Omega Games

Is temporarily closed. All games have had their scripts turned off.

No stock information has been lost.

Sorry, I will work to get this resolved as best I can as soon as I can. However I am sneaking internet access at work to put this message here so I can't fully explain. Sorry.

- Ama Omega

So, what is up you ask?

I lost an extreme amount of money again. I got most of it back but have no clue as to how I lost it. My games keep track of every $ that goes through them, and they all report a profit. So I don't know what game was played, how it was gained or anything. I think it is even more illegit because total gambled insignificant to the amount lost. As in betting the entire amount bet yesterday and winning every time would have only netted this amount at a couple of my games. And those games have $100 bet limits.

Anyways, you don't care about that. You wonder why all my arcades and games are not just turned off but gone.

Well, I never really threw a fit when I lost all my money yesterday, and wasn't nearly as upset as when I lost teh 35k on wednesday. I just felt defeated. Someone somewhere has found a way to take all the fun out of my game. And I don't even know how.

So I took down all my games. It is more trouble than its worth I thought.

And SL just isn't ready so support this enterprise. The features needed aren't there:

(1) For Sales / Gifts to be accurate, to actually show all gifts and sales. The total at the bottom of this page is off by a factor of 10 or more every day when I compare it to the line on the Details page.

(2) For tracking of how much money is given and to whom as well as that recieved.

(3) For the both pages to record the object name and / or sim of the object that is giving the money or getting the money.

(4) To not mix real time data with delayed data.

So the arcades came down, with the exception of the two wells with stocks. They are still off but I couldn't decide what to do with them.

And I thought about it and decided that what I like most in SL is creating those games. That is what I like most. And I see no reason why some A-hole should keep from enjoying that.

So the games will be back slowly. They are being rebuilt. I can make them better. They will track users who play them, keep caps on how much money they can lose and double check winning amounts to make sure its within the range of the game. And more.

The wells will be first, but don't expect them back up right away.

Thanks and good luck.

Aww.... your games were one of the best examples of widespread non-opressive, non-invasive buisness concepts Ive ever seen in SL.

I do agree, the implimentation of the tax/account status window is VERY flaky, expicially with money transfers dealing with objects.

The Taber Well and Taber Well Stocks are back online as of yesterday.

New security measures include:
Tacking of the last 15 transactions
Accounting that tracks how much money I give or get from whom. (since SL can't do this)
Safecatches that turn off the game when detecting unusual behavior.

I need to test these features over the course of a couple days before I start bringing other games back, so please come by and play.

- Ama Omega

is there any changes in the odds?

Odds remained exactly the same. Ok I take that back, I made the odds just the slightest bit better for the player. But it shouldn't be noticable, its like 0.3% or something more likely to get the double your money win. The rest remained the same.

Whats the dealio with the Arcade already??

I believe I have found the bug that caused me to lose my money last time. I think it is a serious linden bug, almost as bad as the trial users can trigger money events bug, effects every item with a money() event and I have no way of preventing or even detecting that it has happened, except by excessive loss of money.

And so most of my games will be staying down.

The exception are the two that are up (Taber Well and Coin Flip) and the Perry Well. As well as the stock machines for both wells. This bug is less common than the trial users one, and I have fail safes in place on both wells.

One change I will be making is removing the 100x payout on the Taber Well. I can't have that in place while this bug exists.

I have filed a bug report as well as contacted Peter Linden directly with what information I have.

Sorry to anyone who is missing out on games because of this.

Other Developments
I am working out an entirely new game playing and payment method, which I will announce here.

Instead of paying each game, I will sell Omega Game Tokens. These tokens will sell in values of $10, $100 and $1000.

You can play games by placing the coin on the pad of the game you wish to play, then saying your bet with a $ ( $10 for example ).

Money won at a game is placed back on the coin and the value on the coin is displayed above the coin.

Each coin will have a cap on how much money they can hold - $100, $1,000 and $5,000. (subject to change)

Coins can be cashed out by dropping them on a specified machine.

This system will also allow some other unique opportunities: demo coins, trial-user coins, prize coins and promotional coins to start.

I am not sure when this will be ready, but expect to see more games up when it is.