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Re: Thoughts on a possible betting system?

2013-02-07T11:37:34+02:00

Again, I can provide some help if someone wants to develop a bot for that.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 07 Feb 2013, 11:37

Re: Thoughts on a possible betting system?

2013-02-07T07:06:52+02:00

I also thought about this. The general design outlined is pretty sound but I'd add a little more.

Basically instead of having fake money, just have it set up like a tipping comp. So you could opt in for each league, which would announce all the games played in 1v1 that you have opted in for. So if you just wanted to tip the XP ladder you could, or you could tip all games.

At the end of each season, tally the points from correct 'tips' and winner gets a avatar or prize or something like that.

Statistics: Posted by Anaryl — 07 Feb 2013, 07:06

Re: Thoughts on a possible betting system?

2013-02-06T17:59:06+02:00

Opens us up to all sorts of Chinese match fixing. You'd have TLO coming back from SC2 to play tournaments then throwing the game in the final by neglecting to use his starting reclaim and pretending it was an accident.

Statistics: Posted by BLITZ_Molloy — 06 Feb 2013, 17:59

Re: Thoughts on a possible betting system?

2013-02-01T23:49:53+02:00

In addition to a chatbot, a GUI addon would be cool as well. Just a little widget that displays how much an observer has bet on a game.

However, I must say, players not being able to bet against each other is kind of boring. I understand the issue with smurfing, and how people could just amass points for additional e-peen, but couldn't that just be fixed with an IP check? Isn't that how the banning system works anyways?

Statistics: Posted by MushrooMars — 01 Feb 2013, 23:49

Re: Thoughts on a possible betting system?

2013-01-28T18:43:06+02:00

I can probably send it to the bot through an UDP socket.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 28 Jan 2013, 18:43

Re: Thoughts on a possible betting system?

2013-01-28T18:40:55+02:00

Ze_PilOt wrote:
I won't have time to code that with GW coming.

If someone can program a IRC bot around it, I can eventually help for getting livereplay,...

I know just about enough coding to make an IRC bot.
The issue will be getting the start/stop information from the in progress game.

Statistics: Posted by Gowerly — 28 Jan 2013, 18:40

Re: Thoughts on a possible betting system?

2013-01-28T18:31:13+02:00

I think limiting it to games between top 100 players would really limit the spam and put a bigger spotlight on those players and high quality games. Maybe even only the top 50 players.
This could also potentially limit any kind of smurf nonsense to a minimum.

Statistics: Posted by SeraphimLeftNut — 28 Jan 2013, 18:31

Re: Thoughts on a possible betting system?

2013-01-28T18:27:36+02:00

I won't have time to code that with GW coming.

If someone can program a IRC bot around it, I can eventually help for getting livereplay,...

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 28 Jan 2013, 18:27

Re: Thoughts on a possible betting system?

2013-01-28T18:25:01+02:00

I have some sweeeeet ideas for avatars if this takes off. I'll do mockups if people request.

Statistics: Posted by Remmy — 28 Jan 2013, 18:25

Re: Thoughts on a possible betting system?

2013-01-28T18:19:44+02:00

I worry that with more and more games being played it would cause a lot of spam. Maybe a betting window or tab that can beep or something, so you can opt in to getting the notifications at any time.

Statistics: Posted by Gowerly — 28 Jan 2013, 18:19

Re: Thoughts on a possible betting system?

2013-01-28T18:18:12+02:00

Exactly.
I was thinking more along the lines of betting in first 60 seconds allowed only.
It would be nice to get two links into chat.
The first stating that Player X(rating) is playing Player Y(rating) on Map, link to live replay
Second stating that betting has closed, here is the ratio of the bets X vs Y.
If at the minimum it did this, it would already be awesome.

Statistics: Posted by SeraphimLeftNut — 28 Jan 2013, 18:18

Re: Thoughts on a possible betting system?

2013-01-28T11:36:37+02:00

So you're looking for a bot that:
Recognises that a game has started
Commands to bet on a particular player in that game based on certain odds to do with their rankings
Updates your "total" to reflect your betting ranking depending on whether you win or lose

It would have to be that you can only bet in the first... 3-5 minutes of a game at most, otherwise you could just bet whenever you knew one player was in a winning position.

Statistics: Posted by Gowerly — 28 Jan 2013, 11:36

Re: Thoughts on a possible betting system?

2013-01-28T04:33:21+02:00

I support this idea, and I think it'd be great. Hopefully someone with the skill can offer assistance!

Statistics: Posted by TartarusMkII — 28 Jan 2013, 04:33

Re: Thoughts on a possible betting system?

2013-01-28T04:27:04+02:00

Would like to bump this topic, hoping someone who is able could try to get this to work.

Summary:
Ability to bet on ranked games between top 100 players.
Betting against the system makes most sense. With odd built in based on player rating.
Ideally it would be nice to be able to see a betting ladder.

The benefits of such a system have been listed above.

The actual detail about how it is done can be worked if someone thinks they could make something like this.

Statistics: Posted by SeraphimLeftNut — 28 Jan 2013, 04:27

Re: Thoughts on a possible betting system?

2012-10-08T22:10:51+02:00

That probably can be done with an IRC bot if someone wants to do code it.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 08 Oct 2012, 22:10