Quote Originally Posted by Amineri View Post
Even that isn't enough. If the money that the players involved have is small enough, they can afford to take a dive if the pay-off from the person fixing the match / race is big enough.
Uh, what? The prize money is only as big as the total amount of entrance fees. As a group, they would all exit the race with the same amount of money as when the entered, just distributed differently depending upon who won.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/10792-DevTalk-Chocobo-Thread.-Riding!-Raising!-Racing!-You-Know-You-Want-Your-Fix

Quote Originally Posted by Rentahamster View Post
- players can race in 3 different classes. Player entry fees for each skill class are put into a single pot.

1st place: 70% of pot
2nd place: 15% of pot
3rd place: 5% of pot
4th place: 5% of pot
5th place: 5% of pot
In fact, to make the races a gil sink as well, we could have it so that the total payout to the winners does not equal to 100% of the combined entrance fee money.

Something like:

1st place: 60% of pot
2nd place: 10% of pot
3rd place: 5% of pot
4th place: 5% of pot