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Fix the Lottery
KCB38:
The lottery needs fixing. I and many other players feel like it is rigged, especailly when a player wins all 3 draws(Which happened today, 7/19) Stop with complicated formulas and just make it entirely random. And maybe make it so that the #1 winner cant win 2cnd or 3rd place.
ViperZeroOne:
Wait, wait, wait... For the last time, there's NOTHING wrong with the lottery!
With a lottery every TICKET has a chance to win.
Say you buy 100 tickets, that's 100 chances to win over the 3 draws.
You win first place, you still have 99 tickets in the draw for second and third.
You win second place, you still have 98 tickets in the draw for third.
You win third place, you have 97 tickets that didn't win.
How exactly is that unfair? It's perfectly fair!
Come on people, that's how lotteries work. Every ticket you buy has a chance to win. Just because you purchased 1 ticket and someone else purchased 1000 of them doesn't mean the person who purchased 1000 should have all their tickets disqualified after they win one of the 3 draws.
I think it would be much more unfair to disqualify a player after they win a single draw.
☣2crzy4uall☣:
It's not rigged, the more tix you buy the higher chance of winning, that simple. so when someone wins all three keep in mind they most likely lost money buying into it
SalsaInABowl:
Let's learn some math everybody. I know you hate school, I don't wanna have to teach in summer...but it's not rigged. Let's take this back to second grade, in probability.
There are 100 tickets in the lottery. Mr snapey bought 5. Mr Cazually bought 75. Mr Cazual won first and second, while I won third. Why did this happen? Well let's see. What percent of tickets were mine? 5%. What about Cazual? 75%. So Cazual would win 3/4 of the times, assuming theoretic probability. I would win one out of 20 times, again assuming theoretic probability. Rigged? You tell me.
ViperZeroOne:
--- Quote from: Snapethesnipe on July 20, 2012, 12:34:54 am ---Let's learn some math everybody. I know you hate school, I don't wanna have to teach in summer...but it's not rigged. Let's take this back to second grade, in probability.
There are 100 tickets in the lottery. Mr snapey bought 5. Mr Cazually bought 75. Mr Cazual won first and second, while I won third. Why did this happen? Well let's see. What percent of tickets were mine? 5%. What about Cazual? 75%. So Cazual would win 3/4 of the times, assuming theoretic probability. I would win one out of 20 times, again assuming theoretic probability. Rigged? You tell me.
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Haha, I actually have to adjust your mathematical equations cause the probability is PER DRAW. I'm also going to assume that Snapey actually has 25 tickets to make the 100%.
First draw, Cazual has a 75% chance and you have a 25% chance.
(assume he wins)
Second draw, Cazual has a 74% chance and you have a 25% chance.
(assume he wins again)
Third draw, Cazual has a 73% chance and you STILL have only a 25-26% chance.
Odds are, he's gonna win the third one too. The odds aren't that you will win 1 out of 4 times. The odds are you only have a 1 in 4 chance PER DRAW. That still means you can easily loose every draw.
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