ConvoysDocs · How it works

Early access · Convoys runs on Robinhood Chain. These pages describe the settings that run today, and they can still change.

Trust and safety

Fairness and security

Committed seeds you can replay, caps and what is not guaranteed.

Two questions matter in a game that pays real tokens: can the dice be rigged, and can the system be gamed? This page lists what the game does about each, and says plainly what it cannot promise.

The dice can be checked

Whether a drop is tipped, and whether it is a big tip, is decided by a seed and nothing else. The seed is made so that neither the game nor the player can pick it.

  1. 1
    The game commits
    Before your shift, the game shows a hash of its secret seed for it. It cannot change the seed afterwards without the hash no longer matching.
  2. 2
    You add yours
    When you dispatch, your browser adds its own random seed and the hash it saw. If the hash changed, the shift is refused.
  3. 3
    Both are mixed
    The shift's seed is a hash of the game's seed, your seed and the shift's id. The game's seed is published as soon as the shift starts.
  4. 4
    Anyone replays it
    Every roll is a plain hash of the seed and the drop number. The same code the game runs recomputes a finished shift, and the map is a replay of that same result.

What a shift pays depends only on the seed, the start time and the crew's settings. The city and the route are only the picture.

Guards against gaming

RiskWhat stops it
One account taking the whole streamNo account earns more than 10% of the stream
Round-the-clock botsEvery account needs the pack, and none earns more than 10% of the stream. Time on a shift is not limited: a crew on the road all day earns all day, a bot's as much as a player's
Buying power once and leaving it idleOnly crew that worked in the last day counts as power
Free accountsA trial account has no power. Gold, cosmetics and invites give no power either
Farming the season with bought goldSeason score is gold made on shifts. Bought and invited gold do not count
Buying crew cheaply by pushing the pool's price upThe shop gets cheaper only once a rise has held for about 3 minutes (the median of the last 5 minutes of the pool's price), so a push of a few seconds buys nothing cheaper. See Prices
A claim losing value to roundingUnclaimed balances are kept as exact amounts, never as shares, so a payout cannot be taken by another account
The books drifting from the vaultA check about once a minute. Withdrawals stop if it fails. See Proof of reserves

What is not guaranteed

  • The size of your share. It depends on spending, on the crowd and on your power, see The live share.
  • That the CONVOY price holds. The shop follows the price with a delay, and the token can fall as well as rise.
  • That the game stays as it is. Its settings are still being tuned and can change.
  • That the system is free of bugs. It is checked by tests, including SQL tests that must agree with the simulation, but no system is certain.

The place to check the books is the reserves page, and the place to check the pool is the pool page. How the vault is protected is in Proof of reserves.