LOTRO Lottery Known Issues & Feature Requests (Updated 2010 May 12)

[Domineaux]

The notification will go away when the mail expires (in about 2 weeks).

When will it be changed so that the win notification will go away after the mail expires (as it does not currently)?

[Larhanya_Theliel]

Amusingly, today the only character who is on my list to enter the lottery is my Weaver. o_O

Although I'm sure she'd love to eat the Springfest mount if she won it, I imagine she'd find it frustrating when she learned that the Quickpost stopped running to Mt Gram after so many hobbits went missing.

(I hope this is the right thread to post in. Just wanted to let you know.)

[Sonsy]

Amusingly, today the only character who is on my list to enter the lottery is my Weaver. o_O

Although I'm sure she'd love to eat the Springfest mount if she won it, I imagine she'd find it frustrating when she learned that the Quickpost stopped running to Mt Gram after so many hobbits went missing.

(I hope this is the right thread to post in. Just wanted to let you know.)

Ditto...my Warg is my ONLY character that can sign up for today's horse lotto. I thought it might be left over from the one I signed up for last night, but if that were the case the other characters I don't enter in that one would be on the list.

Ah, the fun of programming!

EDIT: Well...there's progress...now not even my Warg can enter, lol.

[LokiCaprion]

Not only are the only eligible characters showing for the lotteries are two of my Creeps (a Warleader and a Weaver; my other Creeps don't show up)... but it shows two of my characters who have never won lotteries before won Springfest Steeds.

Sadly, when I went to claim the prize, their mailboxes were empty.

Is it possible the system tried to reward me while the servers were down? This is saddening.

[Unique]

...... but it shows two of my characters who have never won lotteries before won Springfest Steeds.

Sadly, when I went to claim the prize, their mailboxes were empty.

Is it possible the system tried to reward me while the servers were down? This is saddening.

Me too

I won the horse but got nothing in the mail - I am assuming it was because the servers were down when the lotto ended

Very unhappy

[Alcaniel]

Me too

I won the horse but got nothing in the mail - I am assuming it was because the servers were down when the lotto ended

Very unhappy

Same thing here....

[Big_H]

Feature Request:

Hey Duwis, any chance we can get a paged month view of our Lotto winnings? Meaning all my characters who won in March will only be shown as default, and there'll be a page button to browse through previous months (or a 'View Full List' button). This wasn't a problem before (though it would have been in the future), but with all these 2 hour lottos lately it's hard to find the current winners when the window only shows two names. Also, I've been noticing a little bit of lag lately when scrolling through all the names (to get to the bottom), which the month to month view would help with.
Thanks.

[Niomae]

Not only are the only eligible characters showing for the lotteries are two of my Creeps (a Warleader and a Weaver; my other Creeps don't show up)... but it shows two of my characters who have never won lotteries before won Springfest Steeds.

Sadly, when I went to claim the prize, their mailboxes were empty.

Is it possible the system tried to reward me while the servers were down? This is saddening.

I have a lot of winning entries showing today at my.lotro.com and nothing in the mail as well. One of my characters had won a horse too :/ Do we have word of a fix?

[LokiCaprion]

I have a lot of winning entries showing today at my.lotro.com and nothing in the mail as well. One of my characters had won a horse too :/ Do we have word of a fix?

Oh, we have a word on it... but it's not good.

In game support cannot assist you with lottery winnings.

Due to an error earlier this AM during maintenance a number of lottery winnings have gone wandering off into the ether. Unfortunately they cannot be recovered. We apologize for the inconvenience.

The spring themed lotteries have ended for now, but may make a come back at some point prior to the end of the Spring Festival.

So I got all happy that I finally won the horse, only to find out that I not only didn't win the horse, but I CAN'T win the horse from here on out. Very sad.

[Soldre]

Me too

I won the horse but got nothing in the mail - I am assuming it was because the servers were down when the lotto ended

Very unhappy

Me too. I won Spring is Sprung on my main yesterday, first time, but there is nothing in the mail.

/sad

[Sporati]

it happens

I will mention a minor flaw here that I am seeing on my.lotro.com page. Can anyone confirm this? When I scroll down in the lottery section under my entries and winning entries, it seems that part of the entry is cut off. Sometimes its just the date, sometimes even the name of the entrant is obscured. Has anyone else noticed this? Since its only a cosmetic issue, I'm not planning on bugging it since the devs working on the lotto are probably overwhelmed with much more important programming issues. Just wondering if anyone else noticed this or it just has to do with my interface.

[Thoroval]

I will mention a minor flaw here that I am seeing on my.lotro.com page. Can anyone confirm this? When I scroll down in the lottery section under my entries and winning entries, it seems that part of the entry is cut off. Sometimes its just the date, sometimes even the name of the entrant is obscured. Has anyone else noticed this?

Yes, I've noticed this as well. I figured Turbine just wasn't officially supporting IE8 yet and that was causing it. I wonder, are they officially supporting IE8 yet?

[Mellora1]

Yeah, but until then the monster play toons screw up the odds for everyone else...

After I check "submit all" (I have a lot of characters so this is quicker) I go back through and uncheck creeps and any clones (i.e. ~toon-name). It does kind of defeat the purpose of "submit all" to some extent, I guess, but until the problem is resolved it is the best way to pull creeps etal out of the pool.

[RathanTyr-Valen]

Me too. I won Spring is Sprung on my main yesterday, first time, but there is nothing in the mail.

/sad

Bummer. Well, if it makes you feel any better, I won several mounts. Two and three on some of my characters. They made for nice vendor trash

Now, if we had a chance to win the Roan Mount, I would not have taken the coin. But the spring one......meh.

[Duwis]

Yes, I've noticed this as well. I figured Turbine just wasn't officially supporting IE8 yet and that was causing it. I wonder, are they officially supporting IE8 yet?

Wonder no longer; we do support IE8. There is an oddity with the scrolling box JavaScript and how/when it does its magic. Typically, a refresh will display the whole set of elements, but that is not what we want as a user experience. That whole widget is being given the eye for an overhaul to address this and other issues/requests.

[Thoroval]

Wonder no longer; we do support IE8. There is an oddity with the scrolling box JavaScript and how/when it does its magic. Typically, a refresh will display the whole set of elements, but that is not what we want as a user experience. That whole widget is being given the eye for an overhaul to address this and other issues/requests.

Nice. Thanks Duwis.

[Jadowyn]

I am also having a problem looking at who won the lottery recently because of the number of wins from the every 2 hour Spring is Sprung lotteries. Basically, I think I noticed they had started before most other players and so I won over 100 times according to my count.

Because of the display widget trying to display ALL wins, the scroll bar button gets to be so small that it is invisible. This makes it almost impossible to grab so that I can scroll to the bottom of the list and see if I have won anything recently.

We need an option to limit the number of entries initially displayed so as to be able to see what is there. 2 possible options include:

1 - Limited number of wins shown in the box
2 - Change the sort to descending on a date/time basis ignoring lottery name in the sort order

My personal preference would be to see both implemented, but either would make it easier to view recent wins over all wins.

[bowledover]

I won on some of the spring lotteries X3, but no mail when I logged in, though the april fool one appeared straight away.

[Nus_Nogard]

Suggestion:
2 weeks after winning the lottery please remove the winning entry from the list if you havent picked up your items by then they are gone anyways.

Cool, this is basically what I was just coming to the forums to say. But I was thinking maybe a month out, so you could tell people how many you've won in the past month and be a jerk That or so you can yell at yourself for forgetting to pick up the relic boxes that your level 1 noob won

Also, maybe have the most current wins on the sidebar but with a link at the bottom to "view all winning entries" and have that open on a new page? That's more on my "nice to have" list though.

[Big_H]

haha my creep won the Spring Festival Lotto this weekend. The prizes included the mount and a Free Peoples' Flag.... wonder what will happen if he tries to hang that flag up in Grams

[Hyarmaion]

Animals would like to win the lottery, please.

[Redwense-]

My main character is displayed under "Winning Entries", but I have not received any mail. This is my first lottery win, and I'm quite new to the game, so I'm not sure how to go about this. Is it really bugged like a lot of people are experiencing?

EDIT: This is for the "Spring is Flung" lottery.

[Eaddryt]

Feature Requests
Reverse order of winnings list
The list of lotteries won should be sorted in reverse -- recent winnings on top.

Show the time of the lottery in current entry list
When displaying what lotteries you are currently entered into, the time should be displayed so you can tell when to check back and see if you won.

Yes, please, as soon as humanly possible on these. I really love the lotteries, I really really do! However, it is becoming a pain to see which characters won and I am getting really tired of the alternative, which is logging in every character just to see if they have mail.

Parhaps as well, add a "New mail" icon to the character listing that only the player themselves can see for their characters?

As well, please add an option to "only show winnings for the last [#] days."

Thank you for the lotteries, I really enjoy them, there just needs to be some sort of update soon for there hasn't been one that I noticed since I returned to lotro and that is looking discouraging to me.

[RobinThorp]

Perhaps a silly question, but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere:

What does it cost to enter the lotteries?

[Sapience]

Perhaps a silly question, but I can't seem to find the answer anywhere:

What does it cost to enter the lotteries?

Roughly 30 seconds of your time. There is no cost. As long as you have an active subscription you can enter them.