The lotto winner.... number ZERO? Are you serious???

[Shibi]

It seems to mostly be an issue where only one FC bid on a property

yeah, because they started counting at 0, not 1. It's an intern level programming mistake.

All the people who won, didn't actually win, the person 1 ticket higher than them did.

[Sclair0]

yeah, because they started counting at 0, not 1. It's an intern level programming mistake.

All the people who won, didn't actually win, the person 1 ticket higher than them did.

Are you sure thats the case? Cause we're also getting messages like "There are no participants in the lottery" and nobody seems to be claiming the plots with the zero errors.

[Xiomara]

yeah, because they started counting at 0, not 1. It's an intern level programming mistake.

All the people who won, didn't actually win, the person 1 ticket higher than them did.

Which is hilariously awful, as then I should have won my lottery as I lost by 1, and my girlfriend should have lost hers and the person 1 ticket below her should have won, so if that is the case, what is SE gonna do? Vacate all results, relocate all the properties back to where they were and redo the auction from scratch? Absolute hilarity.

[Seraphor]

yeah, because they started counting at 0, not 1. It's an intern level programming mistake.

All the people who won, didn't actually win, the person 1 ticket higher than them did.

You can't make that claim, because in some cases the final entry will have won, i.e. the plot got 6 bids and it went to no. 6
You could claim the all lotteries were invalid because every one had an additional void ticket, but that's arbitrary and the fact that winners have already been able to claim and build means they're never going to roll it back.

Ultimately, it just means that if you bid with say 3 other people, you didn't have a 25% chance at winning, you had a 20% chance at winning, but if you won, then you still won.

It does seem like every lottery just had an extra 'void' ticket, because the 0's seem to have occured in line with that. FC wards with virtually no one bidding had a much higher 0 rate, which would make sense, they're 50% of all of the plots with only 1 bidder. While my private ward had an average of 5 bids per plot, and only about 1/5th-1/6th got zero'ed.

Nothing is ultimately lost, those plots are still available to reroll next cycle, it's just that the parameters were something other than what we were told they were. Which is still bad and very annoying, but no one "lost" anything, so there's nothing to hotfix or roll back. Those plots are lost, let them go.
Hopefully they make the changes to it for the next cycle so that 0 isn't an option.