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

[Sclair0]

As an isolated issue its really not that bad, rookie mistake but not that bad.

But I think cause housings been such a dumb issue for years its inflamed people a lot more.

[Drkdays]

I saw this episode of Rick and Morty! Just keep crawling!!!

[Seraphor]

Not true. Games roll back all the time for bugs. Especially this bad of a bug. And then start from the roll back.

What about all the people who did win their lotteries? Their wins are still valid.
More people have won plots than there are plots that got zero'ed. So you'll be pissing off more people by rolling it back.

[Jax-chan]

Yepp, it is propably the OBO error:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-by-one_error

If you bid on a house alone(!) then there is only a 50% chance to get it: your number and 0. If two players bid on the house then there is a chance by 33,3333% to get it and not 50%. It is a really silly bug. And those bugs would surely be discovered when the devs would test it.

The other possible explanation is, this is not a bug but intention.



Cheers

The program is probably meant to actually return "There were 0 participants" if 0 gets picked from the array. Imo, someone screwed up big time and forgot to tell the program to exclude 0 from the selection when the array length is larger than 1 (i.e. a ticket was entered).

[Katsuhito]

FC plot here, same issue, only ones lotted on this plot and got the same. Now they have to tread carefully, for those plots with only one entry on it, should have it fixed and given to said people, or a rollback patch and reroll it, because if they do a "oh here we fixed it, enter yourselves again in the lotto and good luck next time" is just going to cause more anger against the system. I for one am already fuming as it is for loosing out on this plot because of this "bug". Im keeping my money on here for the time being until either the time elapses on the lottery of the plot or we get it fixed and rewarded to us properly.

[Ardyvald]

Nope, I was no. 4 of 6 bids on mine, I put my bid in before maintenance, but the winner was 2, who would have placed their's before mine.

Unless the "number 2" is the number from the 2 last biding people.

Out of the 6 people, How many bid before and after ?

Imagine : you were 4 bids before the maintenance, so you have #1 to #4.
Maintenance happens, and your "number" are just sort of "ruled out".
Now 2 more people add theirs in the lot.

You get number 2, from the 2 last biding.

Might be the case ? unless there are testimonies invalidating this assumtpion ?

[Lecru]

What about all the people who did win their lotteries? Their wins are still valid.
More people have won plots than there are plots that got zero'ed. So you'll be pissing off more people by rolling it back.

Actually no. They are not valid. If there is an issue with the coding. That means the next person in line would have won. Not the person who did win. Therefore, invalid.

[Leemon]

This is what you get from enabling questionable devs to make questionable choices. Shitty job updates and now this.

[Seraphor]

Actually no. They are not valid. If there is an issue with the coding. That means the next person in line would have won. Not the person who did win. Therefore, invalid.

Not it doesn't, because many plots won on the last bidder. They got 6 bids, and it went to no. 6.
It isn't a case of every ticket should have been the one before it, it is a case of there being an additional 'void' ticket in every lottery.
Instead of there being 4 tickets for 4 players, there were 5 tickets, they had a 20% chance to win instead of a 25% chance. But whoever won, still won, and their win is valid.

I know those who lost their plot to this bug aren't going to like it, but the fairest thing they can do is to not roll back anything, fix the issue and say "try again next week".

[Ardyvald]

I won my large FC plot, I placed my bid on patch day in the evening after mulling over whether or not to wait (glad I didn't). That said, I did see that one other large house on my ward had bids too on day 1 and it has the "no participants" bug but not the "winner 0" bug. If it helps for gathering info, there you go.

Uh, ok so that's one testimony ruling out my hypothesis. Thanks for that !

Hopefully they'll find that bug and fix the issue.... But I really fear that they'll just "well you have to enter another lottery round" instead of fixing the current lottery