Event Coin problem

[Googi]

Originally Posted by garglius1

Not if you have the machine take plat and dish out tokens, many games work on the fact that you can trade in x money for y tokens then then tokens for prizes. This would be convsersion, and pointless. If you had the slot take plat and then you could either lose it all, or gain tokens if you won, it would stop conversion from happening

No it wouldn't. Suppose that there's a machine where I have a 50% chance of losing whatever I put in and a 50% chance of receiving twice the value of the plat I put in in tokens (such a machine would statistically break even). For the sake of simplicity, we'll assume that if I put in 500 plat and win, I get 1000 tokens (if I put in 500 and lose, I obviously get zero.) Playing the machine 20 times would result in an average payout of 10000 tokens (I should win 1000 tokens about ten times and win nothing about ten times). If 10000 tokens = 1 EC (which it would have to if we're operating from the premise that 10000 plat = 20 diamonds = 1 EC is the "ideal" EC value) then the average time that I put 10000 plat into the machine I get 1 EC. I am doing what amounts to a currency conversion.