Topic: Primedice.com | Since 2013 | Longest Running Crypto Casino | 113 BTC Jackpot! - page 1151. (Read 1989845 times)

Just-dice isn't functional anymore but was the most popular until a few months ago; it had something like 50,000 btc invested from players. The owner, Dooglus, shut it down (paying out every last satoshi of invested and player balances!) because as I undertood it he couldn't deal with the responsibility and/or legal situation.

I can understand that for some people 0.1 btc is a lot but i'm talking WHALES here. You know, the people who bet huge amounts like AKcoinminer (profit of +500 btc one day and -700 btc the next) or that guy from just-dice who bet 300 btc a bet (edit: nakowa I think it was). For those people the faucet is utterly meaningless. That's why I mentioned it. Besides, why would a site want a whale to originate from the faucet; that would mean they would loose btc on that player  

I think it is great for people that don't have a lot of money that there is a faucet and I think it should stay but on the other hand I can see that something needs to change with regard to the spamming of the chat and the support emails. What that change needs to be I don't know but let's hope it is something everybody can live with.

See, that's the thing. The faucet isn't meant for people to "make steady bank" from.

It's to get new players started, and to keep old players on the site until their next paycheck...

I've been playing moneypot recently. I'll deposit 1 BTC and either lose it or work it up to 1.5 or 2 BTC then withdraw it. I don't like to leave it on the site for too long because I know I'm likely to lose it if I do.

Sometimes I'm bored, go back to the site, but don't want to deposit. I can hit up the faucet for 2 bits (200 satoshis) and play. It's just dust, it means nothing. If I'm lucky I can get up to 1 US cent's worth of coin, but it gives me something to do there when the chat is dead.

If there wasn't a faucet, I don't know whether:

a) I'd stop visiting so much, or
b) I'd deposit more often

It could go either way.

Same with PrimeDice. I have dust in my account, from the faucet and I guess from a recent promotion. Sometimes I bet the dust. I don't want to deposit "real" money there, and am happy for the most part to just play with the dust.

I'm pissed off that mine was lowered already...I was making steady bank until the change hit

lets allow a whale to make their statement regarding the matter, whales wont care but there will be no future whales if ppl cant come and test the site without risking the money in their wallets

in my country 0.1 is a month's pay
will say no more
edit: i can no longer see just-dice

i  think this is silly, i wont send 0.01 to my faucet if i could deposit and gamble

I don't really understand your idea.

I think that there are very very few whales that started out with the faucet. My point is that for me, and i'm not a whale, the amount you can bet with the faucet just doesn't do it for me in terms of gambling buzz. I'd rather deposit 0.1 to try out a site then use the faucet. Furthermore, most dice sites do just fine without faucet and still attract the whales (see just-dice). That being said, I am in favor of a faucet but just not for the reason you're advocating.

i dont like your idea mate

Most whales don't need the faucet and don't give a shit about the few satoshis it dispenses... I know I don't and i'm by no means a whale (yet)

im pretty sure there isnt a whale on the site that didnt try the faucet first

Chat mods work without pay, don't they? Rules are already in place for begging. ETA: No, that's not quite true. They work on a weird performance tip system, so burdening them with enforcing anti-begging rules constantly being broken might still be costly.

Honestly, I feel like a removal of the faucet would lead to more begging and complaining in chat. Without the faucet, other players are the only readily available source of free btc, so they will turn to them.

You say that as if it is a bad thing. It isn't.

The site would be better without the constant begging and complaining.

1. I've been high rolling for a while now and the "chat quality" has not been an issue for me or any other HR, I would know because I've been on PD everyday ever since I joined.

2. 50+ emails a day is "not a massive deal" says Stunna, which I take could be managed.

3. The forum ranks has nothing to do with the credibility of the gambler. I have a shitty rank here but on PD I would consider myself a maxed level "crocodile".


The funny thing is, most of the people who complained about faucet and wants it remove DONT EVEN GAMBLE! They don't even deposit but yet they want to take something away that most other  REAL gamblers enjoy.

A true story about the faucet from my own experience >> I introduce a friend shortly after I got hooked on dicing >> She has no idea what dicing is, she only knows blackjack >> she first found the site to be BORING and lacking of the fun factor >> she discovers faucet and learned how to dice >>she has so far wagered more than 100 BTC. She now plays EVERYDAY using faucet and occasionally would deposit. Her goal is to get to level 40.


Take away the faucet and you take away stories like that. This is how I also remember my first experience with PD so that makes two.

Let me try a narrative, throwing in some rough figures just to illustrate.

It's my first day logging onto Primedice, and I decide to claim my faucet ration, which can only be claimed once per month per user.  I now have 5,000 satoshi's in my faucet balance, and am able to claim 250 satoshi's from this balance once every 60 seconds.  I'm imaging a small cup animation, showing you how much you have remaining -- I've seen those on other dice sites.

As we know, the only way to level is to chat, wager more BTC, refer more people, etc.  As your level rises from these tactics, your interest rate return on this faucet balance increases (based on how much the balance is).  As such, it is in your best interest to use the faucet as sparingly and wisely as possible.  You can also deposit up to 0.1 BTC into this faucet balance to use for faucet claims, should the initial 5,000 satoshi stipend be used up.  There is still a limit of 250 - 10,000 satoshis that can be claimed from this (based on levelling).

It's a bit of a ridiculous idea, but since the general population is so ridiculously upset over the faucet possibly being removed, why not give the faucet a bit more pizzazz instead of just throwing a captcha at it to throw you some sats?  I say you make it fun and rewarding to play.

If this idea still doesn't make sense, then I don't know how to explain it further.  Maybe somebody else can dwell on it, or I'll just shutter the idea as useless drivel and move on.