Broken Lottery, Please Rollback

[Markfresh]

I think there were some unintended bugs with the lottery system. However, I wonder if 0 was intentional. Did they plan on having situations where no winner was awarded in order to have plots available for subsequent lotteries? Otherwise most if not all plots would have been claimed in the first draw, leaving the lottery feature worthless at least for the foreseeable future.

Do you mean they might have made it so that no one won on purpose to leave houses open for the next lotto?
If so imo i doubt it, if there were say 2 friends that bided on the 1 house and neither of them won and they were the only bidders, well then questions would be raised.

[ForteNightshade]

That is assuming the bug is simply the RNG rolls 0-10, instead of 1-10.
From what I've read on Lodestone, it's a major issue and the problem involves lottery conditions.
Therefore it's not simply rolling zero as additional participants, but some participants that should've been there might not be counted due to failing to meet the condition.

Even if this did end up being the case, they'll acknowledge the mistake, apologize and may go so far as to rush in additional plots. They won't, however, rollback the entire system due to it having a far greater impact on more players. It isn't as simple as flicking a switch and everything returns to exactly as it were fifteens before the lottery resolved. If that were even a conversation, they'd have already announced it.

[Redline507]

Do you mean they might have made it so that no one won on purpose to leave houses open for the next lotto?
If so imo i doubt it, if there were say 2 friends that bided on the 1 house and neither of them won and they were the only bidders, well then questions would be raised.

I was the only bidder on the plot. Yet I lost to zero. The same happened to many people on my server. In the ward I placed my bid on, almost all the plots had 2 or less bidders with most having 1. Of the available plots only about 15% have been claimed. The rest all lost to zero. This was either bad/overlooked code or they did this intentionally to have plots for future lotteries. Not saying it was a good move, but how did this pass testing/QC unless it was possibly their intention from the beginning.

[HuaTuo]

well let me just clarify this. a ZERO was never intended to win, that theory some people are spouting here, that somehow SE intended for some houses to be unclaimed, just no, even SE cannot be this retarded. In support of this, you can see multiple posts on Lodestone when they are saying that the zero win was unintended and they're addressing it. Jeez, worse disinfo than twitter on here! lol

[Jojoya]

I was the only bidder on the plot. Yet I lost to zero. The same happened to many people on my server. In the ward I placed my bid on, almost all the plots had 2 or less bidders with most having 1. Of the available plots only about 15% have been claimed. The rest all lost to zero. This was either bad/overlooked code or they did this intentionally to have plots for future lotteries. Not saying it was a good move, but how did this pass testing/QC unless it was possibly their intention from the beginning.

No one lost to 0. Please read the updates posted on the Lodestone.

Each plot with entries had a proper winner. That information is stored on the lottery servers. What happened is that the lottery servers failed to communicate the winner information correctly to the housing servers for some plots. Because the housing servers did not get the winner information, View Results displayed either "The winning number is 0" or "There were no participants".

It probably got past QA because it was working fine on their internal test servers during the pre-patch testing. It wouldn't be the first time things were working on test servers that didn't end up working on the retail servers because other factors interacting with code weren't present in the test environment. Or it could be some random issue introduced during the emergency maintenance that was intended to address the relocation problem.

No, it was never their intention for this to happen. What benefit would they gain by such a move? None. In the meantime they did gain an upset player base and some bad publicity.

[DeNada]

Yeah, there's no reroll because the lottery results are fair. The zero results are due to a communication issue between the lottery and housing servers, not an unfair lottery result.