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I got to start thinking about how to help reduce the great wealth alot of people have without punishing new players or players who can't make 40 troop keys a week. I came up with a plan.
LOTTO
Put lotto machines in the NC sectors. <insert number of neo credits> (barter doesn't work on machines) gives you a card in your inv. You right click/use the card and get a small chance of winning the grand prize <Insert cash sum> and a range of prizes from a rare drug to a shop bought stiletto. If the card doesn't win you anything then it will dissapear. If you get a winner take it back to a lotto machine and claim your prize. The odds of winning the main prize should be very great. Great enough so that the money spent on tickets far outweighs the prize money thus reducing the money in circulation.
I have no illusions that this will fix the economy on any server, but it will be a step to getting rid of some if those credits people have.
I don't even think a cash wipe would fix the economy as people would go back to replenishing their bank accounts right after any wipe. Because not everyone makes lots of money, raising the prices or having a cash wipe will only hurt the poorer people in the long term anyway.
I am sure some of you clever folk out there have better ideas so lets hear em as this is getting to be a real problem.
Richard Slade
22-01-04, 15:49
Good idea
Almost
Change:
Add a prize that no one can get in ANY way
The more money spent
The greater chance of winning
Simple
Nightbrother
22-01-04, 15:50
A lottery... what a grand idea. This could be done by a player also, overseeing tickets and giving prices. Maybe a clan could do this, and earn 10-20% off the ticket sales. Sounds like a Tsunami prospect? :)
Original monk
22-01-04, 15:57
jackpot, poker, roulette, blackjack, a full casino in other words (tsunami ?)
a tech-o-matic in every HQ giving ya 1 L,E or T for every 100k ya put in :) with chances of 1/1000 that it drops an mc5 tech
Originally posted by Richard Slade
Good idea
Almost
Change:
Add a prize that no one can get in ANY way
The more money spent
The greater chance of winning
Simple
I like the idea of people putting what ever amount of cash they like in, and the chances of winning someting on that ticket are increased/reduced based on how much is spent.
With this idea I can see people putting large sums of cash in for a better chance at a rare drug or something.
From a RP point of view it could be Rezza's new scam *cough* plan to rehabilitate all the drunken bums around NC city. Just like any normal lottery though non of the money would reach the people targeted for it.. :D
Anotehr literary gem from the BMsta.
I think it's cool... looks like loads of fun to me.
Can I suggest the prizes be slot enhancers? Take em out the rare pool and let people get slotties from the machines... SLOTTO LOTTO!!!!!1111111
Take the buggers out the rare pool then.
Great Idea 5*
I think it was pluto that had a player ran lottery goinfg for a few months.
A player run lotto defeats the object of getting money out of the server. Obviously a player run lotto just passes the money from one player to another. Good money makeing scheme tho.
*Imagines* Grand prize of a DS and SA (don't really have) come get your chance to win these great prizes. 100k per entry.
I thin it's important to make some cool sub-games for neo. Even if they're not that great.
Some people don't win a lot on the server so it would be nice to shout and jump around a bit after u've won something interesting from a silly game.
SLOTTO LOTTO!!!!!!
honestly without a huge player base the lotto would suck and some rich bastage will get the earnings.
broke ppl wont use this.
greendonkeyuk
22-01-04, 18:46
Scratch Cards!
i LOVE the idea. However ive got to agree with the idea further up. The items we win would need to be something worth spending money on. MC5 tech parts is a VERY good idea but the odds on winning one would have to be uber high. I love the whole gambling idea. The irony here is its actually good for people.....
Originally posted by WebShock
honestly without a huge player base the lotto would suck and some rich bastage will get the earnings.
broke ppl wont use this.
What I am trying to say is the earnings from the lotto would be less than the money runners invest in the lotto. Poor people won't loose much and rich people could loose a shit load, always with a chance of winning but it would be a small step to getting rid of some of the abundance of cash some people have and not just transfering it to another player.
greendonkeyuk
22-01-04, 19:08
I think webshock thought you wanted a player run lotto m8 whereby the organiser gets all the cash.
i think what bm means is that the cash spent on tickets will go to that loathsome madame veronique or the tyrant Reeza.....
Edit
Jus had a thought, what about Faction Lottos.... whereby you can win faction related items?
if i was tsunami i think id like to win one of kramers pimp suits or perhaps some form of constructor/researcher etc tool if i was tangent/fa, or drugs if i was bd.
Very good idea, would be nice to have some of them and gambling places in PP.
How about items that you buy very cheaply, but which have to be upgraded to be any good - and the only way to upgrade them is to spend cash - the early upgrades could be very cheap (a few thousand credits), but once you have upgraded 10 times (say) it starts to go up steeply so that 10's of millions can be spent upgrading items which can still be upgraded further - these would have to be non transferable items (to prevent sale and 'sharing'), and could be upgraded by the person that owned them without the use of a constructor. you could just right click on the 'Heavy combat glove' (for example) and choose 'upgrade' - 1,000,000 is removed from your cash, and it gives an extra +1 to H-C. The next upgrade would be 2,000,000, and give another +1 and so on...
Items could be different for tanks, psi's - or faction - whatever.
People would soon run out of cash trying to own the best item, and to cap their abilities.
Another idea is perhaps to sell outfits, or even better more plush appartments... mansions perhaps, worth 10s of millions... I cant believe that the best appt in neocron is so cheap..! bargain..! especially considering the amount of available space and increasing population...
They key is to provide desirable items that cost a fortune, I mean a real fortune, not just 5mill. then peiople will spend cash.
How about mirrored power armor - I bet people would spend a lot to have that...
Ill.
Devils Grace
22-01-04, 19:59
if bdoy will not have safe zones besides the clubs bars and restaurants, they could make a big casino, could be runned by either ncp's or players, wich in that case no one should have rights (somekinda of way to get the ownership like op's, or when u have a certain amount of op's that clan will control the casino)
but just a really big place with hookers,restaurant,club, pub, disco, and a big virtual casino, whit for exemple players could play poker agaisnt players with NC money with a npc card dealer.....
someplace where all factions could go, totally safe zone, and just chill
now that would fucking own
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