Bullshit on fair.  If you want to buy a billion tickets, buy a billion tickets, and have that 1% chance of losing a BILLION DOLLARS.

?I absolutely love this feature. As far as people that are concerned about spening money that shoul be going to your crewleader on the lottery, it shouldn't really be a big deal. As long as members are still kicking up what they're expected to, there's no harm in buying $1 tickets. Look at it this way, those who are going to gamble are GOING to gamble, no matter what. Would you rather have a member blowing 100k at a time at BlackJack with extremely low odds of merely doubling their money, where they will go back as soon as they have another 100k to try and make up for it, which generally leads to them just losing even more... Or would (as I intend to do) you rather have them spending a few hundred (insignificant amounts) every few hours with a chance of bringing in an enormous amount of money? I k now this feature pretty much just ensured that  I won't be visiting the casino any time soon. Also, you could look at it as an investment almost. It's really no different than when people would put money into the MR stock, it's not guaranteed to make you money, but if it played out right, the possibility is there.


I do agree on some fronts however. I think that there should be more than just one winner, as 42 mill (over night mind you) is sure to grow to probably 100 million at least. With the 10% game cut, that's 90 million to one player. Now even though it's besides the point, and I feel like leaders DO have an advantage in this one, someone who can put 5 million tickets into it has a higher chance (obviously) of winning 90 million. Leaders already have more money than normal users, if a leader were to win another 90 million it would just make things unbalanced. Sooo, here's what I'm proposing after talking to Anubis:

1- Multiple brackets of the lottery. I suggest that there should be $1, $5, and $10 slots. That way, even though they're small numbers, basically nothing in comparison to what people bring in, those who don't have a lot of money, or those who just wish to gamble at a smaller level, or higher as far as the $10 ones go, can choose which to play at. This would also guarantee 3 winners instead of one, which would make people want to play it even more.

2- Have multiple winners per bracket. I'm thinking 3 sounds good. Let's say we go with the base that there will be a $100,000,000 pool... After the 10%, that'd be 90 million. Instead of stocking up one player who might already have the means to make copious amounts of money, this would increase everyones odds. Also, it would spread the money more evenly throughout the game. (Though it would still be possible for the same player to win more than once, I think it more fair for 3 players from the game to win something instead of 1). Now if it were spread out between 3 players, that's 30 million dollars per. That is a vast amount of money, and an enormous return on what you put in. Of course, if the idea above this gets put in, then 9 players would win the 90 million, which is still 10 mill. Again, an enormous return on what you put in. I think having multiple winners would make players use this idea far more. The greater the odds of winning, the more likely people are to gamble.

3- Even though those that this apply to probably won't like the idea, I'm going to suggest it anyway. I think that leaders should not be able to play the lottery. I know it's a public thing, and everyone should be entitled to use their money when and where they like, however, they already have more money than regular accounts. Generally speaking, they're far better off. And yes, everyone can use more money, but, those with weight to throw around (or in this case, money) will do so. I think leaders playing this that could throw in 10 million tickets easily in a week without breaking a sweat, with the potential of winning 100-??? million isn't exactly fair to the userbase. It goes back to the saying the rich get richer whilst the poor get poorer. Now there's an easy way around this if it got implemented, leaders could easily just send their money off to someone they trust and have them invest in place, but I think this would be a good thing for the game. It would not only strengthen ties between players, because let's get real here, you will not send millions off to someone you don't trust completely, but it would add a little more risk to the game. Even if a leader sends the money off to someone they trust, there is still a chance that the user who might win their leaders money could keep it for themselves, or send it off and retire, etc etc. I think that having this risk factor might deter leaders from doing this.

4- Last but not least, this suggestion is to benefit the game rather than us users. I know many of you will not like this idea, but as Mrs-Doubtfire said it's my opinion and I'm entitled to it, so fuck off. We all know there's a vast amount of money floating around, I think that can be agreed upon by everyone, no? Well what everyone may NOT know is that there needs to be a balance between things. Too much money in the game is a bad thing, even if most people can't understand or comprehend that. I suggest that the % taken by the game be increased to 25%. Let's just say none of the above ideas get put into play, and the pot is still our base theory of 100 million. 90 million to one player is ridiculous, though the winning player won't see it that way, it'll be his lucky day! With the 25%, this would cut that down to 75 million. Only a difference of 15 million in this case (I know, I know, "only" 15 million). It would take more money out of the game by 15 million in this case, while at the same time still leaving enough winnings to make it worth buying into.

James.. I love the second idea with multiple winning tickets to split to total. That or what I heard in a coffee shop which is have the lottery be draw EVERYDAY!

Either of these would make this feature a hell of a lot more interesting. Maybe not so much at the moment as winning a possible 40+ mil as of yet is someones dream but in the long run people will get fed up of putting so much in and not having a better chance at winning.

Also something that might be kind of nifty, and would take more money out of the game with this feature is sell back. Maybe add in an option to take back X amount of your tickets for 1/2 of the price? (Take back 100,000 tickets but only recieve 50k for it).

I like the idea of this being coded into the game, but it sure sounds a lot like the lottery i set up in the streets.

Angel, it's nothing like the lotto you set up, here, it's guranteed a non-scam, tickets are only a dollar, and even then, there were a lot of lottery's set up before yours.

Well I will say that I understand with it being coded that it is no scam, I can understand that. The lottery I set up was understandably not coded and thus could be subject to questionable results, but all numbers selected were determined from a random number generator and thus no bias was involved.

I am glad that anubis had decided to code this into the game and look forward to the prizes that come from it.

katie wallks in looks at all this money  in this great deal of a life  time, only take 1 bucks to win millions

i do agree on multiple winners maybe maybe 1/2 to winner, 1/3 to second and 1/6 to third

hmm i think we need to put a price on the ticket for example 50K per ticket and only 100 ticket can be bought if the ticket is all sold out, then it will be raffle at the time it is all sold out with this, there are many of us have a chance to win, price will be 80% of the pot money.. i think with this the money of each of us and the winner will be more balance. he will not be a one time millionair i hope you got what i mean :)

For those of you wanting to pick your numbers, and have a limit on it, there is a lottery on the streets that started a little while back. Granted the jackpot isn't millions, that could change.

I think this raffle is a good idea over all, maybe with just a few tweaks as mentioned by the other comments.

Angel, you REALLY have to solicit your lottery?

And I do agree with the multiple winners thing because if you win the jackpot, you could virtually be invulnerable. I mean, for like 3 or 4 million for BG, divide that with 75 million. that is at least 13 BG's at the least.

think if took a demotion marty. 100 bgs at 750k if 75 mill jackpot

Marty I do not see anything wrong with offering an alternative to what has been coded into the game. I am not forcing people to come and play I am merely informing the masses that there is indeed an alternative to this lottery with different odds. Nothing more.

Whatever, I don't want to argue about it, I'm just saying, this is supposed to inform about a lotto, not to solicit a player owned lotto.

And back to the topic...

Exactly my point BeachBum, if a RHM wins this, and gets demoted, he/she could be unstoppable.

-I think great thing to for some low level come up and rank little , hope surf gods looking over me love some money

55 sec untill some 100mill air

wtf. the it says a week till next drawing and still shows a f-ing huge pot

he current lottery pot value is: $109,053,905

You currently own 400,400 tickets. NEXT DRAWING IN: 6 days, 23 hours, 58 minutes, 52 seconds.

Purchase Tickets Tickets are $1 each. this a scam ,,, wtf

exactly. i'm CONFUSED.