Current betting system does not encourage betting above the minimum amount

[PolarWolf314]

Currently, the pot system has a base of 98 (should it be 100?), with each bet landing a chance at winning everything inside the pot minus a 2% house tax. This means there is no incentive to bet above what is required to try to win everything inside.

This also adds the issue of the casino being a net positive trade for those with larger capitals, as statistically speaking, by the time the 2% tax is larger than the base $98 reward, the person betting would have won already (most of the time D: ).

Solutions:

• We can add a feature where the probability of success increases to the inverse of an exponential. The more that is bet, the more diminishing returns there are with a hard cap at a win rate of 20% (for example). This incentivises betting larger amounts and allows for opportunities where those with larger capital can have their funds shifted to those who won the pot through luck. The downside to this approach is it's quite difficult to implement successfully as changing probabilities dynamically of a slot machine is a pain to do. (You can calculate if someone wins or loses in the backend and then just fake the pot to show win or loss such as one of those fake progress bars).
• Another solution is to add a feature where a user is able to "pay" the house to make the next bet more difficult but more rewarding (for example, player 1 can pay $150 to make the next slot roll have 4 slots instead of 3 but the winner of that pot roll gets 125x the pot or something like that). This way, the pot can get larger over time as players try to get the large reward. It also incentivises playing together at the same time because then it's possible to "snipe" a 125x reward from someone else. There can be a tiered list of payments to increase the rewards and difficulty. The issue with this is if someone has a very large capital, it's possible to milk money from the system, and it's still probably better to bet the minimum amount anyway.
• Another idea I suggest is rewarding the percentage of the bet compared to the pot multiplied by some value + the pot itself. For example: if the pot is currently $200, and I bet $10 and I win, I should be able to keep the $210 (minus tax) + 5% (10/200) of some value (could be the largest bet of the pot or something like that). Adust base pay accordingly.
• Final solution is to properly implement the probabilities and remove the pot entirely. 25x the bet amount for a 1/25 chance of winning BUT with the 2% tax the money should decrease over time. A true casino.

[NachoToast]

All these solutions are good and quite easy to implement.

The use of a dynamic probability is made easy via classes, simply adding some methods and fields for things like rewardMultiplier, winChance, etc.. in either the EconomyManager class, or the Slots class, with the latter being preferred.