Jumbo Cactpot Winners

[Seidaku]

Needs to be changed to a raffle rather than a lottery.
1 ticket costs 10k gil. 5 for 40k and 10 for 80k. Like a real raffle.
Always a winner every week.

I would also allow people to purchase 10,000 mgp certificates (with their aquired mgp. Maybe a cost of 1k gil and 10k mgp per certificate) that can be traded and sold. Great gil sink and options for those that are unlucky to buy expensive items.

[Reinha]

it's fine as is. A .0001 chance of winning a Lottery is a very good odd. Ever play the real lottery? Looking at a past MMO you had FFXI Mog Bonanza You had to guess 5 numbers correctly and it only came around ~2 a year not every week.

Jumbo Cactpot does not and cannot simulate a real lottery in it's current form. In Cactpot 1) the rewarded currency is not tradable and therefore has limited value, 2) the jackpot does not keep growing when no-one has won for a while, 3) the order of numbers matters, 4) duplicate numbers are allowed and 5) the amount of tickets you can buy is far lower than in real lottery because of the average life time of an MMO (we do not have 50 years to try our luck).

In fact the only thing similar to real life lottery is that we try to guess random numbers and may or may not get a price each week. It makes no sense to try and emulate real lottery win chances when the circumstances and reasons to participate are so different from the real thing. They already had to buff the consolidation price to get more people to buy tickets, but in my opinion they are trying to solve the issue from the wrong end. I believe that most people wouldn't mind getting lower consolidation prizes if the 1st price didn't have such an astronomically low win chance. The way it is now, I treat it like a free 150 MGP per week. Barely even worth teleporting to seeing as GATEs give more.

there is nothing to rework if the high prizes are always impossible to get, I usually get like 115, 34 and then 200 points so I lose points by doing it.

It is unlikely to not get a single 10k card in a week. You're probably picking the wrong row whenever you get a winning card. If you choose the middle, two (not opposite) corners and the edge furthest to those corners, you can always catch the 1-2-3 line if it exists. Only aim for 7-8-9 if 1-2-3 is impossible to get based on what numbers you revealed at the start.

[Mimilu]

I wouldn't mind if the pot increased every week someone doesn't win but I'm sure SE would say it would take too much data to save that information once a week... >w>

[Konicorgi]

- Boost the payout of the lower tier results, especially the consolation prize. The fact that you get to do this only once per week and 90% of the time you get a payout that's less than what you would get from a mediocre placement in a single chocobo race and about a tenth of what you would get from completing one GATE is ridiculous.
- Make the matching structure more forgiving. The thing where your whole ticket is irrelevant if the ones digit doesn't match is far too punishing of a system. At minimum it should bump you up a tier for each digit in your number that matches the same digit in the drawn number.

Approve. Especially since you're a kitty

[alimdia]

We don't need it to be a real life lottery simulator, this is a game.

I agree they should pick a winning number from the pool of tickets, and for those worrying about jumbo being something special, a guaranteed winner per week would not devaluate MGP, every server has thousands of players, it would take hundreds or even thousands of weeks for the majority of players in a server to get a winning number, even with multiple winners, but even this is better than the current broken system.

[CrystalRainbow]

We don't need it to be a real life lottery simulator, this is a game.

I agree they should pick a winning number from the pool of tickets, and for those worrying about jumbo being something special, a guaranteed winner per week would not devaluate MGP, every server has thousands of players, it would take hundreds or even thousands of weeks for the majority of players in a server to get a winning number, even with multiple winners, but even this is better than the current broken system.

PROBLEM!!!...

We have a smart community...
Week 1. Everyone pick 1234.... Everyone wins. Repeat.

It would be better if every week without a jackpot winner. They draw additional set of numbers, You can win off all sets of numbers but best prize only.

[MaeIsMean]

They should add an award tier for having all the numbers but not in the right order. I've gotten that twice, such a letdown.

[Sir_Hermes]

It's already so easy to get Mgp... I can net 1 mil in like a month or 2 just from tournaments / challenge log / dailies... Get like 140k every week just from tourneys, people I'll tell you this because I got everything from gold saucer already.. But even winning 1 game per LoV tournament gives you around 40,000 MGP lol...

[Cherie]

Why don't they do what real lotto's do? Allow people to buy more than one ticket? Maybe at the same time, increase the payouts a bit considering they did the same for the GATES and such (7k mgp just for the typhoon gate win now? sheesh, wasnt it 3k?).

I don't think they need to make it easier to get a grand prize however. I think that would be a mistake. Maybe let people buy up to 5 tickets, but most expensive prices the more you get (like mini cactpot). If anything, take winning the jackpot off of the achievement meta before making it easier to win from its mechanics. No one goes to gold saucer on my server as it is hardly but there are still people there every day to get their minicactpot and such even so. Take the need for that away from people and I doubt they'd ever go (as in if everyone won the big jackpot and was rolling in mgp).

[PirateCat]

It's already so easy to get Mgp... I can net 1 mil in like a month or 2 just from tournaments / challenge log / dailies... Get like 140k every week just from tourneys, people I'll tell you this because I got everything from gold saucer already.. But even winning 1 game per LoV tournament gives you around 40,000 MGP lol...

Fair enough, but there isn't an achievement for getting 1,000,000 MGP via Triple Triad/LoV tournaments.