New lotto design!

Lotto right now isn’t a very engaging aspect of the server, and could be made into something much better. The goal here will be to create a new outline that will be more engaging, more fun, and more beneficial to the server.

The main goal of this project is to make lotto more inclusive to all players of meep, not just the ones with the bigger bals. To do this, the cost of lotto tickets will be reduced to 500 meebles each, with the ticket cap being increased to 20. Not only will this keep the all in aspect the same, but allow for more people to play without feeling like it's too much of a risk.

On top of that, lotto times are also being changed. We're introducing not one, not two, but three different lottos that all run simultaneously! We're bringing back the 1h lottos, keeping the 24hs, and also now introducing a 1 week lotto. This will ensure the biggest variety, and thus the most satisfaction for the most amount of people.


Now, to summarize:

• Lotto tickets will now cost less
• Increase the max number of tickets you can buy
• 3 different lottos - 1h, 24h, 1 week

Please comment any suggestions you have for the new lotto, and remember, no idea is a bad idea!

(There are even a few special surprises in store.... you'll just have to wait to find out hehehehe.....)

 

Looking forward to seeing your final outline. Hope to see many good suggestions here.

 

Maybe make it so only people by the name of SpongeyStar receive the winnings?

 

Wait, is this a suggestion or something that you're putting out there to see what the public thinks?

If it's the second then I love it! Definite +1

 

1) Remove the current lotto system entirely

2) Add back that lotto we had in july 2015 or some time like that (buy lotto tickets until you win, the amount of tickets required to win varies)

3) Fix the algorithm so that it doesn't follow a general trend (a lot of the time if a higher meeble prize is won the next one will be won prematurely; make it so it's a random value within a set parameter each time (will explain later)

4) For the ticket costs, reduce them by 80% (300 Meebles --> 60 Meebles)

5) For rewards: Reduce Gold Ingot Reward by 60% (18 Gold Ingot --> 7 Gold Ingots)

6) Jackpot Amount: The starting amount for the jackpot is reduced by 80% (75,000 Meebles --> 15,000 Meebles). The parameters for the jackpot amount is = (15,000 <= J <= 75,000 (No previous cap)).

7) Daily Tickets: Make the daily ticket claim give you 5 tickets instead of one, and increase this amount by 1 for each rank up, with +5 tickets for ultimates (Ultimates = 15 Daily, Supreme = 10 Daily, Elite = 9, Exl = 8, Prem = 7, VIP = 6, Cit = 5)

8) Jackpot increment: Each ticket will only add 25 meebles to the pot. Free Tickets will add 15 meebles to the pot. The jackpot will only hit if the randomly generated number is reached or exceeded.

Basically, the average amount for a jackpot is 45,000 meebles ((min+max )/2 and this will require 1,200 tickets to be bought, resulting in a gross loss of 27,000 meebles before payment of the average jackpot. Thus, the gold rate for tickets should be approximately 3%, giving about 12,600 meebles in gold ingots. The overall meeble sink will only increase if the jackpot goes above the average.

 

This wasnt the issue. The problem with that junk lottery was that it was scratch off. If the pot got high, the person woth the most money spammed tickets having the better chance. This lotto is ONLY better if you have money. The lotto would pick a number 1-500. When you bought tickets, you got a random number. Whoever got it first won, regardless of tickets purchased. Its a crap form of lotto.

if we had 2000 people on the server, maybe. But as we stand now, thatbold lotto is irrelevant and no one would use it. Not wasting our time revamping it.

 

Actually, plenty of people have used it and they would use it if this style of lotto came back.

Lotto is INTENDED to be more practical if you are rich since it's primary function serves as a SINK of currency; obviously, richer players have more meebles to lose.

My suggestion confines the jackpot to 75,000 maximum, which was the minimal threshold in alpha meep.

Also my suggestion doesn't rely on the random 1-500 generator; you have a 100% chance to lose UNTIL the lotto hits the randomized amount (15,000 <= J <= 75,000), and then when that amount is hit, you have a 100% chance to win the lottery.
I guarantee you more people want a sporadic lottery that can be won at any time, than a boring, consistent 1d-1w lotto, since it has the instant gratification that the current lotto system does not have.

 

What would add the instant gratification of winning the lottery would be adding certain effects to occur to a player when they log in after winning. For example, a few fireworks in their field of view and a title showing them they won. A subtitle could include their total winnings amount.

This would add instant gratification but still keep the normal drawing type lottery. Also, a lottery where players have to buy a bunch of useless tickets before it works is silly. No one would want to buy tickets to start the system except for new players who don't understand the weird lottery system.

 

This has been implemented!