Wednesday, November 02, 2011

Proposal: The Lottery is a tax on people bad at math

Times out/quorums 1-16 and fails. -coppro

Adminned at 04 Nov 2011 19:38:04 UTC

Create a new rule “The Lottery” as a subrule under 2.7.2 “Welfare State”:

As a weekly action, any player that qualifies for Welfare may play the lottery by transferring one of their own SP to the Government.  If they roll three DICE10 and get 1, 1, and 1, they win 10% of the Government’s SP, rounded down to the nearest SP.

Seems fitting and perfectly depressing.  And my first attempt at a proposal.

Comments

southpointingchariot:

02-11-2011 22:40:13 UTC

Regardless of the values, either its a grinder or noone will use it. Welcome to the BlogNomic :) against

ais523:

02-11-2011 23:16:33 UTC

An, umm, 1 in 1000 chance at winning 20 SP? A 1 in 1000 chance at winning 200 SP, or 1 in 100 chance of winning 20 SP, would be more like a regular lottery; still incredibly bad odds, just not quite that awful. against

scshunt:

02-11-2011 23:31:34 UTC

against

arthexis: he/him

02-11-2011 23:37:30 UTC

against I like it, but it should have a cost and everyone should be able to do it. Perhaps make it a weekly action?

lazerchik:

02-11-2011 23:49:05 UTC

arthexis: I thought i did make it a weekly action?  And it costs 1 SP.

ais523: yeah, i’m bad at math (but at least i don’t play the lottery)

Murphy:

03-11-2011 01:51:40 UTC

against does not clearly prevent someone from transferring once and rolling-three-DICE10 $BIGNUM times

omd:

03-11-2011 01:53:10 UTC

against

Bucky:

03-11-2011 02:42:41 UTC

against

flurie:

03-11-2011 03:19:33 UTC

scam per Murphy

against

BellEt:

03-11-2011 04:09:04 UTC

against “”

BellEt:

03-11-2011 04:09:33 UTC

although great idea, in my opinion.

omd:

03-11-2011 05:02:49 UTC

I don’t think the scam works but against

SingularByte: he/him

03-11-2011 08:22:03 UTC

against

Shadowclaw:

03-11-2011 12:48:15 UTC

against

Spitemaster:

03-11-2011 13:32:45 UTC

against

Prince Anduril:

03-11-2011 14:55:01 UTC

against

ChronosPhaenon:

03-11-2011 16:12:35 UTC

against

Pavitra:

03-11-2011 16:34:43 UTC

against per Murphy and southpointingchariot.

Clucky: he/him

03-11-2011 17:50:12 UTC

against

flurie:

04-11-2011 18:25:41 UTC

ah yeah arrow