Jumbo Cactpot Winners

[RyuSaarva]

The problem with jumbo is how much of a letdown it is compared to mini. In one round of mini, I often make more and hence have more fun than waiting a week to get almost nothing from jumbo.

Jumbo should pay out at least 10k even if I lose so that it's a nice boost and feels like it is worth the wait.

I usually make more from jumbo consolation prize and than all 3 mini pots combined.

[Zer0]

I usually make more from jumbo consolation prize and than all 3 mini pots combined.

Really?! You need to rework your method of playing mini. I can net almost 30k from mini's a week. They're pretty easy to predict. Sometimes I may go a few days without something good but it's ALWAYS more than jumbo.

[Kaelah]

Really?! You need to rework your method of playing mini. I can net almost 30k from mini's a week. They're pretty easy to predict. Sometimes I may go a few days without something good but it's ALWAYS more than jumbo.

This. You wanna look for 1, 2, 3 for 10k or 9, 8, 7 for 3,600 if the 10k isn't there.

[RyuSaarva]

Really?! You need to rework your method of playing mini. I can net almost 30k from mini's a week. They're pretty easy to predict. Sometimes I may go a few days without something good but it's ALWAYS more than jumbo.

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.

[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.