Because of the long period during which GPU miners were off doing other things, leaving BBQcoin to CPU miners, this coin is one that quite a few players have been able to accumulate.
What we have been looking into is ways in which
CPU mining can still be fun, something that GPU miners cannot do.
The
DevTome wiki's page about
CPU mining is where I have been writing up some of the findings-so-far.
Basically the current approach is kind of indirect mining: players have plenty of BBQcoin to play with, in fact some also have quite a bit of GRouPcoin too, so we are trying to put together economies whereby CPUs can earn such coins by mining stone and metals to trade for such coins, foraging for fruit and vegetables and such to trade for such coins, digging up gems to trade for such coins and so on.
Players who for whatever reason prefer to purchase the products of other character's labour than to keep their own characters busily at work obtaining such products by their own labour, and players who despite having all their own characters working working working all the time, can use cryptocoins to motivate the labour of others.
Of course that tended not to be more lucrative (in terms of how much stone, metal, vegetables, gemstones or whatever a given CPU could buy) than mining cryptocoins directly back when all the GPU miners were off doing other things, but if the GPU miners are coming back to mine the actual coins, CPUs might find they get their characters more gear resources etc soon by just getting in there and digging those gems or mining that metal or foraging for fruit or whatever occupation it is that most directly gets them the "stuff" they are after than mining cryptocoins to buy the stuff will as cryptocoin difficulty climbs.
-MarkM-
