Thank you all for your participation in this topic, i really appreciated reading all of your posts. I chose some quotes to reply but the doors are always opened for more ideas and critics.
Alternatively you could use a well known member as an escrow, but that would require a payment which will probably offset any gain you might hope to make from this game.
In my opinion, we can't host a game here in BTT without hiring one of the known escrows to manage the funds. To be clear, i still don't know how much it may cost, but everything should be calculated before even to suggest this to an escrow. We will see
The main thing for starting such game is to think what will be your benefit in started such a game ?
Of course i should think about my benefit by running this game, but as a start, i want to focus on understanding more details about how this may function in a forum (always comparing to other successful/failed experiences) and what kind of rules should be set for such a game. This is the main reason why i started this thread.
Way better to discuss it here so that once you open your game, there will be few questions that will ask.
When you create thread here for your games, many questions will definitely tray into your thread, and most of these questions will definitely drive away some of your potential customers.
By starting this thread, and after get confirmation that this is possible in the apropriate board of the forum, i hope read about what kind of questions i will have to answer, and if there is a good example which i can follow.
And don't apologize for your English - it's not bad.
Thank you, you are a kind gentelman
- For making it into an actual game, I'd say host it on a website on your own. That is much organized than a thread here.
To realize this in a website, it will consume all my time preparing the code (am not a coder) + graphics and layouts, then start working on getting traffics (promotion/marketing). I think it's more easy to start here before thinking to make more management.
Thank you for this example, but this initiative looks dead despite it has some few enthousiasts. It's a nice idea to make bets using mice.
I will spend more time checking details of that thread.
The forum has no featured for games but you can see that users here are promoting different kinds of games and you cab do research depending on what kind of game you like to play. In some cases, gambling games are most common thing that you can find by the users promoting it in this forum. Usually, it is integrated to bitcoin block chain where one user could bet. So, there is no really nothing to worry when betting because of block chain that can assure funds deposit to be safe.
Sorry, i can't understand what do you want to say here by "Usually, it is integrated to bitcoin block chain where one user could bet." .
Actually, I've already seen couple of games/bettting games conducted here inside our forum particularly on our local board (e.g. Senatorial Elecetion Betting Game). But remember, the prize for the winners is your responsibility of course but you could at least implement a fee for entry and use it for the prize pool. Well, it's up to you any more.
Please let me know more about that game in your local board, and help me understand it if possible. Thank you.
Good luck for the game you plan about your turtles.
The idea came into my mind about a turtles course, but it's just a kinda of "brain storming" to find such a funny idea. Indeed, am opened to all kind of suggetions and may find better ideas to realize this. The mice competetion mentioned above can inspire me prepare for something similar.
...why not do a dry run first before running an official bet, that way you'll know what could go wrong along the way.
This is a good idea, and by reading different answers here, i think the idea is interesting and may succeed if finding the right tools to run it.
I am curious though how it will work? Winners take all, the house gets a cut.. will you try to prevent people from making multiple bets etc?
Am also curious to find the best answers to your asks. What do you suggest?
I doubt in success of this or any other game here on forum. As I remember some people tried to make some games here on forum, but without success, not enough people interested, or simple bad ides, what ever, all I know that nothing ever happened.My advice to people who have idea is to gather some group of people, rent some site, and try to make something on that site. On this forum, or any other, someone will steal your idea. If you are going to do something do it right, invest some money.
It is so important what you are saying here. Thanks for your honesty. Am still discussing the idea and nothing is surely to nearly happen. Please let me know if you have more concerns about this kind of games being running in the forum.
If the op is going to basically torture his/her own turtles, making them race or whatever for the sake of organizing a game people get to bet on - I don't want the price, and I believe there will be more people like me who believe that it's unjustified to use animals this way.
I also believe that it's unjustified to use animals this way. It was just an imaginary idea to start officially thinking about required steps. Am still collecting information about other similar projects and hear from different attitudes from the community (as you here) .
Am not ready to kill my animals for money benefit, i spent a lot of my efforts/time/money to save them from hunters; in exchange, my turtles inspire me all the time to try new things and to positively think. Don't expect me to be unhuman just to make benefits or let others have fun. (I really wish you can understand my point) .
Moreover, it's not like this way the game is 100% fair. For instance, how do people know the op did not give one of the turtles a substance to make it faster or slower or something like that? Why use real animals with senses and flaws of reality if you can just make a perfectly fair code for turtle competition simulation? This way people can be sure they are not deceived, the thrill is still there, the odds are purely mathematical and the real turtles are no part of it.
Following the exemple of using my turtles, i still don't have answers to your questions. But, i would ensure that community has all the garantees that am not a scammer or use pain for animals to get benefits.
