Looking for ways to break faucet bots/solvers at the moment. When we changed the captcha to solvemedia faucet claims immediately decreased by 60%+ temporarily then moved up. Also if anyone can provide me input on which update we should prioritize I'll consider doing so.
I don't know why you bother with a faucet. There are lots of faucet sites out there that fund themselves via advertising. You're running a dice site; I don't see the need to have a faucet site merged with it. It presumably attracts a lot of freeloading players who never deposit and complain whenever you change the amount of free money you give them. Seems like a lot of work and a waste of money to me.
tldr: concentrate on being a good dice site, not a mediocre faucet site
Why not be the best of both? But in all seriousness I agree with your sentiment. I think we will end up significantly nerfing the faucet to only be a fun bonus for new users, entirely changing it to a once/twice a day daily reward or removing it entirely. I think any of these choices will result in a major backlash from the people who use the faucet, many of them think they are entitled to the rewards as they gained levels so they could use it and think that any nerf is robbery. The amount of support emails related to the faucet is staggering and has made it harder and harder to finish more important ones in a timely manner.
The key way to sort out this situation in my opinion is creating a system which rewards people with higher levels without being as expensive/gimmicky as the faucet. Ideally I want to make the faucet a minigame that can be played once or twice a day with scaling rewards based on level.