YAY, lotteries

[Blizzard12]

All of the sudden I'm impressed by Turbine. They finally have a lottery, unfortunately it's just for lvl 85's...

[Yula_the_Mighty]

80s can enter it.

[Nindolvoth]

Usually there are more lotteries. the lotteries have been acting up and we have not had any in awhile. Hopely this is a sign that sapience is on the right track to fixing them

[Sapience]

Another coming later today for level 20-85.

Assuming things don't go sideways between now and tomorrow, there should be a veritable cornucopia of lotteries this weekend. *crosses fingers*

[Dotlbeme]

Lottery of the Well Booted
Ended 02/04/2013 01:00PM EST
Dotili Lvl 66 Minstrel, Meneldor
Dotlas Lvl 57 Rune-keeper, Meneldor
Dotlo Lvl 57 Guardian, Meneldor
Dotriel Lvl 65 Captain, Meneldor
Dottiel Lvl 75 Lore-master, Meneldor
Melodial Lvl 36 Minstrel, Meneldor
Dotgrim Lvl 75 Burglar, Meneldor

Anyone want to buy some boots?

I've see the level delay before. Good to know there's some coming!

[EmyrSelyf]

Here's to cornucopias !!!

[GoldenusG]

Ahhh, Hytbold tokens... Amusingly enough, the day after I finish rebuilding the old place. Still, I haven't picked up my armour yet so its not actually annoying.

... Unless of course its like last time they gave the tokens away and no-one got any.

[Blizzard12]

Another coming later today for level 20-85.

Assuming things don't go sideways between now and tomorrow, there should be a veritable cornucopia of lotteries this weekend. *crosses fingers*

Thanks! And of course it's a weekend that i won't be here. Oh well, maybe next time.

[MontyMan]

If only the page actually displayed for me. Still seeing just a blank white page.

[Nakiami]

The Hytbold token lottery didn't work last time. Let's hope it works this time.

[Sapience]

The Hytbold token lottery didn't work last time. Let's hope it works this time.

What didn't work about them?

[Feraxks]

Lottery of the Well Booted
Ended 02/04/2013 01:00PM EST
Dotili Lvl 66 Minstrel, Meneldor
Dotlas Lvl 57 Rune-keeper, Meneldor
Dotlo Lvl 57 Guardian, Meneldor
Dotriel Lvl 65 Captain, Meneldor
Dottiel Lvl 75 Lore-master, Meneldor
Melodial Lvl 36 Minstrel, Meneldor
Dotgrim Lvl 75 Burglar, Meneldor

Anyone want to buy some boots?

I've see the level delay before. Good to know there's some coming!

These boots are made for walkin'.......

[Feraxks]

What didn't work about them?

I didn't win. That's my definition of "not working".

[Sapience]

I didn't win. That's my definition of "not working".

It's certainly consistent with many others definition of 'not working'.

[Polymachos]

Hytbold Tokens.

My main has built everything there, bought all of the set, and still 700+ left. And I enter him for some more. I must be crazy.


Greetings, Polymachos

[Blizzard12]

Hytbold Tokens.

My main has built everything there, bought all of the set, and still 700+ left. And I enter him for some more. I must be crazy.


Greetings, Polymachos

Do you want to share them with me?

[ItaOperor]

Another coming later today for level 20-85.

Assuming things don't go sideways between now and tomorrow, there should be a veritable cornucopia of lotteries this weekend. *crosses fingers*

How can you be running a lottery when the forum can't accurately keep track of character's levels?

[Nakiami]

What didn't work about them?

The tokens weren't delivered [to some people?].

[Fipiara]

What didn't work about them?

The problem with the Tokens of Hytbold is that the item definition in the lottery is x125, but they only stack to 100. I'm pretty sure that is why nothing was sent the last time they were included. (It probably errors out when the mail is being generated.)

I'm worried that the same thing will happen since they are still at x125, though I'm very happy to see the lottos may be up and running again soon

[Maximilan]

Hip, Hip, Hooray for the Lotteries!

TY Sapience

[0Pinger]

Someone[you?] mentioned the Hytbold tokens weren't suppose to be in the lottery and yes no one that won it got them

[Gagmuk]

What didn't work about them?

the lottery of the Hybolt on december 24th that ended at 3:00 pm. none of the winners got their winnings. Says My charecter Gentatsu won the lottery. I made post about it, i even /bugged it. I logged in every day so i know i didnt miss it. And the hybolt lottery was never held before so i know that wasnt why it bugged out.

I agree with what others say. it was the 125 stack that bugged it. Either the lottery system or the mail system couldnt figure out how to send the the 125 tokens. since stack sizes are stacks of 100. Since the current lottery has the same 125 stacks it might and probably will bug out again unless some coding is done to prevent it and help it break down into 2 stacks.

Tried pointing this out periodically. even sent you a pm about it. but alas, guess we players dont know what were talking about or its assumed were lying.

yeah i know, no one said anything like that. But no one at turbine said the opposite either.

Lottery of the Hytbold Tokens
Ended 12/24/2012 03:00PM EST
Gentatsu Lvl 85 Hunter, Meneldor

Winings recieved for this lottery: NOTHING, no one on the list got their winnings. it was never mailed.

NOTE: Lotteries are not officially supported by turbine.

If any of my toons win the hybolt lottery this time. and do not receive Ill /bug, post here and send you a pm. like i did last time also.

p.s. not really worried about gentatsu winning the hybolt or the lost winnings from the 24th as I have hybolt all rebuilt and the hybolt armor by now. was just tryin to get yas to understand their was an issue with that particular lottery.

[Flour]

We thanks for the return of the lotteries....well tentative. All my characters were entered.

Again thanks for your work. I too have my fingers crossed.

[thalialotr]

Add my thanks for the Lottery return.

And Sapience, the Pocket Change Lottery has all my characters, across all the servers, properly updated. This is a first! Congrats on hunting down bugs while you have 1000000 other things going on.

*hug*
Ruth

[Sapience]

the lottery of the Hybolt on december 24th that ended at 3:00 pm. none of the winners got their winnings. Says My charecter Gentatsu won the lottery. I made post about it, i even /bugged it. I logged in every day so i know i didnt miss it. And the hybolt lottery was never held before so i know that wasnt why it bugged out.

I agree with what others say. it was the 125 stack that bugged it. Either the lottery system or the mail system couldnt figure out how to send the the 125 tokens. since stack sizes are stacks of 100. Since the current lottery has the same 125 stacks it might and probably will bug out again unless some coding is done to prevent it and help it break down into 2 stacks.

Tried pointing this out periodically. even sent you a pm about it. but alas, guess we players dont know what were talking about or its assumed were lying.

yeah i know, no one said anything like that. But no one at turbine said the opposite either.



Winings recieved for this lottery: NOTHING, no one on the list got their winnings. it was never mailed.

NOTE: Lotteries are not officially supported by turbine.

If any of my toons win the hybolt lottery this time. and do not receive Ill /bug, post here and send you a pm. like i did last time also.

p.s. not really worried about gentatsu winning the hybolt or the lost winnings from the 24th as I have hybolt all rebuilt and the hybolt armor by now. was just tryin to get yas to understand their was an issue with that particular lottery.

So I took a look at this and found the issue. The lottery was awarding a stack of 125. Maximum stack size in game is listed as 100. So when the lottery tried to build a stack of 125 it could not. it exceeded the max stack size and the lottery system isn't smart enough to break it up. So it just discarded the whole thing.

That's why nothing was awarded. I've changed the value in the lottery and I'm currently waiting to see if it fixed things. If it has, i'll create new Hytbolt token lotteries for the weekend. Unfortunately I cannot dig out past winnings and award them, so we'll have to move forward from here.