Quote from: seedtrue on March 22, 2014, 10:39:01 PM

Quote from: MithrilMan on March 22, 2014, 10:22:24 PM

Quote from: Nathonas on March 22, 2014, 09:30:10 PM

You're missing the point. If only bots are playing, the coin has no value. And right now, every day it's getting more difficult for "human" players to mine coins. In my case for example, I haven't actually made any coins for about a week because I keep losing hunters so I'm barely keeping even.

bot's aren't free, they have to pay for every player as "human players" do, so i don't agree about that
and watching (not much because i'm mainly on testnet to go on with my client) how bots behave, i think that often they pay an high fee to move on next block, so if someone come out with an "antibot bot", it will be more expensive for the bot owner

Of course i hope human players will keep playing the game because i'm doing my client for them and not for bot, but in future i want to add bot programming inside my client, because i believe that it's a scenario that huc players have to deal with

It does not really cost anything to create teams after you recover your generals coins. If you keep your generals safe you just kill them when the runners die and collect the coins, you get back like 0.96. When I was playing I had over 90% of my generals coins recovered. Therefore, 100 teams only cost 5 HUC if you count the .01 fee.

Antibots vs. Bots? I thought this coin was about being "human-mineable" (says so right in the title).

oh cmon, bot aren't invincible, you can destroy them as any human player, since you see many bots, hunt for their generals then, team up, play smart
the problem i see here are mainly 2:
1 - actual client is too slow and didn't give much help to human players
2 - players lack of a teamplay attitude/will

maybe with my client i could help about point 1, but point 2 is about players attitude

I'd add a point 3: blockchain size, as already said here in this thread
blockchain size can keep away new players, but i think something will come out about that

as a last point, not directly to you but in general, everything need it's time. This is not a commercial game that has been built with millions investment and has a huge team working on every aspect, this is an experiment, a new thing, built on top of another new thing and this project counts few people working on it (i'm counting me in for alternative client stuff but i'm working on my own) and if you consider that bounties wallet has been lost on previous dev PC that passed away (i'm developing my client too without any bounty) you have to wait or to help in some way
one way could be invest (donating, buying hucs, doing marketing, faucet, and so on), another way could be building stuff up on that (like me), trying to improve original code, or working with the community in many forms

I've not invested in this coin in term on money (just had a daughter, 2 month old, and i can't gamble her future) but i've invested in term of time, literally hundreds of hours working on my client, and It's one of my goal pushing HUC up in cryptocoin world, even if i wouldn't be rich at all atm (my wallet would make you all laugh Cheesy

) but i'm considering this an investment in term of knowledge and maybe, who know, maybe the future will be benevolent with my wallet too Cheesy