Re: [ANN][HUC] Huntercoin - Human Mining - Decentralized MMO and Crypto Game
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
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.
There are a few things that distinguish Huntercoin from other similar coins, and one of them is the history of the people who are developing it. I never checked out Motocoin, that I remember, and generally would not be interested in a coin that started now as a game. Huntercoin started as a specific game and basically still is that game, but is primed to develop further.
Regarding "pacman" specifically, I don't think I have actually played it in at least 30 years, and am not interested in playing it. I mentioned it as an example of something that could be used to allow real human mining in a coin. which would let almost any human interact with a computer intelligently and generate coins that could be converted to other things. Would bots overwhelm a pacman style game? I'm not a developer so that's not my concern. My guess is that it would be possible to put in some checks that prevented automated programs from mining those coins.
As a simple matter of how successful the coin would be using different games, there really is little question that the coin, using the current game and playing model will not succeed.
In other words something has to change.
The "financial playground" aspect you are misinterpreting a bit. There are a lot of ways people feather their own beds and every action a person takes is ultimately for their own benefit, i.e., it leads to some benefit for themself according to how they learned. The criticism is more that what you (plural devs) have created is both "exclusive" (it excludes a lot of people) and as an exclusive project it is not even something heading for success.