Blah made it to annoying to look at lol when I just want ideas, so removed the posted code for this.

Few of the views for immortals so far

lottery set testing
Name:            testing
DrawTime         Sun Apr 28  8:08:05PM 2013
Numbers:         6
Jackpot:         750
BaseJackpot:     500
Price:           100
HighNum:         50
LowNum:          1
HighLastNum:     30
LowLastNum:      1
PrizeForMatches: 50
JPercent:        20
MatchesToWin:    3
ReuseNumbers:    false
DrawDiffLast:    true
MatchOrder:      false
AutoRedraw:      false
   Drawn: No, Winning Numbers: .
      Winner: Remcon, Winnings: 0, Claimed:  no, Numbers: 7 15 16 26 38 46.
      Winner: Remcon, Winnings: 0, Claimed:  no, Numbers: 5 7 9 12 48 44.
      Winner: Remcon, Winnings: 0, Claimed:  no, Numbers: 3 4 5 16 28 6.

later

lottery set testing
Name:            testing
DrawTime         
Numbers:         6
Jackpot:         750
BaseJackpot:     500
Price:           100
HighNum:         50
LowNum:          1
HighLastNum:     30
LowLastNum:      1
PrizeForMatches: 50
JPercent:        20
MatchesToWin:    3
ReuseNumbers:    false
DrawDiffLast:    true
MatchOrder:      false
AutoRedraw:      false
   Drawn: Yes, Winning Numbers: 7 18 22 27 49 19.
      Winner: Remcon, Winnings: 0, Claimed: yes, Numbers: 7 15 16 26 38 46.
      Winner: Remcon, Winnings: 0, Claimed: yes, Numbers: 5 7 9 12 48 44.
      Winner: Remcon, Winnings: 0, Claimed: yes, Numbers: 3 4 5 16 28 6.

still lots to do to it but seems to be working fair so far lol.

I sent you a pm a long time ago with ideas for this kind of system

Well i guess id deleted it at some point, if you find it resend or just give me some thoughts on it

You might also want to provide a raffle system.

A lottery draw just starts with some base jackpot (funded somehow) and adds a fraction of each ticket purchase price to that jackpot. If any ticket matches all the numbers, they get a payout, usually a large percentage of the jackpot. Partial matches may get smaller fixed prizes. If nobody matches all numbers, the jackpot is usually rolled over into the next drawing.

A raffle ticket system handles the jackpot the same way, but there is always a guarenteed winner. In a raffle, you pay for any number of tickets, and one of those numbers is drawn. That person wins (most of) the jackpot. You may also draw for runner up prizes.

Since the mechanics are pretty similar, you might want to support both.

good points, was trying to make sure I covered most the bases on the lotterys, lol while allowing it to be simple to use overall. yea the raffle idea is simple to add. id likely just do a bool raffle, if thats true when it draws have it draw a bought ticket lol. have considered scratch offs also haha. I even joked to someone I might have to add in the typical gambling help line info lol.

Drawn every 3 days, One winner. Ticket system, Mobs used to buy tickets and get winnings, Taxed winnings.

*chuckle*

So, I'm picturing various NPC's wandering into town to buy lottery tickets. An orc buys a ticket and wins. After collecting his winnings and wandering back out into the forest, a WANTED poster suddenly goes up with his picture and a bounty. *grin*

no I meant, you need a npc to buy a ticket like a shopkeeper.

Never tossed in for an npc being needed to buy a ticket, shouldn't be to hard to add that though.

It is in the 1.44 release as well as I just updated the release fixing some issues in parse_description as well as using it for showing help files.

rawTime Fri Aug 30 9:35:15AM 2013
TimeBetweenDraws 86400(In Seconds)
Numbers: 0
Jackpot: 100
BaseJackpot: 100
Price: 5
HighNum: 0
LowNum: 0
MatchesToWin: 0
ReuseNumbers: FALSE
DrawDiffLast: FALSE
MatchOrder: FALSE
JPercent: 95
AutoRedraw: TRUE
Raffle: FALSE
Drawn: No


It doesn't seem to have drawn.

No numbers set, No highnum or lownum set for the ranges of numbers and no one has bought a ticket. If you set all that stuff and buy a ticket the next update it should draw

suggestion: an announcement over the infochan for when the numbers have been selected ?

actually considering a new lottery channel for it.

Also found a bug.

   while( quickbuys > 0 )
      {
         if( !ch->gold < lottery->price )
         {

should be

   while( quickbuys > 0 )
      {
         if( ch->gold < lottery->price )
         {

Well if you would be so find to show me where I would add the message and what I would do for it to display a certain lotteries timer on who I would appreciate it.

Also there is no way for players to see the winning numbers and what their ticket numbers are if they use quickpick. Also are quick picks suppose to save like this, The winner Hokai are actually the tickets I just bought

Lottery.dat:

#LOTTERY
Name             Daily~
Jackpot          104000
BaseJackpot      100000
TimeToDraw       1378144422
TimeBetweenDraws 50
Price            1000
Tickets          4
Numbers          5
HighNum          10000
LowNum           1
Prize4Match      500
Match2Win        4
AutoRedraw
History     ~ FALSE
Winner      Hokai~ 1~ 0
Winner      Hokai~ 2~ 0
Winner      Hokai~ 3~ 0
Winner      Hokai~ 4~ 0
End

Also the Jprecent doesn't actually work. I have mine set at 75 and it still increase the jackpot by 100% of the ticket cost.

ok find

   if( !str_cmp( arg, "buy" ) )
   {
      int quickbuys = 1, bought = 0;
      bool quickpicks = false, rafflepicks = true;

change the rafflepicks to = false;
Thats my fault for not testing normal after adding raffle haha.

      while( quickbuys > 0 )
      {
         if( !has_gold( ch, lottery->price ) )
         {

that bug must come from your change of !has_gold to ch->gold < lottery->price


Use to have that in but then since the code does all the handling of if they win or not is it needed?


Ok, I'll take a look at this in a few.


My advise would be to do a next lottery display counter on who (just cycle through the lotterys looking for the next one that will draw, and display what lottery that is and when it will draw (or a countdown till it draws). For the message on when it is drawn I would suggest in lottery_update when it does the drawing. if you want it to announce the winners go with handle_winnings

I mean there is no point in having the players see their numbers but it would make it more realistic you know?