The Lottery's started, so we can see the prize list now!





You might have to scroll over to see everything. Now, there's a *small* possibility that something could change, but this is the general gist of it. Bring on restocking!

Well, did you notice that some of the good prices are time bound now ? Means they can't be sold, traded and aren't really a stock up if you have to either use or lose them. I don't think this is right, especially as people even buy passes and use them to get those extra tickets. What you win is yours, especially after probably investing real money, is my opinion. I never thought it is the right way to cut wins like this but for the lottery it is just

90 day use limit isn't so bad. The Magic Hat had that when it was first brought out and no one complained. That gives you 3 months, 3 months to find a horse that could use that item.

The packs, the stone, and the arms should go quickly (and besides, even if you can't exchange the items themselves, you could put them on a horse and then sell it for a greater value) and well, there's sure to be some promo needing HOPs within the next 3 months, or some sort of Divine in them.

Lottery prizes are still prizes, no matter if there is a time limit to use them. And this time limit *is* very generous...

This is an official announcement on the French server, which will try out this new and improved method of the old, old way of purchasing passes with equus. If everything goes well with the implementation, then players on the int'l server and all others will be allowed to purchase 1 pass for no more than 20% of their reserve every 30 days by logging into the game and doing certain - they say easy - tasks to earn points, up to 100. If you do all the tasks each day on the game, then you will be able to gain a pass every 30 days seniority maximum.

They have NOT announced what the tasks are yet, but after a player's gauge/bar reaches 100% the player will play a mini-game in order to be able to purchase the pass. A mini-game example would be the one where you had to braid a horses' tail, if I remember correctly. If the player loses the mini-game, they will be given another. There will be many different ones.

1 pass every 30 days is the max. amount anyone can purchase with their equus (like it is now after one's 50th day), and if someone doesn't do certain actions for a day or two, eg; doesn't connect, then the gauge will stay frozen until they log in again and do another task. Likewise, if you miss a day and the max. points to earn each day is hypothetically 10, then you cannot earn more than 10 points to make up for the lost day.

This function will be available after a players' 30th day of seniority. It will replace the "pass every 30 days after 50 days seniority" method we have now. The team has still not decided if co-management will be allowed to do tasks or not.

Sorry I can't quote the spoilers. But well, I have never been a friend of time bound wins, and always tried not to win them, means I'm not bothered with such a thing, and especially not bothered to invest into it. It is my personal opinion, surely. And I am not talking about privileges, they are different in some ways. But in general, BM items won in an event like the lottery shouldn't be bound in any way but completely free to use for the winner as they see fit. I like to decide myself when and if I use BMI and not get the decision taken away and maybe have to put a stone onto a horse that wouldn't have got it without the limitation. Or worse, like it happenend to me, completely forget about them and lose them.
Pretty sure people are happy with how things will be and not complain. But I am not and just wanted to explain why. On the bright side: Nothing to invest for me into the coming promo/lottery as I'm not interested in winning any time bound BMI.

What do you mean by the lottery has started exactly? Sorry I don't uderstand obvious things very well!

the Great Challenge/Lottery and the Zodiac Divine Aquarius.

I'm with ya on this. I have a tendency to sit on the top BM items for awhile (like Hera Pack's, Stones and Arms) because I don't always breed really good horses, and I don't like to waste them on lower skilled/GP horses. When the right breeding project idea comes around I'm glad I have them on hand. That, and I like to hoard stuff