#dragonlotto

Welcome to dragonlotto, heres the rules, examples and nearly everything you need to know.


When code catching was disabled, we lost the fun of doing Free for alls in the chat. We found a way to continue doing them and created the channel #dragonlotto for that purpose. We turned doing FFAs into a fun, easy, enjoyable and most importantly FAIR way of doing things. Its a way of doing gifting in a game like setting, that doesnt rely on speed or clicking faster than anyone else.

Simplest way to join: go to irc.technoized.com Pick a name (preferably forum or scroll name) then type dragonlotto into the box under it. Once it loads you are in!

- THESE RULES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGING WITHOUT NOTICE. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR CHECKING IN TO SEE IF THEY HAVE BEEN CHANGED
Examples of how it works will be found below the rules.

Rules:
- IMPORTANT: When you first join the chat, wait a minute before asking if there is a lotto in progress. If you see people saying IN you know theres a lotto. Most people doing them will reannounce when new names show up.
- You MUST publicly assign numbers. While the idea of assigning numbers privately might sound fun, this is to prevent cheating.
- Please resist the urge to spam the bot. Only the person doing the drop needs to !roll.
- Classic #dc rules apply, no begging, no spamming unnecessarily. http://forums.dragcave.net/index.php?showtopic=79007 READ THEM COMPLETELY
- Be polite. Do not interrupt ongoing ffas. Wait your turn to do your drop so there aren't multiple drops going on at once.
- NO outside bots (including scripts) are allowed, period.
- Once numbers are assigned it is up to the person dropping if they will add more slots or not. (sometimes people will join after the lotto has been closed. It is up to the person dropping if they will add them or not.)
- Chatting inbetween the lottos is fine. Keep it dragon related, and if a lotto comes up, please refrain from chatting until it is done. (during events and new releases, chat will be limited as the room gets very busy during these times.)
- Off topic conversations are bound to come up, please be respectful, and if you are asked to move your conversation back to #dc, please do so. Otherwise make a channel and invite people there in pm.
- DO NOT publicly explain reasoning for why someone might not be allowed to take part in your lotto. I know several users have each other on ignore, therefore will not see the "in"s as they come up. Should this issue happen, please just state that you can not see the responses from the ignored user, and MOVE ON. It seems unfair, however publicly blacklisting a user IS WRONG and can be/will be banned for. We do not need to know why, and asking for reasons encourages drama. Dont ask why they were ignored, and dont offer reasons.


Now for examples!

Step one to hosting a lotto: announcing what you will drop, personal rules and requests
Step Two getting your potential winners lined up and in order
Step three rolling the dice
Step Four: gifting the prize.

Step one: You can do several things, you can call it a mystery and not say what you are dropping, announce the breed/post the lineage. This is also a good time to give any rules, or conditions you have for your winner to follow. I'll use my standard rules for this example.
<Thuban> Up for lotto is a CB Black Egg. You may gift, bite, kill, ND or do anything you want with it EXCEPT use it for trading purposes. Accepting ins now.

At this point step two happens. If you have something people are interested, be ready because you will get a wall of people saying IN. You need to announce when it has CLOSED as well.At this point you get to assign your potential winners their numbers.

<Jmm> in
<Seraphinu> in
<arlymaye> in
<dtwrites> in
<Alphabitz> in

you would then type the list out:

<Thuban> Jmm 1 Seraphinu 2 arlymaye 3 dtwrites 4 Alphabits 5

A nice shortcut for this part: type first few letters of the name then hit TAB to auto complete. If the name you are looking for doesnt show up, hit tab until it does.

Step Three Once you have everyone assigned a number, its time for the next part, rolling the dice!

the command for this is !roll 1 x X= the number of people you have participating.

<Thuban> !roll 1 5
<dragcavebot> Thuban rolls 1 5-sided dice: 4

In this case, dtwrites is the winner

Step four pm your winner their teleport link and they can pick up their prize .

/msg dtwrites heres your prize! (teleportlink)


Extra Fun Twists!

Some added twists you can do with this lotto are doing multiple eggs at once. If you were going to do three eggs, you could change the !roll command to !roll 3 x which will roll three dice at once. Its not a preferred way to do things, but it is fun every now and then. One of my personal favorite ways to do these is to give the first person their pick of the three eggs, then the second person picks then third, you can choose your order however you like, i generally do smallest number to largest.

If you want to lotto, but have no teleports left, you can add "must be prepared to use your own teleport" in your "rules" section.