[ANN] SatoshiGalaxy - Browser MMORPG + BTC Faucet {FOR SALE}

[Mitchell]

I think I found a bug: Imgur. Nevermind, I confused CPU with Energy required. The blue letters are hard to see and I just noticed them. my bad.

[toecutter]

I think I found a bug: Imgur. Nevermind, I confused CPU with Energy required. The blue letters are hard to see and I just noticed them. my bad. ;D

Hello, Mitchełł.

Thanks for your report. Although you've already figured out that there wasn't a bug in this particular instance, please keep in mind, that the client-side javascript timers and server-side timers can go slightly out of sync :( That's a generic problem (seen on other faucets, for example, as well) with all client-server games.

Nevertheless, I've added 2 tickets to our internal bug tracker: "make energy cost more readable", and "try to improve timer accuracy as much as possible" (I think shaving off a few seconds of inaccuracy is possible via some rigorous time-stamping).

[Mitchell]

Sweet! I found another 'problem' when landing on the planet with ID 265. When I press the recruit button without entering how much Satoshi's I want to spend, it gives me an "Malformed amount parameter"-error. That is, of course, perfectly fine behavior, but it would be more user friendly if you set a standard value in the input box and made sure it can't decrease below 0:

Code:

<input type="number" name="amount" placeholder="Satoshi to spend" value="0" min="0">

Or maybe even remove the whole box as you can't recruit people from an uninhabited planet. By the way, it's pretty hard to see that it's an input box, I thought it was a message at first.

EDIT: I also recommend using as much Ajax requests as possible. It would highly improve the game. Anyway, I really like this concept and if I can help with something hit me up.

[sarcasticviper]

Congratulations on reaching beta status! Took a break from playing but since you have quite a few changes added I decided to test some of them out.


Jobs are a bit rough not sure if I am in a bad cluster of systems or not but they all require me to travel across the whole galaxy to extremely dangerous locations. Not exactly easy for the reward amount but it seems close to impossible to complete some of them without a ton of upgrades which cost a ton compared to the rewards. Possible end game I'm sure but the grind to get there looks meh.

The ui improvements are nice and the tutorial helps a ton especially when starting fresh.

Currently can't do much but mine, refine and run from pirates which isn't too bad. And at the moment copper is plentiful with some rare spikes of some higher ores which puts me at roughly 100 satoshi per 5 min mining run with 2 lasers depending on the system if I get all copper. Its not terrible but everything feels so terribly expensive.

Just a few thoughts using the account I had from alpha.

[toecutter]

Sweet! I found another 'problem' when landing on the planet with ID 265. When I press the recruit button without entering how much Satoshi's I want to spend, it gives me an "Malformed amount parameter"-error. That is, of course, perfectly fine behavior, but it would be more user friendly if you set a standard value in the input box and made sure it can't decrease below 0:

Code:

<input type="number" name="amount" placeholder="Satoshi to spend" value="0" min="0">

Or maybe even remove the whole box as you can't recruit people from an uninhabited planet. By the way, it's pretty hard to see that it's an input box, I thought it was a message at first. ;D

EDIT: I also recommend using as much Ajax requests as possible. It would highly improve the game. Anyway, I really like this concept and if I can help with something hit me up.

You're lucky you haven't seen early days of Alpha, almost every error message was like that :/ Thanks for the report, this (and few other places of form input) will be fixed to allow smoother interactions.

I can't promise much AJAX, but there are definitely improvements to be made in that area.

If you have any other ideas/suggestions, feel free to post them too :)

[toecutter]

Congratulations on reaching beta status! Took a break from playing but since you have quite a few changes added I decided to test some of them out.

Thank you!

Jobs are a bit rough not sure if I am in a bad cluster of systems or not but they all require me to travel across the whole galaxy to extremely dangerous locations. Not exactly easy for the reward amount but it seems close to impossible to complete some of them without a ton of upgrades which cost a ton compared to the rewards. Possible end game I'm sure but the grind to get there looks meh.

Job rewards are calculated correctly, but the abundance of "travel across whole galaxy" deals is depressing, you're right. This is going to be addressed.

Just a few thoughts using the account I had from alpha.opic=1261310.msg13502193#msg13502193 date=1452400274]
Currently can't do much but mine, refine and run from pirates which isn't too bad. And at the moment copper is plentiful with some rare spikes of some higher ores which puts me at roughly 100 satoshi per 5 min mining run with 2 lasers depending on the system if I get all copper. Its not terrible but everything feels so terribly expensive.

As announced, yeah, the ratios for everything are going to be tuned to make progression more smooth. Right now it's more of a plateau thing. The "problem" we have is that once you get to certain levels, there's no going back (ships and equipment don't break down, skills don't go down), and your earnings improve drastically. So we try to delay those shifts with some grind.

Some players have figured out ways to be most effective during the "mostly copper" phase, though, with a bit of crafting and sector-jumping.

And I have one hint for everyone: cooperation is key to success in this game. Be it marketplace or squad-forming to hunt pirates together, the scales will be tipped to your favor if you do it with other people. Trying to do everything by yourself will always be harder.

[Mitchell]

I am not getting any CPU points after solving the captcha.

[toecutter]

I am not getting any CPU points after solving the captcha.

Can you tell me your in-game name? (possibly via PM if you don't want it public)

Edit: quite sure it's http://www.satoshigalaxy.xyz/help/faq#my-cpu-rate-is-going-down-why this issue.

[Mitchell]

I am not getting any CPU points after solving the captcha.

Can you tell me your in-game name? (possibly via PM if you don't want it public)

Edit: quite sure it's http://www.satoshigalaxy.xyz/help/faq#my-cpu-rate-is-going-down-why this issue.

bitcoininformation and it didn't went down, it just didn't get added when I solved the captcha. Just tried it again and it works now for some reason.

[toecutter]

I am not getting any CPU points after solving the captcha. :-\

Can you tell me your in-game name? (possibly via PM if you don't want it public)

Edit: quite sure it's http://www.satoshigalaxy.xyz/help/faq#my-cpu-rate-is-going-down-why this issue.

bitcoininformation and it didn't went down, it just didn't get added when I solved the captcha. Just tried it again and it works now for some reason.

Sorry, I guess the terminology is unclear :( CPU points are you current total. CPU rate is the amount you get per one captcha. It goes down gradually the more adblocking you do (to zero).

It went back up because I've reset your account just now :)

[Mitchell]

Sorry, I guess the terminology is unclear :( CPU points are you current total. CPU rate is the amount you get per one captcha. It goes down gradually the more adblocking you do (to zero).

It went back up because I've reset your account just now :)

Aaaaaah, I see! Guess I'll have to unblock your ads then. :P How long does it take for the CPU rate to go back up?

[fuathan]

Good game but please increase the reward... 

[toecutter]

Sorry, I guess the terminology is unclear :( CPU points are you current total. CPU rate is the amount you get per one captcha. It goes down gradually the more adblocking you do (to zero).

It went back up because I've reset your account just now :)

Aaaaaah, I see! Guess I'll have to unblock your ads then. :P How long does it take for the CPU rate to go back up?

Well, in the final version it will never go back up, accounts will end up banned instead. During the beta, though, I reset most of the accounts manually once a day (sigh).

Good game but please increase the reward...  :-\

Hello, fuathan.

Thanks for your input. We're working on it. Probably going to decrease, though :P

[thijsie90]

Hello,

I started playing yesterday and I like everything so far, but I'v got kind of a problem.
I was still figuring out how everything works and unequiped my device which enables planet traveling by jump gates.
I whasn't sure how to re-equip it and a bit later on I was at my ship page and saw the button Jettison, not sure what it meant I decided to click it. And well I guess you can figure the rest out, it was gone  . Now having to buy one of those again would probably cost a fortune when just started out, woulding be if I could even buy one, since the planet i'm on doesn't seem to sell one. So simply stated, i'm stuck on this planet now. I would suggest first of all a pop up message with a confirmation warning when u Jettison (destroy, yeah I found out the hard way). And maybe add some kind of permanent beginner equipment, or some ability to re-take them when destroyed. For now i'm stuck and luckily didn't destroy my energy replenisher so I can still do stuff, but for a newbie still figuring things out this means that by "accident" he becomes unable to play the game any further.

Greetings,
thijsie90

[capcher]

... when u Jettison (destroy, yeah I found out the hard way) ...

Err... no, "jettison" means

to drop (something) from a moving ship, airplane, etc.

Given the relative text-heaviness of this game, I suggest you actually look up or google words you don't understand instead of taking a "click-and-see-what-happens" attitude.

That said, an option (that can be turned on/off in settings) to warn users when they decide to jettison items might not be a bad idea.

[speedtuning]

hey.

I can't validad my BTC wallet 

appears this
not signed

my wallet is xapo.com How do I validate   

[toecutter]

Hello,

I started playing yesterday and I like everything so far, but I'v got kind of a problem.
I was still figuring out how everything works and unequiped my device which enables planet traveling by jump gates.
I whasn't sure how to re-equip it and a bit later on I was at my ship page and saw the button Jettison, not sure what it meant I decided to click it. And well I guess you can figure the rest out, it was gone  ::). Now having to buy one of those again would probably cost a fortune when just started out, woulding be if I could even buy one, since the planet i'm on doesn't seem to sell one. So simply stated, i'm stuck on this planet now. I would suggest first of all a pop up message with a confirmation warning when u Jettison (destroy, yeah I found out the hard way). And maybe add some kind of permanent beginner equipment, or some ability to re-take them when destroyed. For now i'm stuck and luckily didn't destroy my energy replenisher so I can still do stuff, but for a newbie still figuring things out this means that by "accident" he becomes unable to play the game any further.

Greetings,
thijsie90

Hello, thijsie90.

Thanks for your report. I've restored your engine (since it's "newbie" equipment, which should be permanently yours anyway), but please be more careful next time :)

And true, this situation shouldn't normally happen, thankfully (?) you're the first player to actually do this.

... when u Jettison (destroy, yeah I found out the hard way) ...

Err... no, "jettison" means

to drop (something) from a moving ship, airplane, etc.

Given the relative text-heaviness of this game, I suggest you actually look up or google words you don't understand instead of taking a "click-and-see-what-happens" attitude.

That said, an option (that can be turned on/off in settings) to warn users when they decide to jettison items might not be a bad idea.

Yeah, not a bad idea at all. I'll make sure we add something to that effect.

[toecutter]

hey.

I can't validad my BTC wallet  

appears this
not signed

my wallet is xapo.com How do I validate  

Hello, speedtuning.

Thanks for your report. I'm not actually sure how do you sign a Xapo wallet and if such feature is available on xapo.com at all (last time I tried using Xapo, I didn't see any message signing features, maybe I didn't look closely enough).

Perhaps someone from here can help us out?

(BTW, wallet signing is something lots of players have problem with. I guess that feature is not most popular among bitcoin users, altho I believe it's essential to master. We're preparing some guides to ease that process, but there are many different online wallets (and programs) and we can't possibly cover them all.)

[Mitchell]

Xapo doesn't allow you to sign messages nor can you export the private key.

[speedtuning]

Xapo doesn't allow you to sign messages nor can you export the private key.

OK I understand but when I reached the limit for payment pay to my account xapo this pay ' that's my xapo doubt