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Old 02-24-2007, 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted by hampy View Post
Another point that was raised would be the tickets you win could be exchanged for items as well not just ECs, gold keys and diamonds. I think this would give more reason to use the casino, perhaps there could be different priced items, e.g EC and Gold key costs 10,000 tickets, and then say a ring would cost 20,000 tickets, this would mean that not only ECs are being released ;o
Either way, you're still establishing a conversion rate. Instead of the economic effect being identical to allowing a conversion of 10000 plat to 1EC, it's not identical to allowing conversions of 10000 plat to 1 EC or 1 Gold Key and 20000 plat to some kind of ring (assuming we're using a machine where the probabilities create a conversion rate of approximately 10000 plat to approximately 10000 tokens/tickets.

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Would it be possible to have a changing winning percentage? I dont know i'm just wondering, maybe it would just randomly decide one day to have 30/70 win/loss then the next day 50/50 then the next day 70/30?? Dunno if that would be possible though
Sure it's possible, but there would still be a de facto average conversion rate (you calculate the probability of each outcome using both the "base" probability and the random modifier that changes daily), however you would be allowing a person who has a lot of plat (it would probably have to be well in excess of 100,000, but people with that kind of plat holdings exist) to exploit the system by using a significant amount of plat (though it would be a small amount compared to their total savings) to determine the "conversion rate of the day" and then using their entire savings when they deem it favourable.
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