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Old 01-21-2014, 06:33 PM
August August is offline
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So if i'm reading this right, you basically just want to get 150k+ for your fungi tunic citing the additional 50k+ as your right because you have a character logged in somewhere that needs to be hailed by a bunch of other people who by and large are gambling 5k away?

To put this into perspective, Let's think about putting this into a return on investment. You know that when you gamble, your odds of winning are less than 50% (why else would there be casinos...) and this can be easily represented as a ROI per gamble-game.

For instance, there are a ton of people out there who do casinos... What's the standard? 565+ you double your bet, maybe the 777 gets you 10X your bet?

So, put 1000 down. There's a 43.4% chance that you will win 2000. There's a .1% chance you will win 10000pp.

That's .434*2000 + .001*100000 = 878pp back for every 1000pp you spend.

Now let's look at what you're proposing. 30 people minimum, 5k entry fee. Let's suppose value of a fungi tunic is sitting at 100k(that it is).

With 30 people, assuming everything is equal, you have a 1/30 chance of winning a tunic.

Your ROI for the game is 1/30*1000 = 3333.33pp for each person, and you're charging them 5k each. Let's normalize to get to 1k:

(3333.33)/5 = 666.666pp

So in this gamble game, you can expect to get 666.666pp (devil) for every 1k that you spend. Your standard casino is operating on margins twice as slim. And that's assuming only 30 people (minimum!!!!) sign up. Your odds of winning get lower and the prize payout does not increase.

Verdict = Greedy.

Got it. would not play.
Last edited by August; 01-21-2014 at 06:47 PM..