Jumbo Cactpot Winners

[Alberel]

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.

It's not a real lottery though, and it's not even dealing in a primary currency, it's just MGP. It's incredibly un-fun to get nothing but the consolation prize every single week.

The lottery should have a higher cumulative payout than the scratchcards. It's utterly ridiculous that my total winnings from scratchcards since the GS went live is around 800k MGP, whilst my total from the cactpot is a mere few thousand!

[NorthernLadMSP]

I don't even bother doing this anymore. I've never ever won anything except third place like once back when it first came out. Week after week after week it was always the sad consolidation prize, so I lost interest.

[PirateCat]

My two cents: I agree with the people who are saying there's no need to make the jackpot easier to win. Jackpots should be rare and special. But, especially with all of the boosts to MGP earnings that they just put in, they really need to make some adjustments to the cactpot. One or (preferably) both of the following would be good to see.

- 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.

[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

[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>

[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.

[alimdia]

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.

100% sure the whole server wont pick the same number, randoms aren't that organized with anything, and even if a big number of people try this, it's solved as easily as a shared prize pool.

[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...