So I've figured out how we're gonna do the participant replacement in the future, not for this cycle, and possibly not the next, because our advertisement budget is still a little too small, but once we get a few more players I'll bump it up considerably, especially because you guys have made this a lot of fun so far!
So what we're gonna do is the 50% of campaign participants with the least comments (not including anything I deem to be spam) will be eligible for replacement as a participant. Of those eligible for replacement 50% with the least dice.ninja invested
value (bitcoin+litecoin) will be replaced, along with those that have nothing invested or wagered. This will result in exactly 25% (rounded up) of participants being dropped each cycle. Once this takes effect, I will bump the consecutive bi-weekly bonus up. I'm also working on an achievement system for dice.ninja, and those who's accounts aren't linked anonymously will eventually receive a little badge on their chat icon or something, we haven't totally figured that out, but we gaurantee your dice.ninja profile will look
fly as fuck, just thought I'd let people know that's the direction we're planning on going.
If that doesn't make sense, here's the same idea in pseudo-code:
REPLACE * FROM participants AS p
WHERE ( p.posts < MEDIAN( participants.posts ) )
AND ( ( p.dn_investment < MEDIAN( participants.dn_investment ) )
OR
( ( p.dn_wagered = 0 OR p.dn_invested ) ) )
Fig. 1: Future sig campaign participant replacement algorithm.
This is the best way I can think of to incentivise people to advertise our site, reward our loyal users, and keep things simple for me so my lazy ass can spend more time focusing on writing code and implementing features. Also, note that I will be messaging anyone that's been dropped, so you won't have to remember to keep checking the thread.
Also, please note that while I can't even begin to tell you how much I appreciate all the support and attention this topic is getting, there are definitely sig campaigns that are paying better right now for frequent posters. For instance, primedice's campaign pays senior members a maximum of 0.4 bitcoin per month (0.001btc/post*400post/month) whereas ours only pays out a maximum of 0.101 for the first month. I hope that people have been so awesome because they want to support dice.ninja and want to see it flourish, we'd love nothing more than to be the next just-dice (they say imitation is the highest form of flattery so we're basically hitting on dooglus by this point
) and this campaign is a big part of getting there, but I'd really hate to get to the first payout and have a bunch of folks feel cheated. I don't think we're uncompetitive either, especially once the weekly bonus picks up, which after just a couple of months could become a ton!
Should have the list of first cycle participants figured out soon, so stay tuned!
I have added dice.ninja to my sig. toad, dont worry about payment for me. dmf took care of sig payment today in the back room for 45min.
Hey that's not fair! I thought ICP only had to "pay" for 30 minutes!
Seriously, thanks man!
