..what is that......balloons ?Originally Posted by Elegante
..what is that......balloons ?
Spreadsheet has me as being level 50 instead of level 49. Though not sure if level makes a difference
Well said Timelordess! Everyone did an amazing job for our server. So glad you guys kept on going instead of giving up. Congrats to everyone that participated and who won. You all deserve it! Good luck in the raffleAgain thank you Fuscus and Huchy for all you both did to put on this contest and sacrificing your time. A big thanks to my guildies, you all rock! Your teamwork was great and I couldn't have done it without you guys!!!
Lady
Very well said Timelordess!! Congrats to everyone that donated and to the winners and thank you to Fuscus and Huchy for for putting this all together and keeping up with everything. A huge thank you to all my guildies and ppl that sent me stuff throughout this event to help me make as many balloons as possible. I wouldn't have been able to do it without you guys. Thanks again and Good luck to everyone on the Raffle
Amanda
P.S. A special thank you to clickedbigrob who had a huge impact on my balloon making
Raffle numbers will be drawn using RANDOM.org website. RANDOM.ORG is a true random number service that generates randomness via atmospheric noise. Since every generated series will be different but we want the results to be verifiable, we will generate the numbers using a seed. RANDOM offers 2 options - one is using a Date, and using a string. For the purpose of this raffle we will use both:
a) first we will use a date (we will use tomorrow date, this will assure we don't know what is the generated sequence at this time when I made this decision) and we will assign random ticket numbers to each donor
b) we will use the total number of balloons donated as a seed for generating the list of winners.
How this work ? Lets assume we have 3 players A, B, C which donated balloons
A - 160,253
B - 101,200
C - 73,600
First we calculate the number of entries (tickets) for each player, 1 ticket for every 25k donated) - therefore
A - 6 tickets
B - 4 tickets
C - 2 tickets
Total = 12 tickets and we will from this series: A A A A A A B B B B C C
Next - we assign random ticket numbers from 1 to 12
http://www.random.org/sequences/?mode=advanced
Smallest value = 1
Largest value = 12
Since we cannot use 2013-07-24 as a seed , we will use today date as an example (2013-07-23)
Numbers generated are: 11 10 7 6 8 5 1 12 9 3 2 4
We will assign first 6 to A, next 4 to B, last 2 to player C
A - 11
A - 10
A - 7
A - 6
A - 8
A - 5
B - 1
B - 12
B - 9
B - 3
C - 2
C - 4
Next step - generate the winning numbers and we will use as seed the total balloons donated : 335053
Again we will generate a series of 12 numbers, but only first - lets say 5 - will be winners
Smallest value = 1
Largest value = 12
Use pregenerated randomization based on persistent identifier: 335053
We generate the numbers and keep only first 5
7 8 4 10 5
Therefore:
1st prize - number 7 - goes to player A
2nd prize - number 8 - goes to player A
3rd prize - number 4 - goes to player C
mention - number 10 - goes to player A
mention - number 5 - goes to number A
As you see, one lucky player won multiple prizes and the fact that he donated more balloons increased his winning chances quite a bit.
Any questions - pls feel free to contact me - here or by in-game mail.
Note: me and Hutchy don't participate, so our donations will be excluded from the total / and the raffle.
Sounds great! Good luck everyone!
Woo Hoo!!
Good to see all that hard work!!
Awesome! Good luck everyone!!
Awww, that will lead to the fact that the level 50 player ranked on on the first places will make the raffle alone
Winner posted!
http://forum.thesettlersonline.net/t...ns-Competition
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