Mini-Lottery: Maybe a BIT more fairness?

[RobinRethiel]

This daily lottery is somehow something nice, but to be honest, it's a BIT unfair, when some people already won 40.000 MGP with it, and other never had even the CHANCE on a single 10k or 3,6k prize.

If this continues like that, some people will just get hundredthousands of MGP, while other don't got 10% of this.

It would be one thing, if there would be any other way to get such intense amount of MGP, but somehow the Gold Saucer is really mainly a Casino like this - in the bad way and hell: for Chocobo raising you pretty much need all those MGP.

I don't really get, why you implement it like this. You nerfed retainers, so they will not bring people raid stuff, but now, with Gold Saucer, it's back and even worse.

All things, which bring most MGP, are 100% luck based, even the Typhoon Gate, the only one which gives 1600 MGP, is 100% RNG.

I mean, I really would like to understand: why?

[Gillionaire]

but but but... it's a LOTTERY that's what it's supposed to be..

[Leumas]

I get that its a lottery and RNG is supposed to be a big factor, but it would be nice if tickets at least had a chance to win some decent amount and the RNG was simply your luck at picking which line to go for... i have had multiple tickets where i could not win more than 300, in a row. While others say: "i just won 10k again lol" (they might just be lying to look cool (if that somehow makes you look cool?) but you never know, they really might just have that crazy luck people get)

Either way getting to a few million for all the rewards is that much harder when mini cactpot RNGesus decides to crap all over you :P

[Snugglebutt]

I get that its a lottery and RNG is supposed to be a big factor, but it would be nice if tickets at least had a chance to win some decent amount and the RNG was simply your luck at picking which line to go for... i have had multiple tickets where i could not win more than 300, in a row. While others say: "i just won 10k again lol" (they might just be lying to look cool (if that somehow makes you look cool?) but you never know, they really might just have that crazy luck people get)

Either way getting to a few million for all the rewards is that much harder when mini cactpot RNGesus decides to crap all over you :P

Seen people do that with the big lottery too, claiming to have won hundreds of thousands yet their achievements pop up saying they only unlocked the 10k one not the 100k one.

On the mini lottery I can see where your coming from in that due to RNG you keep failing to get tickets that even contain a chance for the 10k prize but I also understand like lotteries in real life, not all tickets will be winning tickets. Thing is if every ticket was a winning ticket then those who are good at maths and smart about which order to unlock circles would win almost all of the time so would undermine the whole ticket system. I don't know which is better/worse but I guess I side on the current system more than the other even though I too rarely ever get above 100 MGP from the tickets despite having three characters I play every day with buying tickets.

Maybe I am biased though in that I do not use the lottery as the main or sole method for gaining MGP and play TT a lot, chocobo racing and GATES too in order to make up for the fact the lottery won't win me much MGP overall so far. I have so far gained about 140k MGP but only about 20k of it came from lotteries across three characters, I however poured all of it away on gold card packs trying to get Zidane or Warrior of Light and gained neither so far.

[Niwashi]

I get that its a lottery and RNG is supposed to be a big factor, but it would be nice if tickets at least had a chance to win some decent amount

They do ALL have a chance to win a decent amount. There are 13 winning possibilities and only 6 losing ones. Even if it were possible for all 6 losing sums to be on the same card (which I don't think it is), you'd still have other winning sums that you might pick on that same card. Even the lowest 8 MGP win is a decent amount for the 5 seconds or so it takes to play it, and all the others are fantastic returns for such a quick scratch game.

If by "a chance to win some decent amount" you really mean they should all have a chance to win the 10,000, then it would simply be a daily trade of 100 MGP for 10,000 MGP, because nobody would ever pick anything else. It's supposed to be a daily lottery, not a daily allowance.

[Ooshima]

In summary, OP just want better aka faster ways to obtain MGP so that he/she can have the Fernir mount ASAP.

God forbids this game to have anything that appears to be difficult to obtain or exclusive, every one needs to have the Cloud Card, the Nanamo Card, the Fernir + Adamantoise mount and both Gambler and Bunny sets in a month max.

[StouterTaru]

They do ALL have a chance to win a decent amount. There are 13 winning possibilities and only 6 losing ones. Even if it were possible for all 6 losing sums to be on the same card (which I don't think it is), you'd still have other winning sums that you might pick on that same card. Even the lowest 8 MGP win is a decent amount for the 5 seconds or so it takes to play it, and all the others are fantastic returns for such a quick scratch game.

There are some possibilities where every single choice will give you a 15, for 180 MGP. I would like to see one of those cards, just to laugh and say there was no point in taking my time deciding which line to pick.

[Alistaire]

There are some possibilities where every single choice will give you a 15, for 180 MGP. I would like to see one of those cards, just to laugh and say there was no point in taking my time deciding which line to pick.

My high end math's a bit rusty but wouldn't the chance of that be 1/9! (! = factorial), meaning 1/362880.

Maybe 8/362880 as the corner numbers can be rotated and the cardinal direction ones as well, or somethin like that. Still, not very likely.

[Tayolynn]

I tend to use the power of deduction and probability. Open numbers in strategic points so there are more open numbers to map out your possibilities and know what numbers your missing. Although I like to go all out when I see a perfect numbers line for a possible 1,2,3 line, only to find out that it's a 1/2/some-other-number and I get sad.

Sometimes if I do it right, I get the highest points possible on my card, which ranges from 170-360 MGP, which is fine.

[Duuude007]

Except that you can influence your mini cactpot winnings by knowing some basic math..