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I just noticed this happening when cashing in my (lost) entry rewards for this raffle, and I saw that within less than a minute after reset, there had been 85k entries dumped in RIGHT AWAY. But in the now 8 minutes after that, only 1k more entries made it in.

How and where did these instant 85k entries in 60 seconds come from? There's not even enough people online at the moment to justify 85k instant entries, even if they did save up 14 + 2 entries (not even counting the fact that the last godsword + barrows one just slurped up 80k + 120k entries off anyone who saved this up)

There was about 15k people online in member's worlds. Implying that EVERYONE in EVERY WORLD suddenly stood there and dumped their tickets in right in that very same minute, it would take around 6 tickets per person to do so. Which seems hard to believe as the last GS + Barrows one already chipped down 200k (At least) from anyone who saved up.

This is not humanly possible. It can't be. Either there is a massive army of bots that filled up a grand majority of the tickets right off the go, or there is a big portion of 'dull' tickets, tickets not owned by players only to decrease the odds of winning by players, which is even a worse design for a raffle.

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over 5 years ago - /u/JagexOsborne - Direct link

Originally posted by Dr_Neutron

You have checked in so early that it hasn’t done a cross server count, and it’s put up an (admittedly duff) temporary amount.

Who in their right mind would approve that kind of dumb logic to be implemented and passed on to the live game? How is it fair to people that are participating? You keep creating more and more spaghetti code and no one is to blame but the unqualified idiots that approve it and allow it to be sent to the live game! This kind of incompetence may seem minor if it were to happen once in a while but the sheer amount of repetitive and consistent inadequacy in update after update just piles up and gives a very clear impression that things are being run by incompetents that cannot streamline the development process and fixing such recurring problems is beyond their unqualified professional capabilities.

This is something that has likely been in game for some time. We will look at it on Monday.

over 5 years ago - /u/JagexOsborne - Direct link

Originally posted by Doctor_Diddler

You seem more active lately. Filling in for Shauny?

No one could out-Shauny Shauny!