Good questions
Are the games 1 and done or will they be updated with new levels and bug fixes? If they will be updating and improving, what is their plan to handle that work load? As each game is released, the work goes up a bunch where more devs would be needed. Do they have this elastic capability? I'm genuinely interested in he game portion of the project, especially the development process.
Though I'm not related to team ION, I think you answered your own question.
The coin, not so much. I'm not convinced it was needed. If the platform is the focus, as they keep saying, why not build the platform for another already established coin? Why not build it for DASH or Blackcoin, which they cloned from? It seems they wanted control of a very large premine, only reasoning I can come up with. I understand it would be a bit more difficult in he dev process having to interact with other coins devs, but DASH is quite established and the platform, if it comes out as they say, would really put DASH on the map. Gamers would love the privacy DASH provides as well as he quick transactions from the masternodes. I'm just still confused as he need for the coin. Was it just to make XPY bag holders whole again?
Yes, that could've been an option. I don't know the official reasoning, but:
- dash is not pos, blackcoin has no masternodes and privacy functions dash have. Ion has both.
- this way they can decide their own changes to coincode
- decide on blockreward, supply, timing, staking rate etc
- premine/ico funding for the project. Dunno if ratio would be the same if ico was in (existing) dash
But
- if using a existing coin could profit from existing tooling and ongoing development and community