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Originally Posted by Derubael
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Will people who donate for a ticket be able to choose wish item(s) they want their ticket to apply to, or will this not be an option? I am asking to help clarify for people who may not want to "draw" on all items, since you are only able to win one item total. You will want to clarify this as well as detail how the actual raffle will be done prior to the event taken place, preferably at least 24 hours in advance so people can decide whether they'd like to participate and schedule time to be available.
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Originally, I was going to just award the items to the first winner -> last winner, from most valuable -> least valuable, but with the generous item donations that are being offered toward the raffle since the initial announcement I'm thinking that's probably not the best way to go about it.
(Also, for those wondering about the limited timeframe for acceptance of raffle entries, this is a great example. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Now I have time to make changes before anyone has put themselves out there.)
My qualms with allowing tickets for specific items are 1) maintenance overhead, and 2) prize distribution.
1.) I'd need to monitor every donation during the event via my Extra Life page (people can hide their comment and/or donation from the public page) to be sure they chose an item properly. Anyone who did not properly submit their donation comment would need to notified immediately to give them a chance to correct before the raffle time window closes.
2.) After the raffle ends, compiling all of the entrants and actually conducting the raffle would take a sizable amount of time. Probably at least one day. I don't mind putting in the work, but after my 24th hour I'm going to practically be a zombie and would need to get some decent rest before I could even start on the final task. I've written a whole back-end database webapp to automatically catalog all of my donations and such, but even with that it'd still take a bit to sort out winners. Due to this, I'd need to give people a reasonable amount of time to claim their item from me. I can't ever guarantee what my playtime availability will be for P99 so I'm afraid some people would end up waiting longer than they'd prefer. One solution to that is to require entrants to be present during the actual raffle drawing and I'd rather not do that. It severely limits the number of people able to contribute.
Maybe there's a happy medium? Allow choice of a select few items, all other entries can go into a randomly awarded pool? I dunno. I just want to maximize the donation potential of the whole thing.
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