200 Million Influence Raffle to Justice players who rate my MA Arc (plus comics bonus prizes)

Hey there, Justice, this is @FemFury, making a rare post in the server section of the Forums.

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TL; DR summary: Play one of my arcs and send a feedback tell in the next month, and I'll enter you into a raffle for influence / infamy prizes, plus signed comic books.
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Over all these years of City of Heroes playing (since before Issue 1), Justice has been my home server, and it's been a great place from Hamidon raids to pick-up-groups to the whole crowd on the global channels.

I want my fellow Justice players to play, and hopefully enjoy, the arcs I've written in the Mission Architect, but I don't feel comfortable just spamming the Justice global channels. So, I'm creating a bit of an incentive to give them a try, and creating a raffle that I will feel comfortable talking about on globals.

Between today (August 3rd) and my birthday (September 3rd), anyone who plays, rates, and comments on either of my two MA Arcs will be entered into a raffle drawing, with 200 million total influence / infamy as the prize.

And no, you don't have to 5-star me. Feel free to leave honest feedback. I'm pretty confident in my arcs. "Escalation" has gotten 5-star reviews from both Venture and PoliceWoman. I'm sure some will find the arcs not to their tastes, and that's fine. But I don't feel I'm inflicting something horrible on people. I'm bribing people to TRY my arcs, not trying to bribe poeople to LIKE them.

Yes, I hope this will increase my number of ratings. Despite great buzz and comments, both arcs haven't gotten a new rating in weeks, since they dropped from 5-star to 4-star after a slew of low-star ratings. I put a lot of work into these arcs, and my birthday present to myself is trying to add to the feeling that there have been more player-hours spent enjoying these arcs than player-hours I spend writing and tweaking them.

all prizes MUST be delivered on Justice Server, as that's the only place I have this kind of influence.
First prize: 100 million
Second prize: 50 million
Third prize: 25 million
Author's choice: 25 million

In addition, all prize winners may, if they are interested, send me their snail mail address, and I'll send them signed copies of all four issues of AC Comic's FemForce where my scripts were published.

First through third prizes will be made by random drawing among the entries.
One entry into the random drawing for playing each arc. Max of two entries per global name (for playing and commenting on each arc).

The Author's Choice prize will go to my favorite comment or feedback. This will go to the best critique, the nicest compliment, the comment that most makes me smile, the cleverest remark, the snarkiest insight into my failings as a writer, or whatever strikes my fancy.

The arcs in question are "Amazon-Avatars" (#5909) and "Escalation" (#6143).
Please check out the official threads linked in my signature, and at least look at the pretty pictures I commission for the promotional posters.

To enter into the raffle, play one of my arcs, rate it, and send me a comment and include a mention of "Justice Raffle", so I know you have a character on Justice. If my global tells fill up, I'll check comments in the mission architect. If you don't want to send a global tell, feel free to leave a comment on the threads for the arcs on the forums (links in my signature).

After September 3rd, I'll make the random number generation to select the name from my list of qualified global names. I'll announce the winners here and contact the winners by global tell to arrange a time to drop off the Influence prize.

Thanks for reading, and good luck to those who choose to enter the raffle.

Heya Fem, I'll give your arcs a run for you. Can multiple accounts be entered for the drawing?

I'll give it a try and........what is up with that tounge, it looks like a thumb wrestling contest.......wait focus back to the discussion. Ill try it out sounds really fun.


Really though that avatar is so weird. Im disgusted and repulsed, but cant look away.

So, on 8/6/09, after 2 full days of the one month qualifying period, we have 4 whole global names qualifying for the raffle.

So, if nobody else jumps in, those 4 lucky people are assured the 4 prizes.

If this rate keeps up over the month, we might be looking at around 30 to 60 entries. That would give each entrant a 5 to 10% chance roughly at one of the random prizes.

I'm posting a announcement about the raffle twice daily on JFA, so we'll see if particpation ramps up or peters out.

Hey Fem, so what if I have already played your arcs a cpl of times. Does that mean I need to go back and run them again?

I will if I need to or better yet get off your fanny and give us a new arc. (Said in the nicest possible way of course.)

Might as well put the promo posters for my arcs here too

and the promo poster for Amazon-Avatars

Hey Fem, I haven't forgotten about this, just haven't had time to run through them yet. So expect at least 2 more entries Soon(tm).

Current number of raffle entries: 9

Odds are still pretty good of getting one of the 4 prizes at this rate.

Up to 22 entries now.

So, still pretty good odds at one of the 3 random prizes if you earn an entry.

Still some time, the time for entries runs through September 3rd. I'll make the drawing after that.

Only about a week left!

22 entries so far.

Odds are pretty good for those who have entered so far...

Just two days left.

and just 25 raffle entries.

Play one of the arcs on Sept 2nd or Sept 3rd and send the feedback tell if you'd like to get a last minute entry in.

Are you going to notify the winners in-game or here?

Well, there were 29 entries between Aug 3rd and Sept 3rd.

so, generated 3 random numbers betwenn 1 and 29, and in order, the drawings are:

Entry #24 @Kelandra (1st place, 100 million)

Entry #27 @M I Abrahms (2nd place, 50 million)

Entry #5 @Archdemon (3rd place, 25 million)

and Author's choice goes to @Cai. Cai played both arcs early, and left thoughtful feedback, and responded to tells after the feedback. Also was an early poster to the forum thread as well. (25 million)

Sorry for the delay in posting the results. I generated the random numbers on Sept 4th, then I realized that since @M I Abrahms was the 2nd place winner, I needed to wait until after he recorded the Aentertainment Tonight reviews of my arcs before I posted the result, to avoid even the appearance of attempting to bribe him. Kinda makes me wish he wasn't one of the winners.... but, he played the arcs during the timeframe, sent the tells, and the random numbers were what they were....

Off to send in-game tells to the winners!


So, 29 new plays on my arcs for 200 million influence. I'll let everyone come to their own conclusions on the efficiency of the results.

Congrats to the winners! I'll see you in-game sometime for the influence transfers.
And any of the winners can PM their snail mail address if they want, and I'll mail them the 4 comic book issues from AC Comics which had my scripts published, signed copies, of course.

Update!

@Kelandra has turned down the first place prize, on account of having no characters on Justice....

so, #27 @M I Abrahms is now the 1st place winner and #5 @Archdemon is 2nd place.

Generating a new random number for a new 3rd place:

and it's: Entry #25 @twelfth !

gratz to the new winner. We'll see if any more shake-ups occur....

@M I Abrahms has turned down the influence prize, on the basis of not having a character on Justice, and although I offered to try a cross-server influence transfer, he felt that since he played the arcs for reviews rather than for the raffle contest

So, now @Archdemon is #1, and @twelth is #2

gonna generate a new random number for Third Prize soon.