Revision as of 21:26, 30 July 2012

Lotto Land is where hobos go to participate in other hobo's lotteries to win Cash, Points, Tokens, and/or Donator Packs. You can create and manage your own lotto from here as well.

The Lobby

You can purchase tickets up to the lotto host's limit up to a maximum of 1000 tickets. Tickets are bought using Tokens, Points, or Cash.

• You cannot buy tickets to your own lotto.
• You may also donate Tokens, Points, Cash, and/or Donator Packs to any lotto, including your own.
• You can sort the lotto lists by: the lotto's name, host's name, time left, price, tickets sold, and the current pot
• You can search for a lotto hosted by a specific hobo by searching their ID #

Open Lottos

• Lists all the active lottos.

Completed Lottos

• Lists all the completed lottos, up to 30 days.

View Your Lotto

• Brings you to your own lotto (if applicable).

View Your Lotto Participation Page

• Lists all the lottos you are currently holding tickets for;
• Lists your lotto history;
• Includes tickets you have bought, your donations to any lotto, lottos you have won, and results from your completed lottos.

View Gang Members Lottos

• Lists all the current and completed (up to 30 days) lottos of your current gang's members.

Individual Lotto Pages

Name of the lotto

• The name given to the lotto by the host

Host's description of the lotto

• A description of the lotto which may include: reason for the lotto, goal of the lotto, a story, an image or anything else the host chooses
• Regular hobo-tml may be used here

Host's Name and ID.

• Lets you see who created the lotto

House's cut.

• Percentage of the ticket's price that the host receives

Gang's cut.

• Percentage of the ticket's price that the host's gang receives

Ticket price.

Number of winners.

• If there is more than one winner, it indicates the percentage each winner will receive

Current jackpot.

• Amount the winner(s) shall receive

Time left in the lotto.

• Maximum time is 7 days, with the exception of specialty lottos. (Ex: Murph's Holiday Lotto and Doody's Multi Millions Lotto)
• Donations will be disabled with less than 24 hours left in the lotto.
• Purchasing tickets will be disabled with less than 5 minutes in the lotto.

Purchasing Tickets.

• Maximum 1000 tickets
• If it is a cash lotto, you must have money on hand to buy

Amount of tickets held by yourself.

Donating to the lotto.

• You may donate to any lotto with tokens, points, DP's or cash (must have cash on hand)

Maximum amount of tickets one can buy.

• Up to 1000

How many hobos are participating and total amount of tickets sold.

List of lotto's history.

• Including who has purchased tickets to, donated to, edited and created the lotto

View who has bought tickets to this lotto.

• Lists in descending order how many tickets total each participant has bought

View who has donated to this lotto.

• Lists who has donated (and the amount) to this lotto, sorted by most recent to least recent

Create A Lotto

Here you can create your own lotto. You are only allowed one lotto at a time.

Lottery Name

• Give your lottery an eye catching name.
• You can edit the lotto's name after it has been created.

Lottery Type

• Assigns what currency they tickets are.
• Choose between Cash, Points, or Tokens.
• Set once the lotto has been created.

Price Per Ticket

• Numerical value for how much each ticket will cost for the previously chosen Lottery Type.
• Minimums of $100, 10 Tokens, and 1 point for each ticket.
• Set once the lotto has been created.

Days Until Drawing

• How many days the lotto will run.
• The day advances at 1:05 AM.
• Set once the lotto has been created.

Max Tickets

• The amount of tickets each hobo can buy for the lotto.
• Minimum 1, Maximum 1000
• Set once the lotto has been created.

House Cut

• The amount of the profit from ticket sales that goes to the host hobo.
• Taxed 10%
• When combined with the Gang Cut, cannot exceed 100%
• Set once the lotto has been created.

Number of Winners

• How many winners of the lotto there will be.
• 1-5 winners possible.
• You can assign a % amount for each winner.
• The total % must equal 100%.
• Set once the lotto has been created.

Description

• A description of the lotto, may include reason for the lotto, goal of the lotto, a story, an image or at times nonsense.
• Regular HB-TML may be used here.
• Can be edited after the lotto is created.

Gang Cut

• The amount of the profit from ticket sales that goes to the host hobo's gang when the lotto was created.
• Taxed 10%
• When combined with the House Cut, cannot exceed 100%.
• Set once the lotto has been created.

Notifications

• You can either not be notified, notified when tickets have been sold, and/or when donations have been made
• Can be changed after the lotto is created.