[Laserminer]

This is a what-if question I'm about to ask, to judge interest. I may seriously consider this.


Option A
If I started with 10k credits, and had lottery tickets cost somewhere between 150 and 500rc, and gave 100% of the credits to the winner.

Ex. a player buys 10 of 500rc tickets (5k worth), all the other participants buy 8 total (4k). If they won, they would get 16,290rc (tax taken into account) more than triple what they spent.


Option B
I start with much more, over 40k. Tickets would be 500rc. Also a primary and secondary (less) prize. Whatever happens, both winners get a whole lot of credits.

But, the catch is, instead of a lump sum payment for the winners, there would be monthly payments of 10k + credits. Remember after all the payments they'd have the same RC as if it were a lump sum.


Would you be interested if I chose A?

Would you be interested if I chose B? (please say so since B is much more likely to happen than A)

[Nephalem]

As I experienced with the Arcane Tournament, you will lose tax both ways.

10% of 100% = 90% left
10% of 90% = 81% left

I would recommend a diamond lottery. Instead of a prize with 81% left you will have 100% left, making a more interesting lottery.

[TornadicManiac]

Sorry to say but personally I think there is only one way a lottery would work on the server - Just like the New Years lottery we had before.

When an individual player creates a lottery, it becomes unreliable. Unlike the New Years lottery, the player would have to keep tally of who has purchased tickets, who has what ticket numbers, how much money they should have, the prize total etc... Ok, this wouldn't be difficult, but as I said, it can become unreliable. Personally, the only way forward for me in terms of holding a lottery would be if Intelli reinstated a regular lottery like we had before. The system was so much easier - tax wasn't an issue, the server knew who had tickets, who purchased what number - life is just so much easier when you have a coded server doing things for you.