The Biggest Fish - cooperative gambling game!

[Come-from-Beyond]

Will there be an API built?

I'd like to have some fish re-feeding bots set up by mid-December

OK.

1. Get the list of visible fish (id, name, website, weight)
2. Bite a particular fish
3. Get Diary entries (with ids to know who ate ur fish)

Requests will be sent as HTTP POST with POST parameters. Responses will be sent as JSON.

Is it enough?

[Micon]

Will there be an API built?

I'd like to have some fish re-feeding bots set up by mid-December

OK.

1. Get the list of visible fish (id, name, website, weight)
2. Bite a particular fish
3. Get Diary entries (with ids to know who ate ur fish)

Requests will be sent as HTTP POST with POST parameters. Responses will be sent as JSON.

Is it enough?

I was only half-joking.  I feel we will need cash-in address as well to make this work... I can understand keeping withdraws manual.

Anyone know how to script me up a bot to keep topping up a fish that gets bit?  May just make it rain Miconfish...

[Come-from-Beyond]

I can understand keeping withdraws manual.

Forgot about cash-in.

4. Withdraw bitcoins.
5. Put 1 BTC into the chest.
6. Take 1 BTC from the chest.

[MPOE-PR]

a productive day no doubt.

Did you just take a photo of your monitor?!

[FreeMoney]

That's obviously a picture of his home aquarium, he was just showing how similar they happen to be.

[dooglus]

Anyone know how to script me up a bot to keep topping up a fish that gets bit?  May just make it rain Miconfish...

I can do that for you.

The API's not ready yet, he's just listing the features it will provide.  But when it's done I'll make you a bot to keep your fish fed.

[Micon]

Anyone know how to script me up a bot to keep topping up a fish that gets bit?  May just make it rain Miconfish...

I can do that for you.

The API's not ready yet, he's just listing the features it will provide.  But when it's done I'll make you a bot to keep your fish fed.

Dooglus, as I'm sure you have already theorized, I will need a fully autonomous army of regenerative fish that when given the signal will attack with the ferocity of 1000 armies.

[dooglus]

Dooglus, as I'm sure you have already theorized, I will need a fully autonomous army of regenerative fish that when given the signal will attack with the ferocity of 1000 armies.

So like a botnet but made out of fish?  A fishnet perhaps?  Kinky...

[tbcoin]

I see that the browser loads all fish, even invisible, would happen if someone created 1000 fish at the same time? I think this could affect the performance of the game, is this controlled?

[Come-from-Beyond]

I see that the browser loads all fish, even invisible, would happen if someone created 1000 fish at the same time? I think this could affect the performance of the game, is this controlled?

Yes. It's contolled. If u skim thru the HTML source u can notice a piece of code

Code:

//if(fishWeights[i]>99)

It will be uncommented when a lot of fish affects performance. Now all fish is processed to assess a limit of fish on one screen.

[tbcoin]

I see that the browser loads all fish, even invisible, would happen if someone created 1000 fish at the same time? I think this could affect the performance of the game, is this controlled?

Yes. It's contolled. If u skim thru the HTML source u can notice a piece of code

Code:

//if(fishWeights[i]>99)

It will be uncommented when a lot of fish affects performance. Now all fish is processed to assess a limit of fish on one screen.

 

[Come-from-Beyond]

A lot of small fish with 0.05-0.09 weight has been fed. Just for fun. Should become visible soon...

[Otoh]

I corrected the numbers in my previous post:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=127159.msg1358978#msg1358978
Dooglus is correct in that a Martingale strategy doesn't work at all well on TBF game.

[lightlord]

Hmm I was just about to withdraw of 0.214 or so I got after I deposited 0.1 And successfully attacked upwards.
Which was my only intention to risk twice, then if win then withdrawal, I wasn't going to attack another two
And on to withdrawal I misclicked a fish. There should be a *are you sure* Instead it rushed out.
I then tried clicking a different fish to divert or to stop its process, and instead attacked the 41% lost half,
then 6% and lost all of it. I was going to click withdrawal and take its amount out    but clicked the fish above it, opps.
It was hovering just above, but slipped. I doubt you would do a refund, but again the bad design of the game
shouldn't be me to blame. Usually when you do a bet on satoshidice, you have to type, then click submit,
then click sumbit for fee. Like three steps. This was opps misclicked above, Game over. Not really fair,
at least make it impossible for fish to go to bottom of the screen or near it so that doesn't happen.

Which wasn't my intention.
Oh well, I guess it was my mistake.

It wasn't like 0.2 was a fortune or anything. But I am certainly annoyed, things need to be updated, and changed.  

[FreeMoney]

It is kind of a 'sloppy' interface, but it is appropriate for this game imo. You were trying to get away but you bumped into a fish, whoops. The money you have in a fish is always at risk anyway. If you hover, the tooltip will come up and if you click then I think it means you are safe.

[lightlord]

It is kind of a 'sloppy' interface, but it is appropriate for this game imo. You were trying to get away but you bumped into a fish, whoops. The money you have in a fish is always at risk anyway. If you hover, the tooltip will come up and if you click then I think it means you are safe.

True, But I was going to cash out immediately, I wanted to take out 0.214, but I didn't want to click it.
Its like I am going to press cash out on the slot machine, and there is a small green circle for cash out,
and  big red buttons circle around the green button. I have to be very careful to not press a red button.
And if I do opps I lose everything. Far as I know slot machines, and many other sites, make sure this
is extremely easy process.


The odds of my fish happen to be decided to be eaten upon within 5 secs of wanting to withdrawal we are taking millions to one?

[Come-from-Beyond]

It wasn't like 0.2 was a fortune or anything. But I am certainly annoyed, things need to be updated, and changed.  

I agree. Thank u for ur feedback. I'll report this to Bargheimer.
PM me with ur BTC address plz. I think ur loss should be covered, coz u r the 1st person who reported this bug.

[FreeMoney]

It is kind of a 'sloppy' interface, but it is appropriate for this game imo. You were trying to get away but you bumped into a fish, whoops. The money you have in a fish is always at risk anyway. If you hover, the tooltip will come up and if you click then I think it means you are safe.

True, But I was going to cash out immediately, I wanted to take out 0.214, but I didn't want to click it.
Its like I am going to press cash out on the slot machine, and there is a small green circle for cash out,
and  big red buttons circle around the green button. I have to be very careful to not press a red button.
And if I do opps I lose everything. Far as I know slot machines, and many other sites, make sure this
is extremely easy process.


The odds of my fish happen to be decided to be eaten upon within 5 secs of wanting to withdrawal we are taking millions to one?

Wait, I'm confused. I was thinking cashout was on the octopus, but it's actually a link down at the bottom.

[darkmule]

The odds of my fish happen to be decided to be eaten upon within 5 secs of wanting to withdrawal we are taking millions to one?

I'd imagine much, much more likely than millions to one.  A million seconds are about 11.57 days, so if on average there was only one bite every 11.57 days, the odds of someone biting your fish in the very last second before you withdrew would be 1 in a million, assuming that it takes you no more than a second to do a withdrawal.

In fact, fish strike many times a day (the site owner might know the exact number) and it probably takes the average person more than a second to click withdraw, choose their amount and hit the "Withdraw" button.

The fact that your fish has enough to withdraw also greatly increases the likelihood someone will want to attack it.

[Otoh]

I often double or triple click on a fish that I had only planned to attack only once, especially if I have 2 windows open at the same time on a split screen in order to get the cursor live on the other window & end up doing 2 or 3 bites in quick succession when I'd rather do 1 bite then reload my balance to match the other fish if I lost before making a second attempt, it's my fault & I should have learned by now to be more careful as I've done this repeatedly but if there was either a confirmation pop up for each attack or a delay of 10 seconds or something before one could re-attack the same fish then that would solve this, but if it interfered with smooth game play for others then np as I do think now I will not make this same mistake again but expect that others will get caught out by this though. Even some other place to click in order to be in attack mode again (one's own fish, octopus, a base line spot) would stop inadvertent multi-bites, or a choice of single shot/bite versus repeater/automatic mode would be ideal as a setting for one's fish so one would need to click somewhere (anywhere) other than the fish just attacked before re-attacking it when in single bite mode.