It's time to bring back the lottery

[FlyingJesus]

Habbox is poor. We don't have enough funding methods (other than managers paying themselves) for comps or events and we need these things to properly keep the community interested and be able to continue to advertise as being the biggest and best, and the lottery was always the best for this as well as being a great way to get people together. I'm well aware that it was scrapped because of Sulake's decision to get rid of gambling, but there are so many ways around it and none have been even attempted, we just gave up.

The easiest way to do it would be just a twist on the way that we do donator all year around, making "entry" just a donation. Make it so that if a person donates 1c to the General Fund they are eligible to claim a random number as a way of saying thank you. We're totally free to give intangible thank you rewards (just like a coloured name) so there's no risk of being shut down or whatever as all we'd be doing is taking donations that are freely given, and these are donations that we desperately need. Less reliance on managerial funding means more is around to be given out, and therefore there will be less personal cost to staff and by extension more incentive to join these departments as regular staff. We don't need to break any rules, we just need to actually have some balls - lottery balls that is!!!!!!!!! *+*+* haha I am funny

[Inseriousity.]

Would be nice to see lottery return and yes it's very much needed. It really depends how tight Sulake are.

[StripedTiger]

VIP colour for Competitions and Events donator might be useful - especially if its a nice colour that will be in demand

how can habbo get rid of gambling when there are plenty of casinos still around on habbo itself?

[MKR&*42]

its return is absolutely 100pcnt needed and I'm surprised some AGMs hasn't yet thought of a way to bring it back

[Sho]

Funding is desperately needed. I've been trying to think of a way to avoid Sulake's rule for a while and this might work. I'll look into it again to see what exactly they say we can/can't do because I don't see anything wrong with accepting a donation and using the lottery as a way of thanking everyone.

[Plebings]

just say you're donating for a forum achievement, give everyone a badge saying they donated, maybe give people who donate 25c+ a month of pre-selected donator. each 1c donated gets an entry in the lottery as thanks.

i doubt habbo will notice, just make sure that the staff advertising it say it very specific. long as you don't get people advertising 1c for lottery entries it shouldn't be an issue.

[Empired]

Good idea but it'd have to be thought about very carefully. Would have to make sure you're following the rules at all times or Habbox could soon find itself becoming an unofficial fansite if it can't follow the rules. I assume General Management would have to inform Sulake of these plans just to make sure there's no possibility of running into any trouble?

I would take part in the lottery if it were to come back though.

[Kyle]

if not enough people enter it wont give enough of a return and without the ability to properly advertise it there arent many ways to get people outside of the forum and main room to enter

[FlyingJesus]

You can advertise it, we do so with donator anyway

[Paige.]

when i saw you say about this in the help desk i was hoping you'd post about it!

definitely needed and i think i was away from habbox for a bit when it was stopped because i remember constantly thinking hmm so where is the lottery and when i was manager i remember thinking aren't i supposed to sell lottery tickets at some point lol

if it's brought up, i hope sulake isn't harsh because it's clear that funding is neccesary