A lottery to replace the auction.

[Elysia]

All,

Since the future of auctions is looking grim - given the shenanigans that went down with the last auction it's highly likely that we will not be doing auctions for cash anymore, I'm doing a lottery to still get the best of these items into the game.

The lottery will run from now and end with a draw on Sept 5.

Everyone can participate: DS, LS or SS. Everyone can buy an unlimited amount of tickets on an unlimited amount of items. Please only bid on one alt per item though.

For the copper chit and iron chit, there will be two draws:
The first draw, which will draw from the total amount of tickets bought, so the more tickets you bought for that item, the greater your chances of winning.

The second draw will let each player who purchased any amount of tickets to that specific lottery play with one ticket. To verify someone isn't skewing this by using alts to increase their chances, I will verify this by doing the necessary traces. If you try to get in on the lottery of one particular item with multiple alts, you void all your tickets for both the first and the second draw.

In the draws for the copper/iron chits, heron long and triple bladed dagger, there will be 5 consolation prizes each, consisting of a tin chit.

To participate, find the meticulous woman in Elmora, Lockshear or Lugard. SAY LOTTERY for instructions and costs of each ticket.

These are the items being lottoed and the costs of a ticket to participate in the lottery:

A copper chit - 1250 gold crowns per ticket
An iron chit - 1200 gold crowns per ticket
A heronmarked longsword - 1150 gold crowns per ticket
A triple bladed dagger - 1100 gold crowns per ticket
A shocklance - 1000 gold crowns per ticket
A gown of exquisite design - 900 gold crowns per ticket
A pair of jeweled wristcuffs - 750 gold crowns per ticket
A massive war maul - 500 gold crowns per ticket

Good luck!

[Elysia]

I'll be posting updates on amounts of tickets sold here and on FB, so you can weigh your chances:

Updated on the morning of September 5th:

Copper chit: 250 tickets
Iron chit: 239 tickets
Heron long: 55 tickets
Triple bladed: 49 tickets
Shocklance: 26 tickets
Egown: 27 tickets
Jeweled wristcuffs: 31 tickets
War maul: 68 tickets

[Elysia]

I'll just add to this thread instead of making a new topic.

At around 8 pm server time tonight, I will remove all the ticket vendor mobs. Then I will prepare and post the lists for each draw on Player's Lounge.

E.g. I will post the full list for copper chits, and the one ticket per character list for the 2nd draw and consolation prizes draws. I will do this for all items that are being lottoed. Then, in the interest of transparancy, I will gather a few players in the same zone and use a copy of the DWC mobol "roll x sided die" and it will echo the number in zone with player witnesses. I tried if the mobol can echo it to the whole game, but alas. Zone wide is the best mobol can do.

Then I will obviously post the winners.