[ANN] [ICO] BattleDrome - Gladiator Combat For Fun & Profit. [In Development]

[Glasswalker]

Seems awesome project for the future
And use trusted escrow we will see that this project will success
Waiting for information about bounty to spread the words about battledrome

Hey! Thanks for the feedback!

Yes we felt it was very important to use a very trusted Escrow, and to build as many safety features in for investors as we can:

• Funds in ICO Contract automated, blockchain verifiable, open source.
• If we don't hit minimum goal, everyone is guaranteed to get their money back direct from the contract
• Trusted Escrow receives the funds
• Slow release of funds to developers
• Budgets such as operating and marketing require justification on public document and approval by escrow before release
• Key design points around optimizing value of the token for investors
• 100% transparency wherever possible is one of our key goals

With these features we hope that it will make BattleDrome a safe and exciting investment for our contributors, and that will hopefully lead to a very successful ICO letting us bring this platform to reality!

As for bounty announcement, look for it shortly after July 1st, once we're past the initial start date, we will quickly sort out a Bounty Budget and announce our plans.

Thanks!

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[Glasswalker]

We have completed the instructions for ICO Participation. (instructions for additional wallets/clients coming soon!)

Please see the ico_participation.md file on github for full detailed instructions for a number of wallets at:
https://github.com/BattleDrome/token_and_ico/blob/master/ICO_INSTRUCTIONS.md

Using those instructions, you simply need to wait until the contract starts (approximately 1pm Eastern Time on July 1st, or whenever the contract “isStarted” function returns “true”).
At which point the ICO sale is open, and all contributions are welcome (and encouraged!)

Thanks for your interest, and if you have any problems, or need help at all, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us on Slack at:
http://www.battledrome.io:8080/

or via email at icosupport@battledrome.io

[cryptohome]

When are myetherwallet instructions going to be posted?

[monbux]

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This is monbux from bitcointalk and I confirm that I will be acting as the escrow for the BattleDrome ICO.

The escrow address to hold ETH is: 0x50115D25322B638A5B8896178F7C107CFfc08144

All terms have been stated here: https://medium.com/@BattleDrome/escrow-from-top-provider-now-secured-92aa6244c28a

If you have any questions, please feel free to PM me.
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[Glasswalker]

When are myetherwallet instructions going to be posted?

I'm working on myEtherWallet now, as well as Geth instructions. Will have them posted ASAP.

[Glasswalker]

Just an update to say Happy Canada Day!

The official opening of the ICO is upon us.

Based on most recent estimates it looks like the opening block (3,960,000) will be upon us at approximately 7:30pm Eastern Time today. This is a bit later than we expected, but that’s due to block times being quite a bit slower than we initially expected at launch.

We’re starting to get some real interest via the website, email, and some follow-up via our slack channel. We’re very excited for the ICO to open up, and allow our supporters to back us, so we can make BattleDrome a success!

[Glasswalker]

When are myetherwallet instructions going to be posted?

Instructions are now live for myEtherWallet as well!

Direct Link: https://github.com/BattleDrome/token_and_ico/blob/master/ICO_INSTRUCTIONS.md

[Glasswalker]

And the ICO is Officially Open! 

Woohoo! Just got home from a Canada Day Celebration, and our ICO has been live for about 400 blocks (just about 2 hours). In that time, we’re just about to 2% of our goal! Not bad considering we’re only 0.2% of the way through the duration!

I’m working on a status tracker for the main homepage, will have it up later this evening.

Also wanted to mention, we’re not firm on the details yet (so can’t “officially” name names) but we are getting very close to having an exchange on-board with FAME tokens, as a result the FAME token should be fully traded on a well known exchange very soon.

Thank you so much for your support so-far, keep the support rolling in! Tell your friends!

Also we will be announcing our community bounty program, giving you a way to grab some fame by helping us out very soon. So stay tuned!

[TimeTeller]

Browsing the website, I think the Contact Page is missing.
And by the way, this one seems legit.
 - posting the members of the team
 - use escrow in their ICO, target is not that high
 - with decent website at least
 - not so much supply
 - the ANN is not written in 5 minutes
 - the dev is active in addressing each concern/query and with explanation 
Good luck BattleDrome!

[Glasswalker]

Notice: Gas Cost & Contributing

I’ve just noticed that several initial contributions failed to go through as a result of the transaction running out of gas.

It is absolutely critical that you include 85,000 gas with your transaction when sending in a contribution to BattleDrome! 

Don’t worry, if this happened to you, your ether isn’t magically lost, the transaction simply failed and you should attempt to send it through again (this time with the correct gas amount).

The reason this wasn’t caught, is that some wallets (like Parity) auto-detect the right gas amount on default sending transactions.

Others send with a default amount such as 21,000.

I’m sincerely sorry this was missed in the instructions. They have been updated to reflect this, and clearly note the gas requirement.

Luckily it’s only affected a couple of transactions at this point.

Please remember, if you have any trouble at all during the ICO, don’t hesitate to contact the BattleDrome team at: icosupport@battledrome.io

Thanks again for your support, and if your transaction failed, please re-try with the correct gas amount.

To check if your TX failed you can either execute the checkEthBalance function on the ICO contract (passing in your address). Which will let you know your balance (if it reflects what you think it should, then you are good, if not, you likely have a failed transaction).

You can also go to https://etherscan.io/address/0xeaaf270436a0ed397ed23bbf64df7b1dcaff142f
And look at the failed contribution attempts in the tx log there. (they are clearly marked)

Some of these transactions failed because they were sent before the ICO actually opened as well. (again same outcome, please re-send, ensuring to use right gas amount).

[Glasswalker]

Browsing the website, I think the Contact Page is missing.
And by the way, this one seems legit.
 - posting the members of the team
 - use escrow in their ICO, target is not that high
 - with decent website at least
 - not so much supply
 - the ANN is not written in 5 minutes
 - the dev is active in addressing each concern/query and with explanation 
Good luck BattleDrome!

Hey, thanks for your support!

Also Contact page is not missing, there is contact info at the bottom of the page, but it's definitely not obvious enough.

I'll be pushing an update to the page tomorrow with a few new things, I'll add a primary link on the nav bar for contact info. Thanks for the heads up

For the record:
You can email us at: icosupport@battledrome.io
Join our slack: at http://www.battledrome.io:8080/
Our github: https://github.com/BattleDrome
And of course you can ask questions on this thread, or PM me directly.

Thanks again!

[Glasswalker]

Thank you! 24 hours in, and already at 22% of goal!

Just wanted to post a quick update and say THANK YOU!

We’re just 24 hours in approx. Based on blocks, we’re about 2.5% of the total duration of the ICO. And we’re already at over 110ETH raised, over 22% of the minimum goal!
That’s a fantastic milestone, and sets an excellent trend for the rest of the campaign. (considering that campaigns without a front-weighted discount scheme, which we opted out of for simplicity. Have a tendency towards the majority of their contributions ramping up later in the campaign, this means there is actually a possibility of us selling out in this campaign, based on this very early indication, though at this point prognostication is a bit premature as we don’t have a broad enough sample yet).

Reaching the minimum goal will mean we can definitely deliver on what we’ve promised, and make BattleDrome a success. But at this rate, we are on track to significantly exceed the minimum goal, and if we can do that, I think everyone will be amazed at what we can achieve. The more we raise beyond the minimum, the more we can deliver. With more budget, and the potential of a bigger team, we can deliver an even more compelling platform.

So thank you very much for your support so far!

Keep spreading the word! And keep those contributions rolling!

Let’s make BattleDrome into THE go-to online gaming and entertainment platform!

[Glasswalker]

MyEtherWallet native support

Just quick update to let you all know, that MyEtherWallet now has native support for the ICO contract, and Token.

I’ve submitted the token, ICO contract, and gas limit requirements, they’ve accepted the pull request, and it is now live on https://www.myetherwallet.com/

The instructions will be updated in a few minutes. What this basically means is no more copying and pasting nonsense, just pick BattleDrome ICO/Crowdsale from the drop-down list in order to execute functions.

And when sending funds directly to the BattleDrome ICO, MyEtherWallet should send the appropriate amount of gas automatically now.

[ColorlessK]

Hello, is there a bounty campaign for this project? If there is I would like to reserve the Romanian translation

[ahndea]

it looks better bounty company is def required

[Glasswalker]

Hello, is there a bounty campaign for this project? If there is I would like to reserve the Romanian translation

Incoming post in next few minutes about our bounty program.

[Glasswalker]

it looks better bounty company is def required

We hear you for sure. And we've come up with a Community Goals / Bounty program that we hope will address some of these requests.

Post incoming in a few minutes

[Glasswalker]

Announcing our Community Campaign!

Well, you’ve all been asking for it, and we’ve spent a lot of time coming up with a program we hope everyone will be excited about, but which works within the specific challenges we have as a result of our ICO model.

First let me explain why this was difficult:

• We have already launched the ICO and it’s 100% in the control of the ICO contract. Even we can’t alter the outcome at this point. This is by design for security.
• This means we can’t simply re-allocate any of the tokens, or money.
• We do have one thing we can play with. The 5% additional tokens minted for the Dev Team. (which is already much lower than the norm right now!)

We have decided to sacrifice some of our cut for YOU! Our community!

I know we’ve had a lot of demand for forum signature campaigns, and translations. But after significant thought we want to spend the little bit of tokens we have wisely on this Bounty Program. And we also need to use mechanisms we can track with 100% certainty.

We’ve come up with the following program:
Twitter Campaign = 1% of all FAME issued
Referral Program = 2% commission on any referrals for you, and a 1% bonus for the referee.
Translations = Fixed price of 20 FAME awarded to the first person (yes, it’s a race) to post a valid translation in one of 5 pre-requested languages (and only in those languages).

Keep reading below for all the details on each of these campaigns!

Twitter Campaign

The Twitter Campaign will be allotted 1% of the total tokens minted (that’s 1/5 of our entire share!). Here is how it will work:

In order for a tweet to qualify:

• It must contain the hashtag #BattleDrome
• It must contain a shortened link to our website battledrome.io (shortened links are ok)
• It must contain the first 24 characters of your Ethereum Address that you wish to be credited with the bounty.
• The tweet must be made while the ICO is active and accepting contributions.
• Use up the remaining character limit with your ensorsement of BattleDrome’s ICO!

How the reward will be distributed:

• At successful completion of the ICO, the 1% of all FAME will be set aside, and divided into shares.
• All tweets that match the requirements will be gathered using the Twitter APIs (this may take up to 30 days from completion of the ICO to tally all the data, etc).
• Each qualifying tweet, will be multiplied by the number of followers that the poster has.
• For example, if you tweet 100 times through the campaign, and you have 20 followers, you will get 2000 shares. If however you tweet 20 times, and have 1000 followers, you will get 20,000 shares. Etc.
• All shares will be added up for each 24 character “address prefix”. And the total share count (and resulting FAME balance) will be posted publicly via a google sheet.
• Each participant will need to email us at twitter_campaign@battledrome.io with your full address, in order to claim your bounty.
• Upon claiming, the FAME will be transferred to your address.

Referral Program

We’re sacrificing potentially another 3% of our share (at least for the referrals) to help you recruit your friends/family/contacts!

By referring in another contributor. You get 2% commission of their contribution! And they get a 1% bonus for being referred!

This means for example, if you refer in someone who contributes 5 ETH, they normally get 500 FAME, but now they will get 505 FAME, and you will get 10 FAME just for the referral!

Requirements:

• The Referee must contribute at least 5 FAME minimum. This is because there is a fair bit of clerical work to track this. (Lesson learned, next time we’ll build this into the ICO contract. But for now we have to work with what we have.)
• The Referee must create a signed message saying “I am address XXXX and I was referred by address YYYY” and sign it with the private key of address XXXX. This message must be sent to referrals@battledrome.io in order to claim the referral commission/bonus for each party.
• Once the ICO is successful, the bonus FAME will be sent along with other Bounty pay-outs (may take up to 30 days from ICO completion). This is because it must be done manually by the dev team. The contributor will still get their normal amount immediately upon ICO closure, but the 1% bonus, and 2% commission will be paid out manually.

Translations:

This is a popular request, and we understand we want to be inclusive of as many people as we can. However we totally underestimated this at ICO launch.

We don’t have unlimited funds to work with, and so we’ve decided that based on statistics (which we’ve been gathering from several channels) our leading demographics appear to be (in this order):

• English
• Japanese
• Korean
• Russian
• Mandarin

So here is the deal:

First person to post a confirmed translation of our main post in BitcoinTalk with the following requirements:

• Translation posted as a reply in our main thread
• Cross-post in the appropriate language specific forum in bitcointalk (if applicable)
• Add a link to the main thread in your signature on bitcointalk
• Translation validated as correct (not the first to be validated. The first reply in the thread for each language which later is confirmed to be valid is the winner, if the first reply is found to be invalid, then it falls to the second, etc.) Decision on what is “correct” is entirely up to us.

Will receive the bounty of 20 FAME. To be paid out at ICO successful completion.

There will be 5 accepted translations (for a total of 100FAME paid out, which by the way is another 1/5 of our total share of the minimum goal):

• Japanese
• Korean
• Russian
• Mandarin
• Esperanto (just for fun)

Note: This does NOT mean we are discriminating against other languages. We encourage others to translate to other languages if you wish. However we simply don’t have the budget to allow any arbitrary translation. The above were chosen because of the gathered statistics about our audience, and determined to have the most impact.

First come, first serve! The race is on!

Conclusion:

We’re eager to hear your feedback on our community program/goals. And excited to see what you all come up with for this!

In addition I want to drop a hint. We have another big surprise planned, but it will come later in the ICO campaign. For now you’ll have to sit in suspense and try to guess what it might be!

Thanks again for all of your support! Let’s make BattleDrome a huge success together!

[Glasswalker]

Quick update:

We're still ahead of pace, things going well for us to reach our goal at end of the ICO. But we still need your support!

Reminder:
- With this ICO there is NO risk to backing early! The ICO contract guarantees that you will get your ETH back if we don't meet our minimum goal!
- Because of our Escrow you are protected further, we only get a small portion of the funds, with the rest released only as we deliver on our promises!

So if you're holding out until the end of the ICO, there is no need! Back us now, and the more support you show, the more demand and hype we drive around BattleDrome. As a result FAME's exposure and support will be driven higher too!

Also don't forget our Community Program (announced in previous post)
- Translations still up for grabs!
- Twitter campaign open, free FAME for grabs there too!
- Referral program allows you AND your friends/family to make even MORE FAME for your Ether contribution.

And as always, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to reach us here on this thread, via email at icosupport@battledrome.io or via Slack at http://www.battledrome.io:8080/

[pbleak]

How much have you raised so far?