Revision as of 18:53, 8 February 2015

The Destash Raffle is an ongoing event hosted by +Nyx that allows players to turn in "junk" items for raffle tickets.

The Raffle System

At first, the raffle building may seem a smidgen confusing or overwhelming. Not to worry, though, it's laid out for maximum efficiency and it is very easy to use. Please read this page carefully so you fully understand how the raffle works.

Location

The raffle building is located in Excelsior Halls. From the teleporter, follow the path south and take the first path to the East. You can't miss it. The building is open at all times, except between raffles.

Patch Requirements

You must be fully patched to participate in this raffle. If you cannot see black and tan striped walls on the building - You are not properly patched and will not be able to see the raffle tickets in your backpack!

Building Organization

Each room is for a specific set of items and each room has a bright white sign near the entrance that tells you what items that room is for. For example, there is a room labeled "Gauntlet Artifacts", which has boxes accepting artifacts found in the Gauntlet. Truly, it's really rather self explanatory.

Once inside a room, there are various metal chests surrounded by items on tables. Each section of tables is separated, so that the metal chest takes only the items that are displayed on the tables surrounding it. Where you see gaps between the tables, that is indicating a new section of items for a new deposit box.

Items Accepted in the Raffle

Each raffle will accept roughly 3 categories of items (IE: Gauntlet Artifacts, Tokuno Rares & Paragon Artifacts) on a rotating schedule. The schedule selection is random. Rooms for categories of items that are not being accepted in the current raffle will be blocked off.

Here is a list of the items you can submit in the Destash Raffle

Submitting Items

- Each item requires a specific number be submitted before rewarding a ticket. Once you drop the item into the box, you'll receive a system message that tells you how many more you need to deposit before receiving a ticket. You will likely want to make note of this number for your own reference. The staff will not be able to find out for you. Keep track for yourself if you will want to know how many more of an item you need to submit before receiving a ticket.

- Boxes only take the items displayed. Attempting to drop any other item into the boxes will result in the item being returned to your pack.

- Every deposit box accepts numerous different items. Each item a box takes is on its own counter. On a particular box, you may need to drop in 5 teapots in order to receive a ticket; but on the same drop box you might also be able to drop a painting, and that would require its own specific number of deposits before returning a ticket.

- Some items are grouped in boxes by direction or type. All greater Tokuno pigments are on one counter - you can drop in any combination of colors to reach the required number for a ticket. This also works for all items with multiple directions - You can drop a small square basket facing east and a small square basket facing west, and they will both give credit on the same counter. Generally speaking any item with multiple directions or colors will be grouped this way.

- Items with uses or charges must be in their full, unused state in order to be submitted. For example, you cannot submit a prospector's tool with only 1 use left on it.

- Some items, primarily the Tokuno basket rares, must be in their original hue in order to be submitted.

- Due to the way some items are scripted serverside, a small number of items were not able to be grouped. Dip tubs, for example, are separated by type. There was nothing I could do about it and I haven't been able to reach Colibri for assistance on that. Instead of excluding them all together, I've simply added them each to their own counter. So, you'd need to add the required number of lightning dip tubs in order to receive a ticket; but you are not able to combine lightning and Poison dip tubs for the same count.To help cut down on the irritation of this issue, I have made the 5-use dip tubs part of the partial ticketing system.

- Where there are items of exceptional value in the same grouping as ones of little to no value, I have excluded the high value items to help prevent "oopsies". For example, you are not able to turn in bone crushers, the box that accepts champion skulls will not accept the skull of enlightenment, and you cannot submit stat scrolls over +35.

Raffle Tickets

Raffle tickets are account bound and cannot be traded or sold. You are free to sell the items required for this raffle, but not the tickets themselves.

Partial tickets

For most items in the raffle, you will drop in a small number of items and be rewarded a partial ticket. You then drop your partial ticket into the bright pink "Ticket Changer" box. 5 partial tickets will return a full raffle ticket which can then be dropped into the gold "Raffle Ticket Box". With the exception of decorative plants and seeds, all items in the raffle function on the partial ticket system.

Depositing Tickets

Deposit your raffle tickets into the gold "Raffle Ticket Box" which is located in the main room of the bottom floor along the west wall.

Rules

- Each raffle has a minimum number of tickets required for the grand prize to be given. Should there be fewer than the displayed number of tickets at the end of the raffle period, one of the alternate prizes will be given based on the final number of tickets. The alternate prizes are not displayed - they are door prizes that are only revealed if they are given.

- Your account must be 7 days or older to enter the raffle building.

- Almost all spells are disabled in the raffle building, as are pets. This is to prevent spam, trolling, and blocking visibility.

- Once you have submitted an item it is gone. You cannot page and request to have your item returned to you. You cannot pay to have it recovered from a backup. It. Is. Gone. Do NOT deposit ANY item you are not 100% willing to lose for the sake of a raffle ticket. There will be absolutely no exceptions made for anyone, at any time. In order to contribute an item to this raffle, you will have had to place it onto your character, pick it up, drag it to the box, and drop it in. There is absolutely no other way for an item to end up in these boxes. This does not ever happen by accident. I understand that dragging dozens of items can be tedious, and you may be temped to create a script to do it for you; you may do so if you wish but you do so at your own risk. It is your own responsibility to ensure the item you are submitting is the one you mean to submit. Please save the staff the drama and frustration of having to say no and do not even ask for item(s) back. Utilize common sense- pay attention to what you're doing and you won't have any problems with lost items!

- If you receive jail tasks higher than 25 at any point during this raffle you will be barred from participating and your tickets will be wiped. Alternately, if you become a large problem for the staff (IE: via drama), you will be barred from participating and your tickets wiped. You will be informed if this is the case. +Nyx and +V are beginning to take a much firmer stance on avoiding the drama llamas; those players should not be benefitting from the fruits of their hard work while they make problems for them. Watching people run their quests and attend their events all the while these players are bashing, lying, and creating drama for the staff makes them not want to log in to staff at all. Thus this rule will be a permanent fixture at all of +Nyx and +Veritas' events and areas from here on out. Don't want to be excluded? Don't be a drama queen at their expense. It is really not that difficult.

- If you discover a problem or a possible cheat/exploit with the raffle, send me a page in game. Direct it to me, and explain the issue in the body of the page.

- If you submit so many BOD reward items that +N believes you were AFK gathering and/or AFK filling the BODs for them, you will be disqualified from the current and next 3 raffles.

When Each Raffle Ends

- On the posted ending date, the raffle will be closed. +Nyx will perform the drawing and the winner will be announced within 2 days of close.

- If you do not win a raffle, your tickets will carry over for the next raffle. Anyone with over 75 tickets will be given an additional small prize, and their number of tickets over 75 will be wiped. At the end of every 3rd Destash Raffle, the ticket box will be fully wiped and everyone who had participated up to that point will receive a participation reward. At the beginning of every 4th raffle, everyone will be starting with 0 tickets once again. This is to help encourage players to contribute to cleaning up the shard (and their own storage space) even if they don't win the primary prize.

- The Grand Prize for each raffle is displayed inside the building's main room along the North wall.