3dice lol

[Jasminebed]

The two daily freerolls are usually 12 hours.

The normal VIP hourly tourneys are 1 hour.

Every weekend has a freeroll that lasts all weekends.

Sometimes there are quickies (which are extras) of 30 minutes.

Player sponsored tourneys might be any length a player chooses... 4 days top stake Keno (luv ya bunny), 15 Min quickie, 24 hours.

There is pretty often a 3 hour tourney as well during a morning (EST).

 

[weesie]

I have been following this thread. I would be interested to know how they can tell if you have a "speed" software on you computer.

I have been playing the tournies at 3Dice for quite a while now and I have to say. I have seen some "winners" names over and over and over.

It does make me wonder. If I see one particular name on the top ten list I may as well give up because I can just about bet that person is going to win it.

 

[BMWSTACK]

I have been following this thread. I would be interested to know how they can tell if you have a "speed" software on you computer.

I have been playing the tournies at 3Dice for quite a while now and I have to say. I have seen some "winners" names over and over and over.

It does make me wonder. If I see one particular name on the top ten list I may as well give up because I can just about bet that person is going to win it.

Just because someone has some type of turbo software it doesnt mean they are going to win all the tournaments, they could also bust out quite quickly, so you could also look at the bottom of the list to see the "losers" name over and over.

 

[Jasminebed]

Well, the OP says he sent enzo logs from running HiJack this. If he had a virus that did this to his computer, a friend or setup wizard soup up his PC, he might not know one ran all the time. If you trusted someone, you could turn over access to your PC to see if they could find it remotely. Skiny did this with his video card issue, and I gave Enzo access to mine a long time ago on an older computer to see if he could find a better driver for me to improve my performance.

If I design my game so that max is 150 frames per second, and some player is getting 200 frames per second, that's a tip off. Myself, I'm running on a netbook, with an overheating fan and one gig of memory, I spin a lot slower than many players, more so on some games than others. A quick look at this week's flyers showed me a desktop at under $900 with 12 gig. That's not even a gaming rig!

Under your gear settings, you can check Optimize for Speed. If it shows Optimize for Quality, you are already Optimized for Speed at 3Dice. If you have a large monitor, you can probably improve your game play some by reducing down from full screen.

Not very long ago, a member here posted some stats from Fun Mode play on IR (microgaming game at least), she used an accelerator. Possibly against casino terms, and she stated she's never used it in real, she spun at amazing rates. It would be against most casino terms in real I believe, but 3Dice doesn't have a problem with the OP using one in real, or whatever is giving a beyond the norm spins per minute.

I think most of us know not to click on any of those little pop-ups that offer to accelerate your computer for free.

 

[rockycatt]

speaking of tech issues can anyone tell me why when I play three dice my ASUS PC the fan runs noticeable way more than other sites ???


thanx RC

 

[Nifty29]

The two daily freerolls are usually 12 hours.

The normal VIP hourly tourneys are 1 hour.

Every weekend has a freeroll that lasts all weekends.

Sometimes there are quickies (which are extras) of 30 minutes.

Player sponsored tourneys might be any length a player chooses... 4 days top stake Keno (luv ya bunny), 15 Min quickie, 24 hours.

There is pretty often a 3 hour tourney as well during a morning (EST).

C'mon jas......we both love a 15 min quickie (_I_)

I think the tournies are acceptable as is if there is NO 4th option. Imo its better to have a set number of coins to use so that speed makes no difference.

 

[vinylweatherman]

There are many accelerators around. The question is how "trigger happy" 3Dice are at issuing a ban. To an extent, a fast PC or fast video card will play faster than a budget PC, but these accelerators can speed games up well beyond the possibilities of a fast, overclocked PC.

If the average is 2000 spins per hour, and someone manages 20,000, it goes way beyond anything to do with how fast the PC is. It is also possible to check for running processes, and this can directly bust a known cheat. Poker rooms use this to sweep for bots.

Some 3 Dice tournaments are not about playing a fixed number of coins, so cannot realistically run till everybody busts out. MGS tournaments are a fixed number of coins, so cheats can easily be countered by ensuring that even the slowest PC can get through all the coins.

If the tournament structure can be designed to ensure even the slowest PC can compete with the fastest, cheats would not work.

For the highest balance or biggest win events, 3Dice could allow a fixed number of bets, and when they run out, play ends. Fast players would have no advantage as everyone would get the same number of bets.

The main worry is that players might get penalised for having faulty drivers, or a messed up Flash player, where a life ban would be unfair.

It might be better to have something that boots players from individual tournaments once a significant advantage is detected. They can then be told they will keep on getting the boot until they have identified and solved the problem, or quit trying to cheat.

My new PC is overclocked, and has a super video card. Perhaps I will install 3 Dice and see how the speed in tournaments compares to the slower PC. I would expect a difference, but not a significant one. It should be nowhere near what is possible using a gaming accelerator like Speed Gear.

 

[Jasminebed]

Honestly VWM, I'd love to see how your machine performs at 3Dice. Since Enzo has no problem with one in Fun or Real mode, maybe you can fill us in on what kind of spins per minute you can achieve with one? Take a go at Keno at top speed just to humour me personal, lol. It uses a ball animation that I am sooo slow on I don't even try most times.

I am personally of the opinion that people that can afford better things are entitled to them. My old VW could do enough over posted highway speeds to earn me a ticket, and I was okay with the guy in the porsche could earn a bigger speeding fine for going even faster! We make choices about how we spend our money, I could have had a pretty good new laptop instead of a trip to Cuba this past fall.

 

[bigjohn]

speaking of tech issues can anyone tell me why when I play three dice my ASUS PC the fan runs noticeable way more than other sites ???


thanx RC

How often the cooling fan runs is in direct relation to how hard the computer is working. Moving graphics make the processor work hard and the bigger the moving pieces the harder the work. If the fan runs excessively you may need to clean the heat sink or vent holes.

 

[BMWSTACK]

speaking of tech issues can anyone tell me why when I play three dice my ASUS PC the fan runs noticeable way more than other sites ???


thanx RC

That is kind of strange. Maybe you are holding on too tight for the 3dice ride and have the laptop buried in your lap to where it cant breathe? Oh I see you said PC. Maybe your foot is in front of air intake ready to kick the computer and disrupting airflow?

I had an old server thats fan increased RPM, and had read that over time, age and with different programs it kicked it into high gear. I read that it could be fixed, but by taking it apart and perforning an operation. I got rid of it though, thankfully, because it sounded like a prop plane it was so loud.

 

[rockycatt]

I made a remark earlier about who are you , i want to apologies if it was offensive

 

[dreamguardian1]

I am still of the mind that a player or person is totally innocent until proven guilty beyond all reasonable doubt. Honest mistakes do happen and the player in this case is trying to remedy the situation and is outright asking for help to disable whatever is going on with his/her computer 3Dice should assist in that. I think that if they really try they can come to an equitable compromise. However, I am still totally baffled by how a person can cheat at an online casino when the server is on the other end, and maybe thats a good thing that i dont understand it lol

 

[dreamguardian1]

C'mon jas......we both love a 15 min quickie (_I_)

I think the tournies are acceptable as is if there is NO 4th option. Imo its better to have a set number of coins to use so that speed makes no difference.

15 minutes??/ lol i had to giggle at this one.

 

[Jasminebed]

It's not that you can cheat the casino with an accelerator, you just get to play faster, and you can lose your money faster, that's why it's fine for him to use in real play at 3Dice.

But for tournaments, more spins per minute do mean more chance to hit a big one, which is usually what wins a tourney, especially those that are peak. For things like the screenshot hunts and trivia, it is definitely an advantage to be faster. So whether it is intentional or accidental, it's an unfair advantage. You can't box in bantum if you weigh 300 lbs.

 

[sparkz]

speaking of tech issues can anyone tell me why when I play three dice my ASUS PC the fan runs noticeable way more than other sites ???


thanx RC

I will try to explain in easy terms....

Its to do with the rendering of the graphics.

The 3Dice engine is more like something a computer game would use. Its their own unique engine which relies more on graphic rendering (The 3D textures put more strain on graphics cards and cpu's)


While other platforms such as MG, Netplay and RTG pretty much run as "flash" applications. Flash is designed to be run in web browsers and doesnt render graphics, instead its able to load them to the cache and so its not all about relying on the power of the computer.

 

[nisosbar]

I will try to explain in easy terms....

Its to do with the rendering of the graphics.

The 3Dice engine is more like something a computer game would use. Its their own unique engine which relies more on graphic rendering (The 3D textures put more strain on graphics cards and cpu's)


While other platforms such as MG, Netplay and RTG pretty much run as "flash" applications. Flash is designed to be run in web browsers and doesnt render graphics, instead its able to load them to the cache and so its not all about relying on the power of the computer.

That makes sense to me, because as I understand it, Blizzard designed their early games (like Moolah, for example), and of course, Blizzard is the company behind Diablo I and many other PC games.

 

[incrediblestuff]

That makes sense to me, because as I understand it, Blizzard designed their early games (like Moolah, for example), and of course, Blizzard is the company behind Diablo I and many other PC games.

To be more precise: they hired a Blizzard game dev, not Blizzard

 

[vinylweatherman]

I am still of the mind that a player or person is totally innocent until proven guilty beyond all reasonable doubt. Honest mistakes do happen and the player in this case is trying to remedy the situation and is outright asking for help to disable whatever is going on with his/her computer 3Dice should assist in that. I think that if they really try they can come to an equitable compromise. However, I am still totally baffled by how a person can cheat at an online casino when the server is on the other end, and maybe thats a good thing that i dont understand it lol

This is the key. Are 3Dice banning people based purely on result, or do they only ban when they find the "smoking gun" among the running processes. Poker sites look for specific software applications that are defined as banned, so the evidence can be pretty strong.

I have played the MGS client on varying machines, and the difference between the slowest and fastest is about a 2x increase in the number of spins per period of time. This could give a significant advantage without any need to employ cheats.

Speed Gear, one of the known cheats, can offer up to 256x normal speed, and with the right kit, this can probably be achieved.

using Speed Gear on an MGS client, I was able to get 5000 spins per hour, whereas without, the best I could manage was about 3000. The limitation seemed to be the processor, not Speed Gear, so with a top of the range processor, I expect even more could be achieved. I used one of the simple classic slots for the test, and in fun mode.

The downside is that these cheats seem to cause problems with the OS that can linger after they have been uninstalled. As "black market" apps, they cannot be entirely trusted.

The issue is, can one be wrongly accused of using one of these cheat apps by 3Dice, and suffer an unjust penalty. The suggestion that "bad video drivers" can lead to a life ban is worrying, as this is not the fault of the user, but of the software industry. PCs are supplied with a set of drivers, but there is not always a mechanism to apply regular updates included, and trying to do this as a user is not for the inexperienced. In many cases, it takes a "computer nerd" to keep their drivers fully up to date, and with the CORRECT updates for their particular PCs and configurations. Applying a driver update that is not the correct one can actually make things worse.