Radar Lottery

[SO•Sebas]

(2014-07-23 13:27)fakedeath Wrote:  I think it'll have the unfortunate issue of basically giving random people masses of money they won't share (I say, with 1m just lying around)-and also means people get money for essentially doing nothing-which means people have got money they can't spend.

Bad idea.

Lets make a quick "theoretical" calculation on the amount a speedtrap generates in a day.

- A Speedtrap usually lasts 10 minutes.
- There is usually 2-3 speedtraps per hour depending on the time of day.
- Generally, a speedtrap will fine a suspect every 30 seconds.
- Most of the time, the fine varies between 80 and 120, so let's make that 100$

Given these variables, a speedtrap will generate 1000$. That makes between 1000$ and 3000$ per hour, lets round that to 2000$. Per day, it sums to 48000$ but there is a range of 6-8 hours that basically nobody is online so let's just put 40000$ instead.

Now, if we play a little bit with the pourcentages:
- Give back 1% to the players : 4000$ per day / 28000$ per week
- Give another 1% to future events: 4000$ per day
- Make the other 98% disappear.

Still too much? Lets lower the player number to 0.5%: 2000$ per day / 14000$ per week.

I don't think that giving away 14000$ per week will screw the balance of the economy. Heck, i make 14K per week when i drive regularly on TC.