The lotto winner.... number ZERO? Are you serious???

[forsakee]

Beat me to it (friend was still typing her full translation). Is that on NA?

welp still thanks for going through the effort of translating

[Aelin_Ashryver]

Not true. Games roll back all the time for bugs. Especially this bad of a bug. And then start from the roll back.

I highly doubt they would roll back on this one, it would go from pissing off one group to another and you just don't win.

[EvanLydian]

public class SmallIndieCompany {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int participants = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
        int winner = (int)(Math.random()*participants+1);
        if (winner > participants) {
            winner = participants;
        }
        System.out.println(winner);
    }
}

Apparently I now qualify for a job at SE. Shouldn't be too different in whatever language XIV is written in.

[Aeika]

The wording is confusing.
Does that mean someone won and it just doesnt show, or that no one won still?
From the complaints about "I was the only person and still lost" I assume the latter.

[Minifie]

Tickets SHOULD go 1 2 3 4 5 6 etc. You know this, just using example. If 6 won, but there WAS an error like the other guy stated, next up would have gone back around to 1. not a ticket that didn't exist.

This isn't possible, because some houses are having 0 as the winning ticket, so instead every lottery has 0 1 2 3 4 5 6, and some are drawing 0, this is how people who are the ONLY people lotting are losing; they've gone from a 100% chance to 50% chance, if I had to wager a guess the system would "create" a number of entries based on the numbers entered, and upon drawing it would grab the array field and pick from there. Unfortunately, 0 people CAN enter, and something small was missed to create a small routine to accept that if number of entries not == 0 then array(n).

As to those who entered with others, and someone else won, odds were still equal for everyone, there was just also an equal chance of a void ticket. This sucks, and any perceived "fair" solution won't be fair to someone involved. Best in this situation to accept that if the void didn't win, the results still respected the standard chances applied. (if 5 people entered, instead of 20% chance each you all had 16.666r chance, with the void also having that chance). It sucks, but if your number was drawn, it was drawn, it couldn't have drawn your number and increased it by 1, because people still won with the highest number in the lot. For it to be a simple +1 check, it would mean that the routine would not only be able to add 1 to all rolls, but also loop. Possible, but at least in this situation, not removing 0 from an array involving any number higher than 0 seems more likely. We'll see what the devs follow up with.

[MilkieTea]

this is gamebreaking, they need to hotfix this soon.

[Jax-chan]

The wording is confusing.
Does that mean someone won and it just doesnt show, or that no one won still?
From the complaints about "I was the only person and still lost" I assume the latter.

The most sensible explanation is that it's a silly programming error where they included the default "0 ticket" in the lottery by accident (which would be the winner if no one entered) so instead of there only being one entrant, there were actually 2: Ticket 0 and Ticket 1, so the actual chance of winning was 50%.

[Esoterik14]

I thought I had legit lost and accepted the refund of my deposit. So I suppose that's going to disqualify me now if they re-examine the database and re-run the lottery for the plot I bid on. RIP.

[Burmecia]

hi, you looking for something : )

[SnowVix]

you should screen it and take your money-bc you can lose your money if it's not claimed after a certain time

the money is only lost after 3 months, this is bad advice