The start times need to be staggered just a little bit more. Right now it looks like each game closes/pays out 5 minutes before the next one starts...but each game has a 5 minute buffer before it starts where it doesn't accept any more bets. A lot of people like to roll their winnings over to the next game or only deposit enough for one game.
The idea was that there would be something playing that users are able to monitor, without having to wait for games to start. Even if it's just one game at once (and sometimes there are more running in parallel), you can always bet on the two next games, and then always have time. If I left 5 minutes between games, it wouldn't be enough to do proper research anyway. So use a bigger buffer :-)
For example the "true or false" game is just "which word will have more tweeters"
I was specifically trying to avoid posting any games like that, but may have one still laying around. The formula is always something to look at whenever you're confused or unsure. If you post the link to the game, I'll fix the text.
Now, at first blush, it seems very obvious that the bet is for...who will have the most followers.
It could be two things. Either the maximum follower count (what was the best follower count seen on users tweeting the word) or total/combined follower count (add up the followers of each and every twitter account that used the word).
Maximum follower count EXAMPLE:
- Timmy has 10 followers
- Jane has 5 followers
- Bob has 15 followers
Maximum follower count:
15.
Total follower count EXAMPLE:
- Timmy has 10 followers
- Jane has 5 followers
- Bob has 15 followers
Total follower count:
30.
The total follower count is kind of like tweeters, except the more followers someone has, the more weight them tweeting the word gets. Most of the time it's the word with the most tweeters that has the biggest total follower count.
the actual game is that when someone ELSE tweets the celebritie's name, that person's total followers gets added to the running count.
No, that is an incorrect interpretation.
So you are betting on who has the most combined followers of all the people tweeting about the celebrities.
Which is a very creative/fun/hard to predict game...but needs to be explained a little better.
Wrong. Celebrities only matter if there is a sum_total_celebrities variable included in the formula. Otherwise they don't matter at all.
The balance cuts off and rounds, so you are always seeing an incorrect balance.
I'll look into truncating it in the top bar instead of maybe showing 4 decimals.
Having to refresh the page for updates is a little tedious.
I expect that to be upgraded.
Not having the leaderboard sort by what is winning is slightly annoying.
I'll look into finding a middle ground for that.
The number of tweets/followers/avg/max/total, while interesting metrics, are all irrelevant to the game and
somewhat obfuscate what everyone is betting on (total tweeters).
"What everyone is betting on" can be very different in different games and the game can't AI to find out what it is.
If under the 'drinking' umbrella you add key words like "beer", "vodka", "whisky", "Bud", "brew", ect and under
the 'smoking' umbrella you add key words like "cigarette", "cig", "pot", "weed", "vape", ect you'd have an outcome
There was a similar game (vodka, whiskey, bourbon, beer etc) on the site before the last DB reset. And there may be again. You're also welcome to submit such a game.
shouldn't 'luv' count for love and 'h8' count for hate? Just something that popped into my head.
I think games with two big common words are more fun than words with many words variations.
Maybe throw up some games every half hour/hour and if they don't get action they don't get action.
I will, later, if/when there are more players. For now it's hard as it is to find people to bet on games even when I throw in 'free coins' on both sides. I'm worried that if I let games be submitted quickly, most of them would end up being auto-cancelled.
