Any plans on dealing with the the large amount of coins/low amount of keys? (Also some HHGTTG Talk)

I had kind of an idea for dealing with the large amount of coins?

What about once a month purchasing or finding a key for a brand new, high-demand game or popular game and selling off raffle tickets for it? Make the tickets like 100 coins a pop, nothing ridiculous, but obtainable in a short amount of time.

Then at the end, pull one of the tickets and whoever bought that ticket gets the key!

In my mind, the best way I have seen this dealt with is with vanity uses. If every daily game could be released with a coin-purchasable emoticon/card/trophy/equipment for user characters (in order of how much of a pain each one is to implement) at the price of what is the equivalent of a 15-day streak, this would probably cool down the economy quite a bit.

I may sound like a broken record, but I have been warning for a while now that this market is too inflation-prone. Without proper safeguards, the only logical thing to do macroeconomically will be pricing games 5000, 7000, 10000…

To be completely honest, once a more robust system gets going, I would suggest doing what one does to implement a new stable currency in a country: mass wipe-out and start from zero. Of course, that’d come with a hefty final sale people could burn most coins on… you’d have to plan to be pretty big.

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How about having two versions of your daily sale game?

The normal version, which you can buy outright just for cash as you do now. And then a special version that could include things like a soundtrack and whatever malarky people get in special editions these days! That version could be purchased with the same amount of cash as the standard version, plus X amount of coins to get all the bonuses.

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Hold on, your name is @Fenchurch huh? What a weird coincidence, I once lived in a cave due to unfortunate events in space-time and ended up back on prehistoric Earth, with only fallen leaves for currency.
Anyway, eventually an eddy came along and swept me up and as a result I managed to get back to current day but after a while, I missed something I once thought I hated.

Yes, in having lived in a cave for years, I now realised that I now missed my cave that I called home, missed it greatly as it happens. So I went around to where it had once been located but in present day and there stood a rather unremarkable house, which just disappointed me.

Then suddenly, just as I had filled myself with regret enough for one lifetime, in a merest moment of rare occasions, I smiled. I smiled because a woman walked out that door, a woman I had met once before, a woman I had never expected to meet, ever again.

Her name was dun dun dunFenchurch.

I know I am grasping at straws here but you wouldn’t know anything about that, would you?

Oh dear, I hope so or all this is going to seem rather silly.

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What kind of a name is Fenchurch? Were you found in a handbag in the left luggage office at Fenchurch Street station? :wink:

@Punkster @redsweater You are both kind of correct. My name specifically refers to the character in HHGTTG which I got known as from playing WoW back in the day, it was the name of my main. Since then it just kind of followed me about and I used it for all my games/forums and things and well here I am!

As for the station, I believe Douglas Adams named the character Fenchurch after Fenchurch Street Station so!

Surprise is I’m actually a dude, unlike the character. I always thought Fenchurch was kind of a gender neutral name but maybe I’m wrong there! (my WoW character was female though)

Also “don’t forget your towl”!

Also also 42 is honestly my lucky number so maybe this was all fate!

Also also also @Punkster you make me want to read all the books again writing like that! Love it :smiley:

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HHGTTG is the best, I have read the 5 books by Adams a few times now. Thoroughly enjoyable.

“…there is an art to flying…or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

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Who CARES about the HHGTTG? Let’s fight more about a well-meaning system that provides free entertainment for the community and drives many users to enjoy this place!

:hot_pepper:

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There’s Poop In My Soup for 3000 coins is not the answer :stuck_out_tongue:

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and drives many users to …spend their money!

I fixed that for u.

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No ,you’re just salty :wink:

Have you read …And Another Thing. by Eoin Colfer before? It’s okay but it misses Adams input.

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No I haven’t because it wasn’t written by Adams. I felt it might tarnish my experience with the series. I just felt that no one would be able to quite capture the style and humor that he put into those books. But since you say its ok i might have to give it a go.

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I doubt it will tarnish the overall experience of the previous 5 books and as I say it is definitely missing Adams input, although some of the ideas were his, it misses his writing style.

Colfer is a great writer of comedy in his own right but he is not Douglas Adams.

I know this is way off-topic, so I shall leave it there, just to say it is worth a read but only if your expectations are low, mine weren’t and I was disappointed at first.

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The way I see it:
The whole point of this website seems to be coming back on a daily basis to check out what games are available. The only thing that really disappoints me is the meager selection of the games you can buy with coins. The only game available right now, for instance, isabout throwing poop all over the place and it’s called something like “there’s poop in my soup”. I have 9k coins and they are kinda burning a hole in my virtual pocket! I would definitely come back for mad legendary steaks if there was a bigger selection and maybe there could be the odd game that was really expensive but a pretty damn good or popular game (older one). People would want to farm mad coins to afford Deus Ex or other classic games that you would never think to buy but why not get it free to try it?

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I don’t know if you started a bit late or already bought Brigador considering that 9k figure but here’s a nice quote from a nice chap and feel free to peruse the rest of the thread to see where some of the people here stand on the issue, you’ll see where i stand by the quotes. :slight_smile:

I was writing a big wall of text here but i’ll just quote another fine chap from that thread instead:

And as i said, feel free to read the rest of the comments there.

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While i question the pricing methods used, i do appreciate the effort put in by the Chrono crew to provide the coin shop, even if i don’t find any of the coin shop games interesting. I’ve got a ton of coins and haven’t used any of them. I’m hoping for a game i’m interested in to be on the coin shop but until then i’ll just keep collecting coins and appreciate the services existence at all.

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Yes I saw Brigador back when I couldn’t afford it. I love the idea of this but from the perspective of a consumer that has money and time spend with Chrono.gg I gotta say that having nothing to look at in the shop but Poop Soup game for weeks on end is not fun or exciting. If there was a 100k coin game up there, for example Deus Ex Human Revolution or some other bigger game for a lot of coins I could see being more excited to check in on the shop and really be motivated to grind coins.
As of now I look at the daily deal, get my coins, check shop, see that Poop Soup game and nothing else, leave.
I’m not complaining that Chrono sucks, or trying to belittle the fact that we can get FREE EFFIN GAMES! I wholeheartedly want them to improve and become much more popular because I love this idea of the coins and the daily deals! It could be bigger and badder and more exciting!

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I really like the transparency here.

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