Daily & Weekly Raffle

what if EU closed one day??? so everything possible but if we are having fun we are happy right;)

Nodes and such - we call them elements when we're scripting.  They're part of the DOM, document object model.  You can absolutely do many things you're describing here knowing that: but not from software outside the browser.  Not at the hobbiest level of expertise.  You violate all sorts of Operating System rules to do so, unless you're so skilled that, as I said, you don't even play online games, you're busy making real money somewhere.  You basically have to start calling DLL files and maliciously breaking Windows to do it (though it's probably cake on a linux system). 

To use that knowledge from inside the page is not impossible, but it's been very hard and only so many plugins will help out with that.  It also triggers about 50 ways that EP could catch you instantly, because your code can be dragged back to the server and examined.  Because you put it *into* their page.

That calcing thing - Yeah the more I think about it the more I'm sure a few people are doing that.  Probably using an adjustable spreadsheet.  It's a thing that started with a southeast asian virtual golf game called Pangya (or at least that's when it got big).  You just adjust a couple of sliders for your current conditions and there's a spreadsheet that will magic-8-ball almost any math-heavy game, somewhere.

I still wouldn't bet on it for Sleggo.  Every single permutation you should think about, you have to think about in 2 to 4 directions at once, for 25 slots at once, and by the rules of making deals, each "thought" involves a minimum of 3 slots and a potential of 8 starting colors (include 'blank').  So you technically have what, 10 seconds? to know the ideal thing to know about 1200 to 2400 dynamic, theoretical, and simultaneous slots.  You're getting into quantum mechanics (and btw whoever imagined sleggo was brilliant).  This requires something like a chess computer, and there's a reason only about 4 of them and a lot of cheap knockoffs exist.

I will say if anyone could write an in-browser script that would prove me wrong, it would stall out the page about 4 seconds after running it.  It would have to.  I wouldn't bet good money on the Operating System being able to handle the calculations performed by stand alone software, either.

It could be the lotto winners just deserve our admiration.  It can irritate me on occasion, but meh, that's competition.

I just spent about 5 minutes trying to imagine the math behind a sleggo bot and forget it.  Nobody that clever is going to apply it to this, and not only is is next to impossible, the admins could easily and instantly break it.  Or at least, I could tell them how, but it's pretty much as easy as glancing at the page code with a desire to change ... almost any part of it.  Renaming or resizing any of a number of small elements would screw up any extra software looking over the shoulder, so to speak.  Those things are highly dependent on having a non-blind programmer describe an environment to them.  Changing the environment is easy (Psst EP people:  Start by making the board randomly float, you're 90% there).

All that is to say that I very highly highly doubt that Sleggo can be scripted or botted at.

I haven't ruled out calcing, but that's technically not cheating and there's whole sections of the planet we'll lose that argument against.

I am curious what a winning number of tickets is.  I often can get a nice ratio if I'm poking around in the morning but then later there's hundreds more tickets issued.  Haven't won yet.

any tips on how to partecipate to the daily or weekly lottery? :/

I just reread the entire post again, after some time went by.  I still play SLEGO from time to time, and enjoy it.  After about three games, my head goes a little bonkers, haha.  So then I take a break, and play again.  I find SLEGO really challenging, and fun, and enjoy the concentration level required to play it.  However, it does interfere a little with actually playing the game of Entropia Universe.  I've found that sweating and SLEGO go together pretty well.  I've come close to a .5 win, but I've only gotten less than ten 0.01 wins so far, but I'll keep trying, and having fun, which is the whole point of video games.  I don't worry about bots at this point, or people who try to cheat,  I just worry about my gameplay, and how I'm doing.  Cheaters only cheat themselves, and I'm here to have a really good time.  See you guys around.  Cheers.

One important point that has not yet been addressed in this thread is that you can earn PED while playing SLEGO. I know, it seems so obvious but I guarantee earning 1 PED a day is not only do-able but rather common. Yes, you will have to learn how to play a bit better than just hitting the big crosses for points but the time is well worth the effort. I, for one, quite enjoy all the silly strategies I have used and abandoned only to rediscover them and play them a bit differently later.

I never win these raffles.
Oh well. They were simpler to get back in the minute phisher days. Lol.

Bots unfortunately are fairly easy to do for anyone with even an apprentice level of programming skills.

They can also be downloaded for free as well,  hence the auto clicker issue with the digging game.

Report them,  ahh, hard to say.   There really is no way for you to KNOW that a person who has won often is a bot user.  Squealing just because of a hunch, really is not cool either TBH.

I honestly don't know if there really is a huge concern about bot users and or spammers and others who abuse the system.  Here and pretty much any other place, you really don't see a lot of action, if any, taken against these folks unless they are really going to stupid extremes.

It's kind of a rough battle too, they bot, you 'fix it' they figure out a different way.  Now throw in the fact that most programmers typically are very creative, but lazy as hell.   That is why you will often see a ton of new stuff but rarely a fix of a bug.  EU is a prime example of that.  They are not going to throw a ton of time at fixing a 'small' problem, especially if that problem is still bringing money to them.  As much as we hate it, that's just the way it is.


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