What to change about the main Prize Draw
Mon Nov 19, 2007 9:21 pm
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Mood: Confused ]
Mood: Confused ][ 
Currently: Working ]
Currently: Working ]I need to figure out how to make the main draw better for new members. When it started in 2004, there was no limit on entries. Now there is with Booster Points needed for more entries. The limit without Booster Points was 100 when it was daily and should be higher now it is weekly. Unfortunately, it takes a while to build up Booster points so new members can only enter a few hundred more tickets at best and that's only if they play the tournaments as currently referrals don't give you as much. Booster points from referrals don't get used up but there are more than enough already from the tournaments.
I was thinking along the lines of resetting the non-permanent Booster points after each draw and maybe turning them into Credits. I think the maximum entry limit has to increase to 1000 at least too for people to be able to use their Credits (remember also it is now weekly) and allow new members a chance. I could also award ten times as much Booster points for referrals. Remember that the daily tournaments can give you up to 200 Booster points a day (up to 100 for each game).
I am planning new daily draws that are automatic and don't rely on past Credits that haven't been used. I'm thinking whether I could instead change the main draw to make it work better as daily. I think it will work ok weekly as it is if I change the entry limit to 1000 tickets- meaning you need 25000 Credits for all of them. The problem with making the limit so high is most people won't need Booster points. Maybe the Booster points need to be changed somehow. Most people who play the tournaments have about 10 times the amount they could ever use with their Credits (it's not that the amount given for winning tournaments is too much, it's just that people didn't need to use them or need to get enough Credits to use them as not enough people were entering the draws).
I just thought of an option of making the non-permanent Booster Points reduce by 10% each day they are not used so they will about halve every week (so will be a quarter after a fortnight and just over 10% of the original value after three weeks). This will make people want to use them up and get more Credits if necessary. Another option is to scale up the maximum ticket limit (and the Booster maximum you get for referrals) depending on the number of days the draw is for, so the 100 a day limit without Booster Points would be: (100+10*referrals)*numberofdays.
I would like some ideas on how to make it better. There is almost an unlimited number of ways to do things.
I was thinking along the lines of resetting the non-permanent Booster points after each draw and maybe turning them into Credits. I think the maximum entry limit has to increase to 1000 at least too for people to be able to use their Credits (remember also it is now weekly) and allow new members a chance. I could also award ten times as much Booster points for referrals. Remember that the daily tournaments can give you up to 200 Booster points a day (up to 100 for each game).
I am planning new daily draws that are automatic and don't rely on past Credits that haven't been used. I'm thinking whether I could instead change the main draw to make it work better as daily. I think it will work ok weekly as it is if I change the entry limit to 1000 tickets- meaning you need 25000 Credits for all of them. The problem with making the limit so high is most people won't need Booster points. Maybe the Booster points need to be changed somehow. Most people who play the tournaments have about 10 times the amount they could ever use with their Credits (it's not that the amount given for winning tournaments is too much, it's just that people didn't need to use them or need to get enough Credits to use them as not enough people were entering the draws).
I just thought of an option of making the non-permanent Booster Points reduce by 10% each day they are not used so they will about halve every week (so will be a quarter after a fortnight and just over 10% of the original value after three weeks). This will make people want to use them up and get more Credits if necessary. Another option is to scale up the maximum ticket limit (and the Booster maximum you get for referrals) depending on the number of days the draw is for, so the 100 a day limit without Booster Points would be: (100+10*referrals)*numberofdays.
I would like some ideas on how to make it better. There is almost an unlimited number of ways to do things.
