@rcpcash, very disappointed in the path you have chosen...
I've noticed you are doing a lot of tweaking on the site and the Alexa ranking keeps getting better.
But the pool gains have been going down, there is a new hard cap on how much you can earn on levels (which you have to claim before you reset or it's gone) and now the payouts on the leader board just got slashed...
For a game that is hard to actually claim Satoshi in, it seems like you are clawing back a lot of the possible rewards.
I understand your payouts are big when people reach the top, but that's the only time you pay out big. As someone fighting for the top of the list and the 20% of the pool I got a huge slap in the face this morning when I looked at the leader board and saw what I was fighting for had been slashed by 25%.
I was enjoying the challenge of this game, but I thinks it's going to end another hit and run faucet for me, I would have liked to stick around for another round but fear with the struggles the site seems to be having that by the time I get there, the % and pool will be so low it won't be worth the effort to claim a smaller amount.
I really enjoy that you are an active dev, but when the site is consistently changing "more ads, less payouts", it's not the right kind of development, when you put more revenue generation on the site, your's supposed to increase or add payout options, not decrease them. I wasn't too worried about the pool gains just yet, but when I saw the hard cap on Satoshi from leveling, I started getting concerned as it's only 25 Satoshi that you can't get very often at high levels. And then this morning was the lumber that broke the camels back. You can't keep slashing payouts, you will lose your users.
MexicanTarget has done this a bunch too (I've gave up on a couple of his sites because of the big nerfs to payouts) and it really kills any loyalty people have to a site/game. In his defense, it wasn't exactly the same situation, he wasn't raising revenue while he was lowering payout, he was just lowering payouts. Anyway, I'm sorry you have went this direction, I was looking forward to the evolution of this game over time.
So I guess I will wish you good luck rcpcash, maybe I'll check in again in the future to see if you are getting the game turned around and going in the right direction.
Sorry you feel this way. I am sorry doing what has to be done to make the site survive upsets you. The money I was paying out for level earnings wasn't coming in from short urls... blame them for making me cap it and lower payouts at least until I get back to equilibrium. Users that played all day generated a very small percentage of the income I payed out. I can't reward users for doing stuff that harms the site... I have to change stuff to see what works and what doesn't! This is my first try at doing this and technically is in open beta still.. I am sorry once again!