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

[RobinThorp]

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

Weee-eeelll then...



I thought it would be like 10 silver or something.

On another point then, I entered a lottery and hit the select all when my characters came up, but only 4 of my 7 characters were listed as entered. How do I determine what the elidgability parameters are? Or should I just not worry about it and just go with whatever characters show up?

Incidentally, I didn't win anything on any of the characters and I presume the lottery is done since it had a cut off time of 12:20PM EST.

[Pale_Rider]

So are Monsters still unable to claim lotto prize? I recently won and swore i read they could claim.

[swattz101]

No, but festival tokens are dropping from NPCs in the moors that both creeps and creeps can turn in. That may be what you are thinking of.

[Duwis]

So are Monsters still unable to claim lotto prize? I recently won and swore i read they could claim.

Monster players cannot claim lottery prizes, as they have no mailbox to pick them up from.

[Umbrael]

The Symbol of Celebrimbor lotto only seems to be an option for my monster player charries on Silverlode, which is ironic, considering that they have no mailbox. My lvl 60 & 62 freeps aren't showing up on the list for that lotto, at all. Not sure if that's right or not, but thought I'd throw it up in here anyway.

Only chance to get the symbol for someone like me, too...now am bummed. LOL!

[dhatcher1]

The Symbol of Celebrimbor lotto only seems to be an option for my monster player charries on Silverlode, which is ironic, considering that they have no mailbox. My lvl 60 & 62 freeps aren't showing up on the list for that lotto, at all. Not sure if that's right or not, but thought I'd throw it up in here anyway.

Only chance to get the symbol for someone like me, too...now am bummed. LOL!

The Symbol lotto is only for level 65s.

[KitsuneGirl]

Monster Play Characters
Monster play characters are currently able to enter the lotteries and win. This is not working as intended. Creep characters should not be able to enter lotteries. We are unable to award any winnings in the event your creep character should win.

You could of course just add a mailbox to the creep starting pits... call it a trash heap or something.

Its not really fair that you guys make it so creeps can win, but then go "oh well, creeps arent supposed to be able to do the lotteries anyway."

[Umbrael]

The Symbol lotto is only for level 65s.

Well, that royally sucks. But its good to know. At least the creeps with their non-existant mailbox can...not hope for it on the lotto page. ^^;

[Eaddryt]

You could of course just add a mailbox to the creep starting pits... call it a trash heap or something.

I like this and have always found it odd that MP has never had Mail. What is the reasoning for this?


Also, could we pretty please get an update to my.lotro.com sometime soon in regards to at the very very least:

1) Displaying Lotteries in reverse order of win date (and having them show in proper order, my winning dates are all over the place in regards to date, so confusing).
2) Being able to set it to: "Show winnings for the last [#] only" - [#] being a selectable number, choices: "24 Hours, 2 Days, 3 Days, 4 Days, 5 Days, 6 Days, Last Week, Last Two Weeks, and All Entries"

I haven't seen any update that I have noticed to my.lotro.com since I have returned to LotRO. As well, I have yet to even heard back about my issue with not being able to edit my kinship page or even find it as well as being unable to edit my lorebook pages. I've filed two tickets now on it and posted on it.

Thanks! Loving these lotteries and My.Lotro.com, just wish we could see some fixes and updates soon.

Keep up the good work and hope you're able to find the time for updates!

[Ozthorn]

The Dwalin, Balin, & Moore LOTRO Lottery Commission are constantly monitoring the lottery system and your feedback. Below are the known issues, feature requests, and comments we can make about them as of 2010 Mar 29.


Known Issues
Session Characters
Currently, session play characters (those with a ~ in front of their names) can register for lotteries. Again...

Transferred Characters
This is a known issue in the my.lotro.com system where transferred characters are overly sentimental about their first home. You should not sign up characters for lotteries unless they are listed in the world they currently reside; we will be unable to deliver prizes to them. We are working on the underlying issue.

Monster Play Characters
Monster play characters are currently able to enter the lotteries and win. This is not working as intended. Creep characters should not be able to enter lotteries. We are unable to award any winnings in the event your creep character should win.


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.

Feature request:
Put a mailbox in Gramsfoot and let creeps access mail and collect their winnings.

[ForestMama]

Hmmm, could you maybe put the link to entering the lotteries somewhere that is actually findable? I've just spent a good 20 minutes trying to find a way to enter the lotteries that are featured as a news item on my log-in screen, without any success whatsoever! Maybe a "Lottery Tracking System" like the one in-game for quests?

[Rahsputin]

to access the LOTTO entry, you can go to your own personal page:

www.my.lotro.com/yournamehere

(YOURNAMEHERE is the name you used to set up your profile)

There will be a button on the Left hand side that you can click that will bring up any Lotteries that are available

[Arienfell]

You could of course just add a mailbox to the creep starting pits... call it a trash heap or something.

Its not really fair that you guys make it so creeps can win, but then go "oh well, creeps arent supposed to be able to do the lotteries anyway."

This has bugged me for a while, too. My creep has won the lotteries numerous times.

AND I just realise that I accidentally entered him into the Celebrimbor lottery. If he, like I'm sure many other creeps, wins the lottery, that's taking the chance of getting the symbol away from all other people, including my main lvl 65 freep.

[macdadg]

Not all available lotteries show up when you click the Enter To Win button on your mylotro main page. I have to go through all my characters and enter the lotteries individually. Not a big thing, but an Enter To Win Button that is supposed to bring up all available lotteries should do exactly that.

[robnkarla]

Not all available lotteries show up when you click the Enter To Win button on your mylotro main page. I have to go through all my characters and enter the lotteries individually. Not a big thing, but an Enter To Win Button that is supposed to bring up all available lotteries should do exactly that.

The Enter To Win Button brings up all "Active" Lotteries. When you go to the character screen it brings up all "Active" and upcoming Lotteries, so going that way you get to get a jump start on the lottos.

[ringaprometheus]

Not sure if its a bug or just because you guys hate me and my thoughts about you. But here is a problem you should know about, prolly. I won the lottery and got ONE whole skirmish mark.

Knutor

[Dean340]

I won over 100 times according to my count.

uh...huh?

[Duwis]

Not sure if its a bug or just because you guys hate me and my thoughts about you. But here is a problem you should know about, prolly. I won the lottery and got ONE whole skirmish mark.

Actually, you won 127 skirmish marks; there is an odd visual bug around mailing skirmish marks. No matter how large a stack you send via mail, the attachment icon only shows as a single mark. However, detaching the 'item' results in the appropriate amount of skirmish marks, always 127 for a lottery, being added to your inventory.

We've verified this six ways to Sunday, as we saw this behavior when we first tested sending marks via mail. As for why you get a stack of 127, those familiar with their computing fundamentals can hazard a guess.

[Beruthiel]

I also won 1 whole skirmish mark and no it wasn't a bug in that, it was ONE Veteran's skirmish mark that gave me a grand total of 30 skirmish marks! Wow, that is really lame

Also, I show a character that I don't own in my character panel. Kind of confusing as it has the name that I used to have before being renamed. Sort of irritating at the same time to know someone can run around with a name that I wasn't allowed to keep after a year of playing. sigh

[Sparthir]

Feature Request: Pagination on winnings

Also cross browser compatibility on scroll bars down the side of entries and winnings would be good.

tyvm for lotteries though.

[MataTahu]

Actually, you won 127 skirmish marks; there is an odd visual bug around mailing skirmish marks. No matter how large a stack you send via mail, the attachment icon only shows as a single mark. However, detaching the 'item' results in the appropriate amount of skirmish marks, always 127 for a lottery, being added to your inventory.

We've verified this six ways to Sunday, as we saw this behavior when we first tested sending marks via mail. As for why you get a stack of 127, those familiar with their computing fundamentals can hazard a guess.

Hehe.


As a person who, in the course of my studies, deals with 8-bit IP address octets and subnet masks all day... I think I just might know.
Well, except that I can't quite fathom why you didn't just take the extra bit and go to 255.

[SunnyM]

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

I'd really like to see this feature too, or some way of hiding older wins - with the recent token lotteries and my numerous alts (have all 9 slots filled with 1 of each class) there are too many wins to actually see things properly, also they are in a weird arbitrary order which doesn't help when trying to figure out if you've won something.

Having them sorted by last win would make things much easier, and maybe even something like "hide this entry" checkboxes would work - so we could hide token/welcome wagon wins and just show actual big lottery wins (if we have any).

[Maikeruu]

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.

One of my toons (Maikeruu) also won this lottery "Spring is Sprung 03/29/2010" and also did not receive the prize. When I mentioned it in game, other players told me that if a lotto ran while the server was down for maintenance, you didn't get your prize.

Maybe this should also be listed on the known issues, since it's known to people in game, just not some of us posting here.

[Sporati]

For those that won during the Spring Festival, there was a post somewhere from one of the devs notifying that there was a glitch during a patch. And those that had won in a specific lottery drawing had their emails lost and there was no way to get them back. They apologized but mentioned it wasn't possible to compensate the winners after the fact. Whether everyone or it was just arbitrary in who had their mail deleted, I can't remember.

[Unique]

<stuff> As for why you get a stack of 127, those familiar with their computing fundamentals can hazard a guess.

This hint is misleading. I have discovered the true reason you picked the number 127.....


There are 127 species in the cuckoo bird family, including the road runner.


Now you know.