Video Rewards

thank you for this data !

Now let's do some maths to explain why this is extremely useful rewards the first day

If you are alone in your corp (or if you organize with your friends so that they let you because you want top1 for example, etc) :

25 members = 75 videos straight up. + 75 every 3 hours. = approximately 333 possible videos the first day until midnight. 1/3 of the rewards you mentionned in your post. If you watch videos the whole 9 hours, it's feasible and you have some spare time.

1x cash = 1'000$$ at this level. Rail cars vouchers = 10'000$$ (you buy and sell a board or cow car).

With those 2 rewards alone, you just got a free level 6 engine house and bank 4 or 5 (don't recall). In addition, you have the cash to permanently build the restaurant (it's relatively cheap, and takes a while).

and not to mention the 7 research points that make you hit the rhinoceros relatively quickly.

In addition, with all those buildings you managed to build, and redeeming the starter package before going to bed, you have more trains that anyone else (you can even go to 1'000 PP at 2am or a bit earlier, and get the bonus train at that point).

You will get the most income on the server easily, and will have a nice headstart against any competition, without paying any gold.

Now for the lottery tickets, they usually pay off 6-7 gold / ticket I think (at least that was the case 2 years ago when I did calculcate it). So if you don't spend any money, but have some gold stock, you can purchase 25 extra lottery tickets, in addition to all the $$ we talked about. This + the 25 tickets from tuto and super starter is a guaranteed 2 bonus engines usually, and tons of vouchers, which are all worth extreme amounts of money.

Obviously, nobody is ever gonna get that many videos watched on a classic server because the assumptions made are way too optimistic. Could be feasible on an express one though (but I don't like those).

Here are the chances from the Masters server. Of course it all depends on your lottery building level, the era you are in and which prizes you already have maxed out. There are things you can do to improve your chances of getting a bonus engine as well, like not using your clothing vouchers etc! Keep them, so the chance of getting those is 0%, which increases your chance of better rewards.

There is some old info somewhere in a dev blog stating that if you scratched 1 ticket every day, the chance of you winning a bonus engine by the end of the round was about 50% (classic, normal speed server). This roughly translates as about 1% per ticket, which seems to be confirmed by the Master server chance information.

I don't know for sure, but if you add the chance of getting a passenger bonus engine as well, it doubles (2% total or 1% each). The Primus is much more rare at 0,1%.

Anyway, take a look at this data, hope it helps (I have several possible rewards maxed out here, at 0% so the data is not entirely complete.

Also, interesting to note, the chance of winning the Gold Rush: 0,003% or 1 in 33,333

I have won it once so I guess that means I have scratched off more than 30k tickets!

And while we are on the subject of Video rewards... I have a suggestion.

PLEEEEZE CAN YOU ADD A 5 SECOND SKIP BUTTON TO THE TRAVIAN GAME VIDEOS !!!?

I have seen them all 10,000 times and they are driving me crazy, some days there is nothing but Travian video's. They are also too long. I know all the games already, I am playing RN and I do NOT want to log out to play some other Travian game! I understand you want to find new customers, but we are already a Travian customer, and you do not want to piss off your already existing customers in a fruitless attempt to find new customers, now do you?

Thank you for considering this idea.

Dutcher wrote:

And while we are on the subject of Video rewards... I have a suggestion.

PLEEEEZE CAN YOU ADD A 5 SECOND SKIP BUTTON TO THE TRAVIAN GAME VIDEOS !!!?

I have seen them all 10,000 times and they are driving me crazy, some days there is nothing but Travian video's. They are also too long. I know all the games already, I am playing RN and I do NOT want to log out to play some other Travian game! I understand you want to find new customers, but we are already a Travian customer, and you do not want to piss off your already existing customers in a fruitless attempt to find new customers, now do you?

Thank you for considering this idea.

it looks like they really want it!!!!

I'm going crazy, today I've only had videos of Goal united, I can't do it.

I'm nauseous

Dutcher wrote:

Also, interesting to note, the chance of winning the Gold Rush: 0,003% or 1 in 333

Actually it's 1 in 33300; 1 to 333 is 0.3%

Right, that makes a lot more sense! I will edit it, thank you.

let's talk about those winning percentages.

It seems to me that you have misrepresented the meaning of the percentages.

This is not a normal lottery where 1 in 100 tickets is definitely winning (in Italy we call it "scratch card").

So we can talk about 1% of winning percentage.

In the case of the RN lottery you can not buy 100 tickets, but only "packs" of 25.

The percentage reported refers to the single ticket.

I mean: each ticket has the same chances of winning each prize, whether you buy 1 or 100 tickets the chances of winning a locomotive bonus remain the same.

Hypothetically, if you buy 333,000 tickets you are not guaranteed to win the "treasure hunt", or rather, you have the same chance to win it if you buy 10 tickets or even just 1.

This is because the percentage is referred to the single ticket.

I know that you will not agree with me, but think about it and get explained by a mathematician

It's called "pseudorandom number generator" or PRNG)

Hey Balibar!

Did you collect these tickets from Videos?

If so how long did it take you, and did you just use the free ones or did you buy some?

Emziie.

ĿЦҚЄ PÂRҚЄR wrote:

let's talk about those winning percentages.

It seems to me that you have misrepresented the meaning of the percentages.

This is not a normal lottery where 1 in 100 tickets is definitely winning (in Italy we call it "scratch card").

So we can talk about 1% of winning percentage.

In the case of the RN lottery you can not buy 100 tickets, but only "packs" of 25.

The percentage reported refers to the single ticket.

I mean: each ticket has the same chances of winning each prize, whether you buy 1 or 100 tickets the chances of winning a locomotive bonus remain the same.

Hypothetically, if you buy 333,000 tickets you are not guaranteed to win the "treasure hunt", or rather, you have the same chance to win it if you buy 10 tickets or even just 1.

This is because the percentage is referred to the single ticket.

I know that you will not agree with me, but think about it and get explained by a mathematician

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No, I don't think I misrepresented anything. I never said you are "guaranteed a bonus engine if you scratched off 100 tickets"

All I said was that the 1% chance shown (of indeed a single ticket) in the Masters server seems to correspond with an earlier blog stating more or less the same.

I also do not know if blocking certain reward outcomes increases the chance of the remaining rewards or if they are replaced by a default cash prize. All I know is that many players assume the first and tactically hold on to rewards at max level which they do not want to win anymore, in order to increase their chances of for example a bonus engine or the other bigger prizes. It remains to be seen whether this is a valid strategy or not.

I keep the prizes I don't want anymore of, example clothing vouchers.

Not because I want a better chance at a better prize, i'd just rather have something different to those prizes whether it be Cash, Research Points, Gold etc.

Well, in fact you are doing exactly that, you are increasing the chance of getting a better or different reward to 100% because you are blocking the outcome completely of the rewards you do not want anymore

Dutcher wrote:

Well, in fact you are doing exactly that, you are increasing the chance of getting a better or different reward to 100% because you are blocking the outcome completely of the rewards you do not want anymore

Not all the other prizes are better though

It depends on how you play, to which prizes are most beneficial to you. There is some I prefer, like Instant Upgrade vouchers. Spare ones of those once you have enough to max your Engine House is always good for me to upgrade my Station Concourse quickly.

Emziie.

Balibar wrote:

The vast majority of tickets came from collecting Station Bonuses from teammates. I am guessing that I get 1 ticket for every 50 bonus collection. I dabbled in buying the 5 Gold tickets offered as a video prize, but I quit after 18 tickets when it became clear that it was a gold losing proposition.

Ah I see! Well nice to see you got so many good rewards. They definitely help the gameplay.