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Spinning the wheel in the Summer Event and other previous Events

Dead-Eye

General
( Yoda Shaw ) I dunno how a characture of a British soldier complete with RSM stash, pint of lager, and an SA80 looks like Yoda but when you are nuttier than a squirl turd anything is possible.
Hahaha.
Yes that what it is ?
Hahaha.


Well what would Yoda be doing with a pint and a rifle?
 

DeletedUser114563

Going to a custome party with a turtle shell hat so to tuck his ears in.
The rifle would be made of plastic ofcourse :)
 

Thomas Covenent

Lieutenant-General
I'm not going to try and sift back through the mess that is the 24+ page monster of a thread on the beta forums for this year's summer event...
BUT!
I do recall that one of Inno team members did state in between all the rage-posts over how god-awful the initial version of the event was, that the prize wheel is indeed a random RNG-based system & the only functions of the Stop buttons are to bypass the animation, collect your prize, and spin again faster.

Very, very handy for when a "good" wheel comes up, and you can take 2-3 spins in the time your 'hoodies take a spin & watch the full animation. (suckers!:P)
I nicked a Sunken Treasure + SoK using the stop buttons right out from under some slowed 'hoodies' collective noses, as they decided to watch the whole boring animation... meanwhile, I'm spinning -> winning -> refreshing before they can take another spin.:lol:
 

DeletedUser96901

having a stop button that doesn't affect the result is rigged
 

DeletedUser114563

Then I must be the luckiest player in FoE who's stop button worked every time in my 4 games :)

Enjoyed getting all the Sunken treasures and 1 Pirate ship in each game :)
 

Vesiger

Monarch
Indeed, that is how I understand the posts I quoted. It seems the prize is determined the moment you click the spin button, and all else is just for show. I believe a post exists somewhere on this or the beta forum where this is stated explicitly
On this forum, I think. I remember seeing it in the context of a previous summer event, where there was the aforementioned bug that caused the reward to be allocated before the wheel had stopped.

Edit: this is the post I remember. lady-lexis in 2016, speaking as a former member of the support team who were briefed on the subject
https://forum.en.forgeofempires.com/index.php?threads/spin-the-wheel-event.32226/#post-204239
 
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DeletedUser112892

Then I must be the luckiest player in FoE who's stop button worked every time in my 4 games :)

Enjoyed getting all the Sunken treasures and 1 Pirate ship in each game :)
I must be luckier, winning 17 golden prizes without stopping the wheel. From which I succeeded to make 4 in a row.
 

DeletedUser114563

Also the golden prizes which I got tons of :)
Got tons of Shrines of Knowledge and no place to put them in :(
Not too many Palm trees though :) LOL
 

DeletedUser114563

Very interesting what Haile Selassie had to say

Haile Selassie said:
Yes, the fact that I used stop button and that I won the prizes I wanted by using it with that purpose several times in a row. That is the prove good enough for any reasonable man to say that it works. If you have any solid prove that it doesn't work that way (except the sole claim based on what you have been told by someone else without any explanetion how) I would like to hear it.
 

DeletedUser112892

I already gave you proof. I won 17 golden prizes, four of them were in a row, and I didn't stop the wheel at any time.
To add up, your theory falls in water because of three simple reasons:
1. You haven't tried out how it works when you don't stop the wheel.
2. If your theory is correct, at least 50% of doubloons spent on spinning the wheel should have given you golden prizes, so you should have won more than 50 golden prizes. But you won much less of them.
3. Some players (including me) already gave solid proofs that it isn't correct.
 

DeletedUser114563

Was I asking for your opinion ( ever ) ?
Don't you know that your opinion is meaningless.
The above post was by Haile Selassie, damm it :(
 

DeletedUser112892

Was I asking for your opinion ( ever ) ?
The above post was by Haile Selassie, damm it :(
Wait, you didn't say this?
If you have any solid prove that it doesn't work that way (except the sole claim based on what you have been told by someone else without any explanetion how) I would like to hear it.
Not only me, more players gave you solid proof that puts your theory down.
It is your problem that you don't want to watch proofs that ruin your theory just because you think that you cannot be wrong.
 

DeletedUser114563

Look, you are not going to waste my time today.
Totsiens ( Afrikaans for good bye )
 

DeletedUser114563

Hey, who is your boy !! stop your insults :(
My son is 35 years old and I'm old enough to be your grand father, show some respect, keep your foul mouth shout :(
 

Agent327

Overlord
Then I must be the luckiest player in FoE who's stop button worked every time in my 4 games :)

Stop button works for everyone that uses it. It makes the wheel stop on the prize you have already won.

Very interesting what Haile Selassie had to say

Haile Selassie said:
Yes, the fact that I used stop button and that I won the prizes I wanted by using it with that purpose several times in a row. That is the prove good enough for any reasonable man to say that it works. If you have any solid prove that it doesn't work that way (except the sole claim based on what you have been told by someone else without any explanetion how) I would like to hear it.

Once you need Haile Selassie to proof a point you are really lost. Look at his other posts like this one for instance.

https://forum.en.forgeofempires.com/index.php?posts/271479/

He can restore deleted items ;)
 

Vesiger

Monarch
Very interesting what Haile Selassie had to say

Haile Selassie said:
Yes, the fact that I used stop button and that I won the prizes I wanted by using it with that purpose several times in a row. That is the prove good enough for any reasonable man to say that it works. If you have any solid prove that it doesn't work that way (except the sole claim based on what you have been told by someone else without any explanation how) I would like to hear it.
Yes, he was making the same argument that you were - and that many other people have made - which was why I remembered the thread.
That's how the human brain works, I'm afraid (hence the phenomenon of goalkeepers' lucky socks, etc.) We see patterns where none exist and we attribute agency. It's much more comforting to believe that we can influence the random in our favour, whether by our own skill or by propitiating the Great Powers up in the sky. Thousands of gamblers are convinced they have a 'system' for beating the roulette wheel, or that it's rigged (it doesn't need to be; the law of averages delivers a consistent edge to the casino in the long run) . Almost all of them lose more than they win, and those who don't are the ones who stop before their blind luck runs out.

People have been disclosing patent failsafe winning tactics on the wheel to their friends and guildmates for years (as witnessed by that thread). Yet there isn't a secret cabal of guaranteed winners.
We've been told by those with access to the code that the outcome is randomly determined for each spin and had it inadvertently demonstrated in earlier years by display bugs, but people still believe that there is a magic formula that works for them because they've 'seen' it in action - there really isn't. And sacrificing sheep doesn't bring rain, and seeing your totem animal before a fight won't bring you good luck, and holding your thumbs when the roulette wheel spins won't bring it down on the one number that hasn't come up in the last hundred spins, and must therefore be 'overdue'...
Human brains cope very badly with things that really are out of their control.
 

DeletedUser114563

Sorry to disappoint you after such a long story but I've never been a gambler, so basically what you're saying doesn't really apply to me.
 
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