Increase the lotto tax from 15% to 20%. It'll take more money out of the economy. Sure players *might* not lotto more, but it's 5%. Pretty much everyone will lotto in the end.
If we increase the lotto tax by 1/4 and see 1/10 less tickets bought we'll still be seeing more money taken out.
I'm just making an example. I could easily say the same with your doubling the shout price and seeing only 1/3 less shouts example that you've used in other threads.
I think it's impossible to test. If people know that we're testing a higher tax, they will deliberately buy less tickets in order to make it appear as if it makes a larger difference. So I'd say we can't make an educated guess on how many less tickets would be purchased.
Right, but it's one thing to say that and take the risk on something that's relatively minute. How many shouts do you see in a day? How many lottery tickets do you see bought in a day. It's one thing to risk something that represents such little money leaving the economy to be very statistically insignificant, and another entirely to take that risk on the thing that is the main thing that takes money out of the economy.
-1 We shouldn't be taxing more than 15%, which is already high enough as is, and gets the job done. There's no reason to increase this by 5%. Though minuscule, back in 2012, there was a $250 ticket lottery (with a lower tax from what I remember), and people played it like crazy. Got to $2 million, without star tools, and that's saying a lot. Play declined immediately after the $1,000 ticket.
-1, Its impossible to know the pros and cons. Like the old saying goes, if its not broken dont try and fix it (something like that lol)
The last time the taxes were increased people played so little lotto that the average money taken out of the economy halved for 2 months. And eventually stabilized to.. you guessed it.. the exact same as it was before. Changing lotto taxes = bad
