Release 43 Lot Deed Raffle Winners and R44 Raffle Details

@Berek Still can't view the images to see the winners, any chance you can make a note to post with the links as per previous work arounds? Thanks!

 

If you right click the image links, they will download. They are normal .jpg, so should be available on any system. What are you using?

 

Internet Explorer 11, updated to current version. Medium-High security settings. There's nothing for me to click on, there's just an X in a box and the work .img after that but no picture is detected. Seems to be treated as regular text, right clicking doesn't show picture options as most everything is grayed out as if clicking on regular text or blank section of screen. I am running Adblock as well. (Disabled Adblock and closed IE and restarted, no change.)

 

I have been experiencing this on my desktop and iPhone with forum posts. Where an image should be I see an unclickable

 

you have four slashes between http: and the path. again.

Code:

<img src="http:////d2sx9mrt4zumaq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/raffle_r43_winners_anywhere.jpg" class="bbCodeImage LbImage" alt="[&#x200B;IMG]" data-url="http:////d2sx9mrt4zumaq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/raffle_r43_winners_anywhere.jpg" /> <br />
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<img src="http:////d2sx9mrt4zumaq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/raffle_r43_winners_pot.jpg" class="bbCodeImage LbImage" alt="[&#x200B;IMG]" data-url="http:////d2sx9mrt4zumaq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/raffle_r43_winners_pot.jpg" />

 

Arcadeguy try clicking on the link here it is mentioned on this page and tested with Ie11 https://www.shroudoftheavatar.com/?p=75368#Raffle

 

Interesting, that's odd ;(. I'll endeavor to get those links added alongside in the future! Here they are:

POT: //d2sx9mrt4zumaq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/raffle_r43_winners_pot.jpg

Anywhere: //d2sx9mrt4zumaq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/raffle_r43_winners_anywhere.jpg

 

Hi @skeggy , thanks yes that works there fine.

 

@Berek thank you kindly, those links for me.

 

One thing I wouldn't mind is if the raffle was more frequent (like once a week), but perhaps with fewer available deeds being raffled.

Waiting a month for a shot at the raffle is a very long time. So psychologically, I found it was pressuring me to grind grind grind up as many tickets as possible, to the exclusion of anything else... because I didn't want to have to wait a whole month for another shot. Then, I wouldn't win anything, and it was kind of devastating, because suddenly the 200k+ gold I'd spent just suddenly vanished with zero pay-off.

After a couple rounds of this, I smartened up and raised the money to simply buy a deed from another player.

I realize that once-a-week is just a more granular approach to once-a-month, but it does have perceptual differences. If it was weekly, I think I'd be more inclined to just throw a couple tickets at it, at a time.

 

they'd have to patch every week to do that.

 

Why does it require a patch?

 

remove the old and add the new tickets for the next round to the vendors, make the old tickets tradeable and deco objects

 

Both of these are easy to solve.

For the tickets on the vendors:
1) Make them universal.
2) Have a simple log where it stores two columns - player ID and timestamp
3) Generate the deed database objects based on the timestamp, once a week.
4) Use existing mail system to deliver.
5) Wipe log

This could be 100% automated, with no patching (beyond initially making these tweaks)

Then, we can save the less important part for the once-a-month patch converting the "Universal" tickets to release-specific ones. People already tend to wait a long time for them to be tradable/placable.

So no, weekly patches are not required.

 

R44 raffle still open!