betflipping

[shrimps]

YEAH! I don't use PK mode anyway!

[Jhinsavage]

I agree just remove betflipping its terrible

[BlueMelon]

I really don't see this discussion going anywhere, it's replies like these that spams the thread and hides the good ideas.

Obviously the system is biased to the house and the formula for the system is a simple variable. This can definitely be improved though, benefiting the player and making it seem like there is a better chance at winning. The idea of a 'holding-pond' is a model used in other games/gambling system which could work on era. (I forget where the holding-pond post was, it got lost among the spam)

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by BlueMelon

I really don't see this discussion going anywhere, it's replies like these that spams the thread and hides the good ideas.

Obviously the system is biased to the house and the formula for the system is a simple variable. This can definitely be improved though, benefiting the player and making it seem like there is a better chance at winning. The idea of a 'holding-pond' is a model used in other games/gambling system which could work on era. (I forget where the holding-pond post was, it got lost among the spam)

The jackpot ("holding pond") should have a rate of decay. This will both encourage more betting and protect the economy a little better.

[bloodykiller]

Originally Posted by Stephen

encourage more betting.

Are you ****ing serious?

Loads of players quit when they lose all their money betflipping!! People become seriously addicted, we should focus on helping them stop betflipping not encourage more betflipping.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by bloodykiller

Are you ****ing serious?

Loads of players quit when they lose all their money betflipping!! People become seriously addicted, we should focus on helping them stop betflipping not encourage more betflipping.

Or reduce the total they can betflip in one bet. Also, looks like Era is cruising along just fine.

[Godzilla]

A while ago we were working on "The sword in the stone" there are ganis and images somewhere, you could just make a fee of say $10-$50, the 100,000 person to attempt to grab the sword out of the stone actually gets it, the sword is basically a melee weapon like the bamboo or another item, it's pretty cool.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by Godzilla

A while ago we were working on "The sword in the stone" there are ganis and images somewhere, you could just make a fee of say $10-$50, the 100,000 person to attempt to grab the sword out of the stone actually gets it, the sword is basically a melee weapon like the bamboo or another item, it's pretty cool.

If people know they won't win until the 100,000 attempt it could discourage a lot of people from trying. Instead, you could try a 1/100,000 chance or probably more appropriately, a greater chance.

[bloodykiller]

1. Things could always go better.

2. Raids never occur, especially cuz era's gang population is spread out in too many gangs.

3. The statistics are relative since you used to get dced for afking and now that doesn't happen anymore.

[shrimps]

Yeah,I have to agree, the no disconnect really invalidates the activity statistics.

[Rave_J]

just make Rubles and replace the era dollar.
so make new guns cost like 300 Rubles
and not era dollars so all the billions of dollars is worth jack crap.
make jobs give u certain minerals to give u rubles and era money so the currency is slower
after awhile make a currency change over to rubles and remove old era money currency.

[shrimps]

HEY! Pull a page from Graal Kingdoms and add an item betflip table!

[Supaman771]

Originally Posted by shrimps

HEY! Pull a page from Graal Kingdoms and add an item betflip table!

We said this tons of times

[shrimps]

I mean get rid of betflipping!

[Stephen]

When I was trying to identify the problem last year, what I observed was that jobs paid way more than they should. The rationalization was that you should be able to buy something nice with one day of hard work.

I mentioned "balance" earlier. If you want to decrease the bloat at the top you have to reduce the trickle in at the bottom - like jobs. This won't have the same over night effect of intentionally manipulating the value of items by knocking off a few decimal places from the value but the long term effect is much more healthy and sustainable.

Era is like the proverbial horse; you can take it to water but you can't make it drink.