I'm not doing much these days  got really fed up after ptcbox then MBC screwed me big time  lost a lot there! B4B also lost PP but they are trying to recover *hoping for best  expecting worst*  lost $100.00 there only program I'm really active in now is clixsense.  I've lost faith in ptc at the moment

For a site like neobux and the money they take in, direct referral limits for members is kindy redicules. But when you have a new site like I have, that will be low on advertiser for the first couple years, a few huge advertiser can make a site go bankrupt quick.

It is possible with elite ads.. etc.

2500 elite 30 second ads that cost $30 on CashClixs would equal to $0.012 cost per click.
Now elite members get $0.03 for clicking those links so in the long run it is possible..
However.. I think it's way to expensive for me to pay that much for that package..
..and also elite members have to pay $270 per year at the cheapest case..

By the way maybe the elite ads should be 60 seconds to be worth such a cost..

Still_Sleeping wrote on 13^th Jan, 2013 at 3:23am:



Hmmm, that is interesting. I guess you make it up on site banner ads etc. or will when the traffic gets high enough

Still_Sleeping wrote on 13^th Jan, 2013 at 4:50pm:


Well, nothing incredible, but simple and cool.
Something like a card game based on a very generic "Hacking Simulation" idea..

Each player has 5 offensive and 5 defensive programs (cards with specific level and attibutes)..

The player logs in the system and retrieves a list of all online and offline other players. Then he can pick one to attack, using his offensive against the enemy player's defensive programs. When someone attacks an offline player he will be facing a handicap to make things fair. So it will be tougher to win when the enemy is offline. Now, if all 5 defensive programs are successfully bypassed the attacker wins and gets experience points and rewards including the ability to upgrade his cards with higher leveled ones.

On the business side of it, I'll include some advertising through the game screens, and I'm also thinking of using affiliate marketing to promote it. However the actual game will be kept free and even though there will be a business opportunity included, it will be optional so that players choose to stay even if they only like to play the game.

That's most of it.. but I currently skipped coding it a little bit as I'm giving some exams these days and I'm pretty busy with that for now.. As soon as exams are over, I'll get back to coding..

However in the meantime I'm in need of a game database server..
I currently host and test it on db4free.net but that's not to be trusted so I'll need to purchase one.
I would have hosted it to my domain here, but it doesn't give database access regardless of IP..

The game is developed on C# so it's not web based which would have been easier to use but harder to code..

Still_Sleeping wrote on 13^th Jan, 2013 at 4:50pm:



I have a question for you. I assume you run ads for your site at other sites and you have also ran ads for other sites when you were an affiliate. Do you find you get better results with the ads run for your site than you do as an affiliate?

The reason I have this question is because I have been of the belief that many sites will skim off referrals from us in order to keep for themselves or sell or rent to others (yes, unfortunately, I am very paranoid but I have been in the industry many years and I have seen many strange patterns in referral sign ups over the years  ). Have you noticed any difference in the numbers or referrals you get from others as opposed to yourself? This question is probably the number one reason why I am interested in starting a site of my own even though I do not have a lot of technical skill

Its hard to say with my site being new, all other site's that i have advertised had large member bases by the time i would join. I've ran only 2 neobux ads for my site, 24 dollar's each (total $48), that gave me about 160 some referrals. When i would run the same price banners for ptcbox, I would get about 80 referrals total.

With a custom script, its possible for the a admin to scam in many ways. If there using a standard buxhost script (like mine), the only way for a admin to scam referrals from you is to set mask direct referrals usernames to active and switch them with inactive members in hopes that the user wouldn't remember a number impose to a actual name. But its also possible to just remove them before you log on. The standard buxhost script has no option to turn off referring.

My site only has one reason that it won't allow a member to join a upline: Thats when a known proxy server is detected, and the user is forced to join without a upline regardless of the referral link clicked on. (protection from cheaters)

I've have always wonder the same thing.. I can diffidently tell you there is still those time zone's where all sign-ups just seem to stop.