Topic: Can i start a game here in the forum? - page 3. (Read 10164 times)

Seems interesting and exciting. It is like watching a live ufc fight. The only difference is that we are betting over a turtle. Well, yes. I will participate the fight if that is possible. You can just link the video where the live fight will startm and post the exact date when is the start of the gam/fight. You are the very first person here to suggest that and I would love to join into it. I do think many here will support your suggestion. Just make necessary pland on how to start it.

When i saw the mice races I was somewhat intrigued I will be honest with you.  And ever more then you can watch them race and win money
But to think about turtles racing is not something that sounds of interest but I think there others who would enjoy it.

This turtle race you're planning to have sounds similar to the mice race and virtual sports race on sportsbooks. I have a question is this going to be a one time game or will it be done regularly?

He did say on the first post there will be a live video, the feel won't be the same if the race won't be recorded live.

Create a draft thread set your own specific rules and terms for your game, the hardest part is how would you convince people to join your game.

Everyone can easily start a game in the section of Games and rounds
Just make it sure to create a thread and have a good escrow, I'm sure many people will bet on that case.

If you will use your turtles, make it sure to make it a live video so people will be hyped and cheering to their respective bets.

Exactly, you can definitely do that. Games and rounds are there to be your partner section. Just make sure not to scam people here or else we will sue you (sorry for this joke). Also, make sure to make your game fair so the people will enjoy it. Well, good luck with your plans.
Aside from that forum gambling site is proven and tested and of course, you are safe from a scam site.

The House usually takes a cut so that is normal and OK I guess. You can't really prevent people from making multiple bets or using alt accounts without asking for some type of KYC and doing that would not work, nor would users accept going through a verification of some sorts.
The winners divide the entire pool between themselves, I think that is the best way to go.

Let's talk about it. Am supposing if it's not against forum rules, then how to host a betting game here?
If you are not convinced by my supposition, please, feel free to suggest any idea you think it can lead to a good result. This is not an announcement thread, am just discussing the subject.

Games and rounds is the right place you can post about this.
OR if it is an investment-based game, post it in Investor-based games


It is actually dumb for me to bet over turtles (unless they are Ninja Turtles)  
I think I'd prefer betting on DOTA 2 and CS:GO challenge more than what you proposed, but if it's not a crime in your country you can promote and ask people to bet upon them. I prefer a fight between chickens instead of turtles.  


If you don't take it seriously yourself, how will you convince people to bet and play what you want them to play?

This may not be against the forum rules but it is probably better to let the moderators intervene on it than go ahead and get penalised afterward.

I would like to see stuff like this on the forum to be honest. It would be more engaging than typical gambling.

Thank you all for your participation in this topic, i really appreciated reading all of your posts. I chose some quotes to reply but the doors are always opened for more ideas and critics.

In my opinion, we can't host a game here in BTT without hiring one of the known escrows to manage the funds. To be clear, i still don't know how much it may cost, but everything should be calculated before even to suggest this to an escrow. We will see

Of course i should think about my benefit by running this game, but as a start, i want to focus on understanding more details about how this may function in a forum (always comparing to other successful/failed experiences) and what kind of rules should be set for such a game. This is the main reason why i started this thread.

By starting this thread, and after get confirmation that this is possible in the apropriate board of the forum, i hope read about what kind of questions i will have to answer, and if there is a good example which i can follow.

Thank you, you are a kind gentelman 

To realize this in a website, it will consume all my time preparing the code (am not a coder) + graphics and layouts, then start working on getting traffics (promotion/marketing). I think it's more easy to start here before thinking to make more management.

Thank you for this example, but this initiative looks dead despite it has some few enthousiasts. It's a nice idea to make bets using mice.
I will spend more time checking details of that thread.

Sorry, i can't understand what do you want to say here by "Usually, it is integrated to bitcoin block chain where one user could bet." .

Please let me know more about that game in your local board, and help me understand it if possible. Thank you.

The idea came into my mind about a turtles course, but it's just a kinda of "brain storming" to find such a funny idea. Indeed, am opened to all kind of suggetions and may find better ideas to realize this. The mice competetion mentioned above can inspire me prepare for something similar.

This is a good idea, and by reading different answers here, i think the idea is interesting and may succeed if finding the right tools to run it.

Am also curious to find the best answers to your asks. What do you suggest?

It is so important what you are saying here. Thanks for your honesty. Am still discussing the idea and nothing is surely to nearly happen. Please let me know if you have more concerns about this kind of games being running in the forum.

I also believe that it's unjustified to use animals this way. It was just an imaginary idea to start officially thinking about required steps. Am still collecting information about other similar projects and hear from different attitudes from the community (as you here) .
Am not ready to kill my animals for money benefit, i spent a lot of my efforts/time/money to save them from hunters; in exchange, my turtles inspire me all the time to try new things and to positively think. Don't expect me to be unhuman just to make benefits or let others have fun. (I really wish you can understand my point) .

Following the exemple of using my turtles, i still don't have answers to your questions. But, i would ensure that community has all the garantees that am not a scammer or use pain for animals to get benefits.

If the op is going to basically torture his/her own turtles, making them race or whatever for the sake of organizing a game people get to bet on - I don't want the price, and I believe there will be more people like me who believe that it's unjustified to use animals this way. Moreover, it's not like this way the game is 100% fair. For instance, how do people know the op did not give one of the turtles a substance to make it faster or slower or something like that? Why use real animals with senses and flaws of reality if you can just make a perfectly fair code for turtle competition simulation? This way people can be sure they are not deceived, the thrill is still there, the odds are purely mathematical and the real turtles are no part of it.

If you come up with any game on this forum, people will start criticizing it and will not encourage it. Some may call it a scam etc. Obviously if you planning to develop a game and give people money on gambling on it, you should have the funds for it. So it is better if you buy a domain and develop your gaming / gambling site and then introduce that site on this forum. This will have a much positive impact and many people will join there provided you do not intend to scam anyone.

I doubt in success of this or any other game here on forum. As I remember some people tried to make some games here on forum, but without success, not enough people interested, or simple bad ides, what ever, all I know that nothing ever happened.My advice to people who have idea is to gather some group of people, rent some site, and try to make something on that site. On this forum, or any other, someone will steal your idea. If you are going to do something do it right, invest some money.

Yes you can do that. Many users had and have been running different kinds of games and contest in the Games and Rounds section of this forum. Whether people would like and participate in your game are a different issue. Being transparent would attract further interest and a neutral escrow would provide sense of security to the participants.

Even if OP still newbie, it doesn't matter with the game as long as the game is legit. OP also has said if he is gonna use reputable escrow for his game, so you shouldn't worry about it i think. Use escrow isn't used to gain trust actually, it's just a way to guarantee the winner will get the prize when they won.

I've seen people starting a game here in this forum and it's ok to everyone since you are not a newbie and already knows some of the forum rules, just make it as transparent as possible, and if possible use an escrow to gain trust from every players and good luck to your game, hope it'll be fair and profitable to participants.

Brilliant idea mate but you need to put your project at the proper place section in the forum, I think place your project at games and rounds.


That's right mate for the convinient of the users need to make fair rules and security of the players.

Did you visit the Games and rounds section already?
I think there is a similarity there of what you are proposing here.
You can look at the previous thread there as an example since there is no sticky there.

Just a normal thing for you to think off that he would need up for an escrow which had been trusted on this forum or simply by the entire community
to build up trust regarding on the game that he would host into this forum.Its possible but I do see it would be hard on gaining attention on most gamblers
here.

As long as its still associated with gambling its permissible, you can start and run the game but all must be arranged neatly so that gamblers can join at your game. Automatically there must be escrow yeah dude and all your games are done fairly whatever rules you make but the game must be open to gamblers of course.