Or it could mean you spent $100 to buy gems and just never got the gems. Which we consider just about the worst thing that could happen.
yeah, as soon as players losing money is involved and accounts get auto-banned from the internet service provider, if payments are reversed, its a nightmare, not to compare with a few late rewards and a bit of downtime of draft.
I ended up with a raw JSON dump of 32,960 transactions that failed, and I had to go through them all to determine what the player was trying to do, what actually happened, and what we needed to do to make it right. We got it all sorted out within (I think) 24 hours, but that was very un-fun.
this number reminded me of a completely unrelated anecdote of my life that i like to tell every once in a while. Well, at least it also has to do with lots of money.
15 or so years ago i was working on a sailing ship, that sailed general goods to undersupplied small atolls in the south pacific from Hawaii.
Fanning Island in the Republic of Kiribati wa one of them and he had around 70k dollars worth of goods to deliver.
the problem was that there was only 32,960 worth of cash on the whole Island and 1 bank. I rememberthat number because i was involved in trying to figure out, how we split up our orders to be done with unloading in 2 and 1/2 days.
Online Banking wasnt a thing back then, at least not yet in those parts. So before we arrived, they urged all the islanders (around 2000) to bring all their cash to the bank.
Then on the first day, our first customers would withdraw around 30-32k worth of cash and we would unload their cargo and get paid over the day. And in the evening, we would put all that cash back to the bank, they would wire us the amount to our Australian bank account and rinse and repeat the next day.
In the evening, that 30k of cash had to be counted by us and since i was the cook on board and didnt have too much to do over the day except snorkeling for some lobsters for dinner and provide the crew with cold drinks, i volunteered for the counting so the other crew, who had been grafting away all day in scorching heat could enjoy a nice barbeque on shore and relax.
There also was the prospect of posting for some nice selfies with a huge batch of money on a sailing ship anchored in the lagoon of a far flung tropical island, it was my first trip down there, so it was all a bit surreal.
Another problem was that all the money was in 3 different currencies. US, NZL and AU Dollars. While AU$ were the official currency, there was lots of US and NZL currency on the island from the occasional cruise ships that came around and their passengers tipping the islanders with those currencies.
But that also meant that around 25 of those 30k were 1 dollar notes (and 2k in coins), which made counting so much more unfun than you would think.
Me and the Captain needed around 3-4h to count it ourself and then we had to sit next to the single bank employee to count it again for another 7h.
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