Lottery System
With in each bracket the build order will be selected by lottery. Each person will get to pick their number range (slow pickers will get assigned a range). A lottery date will be picked and the results from that 3 digit lottery will be used to pick the build order.
Here is an example of how this would work with 8 people.
- The building of the pump is very close, and a build date is picked, for example Dec 30 at 12 Noon EST.
- A lottery date is picked and which lottery to be used is picked, for example the California State Midday Daily 3 using the draw date of Dec 28th. (BTW, The California Lottery was chosen just because it was the first one listed when you google state lotteries, any lottery will do.)
- Each person picks a range. People who do not pick a range prior to 12 hours before the actual drawing are assigned a position. Empty positions will be filled in alphabetical order from the people that diod not choose a position. All ranges must be filled prior to the actual drawing. (BTW, those are the first 8 names that will be used for Hurricane in 2007.)
000-124 - Andrea
125-249 - Barry
250-374 - Chantal
375-499 - Dean
500-624 - Erin
625-749 - Felix
750-874 - Gabrielle
875-999 - Humberto
- After the lottery is drawn, the results are posted. In this example the numbers draw were 543, so Erin would get the first tower.
- The build order would then proceed upwards and then loop back to the bottom as follows... Erin, Felix, Gabrielle, Humberto, Looping back to the low numbers to Andrea, Barry, Chantal, Dean
- Everyone one in this bracket would build prior to the next bracket starting. Although the lottery for the next bracket can be run prior to the this bracket doing all of its builds.
Building Procedures
- Once the build order is known and a pump site selected and the pump is built, tower building can commence.
- The tower site coordinates will be assigned in an effort to build the most efficient system possible.
- Prior to building your tower you WILL grow every veggie that is growable at your perspective tower site, to see what the "non-tower'' veggies growth levels are.
- You will build your tower on the coordinates that you are given.
- You will empty your jugs and refill them from the aqueduct tower.
- You will regrow every veggie to see if any bonuses are received from that tower. Most towers do NOT give a veggie bonus.
- You will try to grow all your veggies at the furthest tower down the line so that the most people get points for the veggies grown.
Reasons to Build Out of Order
- The time that the pump goes up will be announced and shortly thereafter the towers will start to be built. Before the pump goes up, the build order will be known. Here are some reasonable reasons for building out of order...
- Spouses may switch building locations if they are in the same contribution bracket level. This is only advised if you will not suffer the wrath of your spouse for switching.
- Four real hours have passed since the last tower went up and the skipped person will slip one person back in the build order.
- The skipped person can continue to slip back one place every 4 hour, BUT unless 3 days have gone by with out a tower, they will not slip in to the next building bracket.
- To slip back in your bracket is one thing, to slip to the back of the line is another.
- In an effort to build expediently, please try to be on when the pump is built or have your spouse available to build for you, or even give a trusted friend your password.
- Please make others aware if you will NOT be available to build on the build date proposed for the pump.
- If after the lottery and build order are established, your contribution level increases to at least half way to the next highest level, you will build between the two brackets, the rest of the build order will be maintained.
- You can volunteer to slip back with in your bracket, if you are unavailable to build when your build turn comes up.
- In this case, you will build at the first available time after your original missed building spot.