Bahram's Lottery draw-system change plz

Just remember that data is from 7 months ago. Assuming there has been the continued trend in coin leaving the economy (and we can assume so, given the payout is trending downward still, and the market for just about every item crashed months ago), 26th-1000th in terms of coin holdings will collectively be poorer. Which I think is the idea, that everyone that doesn't basically hoard wealth even post lottery win ends up a little less wealthy, and coin in circulation decreases dramatically, squashing prices. Top10-25 players for coin prior were basically in an unspoken coin highscore competition among one another (as is the nature of wealthy lists), and could and still can all afford to kit their civs out from 0 to 1000 a couple times over, so it's irrelevant as to how much they actually have. Especially when 50th or so to 500th or so are generally the "economic activity" players. As they're still trying to build new wealth (while top 10-25 tend to back off in terms of activity), or buying up the last couple of pieces of high end, high price gear to finish off a new set to do so.

I do agree, in part. My concern is that slotkit won 3 out of 4 rewards across 2 weeks. If/when casual players see this sort of luck happen for a player that was wealthier than them to begin with, they're not really encouraged to play the lotto. Heck, I wasn't when I read about this. I don't want it to end up a feature that gets used only by the legendary questers and whichever PvPers are more active than I am in a given season. Rather than new restrictions limiting how much the rich players can spend on the lotto or how often, I'd rather see either or both of always separate coin and item winners, and/or no wins of the same reward in back-to-back weeks (with players still being able to buy tickets in a post-win week, but only being elligible to win the other reward and get their tokens).

Is there a newer spreadsheet on the coin holdings of the playerbase Andy?

 

I just want to thank the devs for implementing one of the suggestions here.

People aren't able to win the same reward 2 weeks in a row from the lotto, as per last maintenance.

Interested to see what you guys still think, but I'm impressed that the team has been willing to compromise on this and implement part of the suggested changes already, and they may be right in refusing to implement them all at once, in case this is all that is really needed.

 

Thx for the heads up, I didn't notice. I hope it is mentioned on the interface when buying tickets, that they are voided for that week.

It's also not very clear from the changelog if it includes different prizes in the same week and different prize the next week. Do you have more info to say it's "not the same reward"?

 

Spoke to Martinmine, can confirm that you can't win a reward you've won the prior week. Meaning players can still win a reward then the other across consecutive weeks, or both rewards in a week after nothing the prior week, but players can no longer win either reward more than once across a fortnight.

We've already seen a case of a player winning 3 from 4 in a fortnight (what inspired the thread), and 4 from 4 was also possible, but now no longer in either case.

Seems like a good middle ground for an attractive coin dump for wealthy players, and an opportunity for a handful of lucky players other than them as well.

 

This seems like a fair change, I like it.
More so than preventing a double win. It remains a choice if someone want to buy tickets with a reduced max potential.

 

Yeah exactly, imo it's the perfect compromise.