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 Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:27 pm
Well, members from this guild donate components or anything of use to alchemy to a spokesperson here and then that spokesperson makes a lotto thread.
Contest rules are simple. Anyone can join, entry fee would be a donation of any type of cache (just 1). Then the thread will display all items available for winning with corresponding number.
They post their random generated number and if it matches then they win those corresponding items (we donated). Arrangements are randomized, gold can be put. and etc...
Objective is to advertise the guild. Help the community. And ... make friends?
edit: the entry fee will add to a prize pool which is a designated number. So none of us get to keep any.
edit 2: good way to get rid of those caches you guys might be thinking about.
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:32 pm
I like that there is only one option in the poll. xD
It sounds like a fun idea. Little pessimistic voice in my head says we might be swimming in Emerald, Sapphire, and Aquamarine caches. xP
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:34 pm
Yami no Sakura I like that there is only one option in the poll. xD It sounds like a fun idea. Little pessimistic voice in my head says we might be swimming in Emerald, Sapphire, and Aquamarine caches. xP But we'll be giving them away for the needy and those who want to take advantage and sell em lower for business purposes.....
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:39 pm
Sphyxia But we'll be giving them away for the needy and those who want to take advantage and sell em lower for business purposes..... Maybe I'm just not understanding the rules? If there is a required entry fee of any colored cache, people can enter the lotto by donating an Emerald Cache. That Emerald is added to the prize pool, right? So if most of the contestants enter by donating Emerald Caches, those will eventually overwhelm the prize pool.
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:47 pm
Yami no Sakura Sphyxia But we'll be giving them away for the needy and those who want to take advantage and sell em lower for business purposes..... Maybe I'm just not understanding the rules? If there is a required entry fee of any colored cache, people can enter the lotto by donating an Emerald Cache. That Emerald is added to the prize pool, right? So if most of the contestants enter by donating Emerald Caches, those will eventually overwhelm the prize pool. Maybe it would overwhelm the prize pool, perhaps putting a cap on it might help? and designating excess on another number. I also doubt that there would be more than 200 emeralds = people participating. How many active posters and lurkers are alchemist anyway? I don't know the statistics but this activity might be a way to gauge the number.
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:55 pm
I'd be willing to help out with this. I have some spare cache and other things needed for alchemy I could donate. edit: I can provide a list of items I can donate.
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 12:59 pm
Sphyxia Maybe it would overwhelm the prize pool, perhaps putting a cap on it might help? and designating excess on another number. I also doubt that there would be more than 200 emeralds = people participating. How many active posters and lurkers are alchemist anyway? I don't know the statistics but this activity might be a way to gauge the number. Well, we can't assume every guild member participates in the initial prize pool. We have some 68 members, but about 30 are lurkers with 0 posts. We also don't have an accurate count of how many people are in Alchemy in total 'cause there are so many lurkers in the forums. And there's no telling what (mostly) free stuff will lure out. There's probably no real reason to worry about any of this anyway. I'm just thinking of worst-case-scenarios, and I'm unreasonably paranoid sometimes. sweatdrop
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 1:19 pm
Sphyxia Well, members from this guild donate components or anything of use to alchemy to a spokesperson here and then that spokesperson makes a lotto thread. Contest rules are simple. Anyone can join, entry fee would be a donation of any type of cache (just 1). Then the thread will display all items available for winning with corresponding number. They post their random generated number and if it matches then they win those corresponding items (we donated). Arrangements are randomized, gold can be put. and etc... Objective is to advertise the guild. Help the community. And ... make friends? edit: the entry fee will add to a prize pool which is a designated number. So none of us get to keep any. edit 2: good way to get rid of those caches you guys might be thinking about. ohhh this is a great idea! Sphyxia, would you be willing to run it? i would do it myself but i'm behind my guild shores sweatdrop I would say, just 100 gold entry, and whoever runs the thread and keeps it updated with prices and all those logistics, gets to keep the gold of the tickets. right now i can add 1 demonfly, 1 monarch butterfly, 5 gold caches, 10 ruby caches, 10 topaz caches to the prize pool. who's with us? for how long? How many winners? is 100 gold too much or too little?
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 1:22 pm
MaclauMo Sphyxia Well, members from this guild donate components or anything of use to alchemy to a spokesperson here and then that spokesperson makes a lotto thread. Contest rules are simple. Anyone can join, entry fee would be a donation of any type of cache (just 1). Then the thread will display all items available for winning with corresponding number. They post their random generated number and if it matches then they win those corresponding items (we donated). Arrangements are randomized, gold can be put. and etc... Objective is to advertise the guild. Help the community. And ... make friends? edit: the entry fee will add to a prize pool which is a designated number. So none of us get to keep any. edit 2: good way to get rid of those caches you guys might be thinking about. ohhh this is a great idea! Sphyxia, would you be willing to run it? i would do it myself but i'm behind my guild shores sweatdrop I would say, just 100 gold entry, and whoever runs the thread and keeps it updated with prices and all those logistics, gets to keep the gold of the tickets. right now i can add 1 demonfly, 1 monarch butterfly, 5 gold caches, 10 ruby caches, 10 topaz caches to the prize pool. who's with us? for how long? How many winners? is 100 gold too much or too little? I'm bad at organizing, just theoretical planning and my threads have no "artistic value" on decorations. :< Perhaps another vice or crew member here?
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 1:28 pm
Sphyxia MaclauMo Sphyxia Well, members from this guild donate components or anything of use to alchemy to a spokesperson here and then that spokesperson makes a lotto thread. Contest rules are simple. Anyone can join, entry fee would be a donation of any type of cache (just 1). Then the thread will display all items available for winning with corresponding number. They post their random generated number and if it matches then they win those corresponding items (we donated). Arrangements are randomized, gold can be put. and etc... Objective is to advertise the guild. Help the community. And ... make friends? edit: the entry fee will add to a prize pool which is a designated number. So none of us get to keep any. edit 2: good way to get rid of those caches you guys might be thinking about. ohhh this is a great idea! Sphyxia, would you be willing to run it? i would do it myself but i'm behind my guild shores sweatdrop I would say, just 100 gold entry, and whoever runs the thread and keeps it updated with prices and all those logistics, gets to keep the gold of the tickets. right now i can add 1 demonfly, 1 monarch butterfly, 5 gold caches, 10 ruby caches, 10 topaz caches to the prize pool. who's with us? for how long? How many winners? is 100 gold too much or too little? I'm bad at organizing, just theoretical planning and my threads have no "artistic value" on decorations. :< Perhaps another vice or crew member here? hahah it's cool, i know it's some work huh! well let's keep planning details here and let's get it running during this week! what do you think of a little gold fee instead of a cache?
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 1:34 pm
MaclauMo hahah it's cool, i know it's some work huh! well let's keep planning details here and let's get it running during this week! what do you think of a little gold fee instead of a cache? Well putting a gold fee like 100 is... too low, and even if there were a lot of people that could make it up to 50k, it's not much. The idea that caches of any kind would be better since people could use them for something or sell them lower since it is free (and end game is someone could make use of it). With a gold fee.. well sometimes it gets neglected, squandered and etc. I wish I could help on the actual moderating but working at a hospital is enough of a stress lately :<
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 1:37 pm
Sphyxia MaclauMo hahah it's cool, i know it's some work huh! well let's keep planning details here and let's get it running during this week! what do you think of a little gold fee instead of a cache? Well putting a gold fee like 100 is... too low, and even if there were a lot of people that could make it up to 50k, it's not much. The idea that caches of any kind would be better since people could use them for something or sell them lower since it is free (and end game is someone could make use of it). With a gold fee.. well sometimes it gets neglected, squandered and etc. I wish I could help on the actual moderating but working at a hospital is enough of a stress lately :< ohh yeah, i can imagine, life or death kinda stuff all day gonk don't worry, keep ideas coming! i'll get it going during this week for sure!
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 4:01 pm
Willing to donate:
5 diamond cache
5 garnet cache
3 ruby cache
3 topaz cache
1 gold cache
for the prize pool
I also might be able to donate some formula too.
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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 7:59 pm
It's a cache sink somehow. I'm also thinking of another guild activity wherein we make components more affordable while getting gold to buy more caches to make more components. Like crafting component A and price it half mp average price then use the gold we earned to buy more caches and craft them or let someone lower leveled to craft them and rinse and repeat.
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Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 10:57 pm
I can donate some things as well. I don't know what caches at the moment, since I don't even know what I have on hand, but I do know I have a lot of...Emerald & Aquamarine XD I have a few extra diamonds that I can donate too. I sold a few to make quick gold, but I still have like 10 on hand. I can donate 5 perhaps.
& I'd love to do a thread for this, since I'm good with design & all that jazz, but....my Ph.D. program is a bit demanding XD So I'm a bit useless on that front. If I had more time I'd love to, but...I'll help simply by donating X3
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