Ok since the original poster trumps Rambo, here's a little more detail on the very biggest reason I give this a -1.

Let's do a little math now on the GP Lotto. Taking the proposed 6 number 1-60, there is a 1:36Billion chance of hitting. So it's likely to not hit very often. So if we have 300 people plunk down 5GP every drawing, after 10 drawings there would be a total of 15000 GP in the pot. If the winner only gets 50% of that, it's 7500GP. Do you have any idea what someone that knows what they are doing can do with 7500GP? Now, if after 10 drawings there still is no Grand Prize winner, the pot is going to entice more people to try. Let's assume an additional 25 people per drawing. By the 20th round, you now have a total of 36,875GP in the pot. At 50% a winner would get 18,937GP. Right there is 1893 energy refills, at 10k energy per bar... I imagine I would be able to get some nice artifact planets for donating 18 million energy to a midrank legion base. And remember... That's with a conservative entry pool of 300 at the start, a conservative payout percentage, and an extremely conservative "time till win".

CTP is going to work the same way. Only with a factor of 5x involved.

Ok since the original poster trumps Rambo, here's a little more detail on the very biggest reason I give this a -1.

Let's do a little math now on the GP Lotto. Taking the proposed 6 number 1-60, there is a 1:36Billion chance of hitting. So it's likely to not hit very often. So if we have 300 people plunk down 5GP every drawing, after 10 drawings there would be a total of 15000 GP in the pot. If the winner only gets 50% of that, it's 7500GP. Do you have any idea what someone that knows what they are doing can do with 7500GP? Now, if after 10 drawings there still is no Grand Prize winner, the pot is going to entice more people to try. Let's assume an additional 25 people per drawing. By the 20th round, you now have a total of 36,875GP in the pot. At 50% a winner would get 18,937GP. Right there is 1893 energy refills, at 10k energy per bar... I imagine I would be able to get some nice artifact planets for donating 18 million energy to a midrank legion base. And remember... That's with a conservative entry pool of 300 at the start, a conservative payout percentage, and an extremely conservative "time till win".

CTP is going to work the same way. Only with a factor of 5x involved.

Darth you seem to forget that lotteries can have more than one winner

Darth by the way you describe the problem it sounds like it can describe easily solved by implementing these options:

1. Increase one's chances of winning by reducing the number choices from 1 - 60 to 1 - 30. But they still have to guess all 6 numbers correctly. This will ensure that if enough people try at least someone is bound to win on a once every other day basis. Thus splitting the prize pool if more than one person wins.

2. Reduce the amount they win from the prize pool from 75% to 60%. Since you seem to be so worried about someone having about 10k GP.

3. Reduce the amount of GP it takes to pay for a ticket from 5 GP to 2GP. They can enter in 10 tickets max.

No, I didn't forget that. Just because a lottery CAN have more than one winner does not necessarily mean that it WILL. You have to base the calculations on the assumption that only one person wins.

1. With 6 "digits" drawn, 1-30 still gives an "odds of winning" of 1:427,518,000. 1-20 is 1:27,907,200. Heck, even 1-10 is 1:151,200. The number of possible outcomes is still way to high to ensure a good chance of someone winning "every other day."

2. I used 50% for my example and you can see how easily that pot got out of control.

3. A reduced ticket price doesn't do anything because it only takes one ticket to win. Kinda hard to explain in text how that's a bad thing, so I'll just let it slide for now.

Bottom line is, for a GP lottery to NOT be potentially overpowering, you would have to both raise the chance to win AND lower the potential payout so far that it would be nothing more than a semi-interesting sidenote to the game, much the way the Galaxy Wheel is now. People aren't going to buy more GP so they can buy lottery tickets for a chance to win slightly more GP. At least sensible people won't. Which leaves Dan with 0 incentive to do the code.

No, I didn't forget that. Just because a lottery CAN have more than one winner does not necessarily mean that it WILL. You have to base the calculations on the assumption that only one person wins.

1. With 6 "digits" drawn, 1-30 still gives an "odds of winning" of 1:427,518,000. 1-20 is 1:27,907,200. Heck, even 1-10 is 1:151,200. The number of possible outcomes is still way to high to ensure a good chance of someone winning "every other day."

2. I used 50% for my example and you can see how easily that pot got out of control.

3. A reduced ticket price doesn't do anything because it only takes one ticket to win. Kinda hard to explain in text how that's a bad thing, so I'll just let it slide for now.

Bottom line is, for a GP lottery to NOT be potentially overpowering, you would have to both raise the chance to win AND lower the potential payout so far that it would be nothing more than a semi-interesting sidenote to the game, much the way the Galaxy Wheel is now. People aren't going to buy more GP so they can buy lottery tickets for a chance to win slightly more GP. At least sensible people won't. Which leaves Dan with 0 incentive to do the code.

Umm darth where exactly are you getting your odds? they are waaaay low.

Those are spot on. Because each number once pulled is removed from the possibilities for the subsequent pulls, the calculation becomes a partial factorial, not an exponential.

are you assuming it has to be a particular order then?

otherwise ten would be about .5 % or 1/210
20 would be 1/38,760
30 would be 1/593,775

Yeah, my excel lost the 6! in the formula. That doesn't mitigate the argument however.

Well, who wouldn't wanna try their luck at winning prizes from lotteries. I was thinking that there could be four different type of lotteries in the game:

1. GP lottery, players spend 5GP a go for a ticket with 6 different numbers on it. If you match four of those numbers you win 5GP. Match 5 and you win 20GP. Match all 6 and you get a split at the GP prize pool. (which is 90% of all the GP spent on the tickets)
2. CTP lottery, players spend 25 CTP a go for a ticket eith 6 different numbers on it. If you match four of those numbers you win 25 CTP. Match 5 and you win 100CTP. Match all 6 and you get a split at the CTP prize pool. (Which is 90% of all the CTP spent on the tickets)
3. Credits lottery, Players pick a number 1 - 50. They spend x amount of credits on that bet and if their number choice was two off from winning then they win their credits back. If it was one off from winning then they win double the credits spent. If they chose the right number then they win 5x their bet.
4. EM lottery, (Same thing as the Credits lottery)

Technically speaking to Spin the Galaxy Wheel you must use 10 gp's which you need to purchase for real money since they cant be traded and that's one form of gambling and we have the Wheel for a long time now..

Question is why do we still have minors playing this game?

Since by law they are not allowed to participate in any form of gambling for real money