Quote from: dooglus on August 29, 2014, 12:44:23 AM

Quote from: goose20 on August 28, 2014, 10:01:00 PM

The differing psychology in play and utility value we have with the faucet amount is what throws normal theory out the door here imo. As evidenced by normal house edge of ~1% v faucet edge of ~4%.

Where do you see that the faucet has an "edge of ~4%"?

That sounds like crazy talk to me... are you suggesting that the laws of mathematics are affected by the emotions of the person running a deterministic random number generation algorithm such that they lose a bigger percentage of the amount they risk when playing with free coins than when they are risking their own coins? Because that's what it sounds like you are saying. If not, what does "faucet edge" even mean?

Quote from: Jaaawsh on August 28, 2014, 10:46:49 PM

Actually yeah, a high faucet was promised for PD3.

If it's the case that players were promised a certain level of faucet payouts, and that promise is now being broken, then that's no good.

I never saw anything like that in the talk leading up to the release of PD3 - from what I remember it was mostly vague "there will be levels" type stuff, nothing specific, and so changing details like the amount the faucet pays out isn't breaking any promise.

Maybe you can quote the post that made the promise you feel is now being broken.

Dooglus, see stunna's respone to my post re where the 4% came from.

Math with always hold true. Human behavior will not. Hence the differing %'s imo.

My posts were not a comment on the faucet itself (its amount, reduction etc - am not concerned about that). Others are, I don't know why - its free afterall.
But stunna's statement itself. I read it and thought 'yeah, faucet has substantial claims being made on it - so what, its all just numbers and not much at all is leaving stunna's pocket and actually being paid out from it'. And then I thought others would read it and go 'oh poor stunna, he is paying out the equivalent of 100btc a month because of the faucet, whata generous guy'.

So I straight up asked stunna for clarification.
Cheers