Topic: The Litecoin Development Club - page 2. (Read 24526 times)
Graphics like graphics design or graphics in programs? I can do graphics design with Photoshop fairly well (not a master or anything though lol) and in-program, I can do very basic graphics with Java using something like the ACM library (like simple ball rolling effects, etc.) but can't really do too much there.
@Vorksholk : can you do graphics? If so, you might want to join the LTC-Projects IRC channel...
This is an awesome thread, taken quite a bit of time from other things tonight 
Anyhow, we seem to have quite a large focus on games, but what else digitally would people pay (perhaps a very small amount) for, such as microtransactions? Would some kind of simple software command a small price (say 15-100 LTC) but be popular enough and at the right pricepoint to make a dent? Just throwing ideas out...
Anyhow, we seem to have quite a large focus on games, but what else digitally would people pay (perhaps a very small amount) for, such as microtransactions? Would some kind of simple software command a small price (say 15-100 LTC) but be popular enough and at the right pricepoint to make a dent? Just throwing ideas out...
A really nice thing about MUDs is that it is absolutely normal and expected that players will use scripts/trigger/macros, all MUD clients provide such things, and thus they are ideal for 24/7 play using triggers/scripts to keep your character(s) toiling away while you sleep, which in turn means staying connected 24/7, which itself is actually valuable in itself. (Think of all those downloadable toolbars all the marketeers try to get everyone to use so they can get messages sent out to them without having to resort to email.)
MUDs over i2p and/or Tor can thus act as a step toward using cryptocurrencies to reward people for running i2p/Tor nodes, without having to institute accounting into the i2p or Tor systems themselves. People can simply "mine" game items and game gold and "level up" game characters to sell for cryptocoins, with the actual running of the i2p or Tor node to do so being just a side-effect.
Over the long term if lots of money gets involved I expect people will start optimising their nodes to allow them to play over them without actually providing connectivity to others, but typically such networks already have some balance involved so that the less bandwidth you provide for others the less others provide you so the more stingy the players are about providing network bandwidth the more lag they should experience in the game, thus lowering the income...
Running the thing over i2p has actually turned out to be a great idea by the look of it, as it lowers the number of useless timewasters attracted and involves those who actually are interested in being part of the i2p network, which helps all i2p users; and once these serious investors/players get enough infrastructure built to be ready to bring plenty of products to the markets we can still open it up to the normal internet for the johnny come lately folk who can't be bothered to, or don't want to, support the i2p network directly by actually running i2p themselves.
-MarkM-
MUDs over i2p and/or Tor can thus act as a step toward using cryptocurrencies to reward people for running i2p/Tor nodes, without having to institute accounting into the i2p or Tor systems themselves. People can simply "mine" game items and game gold and "level up" game characters to sell for cryptocoins, with the actual running of the i2p or Tor node to do so being just a side-effect.
Over the long term if lots of money gets involved I expect people will start optimising their nodes to allow them to play over them without actually providing connectivity to others, but typically such networks already have some balance involved so that the less bandwidth you provide for others the less others provide you so the more stingy the players are about providing network bandwidth the more lag they should experience in the game, thus lowering the income...
Running the thing over i2p has actually turned out to be a great idea by the look of it, as it lowers the number of useless timewasters attracted and involves those who actually are interested in being part of the i2p network, which helps all i2p users; and once these serious investors/players get enough infrastructure built to be ready to bring plenty of products to the markets we can still open it up to the normal internet for the johnny come lately folk who can't be bothered to, or don't want to, support the i2p network directly by actually running i2p themselves.
-MarkM-
Oh and StewartJ: the litecoin faucet you have listed seems to no longer be in service. :\
Prompted by that one not being up, though, I made my own litecoin faucet, you could add that if you want. Litecoinfaucet.com
Prompted by that one not being up, though, I made my own litecoin faucet, you could add that if you want. Litecoinfaucet.com
I think the game idea/MUD idea is interesting 
I personally had at one point planned to try something of a text-based MUD based on LTC as an internal currency, but I just don't have the coding skills to come through with something like that :\
I personally had at one point planned to try something of a text-based MUD based on LTC as an internal currency, but I just don't have the coding skills to come through with something like that :\ 
Yes, there is an embed button like Flattr, I just have to modify it to support LTC, as well as all the recent anonymous tipping added to Propster. I will contact you again in a few days.
I have also started a tip jar for the Litecoin Project itself:
https://propster.hypervolume.com/tipjar/0C7BINK
I have also started a tip jar for the Litecoin Project itself:
https://propster.hypervolume.com/tipjar/0C7BINK
Fantastic! Great work.
We'll work on creating TipJars for our community projects as we get time the next 2 weeks. If you have a project represented on the site we'll redirect donors to the Propster TipJars for contributions. At the end of each month we'll transfer ALL donations to each project's Team Leader address. We will continue to not charge anything for our promotion of all community projects and won't charge a fee for transferring of donations.
Is there a way to embed the TipJars on LiteBit.co or is redirecting to Propster the logical choice?
Keep the Bitcoin & Litecoin projects coming!
Any news on a vanity LTC address generator?
We'll work on creating TipJars for our community projects as we get time the next 2 weeks. If you have a project represented on the site we'll redirect donors to the Propster TipJars for contributions. At the end of each month we'll transfer ALL donations to each project's Team Leader address. We will continue to not charge anything for our promotion of all community projects and won't charge a fee for transferring of donations.
Is there a way to embed the TipJars on LiteBit.co or is redirecting to Propster the logical choice?
Keep the Bitcoin & Litecoin projects coming!
Any news on a vanity LTC address generator?
I will add Litecoin, no problem. Give me a few days.
Donate Litecoins using Propster coming soon...
This looks promising and we're going to try using this on our community projects we're currently supporting on our site.
Hi,
I have made the modifications on Propster, and it now supports Litecoin. For example:
https://propster.hypervolume.com/tipjar/0C73MH3
You will notice the LTC Drop address in the table for anonymous contributions. LTC is also supported if you sign-in and load funds.
Boris
I still think, it's way too complicated for a first game.
I would consider something like this:
http://www.storm8.com/games/imobsters/
I would consider something like this:
http://www.storm8.com/games/imobsters/
The closest thing I have found to that that actually works is Devana, which I have running at http://villages.mygamesonline.org/
I tried a so called "Travian Clone" for a while as it looked prettier and if it had worked would have had more "features" but it turned out not only that the graphics were all stolen but also that the thing didn't actually work, thus Devana is now the sole remaining example of that type of game as all the others tested turned out to be broken.
That type of game has a fundamental economic problem though in that it gives out villages for free to anyone, there is no accounting for the resources requiired to actuallly establish a village in the first place. Thus they tend to become littered with free starter villages created by simply creating a free email account somewhere and using it to start yet another player-account as yet another free village to raid.
One thing that attracted me to HYIPs long ago and to coin mining nowadays is the idea that maybe requiring a deposit to start a player account in a game could help cut down the number of "stuff from no-where" startup accounts that never actually get played, by being able to give people back their deposits plus interest (from the HYIP or mining or something, whatever there is that actually works) at the end of the game if they are still active by then.
Another approach I have been trying is simply to have smaller scale games in which individual characters can work their way up to having enough influence (or oratory skill or whatever) and resources to be able to launch a village-building expedition. so that all players in the villages scale game originate from the smaller scale game instead of being random unidentified characters who mysteriously pop up out of no-where with enough followers and resources to create a village.
I suppose if there is demand for it though I can do like I have done with the 2Moons system: run a second server which does cater to these random passers-by, giving them free villages out of no-where like they normally expect from such a game.
Is there demand though?
-MarkM-
I tried a so called "Travian Clone" for a while as it looked prettier and if it had worked would have had more "features" but it turned out not only that the graphics were all stolen but also that the thing didn't actually work, thus Devana is now the sole remaining example of that type of game as all the others tested turned out to be broken.
That type of game has a fundamental economic problem though in that it gives out villages for free to anyone, there is no accounting for the resources requiired to actuallly establish a village in the first place. Thus they tend to become littered with free starter villages created by simply creating a free email account somewhere and using it to start yet another player-account as yet another free village to raid.
One thing that attracted me to HYIPs long ago and to coin mining nowadays is the idea that maybe requiring a deposit to start a player account in a game could help cut down the number of "stuff from no-where" startup accounts that never actually get played, by being able to give people back their deposits plus interest (from the HYIP or mining or something, whatever there is that actually works) at the end of the game if they are still active by then.
Another approach I have been trying is simply to have smaller scale games in which individual characters can work their way up to having enough influence (or oratory skill or whatever) and resources to be able to launch a village-building expedition. so that all players in the villages scale game originate from the smaller scale game instead of being random unidentified characters who mysteriously pop up out of no-where with enough followers and resources to create a village.
I suppose if there is demand for it though I can do like I have done with the 2Moons system: run a second server which does cater to these random passers-by, giving them free villages out of no-where like they normally expect from such a game.
Is there demand though?
-MarkM-
I will add Litecoin, no problem. Give me a few days.
Donate Litecoins using Propster coming soon...
This looks promising and we're going to try using this on our community projects we're currently supporting on our site.
Yeah. I can barely get 300 with a 5870 but you will get that with a iGPU ?
the ivy bridge iGPU has massive memory bandwidth for an iGPU, dependent on the speed of the RAM and quad channel mode
http://www.anandtech.com/Show/Index/5771?cPage=6&all=False&sort=0&page=19&slug=the-intel-ivy-bridge-core-i7-3770k-review
Even if you could get 120 kh/s (CPU itself with AVX gets ~50k/s), at 140w at the wall that's still pretty decent
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ivy-bridge-benchmark-core-i7-3770k,3181-23.html
Is it possible to make an Intel iGPU miner for litecoin? The OpenCL SDK is out: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/vcsource-tools-opencl-sdk/
If an Ivy Bridge GPU can get 300 kh/s with the onboard video card, "CPU" mining might still be viable.
If an Ivy Bridge GPU can get 300 kh/s with the onboard video card, "CPU" mining might still be viable.
Yeah. I can barely get 300 with a 5870 but you will get that with a iGPU ?
Is it possible to make an Intel iGPU miner for litecoin? The OpenCL SDK is out: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/vcsource-tools-opencl-sdk/
If an Ivy Bridge GPU can get 300 kh/s with the onboard video card, "CPU" mining might still be viable.
If an Ivy Bridge GPU can get 300 kh/s with the onboard video card, "CPU" mining might still be viable.
It seems, that there is no android wallet yet?
Same here. I just willing to contribute to game, but not really interested in playing it...
Another idea: I learned these days, that we have more than 30 LETS (local exchange and trading systems) here with their own currency. I wonder if some of them might be interested in making their currency convertible to a virtual currency, so they could use features like mobile payment. OTOH I would add much value to those *coins, because there would be so much more shops, where you could pay with them?
Another idea: I learned these days, that we have more than 30 LETS (local exchange and trading systems) here with their own currency. I wonder if some of them might be interested in making their currency convertible to a virtual currency, so they could use features like mobile payment. OTOH I would add much value to those *coins, because there would be so much more shops, where you could pay with them?
I have been wondering myself whether Litecoin users are as uninterested in games as Bitcoin users.
Personally, I'm very interested in litecoins but I have zero interest in games.
Do not forget to use "Litecoin me!" links in your websites and comments you leave to other sites etc. https://github.com/coblee/litecoin/pull/36
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