Is there no way for you in technological aspect to find a way to make it as instant as 1 btc for 1 satoshi? If there is a way , have you tried it?
I played primedice since it was primedice 1 , hell even in primedice 3 it was faster when it first started after sometime. But recently , specially this last 2 months , its killing me , slower then it should.
You are right , you think about the faucet players and you are totally right . But consider people who bet small so they can get their gambling addiction in the lower amounts rather then spending shit ton of money losing all and crippling their lives , some of us have to keep on playing just to play , not to win or lose.
Well it was faster at start . Less players and db didn't need to have
6B+ bets
.
Every bigger site does that . Just dice had 4s delay on "dust" bets.
Its just the easiest way to lower the stress on servers and db.
You can't compare dust bets from Just Dice to dust bets from Primedice. Just dice is in Clams and it's way faster even with 0.00001 CLAM, that's about 10 satoshi by the way.
I never experienced any slow bets, because I always do 0.01 BTC+, just my view on this dust thing.
I think he meant when JD was using BTC, then there was really 4s delay on bets less than 10 satoshi or so. With dust bets on PD i can make 100k bets per day using bot, i tested on JD too, and got almost the same result, it was 110k i think. I think it is reasonable to have delay on small bets, especially for faucet users, what i think would be great, to remove delay for users who deposited their btc and not playing from faucet. But i guess it is not so easy to implement.
Admittedly, I haven't seen the PD backend code, so take this with a grain of salt, but it actually seems pretty trivial to implement. You've clearly already got parameterization with respect to bet amount and you clearly have access to any user's stats. I think it makes sense to say that if a user's deposits are greater than a user's faucet draws then go show that user a little more respect and let them bet faster even if it's a small amount.
I vote to remove faucet then.. why the fuck is it even there? It gives just a few hundreds satoshi, that's not even 1 cent. Why do people gamble if they don't have any money?
I think there a bunch of reasons for the faucet. Here are 2:
1) It keeps people dreaming and talking and chatting---this is important for a site with a social side like PD. Having an active chatroom and a fast bet ticker keeps the site feeling full and chatty and fun even if there's no one on in a given moment who's betting big.
2) People can try out the system before depositing---this is important in general on websites that ask you to send them money.