Topic: [ANN] ION [ION] | POS 3.0 | Mobile Gaming | Join the ionomy today! - page 308. (Read 473181 times)

What exactly makes you think there is a "billion dollar market" for shitty jump and run games where 5 lives cost one US$?
You're completely delusional.

I'll be around to warn people.

Q. Where can I watch a short video on "Crypto Gravity and Ionomy Funding System"?
A. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mq07XlsNLg

Q. What is an Ionomy point?
A. The points are like credit card rewards. You're supposed to be able to redeem them for things

Q. What is the split for games developed by Ionomy?
A. The apple/google store take 30% and the remaining 70% is equally split three ways between the game developer, ION purchase pool and Ionomy points.

Q. What's the split for the third party games?
A. Other developers will be able to choose their share percentages and based off those choices will determine how much rewards they get to offer via Ionomy.

Q. What about the ION purchase pool, where would those coins go?
A. Those go back into the pool that are rewarded to players to try to increase incentive game play.

More ION related questions are available at Sharky's ION FAQ @ http://Sharky.info/

or ask your questions on Ionomy Slack @ https://ionomy.slack.com/messages/general/details/

You don't NEED to be a programmer to alpha test a game. I just am curious how effective that alpha testing will be when the people doing the testing didn't notice or didn't care about bugs staring them straight in the face.

the point of testing games isn't to play them early, it's to try and break them, and this testing is going to be done by people who thought hashlets were real and didn't see/ignored bugs staring them directly in the face.

That's brilliant the longer you stay away from ION/IONOMY the better for everyone 

So people too stupid to realize that garza is robbing them are smart enough to run a new coin to revolutionize mobile gaming.

Definitely, see it and then pass judgement

And their investors, who are too stupid to notice bugs staring them straight in the face are going to be able to test the program and find every issue down deep in the code of that system.

Not stupid just didn't care.

Since when do you need to be a programmer to Alpha test a game. 


it's really a shame i missed out on getting in on the ground floor because it's obvious that nothing can happen but a trip to the moon.

Never to late........... In a multi billion dollar market you don't need to reach the moon to be successful, a piece of the pie is plenty

So people too stupid to realize that garza is robbing them are smart enough to run a new coin to revolutionize mobile gaming.

And their investors, who are too stupid to notice bugs staring them straight in the face are going to be able to test the program and find every issue down deep in the code of that system.

it's really a shame i missed out on getting in on the ground floor because it's obvious that nothing can happen but a trip to the moon.

Good for you. I will still call it vaporware until the game is released publicly for both Android and iOS, as it was announced.

Yes, will do in the next update. I'll try to ask on slack too.

Any chance to paraphrase and add those 3 questions I recently put up about how transparency will be provided for those ion buy backs to market etc?

and totally not insider information

The changes in the FAQ above are mostly minor edits based on the responses in slack, and I mentioned Gravity alpha as well.

Here's the diff in case anybody cares:

https://github.com/suchmoon/shut-up-and-take-my-money/commit/e15fcac470c445b9c83c5c95f9971ec52eb203b6

ION FAQ
Last Update: October 2, 2016

Q: What is ION?
A: A hybrid clone of Blackcoin and Dash.

Q: What is ionomy?
A: Mainly an online wallet for ION and an ION/BTC exchange, with some non-blockchain features such as atoms, electrons, and stakers.

Q: What are stakers?
A: Stakers are ionomy.com online wallets paying interest rates of 15%-50% on term deposits.

Q: Is there a standalone wallet for ION?
A: Yes, source and builds available on Github.

Q: What's the connection with Paycoin and GAW?
A: ION was created by a team that tried to prop Paycoin (XPY) up for a year after GAW's demise, XPY being the extension of the hashlet ponzi scheme perpetrated by GAW owner/CEO Homero Joshua Garza. In April 2016 the team declared XPY dead, created their own new coin ION, rebranded xpy.io online wallet to ionomy.com, and converted xpy.io XPY balances to ION.

Q: What's the purpose of ION and ionomy.com?
A: Mobile game development with a focus on in-game use of ION. Announcement here, more info here.

Q: How was ION created and distributed?
A: xpy.io users had their XPY converted to ION at a 8:1 rate. Others had a chance to purchase ION via an ICO at $0.20-0.25. ION is 100% pre-mined with ~75% of the initial coin supply controlled by its creators.

Q: What happened to the exchanged XPY?
A: Some of it has been burned however it is unclear how much has been exchanged and what happened to the rest.

Q: What happened to the BTC collected during the ICO?
A: According to unconfirmed third party claims most of the BTC has been converted to USD. There is an ICO address provided that shows 335 BTC received and 0 BTC balance as of June 16, 2016.

Q: Did they use escrow?
A: No.

Q: What will happen to the rest of the premine that the team still controls?
A: It is supposed to be used for bounties, promotions, etc.

Q: What are the addresses for bounty and other team wallets?
A: Dev bounty fund consists of multiple addresses totaling 2.5+ million ION. The team did not provide any other details.

Q: What are masternodes?
A: Masternodes are blockchain wallets with a 20k ION minimum balance. Masternodes share 50% of all block rewards (potentially ~50% APY in the first year).

Q: How many masternodes does the team own?
A: The team did not provide any details.

Q: What are community masternodes?
A: Off-chain project that allows users who own less than 20k IONs to pool their funds and create masternodes.

Q: Are community masternodes, atoms, or any other ionomy tokens considered securities in the US or Singapore?
A: The team did not provide any details.

Q: Why Singapore?
A: Ionomy PTE (a Singapore company) is the counterparty in ionomy.com TOS however such company does not show up in BizFile search. Bureaucratic reasons are blamed for the issue.

Q: What can ION be used for?
A: In addition to the community masternode project ION may be accepted in trades on marketplace channel (login required) and BilingServ offers a service to merchants willing to accept ION, however no such merchants are known.

Q: Is ION exchangeable to other currencies?
A: Yes, ionomy.com offers an ION/BTC exchange and Yobit has listed ION as well.

Q: How many games does ionomy.com plan to produce?
A: One every month.

Q: How many games has ionomy.com produced?
A: As of five months after the ICO one game (Gravity) is in closed alpha testing phase.

Q: How big is the ionomy team?
A: 5 full time employees and 5-10 part-time/contractors.

Q: Does the team plan to maintain and update the games or do they have a built in shelf life? (i.e. quality vs quantity)
A: Some games are planned to be updated for a few years.

Q: How will the team work around Google Play and Apple rules prohibiting the use of third-party payment methods (such as ION) in mobile games?
A: The team claims to have no issues with Google, and Apple will evaluate compliance once the games are submitted to the store. The solution appears to be based on using non-blockchain non-monetary tokens (electrons) in games, instead of using ION directly.

Q: How many ION team members does it take to fix the "edgey" typo in the Urban Words description?
A: The team did not provide any details.

Q: Does the team provide any status updates or other information?
A: Some limited information may surface on ionomy slack however due to lack of structure, required login, and limited retention it is difficult to locate and impossible to link to slack postings. Status updates are sometimes emailed to ionomy.com users and there is a rarely updated news page.  Some investors have claimed to have access to privileged information, including financial details and business plans by virtue of being "whales" (large investors).

Yep

Hey Franz just to let you know that I've started to alpha test Gravity   Crypto Gravity, you know that game you called vaporware.

No need to tell you if it's any good or how the API interacts with the different platforms as you'll soon see for yourself

 

Every single beta and alpha tester will say the game is the best thing since sliced bread. The the 200 of them will buy and sell ION to each other. Maybe a handful of new people will try it out. But they'll drop the game when they realize all the work arounds and issues they will have to deal with to actually set up a wallet that TeamION doesn't control the private keys. They'll go to another game that has the simple click to purchase credits and no need for a disfunctional wallet.

I know why the wallet is shitty. The team wants everyone to use web wallets so they have control of ALL the coins, ala Garza.

do you really think the people who missed all the typos and the volume bug on the internal market are going to be smart enough to evaluate this game?

Awesome! You get to see and play the game early. You can then make the decision before the rest of the ION customers if it is good or not and buy or sell IONs before it hits the masses. Should be a rule that the people alpha testing can't buy or sell until half way through the beta period.

Crypto Gravity Alpha has begun.

Greetings ionomy,

We are pleased to announce the release of the Crypto Gravity Alpha. This marks the first step towards the wider release of the first ionomy produced game and represents a very important step toward the greater realization of the ionomy as a whole.

The initial test group of the Alpha will limited to the Whales and internal testers. We expect the Alpha period to last a minimum of 1 week, a wider beta that will include all ionomy users will follow. The full release will occur after the close of the beta. The minimum beta period is expected to be 2 weeks.

We look forward to getting the first round of feedback and bug reports, and will be sharing more information about the beta as we get closer.

Please keep in mind that these times are estimates, as this is an early alpha it is difficult to project potential bugs or issues we may find that could extend our testing periods or delay the wider beta release.

As always if you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at [email protected] or by joining us on slack at slack.ionomy.com.

Thank you,

-The ionomy team