Topic: [ANN] ION [ION] | POS 3.0 | Mobile Gaming | Join the ionomy today! - page 349. (Read 473126 times)

There's only a couple hundred investors and they are locked in by stakers for an extended period of time. There are people that want out but can't get out cause their IONs are being held hostage in stakers. I would imagine that any new blood, if there was any, are shitting themselves right now or have already sold off at a loss to just get out.

Don't see much advice to release a broken shitty game, just questions about their abilities/knowledge if they thought they would be able to release a game in July and it is almost September and we are still in alpha.

Also amazing that people with money on the line don't seem to care about missed deadlines.

The current status of the Gravity game is in Alpha testing with the DEVs hitting the Ionomy API as HARD as they can and soon to be in the hands of the Whales for additional Alpha testing of the API and game.

Having the Alpha testing of the games performed by the Team Ionomy, Developers and Whales is a good call by Ionomy because it limits the release of the game to a small test group. The Whales having the first shot at it because they already work closely with the Ionomy Team and have a direct line of access to them. Finding the defects and reporting them from a small group does not overwhelm the developers resource and should reduce the time management time spent on reporting the defects and getting a new testing version of the game back out to verify the fixes. In fact, while still in early stages of development, the team will maintain a high level of secrecy. The Founders will get involved with the Beta testing phase of Gravity.

So not even the so called whales have it yet.  The so called devs are testing it still?

Omg this gets funnier by the minute...

Soon has to be the most abused word in the GAW, XPY, ION community (and also by Butterfly Labs but thats anther story)....

Months late and even now Alpha testing is still soon.......

Face it you got scammed AGAIN!

Gravity if its ever released will be a half baked broken POS they spent less than a grand on paying some newbie dev wannabee.  They will proclaim damn our idea were great but didnt work outin the end but hey we tried and we are nice so totally not a scam. Followed but we have a new plan.  Buy our latest ICO or invest in a new service....

Hell its worked plenty of time before and you suckers keep falling all over yourselves to hand them money.

If true, then they wouldnt be ashamed in calling it suchcoin, actually great name with a lot of marketing possibilities , maybe then you guys would help them to have success and do something usefull for cryptocommunity instead of your definition of scamming? , nice imagination, isnt it, I higly doubt it will happen

I dont like this /S, just state that it is a joke

I wouldnt hold your breath they are already months late and im guessing will be a few months more and maybe even then it wont come out.

Wonder what they will call the next coin?

Or will it be a scrypt.cc rerun.  I know the GAWtards loved that site too

"How is it that they have like approx $300k usd and can't release a bunch of games even half baked ones to demonstrate the platform?"

Well wouldnt this be exactly what alot of people here want them to do? So they can manipulate the api and say oh their games suck and are junk and half baked? Im sure if they were taking advise from here the team would have done so already, considering they have not listened to anything from here to date, im guessing we will have to wait til they lock it down.

And we have another shitting around! Of course there is a beta but "testing" version is for testing and it is not available for public testing, also not for whales, whales are actually not good for testing, especially if you show that many things dont work, I wouldnt give them an buggy version to test. suchmoon, you really think that you are so important that they would invite you, who spread so much fud about them, to test BETA??? , I am sure you do laugh by yourself during imagination of such fiasco.

But this question is to be directed to the dev which is clearly neither present here nor on their slack. I dont know if they take part on these meetings, I would assume no.

Nobody of their team will come to this forum to reply questions. Just read sentences like "Fuck you adam" which seem to be ontopic here. Write fuck you "NAME OF BITCOINTALK OWNER" and you will be banned immediatelly. These are double standards which always fit to some agenda. Agenda here is to make ION scam, no matter what it is, even if it is not a scam, it's worth trying to flip it like if they would scam, that's all about in last 150 pages.

Adam did not want at all thread here and thats why he did not open it. As trolls of this thread speak how clever they are, that's exactly what Adam said about them and why doesnt he want to be present here, you can judge about his decision if you want.

I also do not think that going there and asking real staff and devs could help you finding out this question or even getting beta tester, but it's for sure worth trying, especially because bitcointalk would be probably last place where they would publish it or invite any beta testers.

Q: Didn't they use escrow?
A: Nope.

grammar check...assuming you want your faq accurate

As per here: https://www.iontalk.net/t/gravity-status-report-restart-1/193 and here: https://www.iontalk.net/t/gravity-status-report/149 I don't think even the 'whales' have access to it to test as yet.

I still don't think this is a corrupt project as such. Could they have made better choices? Sure. But to me, this essentially appears to be a vanity project for the ex-paycoin community to try and redeem themselves after losing out so much to Garza et al. It's got more to do with restoring community pride to most of the regular members than it has necessarily about making money, though I'm sure a certain couple of them are probably only there to get back some of the losses they took.

For my part, I have to say that while I understand the concept they are going for, I just don't think that it will realistically have a chance of major success as I don't think the idea of crypto linked gaming will really appeal to many people outside of the established crypto sphere, and there exists such tribalism within the crypto sphere itself (between true believers in Bitcoin/assorted alt coins/communities etc)  that I don't expect it to be successful even amongst that demographic given its background. End of rant. I'm happy to be proven wrong, of course.

How is it that they have like approx $300k usd and can't release a bunch of games even half baked ones to demonstrate the platform? You could go to those forums full of people that make game maker games, freeware titles using unreal tech etc...

surely they could provide the bounty out to teams to encourage adding ion.

To me it seems they took ico and aren't really spending it to actually promote the platform. If i was running a project i'd have a clear direction listed with intent of where to spend the ico funds not just say for bounties and dev.

I'd say
- 50btc spent on getting devs to make games
(then post links of requests at forums showing this bounty out)
- 10btc spent on third party devs to progress api

etc like that showing how its used.

It still sounds bloody dodgy to me. Technically the can make gravity or rather have someone else do the majority of the work then pay themselves 300btc and say it took 500 hours x this cost per hour so we pay ourselves that.

IPO's/ICO's and their apparent whitepapers and direction stink at present. They are so vague and have no transparent checks to ensure people are honest just trust us. They took btc over fiat as in a lot of areas bitcoin isn't considered cash so avoid the whole scamminess of direct fiat. Then convert to fiat straight away. They get what they wanted but try to get through loop holes on the accountability.

The best part is they don't have to defend themselves as those that threw money at them do it for them. They'll blindly ignore others comments and go on defense mode because they don't want to believe that what they invested might be a bad investment.

No beta AFAIK. WildShark was claiming that whales got alpha version, but he's known to post random crap so it's safe to assume there is nothing yet.

is there any beta testing for any of the games? as in right now currently. if there is, they could at least blog about it...on bug fixes, etc.

I would call this pretty neutral, what happened to you, I dont see bad wording and other stuff you used to add when speaking about this team.

Whatever made this change happen, I think it is only for something good. As team ION does not provide such FAQs, some users could thank you for writting this up. However, it does not make good what you did in last months.

ION FAQ
Last Update: August 28, 2016

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

Q: What is ionomy?
A: Mainly an online wallet for ION and some other features, e.g. an ION/BTC exchange.

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: Who controls ION?
A: Ionomy PTE (a Singapore company) is the counterparty in ionomy.com TOS however such company does not exist.

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: Didn't they use escrow?
A: Nope.

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's with the stakers, masternodes, etc?
A: Stakers are ionomy.com online wallets paying interest rates of 15%-50% on term deposits. 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: Why does the team need new coins in addition to the pre-mine?
A: The team did not provide any details.

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

Q: How many games has ionomy.com produced?
A: None as of three months after the ICO.

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: The team did not provide any details.

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 did not provide any details.

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, no public access, and limited retention it is difficult to locate and impossible to link to slack postings. Some investors have claimed to have access to privileged information, including financial details and business plans by virtue of being "whales" (large investors).

Q: Has CryptoBuds acquired a masternode?
A: He's a nice guy.

well since they have 5.9 mil out of 10.9 mil (launch) in masternodes, they can keep on dumping when ever
they have stated that only 5.9 mil would be used for ion and we have found out that they do stake these funds "to battle inflation". no where have they publicly said that these extra funds would be used for ion and not their own pocket

"What you're saying now (even if the exchange to USD really happened, which we have no way of verifying) is equivalent to saying that Garza rapidly dumped all XPY to gain value to benefit the project. Team ION dumped the ICO BTC and can be dumping their ION for all we know but as long as they're are saying it's for the benefit of the project it's all cool."

Actually it would be the equivalent to Garza selling all the btc he collected to USD technically.

"Team ION dumped the ICO BTC and can be dumping their ION for all we know "

Kept 50 btc in a cold address so not all was DUMPED. Or so was explained in slack.

I'll take half Carmel, half cheddar dusted.

I know he's not the official face of ION, but he's the only one you see shilling for it. There is a difference between shilling and discussing. He shills.

About that popcorn, any chance you could add some bacon dust to the cheddar? Saturday night and I hit the peace pipe....bacon and cheddar sounds mighty tasty right now, ha!

Oh ya, kettle popped if possible!

Cheers lads

Freedom of speech, fine with me. Everybody got their own way of telling their story.

He btw is not the face of ION. There's not ONE face. Neither there'a one truth :-)

Popcorn anyone?

You are not worth being nice or cordial too. So fuck you! When did I say it had to be Bitcoin you ignorant fuck? When? I stated crypto, you selective reading retard!!! i asked why not convert to another crypto coin. I never stated it had to be in Bitcoin. So get off the fucking Bitcoin POW/POS argument. I could care less.

The ICO funds are now in fiat. This is supposed to be a crypto project, I honestly don't see it anymore. And he fact hat you don't care shows your greed and you only want to make money. The only shy you care about the Ionomy is to get more people roped in to buy up your dumps. Glaringly obvious.

Shill away WildShark. Post those unverifiable number you like so much. Keep making the project look like a joke, since you took on the role of ION spokesperson.

Question to the ION investors: how does it make you feel that WildShark is the face of ION? If I was invested and saw his actions, I would exit as quickly as possible. His actions remind me exactly of MrCoins and XPY. How many people are in this mess cause the bought XPY cause of his shilling?