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HappyScamp (OP)
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December 04, 2015, 04:20:56 PM |
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I am a denizen of a group game/casino called Dragon's Tale.
The thing was essentially conceived of as a casino, with players just playing for themselves, but there is some sort of community trying to evolve, which makes it an interesting place. Communities tend to emerge in all sorts of environments, of course, but this one is not very conducive, and in some respects it is even hostile, to emerging community.
The thing also operates very much like a work-lab for sociological study. If I were teaching sociology, I would encourage my students to observe and take measures of several process like DT. More about this line of thought in a later post one day.
In the meantime, where a person might like to 'hang out' there, he pretty much 'needs money', which he typically has to bring to the game from an outside source. And while I pick up a somewhat unsteady, but nonetheless substantial, income from playing bitcoin poker, I don't like the btc sink aspect of being there.
It happens that for every 10BTC wagered, you get back 100 btm 'dragon's treasure (DT). I am thinking that a person could probably coast from DT to DT, employing such things as lots of micro betting, parties, feather trees, things like that. If I am just goofing around of an afternoon, playing KS games while playing poker, I can easily knock of a whole percent of DT... and a hundred days of that gets you to the next DT.
So, I'm going to give that idea a spin, and this thread will be the record of it.
I just cleared a fresh DT, and so have about 80 btm in the account, along with 200 or so low end (KS 10KS) seeds of various kinds. I also have access to one of varieties of premium soldiers that offer 1 to 5 btm (depending on how long it has been since the last retrieval). Too I get btm from parties and so on, but tend to party back almost all of what I get in this fashion, and am avid to avoid becoming some sort of leech. Somehow, just dinking around on low bets, I already blew through the first 2% of the next DT yesterday!~
Anyway, I think I can do it if I stick with microbets for the most part.
I use the term 'rasta' because my image of rastafarianism (probably less than perfectly accurate) is that of valuing community, and partying, and not being all that ambitious about 'achievement' .... and in DT that means getting to a higher level. And I have no ambition to do that at all.... I am level 8 now with my main character, and it seems that that is about the ideal level ... why push for higher, when the demands will only become greater, while the rewards for higher levels just don't seem to be worth the bother. Levels 5 through 8 seem to be ideal ... you get there and you just hang out and play and party. I am nominally 'trying to level... I have to do I think three more tasks... one of which is picking a zillion different herbs.... that will take years.... and 4 BTC worth of vegetables... well I am working on that at the KS seed level... so ... it's going to be a while.
Di might, at first think, not care for such a notion... but when you think about it thoroughly, having a background community of mellow people 'just hanging out' will tend to provide a friendly and welcoming sort of atmosphere for players who come to gamble substantially..... and encourage them to have fun, as it were.
So I'll be checking on on this thread and sharing what's been happening there and my progress with the experiment on a semi-regular basis... and we'll see where it goes!~
A special hat's off to Umuri, by the way: I recently transferred my student-ship from him to another player, GG, who has been operatively my mentor for many months now, maybe even over a year. Umuri was a total class act about it, explicitly giving his blessing, and showing not even the ghost of a shadow of an atom of resentment.
~Scorp
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