It's time to bring back the lottery

[Yupt]

Being rewarded for donating by being given a lottery ticket could work, however it is obvious why it hasn't been done yet, because if it went wrong and sulake didn't approve, they would flip and we wouldn't be in for a very good time lmao. That being said if we did get it back it would benefit us so so much, the difference in funds available with lottery and without is actually quite scary (from someone who's been in management for both).

[Chris]

Since the big drama a few weeks ago regarding the takeover that we did, I have been trying to come up with a way to revive the lottery or bring in something new entirely. It had occurred to me to use the donation twist as a loophole, but to be honest I wasn't sure that we would be able to get away with it. This is what I suggest:

Bring back the lottery in it's original format but with a few minor changes. Firstly, users would only be allowed one lottery ticket each and entry into the draw would be free. The prize for the draw would be funded by what we already have, but this would only be the base prize for the draw. What we do then is heavily advertise the lottery and make it clear that any donations made will increase the prize for the eventual winner.

It's a basic twist on the old lottery and could work if we had permission from Sulake. If we could all come to an agreement on how this new lottery should be run, then I can send an email to Habbo and request they look over the proposal and approve it.

[FlyingJesus]

You want to give everyone a free ticket every time as a way to increase funds what

[Chris]

You want to give everyone a free ticket every time as a way to increase funds what

Yes. We could do it your way and just give out a ticket for every donation, but if we do that then there is less chance of it being approved by Sulake. With my method, we can advertise it as a giveaway which is funded by user donations.

[Inseriousity.]

Don't think Sulake would approve it or anything really. Anything you do would probably need to be done without Sulake's consent and suffer the consequences if they discover it and choose to take action. That's a risky move but I think if you were to take the risk then doing tom's or akeem's idea is the simplest move forwards. Also when something is free, people will take that and just use that. 50c for free is better than 100c for 20c (with no guarantee of even getting it) - just example numbers ofc so it'd essentially just come back to people donating out of goodness.

You've tried to tone it down to get around Sulake but I don't think anything will - the definition of gambling is pretty simple really - so might as well just go for it.

[FlyingJesus]

But it isn't, it's funded by whatever we already have. The original lottery was more of a giveaway funded by donations than that, and either way to make any profit you'd have to not give away all of the donations, so makes no difference other than your method making sure that less people bother to pay to participate as well as lowering every entrant's odds of winning by giving potentially hundreds of free tickets out

[Yupt]

@Wispur if you go with the idea of first ticket is free, will additional tickets then require a donation? Otherwise we may only get 30/40 tickets in play each month

[scottish]

I doubt many people will donate for it lol (in terms of adding to the funds, not buying tickets)

[Chris]

So you would suggest we bring it back in it's old format but put the donations twist on it that we've been using for forum donator? If we did that then we could be putting our official status at risk which might then cause us more issues than we would be solving. On the other hand, desperate times call for desperate measures so I would be willing to give it a go as long as I have approval from Jin & Matt too.

@Wispur if you go with the idea of first ticket is free, will additional tickets then require a donation? Otherwise we may only get 30/40 tickets in play each month

Maybe, but it doesn't look like we will be doing that idea anyway. Need to discuss with with the others first.

[Phil]

What about a VIP/Dontator usergroup & colour that can only be bought by credit donation?