Quote from: voelkelshibe on September 23, 2014, 01:24:28 PM

Quick feature suggestion.

It would be nice if there was a box with the total amount of the bonus pool per round. Right now, it's hard to tell what is going on with the bonus without playing the game a lot and even then you just get a general feel for it. I think if you put the total amount of the bonus pot for each round, then people would strategize more around getting the bonus because it's more visible.

To take this one step even further, it would be cool if the bonus amount was dynamically updated in the "profit" column for each round. If the players felt like they could "steal" the bonus away from the other players that could create some more competition and more strategies.

I love this game, but while reading the FAQ, I get the sense that there should be more strategy among the players, but instead everyone is simply trying to reach a particular multiplier.

I agree. The bonus is distributed very fairly, but it's kind of confusing, and not well displayed.

If you click on the game in the history, you'll see how the bonus was distributed, but that feels like leaving the game, and I doubt many people ever look there.

Some display showing "total bonus this round", "your bonus if you win", and other more dynamic stats might help engage more players in the bonus hunting ("your minimum guaranteed bonus if you cash out right now", for instance (it could be higher if the other remaining players don't cash out)). Showing the bonuses other players are winning would help too. If I always cash out at 1.01x I probably won't even be aware that the braver players are getting decent sized rewards pretty regularly.

Here's how the bonus works. Unless you're the biggest player you can never scoop the whole 1% bonus pot:

1% of each player's stake goes into the bonus pot. So if there are 4 players, betting 400, 300, 200, and 100, there will be 10 bits in the pot. If the biggest player wins, he gets the whole pot. The site works out the rate he would be getting if he won, ie. 400 bits bet gives 10 bits bonus - or 1/40th bonus per bit bet. It then applies the same rate to whoever actually wins.

So if the 100 bit player wins, he gets 1/40th of 100, or 2.5 bits. That leaves 7.5 bits in the pot, which goes to the next best placing player(s).

Suppose the 200 bit player comes 2nd. He is due 1/40th of 200, or 5 bits. There are still 7.5 bits in the pot, so he gets the full 5 bits he is due - the same as if he had come in 1st place.

Suppose the 300 bit player comes 3rd. He's due 7.5 bits (300/40) but there are only 2.5 bits left in the pot, so he gets those and that's all. There's nothing left for the 4th or worse place players.