Housing Lottery Needs some adjustments

[AshDidit]

Why? It's a lottery system. Doesn't matter if you buy your cactpot ticket seconds after it opens or seconds before it closes. It's R N G. RANDOM number generator. period. Computer controlled random chance. Be as salty as you like, at least you don't get carpal tunnel from clicking placards for 8 hours, and still lose anyway. I try to be the first to bid regardless of how many others bid. I've been lucky, you haven't YET. Maybe bid on one last minute next time that doesn't have any/many bids already on it. It's not up to SE to fix your salt.

[TAS]

Why? It's a lottery system. Doesn't matter if you buy your cactpot ticket seconds after it opens or seconds before it closes. It's R N G. RANDOM number generator. period. Computer controlled random chance. Be as salty as you like, at least you don't get carpal tunnel from clicking placards for 8 hours, and still lose anyway. I try to be the first to bid regardless of how many others bid. I've been lucky, you haven't YET. Maybe bid on one last minute next time that doesn't have any/many bids already on it. It's not up to SE to fix your salt.

No, but it is their job to observe and receive feedback on their systems, which is what I'm giving on the lottery system. If the housing lottery gave you a randomized number on your ticket, versus a number based on the order you placed your bid then I could agree with your cactpot comparison. I'd hate winning ticket 4362 less than jerk face bidder number 23

[dspguy]

No, but it is their job to observe and receive feedback on their systems, which is what I'm giving on the lottery system. If the housing lottery gave you a randomized number on your ticket, versus a number based on the order you placed your bid then I could agree with your cactpot comparison. I'd hate winning ticket 4362 less than jerk face bidder number 23

I understand your frustration, but your experience is anecdotal at best. They'd need to survey thousands of players to see if your particular claim is valid. To be honest, they don't need to survey players at all. I'm sure they can see what RNG is putting out and see if the results fall within a standard deviation.

In my experience (anecdotal!), the RNG is just fine. Sometimes it works in your favor, sometimes it doesn't.

Years ago, I tracked every meld I did for two expansions - and I used to pentameld both DoW/M gear and DoH/L gear. I tracked the odds (17%, 12% 10% 5%, etc). There were times when a 17% meld failed 20 times. And of course there were times the 5% meld failed 100 times. However, there were also plenty of times the 5% succeeded on the first try. Over thousand of meld chances, the RNG seemed pretty spot on.

In a lottery, there will commonly be N-1 losers. More often than not, any given player will be a loser.