Lottery

[AgnesIO]

So hear me out - but this was an idea that just came into my head. The lottery has never been overly popular as it has always costed habbo credits to enter.

Could a new lottery be made for forum users? This one would enable users to buy tickets with tokens, with the grand prize being lets say 7,000 tokens (ie. 3 months VIP). It could be done once a month, and wouldn't cost Habbox anything at all. It could promote the token system, but most importantly just be a fun thing for HabboxForum users.

Basic proposal is to sell tickets at say, 100 tokens each - meaning if you sold 70 tickets in a month the same amount of tokens would be taken out of the economy as would have been taken in. The basic idea is that no more tokens would be added to the economy in the end - as enough people will buy tickets to counter the prizes.

Just an idea, what do people think?

[lemons]

sounds good i'd participate

[Daltron]

I like the idea but 7,000 tokens seems a bit excessive. If it was enough tokens for 1 months worth of VIP it might be better :)

[AgnesIO]

I like the idea but 7,000 tokens seems a bit excessive. If it was enough tokens for 1 months worth of VIP it might be better :)

All figures are there for example :) 7k came out of my head as that is 3 months VIP - which only 12 people a year could win maximum. There is currently no option in the tokens shop to get one month VIP (well you could buy two weeks twice..). I personally think 100 tokens to enter is a reasonable amount (ie. 20 posts in a month could buy a ticket!)

[Inseriousity.]

Sounds like a good idea. I'd probably call it something else though to separate the two. The only way to effectively counter the prizes though is to have it more of a pot of tokens than an actual fixed prize. If you had it at a fixed prize there's a danger of adding massive quantities of tokens into the system (if using your example only 35 people bought tokens) that would undermine the whole thing. I'm also concerned about what happens when I add credits into the system which is an aim for the future, will it be a help, hinderance or make the whole thing redundant. I especially try to avoid adding lotteries that undermine the current lottery which so far this one doesn't but might do if credits were to be added as prizes to the token shop.

[AgnesIO]

Sounds like a good idea. I'd probably call it something else though to separate the two. The only way to effectively counter the prizes though is to have it more of a pot of tokens than an actual fixed prize. If you had it at a fixed prize there's a danger of adding massive quantities of tokens into the system (if using your example only 35 people bought tokens) that would undermine the whole thing. I'm also concerned about what happens when I add credits into the system which is an aim for the future, will it be a help, hinderance or make the whole thing redundant. I especially try to avoid adding lotteries that undermine the current lottery which so far this one doesn't but might do if credits were to be added as prizes to the token shop.

That is a good idea - maybe you could just say the minimum prize will be 1000 tokens (assuming it will be 100 tokens per ticket) - as otherwise people may be reluctant to join in in the first place - that way you are unlikely to add more tokens into the system too suddenly, but it will also spur interest.

Not too sure on credits in the system in the future - it is a good idea, but I have a better one ;l Should definitely have one of those casino systems on here - bet tokens win some lose some, that would be great fun haha. Obviously if you added credits that wouldn't be feasible at all since someone could potentially bankrupt hxf ><

[Mr-Trainor]

You could just not give out tokens at all as a prize, and just give out VIP and a forum award or something? Maybe some rep too. But I do like the idea, and would definitely participate :D!

[Chippiewill]

Call it Habbox Sweepstakes.

[brackson]

Sounds awesome. I'd participate :D

[Mark]

Not a bad idea, as long as Ms.Aquamarine; doesn't promote it... She steals all my credits for the normal lottery :(

[Yawn]

gd idea but imma need some habbo credits prizes cos i want 2 RLY hit the jackpot

[AlexJRiley]

I like the diea, but I think a pot would be better, so everybody that enters in all of that goes into a pot so say 100 entries are bought for 100 tokens each it'd be a 10k pot, then its a randomly drawn number per entry (i'm sure someone can code that) then its drawn at the end of the month and awarded. So then its not a set amount of tokens so if enough people don't enter to crack it up to the right amount of counterbalance the prize (like 7000) its then a prize based on the amount of people that entered

[AgnesIO]

Call it Habbox Sweepstakes.

Love this name.


gd idea but imma need some habbo credits prizes cos i want 2 RLY hit the jackpot

Habbo prizes ignored originally on purpose as that way HxF could do it without any cost to themselves :)

[Chris]

We could easily do this if people want it. Mike seems happy enough for it to be done so I'll speak with him more about it.

[Shar]

sounds like a decent idea

[AgnesIO]

We could easily do this if people want it. Mike seems happy enough for it to be done so I'll speak with him more about it.

Awesome, would be cool if it was done - would obviously need to make it known it is happening. Just seems a nice way to spend/waste your tokens, but it doesn't actually cost anyone anything :)


sounds like a decent idea

Yeah it does ;)

[Kardan]

This is a great idea! Would actually give us a small value prize to spend our tokens on, and using a pot, rather than a fixed prize, just makes this idea pretty much perfect. Can't wait to see it implemented :)

[Mr-Trainor]

Also I just remembered, on Haboosh I had a points/tokens plugin and one of the games in the shop that I had would cost a certain amount but then give you a random prize - idk if there's something like that for vB but if there is then it could be fun. Could be like 50 tokens to buy and you could get either nothing, 25 tokens, 50 tokens, 100 tokens or a week of VIP or something :P. Just an example.

[AgnesIO]

This is a great idea! Would actually give us a small value prize to spend our tokens on, and using a pot, rather than a fixed prize, just makes this idea pretty much perfect. Can't wait to see it implemented :)

Agreed - the tokens system is definitely missing a small value prize, and to me this is a great one :)


Also I just remembered, on Haboosh I had a points/tokens plugin and one of the games in the shop that I had would cost a certain amount but then give you a random prize - idk if there's something like that for vB but if there is then it could be fun. Could be like 50 tokens to buy and you could get either nothing, 25 tokens, 50 tokens, 100 tokens or a week of VIP or something :P. Just an example.

This is a really cool idea - I would love an arcade (cough casino cough) thing for tokens haha But this Lottery thing is a start ;) Random prize generator would be great