Race bet system

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one way we could keep money from flowing like water in GT5, is to have a "entry fee" for any race/tournament, but in the form of a bet.

Say Race_01, everyone had to bet $200 on themselves to win, to enter the race. If they win, they get 70% of the bet money, 2nd gets 20%, and 3rd gets 10%.

You can alter this around a bit and say, why not make your own bets? Say the more money you bet, the harder your competition is? Say a race has a "minimum" bet of 500, but you have a race_car_of_speed and you know you will destroy the competition for a measly 500, why not throw more money in? Well, this would attract better cars/racers that you'd have to race to get the big pot. Of course every race would have to use a minimum and a maximum bet, so that the game wouldnt revolve around one race (why would you progress in the game if you could sit there at one track and get enough to buy all the buyable cars?)

Also, this would make online play more ineteresting, or maybe even leave it for online mode only, and have offline mode just have "entry fees"?
 
entry fees? yes please
betting? I won't mind if we can't - I won't do it if we can
 
Yeah entry fee's to certain races so you can actually lose out if you do crap, but only on events with tight restrictions on what you can enter/how much you can tune your car.
 
Betting = Juiced.

No thanks. :)
 
this brings up a good idea though..... where he says about online racing...
what if online, however many players can race all put in cash, (entrie fees) and race for the pot? that would be awesome, 10+ people racing for 20 million dollars.... I'd be dumb enough to do it
 
So you want a betting system? Answer me this. Are you nuts? What's the inspiration behind this topic? The game "Juiced?" I normally say "this isn't going to work. Well guess what. This REALLY isn't going to work. This is racing, not gambling. If you really want a betting system to work, you'd might as well revive the thread on Horses in GT5 and hope PD puts in Smarty Jones or Secretariat.

Instead of telling you why it will not work, I'm going to SHOW you why it isn't going to work. Professional and amateur racing doesn't have betting. There may be little bets in terms of "if you place higher than me, you're buying me dinner tonight," or something. But other than that, what's the point? You want to make bets? Bet to yourself that you can win the race at hand and not have silly antics to try to get cheap thrills. Do you think Fernando Alonso would set up a bet to Michael Schumacher that he could beat him for the World Championship? Did Tom Kristensen bet that Audis will beat the Pescarolos? Hell no. Why? Because racing isn't about betting, not even with online racing. And if this is supposed to "revive" the Gran Turismo, you're insane.

You want bets? I bet that this idea never makes it to GT5. You dig?
 
JohnBM01
So you want a betting system? Answer me this. Are you nuts? What's the inspiration behind this topic? The game "Juiced?" I normally say "this isn't going to work. Well guess what. This REALLY isn't going to work. This is racing, not gambling. If you really want a betting system to work, you'd might as well revive the thread on Horses in GT5 and hope PD puts in Smarty Jones or Secretariat.

Instead of telling you why it will not work, I'm going to SHOW you why it isn't going to work. Professional and amateur racing doesn't have betting. There may be little bets in terms of "if you place higher than me, you're buying me dinner tonight," or something. But other than that, what's the point? You want to make bets? Bet to yourself that you can win the race at hand and not have silly antics to try to get cheap thrills. Do you think Fernando Alonso would set up a bet to Michael Schumacher that he could beat him for the World Championship? Did Tom Kristensen bet that Audis will beat the Pescarolos? Hell no. Why? Because racing isn't about betting, not even with online racing. And if this is supposed to "revive" the Gran Turismo, you're insane.

You want bets? I bet that this idea never makes it to GT5. You dig?
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for somebody that wants everybody to read/respect his opinion, you sure get upset when somebody has their own....
I'm not even a fan of betting, but, how else can we race online for money? and set up online tournaments? what's wrong with everybody putting money in a pot and racing for it? not exactly betting technically, maybe
but really betting would be, in a field of 20, you and me bet 100,000 over which of us places in front of the other, and so forth

P.S. your taking the revive line from thacon.... thats not here dude
 
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