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generalmocogeneralmoco Member Posts: 1,634
edited June 2014 in Ten Forward
Hello Guys,

I'm here because in a couple of days, my fleet is going to hit it's 2 Year Anniversary, and for that, we are making an event, or rather a raffle for our members, this raffle includes an Elachi Ship.

So I am asking, does anyone know of a good random name picker or raffle software, that is free, easy to use, and has no potential risk on my system???



Thanks for you help in advance... :)
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  • dahminusdahminus Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Write names in a hat and draw one?

    Does /roll work in this game? Assign everyone a number, /roll (x) where x is the amount of people, screenshot results.
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  • norobladnoroblad Member Posts: 2,624 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Most *good* calculators or emulators for them can make a random number. (often, handily, from 0 to 1).

    Typically you just % it to death. That is, there exists a constant for such systems "random max" which is the biggest number the thing can produce.

    so get random # (r) and divide by max (m) which is a random %.
    multiply random % and the highest valued raffle ticket (assuming you gave out tickets in order from 1 to N).

    The result is the winner.
  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    edited June 2014
    Pick a forum member who reply in this thread with a number for an avatar and randomly give it to them.


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  • en40rceren40rcer Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    When our fleet does a raffle, I was normally the one responsible for the name selecting. I used and found this site:

    http://primaryschoolict.com/random-name-selector/

    Delete the existing names, input the names you want to pick from and boom, there you go. If you have the same player eligible for more than one draw..say, you get a ticket for every ten bucks you donate to the cause. The player sends in twenty bucks and is now in the drawing two times, I would put: Enforcer1, Enforcer2 for each time they are eligible.

    Hope this helps and congratulations on hitting the two year mark.
  • generalmocogeneralmoco Member Posts: 1,634
    edited June 2014
    en40rcer wrote: »
    When our fleet does a raffle, I was normally the one responsible for the name selecting. I used and found this site:

    http://primaryschoolict.com/random-name-selector/

    Delete the existing names, input the names you want to pick from and boom, there you go. If you have the same player eligible for more than one draw..say, you get a ticket for every ten bucks you donate to the cause. The player sends in twenty bucks and is now in the drawing two times, I would put: Enforcer1, Enforcer2 for each time they are eligible.

    Hope this helps and congratulations on hitting the two year mark.

    Oh this is great news to my ears.... or rather eyes... which ever... thanks so much on the system. A Big Thanks from my fleet...

    :)
  • pwecaptainsmirkpwecaptainsmirk Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Happy Fleet Anniversary!

    Good luck with the giveaway :D

    ~CaptainSmirk
  • kimonykimony Member Posts: 571 Arc User
    edited June 2014
    Well you could use this from Steve Gibson's GRC website:

    Ultra-High Entropy Pseudo-Random Number Generator
    https://www.grc.com/otg/uheprng.htm


    Settings:

    Make "Range of Values" = number of participants
    Make "Count of Values" = 1
    Select radio button "Randomize the Seed Key"
    then
    Press "Generate Random Numbers" Button

    How to:

    Pick name out of a hat

    Generate a random number

    Assign number to name

    Write name on list next to selected number to avoid names having the same number

    Keep generating and assigning numbers until each name has a unique number within the range of participants

    You may want to do all the above and let the participants know what their number is ahead of time so on the day of...

    On the day of the drawing generate one more random number where "Range of Values" is equal to the number of participants and you have a winner.

    Now I have most likely TOTALLY over-thought this whole process..

    Somebody want to clean this mess up.. LOL!

    :)


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  • generalmocogeneralmoco Member Posts: 1,634
    edited June 2014
    pwecaptainsmirk wrote: »
    Happy Fleet Anniversary!

    Good luck with the giveaway :D

    ~CaptainSmirk

    Thanks Smirk... I'll Let my Fleet Know about your Gratz!! :)
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