Denied [Main City Server Suggestion] A Better Lottery System

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  1. DiamondHogger123

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    What part of EcoCityCraft is this suggestion for:
    Main City Server​
    Short title for your suggestion:
    A Better Lottery System​
    What are you suggesting:
    Only allow each player to buy only 1 lottery ticket per lottery session. ​
    Why is this a good addition for EcoCityCraft?:
    When people with lots of money buy the most tickets, it is almost a 100% chance that he or she will win the lottery. This is giving the new and poorer players an extremely tiny chance of winning basically because they don't have loads of money. Also this is basically an easy way of rich players to earn money without any struggle. Now if they only can just buy 1 ticket, not much money will be in the pot. So maybe the ticket prices should be slightly increased so money in the pot is still greater. With this idea, players will know that everybody will have an equal chance, meaning that more players will buy lottery tickets.​
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    #1 DiamondHogger123, Jun 27, 2019
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  2. Fr0zenTiger

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    Yeah I agree that guys with lots of tickets have a better chance to win the lottery.
    But the possibility to buy multiple tickets also makes it fun because you can do things like 5vs5vs5vs5 and stuff like that.
    -1 because it works fine now in my opinion.
     
    #2 Fr0zenTiger, Jun 27, 2019
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    True, but rich players can do like 20 vs 20 vs 20 and all of the lower players won't really have much chance of winning by then.
     
    #3 DiamondHogger123, Jun 27, 2019
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    -1 I think the lottery system is fine as it is. You still have the chance to win with 1 ticket, it’s just more rare. 1v1 lottery wouldn’t be good, really. It’s not as exciting or fun. Plus, what would we do without crazy lottos? ):
     
    #4 happnat, Jun 27, 2019
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    Yeah, but they have a chance
     
    #5 Fr0zenTiger, Jun 27, 2019
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    #6 TomKFC, Jun 27, 2019
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    IRL lotteries aren't capped, and there's plenty of times (I'd say at least 1/3rd of the time) where small ticket buys win big ticket lottos - we have a whole separate leaderboard for it. Huge -1 from me.
     
    #7 EtherealSquid, Jun 27, 2019
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    You aren't meant to win the lottery.
     
    #8 Nicit6, Jun 27, 2019
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    No one makes money from lotto in the very long run. Due to lotto tax, people on average lose 15% of what they put into the pot, irrespective of how many tickets they've purchased (Believe it or not, buying large amounts of tickets doesn't actually make you more money).

    The point of gambling isn't to make anything. It's simply entertainment. And it's far more entertaining when it's high stakes with large amounts of tickets being purchased. One ticket-only lotteries are quite boring by comparison.
     
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    #9 UnitedStates2, Jun 27, 2019
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    Once they cap the lottery IRL I will approve this.
     
    #10 andrewkm, Jun 29, 2019
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