Raffle Adjustments

Hello there,

So Ive been thinking of ways to improve the raffle system so you dont need to utilize the TC as proof or use off site drawing sites.

Heres my idea:

When OP creates the post they submit the items and/or currency they are putting as prizes. The game would say 'prize one' with a selector of the items in your hoard, if you have multiple prizes it would have an add icon that says 'add another prize' and you'd do the same for more prizes and can edit the post to add more prizes later however prizes may not be removed.

OP would also be able to select 'Ticket Entries' along with how many tickets the selected item/currency gives. So 'Ticket Entry #1' OP could select '10sc' then it would ask 'How many tickets does this give?' and you would put a number value in ex. '1' then could add more ticket entries with a button that says 'add another ticket entry'. Ticket entries may be added via edits later on as well.

When a player submits raffle entries they would do it from the raffle post itself instead of sending a private trade to the user, and would only be able to submit the items/currency values the OP has selected can be submitted as tickets.

All tickets submitted would be suspended until the raffle ends, the game would hold these items as well as log how many tickets each player has via the items they have submitted. When the raffle ends the ticket entries would be sent to the raffles host.

When the raffle ends the game randomly draws winners, however it will not draw the same name for multiple prizes and the prizes will automatically be sent to the winners.

OP would be forced to select a raffle end date that can only be changed or canceled with a GC price. 1gc to change the date, 3gc to cancel for example. If the raffle is canceled the game would refund all players who submitted entries.

Pros:

Eliminates scamming via raffles

Stops players from accidentally breaking a rule by advertising their raffle in the raffle proof trade

Stops players from sending unwanted items as tickets

Eliminates confusion with how to enter raffles

Cons:

Workload on the devs would be quite a bit

I don't really do raffles, but this would work a lot better than people keeping track of all of it by hand!  Normal raffles are so confusing, and so easy to either hide a scam or just accidentally do something wrong.

It helps that there's already a lottery system on the site, so the raffle code could be based on that to some extent instead of having to be written all from scratch.