Jumbo Cactpot

[h0tNstilettos]

The threshold rewards are apparently somewhat random, because the numbers were different for Balmung as well, but so where the rewards on the left hand side.

Hmm, yeah that's different from what the NPC said. I didn't know that until now. No biggy. Just thought that was odd.

i assume it goes by each world so naturally more or less tickets are gonna be sold as well as different prize payouts :3

That's what I thought, the more populated the world the more tickets that sell, and the NPC said that increases prize amounts. I guess what you mean is it's random based on world, rather than going by population/tickets sold.

[Snugglebutt]

Yep.

Say the winning number is 1234.

If you enter 1224, you'd get the last non-consolation prize for the 4 but nothing else.

If you entered 2234, you'd get the 2nd best prize.

If you entered 1234, you'd be a millionaire.

If the winning number was 1234 and you entered 1234 you would win the consolation prize, you pick your numbers from left to right but the winning numbers are drawn right to left in this. So you would need to have picked 4321 in that order to win the top prize I believe. It does not make much sense to me drawing the numbers from right to left since I do not live in a country which uses such weird rules and our lotteries work like the majority of lotteries do in which both pick your numbers from left to right and the draws reveal numbers from left to right too.

On a side note in relation to what others are talking about, my server had around 4600-4700 participants I think in last one and top prize MGP was around 1.15mil MGP if I recall correctly. I am beginning to think that maybe the more people taking part the lower the top prize going by a lot of the examples given in this thread. It would be nice if a GM could clarify whether that is the case or whether the top prize is lowered based on server population instead of participants..

[JayCommon]

That's what I thought, the more populated the world the more tickets that sell, and the NPC said that increases prize amounts. I guess what you mean is it's random based on world, rather than going by population/tickets sold.

Maybe the rewards are determined from the total amount of people in your server, and then how many of that total pool actually purchased a ticket? Strange, indeed. My server had 2,002 tickets sold and our jackpot was a bit over 1.22m

[Lethallin]

I got everything right but was off by one on the last number.

Tell me about being annoyed at the consolation prize.

[Haru]

The amount shown in that window includes the 'early bird bonus' I think.

Either way it is clear that each server only needs to sell 700 tickets to reach the maximum prize pool.

100 tickets adds +20MGP to consolation
200 tickets adds +15MGP to consolation
300 tickets adds +5% to consolation
400 tickets adds +5% to ALL prize pools and so on.

This means that 1.2mil has a starting value of ~1mil or 860K without early bird bonus.