Quote from: no-ice-please on April 12, 2016, 01:43:12 AM

Quote from: wiggi on April 10, 2016, 09:35:35 PM

Quote from: no-ice-please on April 08, 2016, 12:28:42 AM

"human mining" rather than simply "low risk gambling"

But the risk is the only thing that can prevent everyone from spawning masses of dumb bots.
Playing Huntercoin is not gambling because of the (really huge in % terms) positive expectancy.

Unfortunately, the future of gambling is probably a few logical steps ahead of you. Considering the history of Huntercoin it would be a shame if this trend continues with HUC leading. Somebody who (properly) counts cards at a blackjack table will have a huge positive expectancy. Should you say they are withdrawing? Mining? Words should reflect, not create.

Quote from: Mr_SeLeNiO on April 11, 2016, 09:06:15 PM

takes ages to move the character

The person I got to try the game complained about the same thing. Also I asked him if he thought it would be more "fun" to "mine" using a simple game like pacman and he said hands down pacman wins.

Quote from: Icon on April 11, 2016, 11:59:02 PM

yep each 1 move is a transaction, and it each transaction is ~ 1 min.. (aka block solved)
and 99.999% of all mine /work done is done via F2pool
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99.+% of all coins mined? Or only of coins mined but not by players? I cannot imagine that either of those is correct but if it is even close it brings me to an unpleasant thought.

A lot of times people working on a project get a cloistered mentality and start to incorporate a sort of home for themselves, and their buddies, that excludes others.

There isn't really anything wrong with that, as long as it is upfront.

If a currency is intended to be the financial playground for "a select few" then that fact must be made plain to everybody. Once it is clear then it is not a problem. There will be a lot of currencies aimed at tiny groups, and there will be some limited "exchange value" in those coins. I had not considered that a possibility with Huntercoin until recently, but it does look like there is an "exclusive" mindset and perhaps development is (probably unconsciously) guided towards making sure that exclusivity remains in favor of a certain few.

I'll repeat that I am a strong supporter of Huntercoin still, only for its potential. I hope that there is a discussion about the possibilities of authentic human mining in a coin, and that developers start making use of what coins offer to experiment with human mining.

Hi No-ice-please,

it's great you are posting your thoughts, and please continue to do so.

about being a fincancial playground for a select few - i may be misinterpreting it, but - this is not the case, i only play maybe for a couple of hours every other weekday. Domob the lead dev doesn't play, only tests. MM doesn't play much (he says).

Huntercoin was originally an experiment to "test the waters", as i didn't want to significantly invest in the project at the time.

All the points you make are valid -
for us, we are learning as we go along and working on the project in our spare time with very limited resources.

Hopefully we can work on improvements sooner rather than later Cheesy

regarding pacman, did you check out Motocoin? this was a fun game/coin although it was eventually unplayable due to automated players.
by making huntercoin PvP (player vs player), you are competing against other human minds (albeit the game combat mechanics is due for some fixes).

it would be great to get 30 seconds blocks and probably not impossible.
Although the game is slow, when you are eventually in combat it's very tense.. especially when in combat with multiple hunters (in one place or in different parts of the map.