After describing the battle with the clone, Shadow asked me if I knew anything of item lottos from my frequent jaunts with AB folks. Funny thing, even after several clone fights with AB friends, I have yet to see a lottery--suffice to say I associate with some of the finest item pushers around (No, YOU TAKE IT 
). That said, I did a little digging, and found what has been generally used as a fair method of item lotto.
Not a huge need for this process around here, but good reference material nonetheless.
Lotto Procedure
1) Have the lotto participants each choose a number between 1 and 9.
2) Go to Charsi in A1. Enter the trade screen. Go to the first weapons tab.
3) Starting from the top left, working down the column and then to top of the next column and down, look for a weapon with a numerical bonus to attack rating.
4) Winner is the one who picked a number that matches the last digit of the attack rating bonus of the first weapon shown to have +AR (in the order described above). If the first weapon does not produce a match, keep going. (process could be shortened by evenly distributing numbers from 1 to 9 between the participants).
Note: The numbers 1-9 have equiprobable chance to appear as the last digit on all mods that affect numberical bonus to attack rating. Throw out all zeros, since the bronze prefix has a range of +10-20 (more chance for zeros).
Taken from this post in an old AB thread. Half the comments in the thread talk about the best lotto being to just give the item away. I found one of the statements at the end of the thread particularly funny:
[Edit: I really cannot spell]
). That said, I did a little digging, and found what has been generally used as a fair method of item lotto.Not a huge need for this process around here, but good reference material nonetheless.
Lotto Procedure
1) Have the lotto participants each choose a number between 1 and 9.
2) Go to Charsi in A1. Enter the trade screen. Go to the first weapons tab.
3) Starting from the top left, working down the column and then to top of the next column and down, look for a weapon with a numerical bonus to attack rating.
4) Winner is the one who picked a number that matches the last digit of the attack rating bonus of the first weapon shown to have +AR (in the order described above). If the first weapon does not produce a match, keep going. (process could be shortened by evenly distributing numbers from 1 to 9 between the participants).
Note: The numbers 1-9 have equiprobable chance to appear as the last digit on all mods that affect numberical bonus to attack rating. Throw out all zeros, since the bronze prefix has a range of +10-20 (more chance for zeros).
Taken from this post in an old AB thread. Half the comments in the thread talk about the best lotto being to just give the item away. I found one of the statements at the end of the thread particularly funny:
Quote:Funny thing is the times I've seen a lotto (I've not been in them, didn't need the items in question), it's been a case of the lottoees almost forcing the item off on each other.
"Nah, you take it"
"No, you take it!"
"Please, you can have it"
"No, I insist, you take it"
"You can use it better than me"
"I'd rather see you use it"
Then they lotto it off to find who gets the honor of giving it to the other person.
[Edit: I really cannot spell]