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SaltyBet's Dream Cast Casino Thread 2 - Always bet on DBZ

tafer said:
Heads up, Salty is currently updating the system. Looks like tourneys are back and exhibitions will run all day. We don't have too many details at the moment, but it seems to be a big change.
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I think it was a temporary thing? Maybe an automated daily or something? Shined a spotlight on some characters I'd never seen before at least.
 
So now apparently after every 50 regular matches, a tourney will play with random characters within a tier, followed by 10 of the shaker requests.
 
tafer said:
Salty finally implemented a tier for the OP stuff: X tier.
He also added an automatic retiering after a 3 w/l streak and B tier is now first to win 2 rounds.

I have to say these changes are pretty awesome.
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Did he ever go back to elimination tourneys? I stopped watching after a few weeks of boring fan-request matches.
 
RSLAEV said:
Did he ever go back to elimination tourneys? I stopped watching after a few weeks of boring fan-request matches.
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Yeah, they run every 6 hours or so with a random 16-man bracket, in a random tier, with a few exhibitions tossed in for good measure. Also inspires a few people to make LARGE STUPID bets which I keep talking myself out of betting against. :\
 
N4Us said:
Haha, apparently Classic Batman has an Anti-Anime spray trigger. He just used it on Princess Silver
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It's Anti-<character portrait> - you don't usually see it on Saltybets, but Mugen characters tend to use a portrait sprite for "versus" screens before a match, those just never show up in this implementation.
 
This was just literally the finals of the randomized b tier tourney just now

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So uh the latest bracket had Bokosuka Wars versus Final Zone Boss and apparently it's been repeating a draw game for several hours now
 
N4Us said:
So uh the latest bracket had Bokosuka Wars versus Final Zone Boss and apparently it's been repeating a draw game for several hours now
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Looks like Salty is going to update this month, however, It's hard to care about it at this point. The place is basically abandoned, the more automated salty made the site, the less he shows his face around.
 
tafer said:
Looks like Salty is going to update this month, however, It's hard to care about it at this point. The place is basically abandoned, the more automated salty made the site, the less he shows his face around.
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The site becoming more automated turned out to be a bad thing?
 
Apparently what I read in the chat is that Salty got a new job or something and as a result isn't able to appear as much as he used to.

I like the current model quite well but I do hope he does something big again at some point in the future. Maybe it'll have something prepared for UFGT, since they're having SB there.
 
tafer said:
Looks like Salty is going to update this month, however, It's hard to care about it at this point. The place is basically abandoned, the more automated salty made the site, the less he shows his face around.
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It's not him leaving it's everyone else. I was shocked when numbers dipped below 200 betters a few months back, and now it never hits that. At half a mil, I barely drop any cash and therefore rarely drop by any more.
 
FluxWaveZ said:
The site becoming more automated turned out to be a bad thing?
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Surprisingly enough, yeah. He used to pay attention for crashes, now because most of the system is automated, he not longer bothers to show up... but the crashes keep happening.

However, that isn't the biggest issue, the problem comes from the feeling of abandonment, the lack of the human factor, a face for the site. Someone that not only fixes problems but also "manage", or at least listens to the community.

N4Us said:
Apparently what I read in the chat is that Salty got a new job or something and as a result isn't able to appear as much as he used to.
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Yeah, I heard that too, the problem is that he never let someone handle the place (or at least the roster) when he isn't around... as Cherrywarrior used to.

SatelliteOfLove said:
It's not him leaving it's everyone else. I was shocked when numbers dipped below 200 betters a few months back, and now it never hits that. At half a mil, I barely drop any cash and therefore rarely drop by any more.
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It's hard to say the real reason behind the viewership drop, leaving behind the obvious (people losing interest). However, I may be wrong about it but I think that the place started to bleed users when the tournaments changed format. Hand picked brackets -> hand picked themed tourneys -> automated exhibitions -> automated tournaments and exhibitions all day.
 
I watched every Thursday for like two months straight and once the tournament themes dried up I stopped paying attention. I also think the chat became probably a little too insular and meta recursive, making it less humorous and more of a chore to parse. Combined with the new auto-formatting it just has no real appeal to me anymore.
 
Honestly, my fondest memories of Saltybet were when it was running during real life tournaments and people could bet on real live streamed matches.

I wish it'd do that again, because there was no way to game that based off prior knowledge, but it does require someone to be at the helm for it.
 
It does feel like Salty Bets is neglected. But I just watched 30 minutes of fights when I need to finish writing a paper due on Sunday, so its obviously still doing something right.
 
Is anyone else having problems with the chat? Right now it's continuously reloading and has been for days. When it is up, it still won't let me log in. Wonder what's up?
 
N4Us said:
Just learned of the update now, seeing if any of my recent submissions made it in.
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There were a few good ones (Goemon Black Widow...wtf) and a really shitty playing FOE (with Deer Lord attacks and everything).

It's over now though, so I gave my half a mill salties away.
 
This site has been unusable for over a month now, I don't know what's going on. The stream is always behind, it's stuttering like crazy even when it works, the chat is always trying to reload for some reason and it's freezing up my whole computer for a minute constantly.

I don't think I changed anything on my end. Is it acting like this for anyone else? Technical issues are expected, but I can't even place a bet anymore. Or watch the fight when I manage to get one in.
 
TurboLibre said:
This site has been unusable for over a month now, I don't know what's going on. The stream is always behind, it's stuttering like crazy even when it works, the chat is always trying to reload for some reason and it's freezing up my whole computer for a minute constantly.

I don't think I changed anything on my end. Is it acting like this for anyone else? Technical issues are expected, but I can't even place a bet anymore. Or watch the fight when I manage to get one in.
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I haven't had anything as bad as this but for the past couple days the main site's been lagging like crazy for me. Several missed bets, the invisible payout, sometime not even loading betting for me. The stream and chat are fine, it's just the main site that gives me issues. Pretty annoying.
 
Ok, guys just a heads up. There was a massive update on the regular system and I have to say some changes are outstanding, specially the new tourney format.

Saltybet said:
Betting Updates:

Major betting UI enhancements
Increased bailout to $100 + level bonus
Increased Salty Illuminati level bonus to $25 per level
Custom avatar support for betting, leaderboard, and compendium log
Betting slider can now be customized with a maximum value and a custom interval
Added !stage command
Added a new level
Working password reset system
Instant MUGEN crash detection
Dynamic MUGEN sounds (betting time, KO etc)


Mode Updates:

Everyone will start at $1,000 + bailout during tournament mode
At the end of tournament mode, the money you earned will be added to your normal bank amount
A tournament bonus of $5,000 will be given to whoever has the highest bank at the end of the tournament
X tier is now BO1 and P Tier has been removed from matchmaking and tournament mode
Promotion/demotion streak has been changed to 10 across all tiers
Added !untier command to remove gimmick characters from matchmaking and tournament mode


Compendium Updates:

Added the ability to change character palette
Added a log of all transactions
Added ability to promote from P to B tier manually
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As I said, the new tourney format is fantastic, everyone goes to their bailouts + 1000. This makes things extremely interesting, not only miners get the chance to make good money, rich guys have fun all inning and showing if they know their match ups and of course, fantastic odds all around. For example, the last tourney some dude made more than 100k from the mines.
 
I can't believe I'm considering getting back into this, but it looks like Salty's put a lot of work into the site since I last checked. Back to being an illuminati for a month, see if I really fall down the rabbit hole.
 
Oh my god I haven't saltybetted in months. It is time.
 
As I did on Evo's thread, another small heads up guys, looks like salty is going to stream some EVO matches (Not sure how it works) and bets are going to be enabled.
 
This kind of thing should be done on more fighting game tournaments... or is Evo the only one? I've never been into esports much, but when there's fake money betting involved things get more exciting!
 
Hamster Plugin said:
This kind of thing should be done on more fighting game tournaments... or is Evo the only one? I've never been into esports much, but when there's fake money betting involved things get more exciting!
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Didn't Salty get it's start offering bets on fighting game tournaments? I thought MUGEN was just a thing to fill time inbetween tourneys that took a life of its own.
 
This is way more interesting than the AI matches, very cool to observe EVO this way.

Edit: Wow the BlazBlue grand final was unreal! Garireo with 1:5.1 odds from losers bracket barely squeaks out a reset and grinds out a win in a second set with match points all over the place. Got me 50k salt lol awww yeee! Hype!
 
Salty added a new system:

The Salt Mine Saloon & Arcade!
This is a new system that allows Illuminati to duel via chat! The system can be accessed at www.saltybet.com/arcade and you can see the command list by clicking the "Combos" link in the header. Right now, it's randomly selecting characters from B and P tier along with a random palette 1-12. There's a $10K bonus every time you win and wins are being recorded in the leaderboard.
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In other, it's a Twitch plays Mugen.

While difficult to get into, and the lag is terrible, it's pretty dumb fun.
 
So got bored and started doing this again. I did this so much last year I burned out. Honestly can't really get back into this the way I used too. Still not as interesting as it used to be to me, but I do like how tourneys are basically free money now. Exhibitions I have seen for the most part are still not that great. Just Like Last year.

Damn i'm surprised my last post in this thread was like almost 10 months ago, time flies.
 
Donos said:
HAven't watched a fight for like 8 month. Want to try it again just to see some new crazy op characters.
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Just started to take a look after a long while myself. I didn't even know they have a Tier system in place now, lol. At least it means all the super OP characters will end up facing mainly each other.
 
THE BUMP OF THE MILLENIUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I was gonna perform the necro-bump of the century but XiaNaphryz beat me to it LOL!

Saltybet is the greatest fucking TwitchTV channel in the whole world!!! The guys behind it have the best taste in music! Everything from Chrono Trigger to Street Fighter to David Bowie to Talking Heads to Eric B and Rakim and everything in between.

Not to mention the most INCREDIBLY wacky, bizarre and entertaining MUGEN sprite matchups I've ever seen.

Fuck all the other Twitch streamers who either run their fucking mouth throughout the entire broadcast, or the shameless bums who beg for donations every 5 seconds, or the whores who show their cleavage for 90% of the screen while the game itself takes up the remaining 10%. FUCK ALL OF THOSE GUYS!!! It's all about SaltyBet for me baby!!!!!

I'm not even interested in the betting aspect of the show and yet I could still spend all day watching the fights just for entertainment purposes. God Bless you Saltybet. You're one of the few remaining streamers keeping my interest in Twitch.
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isamu said:
Fuck all the other Twitch streamers who either run their fucking mouth throughout the entire broadcast, or the shameless bums who beg for donations every 5 seconds, or the whores who show their cleavage for 90% of the screen while the game itself takes up the remaining 10%. FUCK ALL OF THOSE GUYS!!! It's all about SaltyBet for me baby!!!!!
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SaltyBet and VGCW are the majority of my Twitch viewing.
 
Haven't played in awhile, did check in the other day to see if there was a new tier... that's always the best time to win/lose money and the most hilarious.

Sitting on half a mil right now.
 
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