[matt5250]

okay, basically the only way this will work as a money drain is if a portion of the money used to buy tickets is skimmed off the top by Zenith and then the rest is put into the pot. I agree $200 is a little steep because a lot of players make less than that from criming each time they use all their AP. maybe $100 would be better with a limit of how many you can buy for each draw. also I think instead of a lottery it should be a draw where your number is entered into a hat and then winners are drawn from the hat.

so basically imo it should work something like this; tickets are $100 each with a limit of 10 per person. $75 from each ticket is contributed to the pot. 3 winning tickets are drawn at random starting with 3rd place, then 2nd place then 1st place. 3rd gets 20% of the pot, 2nd gets 30% and first gets 50%. this way it operates as a money sink and should provide decent winnings. if you make this a twice weekly draw or something I think it would work quite well. we would probably see at least 1000 tickets sell which means the pot would be at $75k.

in the case of the traditional lottery it could work quite similarly. in order to endure someone wins eventually we could make it 4 numbers between 1 and 25. this gives about 12,500 possible tickets so with our current community size I think this would work. tickets could be around $50 and as dru suggested the pot could be started off by zenith at 50k (or maybe 25k). then 75% of the price of all the tickets would be added to the pot. anyone who matches all four numbers splits about 80% of the pot and anyone who matches 3 numbers splits the other 20% of the pot. each time, zen would start it off and then collect 25% of all the ticket sales. in order to be a proper money sink we would have to do some trial runs and see how much is collected and then an amount to start the pot at could be decided on.