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  1. #51
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    I happened to win 2nd place this week (Surprised the heck out of me) and the prize was very good but i feel like all the others below it are lacking. Not winning is fine but if you happened to get just 1 number your really still not winning much. I don't mind the lottery system here however. I go buy one...i go check on saturday...i lose then i go downstairs and win some from mini cactpot!

    It be nice if certain weeks did other bonuses. Like say just getting ANY number you win some more. Something to spice it up a bit and give out a bit more for winning (1st place is worth plenty...im talking all the other ranks)
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  2. #52
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    It couldn't have anything to do with the fact that an expansion is in 2 months and people simply aren't playing the game right now.
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  3. #53
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    The problem is that it doesn't work well.

    If it was an actual lottery, then each week that there is no winner picked. The pool/reward should go up. Should start at 250k and go up by 250k each week that there is no winner.

    But it doesn't so the way that it should work is that the prize should be smaller, say 250,000 each week but there is at least always ONE winner.

    Another fix might be more number to pick but the order doesn't matter.
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    Last edited by ZephyrZ; 04-21-2015 at 11:45 AM.

  4. #54
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    If it would be a real lottery, the jackpot would be something like:
    Players x 100 = that's what people invested.
    /2 = that's the distribution in total
    /10 = that's the jackpot, because its part on the distribution is around 10%.

    So if you got 10.000 players, the jackpot would be around 50.000 MGP. Before taxes.
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  5. #55
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    it makes absolutly no sense to let the jackpot go up if nobody wins. you can buy almost everything for 3 mio. if you win 10 mio - what will you do with the other 7 mio? wait until new stuff is added and buy it on patchday? and never play the new minigames? plus if someone wins 10 mio and has gp for the next let's say 5 updates and then the next week someone wins 1 mio. do you want to be the person who wins only the 1 mio? or will you create a topic here in forum how unfair it is?
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  6. #56
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    Speaking of the Jumbo Cactpot, is anybody pissed like I am about how one of the achievement/titles can only be acquired if you won the Jumbo Cactpot? The expected time needed of doing so was like over a hundred years if you played every week(which is only the average, you can go way over). And not only that, their is another achievement/title that depends on this achievement.

    Aren't achievements something you're supposed to work for, not just obtained under blind luck? Not that there isn't an already absurd amount of RNG in this game, it's just that this one is just over the top.
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  7. #57
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    Quote Originally Posted by RobinRethiel View Post
    If it would be a real lottery, the jackpot would be something like:
    Players x 100 = that's what people invested.
    /2 = that's the distribution in total
    /10 = that's the jackpot, because its part on the distribution is around 10%.

    So if you got 10.000 players, the jackpot would be around 50.000 MGP. Before taxes.

    You are just making stuff up again. That is not how a lottery works.

    This is the game developers version of a lottery.

    They set up a game that said if you match 4 numbers in order (1/10*1/10*1/10*1/10 = 1/10000) you get 1 mil mgp. Has nothing to do with how many players there are or how much is put into the total pot. You would need 10000 entries to get the prize payout, and I don't think that is even possible. This way its fair, regardless of the amount of players on any given server everyone has the same chances to win the same amount.
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    Last edited by Brightsayge; 04-21-2015 at 10:56 PM.

  8. #58
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    DarkDedede's Avatar
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    So if the jackpot goes up if nobody wins, does that mean the jackpot is split if multiple people win?
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    "Fun comes first. If it isn't fun, you're doing it wrong." -Naoki Yoshida

  9. #59
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brightsayge View Post
    You are just making stuff up again. That is not how a lottery works.

    This is the game developers version of a lottery.

    They set up a game that said if you match 4 numbers in order (1/10*1/10*1/10*1/10 = 1/10000) you get 1 mil mgp. Has nothing to do with how many players there are or how much is put into the total pot. You would need 10000 entries to get the prize payout, and I don't think that is even possible. This way its fair, regardless of the amount of players on any given server everyone has the same chances to win the same amount.
    This is how a lottery works. I never said this is how the Gold Saucer Lottery works. Of course not. Any lottery working like that of the Gold Saucer would go bankrupt in an instant.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mokikoza View Post
    It's a game, and if people don't want to enter because they think there is no chance then it's not fun and therefore should be adjusted.
    What's with this generation's obsession with instant or quick gratification?
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