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

[Aeika]

I think you probably spend more time in the forums than actually playing if you think like this. Fine. Go fight for your plot, as I said.

playing since 1.0 in 2011 with less than 150 posts.... youre right, I spend all my time here.

[Ardyvald]

You know there's this thing called alts, right? It's literally pay to win.

If i'm not mistaken, alts have enough restriction not to be an hindrance to other players : basically you can only have 1 personal plot per account.
Furthermore, regarding the lottery, there can only be 1 bid per account, either for a FC plot, or a personal one.

Unless I read things wrong

[S0lara]

I think you some of you are getting way too technical and some of the posts are convoluted when they need not be. A lot of people make great points, but regardless of what they did, the RNG code is created by a person, and they inputted 0 as one of the possible choices for output. I have coded in Python and Mathematica before, and if you import random, and then you list the parameters, e.g. list=1,2,3,4,5... It is pretty easy to see, that when they listed their parameters for the housing lottery system, they included 0 (zero) in the list of possible choices that could be rolled. If they did in fact did put zero into their list, as in: listhousing or list1 (whatever you want to call it) = 0,1,2,3,4,5..., when as stated earlier, it should have been list1=1,2,3,4,5...

If what I stated is correct, then in all fairness, they should roll back EVERYONE's bids, because if 0 (zero) was counted as a possible RNG choice, then EVERY roll is invalidated and needs to be done again. I know it sucks for some people, but in all fairness, if zero (0) was included, then redoing it is the most fair solution.

[nekobie]

quick reminder that square enix currently has a networth of $5.9 BILLION dollars.

[Aeika]

quick reminder that square enix currently has a networth of $5.9 BILLION dollars.

So Elon can buy us with twitter ?!

[Ardyvald]

I think you some of you are getting way too technical and some of the posts are convoluted when they need not be. A lot of people make great points, but regardless of what they did, the RNG code is created by a person, and they inputted 0 as one of the possible choices for output. I have coded in Python and Mathematica before, and if you import random, and then you list the parameters, e.g. list=1,2,3,4,5... It is pretty easy to see, that when they listed their parameters for the housing lottery system, they included 0 (zero) in the list of possible choices that could be rolled. If they did in fact did put zero into their list, as in: listhousing or list1 (whatever you want to call it) = 0,1,2,3,4,5..., when as stated earlier, it should have been list1=1,2,3,4,5...

If what I stated is correct, then in all fairness, they should roll back EVERYONE's bids, because if 0 (zero) was counted as a possible RNG choice, then EVERY roll is invalidated and needs to be done again. I know it sucks for some people, but in all fairness, if zero (0) was included, then redoing it is the most fair solution.

I only see one thing bugging me in your example here : hidden rule.
When you play a game where rules are given, you can expect some outcomes to happen. but if some unexpected outcomes happen, then we have a problem : either the rules were not clear enough (there were room for interpretation), or there were hidden rules.

As far as I remember, they didn't say anywhere that "there's a chance that there will be no winning ticket".

I hope we'll have some explanation of sorts, I must say that seeing the number of 0 occurences, it doesn't feel like a "0 was added to a list of possible tickets". The odds of it happening are slim, unless the RNG drawing is "mutualized".

I had in mind the fact that the emergency maintenance done on Thursday may have "broken" already done biding, but some testimonies are just ruling out this aspect apparently

[YukiMinamoto]

SE needs to fix this honestly. My lotto loss was fair, but it's really messed up for players who had 0 in their lotto ticket. Jesus.

[MiaShino]

What this Mia wishes to understand is, how does multi billion dollar corporation spend ages creating system then not even bother testing it once.

How did you not Q&A solo bids? How did you not identify coding error this amateurish?

Fire the interns and higher someone capable of writing actual code for the love of the twelve what the actual heck. All of my friends lost their houses to no one. They were the exclusive bidder. They have been waiting several months or longer attempting to own a house for their fcs you dinguses.

Do not give us a "well when little Timmy figures out how not to round down and include fricken zero as actual bidder you can just bet again! He he he he". You respond to these people who earned their house and you give them the fricken house. Actual full on trogs working at this company. No respect at'all, cannot code their way out of wet tissue paper prison. What a fricken joke.

[sagacious]

Having alts doesn't make it easy to make 19-49 million gil, unless youre literally paying.... and they ban RMT accounts near weekly

Excuse me? alts make a huge difference if I have 5 retainers my alt has 5 retainers that is an extra 100 sell slots. If the alt is also I high level they can do roulettes and use the poetics to buy mats and pass those along to you via company chest. If my alt is a gatherer I can log into her/him and do the timing node twice per run.

[Rokke]

Furthermore, regarding the lottery, there can only be 1 bid per account, either for a FC plot, or a personal one.

Unless I read things wrong

You are mistaken. Its 1 personal + 1 fc house (with you as leader) per server. So someone can win a personal (or fc house) on every server on your DC if they had gil and luck. You can only enter either or per server, but there is no restriction on how many servers you can enter on.