The only gold sink that works.

[JackHammer]

I've seen that in my long, long, short amount of playing time that the best and only way to make a great gold sink is to introduce gambling to people. I mean...state lotteries make tons of money from people that think $1 is a cheap price to pay for ridiculous odds for a shot at a 1,000,000%+ return of investment, because, of course, what is $1, right? It's a soda, a value meal, a candy bar in some places (stupid expensive gas stations around here). But all in all, as it is, for the poor, any chance of getting rich is better than no chance at all, so..they continue to play. That's one form of gambling, and it's neither here nor there, so I'll get to the point. I think we should hav a gambling hall in Quest. I mean, we already have a tavern

As to the forms of gambling, from lotteries to dice and even texas hold'em, those can be discussed later. This is a poll to merely suggest a method of sinking gold, and not a basis of the world economy, or who's right, or whatever. The only point of this Poll is to see who would support gambling in this game, in its many forms. Any suggestions to amending my poll should be posted. Meaningless posts will obviously be ignored. And the reason this will be a gold sink is one reason: The money that would usually be made by the government will go back into the game, disappear, if you will, and the money made by a player will be from the money bet by other players. Even though I know some idiot is going to post, i'm going to ask that nobody post unless you have some sort of valid opinion. It's the reason that I did not include a stupid option, like jump off a bridge, or i should go die, or what have you.

[AcesJaes]

Not enough players to make the odds at lottery low, but there are many other forms of gambling.  One problem though.  If people are lucky or smart with the odds, they could MAKE money instead of losing it, and the sink wouldn't work.

[JackHammer]

lol...yeah

This might be a bad idea after all...but just state whether you'd gamble or not.
I'll rethink this and make changes later.

[Acdc]

there is a forum of gambling used on BS i have spent over a mill on there on it thats a lot
go make a BS acount and type /casino you will see what i mean

[Astraeus]

I really like the idea, it's worked in other games. I think a better idea then using a lottery type system that gives gold back is to use items as awards. Now, I know people will say "well no one wants those crappy items, why would i even play" Well, you add supers into the mix. Have some kind of game of chance where you have a set wager, if you win, you get a ticket, if you lose, the money disappears. These tickets are redeemable at the store, and it randomly awards you an item. This will only work if you put in the small chance that a super can be one of the awards.

Overall though, I think gambling in some form would be a good thing.

[AcesJaes]

On a different subject.....

You have a better chance dying on the way to get a lottery ticket than actually winning.

[Azmodon]

I'd be all for it Jack, interactive gambling could actually make things more interesting. Bets on PvP matches, who kills what the fastest, etc. etc.

[Bear05]

regardless of gold having pvp gambling would be fun. and lottery could work make it pay once every couple of months and like real lottery only 10% or so of income is paid out, rest disappears. either way interesting suggestion.

[SamAdams]

Regardless of the system of gambling, I've seen it work countless times in many other games. It's beautiful. With a decent system, you could even possibly make gambling on PvP or PK tournaments a good idea.

[Sir_Jose]

Hmm..interesting idea...with a good system could really help...
And while helping with the economy thing...
Adding something to the game to make it more interesting or complete or w/e  
Im not really into gambling with money,i gamble with my life not my money(always wanted to say that)
But anyway  anything that has a chance to help with the gold sink i think is a good idea so..
Voting yes  

[Jon_Deciple]

Im with AJ.... not enough people... maybe if it were like a slot machine kind of thing... but somone else said it better... the sink wont work if nobody uses it. 

Then again, like Astarus said, if a chance of a super is there, i would play... Come on HoN!!

lol.

[kyoko]

How about we drop the amount of gold earned by a massive amount as a band-aid fix, then as we implement gold sinks we raise the amount of gold back to where it was?

[MysticRat]

There was a gambling option in the past right?

And the low number of people makes it only better as a goldsink
example:

Pick a number between 1-100 with 100 people
pay 1000 gold each
winner gets 75000
25000 for the lottery master (sinked)

100% chance 75K gets back in the game

Now do the same with 10 people
only 10% chance the 75K will get back in the game
way better gold sink

a house with a button and a box
you fill in a amount of gold in the box (let's say 1 million)
25% chance you can double it
LOTS of people will try it
but since the chance is 25% there will always be more gold in then out


Some simple things

[Acdc]

* Heavens_Rath likes mbs last idea

its like somthing in the old zelda

[AcesJaes]

Lol f this happens, watch peril makes mils upon mils considering his luck at getting stuff.

[Kain Aerostrough]

I want to GAMBLE! *saves up his change*

[Acdc]

GAMBLE GOOD

* Heavens_Rath runs around on the street doing funny dances to earn change to gamble with

[SamAdams]

I don't gamble because I have bad luck.

[Acdc]

you have awsome luck

[hoya999]

yeah, there was a gambling house on the last gui, (years ago now) i think one game was blackjack, and the other was a slot machine type game. it was this tiny little house with an odd name (like "pete's gambling hut" or something like that in the middle of the map (back when the whole world was only one map). you could gain alot of money there or lose alot of money there, it was mostly luck of the draw.