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Was there a small stealth nerf included in this update?
Or did that happen earlier and I missed it?

Because now, crystal drops are rounded down instead of up, at least for me with with 3x crystal drop hath perk.

Looks like this patch helps those with huge piles of GPs. How about having GPs drop like credits? Maybe drop according to GP to credit price? Just a thought.

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But that would make GP fairly useless again, just credits in another currency essentially.
The point with the lottery was a lot about making GP actually be worth something.

It used to be that you could trade GP for credits in a 1:10 value.

The Gallery Points was after all intended for use in galleries rather than the game.

Peronally, I'd be in favor of completely cutting out GP, instead transferring it straight to credits.
Change everyone's GP into credits according to an exchange rate and then make all payments that was in GP instead be in credits, and buy lottery tickets in credits etc.

This post has been edited by Randommember: Mar 31 2014, 12:25

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Luckily i got the last batch of GP for minimal effort (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) .

Thanks for the update Tenboro

<fingers crossed for peerless power armor of slaughter forthcoming>

Maybe someone already told it, but 3-d prize is too cheap.

Maybe someone already told it, but 3-d prize is too cheap.

Replace the precursor artifacts with noodly appendages. Problem solved.

Was there a small stealth nerf included in this update?

I didn't get any amnesia (I'm not sure about the voidseeker) shard drops for a weeks. I don't know, maybe the trouble is here. I play on IWBTH/PFUDOR though. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

This post has been edited by Laboq: Mar 31 2014, 19:27

I find equipment drops less then before, although i've been playing less lately so i'm only 40% sure.

This is very interesting. I've never won in the old lottery. I wonder if I will be able to win anything now.

danixxx has finally reached lvl 500, wow, congrats.

I would take a token prize over an artifact one any day, that 3rd place is a joke. Actually, 2nd to 5th prizes are all jokes compared to the respective pre-patch prizes.

The lottery turned into an even bigger gp sink than before, as gp spent in tickets are not partly redistributed anymore. I guess people will spend twice less gp in the lottery as a result?

The armor lottery is a nice addition.

swap the 5th and 3rd prizes

danixxx has finally reached lvl 500, wow, congrats.

I would take a token prize over an artifact one any day, that 3rd place is a joke. Actually, 2nd to 5th prizes are all jokes compared to the respective pre-patch prizes.

The lottery turned into an even bigger gp sink than before, as gp spent in tickets are not partly redistributed anymore. I guess people will spend twice less gp in the lottery as a result?

The armor lottery is a nice addition.

it only took a few bad apples to make the lottery have to be changed

I'm still hoping for more entertaining updates than lottery changes. I like the HV minigame, and and want to keep playing but it's getting harder to enjoy. The grind for the sake of the grind is just not as compelling as it used to be...and it's spring where I live, sunlight and chirping birds and short skirts abound, so competition for attention is at a premium!

Good luck Tenboro. From my narrow perspective, this game is getting way harder to manage for the enjoyment of the masses...but it's something you've always had to deal with I guess...so I hope you're having fun and up to the challenge!

This is a great update!

I'll put in another suggestion:

-Have all purchased lottery tickets assigned a random number of 1 to 1 million.
-During a draw, snowflakes will pick random numbers from 1 to 1 million until 5 valid tickets are drawn
-Winners announced.

This way, no matter how many tickets you buy your chances are infinitely small. You buy more, you have better, but still extremely small chances.

I buy 1 ticket my chance of winning something: 0.0001%
Someone buys 100k tickets: 10%

So no more say, having 10% or 20% of the pool.

Just a minor suggestion: it'd be nice to see the number of tickets bought by each winner.

BTW, even though I once benefited from it, good call on removing the GP redistribution system.

This is a great update!

I'll put in another suggestion:

-Have all purchased lottery tickets assigned a random number of 1 to 1 million.
-During a draw, snowflakes will pick random numbers from 1 to 1 million until 5 valid tickets are drawn
-Winners announced.

This way, no matter how many tickets you buy your chances are infinitely small. You buy more, you have better, but still extremely small chances.

I buy 1 ticket my chance of winning something: 0.0001%
Someone buys 100k tickets: 10%

So no more say, having 10% or 20% of the pool.

I don't get what are you trying to achieve that way. If numbers with no winning tickets is re-drawn (and the mention of "valid tickets" support that reasoning), then odds of winning are equivalent to the current system.

I don't get what are you trying to achieve that way. If numbers with no winning tickets is re-drawn (and the mention of "valid tickets" support that reasoning), then odds of winning are equivalent to the current system.

Ah, then make it so that only N attempts are made and any prizes without winners will be forwarded to next days lottery.

Ah, then make it so that only N attempts are made and any prizes without winners will be forwarded to next days lottery.

Now we have 3 options:
If N is high enough (say 20), then it will be just like today's lottery, only with more randomness. Sometimes no one get the prize, and sometimes many people win many prizes. Counterproductive, I say.
If N is low enough and there only 5 prizes (that means if no one won the 1st prize for 10 days then someone finally won he will receive all 11 1st prizes) then winning the lottery will be incredebly hard and will give you super-mega-you-are-danixxx jackpot. Also not really good.
If N is low enough and prizes are counted separately (that means if no one won the 1st prize for 10 days then there chances to win at least one piece of equipment is 10 times higher than chances to win piece of equipment in the 1st day) then for the time being there will be fewer prizes won, but as number of prizes in the system goes up, so does a chance to win one. After, say 200 days there will be 100 different pieces of equipment in the system, at which point someone is expected to win one every day, so again it is exactly as today but with more randomness (you don't know if you are gonna win this peerless ethereal mace of slaughter which was added today, or legendary ethereal staff of wrong suffix which was added three month ago).

I didn't get any amnesia (I'm not sure about the voidseeker) shard drops for a weeks. I don't know, maybe the trouble is here. I play on IWBTH/PFUDOR though. (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

Not getting a certain type of drop for a week could just be a streak of bad luck.

But I'm talking about arena and item world, where the number of crystals dropped is at a set amount.

I got 3x crystal drops as a hath perk.
I play on normal and I get 3 crystals per drop.

Before, if I went up to hard ( x1.2 crystals and monster damage) it would drop 4 crystals every time I got a crystal drop. Since it rounded up. And going up to Nightmare ( x1.4) would result in 5 crystals (1.2 x 3 = 3.6 rounded up to 4, 1.4 x 3 = 4.2) but now is instead rounded down to 4.


Easy test for those that don't have the increased crystal drop perk, how many crystals do you get per drop when playing on hard in arena?

If N is high enough (say 20), then it will be just like today's lottery, only with more randomness.

I won't enter into the merit of your assumptions, but the underlined text above is contradictory to say the least.