Topic: [ANN] MinerFarm - Virtual Mining Game for Real Bitcoin - page 45. (Read 85384 times)

Perhaps limit users from pool jumping with a minimum stay period?

I agree.  I think the game could do well with lower cost items to make it more accessible.

In fact, even if it were to occur on a separate server or implementation of the domain, keeping everything as it but scaling down to a smaller proportion thatd more affordable would probably build the community of invested members quicker.

So where an item that costs 1BTC now would be scaled down to .1BTC, but the ROI % could stay the same.  So where a return of a 1BTC item might be .001BTC, the same item would return .0001BTC in the scaled down game.

Members might be more easily able to stomach throwing a couple bucks at the game than a couple hundred.

I see.  Didn't catch the tongue in cheeks.

I know there are fees and minimum hasrates associated with opening a pool, but I feel like well eventually reach a point where I can see a situation where each month a new user opens a pool with zero fees as a marketing move to generate users, but the second another user does the same that marketing move is useless.

As it is, for whatever reason it may be, I feel like well eventually have an overwhelming number of pools at zero fees, whether the owners are doing so for shits and giggles or with the hopes of generating a user base, that eventually the only individuals who will run them are those willing to pay .05 BTC as a donation to the site without offsetting returns from their pool.

I mean, if there's even one member out there willing to spend .05 BTC a month just to have a pool in the site without fees, it effectively ruins the game for everyone else.

My comment was just "tongue-in-cheek", but I did edit my earlier post that at least shows a pool owner has some overhead cost. I do agree that making a new pool should be more than a whim.

Not really...because in real life there is more to pools than fees, but In the game, comparing pools consists only of fees.  In real life, I have lots of options for mining pools, including some with low, low fees, but I choose one with fees because their features justify it.  In the game, every pool has the same general feature set.

In real life, sure pools can come along and undercut fees, but there's so much more to it than fees in real life.  

Pools in real life can have forums and unique features or generate income in other ways, like advertising.  So a pool in real life might say, we don't have any fees, but then put in ads to subsidize.  Or pools in real life can expand to new coins or mutlicoin scripts.

All I'm suggesting is that if pools in the game are going consist of comparing merely fees, I think to entice more investors into the game, there needs to be a way of controlling users coming and just spending .05BTC to run a pool with zero fees for the hell of it.

I think it would be a good idea to sell some cheeper miners.  Maybe even .001 bitcoin a piece.  It would make the non depositors fell like they are making progress and in turn can cause them to deposit more bitcoins.

Maybe there should be overhead for a pool owner to offset the zero fee strategy. There may even be one - I don't know.

Edit:

Each user can own at most 1 pool
There is monthly 0.050 BTC cost for pool creation and maintenance
There is 0.005 BTC cost for pool update
You should have at least 1000 Gh/s hash power in order to create a pool.
Pool commission rate is the percentage value of each user's cost who joined to pool pays for per block
Minimum Hash Power is the smallest required hash rate for the users who want to join to pool
Once you create a pool, you cannot cancel or quit the pool. But you can edit pool information.

Kind of like RL.

What happens when a pool closes up? Are members shifted to the official pool?

I understand there's a competitiveness about having the lowest pool fees, but as someone interested in investing what's to stop someone from constantly undercutting fees besides the monthly fee.  It possible that over a period of 12 months, 12 users could open 12 separate pools on different months with zero fees, taking a loss on investments but causing every other pool owner massive losses too.

For instance, if I was so inclined, I could open a pool with zero fees and generate a massive following and monopoly of users.  At this point, it just seems like "here's a list of pools, and everyone joins the cheapest one".

I have a pretty good idea of how to fix this issue and also integrate it in a way that drives traffic to the site.

One thing I'm thinking is that Pools w/0% fees are limited to say 10 members unless they get a direct referral who signs up under a referral link and is added to their pool, then direct referrals can join beyond their limit.

Then for every .01% fee you a pool can have 10 members, except again direct referrals.  If a pool owner directly refers a member, that member can join the pool beyond a limit the pool has.

Then, lastly, I think if pools could have a description and link, people could setup "pool" website communities or forums off-site.  I think that wouof alleviate the issues of pools just constantly undercutting.  

Just some ideas...

This thread got grumpy all of a sudden. English isn't everyone's primary language, even when it is mistakes happen.

And demanding help is kind of rude. Ask nicely. 

Glad to be yourself. I can make mistake but you can not correct my mistakes.

Just click the pool list and then click the join button which pool you want to join.

It is very easy. Click Pool -> Pool List from Left Panel. You will see Pool List. Select pool that you want to Join. Then click Join from right of Pool stats.
Done.

its change not chance ok....

now please guide me how to change pool I have 10 GH mining and working also and i want to move to another pool can you tell me how to move to another pool in MinerFarm

You are so unlucky. Tell us when you change your pool, so we register to other pool

I try to chance pool and every time when I chance my pool, the other pool find the block. How I can be unlucky like that  I need some luck with a good strategy.

thankyou aliser, we want to similar campaigns.

I have since edited my post as Aliser has unblocked me. Thanks.

you discuss this topic in the wrong place, this is a misuse.

Oh. Seems you bought the script.

Because look this site: http://hexhash.ml/

It's a mix from Minerfarm and RDPMain.

Minerfarm owner runs ponzi scheme?

Edit.