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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
Honestly, I don't remember where I can disable lottery. I would happily receive reward points instead of lottery tickets. If this feature has been disabled, it doesn't look like a good idea. If people refuse to accept lottery tickets, there'll be less of them and the chances of winning will increase for those buying or receiving tickets. Right now, when I see like 100M tickets participating in the lottery, I'm discouraged from buying or receiving them even if someone may win the lottery with a small number of tickets