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All of these tickets increased the prizes and with between 60%-80% of the tickets each week, was very profitable for them.
60%-80% of the lottery tickets where produced by the bot networks?

And its now over

That's actually very important news, I have overlooked it somehow.
This means that chances for lottery win for ordinary, genuine users increased adequately and quite dramatically!
Finally a good reason to use RP as boost for them tickets.
Exactly this. Back in the past, not only I wasn't buying the lottery tickets, I even disabled lottery in my profile in order to receive reward points instead of lottery tickets with my free rolls. But after those bots were taken care of, I enabled the lottery, and I currently I buy 200-2,000 tickets every week. Indeed, the chances of winning in the lottery increased dramatically for genuine users.
With or without bots, your chances of winning the lottery is still very small. It might be higher now but still not enough for me to try it. I too disabled it years ago and never looked back. But I don't recommend it to everybody. It is because thanks to the people like me, your chances of winning is also increasing.