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Suggestion for Contest Pages: Display login/entry count.
JP585
Member Posts: 8
Suggestion for Contest Pages:
On Each and every contest page (o on the contest list page) there should be the following statistics:
A Login Counter for the current user from since they first entered the contest.
An Entries Counter for the current user. (Divide login count number by 5 to get current number of entries. Truncate the Decimals [DONT ROUND]. If greater than 5, set current entries to 5.)
Days Left In Contest
The following were said to be too much:
Total Number of Contestants. (based on a counter that increments each time someone enters the contest.)
And possibly, Total Number of Entries from all users
And possibly, Odds of winning at least one of the prizes. (based on total number of Entries from all users and the number from the Entries Counter)
Overall this will keep us updated on our chances of winning and allows us to see if our logins are actually being counted...I have doubts some times.
Do we have to log off and log in for our login to be tallied...or do we just have to load at least one page a day?
Comments
This would all be easy to do except for "total entries in contest" and "odds of winning" as this would require our system to calc all the logins for all the users in the contest - because we only count one login per day it ends up taxing our db server to extract just this data - especially each time a user visits the contest page. For example, when we actually draw the winners with a contest with 20,000 users it takes the system about 45 secs to compute it...
I will look into though and see what kind of stats we can get in there.
Thanks for your feedback!
- MMORPG.COM Staff -
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Heh, unfortunatly enhancements like this don't turn around quite that fast. We are busy churning things out all ready and this addition is definatly on the list, but since it's not a show-stopper and a pretty specialized addition (see admin post above) it's not going to show up overnight.
I understand now.
Here is a slight variation on the idea. Instead of posting the stats on each contest page...how about on the contest list page you have a summary section showing the stats for each contest the user is enrolled in. It would probably be easier than inserting the code on each contest page....less redundancy.
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22 days after the first post and nothing...I guess I will wait another 22.
Another month and still nothing.
FOUR Months and nothing!!!
I'll check up on this
Laura "Taera" Genender
Community Manager
MMORPG.com
Heh, unfortunatly enhancements like this don't turn around quite that fast. We are busy churning things out all ready and this addition is definatly on the list, but since it's not a show-stopper and a pretty specialized addition (see admin post above) it's not going to show up overnight.
Ok, I have FINALLY made the addition to our contest pages (just active ones). You can see this on the 2Moons, EverQuest and IGG Holiday contests right now.
It will show you a) how many people are entered and b) how many bonus tickets you have earned
I would like to show you your total odds of winning a prize, but this will require a revamp to the entire contest system. Doing this at this time would slaughter our DB server as it would have to count the logins for each user in the contest (many contests have 15,000+ entries). If I really change the contest system I could store a clean login count with your contest entry record and that would speed up the math 100x. For now, I hope this will shed some light on your odds though
I am sorry this took me so long. We are hoping to improve other aspects of the contests as well, so stay tuned!
- MMORPG.COM Staff -
The dead know only one thing: it is better to be alive.