The buy-in arena is a great idea, however, it wouldn't be worth starting and dedicating a whole section to it at this point when we have yet to produce ONE buy-in tournament that generated enough people who actually bought in (paid).
Pugz, Verity and others have tried to hold buy-in cyphers/tournaments in the past and it has failed because not enough people committed to it. I'd say we keep trying every once in a while and when we've held one or a couple where people actually show enough interest in paying to enter a tournament and it looks like something that would continue, THEN we can consider creating a whole arena for it.
As far as the "LB bux," the same or similar ideas have been proposed before. I've even suggested the same thing before and us creating an "LB store" where a separate class of emcee items can be bought and people can also buy "points" that they can apply towards tournaments with a buy-in set up. If they are using "points" rather than cash, then we might be able to get around some laws that may prevent us from functioning as an "online gambling site." Again, that's a great idea, but its contigent on the emcees and other things being fixed first. There wouldn't be much point in creating an "LB store" where people can purchase emcee items now when more than half the site's emcees aren't even working.
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