Bets seem slower since most recent maintenance ...
Bets are slower for sure. Response time from PD3 (which was also slow) is down a lot. Will update with how many ms it went down exactly once I find the previous times saved somewhere on my desktop.
Might be the main problem with PD.
Bets are slow indeed. And that's really strange because the faster the bets the more they earn, I don't understand why they don't upgrade seriously the site for that. Because compared to betking or betcoin they're slow :/
OP has refused to answer me despite the fact that I have asked him multiple times here and on PD chat. Yes they could upgrade hardware/hosting, but they don't.. I've probably asked all dice site owners the same thing at some point in the past, and usually the answer is that it costs too much to upgrade,
but those sites (FD, JD, FJ, Bitsler) roll speeds are overall a lot faster than PD. PD is certainly not low on funds if they can hold a 20BTC giveaway (bingo). Also this is a problem for most players on PD, or rather an annoyance.
Me ?
In my opinion, overall bets speeds on PD4 are much faster than PD3, especially if you disable the Animations. The difficult thing about increasing bet speed even more, something Stunna has discussed several times in this thread, and people often forget, is that, it would be
possible to increase bet speed, but highly costly.
Sure, other sites like Just-Dice and BetKing and whatever, have faster bets, but they have nowhere near the volume of bets PD does. Primedice has close to 12 Billion bets made, with Millions made each day, those other sites have only a fraction of the bet volume.
Upgrading hardware to increase bet speed is already costly, but due to the sheer number of bets that PD processes per day, it would most likely be extremely expensive, if not completely cost ineffective.
More bets = more wagered = more profit then other sites as well.
Why is this left out the equation?
More bets doesn't necessarily = more wagered if the bets are dust or only small fractions of BTC.
Let's say you have 100 users running bots with a base bet of 100 satoshi, and bet speed is hiked to 3 bets per second. 100 x 0.00000100 x 3 = 0.0003 wagered BTC per second, now let's multiply that into a per day basis, so 0.0003 x 60 x 60 x 24 = 25 BTC wagered in a 24-hour period.
Obviously some people will have a much higher base that 100 satoshi or a high increase on loss or whatever, but even if your theoretical increase in wagered per day was 100-200 BTC, multiply that by the 1% House Edge and you get 1-2 BTC income from the potential bet speed gain per day, and that's only if people lose statistically to the House Edge, excluding outliers.
So from a math standpoint, you're looking at a POSSIBLE, if not highly improbable (taking into account HR winners, people with bots that succeed instead of lose, and counting outliers) gain of 1-2 bct per day, and the cost of upgrading the hardware to match a 3 bet per second standard even with PD's sheer bet volume is probably 50-100x that amount.
So arguably, not worth it, at least not yet.
