OCC Casino - for amusement only
As a mod okayed this quite a while back (feel free to shut it down if you have changed your mind), the Out of Character Casino is hereby established. The riches you have in the game or in real-life are no good here, and any "winnings" here are not transferable anywhere else, although if two individuals arrange to transfer a sum of chips from one to the other, for some unknown reason, then that is up to them and not the responsibility of the Casino.
The intended purpose is to be able to wager on future events in or associated with Eutopia 3, like election results. Obviously, running characters, you can influence those events, so think twice before wagering on something completely under the control of one player with that player, although placing such a bet is an indirect way of paying them to do something. I don’t want to waste a lot of time on disputes, so please restrict bets to verifiable events. Also, I don’t want to have to keep track of things forever, so please set an appropriate time limit on when the bet will be resolved. For example, after some chat to agree the terms either one of the bettors would post:
If neither is elected again by the Term XIII elections, then be bet is canceled and the house returns the chips.
To start this off, everyone is allocated one thousand chips. You cannot wager chips you might not have, so the house will hold the chips wagered, i.e. after the above wager was agreed, Erc would have 990 chips and Weatherman would have 995. When an event happens (or a time limit is reached) the winner (or either party) should cite the bet posts and the thread showing the event, and the house will update the chip totals.
To get things rolling, there will also be a ‘stock’ market on the upcoming presidential election. You can buy a book of claims on all the candidates for 100 chips. After the election, the claim from a book on the winning candidate is worth 100 chips (all the rest are worthless). The idea is to sell the candidates that won’t get nominated before the nomination phase, and buy those who will, and then during the election buy the winner and sell the loser(s). For example, Craig Ashley could buy a book, simply by posting
Unlike a real casino, the house is not taking any edge (although this could change if it gets too burdensome, but any change won’t apply retroactively), so place your bets. The doors are now open!
As a mod okayed this quite a while back (feel free to shut it down if you have changed your mind), the Out of Character Casino is hereby established. The riches you have in the game or in real-life are no good here, and any "winnings" here are not transferable anywhere else, although if two individuals arrange to transfer a sum of chips from one to the other, for some unknown reason, then that is up to them and not the responsibility of the Casino.
The intended purpose is to be able to wager on future events in or associated with Eutopia 3, like election results. Obviously, running characters, you can influence those events, so think twice before wagering on something completely under the control of one player with that player, although placing such a bet is an indirect way of paying them to do something. I don’t want to waste a lot of time on disputes, so please restrict bets to verifiable events. Also, I don’t want to have to keep track of things forever, so please set an appropriate time limit on when the bet will be resolved. For example, after some chat to agree the terms either one of the bettors would post:
The other would reply with the word DONE!
If neither is elected again by the Term XIII elections, then be bet is canceled and the house returns the chips.
To start this off, everyone is allocated one thousand chips. You cannot wager chips you might not have, so the house will hold the chips wagered, i.e. after the above wager was agreed, Erc would have 990 chips and Weatherman would have 995. When an event happens (or a time limit is reached) the winner (or either party) should cite the bet posts and the thread showing the event, and the house will update the chip totals.
To get things rolling, there will also be a ‘stock’ market on the upcoming presidential election. You can buy a book of claims on all the candidates for 100 chips. After the election, the claim from a book on the winning candidate is worth 100 chips (all the rest are worthless). The idea is to sell the candidates that won’t get nominated before the nomination phase, and buy those who will, and then during the election buy the winner and sell the loser(s). For example, Craig Ashley could buy a book, simply by posting
The house would deduct the chips from Craig’s balance. He could then sell off any names or groups of names by offering them, i.e.,
then whoever replies first to that post and says the magic word, DONE! would have their chip balance decreased by one (Craig’s would go up by one) have the chance to collect 100 if Cornelius Dank should win. Besides being fun (hopefully), the prices would act as kind of a market-based poll.
Unlike a real casino, the house is not taking any edge (although this could change if it gets too burdensome, but any change won’t apply retroactively), so place your bets. The doors are now open!
