# Ridiculous high gas fee in production

**URL:** <https://forum.openzeppelin.com/t/ridiculous-high-gas-fee-in-production/41411>\
**Category:** Smart Contracts\
**Tags:** erc20, etherscan-verify\
**Created:** [August 21, 2024, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.openzeppelin.com/t/ridiculous-high-gas-fee-in-production/41411 "2024-08-21T17:04:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 21, 2024, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.openzeppelin.com/t/ridiculous-high-gas-fee-in-production/41411/1 "2024-08-21T17:04:41Z")

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Hi,  
I was trying to create a new smart contract with Remix.  
It should be something like a lottery.  
I made a simple function to enter the lottery:

```auto
function enter() public payable {
        require(msg.value == ticketPrice, "Incorrect ETH amount sent");
        players.push(msg.sender);
    }

```

Remix was showing gas fee of around 50000.  
Now after deploying the contract and using the function on etherscan, I get the message of MetaMask, that the gas fee cant be calculated and MM sets the gas fee to $300.  
I know that with increasing the array size, the gas fee will get higher, but $300 for the first entry?  
Any idea how to fix this?