Jumbo Cactpot

[Snugglebutt]

I don't care about the specifics overall of how they fix it but it feels VERY wrong to me that one of the highest population servers where thousands of people every week take part in it still hasn't had a top prize winner in over 5 months now. As others have said, their servers also have had such happen. It feels wrong to me to be in that situation considering this is a video game as opposed to the harshness of the non-game real world and I just want SE to come up with a way to fix that. I think a guaranteed winner every week (however they do it) would be better than it is now. There is probably more than one possible solution to the issue but I think personally it needs something being done about it.

The UK lotto for example uses a combination lotto/raffle system which gives you a randomly generated raffle number when buy ticket and while might not win the the lotto itself it does guarantee millionaires each week from the system choosing from those raffle numbers. In this games case that raffle number could guarantee a winner of the top prize each week if no-one picked the correct numbers on their cactpot ticket.

In terms of closest number wins if was no winner, I never said the player had to be the one to pick that number. For example the system itself could allocate a random number unbeknownst to the player when they buy a ticket much like a hidden raffle number which only the system knows, if no winner then the system itself picks the closest from that hidden 'raffle' number rather than using the 'lotto' number you picked as a player. Much like how the game picks what you roll number wise on loot, the game already has similar number generation systems which dictate who gets the loot or in this case the prize which could apply if no-one won that week. It doesn't even need to be hidden, it could be a known raffle type number allocated by the system which comes with purchase of a ticket and only kicks in when was no winner for the week...the system itself picking someone from that raffle much like it does when rolling on loot.