Suggestion Re; Session players and monster players in lotteries

[RusselDog]

I'm not professing to know anything about the system, or about the problem itself, but has it been considered to filter out the invalid entries (ie Session Play characters and Monster Player characters) during the actual drawing of the lottery? It wouldn't fix the problem from the players perspective, but it would eliminate them from actually having a winning entry and probably alieviate a bit of angst from players if they knew that although Session and Monster Play characters could still enter the lotteries, that they wouldn't be able to actually win.

Sapience or Duwis, please feel free to backhand me if i'm just suggesting the first solution you all came up with.

[Lorekeeper]

Speaking as an angst player, I agree. I inadvertently selected a session play character and won the Big Green Lotto. Guess what. No way to claim it.

/slaphead
/swearloudly
/slaphead

[Sapience]

Again, in the known issues, this is an old issue that has come back up. It will be fixed. It is NOT working as intended. Recent changes reverted the original fix for this. During an upcoming maintenance we'll simply re-enable the change, solving the problem.

[RusselDog]

How Soon™ could we feasibly expect this? And how many more posts of people complaining about the same thing over and over again will come up in that time, and how many people will just say "Screw the lotto if they can't do it right" in the meantime? I can understand the frustration you must feel with people not reading the Known Issues thread, but I thought my suggestion may have been vaild to aleiviate the problem until it is fixed. Sorry to have added to your frustration Sapience.

[Duwis]

how many people will just say "Screw the lotto if they can't do it right" in the meantime?

Well... more winnings for those who don't then.

[RusselDog]

Well... more winnings for those who don't then.

Except for those winnings that are eaten up in the meantime by ~characters and Monster Players. Can i make the suggestion to do away with Monster Play completely again?

[Veryth]

The reality of it is, if people are losing lottery winnings to session play and monster characters, it's their own fault for not checking who they enter in the first place. While it's all well and good to want the problem fixed, it's also unrealistic to suggest things like shutting down all of monster play just because people have grown too dependent on the "select all" option.

It's not long ago that we had to manually check each character, and it certainly takes less time and effort to just double-check that you're submitting the right characters than it does to hit "select all" and then complain about how you got gypped.

The programmers are probably trying to work it out as best they can, but players also have to take the responsibility of monitoring their own entries. The more stressed the programmers get because of player complaints, the longer it will take for them to fix it, and the more likely they'll be to mess something else up. That's just how the human mind works.

Really, just take the few extra seconds to check your character submissions, and cheer on those programmers. They'll get it working, they're awesome like that!

[Zhalfir]

Except for those winnings that are eaten up in the meantime by ~characters and Monster Players. Can i make the suggestion to do away with Monster Play completely again?

Yep, I have a kinmate who has "won" three times on Monster characters because she just hit Select All and Submit.