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Raffle Donations

[(Anonymous)]

I know it's not really my business as a non-donater, but has anyone ever donated something to a dominance raffle, and then not had that item used? Light's most recent in-flight raffle had multiple 7+yo fest items, uma's, and other miscellaneous non-fodder tibits that I would've really liked to win. I understand that they'll likely be available for future raffles, but I really would've preferred to win a Nebula or Night Sky silk set or potentially even Starlit Pants during the Starry Night Festival, like it fit the theme just fine. Kind of bummed, because their past raffles haven't been so stingy, usually they only hold back fodder items. Is this usual for other dom teams?

Re: Raffle Donations

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, that's common? Sometimes the sets are incomplete, sometimes there's too many of a certain category (for example, too many apparel prizes), sometimes the items are shifted to other events that need prizes (from raffle to, idk, art contest), or the raffle runner feels like there's already enough prizes - or sometimes the donated items just don't fit anywhere and then they get sold to buy missing things for another prize set.

Re: Raffle Donations

[(Anonymous)]

yea, donations to the main flight bank usually aren't necessarily used in the push thats right after, ime. if it fits the theme and theres a good balance of prize pack types ill sometimes see my donated items there, yea, but its not a promise. if i want my donation to be used immediately in that push, ill usually donate the items to someone running a smaller event like RNG packs or an RP event with prizes.

imo, its better to have a big pool of banked flight donations, just in case future months get slimmer donation amounts.

Re: Raffle Donations

[(Anonymous)]

This is really confusing, did you actually look at the donation sheet? You can see what was used, it was almost everything. They can only offer what people donate. Just parsing through the packs, most have a value of 500g+

Re: Raffle Donations

[(Anonymous)]

reading this as a member of (and donater to) a flight whose most recent IFR had 10 prize packs in total, the highlights of which were an unhatched ice egg and the hati/skoll gem mp fams (in separate packs of course, because gods forbid any prize pack be worth more than 300g)... very tempted to switch to light if that's the bone its members choose to pick about its IFR prizes 🥲

Re: Raffle Donations

[(Anonymous)]

You think dom teams quietly stealing donations is better than fewer prizes?

Re: Raffle Donations

[(Anonymous)]

man im not even in light but this is the worlds weakest link/bait. some people here are wayyyy too eager to point fingers at mistakes and claim that theyre scams. do you truly think that someone, who is genuinely trying to steal a donation, would publicly state that theyre using two things when anyone can verify that theyre just using one? no. theyd just fucking pocket it

Re: Raffle Donations

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT whoa, "quietly stealing donations" is not at all what i was referring to or how i interpreted the original post o.o like most of the other replies have said, i feel like it's normal (and good planning) for a dom team to set aside some donations for future pushes or other events. having everything publicly tracked is a good thing, too.

what i meant by "the bone its members choose to pick about its IFR prizes" was the OP calling light's current IFR "stingy" because not every single donation made it into the prize pool. i've seen the prize pool (via secondhand screenshots) and holy jeez. y'all in light have it good.

for a point of comparison, my flight had a donation competition during NotN that raised 400kg (in currency and items) for the dom bank. shortly afterwards, we had the IFR i mentioned in my post above, in which the total value of the prize pool was somewhere around 2.5kg. just gotta trust that the donations are gonna be given back to the community in other ways, ya know? 🙏

Re: Raffle Donations

[(Anonymous)]

Holy shit I was going to originally going to say it's probably nothing and prizes are just being used in future raffles, I was digging though past sheets and noticed the Valights donation sheet is changing? The sky silks were just edited

Re: Raffle Donations

[(Anonymous)]

Night Sky silks not star silks. And it seems like they've tried to mark down both the individual Night Sky silks and the Night Sky Bundle as prizes being used, when really it's only the bundle. Weird.

Re: Raffle Donations

[(Anonymous)]

Holy SHIT y'all CANNOT be serious with this omg the Light Flight dom team is the most transparent bunch I've ever encountered??? you can literally track every single donation in the raffle donation spreadsheet AND view what items are leftover from raffles to be used in future activities in the vault spreadsheet (AND see which items are USED from that vault item hoard for price packs??? what more do you want holy shit)
literally every single item and every piece of currency is accounted for in the most insane bookkeeping I've ever seen for a petsite

Re: Raffle Donations

[(Anonymous)]

If you're donating items for dom related raffles, it's a long term investment for the flight item bank as a whole. When your donations get used isn't up to you.

UMAs are typically some of the highest priced items in the game, so your in flight raffle wasn't stingy. At all.

Fire/Earth 👀

[(Anonymous)]

They've been flipping for second place during the past couple days and Fire has held the lead for hours now... how small is Fire really? There's nothing on Dom Watch for them except for someone confirming they are doing some internal push but still, holding a lead over actively profit-pushing Earth...

Re: Fire/Earth 👀

[(Anonymous)]

Fire has 38.7k (rounded) clans while Earth was 22.6k (rounded) so still a decent gap, but we also have some restructuring and resurgence of an actual functional dom team by the looks of the forums so that might be why you see some flips :]

Re: Fire/Earth 👀

[(Anonymous)]

Fire is probably smaller than Earth by active lairs (which is what dom tally is calculated off of) as estimsted by brit: https://www1.flightrising.com/forums/frd/3382136/1#post_58014864

Both flights are probably about the same size in actuality

Water vs Nature?

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.tumblr.com/saltminerising/778189801469968384/post778177240291803136-if-this-is-about-the-big?source=share

According to SMR, Water placed a secret merc order to try and flip Nature on the last night of their push? Can anyone confirm?

Re: Water vs Nature?

[(Anonymous)]

they did order from my flight and were offering some pretty spicy rates for the dragons.

jumping nature is so sad lol
like beating the crap out of an old man

Re: Water vs Nature?

[(Anonymous)]

well they didnt win so its pretty clear nature can hold their own

Re: Water vs Nature?

[(Anonymous)]

ya'll need to stop acting like announcing you're going for Dom entitles you to it.

if a couple of last minute merc orders would have been enough to bump Nature off first place then they weren't pushing very hard in the first place.

Re: Water vs Nature?

[(Anonymous)]

afaik water just wanted to flip for funsies--compared to when they contested plague last year, they didn't open up another pb or anything so i doubt it was anything malicious

Re: Water vs Nature?

[(Anonymous)]

maybe they were worried about losing 2nd to earth?

Re: Water vs Nature?

[(Anonymous)]

there's a whole of fretting going on in this thread when, given that there were no board flips, this is far and away the most likely explanation.

afaik water and nature dom leads are friendly and in communication with one another. i'm pretty sure we'd be hearing from more than some SMR rando (who seems like they're in neither flight?) if there was any meaningful attempt by water to start something here. plus, water has a history of being willing to get competitive with earth flight.

Re: Water vs Nature?

[(Anonymous)]

weren't they just profit pushing? wtf

Re: Water vs Nature?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah and? They can decide to switch to conquest.