Hiya,
I've been working on an automated events system & well, here it is.
It does an event every 5 minutes, once an event has finished. It costs the player $$$ to enter the event, and the winner receives 80% of the total money that players have put in for.
It's been live for the past 3 hours, and works fine from what I can see, it's fun
(In the screenshot, ignore the (npcserver) [it would crop the name for admins to display account]- the event is Last Man Standing)
There is also a Garden shop that has opened, it sells trees, shrubs, pots, bench & wire fence which you can buy to make your house pretty