Capsule Lottery System for Online Game Item Distribution
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Solution Overview
Problem
New players in online games face difficulties in acquiring high-grade items, leading to early disinterest and game balance issues when such items are indiscriminately provided, while experienced players exploit beginners for profit.
Innovation Solution
An online capsule lottery system that matches high-grade item contents to capsules, allowing beginners to participate and win these items through a controlled lottery system, adjusting odds and incorporating basic items to maintain game balance and encourage participation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If high-grade items are indiscriminately provided to help beginning players, then beginning players can easily become familiar with the game, but game balance is collapsed and experienced players lose interest
Solution Approach 1:
The item distribution system is segmented into different types of capsules (first capsules and second capsules) with different winning probabilities. First capsules have higher winning probabilities for high-grade items to help beginners, while second capsules have lower probabilities to maintain game balance for experienced players. This segmentation allows the system to provide targeted assistance to beginners without compromising overall game balance.
2Ease of operation
If high-grade items are provided to beginning players through lottery, then beginning players can acquire desired items, but experienced players may exploit this for profit through cash transactions
Solution Approach 1:
The capsule lottery system acts as an intermediary between the game items and players. By wrapping high-grade items inside capsules with controlled winning probabilities, the system provides a fair and transparent mechanism for item distribution that prevents direct exploitation through cash transactions. The lottery mechanism ensures that item acquisition is based on chance rather than direct trading.
3Stability of the object's composition
If beginning players start with basic items due to difficulty in acquiring high-grade items, then game balance is maintained, but it takes longer time to become familiar with the game
Solution Approach 1:
The capsule lottery system provides preliminary action by giving beginning players a chance to win high-grade items before they need to fully master the game. The system prepares and distributes capsules with favorable winning probabilities to beginners, enabling them to acquire powerful items early in their journey without breaking game balance, thus reducing the time needed to become familiar with the game.
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AI summary
An online capsule lottery system and method provides a lottery event in which a plurality of capsules are included in an online game. High-grade item contents having a high ability ranking in the online game is matched to at least one of the capsules, and lottery results are determined after capsules are extracted by the selection of the user. Even a player that has only recently begun playing the online game is given the opportunity to purchase a desired amount of the capsules and the chance to possess the high-grade item contents, thus enabling the player to easily become familiar with the online game. By adjusting winning odds in accordance with various ways of matching high-grade item contents with capsules, capsule purchase accumulation, and time of capsule purchase, the system and method prevent the balance of a game from being disrupted due to an indiscriminate distribution of items.