Skiff races and Gambling

Sharptooh · May 18, 2011, 08:50:54 AM

The number of skiff racers in Turbo is really low (2 at the moment) and in REG too (only 4 atm)

Maybe you could make it so that the pool is automatically say 100 mil cash at the start of every race, or boost it in some other way to make it more tempting to players

Maybe you could also make it so that you could say "upgrade" your skiff for X amount of money to increase it's chances of winning?

On another note:

QuoteCurrent Jackpot: $2,074,384,853

7 tickets have been bought for the next drawing.
The last lottery number was #3,
which nobody had, increasing the jackpot by another $0!

Does the lottery amount have a limit? If so why, $2 bil doesn't seem like that much :-\

The Lady Shael · May 18, 2011, 09:19:49 AM

Skiff races have always been kinda lame, we could definitely try raising the pool and see how that affects number of participants. Also maybe if there was a better way to show who has bid on what. Right now I think you can only see your own bids which isn't very exciting.

$2 bil doesn't seem like much, but for how often people win, I think it's pretty balanced. If we were to raise the jackpot, we would have to decrease the probability of people winning. I actually doubled it in the past couple months, it used to be $1 bil.

Kyrolin Zenyar · May 18, 2011, 10:28:19 AM

You could do a flash skiff race... Just throwing it out there.

Kilkenne · May 18, 2011, 10:34:13 AM

stop posting outside of the spa room forever, your posting is horrible and unfunny.

Content: You should make the skiff races happen regardless of who puts skiffs in, and make real odds for them as opposed to just "bet and if your skiff racer wins you can high five guys and have practically no money" Make horse racing odds like 3:1, 7:1 etc, if you drop 100m in then, and end up winning 700m, it was definitely worth having played, even if you RNG the winner.

The Lady Shael · May 18, 2011, 10:38:52 AM

Kilk, be nice.

Kilkenne · May 18, 2011, 10:56:19 AM

Kilk is wildly hungover and surly, Kilk shall not be nice until after he is done interviewing applicants for a job opening this afternoon.

Kyrolin Zenyar · May 18, 2011, 11:05:14 AM

Ouch. Interviews. Painful, I'm sure. And hungover, too? Wait... How can you be doing applicants when you're hungover?...

I was actually kinda serious, there...

Kilkenne · May 18, 2011, 11:07:28 AM

Hangovers aren't debilitating, just really, really annoying. You just don't feel 100% but you can look it. ONE DAY YOU SHALL LEARN THE GLORY OF THE AWFUL HANGOVER. You live in Wisconsin, the drunkest state in the union!

Kyrolin Zenyar · May 18, 2011, 11:08:37 AM

Actually, I live in Ohio...

Kilkenne · May 18, 2011, 11:10:11 AM

Oh, they're #3. You're doomed to a life of alcoholism by existing there, still, just like you are in the greatest state.

Kyrolin Zenyar · May 18, 2011, 11:12:45 AM

Not really... I'm a minor...

Kilkenne · May 18, 2011, 11:14:30 AM

Indeed you are, just a matter of time. It's an inevitability from whence you shall not escape.

Shadow · May 18, 2011, 11:47:47 AM

I think that bets should work like this:

Because you are more likely to win races if you won in the past, (how much more likely, exactly?) then the person who won the most races should set the baseline for the race. A bet on them gets 1:1 odds. Call the highest number of wins n.

A bet on a player with k wins get n:k odds - that is, if they win, you get (n/k) times your bet.

So if I have 10 wins and Kilk has 2, then a bet on kilk gets 5:1 odds, a bet on me gets 1:1 odds. The payout should come directly from the game, not the pot. The entire pot should go to the winner of the race, and people should get bet payouts from nowhere in particular.

I also think that we should make the pot bigger and the chances of winning smaller. Make it about 10b for the pot, make tickets cost about 10 times more than they do now, and make the chances of anyone winning about 10 times smaller.