Hey guys i thought of an idea for the server: Lottery! The system is simple: Spoiler: Original post each week 1 character can enter a lottery buy purchasing a ticket -> money goes to pool -> 1 winner gets all (by a simple random made ingame) 1 ticket per character per week. price will be fixed for everyone (like 10m etc) for each week - decided by GMs or polls on forum pros: - adds some thrill and gives chance for anyone to make some money by luck. - if you put a comission on the pool it can be a great money sink. (for example if pool is 10b, a 10% comission sinks 1b) cons: can't think of any - write them down if you see any. Edit: after taking into consideration your feedback i thought it would be best if the system would work like this: each week 1 person(limited by IP) can enter a lottery buy purchasing a ticket by a fixed sum of money or NX (GM Choice based on prizes). the prizes will vary from NX to money to rare items (chairs, rings , spell books) chosen by the GM. Two option here: make a fixed number of winners with better prize for 1st place lower for 2nd and so on.... make an increasing number of prizes based on the amount of participants - for example: if less than 50 bought tickets than make only 1 prize if it's 50-149 make 2 prizes if 150-300 make 3 prizes and so on up to a certain limit of prizes the GM can either show them all in advance or reveal them as they increase. i personally prefer the latter but im aware it might be more complex so i wouldn't build on it too much. Only 1 prize per winner! if you won 1st prize you are out of the lottery for the rest of the prizes. This way we give more chances, and differenciate between lottery in different weeks (1st prize rare chair might sell more tickets than 500m) raising intreset and excitement each week while making a huge money sink in the proccess. tell me what you think.
^ that's debateable since i wouldn't expect people to go and create and 100 chars just for that but then again you never know. mabye just making a top limit per ip would be better choice. Also' if you guys choose 'Bad idea' please state your reason.
Yeah, I just dont want people to be able to game the system by sinking in half the total pot and having a 50% chance of doubling their money. Capping it somehow would fix it, and I think it'd be fun.
^ this is just a draft idea the implementation is up to the GMs. but as far as im concerned everyone should be included in it.
Just curious... why? I understand you have money you can't use (because after a point, what is there to buy), but in the same breath, you'd have even more you can't use. lol
Same idea as before. Making multiple characters to buy multiple tickets. If you limit by IP address you fix both issues and level wouldn't matter.
if the rate of return is less than or equal to 100% then no one is gonna abuse it, or say there is no need to stop them from doing so if it's >100% or if it gives not only meso, then it might be tons of work for gm's to make sure no one gets tix on multiple chars --- i think developers and gm's r too busy with other issues tho
The idea at it's base isn't too complicated to perform. and i know there is no chance it will happen anytime soon but in the future it would be nice to add it.
What can you even game about the system? Like Zeno outlined, there's nothing that needs to be done if the output is always 100% or less because you can't get an expected value higher than the pot prize. If someone puts in 50% of the pot and has a 50% chance to double it and a 50% chance to lose, what's wrong there? Over time over multiple lotteries that person would neither gain or lose money if it gave out 100% of the pot.
