Topic: [ANN] SatoshiGalaxy - Browser MMORPG + BTC Faucet {FOR SALE} - page 99. (Read 109676 times)

Hi,

My account balance have been over 10k for more than a week now. I read on FAQ link that you transfer the payments usually every sunday, however I haven`t received a payment so far. Is there an issue with payment process? Your feeddback will be appreciated.

Some news and progress reports.

Rockets are mostly working now. You still can't use them for mining, but feel free to use them for PvE, PvP and Planetary warfare. The costs to craft them will be adjusted in the future (likely going to be cheaper to craft).

Planetary warfare should now work too. There's still an edge case of you damaging the planet, and someone else claiming it afterwards; and the Orbital Cannon still doesn't work. Otherwise, it's all good and you can try stealing planets from other players :) (That is the end-game we promised).

We've received reports, that Referral locking is not as solid as promised. Upon initial investigation, we've found out, that sadly, this is true -- some referrals are not being registered correctly. Please do not be alarmed -- we're on to it. Thanks to HTTP Referrer field that we log, we can still reconstruct which users came from where and we're going to assign those referrals to you manually in the course of the next week. If you see your ref. count suddenly spike up, you now know why. But firstly, we'll make sure the locking is as solid as promised.

New year celebrations is something I personally hate in video games. I play MMORPGs for escapism, I don't want to see a giant X-Mas tree in Azeroth, Coruscant or what have you. However, I'm in a minority here, the team disagrees. So, while no snowmans or snowflakes will appear ingame, and nothing like that will be mentioned, all players signed up before Dec 31 will receive a random, yet valuable gift. All existing players too, of course. To claim your gift, visit the marketplace, but you'll have to wait till Jan 1st 00:00 (server time) to do so.

As always, expect new bugs to crop up, please keep reporting anything that doesn't work as expected.

OK, I'm back. You guys did went crazy afterall, sigh.

And to the one player, who knows who I'm talking about: woah, dude :) Thanks for not drying the faucet, that's appreciated.

Quick [ann], everyone.

I'm going to be unavailable for next 24-48 hours for personal reasons. So please don't expect support. In the meantime we've finally introduced rockets, but those are largely untested. And the FaucetBOX balance was recharged with 150k extra satoshi in case you guys go mad over those days (confirmations pending).

Play nice :)

Some news:

Stronger security - now after you sign your BTC wallet, it's locked, and you can't change it unless you sign another message with the same wallet. Similarly, e-mails can't be changed after verification. You can unlock wallet via e-mail AND unlock e-mail via wallet, though. Due to those changes, we're now allowing weaker passwords during signup (as suggested by mobnepal).

Newbie tutorial - the tutorial is not in any way perfect, and even buggy, but it should introduce the most basic concepts of the game to the newbie players (as suggested by EXtremeAEX).

New bugs everyday! - please hang on guys. We're having some turbulence, and things will be a little shaky for the time being. As soon as we reach feature completeness (we're close), we'll slow down and work out all the bugs. Thanks for your understanding.

Referral payouts - at last, there have been some ref. payouts made. Hopefully everything works as expected and everyone is happy with them :)

We're still working out pirate spawn/danger/loot ratios, so if you're thinking you're not getting enough (or too much?) loot, just try again later. None of that is final and is in constant flux.

Thanks for the info, that was very insightful.

My personal take on this: some of your ISP's customers are infected with malware, which sends out spam. It's unlikely they are evil on purpose, as spammers rarely use their own (gasp) home IP addresses; if you contact your ISP and explain the situation to them, they might even track the infected machines down. I'm not up to speed with latest netiquette, but sometime ago that was the protocol for handling such situations.

Getting your own address is a good idea anyway! (Especially if you're in crypto "biz" yourself). Obviously I don't know your economy over there, but over here, I'm lucky to have such service for ~3USD/month. Hope you can get something similar.

Note: All of the above were just my personal comments. The "official" reply is

BTCforJoe, your IP address was added to the whitelist. Please report back if you still have any troubles.

Hello, BTCforJoe

Thanks for your report. Your IP was flagged by one of the IP-intel gathering services that we employ. (With a pretty high score, too. Are you running a botnet? And if not, do you have any ideas what could've caused it? You know, for science sake.)

In the past (see this thread), I have replied that our policy is NOT to whitelist IPs per user requests. However, I'm making a personal case for you/people like you. I hope it's not too intrusive, but I skimmed your post history here, on bitcointalk, and you look like an actual, reasonable person, not a bot :) The team thinks it's a bad idea; I'll personally be held responsible for all whitelisted IPs, so if something goes wrong, it's on me.

In that light of that, we're now accepting IP whitelisting requests.

The actual implementation is some hours away, but I'll make a post here when it's ready.

And to all/any humans blocked by this in the past -- please accept our apologies, it's just the way the system works.

The pirate/loot issue is monkey-patched/resolved for now. However, please keep in mind, that the actual loot rates will be adjusted in the future, what we have now is a very rough draft.

Planets mostly work, yes. But you shouldn't bother with them unless you have some nice amount of satoshi to spend (~200k is good for starters), this feature is intended as end-game for veteran players.

I make some progress so new questions:

I kill pirate and get nothing in return?
do planets work already or not ready?

Hello, insargood

I'll see if everything is OK on our end, but could you please tell me more in the meantime? What exactly went wrong?

Update: thanks for your report, the signup form was indeed broken since the last patch. :/ It's now fixed!

cant register id
please fix site

And if anyone is wondering what happened to this plan, we've added Paytoshi as our secondary payout method.



:) Paytoshi payouts are disabled if FaucetBOX works, but as soon as it runs dry or stops responding, they activate.

Note: referral payouts are always done to FaucetBOX for now.

Since we don't have a blog or twitter account and the primary outlet for contacting other players is right here on bitcointalk, I decided I'd post some updates and personal notes.

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- Fog of war is on: from now on, you have to visit each sector for it to appear on your star map. We're going to give Squads some data-sharing benefits in the future, possibly a combined map.

This is bad news for players who already explored a vast portion of the galaxy: sorry guys, you'll have to do it again. We toyed with the idea of giving you some of the map pre-opened, but that's just asking for trouble code-wise. (Similar thing already happened with the Nav skill -- when we started out the skill wasn't implemented at all, so some of your jumps were "wasted").

- Jobs: we've started adding simple jobs to the game. Currently there is only one type of job available, but you can expect the list and variety to grow. This feature will be very generic for now -- 'deliver message to sector X', 'kill pirate X', etc. But from here it will hopefully grow into an interesting and dynamic quest system.

- No database wipe yet: we've been very careful with our database upgrades as to allow us not to wipe it for as long as possible. Despite our promise to actually wipe it every day ;) All players from day 1 still have their accounts and assets intact.

- Pending endgame: we're about 50% in our implementation of the endgame. The endgame is the situation where all players have maximum upgrades, maximum skill levels, best ships and equipment, etc. Once you reach that, there will something very interesting waiting for you.

- Code robustness: at the time of the initial announcement, almost no single operation was handled correctly in terms of DB transactions, and our programmer said, that "yeah, it's insecure, but the chances of any duping or item loss ever occurring are 1/10000 and even then you'd have to DoS the server and be very peculiar about how you do things". Turns out he was completely wrong! Well, we're fixing it. Just for the record: the way our code is structured right now, if a bug occurs, you'll likely see an item/satoshi dupe and not a loss. We could've easily turned it the other way around, but we believe we shall never punish players for our bugs.

Therefore, if you see a feature that was working perfectly yesterday, but is bugged today, it's likely the implementation was completely re-written. Please report any such bugs.

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So far, a small fraction of people logging in quit immediately after mining their first asteroid. I guess they sell their first load, get something like 12 satoshi and think "meh"; most just start chugging on the asteroids, trying out occasional upgrades, and we have a small group of players who are literally tearing this game apart. I would imagine they are experienced gamers, who played many similar RPGs before. They absolutely nail down each new feature minutes after it comes out, they figure out they most profitable strategies, etc.

So how is the faucet part going? It's depleting too fast. Personally, I can't see this being sustainable at all :) I'd like to announce right away, that the rate you see now will likely be halved upon release.

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I would also like to take a moment and thank all our alpha players again. You're making it a very fun experience!

Hello, jerrysunny

Please see the above post, as it applies to you too.

"Site under construction" will be displayed for the whole duration of the Alpha test.

Hello, nicojaewpunk

No, we do not currently implement IP blocks on per-country basis. Nor do we plan to, if it can be helped at all. (The reason is simple -- faucets are lucrative for people from countries with low minimal wage, and those are exactly the countries that contain the most botnets.)

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You were likely flagged by one of the distributed IP checking services we implement.

After a heated discussion, we decided not to whitelist specific IPs even when a user explicitly asks us to, especially if said user doesn't already have an account with us. Even during the alpha testing. It just opens a huge can of worms. If that changes, we'll post an announcement.

Note to everyone: if you already do have an account, and it looks good otherwise, and the system suddenly flags you, then, yes, we will talk to you and probably whitelist your IP.

Here are some things you can try in the meantime:
- Make sure your computer (and/or network) is not infected with malware.
- Contact your ISP and/or sysadmin and ask if there's any suspicious traffic going from your IP.
- Once you're sure you're clean, wait for 24-48 hours.
- Try again.

Do not fret! There is no such a thing a "permanent record of bad IPs" (otherwise the whole Internet would've already been on such list); the lists are constantly changing and updating themselves. Even if you're an evil spammer, you can still redeem your IP by simply stopping the spam. For legitimate users such as yourself, it should be even simpler.

We have investigated the issue very carefully, and even contacted the Adblock Plus team for guidelines.

Long story short, even when you "disable" Adblock Plus, it still does some blocking behind the scenes. If you disable it "everywhere", then it finally stops.

Instead of telling our users to uninstall (or permanently disable) Adblock Plus, we have found a middle-ground solution, which is now outlined in the adblock guide on our site. ( http://www.satoshigalaxy.xyz/help/adblock#adblock-plus-firefox )

Dear faucet users, if you experience Adblock-related problems on other websites/faucets, this guide most certainly will help you too.

sarcasticviper, thank you very much, for bringing the issue to our attention.

IPBlocked
and site is under construction

Do you block ip from my country? i cant regist cause ip block

Just using AdBlock Plus on Firefox and so far re-logging has no change

Hello, sarcasticviper

Thanks for your report! That sounds weird. Could you please tell me more? Which adblock software are you using? Also, does it help if you turn it off and then re-login?

As a side note, we're constantly resetting adblock-related automated bans, and one of the users who posted on this thread earlier is the worst offender >:) If you're falling victim to wrong adblocking accusations, please reach out to us. We also see that many players are having no troubles at all, which is nice.