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RE: Game Economy Basics

in Hive Gaminglast month

I have not played it but they are all Ponzis
Mostly because bots are trivially easy to make and AI makes it even easier.
The key is a reputation system that can exponentially mitigate botting (doesn't exist).
Hive is the only network even capable of building a rep system like this.

The only ones that aren't Ponzis are the FPS games where you can't buy an advantage.
And they only use crypto for the skins and stuff.
But I don't like first person shooters.

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Yeah I play one of those shooters. Kompete is really good.
I wouldn’t know how to bot World Shards though. The game is Wow style but the levels are super hard to beat.

I'm looking at it right now and it's advertised as "free to play and earn".
I guarantee you it's a Ponzi that will be botted into the ground.
You have to realize that people bot games that aren't even connected to money.
And they find a haphazard 3rd-party to sell the assets.
Not needing that 3rd-party makes it a thousand times easier to exploit.

have not planed to touch it, I just wonder how a bot like that would be programmed and operated. The levels contain varying riddles that have to be solved on the spot. They also do not repeat. But I guess everything can be botted in some way.

I'd have to play it to discuss further.
Maybe I will.