Server idea...

[mr.dogshit]

You must be getting fed up with my ideas by now, but here's another one anyway

My idea is for some way for spectators bet on races with their GC.

The amount they would win would be a combination of when they placed the bet (so that bets placed when the race starts returns more GC than one placed when its 34/35 CPs); and the player's race/win ratio.

So, lets say you start by saying the potential win is 2 x the bet (so 100 GC bet would return your 100 bet PLUS the same again). So a bet placed when the racer is at 0/10 CPs would be a 1x multiplier (so 100 x 1 = 100), 9/10 CPs would be a 0.1x multiplier (100 x 0.1 = 10)... PLUS your original bet.

Then you'd need to work out some formula for converting the players race/win ratio to another multiplier. Mine is 1879 races, 175 wins (175/1879 = 0.09), and just looking at Arx's stats, his are 1577/4341 = 0.36, Prayer is 976/7450 = 0.13 and just for the record lets say a random noob would be 0/100.

So the simplest way to make that a multiplier would be 1 - ratio.

So i would be 1 - 0.09 = 0.91

arx: 1 - 0.36 = 0.64

prayer: 1 - 0.13 = 0.87

noob: 1 - 0 = 1

Now multiply the result of the CP multiplier with the win/race and you have your prize. So I guess the formula is...

Win = Bet + (1 - (Wins / Races)) X (Bet - (Player_CP X (Bet / Total_CPs)))

A 100 bet on me at the start of a 45 CP race would be:

Win = 100 + (1 - (175 / 1879)) X (100 - (0 X (100 / 45))) =

Win = 100 + (1 - 0.09) X (100 - 0)

Win = 100 + (0.91 X 100)

Win = 100 + 91

Win = 191

Arx win = 164

Prayer = 187

noob = 200

if the bet was placed at say CP 44, then the result would be...

100 + (0.91 X (100 - (44 X (100 / 45)))

100 + (0.91 X (100 - (44 X 2.22))

100 + (0.91 X (100 - 97.68))

100 + (0.91 X 2.32)

100 + 2.11

102.11

Arx = 101.41

Prayer = 101.93

noob = 102.2

You could also make it so that you could only place bets in spectator mode, and if you then spawn the bet is cancelled.