Lotto Bot Discussion

Slaariel

Slaariel

*The Only Real Life Girl Dev*
WIth the 2nd test run of the Auto-Lotto-Bot(to) a resounding success, I'm makin a thread for talking about it! First, a graph:

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This is a graph of how many people bought how many tickets and the stars represent the winners. This lottery had about 175 participants, some of whom spent an awful lot of money! I would have liked to see a star further to the left, but I think someone with < 20 tickets winning and several people between 100 and 400 tickets losing is a strong indicator that everything is going to be all right!

Proposed changes SO FAR:

-Auto-announce lottery in applicable cities
-Add very intense description of the lottery to lotto bot's dialog
-Total take indicator i.e. current prize estimate
-Automatically restart lottery after a certain time period. That is to say, lotteries woul dbe a monthly, weekly, or even daily event!
-MORE???

Currently lotto-bot has enough options to run nearly any kind of lotto... with a little jiggling, she could give out items, too, I suppose.. but I'm thinking of a HIGH STAKES lottery for all these people who love spending 1kpp+ on lotteries! Anyway let's hear what you have to say about it....
 
Step right up to Meso's Traveling *Lottery*

Srsly tho, I don't know about automated GM events. I'd like to see more real GM events though, that's some of the appeal of SoD is the very active staff. That GM-Tem guy never does anything, put him to work!
 
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i sort of agree.. i like being on and cajoling people into buying tickets and stuff and feel that it would lose some appeal if it happened too frequently and without gm support

still it is very very customizable!
 
still a cool idea even if it gives out only cash, but the ruski has an idea up his sober sleeve.

what about making several purchase options:

buy 1 ticket
buy 10 tickets
buy # tickets

if you purchase a certain amount or a certain package, even if you dont win, you receive a fun clicky item with an illusion (make this thematic with the season or something or just totally random. personally id love to see a rabbit main tank generals).
 
oh yes forgot to mention that is in the works already.. i am amazed at the stamina of people buying 400 tickets!
 
Multiple tickets? I was only able to buy one, after that I was given no response from hails/dialogue. Though I remember the initial dialogue mentioned unlimited tickets. Needless to say it left me confused, but not at all surprised when I didn't win.
 
aarkhon said:
Multiple tickets? I was only able to buy one, after that I was given no response from hails/dialogue. Though I remember the initial dialogue mentioned unlimited tickets. Needless to say it left me confused, but not at all surprised when I didn't win.
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Keep hitting /cm d1
 
I wonder if we couldn't change it so that each additional ticket purchased by a single player had lower odds that the previous one.

For example, rather than assign a ticket number, the lottobot would merely tally the total number of tickets per person. Then based on total tickets purchased overall, assign clumps of numbers to each person.

1000 tickets overall purchased. Each person with 1 ticket would get an assigned lottery number range of 100. (#1 would get 1-100, 2 would get 101-200, etc). Each person with 2 tickets would get a range of 100+99=199. 3 would get 199+98=297. 4 would get 297+97=394, etc. At no point would an additional ticket be worth < 1 though.

Then the max number would be used to random the winners.

Net effect is that someone buying 400 tickets would have better odds than someone buying 1, but he wouldn't have 400 times better odds. The first 100 tickets would give a range of 5050, and each one after that would be worth 1. So 400 tickets would have a range of 5050+300, or 5350, which is only 53.5 times as good as someone buying a single ticket.
 
Similarly, you could make it so that each consecutive ticket costs more money.

That way, the marginal benefit/cost ratio goes down but it improves the benefit/cost ratio for others.
 
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Too hard to enforce not buying tickets on different characters. I see nothing wrong with more in more chance of winning. At the end of the day the fewer you get the higher rate of return.
 
Waldoff said:
Too hard to enforce not buying tickets on different characters.
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I figured it didn't matter if one used different characters and saved some plat, especially if the rewards were locked to that character.


Waldoff said:
I see nothing wrong with more in more chance of winning. At the end of the day the fewer you get the higher rate of return.
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Fair enough.
 
Hopefully you guys start enforcing more casino-based or gambling games. I'm pretty positive there's quite a few Degens playing this !
 
Would love some kind of timer letting everyone know how long until the drawing is going to be, and a high stakes lotto sounds awesome
 
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