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Jul 25, 2007, 08:05 PM // 20:05
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Ascalonian Squire
Join Date: Aug 2006
Guild: Myguild
Profession: N/Mo
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Lottery
I was thinking we could buy a lottery ticket for 10g each and all the accumulated money goes to the winner every friday. They could make an announcement in the loggin screen with the name of the winner. It shouldn't be a problem because they are not creating new money.
Last edited by Baroness Scarlett; Jul 25, 2007 at 10:23 PM // 22:23.. |
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Jul 25, 2007, 08:09 PM // 20:09
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Debbie Downer
Join Date: May 2006
Profession: N/Me
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Besides the fact that lotteries are, you know, illegal in several states...
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Jul 25, 2007, 08:48 PM // 20:48
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Underworld Spelunker
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo
Guild: Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]
Profession: E/
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Ahem...
He said 'gil', that is Final Fantasy money. He should say 'gold', that is, ingame money. Such a thing could be somehow an unnecesaryload for the servers. But as long as it actually destroys money (the winners would get only small %s of the income, and around 10..25% of the total collection would just banish) so it were actually a gold sink. |
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Jul 25, 2007, 09:59 PM // 21:59
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Nov 2006
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Instead of a lottery make it a 50-50 raffle drawing, that way money gets taken out of the game like ANET wants, and someone would still win something. That should get past the illegality of lotteries if what Zinger says is true.
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Jul 26, 2007, 12:34 AM // 00:34
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Furnace Stoker
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Jawsome!!!!!!!!!!!
Guild: looking for one :p
Profession: A/D
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/signed
a few things like this wouldnt hurt i dont think ^^. |
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Jul 26, 2007, 03:00 AM // 03:00
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Underworld Spelunker
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo
Guild: Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]
Profession: E/
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Don't worry.
Only REAL lotteries are illegal. One ingame with igname money would not be a problem. |
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Jul 26, 2007, 09:32 PM // 21:32
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: USA
Guild: Jenova's Apocolyptic Remains [JAR]
Profession: D/
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Lotteries that don't involve actual dollars aren't illegal, or Kingdom of Loathing's casino would be SOL right about now. :P
I like the raffle idea better than the lottery one, though. They can put up a decent item, a certain amount of booze/candy or a rune/mod and have everyone buy some tickets. One person wins. Awesome goldsink. Maybe it can count towards Lucky/Unlucky, too. But however it's best implemented, raffle or lottery, I don't think the winner's name should be displayed. They'd get all sorts of harrassment ingame from beggers or scammers hoping to pry something nice off of an ignorant, lucky noob. Last edited by genofreek; Jul 26, 2007 at 11:54 PM // 23:54.. |
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Jul 26, 2007, 11:20 PM // 23:20
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Mar 2007
Guild: Astral Revenants
Profession: P/W
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Reminds me of a Green Day song:
"Losers winning big on the lottery"... |
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Jul 27, 2007, 09:38 AM // 09:38
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Underworld Spelunker
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigo
Guild: Heraldos de la Llama Oscura [HLO]
Profession: E/
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Hm... weekly raffles...
They could raffle each week 1..100 items only available in special events or with special packages... the item would be random, and the tickets would cost... let's say... 1000 gold. The more you purchase, the more chances you have to win. Tickets won't be items, they would just be data in a server, so checking the tickets anyone has would not be necessary. Then, each monday, you talk to the Xunlai Lottery/Raffle Agent, and you get your price (if any) |
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Jul 27, 2007, 10:09 AM // 10:09
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: UK
Profession: R/
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They could add something like this for the events and things
 have a raffle stand set-up in Kamadan, Lions Arch and Kaineng so that people without X game can still play some festival games (like how a lot of people cant access the boardwalk when it opens)
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Jul 27, 2007, 11:09 AM // 11:09
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Wow, I would really like to win this lottery...
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Jul 27, 2007, 05:07 PM // 17:07
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I like yumy food!
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Where I can eat yumy food
Guild: Dead Alley [dR]
Profession: Mo/R
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Something like 100g per ticket. Every 3 hours, anet randomly picks three winners. First place gets 40% of all gold, second gets 25%, third gets 15%. The leftover 20% are used as a gold sink.
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Jul 27, 2007, 06:26 PM // 18:26
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: in sardelac getting yelled at.
Guild: Angels of Strife[Aoc]
Profession: E/
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/signed this is a great gold sink and it would make someones day.... or month LOL
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Jul 27, 2007, 06:50 PM // 18:50
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Alcoholic From Yale
Join Date: Jul 2007
Guild: Strong Foreign Policy [sFp]
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Quote:
/signed. Good idea. This is a lot of return for a little investment, and it would make someone's day. |
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Jul 27, 2007, 08:03 PM // 20:03
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Defending Fort Aspenwood
Profession: E/
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/signed
Nothing of priority for me, but it's nice to have.
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Jul 28, 2007, 01:13 AM // 01:13
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: May 2007
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They'd have to work out some way that you could get the cash if your chest and characters had too much gold on them to collect your winnings. Max gold also kind of limits the max prizes of a lottery too unless you do it with items. Perhaps they could put an npc in temple of balthazar and you give him your ticket to get the gold... gives you a chance to spend your current gold and make room to collect your winnings
 That being said, /signed. More gold sinks that are optional and/or fun = good. |
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Jul 28, 2007, 01:44 AM // 01:44
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: in sardelac getting yelled at.
Guild: Angels of Strife[Aoc]
Profession: E/
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or even better yet a storage tab thing, when you win you take your ticket to the xunlai agent and she stores all the gold so you can withdraw at your leisure, cause you have to realize the winnings could be close or over a mil if people bought enough tickets and if the % was high enough..... cause there are a ton of players.
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Jul 28, 2007, 02:15 AM // 02:15
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Desert Nomad
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: USA
Guild: Jenova's Apocolyptic Remains [JAR]
Profession: D/
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That's why I thought it might be better as an item raffle than a lottery with gold. :P If the pot gets close to a million, a lot of players will be out QUITE a bit of cash!
Still, if they turned the money into some sort of redeemable certificate (double-click to receive your winnings) that can't be used until you have the available space, it could work. People could just buy up some ectos or something to make room, if nothing else. |
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Jul 28, 2007, 05:53 AM // 05:53
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Jungle Guide
Join Date: Jul 2005
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/signed for masamune's idea.
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Jul 28, 2007, 06:01 AM // 06:01
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Debbie Downer
Join Date: May 2006
Profession: N/Me
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Online gambling is flat-out against the law of the United States in certain states. For reference, the states are: Arizona Arkansas Connecuit Delaware Florida Iowa Lousiana Maryland Nevada Tennesse Texas Vermont Washington The last state is the killer. There would be too much legal trouble and loopholing to make a lottery worthwhile. |
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