http://chopcoin.io/learn/provisional_balance/- Cookie users have been added. Cookie users function in exactly the same way as normal users, with one exception: they cannot use the chat feature, and thus also cannot tip/donate. A cookie user can claim his balance by logging into a registered (and verified) account. Cookie users also have a unique URL that players can bookmark.
- Chat now only auto-scrolls if the chat window is scrolled to the bottom. Thus, it allows users to read back chat without having to scroll up again.
- Users can now request to resend the verification email.
- User can now request their password to be reset in case they forgot it.
- Game server option wEjectaDoesNotAddMassToPlayers has been added. W ejecta will no longer add any mass to any player that consumes it, except the original owner of the W ejecta. Bombs are unaffected by this setting.
- Spectator mode should now update automatically after round end, when the first player joins the game.
- We added referral payouts from faucet. The value gets added to your provisional balance.
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FAQ - http://chopcoin.io/learn/faq/I cannot connect to the game, why?
You may have a browser plugin or a firewall blocking the connection. Please check and try again.
My deposit or withdrawal did not work, what do I do?
Please check your wallet and your account transaction history to be sure that the deposit or withdrawal did indeed not go through. It may sometimes take a short while before the payment is processed. If the deposit or withdrawal did not go through within 30 minutes, please contact us.
Do i lose coins when i enter a paid playground and no one else joins?
We added a one player protection to all paid playgrounds. If a player joins and nobody else joins for the entire round, he will get his FULL buy-in restored. The condition is that the player has to ride out the entire round.
Some players seem to have a skin, how do I get one?
Some nicknames have a skin attached to them. Using one of these nicknames causes the skin to show up automatically. For a list of all available skins, please take a look at the skins page.
Where do the coins in the game come from?
From you, the players! Each time a player buys into the game, this buy-in is added to the cash pool of the current round. This pool is then used to seed food and player cells.
The game is great, but how do you make money?
We generally keep a small percentage of every buy-in. This is usually no more than a few percent. The free playgrounds, on the other hand, are completely free and provided for by us.
I'm slowly losing points, what is going on?
Past a certain size, your cells will start to decay. This means that they slowly shrink; in other words, you will slowly lose points. The points lost through decay are added back into the game as food. This feature exists to prevent large cells from dominating the game too easily.
I bought into the game and died immediately and lost my coins right away, why is there no spawn protection?
That would be unfair to the people that are already playing. Like playing a game of poker, once you have bought in you never know what hand you will get and how the game will progress. The golden rule is this: never play more than you can afford to lose!
Why is my price money sometimes different from the score on the screen?
The score you see on the screen during play is an estimation calculated by your browser. The actual exact score is calculated by the game server itself. At the end of the game, the actual score is what you receive. It should never differ more than a few Satoshi.
I won a lot more than the score on my screen! Is this a glitch?
Certainly not! Some playgrounds may be set to divide the remaining cash pool (food that has not been picked up) amongst the winning players as a little extra.
I suddenly died! Why did this happen?
Non-free playgrounds have additional protection in place to prevent cheating and unfair play. On non-free playgrounds, you can only have one simultaneous game session per account. This means that if you are currently playing on a non-free playground, and your friend joins the same non-free playground using your account, the old session (which would be your session) will be disconnected. The same applies if you try to join a playground multiple times in different browser tabs.
I think I saw someone cheat, what do I do?
We strive to provide a fun, but more importantly, fair playing community. If you are certain that someone is cheating, please contact us right away (and be sure to include some proof). However, please be absolutely certain it is not just a mechanic of the game you do not know about. For example, it is possible for a player to eat a bomb in certain situations... How? That is for you to find out!
A simple but very attractive and fun game. I really want to find out, learn and play it... haha..!!
