Topic: BITCOIN GAME VirtualMiner - page 3. (Read 4163 times)

so there are no prizes ?

Alright then, thanks for zero information. You can forget it if you think I'll be helping you get sponsors for your game when you can't even answer basic questions. Consider my involvement as a tester over, you may as well delete username Kalgoorlie Resources from the system, they ain't coming back.

For what it's worth here's some feedback:

The game itself is quite interesting, somehow you always think more is going to happen but when it doesn't it's just same old, same old. There's no incentive for people to play the game and even less incentive for them to use real BTC to buy anything in-game. The basic free polishing sponge seems to work just as well as the polishing disk that cost 0.04, plus polishing gives you something to do while you dig for coins... but really, after a few clicks you're already over it and off looking at another website or have wandered away from the pc. There needs to be some clear incentive for people to spend money, like the polishing paste, tell people that it will 'clean 10 coins at a time' or something that makes people want to buy it.

The basic ideas behind the game are quite good and you could advance the physical mining metaphor further, perhaps by allowing players to buy physical claims or territories, like they did in the old days with gold rush mining stakes and like they do now with formalised mining leases. That would allow you another mechanism to encourage people to spend money on the game and if you made different mining territories that changed regularly, had different criteria and were limited in number it might attract people to use real coins to buy them. If you wanted to push that more, you could allow these territories to be transferable, to enable players to buy and sell territories to other players. Then add a chat feature and it gives a reason for players to speak to each other, that itself builds competition and interest in the game:

"Selling 'North California Sierra Navada Gold Stake 10 x 10 squares, Claim Grade: Good' for 0.5 BTC"

You make sure that only the player owning these claims can mine on them and even when they are partially mined, they could still be able to be sold:

"Selling 'South Africa Driefontein Gold Field 15 x 15 squares, Claim Grade: Very Good' I've mined 15 out of 225 squares, selling for 0.75 BTC"

Also, researching the technologies was interesting enough, but you're going to have to have clearer capacities between them. Using the basic spade, players understand that they are going to be slower when mining, but when they've upgraded to a pick or a mining badger, they expect more mining efficiency, that just wasn't defined enough. When you're looking at this and making the adjustments, consider also charging a fee to upgrade to the higher mining equipment.

Anyway, you've got 60% of a game concept and I'm sure with some work and some feedback from others you'll be able to improve it further.

Good luck.

I am looking for sponsors to invest in a game, Then can i make really payout  awards.
you guys can help to promote game and all incoming payments goes for prizes..
in  the test round , of course, the incoming money goes to prizes ..
but we need more players.. like 100 od 1000,10xxx 

I don't know.

Are there going to be real prizes for the test game?

I think it's quite obvious:

when does VirtualMiner pay out the prizes?

first time on site good look and good working 

Yeah, I agree, it's a war of attrition at the moment.

Maybe when the OP answers some of the queries above we can provide more feedback? In the meantime, it seems pointless testers discussing things among themselves 

Right now it seems that the winner will be whoever is at their computer the longest, perhaps integrating some kind of turn based play will even out the playing field.

Is there a real prize pool for the test game?

Can you please explain what the different polish accessories and polish assets do and their effects.

Say you are mining level 2 and find a coin in that position, when you are done should you continue mining the same position (level 3) or is there only 1 coin per position no matter the level?

Alright, I'm happy to help test it. I've just logged in and I'll see how it goes. 

What sort of feedback do you want? Do you want people to comment here or by PM?

Thanks

no need to register, just chose username and pass and start the game..

how to Register?

I believe he put the link in his post. 

ill check it out for you just send me the link

hi again...
i am in final stage to finish my game...
so you can test it here:

http://www.bigbitgame.com

ps
still in testing phase !!

is beta testers paid if so im down

We need more info on the game.

seemed not bad.