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I still can't help but think a lot of the outrage is because noobs are making money off other noobs and accumulating money that is making the vets jelly. "You can't pull one over on the noobs to make money off them, that's our job!".

Community is weird. They compared GTL sniping to conning noobs out of their shinies for cheap.

I honestly feel an overpriced raffle is better than deceiving people and being a con artist, but I appear to be a minority here. One is done publicly, fully disclosed, and you know what's happening, the other is done shadily behind closed doors with someone lying to you about how much it's worth. Comparing a raffle with ridiculous pricing to being a con artist, and saying the raffle is worse, is very telling.

I agree the raffles are pretty crappy and too numerous, and there should be some limit of X per month per user. It's just a crapshoot currently. Many here are arguing it from idk what standpoint about the pricing. I mean, 2 users agreed to the price... That's their defense for lowballing and deceiving others.

3m if you catch a shiny starter during this contest. You get to keep the poke of course. I will need verification from one of the hosts and whoever caught it. Limited to the first 5 shiny starters caught during the event. No bamboozles. Edit: I'll hand out this prize if it's claimed since I don't want others to have to front the money.

The fact you think trying to "pull one over" on a noob is a respectable thing is honestly... well.... pretty scummy ngl. Also, that's done behind closed doors where a raffle is fully public. Edit: Honestly, a lot of this just seems like people are pissed that noobs are using other noobs and some vets to generate a lot of money in a short period of time, and acquiring too much wealth. While the auctions are ridiculous, this just seems like jealousy at this point. Nobody is actually worried about gambling, they're worried about others amassing money. Just my 2 cents.

Food for thought. What's the difference between people doing this on forums through raffles with ridiculous prices vs. "well known and respected" members of the community lowballing and deceiving noobs to get their shinies for cheap? A lot of these ridiculous raffles are by newer or less-wealthy players who are upsetting the game. I'd actually say the overpriced raffles are significantly less scummy and infinitely more respectable than deceiving and lying to noobs to (in my own opinion) scam them out of their Pokemon.

I've also wanted to do a fun raffle for a shiny. 200 tickets, max 1 ticket per user, entry fee of a Lava Cookie and was told it can't be an item, so I then asked about a $1 entry fee, and the raffle was declined since they should be for "serious raffles". I guess using the raffle as a fun 'giveaway' for everyone is different than charging 3x the price for a shiny in total fees. =\

Still waiting on more fantastic ideas and @Oldenman and crew to get back to me. Only have been able to fund some catching contests and whatever Riesz wants to do so far. Unless people just want 20-35 catching contests with total prize pools of 3m-5m each.

Limited = Limited

I love community hosted events <3

Mailing you 6m. 5m to giveaway in your modified Find Riesz contest, spread it out over however many you want. 1m for yourself for hosting the contest.

You wanna host a Find Riesz event? :-p

Some get tired of having a poke and would rather raffle it instead of use the GTL for it. Really hard to come up with a ruleset for this, other than a cap on how many raffles can be done per player per time period.

@Poufilou @Oldenman You 2 want to work together and come up with a gameplan for this metronome battle? (also host it and I'll give you guys some dollars for hosting it and buying whatever pokes need to be bought for it)

Like with a wrench?

This will be awesome. Unsure how it all works since I'm a complete moron in PvP and setting things like that up. I'll of course give the hosts some money and figure out the prizes based on how many places there will be (and how much interest there will be). Probably at least 5m in prizes though?

Biggest mistake was making a topic asking for ideas for interesting contests to give away over 100m and nobody really being interested =\

Why are so many people now breeding 6x0 male pokemon? I already have one of each and they're priceless.

Solid play!

Someone figure out how to do a Togepi metronome battle contest with brackets and I'll fund the prizes.

Buying the last 10, mailing 330k from Bankruptcy

Limiting time between raffles per person, with a way to check for Alts will be ideal. A lot will be against it however and it could kill future raffles.

This would cause targeted harassment and will most likely never be implemented.

More vanity slots = more RP items to sell + happier players. It's a win-win situation. We need some curly elf shoes and cowboy boots.