RE: Congratulations to the winners of Steem-Bingo Round 105 *Play Steem-Bingo, win Steem, and boost your posts at the same time!
I just noticed. You've lowered the voting percentages. You set the reward to 75% for 5 tickets and others.. Why is this? Is it because there were so many participants?
So, if we don't win the raffle, we don't get our full upvote amount in that situation. Is that correct?
Also, for the 106th raffle, personally , the total upvote from all the upvoters in your group wasn't 75%. The 75% you specified resulted in a value of $1.05 instead of $1.19. Is this also due to the high number of participants and insufficient mana or what ? Because according to my example, now my last post show 3.47 steem i will take from upvote. However i deposit 5 steem.
So we won't take %100 for a raffe... why changed system :/ What I mean is, there is no longer a raffle where you don't lose money even if there's no prize. If there's no prize, we'll have to pay some amount for the tickets from now on!!!? :(((
Note: I wrote this message according to steem price as 16 cent !
I will get back with an answer, I have to check a bit
The number of bingo tickets sold is increasing as more players join.
We originally started with 38,600 SP, and we’ve now increased it to over 460,000 SP. That’s one of the reasons we had to recalculate and adjust the upvote to 75% for 5 tickets.
Voting mana plays a big role when giving upvotes. Our mana has been gradually decreasing every day, and if we had continued giving 100% upvotes for 5 tickets, the value of those upvotes would have dropped significantly.
With the new setup, mana will build up again each day, meaning upvotes will be worth more in dollar value.
The calculations shown above are based on a voting power of 60% mana. As that mana increases, so will the value of the upvotes players receive on their posts.
Until now, all upvotes have been given manually. Soon, the process will be automated — this will help preserve mana because votes will be spaced more efficiently, avoiding bulk voting in a short time, which causes a drop in mana.
I’ve also checked and confirmed: you were right — you should have received 75% upvotes from all accounts in the trail. I apologize for the oversight.
With the increased SP and higher mana levels, you can expect to receive around 8–10 STEEM back, which means you're still getting a good return for the 5 STEEM spent on bingo tickets.
Ok thank you.