Quote Originally Posted by legraf View Post
ucsmb19 made the right point, I think. What you win is random, determined by a look-up, weighted (of course!) to resources and fluff. Perfecty fair.

What is misleading is the wheel itself - the player thinks that each point on the wheel is equally likely to be chosen, so it looks like the odds of getting something great are quite high on each spin. In fact, the decision has already been made, and the wheel is populated with random items - NOT weighted the same way as the weights used for the actual reward, otherwise the wheel would always show 80% (or whatever) dribble. Not nearly as exciting.

ETA: Not quite right, above, as it seems that certain spaces on the wheel are more likely to be hit than others - see the posts on p.3 or 4 with link to HODS' wonderful info. The wheel remains misleading, as it's rather like a rigged roulette wheel (and of course the results are set before the wheel animation has occured).
that's exactly what i was saying. seems like alot of people don't read entire posts, hehe. The misleading aspect of the wheel animation. I see 2-3 coin prizes on the wheel regularly. Since there are only 24 choices, 3x coin amounts would make one think a 1:8 chance. 2x coin spots makes one assume a 1:12 chance. After seeing these odds roll by a few hundred times, one starts to realize the prizes are weighted.