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Offline [UK]PongoBongo

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SERVER BET FEATURE
« on: April 20, 2013, 03:42:18 pm »

Hi folks  :L

I was thinking maybe there could be a feature such as server betting. You can place a bet on a player to win the race, or a players finish poistion.

For Example FastDood is id 12

 /bet 5000 12

Would place 5000 for id 12 to win the race.

or to bet on a specific finish position
 
 /bet 500 12 9

i.e. betting 500 for id 12 to finish at position 9

 :L

Take care.

Pongo
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Offline [MAF]Aj_Lajk_Bir

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Re: SERVER BET FEATURE
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2013, 03:43:02 pm »
sounds nice

Offline [MAF]Karlis

Re: SERVER BET FEATURE
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2013, 03:44:23 pm »
too easy to abuse it, bet on alex or dodger for infinite money.
even if we would add those "average ratings", server couldn't know that next race would be easy win for someone just because of the race type.
it could still work for two players betting about another player(or one of them), but as i understand it that's not the suggestion.

Offline [UK]PongoBongo

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Re: SERVER BET FEATURE
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2013, 03:45:31 pm »

Yes true. What about betting on the outcome of duels?

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Offline [MAF]Karlis

Re: SERVER BET FEATURE
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2013, 03:47:35 pm »
that could work, but considering the rarity of duels themselves it would be bit of a unused feature i think.

Offline [UK]PongoBongo

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Re: SERVER BET FEATURE
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2013, 03:58:22 pm »

Could just have one bet per server session. And a percentage of your winnings goes to the server pot (if indeed there is a server pot). Perhaps after a month, a random winner wins the pot.
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Offline McD0n3ld

Re: SERVER BET FEATURE
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2013, 04:51:44 pm »
place a maximum amount of money for the bet, lets say 100k or 1000k.

If I bet 50k that id1 wins, someone else has to bet that someone else will win, if not the bet would not be valid.

So:
1) i bet 50k id1 wins
2)(nothing happens)

or

1) i bet 50k id1 wins
2) someone else bets 25k that id2 wins
3a) id1 wins, i get 25k and he looses 25k
3b) id2 wins, he gets 25k and i loose 25k

In this way, the total money in the server shouldnt change.

we could also do this:
1) i bet 50k id1 wins
2) he bets 25k id2 wins
3) she bets 25k id3 wins
4a) id1 wins, i get 50k and both loose 25k
4b) id2 wins, he gets 25k and i loose 25*(2/3)k and she looses 25*(1/3)k
4c) id3 wins, she gets 25k and i loose 25*(2/3)k and he looses 25*(1/3)k

this way if someone bets on dodger many money, nobody would bet on others. but if someone bets on me, someone would bet on someone else maybe

or make bets valid only between players with similar highscore
« Last Edit: April 20, 2013, 04:54:09 pm by McD0n3ld »

Offline [MAF]Karlis

Re: SERVER BET FEATURE
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2013, 05:27:36 pm »
a neater way to do this would be N amount of players paying X of money, and the one winning would get N*X prize(naturally making 1 person bet useless).
this would need to have it so there is always a winner and a loser in the bet, so it would have to be defined as "finishes before", not "finishes at position X".