However much I like the idea, it has the potential to really mess up the economy. Because any John/Jane Doe with 9 diamonds could go from nobody to rich. This is a problem because people who work for their profit via business or otherwise could work for months and still not have even half the amount that this random won for just being lucky.

@OtherGreenGamer However much I like the idea, it has the potential to really mess up the economy. Because any John/Jane Doe with 9 diamonds could go from nobody to rich. This is a problem because people who work for their profit via business or otherwise could work for months and still not have even half the amount that this random won for just being lucky.

so like an actual lottery then?

@OtherGreenGamer However much I like the idea, it has the potential to really mess up the economy. Because any John/Jane Doe with 9 diamonds could go from nobody to rich. This is a problem because people who work for their profit via business or otherwise could work for months and still not have even half the amount that this random won for just being lucky.

The lottery fixes the economy actually, no diamonds are added In fact they are taken out reducing the inflation.
So what if one noob gets rich, the rest of the people participating lose out so it's fine from an economic sense.

@CraftyMyner That is why I also put limits on how many can be given out, in the past lottery, if I had given out 100% of the items entered, some random person would have received about 3000 diamonds.

aka you

@CraftyMyner That is why I also put limits on how many can be given out, in the past lottery, if I had given out 100% of the items entered, some random person would have received about 3000 diamonds.

64 is still quite a bit. But I guess it's nearly impossible to balance it out fairly.

How random is this thing???

@CraftyMyner Uses /dev/random Its pretty random.

Hmm.

@CraftyMyner I used to do this, it was mostly crap stuff and took a lot of sorting to find anything worth even coming to the drop party for. You can donate stuff in the trading post!

a solution that may or may not be worth it, would be item sorters taking out items like mob drops (except gun powder that one has value) crap like seeds or random blocks like wood or fences would all be sorted out and probably thrown into lava. but that would be a big project and, like i said may or may not be worth it.